Chapter Forty-Six: Revisiting the Past

However, to their surprise, when Li Yiting went to see Jiang Tao under Shen Mingyue's recommendation and explained the reason, Jiang Tao was reluctant to mention this old incident, saying that he didn't want to cause trouble anymore, so let it drift away with the wind.

"Now that the autopsy is completed and the cause of death is clear, then Xiang Wen, as the attending doctor, it is in line with the regulations for him to bear the fault, and our department will pay compensation for him, which is the only thing I can do for him, as for the previous events, it must have nothing to do with today's events, I don't think there is any need to mention it again!" Jiang Tao said.

"Director Jiang, we have no objection to the disposition of you and the hospital, but now that their family has ended up like this, and their whole family is a doctor in your hospital, we really don't want the same tragedy to happen again. Li Yiting persuaded.

"Hey, the hospital is a place of right and wrong, we are cured as a matter of course, and it is the doctor's fault if we can't be cured, even if there is certification from an authoritative department, it is still difficult to convince the public. Xiang Wen's matter is very noisy, and the ending is already good, so I also advise you, forget it here, the hospital will settle Xiang Wen. Jiang Tao was very helpless, and he was afraid that he and the department would be pushed to the forefront again.

"What about Xun Siping? He is your old friend for many years, so an excellent doctor was forced to commit suicide, it's rare that you don't want to seek justice for him? Don't you want all the medical staff to have peace of mind?" Li Yiting moved out of the long-dead old professor, "Now that his whole family is dead and injured, if one day, something like this falls on you, can you still sit here peacefully?"

Li Yiting's continuous rhetorical questions exploded deeply in Jiang Tao's heart like a series of cannonballs, he and Xun Siping are close friends, if it weren't for such a thing, maybe the position of the director of the oncology department should be the other party.

Yes! If it wasn't Yin Siping who did the operation, but Jiang Tao, or other doctors, I'm afraid it would have been difficult to end and would have ended up in the same fate. He can still sit here and enjoy himself now, maybe he is really lucky, but Xun Siping does not have such a good life.

After calming down for a long time, Jiang Tao finally agreed to speak, walked to the window, looked at the sky outside, and recalled the medical incident that shocked the whole city and had a great impact on the medical community.

The whole incident starts from an ordinary working family, the situation of this family is the most stable and decent representative in this city, his father Guo Ke thought that the university language lecturer, the ability is mediocre, the major is relatively unpopular, and he is never allowed to promote the title, he is still a lecturer at the age of forty, and he is depressed, but he has always been very concerned about the education and morality of his son Guo Huai, and it can be regarded as teaching by word and deed. Mother Ding Mei works in a public institution, but she is just an ordinary employee, and there is absolutely no chance of promotion at this age. Their only son, Guo Huai, had just entered an ordinary university in the provincial capital at that time, and was not at home at the time of the incident.

Guo Ke found that there was a tumor in the stomach during a routine examination of his own study organization, which was later diagnosed by the hospital and determined to be benign, which did not cause much harm to the body, but if he ate too much or his body was affected, it would lead to pain. At that time, Guo Ke was in a critical period of his career, and he saw that the tumor was basically out of the way, and he hadn't noticed it at all if it wasn't for the physical examination, so he didn't undergo surgical resection, but just prescribed some medicine to take it back, hoping to control the condition and talk about it when he was free in the future.

After staying up like this for a long time, Guo Ke is still working diligently on the front line of teaching, and he is also trying to make certain breakthroughs in scientific research projects, but this expectation is indeed a lot of effort for him, resulting in often staying up late, working overtime, and eating improperly, so that his stomach is often uncomfortable. Originally, Guo Ke didn't care too much, after all, he had understood his problem before, but the pain in his stomach became more and more severe, which had affected his daily diet, because the pain would intensify after meals, and then he couldn't eat, his appetite was lost, and his body was getting thinner, which caused Guo Ke's wife Ding Mei to care. At Ding Mei's insistence, Guo Ke came to the Sixth Hospital for a re-examination, at this time his previous attending doctor had retired, and the person who received him was Xun Siping.

After a detailed examination, Xun Siping unexpectedly found that the tumor in Guo Ke's stomach showed obvious spread, which was very irregular from the barium swallow imaging, and Guo Ke's physical condition became heavier, so he suspected that the tumor was not a benign tumor that grew very slowly, and it was likely to be malignant. Subsequently, Xun Siping performed a gastroscopic biopsy experiment on Guo Ke, and finally confirmed the existence of cancer cells in the tumor in Guo Ke's stomach, which means that Guo Ke had stomach cancer and it had spread.

Such a result is a bolt from the blue for any family, and Guo Ke and Ding Mei are naturally no exception, they don't understand, why was it that what was found to be benign before became malignant in less than a year?

It is difficult for Xun Siping to explain this, after all, the previous examination and treatment were not taken over by himself, and he couldn't see a clue from the medical records, so he naturally couldn't tell, Guo Ke's stomach cancer was a benign transformation or a misdiagnosis last time?

But in any case, the facts are there, and the first thing is to cure the sick and save people. Guo Ke didn't want to stop at this golden period of his career, but he couldn't withstand the repeated persuasion of Yang Siping, coupled with the insistence of his wife Ding Mei, he finally agreed to immediately undergo surgical treatment to remove the tumor in the stomach along with the stomach and lymph at risk of metastasis.

Compared with other cancer surgeries, stomach cancer surgery is relatively simple because the stomach is a hollow organ, unlike the liver, lungs or brain, which has a large number of functional areas, and the absence of a part of it will affect the normal functions of the body. The stomach is mainly used to digest food, and even if most of it is removed, it still has this single function, but the speed and capacity are reduced, and it can be solved by only eating fewer meals and more meals at that time.

If the tumor found at the beginning is stomach cancer, then after such a long delay, it is difficult to ensure that there is no metastasis, so a single gastric surgery will be insufficient.

At that time, Xun Siping also discussed Guo Ke's case with Jiang Tao, because the old doctor who treated Guo Ke for the first time has retired, it is very difficult to pursue whether there was a misdiagnosis at the beginning, and it is not easy to speak. Therefore, after discussion, they decided to ignore the past problems for the time being, and formulated a policy for Guo Ke to focus on surgery, supplemented by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, to prevent or inhibit the metastasis of cancer cells to the greatest extent, so as to achieve a good prognosis.