Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1093 - 888 Rebirth_2

Chapter 1093: Chapter 888 Rebirth_2

"Does the tumor still need treatment?" asked Long Zhiwen worriedly.

"We’ve looked at all your test results, and you no longer have a tumor. If your recurrent laryngeal nerves recover well, then you will only need to undergo thyroid hormone replacement therapy. With that, you’ll completely be a normal person!" Yang Ping said patiently.

A normal person?

Upon hearing this, Nong Tiesheng didn’t know how happy he was.

Anyway, he didn’t understand much, but hearing the doctor say he would be a normal person in the future, he couldn’t help but shed tears.

"Rest assured, aside from thyroid hormone replacement therapy, you won’t need any other treatment. It would be best if you add some nutrition and increase some physical exercise in the future. This way, you can fully recover to normal. Just keep taking your medicine, and you can work and live normally in the future. The reason you need medication is that your thyroid has been removed and can no longer secrete thyroid hormone; hence, your body lacks it. The purpose of the medication is nothing else but to supplement this hormone," explained Yang Ping, hoping to lift the burden off Nong Tiesheng’s mind.

"What do you mean? Is my cancer cured?" Nong Tiesheng still wasn’t reassured and wanted to confirm again.

"I can say responsibly that you no longer have cancer now, and apart from lacking thyroid hormone, you are a normal person," Yang Ping declared firmly.

The cancer is gone! Completely cured!

Nong Tiesheng didn’t know how happy he was in his heart. Cancer was like a huge mountain, suffocating him and his entire family. His lips trembled, unable to speak, so excited that it was like being reborn.

Yang Ping was very confident about the recovery of the recurrent laryngeal nerves. Apart from thyroid hormone replacement therapy, Nong Tiesheng would not need any other treatment in the future.

This patient didn’t need any treatment at first; looking at the initial test results, even the thyroid function was normal, truly a pity.

Medically speaking, such thyroid nodules do not require any treatment, only routine surface ultrasound observation, but Nong Tiesheng not only underwent two surgeries but also had radiation and targeted therapy.

Afterward, Yang Ping and Director Fang chatted with Nong Tiesheng and his son, trying to give them confidence and help Nong Tiesheng step out of the shadow of cancer.

After finishing rounds and returning to Director Fang’s office, Director Fang said to Yang Ping, "There are some things I don’t know if it’s appropriate for me to say?"

"Go ahead!" Yang Ping knew what Director Fang wanted to say.

Director Fang closed the door of his office and said:

"I’ve inquired about it roughly, and this situation in General Surgery Department of Affiliated Hospital No. 4 is not an isolated case. I won’t talk about other diseases for now, but regarding the treatment of thyroid nodules, once they find a thyroid nodule, no matter what the surface ultrasound results are, they order a complete set of examinations—PET CT, bone scan, CT enhancement, MRI enhancement—and then they recommend the patient undergo Da Vinci Robot surgery, followed by a slew of bizarre and expensive medications. I’ve only heard about it but the information seems reliable."

"Director Qian’s reputation stinks. People who know him well in the circle would absolutely not recommend patients to him, let alone introduce relatives and friends to him; they avoid him completely."

"A deputy chief physician in their department once reported him officially, and it caused a huge stir at the time, but somehow, he got off scot-free, and the person who reported him left the job mysteriously. Over the years, several people who reported him ended up the same way."

"These are the things I’ve learned. I’m not sure if they are true."

Yang Ping just listened, not saying anything. Relying on this one case wasn’t good enough to draw a conclusion. If they could gather a significant number of cases to study, they would surely get a very accurate understanding of the matter.

Yang Ping didn’t have much time to deal with these issues himself, but if the rumors were true, they definitely could not allow this person to continue causing harm.

"I’ll get twenty cases out and see what’s really going on. How about that?"

Director Fang asked tentatively, as this was no longer a matter of professional knowledge, and he didn’t know if Yang Ping would be interested.

"Okay, go ahead and do that."

Yang Ping felt that if it were true, it was necessary to stop such absurd activities.

With Yang Ping’s support, Director Fang felt much more confident, knowing that Director Qian had been thriving these years surely with some strong backing, otherwise he wouldn’t remain unscathed till now.

Not to mention other things, just this kind of treatment without a pathology report, an expanded radical surgery, and radiochemotherapy is rarely seen in a top-tier teaching hospital.

So, if one were to venture into these muddy waters, Director Fang felt great resistance and feared it might backlash against him. Normally, who would want to involve themselves in something strenuous, thankless, and irrelevant to them?

But Director Fang was different now; he was a man with ideals, a different realm, a naturally different perspective.

Actually, Director Fang had also contacted a doctor who had once worked in the General Surgery Department at Affiliated Hospital No. 4 but probably didn’t want to collude with the corruption, so had moved to another hospital.

When Director Fang contacted him, he was still willing to disclose some information.

Director Qian didn’t just do this once, but regularly. He would always opt for robotic surgery instead of conventional surgery, because each robotic surgery costs hundreds of thousands, and he would prescribe expensive imported medicines whether they were suitable or not, and order a swath of comprehensive examinations.

For instance, be it liver cysts, benign intestinal polyps, or thyroid nodules, he advocated for excessive treatments. For thyroid nodules, even if they were TI-RADS grade 2 or 3, Director Qian always arranged for PET-CT, bone scanning, etc., full body CTs, enhanced CTs, MRIs, enhanced MRIs were absolutely part of the package; these became his standard set of examinations for his patients.

Even if the patients spent all their savings, it didn’t concern him in the least.

Of course, he claimed his sole purpose was the well-being of the patients, just in case they were faced with something severe.

The medications for treatments were even more absurd; he frequently prescribed imported drugs costing tens of thousands, and hardly cared for drugs costing just a few thousand. He also had fixed external purchasing points which he partly owned, and reportedly, the drugstore owner was his mistress.

He assigned quotas to the doctors in his department, warning those who fell below the target, and of course, he provided high returns for the doctors.

Therefore, his department’s doctors were also making a fortune, creating a situation of mutual benefit. Moreover, given the strong connections Director Qian had, he was virtually untouchable. There were a few times he was reported, but nothing happened to him; it was the whistleblowers who ended up in trouble, so afterward, no one dared to report him again.

With such impunity, he accumulated a great amount of wealth. With money, many things become easier, so not only did Director Qian firmly hold his position in the General Surgery Department, but he also held various academic positions, serving as master’s and doctoral advisor and thriving, forming a positive cycle, increasingly emboldened and greedy, and it was said he was planning to become the vice dean.

Director Fang felt that if this were true, this guy was like a cancerous tumor, and he felt the need to do something about it.

Initially, it was not a concern as it was not the same hospital, and such rumors were just tales of the world. Who knew if the rumors were true or false.

But through the case of Nong Tiesheng, Director Fang felt the rumors might be true. After discussing it with colleagues from his former department to gather some intelligence, he found the details shocking.

Since Professor Yang also didn’t object, Director Fang decided to investigate thoroughly. Damn it, if it was true, this malignant tumor must be eradicated, absolutely.

It was almost the end of the day, and Director Fang couldn’t bother Yang Ping for too long, so he said, "Professor Yang, thank you for your efforts. I’ll look into this; if it’s true, we need a good plan."

Yang Ping casually replied, "Just bring out the case for me to see. If it’s as you suspect, we’ll discuss further."