Chapter 2334: Too Naive
In order for a doctor to have the courage to perform, at the very least, the doctor himself needs to have the technical confidence. Medical knowledge is vast; an average doctor can’t possibly master everything. Much less when these medical procedures are heavily reliant on experiential learning.
If you say these words to the family, they’ll cause trouble: I trust you, but in the end, you handle my family member like this, clearly knowing there’s a method. Isn’t this because your skills are lacking? What kind of doctor are you?
This kind of situation has appeared many times in texts. Other ordinary hospitals would certainly tell the family to quickly transfer the child to another suitable higher-level hospital. This is Shou’er, the top-ranked pediatric specialized hospital in the country. Where else can you let the family send the child? What needs to be done is to call down the specialists from the hospital.
Doctors on duty in the inpatient department aren’t readily available; they have a lot of their own work to attend to. Especially during the day, when there aren’t enough personnel in the departments, being called to the operating table to assist is a common occurrence. Right now, calling them down from the surgical table takes time. Moreover, the first-line doctors on duty you call down are young doctors just like you, whether they can handle complicated cases is uncertain, and only if they can’t handle it will they report it up the chain, layer by layer. This is hard for outsiders to understand; how come this life-saving place, the hospital, has procedures as cumbersome as other units.
It has to be cumbersome; young doctors need training, and many diseases won’t cause death immediately, senior doctors cannot meet all patients’ demands. In Shou’er, letting pediatric patients die is impossible; it’s only a matter of operating or not operating.
Emergency doctors absolutely cannot speak these words to the parents; the parents would wreck the place.
Another way, perhaps, is to seek help from the pediatric surgical doctors on duty in the emergency.
A few young doctors are worried in places out of sight of the family.
Wei Shangquan glares at attending physician Duan Sanbao: Make a decision. Just like Student Xie said, if we don’t try now, there won’t be time.
Unlike interns, licensed doctors bear responsibility, who dares to act rashly? Duan Sanbao calmly waits for the answer from the emergency nurse who went to notify other doctors. Doctors are not familiar with all the hospital colleagues; it’s best to let the nurse notify them according to procedure.
The emergency nurse follows the doctor’s instructions, seeking help all over, then runs back, closing the doctor’s office door and says: "Doctor Duan, Doctor Chen is out on a call. Doctor Zhang is not here."
"Not here?"
"Yes, he had something to attend to in his department, we called him, he said he’s in pediatric urology, you have to find general surgery."
For the emergency colleagues, help can’t be immediately provided; when will the pediatric general surgery doctor on duty from the inpatient department come down?
"They said it would take some time, as they are quite busy with surgery. The emergency patient has not gone into shock yet, so they ask you to hold on. Maybe in about half an hour."
Half an hour, the time is not long, we can definitely wait.
The doctors think this way. But the facts prove their thinking is naive.
The family isn’t just one group. Student Xie only temporarily handled the two parents who brought the child. Soon, upon hearing the news about the son’s accident, the father came, the grandfather came, the grandmother and grandfather came. This family doesn’t have multiple children, they have only one child—their only treasure is in big trouble, equivalent to the family’s heir apparent about to die unexpectedly, how could the whole family not be anxious?
Seeing that the doctors have not performed any emergency treatment to solve the problem for this child, the expressions on several elderly faces turn grim.