Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1176 - 925 Brainwashing_3

Chapter 1176: Chapter 925 Brainwashing_3

"Professor Zhang, now that you’ve mentioned it, I do feel that’s how it is. I remember when I first started out, a coworker and I were both welders, and he took up part-time studies while working. Now he works as a welder in a shipyard, and I heard he earns tens of thousands a month."

"That’s exactly the point, to advance, you need to learn to improve yourself, plan things out properly. I mean, the money you spend on smoking and drinking is spent anyway, enrolling in an evening college wouldn’t cost much more."

"I’m already 38, is it too late for me?"

"It’s not too late at all. If you start now, won’t you still be in your forties three years from now? You can still work for another twenty years until retirement, and if you’re in good health after that, you can continue to work. Look at me, I’m eighty and I’m still working and earning money. With skills, there is nothing to fear."

"Once I’m cured, I’ll save up for learning. Professor Zhang, I’ll also work until I’m well into my eighties."

In Professor Zhang’s consultation room, through such conversations, Li Ruizhong not only gained confidence in overcoming his illness but also formed a completely different perspective on his life. He felt as if he’d been injected with an invigorating serum; full of energy all over, he decided that after he got better he would work and study at the same time, dedicating himself to researching his welding techniques.

He felt that for the past twenty years he had drifted through life, going wherever the current took him. If he had someone like Professor Zhang to guide him when he was younger, he wouldn’t have been stuck in the same place all this time.

"Thank you, Professor Zhang!"

Once the hospital admission paperwork was done, Li Ruizhong was all bows and hand-over-fist gestures, packing up and getting ready for his stay in the hospital.

"Come down for a chat whenever you have time."

"I sure will!"

The graduate student Xiao Lin, who had been sitting by and participating in the consultation, was amazed; just yesterday Li Ruizhong seemed as still as a wooden chicken, even harboring suicidal thoughts, and today he was bustling with life. It was indeed Professor Zhang’s influence, capable of changing a patient’s mindset - this is what makes a formidable doctor.

After Li Ruizhong had left, Professor Zhang said to Xiao Lin, "Our job as doctors is not only to treat illnesses but also to help patients gain confidence. That means not only curing their physical diseases but also helping to change their mindset. Take this patient, for example, if he can’t build up the confidence to get treated, not to mention abandoning treatment, he might even come to embrace suicidal thoughts."

Xiao Lin greatly admired Professor Zhang’s "mind-shaping" technique. Without Professor Zhang’s influence, Li Ruizhong wouldn’t have headed to the hospital for treatment with such a cheerful disposition.

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Li Ruizhong checked into the Surgical Research Institute ward with great enthusiasm. Sometimes people need their minds "shaped" to have faith, goals, and motivation.

The patients in the Surgical Research Institute are typically there for surgery, and it is quite rare for anyone to be admitted for internal medicine treatments alone.

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is a subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is also the most common. It is one of the few tumors that can be completely cured.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is the most common malignant tumor of the lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues and can be triggered by infection, genetics, immune system issues, and environmental factors. Its primary symptoms include significant swelling of the body’s lymph nodes, and while the main treatment is chemotherapy, the most effective method is CAR-T cell therapy, which costs 1.2 million per dose.

The typical symptoms of the disease are painless progressive lymphadenopathy and local lumps, but some patients present atypically.

Li Ruizhong’s symptoms were atypical; his lymph nodes were not noticeably swollen, and his most prominent symptom was migratory joint pain in his limbs. Typically, during a physical examination, doctors do not perform a comprehensive systemic examination, such as palpating all the lymph nodes, and with such obvious migratory polyarthralgia, doctors will certainly focus on that prominent symptom for their examination.

When Li Ruizhong came to Professor Zhang, his consultation was very thorough, and during the physical examination, he conducted a near-complete systemic palpation, finding that the lymph nodes in the groin were indeed swollen. Since these slightly swollen nodes were not painful, Li Ruizhong didn’t pay much attention to them, but Professor Zhang’s ultrasound showed that the lymph nodes were in fact enlarged.

Thus, Professor Zhang performed a lymph node biopsy. The results of the biopsy revealed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. After contrasting the pathological diagnosis with all the symptoms, it matched up--this was the disease.

The physician in charge of Li Ruizhong was Doctor Zhao Wenbo, a rotating master’s graduate student with exceptional academic achievements and job performance. He and Li Guodong often debated academic issues, but personally, they were still on good terms and their professional debates didn’t affect their friendship as colleagues.

Under Professor Zhang’s guidance, Li Ruizhong didn’t eat breakfast on the day of his admission to facilitate completion of the routine blood tests for hospitalization as quickly as possible.

After finishing surgeries in the afternoon, Yang Ping made a dedicated round of visits to the newly admitted patients and those with complex conditions, paying special attention to Li Ruizhong, who required internal medicine treatment.

The standard treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is chemotherapy. The expensive CAR-T cell therapy is generally reserved for cases of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Indeed, there are diseases which, in the eyes of ordinary people, seem incurable, yet can be cured. It’s just that the methods of cure are so costly that they have not become widespread, and ordinary people don’t have access to them.

When heart transplants first came along, there was no therapy available for end-stage heart diseases for the ordinary populace. But American tycoon David Rockefeller had already begun using heart transplants to save his life, receiving six heart transplants throughout his life and living to the age of 101.

At that time, since the technology for heart transplants was new and the costs were very high, this cutting-edge treatment didn’t trickle down to general hospitals.

Yang Ping’s dream was---utilizing his system to reduce research and development costs, allowing ordinary people access to the latest and most advanced medical treatments, and trying to spare them as much as possible from the agony of illness.

He decided to administer cell therapy to this particular patient, using his own cost-effective method.

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