Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1195 - 934: The Righteous Editor-in-Chief

Chapter 1195: Chapter 934: The Righteous Editor-in-Chief

Yang Ping stayed behind to chat with Director Shi for a while, flipping through the medical records placed on the shelf as they talked.

This patient was also quite young, only in his thirties, male, married—probably the main breadwinner of his family. Before the stomach tube was inserted, he was in good health, able to move all his limbs freely, and now, he’s paralyzed from a high-level spinal injury, a truly heartbreaking situation.

This was definitely a medical malpractice incident. Clinical medical work is akin to walking on thin ice, extreme caution is a must, a necessity imposed by the nature of medical work. In the words of Professor Zhang Zongshun, no amount of strictness is excessive.

The mistake was caused by a complete breakdown in multiple processes.

If the attending physician was more vigilant, communicated more with the nurses about the patient’s particular medical condition, reminding them that the patient had recently undergone pituitary tumor surgery in the cranial saddle area and that the insertion of a stomach tube should be avoided if possible, or if absolutely necessary, performed under endoscopic guidance, this tragedy could have been completely avoided.

The doctors missed this crucial point, and it slipped through to the nurses.

If the nurses had a basic grasp of the patient’s medical history and the various contraindications and precautions for inserting a stomach tube by heart, they too could have prevented this tragedy.

Had the nurses also missed it, if the chief physician and the head nurse had been a little more attentive during their rounds, they could have noticed the patient’s special condition and provided guiding reminders.

In the end, after all steps had failed, during the procedure, the feel of a stomach tube curving into the skull and then bending into the cervical spine would surely have been different from a tube that enters the stomach smoothly. If one were more careful and more alert to such irregularities, asking a few more questions, the damage could have been reduced at that moment.

When the stomach tube was inserted and withdrawn for verification, the gastric juice would certainly differ from the liquid drawn from the skull and vertebral canal in terms of volume, color, and texture. Had they taken this matter seriously, they would not have rashly injected nutrient solution, and the patient’s chances of becoming paralyzed would have been significantly lowered.

The occurrence of every accident is often not due to one single failure but a series of issues. In the end, it’s the cumulative neglect that precipitates a catastrophe.

It is unknown whether this patient will recover from the high-level paralysis; if not, it would be such a regrettable matter.

In fact, the patient’s pituitary tumor surgery was highly successful and virtually problem-free. The occurrence of such an incident was unexpected.

Even before the strict pre-surgery checks, there were medical malpractice incidents involving prominent hospitals cutting wrong, which were used nationwide as negative examples during lectures.

Two children, identical in gender, age, and name, one to undergo tonsillectomy, the other heart surgery.

The surgeries were scheduled at the same time, and coincidentally, the two operating rooms were not far apart.

As a result, during the transfer to the operating rooms, the patients were mixed up, and the surgeries were switched.

The one scheduled for heart surgery had the tonsils removed; the one for tonsillectomy had their heart opened up.

Such a grave mistake occurred because of ignored steps at so many levels, a situation that could’ve been avoided with just a bit more attention at any stage.

Sometimes people wonder how such coincidences can even happen, yet the world somehow manages these exact coincidences.

Yang Ping reflected on this accident repeatedly, hoping to learn vital lessons from it, and then apply those lessons in his own department to increase everyone’s vigilance.

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Yang Ping returned to his department where everyone was in surgery and only the on-duty doctor was busy in the ward.

Since they hadn’t called for him, Yang Ping decided to make rounds alone. Before his rounds, he sat down in front of the computer and reviewed every medical record to check for any medical oversights—a relief to find none for now.

Beyond the weekly chief rounds, Yang Ping insisted on making a quick solo round every day, no matter how busy. Even during the busiest times, he maintained daily rounds for critical patients, which increased contact with them and allowed him to stay on top of their changing conditions. Being dynamic, illness can change in an instant; more contact never hurts.

After finishing his rounds, Yang Ping passed by the teaching room, where Sisi was reading a book. He chose not to disturb her.

The door to the dining area was open, and the head nurse was on the phone, apparently greeting the Head Nurse from the Department of Gastroenterology. She was asking for a favor to arrange a bed for her friend’s father who was coming to be hospitalized—to take good care of him.

A few days earlier, Xia Shu had mentioned his father’s persistent stomach pains, so intense they kept him awake at night. Deciding the old man should get it checked out, Xia Shu suggested coming to this hospital by high-speed train, which didn’t take long.

So Xia Shu’s parents planned to take the high-speed train for medical consultation. Unlike the scholarly Xia Shu, Nurse Cai was far more shrewd and efficient, arranging everything for the visit clearly, even taking care of picking them up from the high-speed train station, freeing Xia Shu from worrying about it while he was occupied with surgery on the operating table.

The CAR-T cell therapy performed on Li Ruizhong showed remarkable results, a preliminary examination revealed a rapid decrease in tumor cells throughout his body. Although it would take some time to completely clear the tumor cells, cell therapy could indeed achieve a total elimination of the tumor cells in Li Ruizhong.

Future checks would be carried out once a month. It wasn’t feasible for Li Ruizhong to stay in the hospital indefinitely, so he decided to be discharged. His wife came to pick him up, and before leaving, Li Ruizhong visited Professor Zhang’s outpatient clinic to express his gratitude.

Hermes Wang Changxin was returning to the country today and planned to visit Yang Ping at Sanbo Hospital. This guy was a piece of work; Yang Ping thought he was boasting, but Wang Changxin truly had made a gold and diamond-studded baby carriage. He even wrapped the gold and diamonds in real wood—a gift so valuable Yang Ping could never accept.

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