Healing Doctor

Chapter 564 What Would You Do If It Were Your Turn?

In the comments section.

The bald host smirked and looked at Professor Shen.

"Teacher Shen, I've heard that gastroscopy and colonoscopy are very painful procedures."

"Now that we have capsule endoscopy, it's actually not so bad," Professor Shen said.

"Capsule endoscopy? Is it expensive? How is it done? Is it like taking medicine, just an oral capsule?" A guest asked a series of questions.

"This examination costs over 4000 yuan at our hospital, but some secondary-level hospitals can do it for around 3000 yuan, so it's not too expensive," Professor Shen said with a smile. "However, capsule endoscopy is just one type of examination..."

It was obvious that the guests were very interested in capsule endoscopy. Before Professor Shen could finish speaking, another guest hurriedly interrupted him.

"Professor Shen, what is the principle behind capsule endoscopy?" he asked.

Professor Shen smiled slightly.

This is all perfectly normal, and it's clear that the animated explanation of the gastroscopy and colonoscopy process has accurately captured everyone's curiosity.

"Capsule endoscopy involves a patient taking a smart capsule orally, which moves through the digestive tract using peristalsis, and images are taken to understand the condition of the patient's digestive tract and make a diagnosis."

"When our hospital first started doing this, we once forgot to repeatedly instruct the patient to take the antifoaming agent orally, which resulted in a large amount of foam in the gastrointestinal tract."

Professor Shen's lengthy explanation was met with great interest.

"Professor Shen, that sounds good!" the bald host said after Professor Shen finished speaking. "When did similar examinations become available?"

"It was a long time ago. I first heard about capsule endoscopy in 2006."

"!!!"

"!!!"

One guest asked in surprise, "Professor Shen, so early! In my hometown, painless gastroscopy and colonoscopy were not available in 2006. It is said that less than a year after they started doing it, a patient died, and the hospital stopped the painless gastroscopy and colonoscopy."

"It's a matter of technical level," Professor Shen said. "Back then, capsule endoscopy had just entered the Chinese market and was quite expensive. What we use now is a product developed under the leadership of Academician Li Zhaoshen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also known as the magnetically controlled capsule endoscopy system."

"It only appeared in 2013, and it hasn't been fully rolled out in clinical practice yet."

"Why is it so slow?" someone wondered.

"It's expensive, and if it's not covered by medical insurance, its use will definitely be limited," Professor Shen said.

"Foot massages are now covered by medical insurance..." A guest tried to make a joke but was kicked by the person next to him.

"Hahaha." Director Liu laughed heartily, "Old Bai, so the whole country knows the joke about foot massage being covered by medical insurance."

"Do you have internet now?" Director Bai asked with a smile. "The internet is like a big basin; you can put anything in, shake it, and it will come out evenly mixed."

In the comment section, as the animation continued, the guests chatted more and more happily.

But Director Bai shook his head slightly.

"Old Bai, what's wrong?" Director Liu asked.

"If the show were done like that, it would indeed be quite good, but it would be relying on past successes. What's the point of just chatting and introducing some projects, such as capsule endoscopy?"

"Hey, why think so much?" Director Liu laughed. "This is medical. Not to mention domestic films and TV series, even foreign ones would be considered restricted if they showed the things we see during surgery."

Director Bai didn't speak, but shook his head slightly again, clearly showing his disappointment.

The animation was short, and the guests' chat time was also short, so Director Bai sighed.

"It looks like all the time in the show was devoted to GG."

"Variety shows are all about making money. It makes no sense not to make money when there is money to be made."

Director Bai remained silent and lost in thought, seeing that Liu Zhi was always speaking for the sake of the program.

According to Director Bai's idea, the time for the guests to create atmosphere was shortened, and a lot of GG should be interspersed in between.

But the GG that Director Bai had anticipated did not appear; the following footage was so crude it was appalling.

"Huh?" Director Bai exclaimed.

"It was filmed on a mobile phone. Is the production team courting disaster?" Director Liu looked at the screen in confusion.

The image quality, clearly taken with a mobile phone and with a shaky, nauseating feel, contrasts sharply with the exquisite animation produced by the film industry, creating a sense of disillusionment.

On the screen, Ji Xiang is talking to the patient's family members who are waiting outside the endoscopy room.

At this point, a lip-reading expert appears and, just like in the previous episode, interprets the conversation between Ji Xiang and the patient's family.

The video was broken down into several parts. Although it was recorded on a mobile phone and the images were blurry, the lip-reading expert was still able to barely reconstruct the conversation between Ji Xiang and the patient's family after zooming in.

"Holy crap!" Liu Zhi frowned. "Is that the key point?!"

"Perhaps." Director Bai's brow relaxed; he had finally seen the scene he had been waiting for.

The production team did not disappoint.

"It must be a problem with the 1cm polyp that Director Zou treated," Director Liu said. "Old Bai, have you encountered similar patients before?"

"Of course, otherwise, why would I require all patients who have had polyps removed to be observed for at least one day, given how tight our hospital's bed availability is?"

"What happened?"

"Three years ago, a patient had two small polyps removed without any problems. After returning home, he only drank a little rice porridge as instructed by the doctor. In the middle of the night, his wife felt that the bed was a little wet and reached out to touch it; it was all water."

"!!!" Director Liu had already guessed the story.

"When we turned on the light, the patient was already unconscious, and the bed was covered in blood; it looked like something out of a horror movie."

"This is really bad luck," Director Liu said.

"There's a 2 in 100,000 chance of bleeding, but losing this much blood is very rare. When I got to the hospital, I had to receive 5500 ml of blood transfusions. Thankfully, I survived."

"How much money did we lose?" Director Liu asked.

"Keep it a secret."

"Tch, boring. It's an old almanac from so many years ago. What's there to keep secret?"

Director Bai simply smiled and changed the subject, "Dazhi, let me ask you, what are you most afraid of in this kind of situation?"

"I'm afraid the patient's family won't notice," Director Liu replied casually. "If there's bleeding and they're not at the hospital yet, it'll delay things, and they might wake up cold in the morning."

"Yes, guess what Ji Xiang would do if faced with a patient like this?" Director Bai pressed on with one question after another.

Director Liu did not answer Director Bai's question. He watched the scene on the television quietly, lost in thought.

It's obvious that the gastroenterologists have already explained things to the patient and their family, and the lip-reading expert has just provided an interpretation. The patient's family is making all sorts of sarcastic remarks, completely unaware of how important it is to stay for observation for one day.

What would I do if it were me?

no way.

If Director Liu put himself in Ji Xiang's position, he would have absolutely no solution to the problem.

The patient's family was very insistent and had extremely poor compliance with medical advice. They wouldn't listen to anything we said and instead repeatedly cited local small hospitals as examples. They even attributed the First Affiliated Hospital's requirement for hospitalization for observation to their desire to make money. What could we do?

(End of this chapter)