Chapter 240 - Pre-surgery preparation (1/2)

Any highly difficult surgery would require the support of multiple different hospital departments. Superintendent Ouyang wouldn’t directly give orders regarding this, as she wasn’t a surgeon. She preferred to leave professional details up to the professionals themselves. If this matter had been related to cardiology or internal medicine, Superintendent Ouyang would have instead instantly made the decision herself as she was knowledgeable in such topics and confident that she could make the correct decision.

However, she didn’t have such professional knowledge about surgery. Although Superintendent Ouyang really trusted Zhang Fan, this wasn’t a special emergency surgery, so there was no need to take such risks. Chasu City Hospital had a vice superintendent who was in charge of surgery. Superintendent Ouyang simply needed to express her attitude. It was actually really important not to pretend that you understood something that you actually didn’t in the medical field.

There was a small office in the hospital that was especially for the hospital leadership to have meetings. This was Zhang Fan’s first time in the office. He sat at the very end of the table as he listened to Superintendent Ouyang start the meeting.

“Comrades, a department’s development depends on both comrades as well as young people with ambition. Today, I’m quite relieved that no matter what, even if they’re not mature yet, the youngsters in our hospital are growing up. Our proctology department’s acting director has given us a tough question today. It’s rectal cancer surgery! This should have originally been a proctology surgery, but for various reasons, the general surgery department has always performed this surgery instead. Now, I’d like to ask, is there still a need for the proctology department to exist then? Let us set that matter aside for the time being as we take a look at our young acting director’s surgery plan. All of you are experts, so let us take a look and be his teachers who ask him questions!”

Superintendent Ouyang then told Zhang Fan, “Go ahead and begin.”

The three vice superintendents of the hospital, the hospital secretary, the general surgery director, and the three vice directors of general surgery were the others present at this meeting. Zhang Fan was no longer afraid of meeting with hospital leadership, due to all the training that Superintendent Ouyang had given him over the past year.

“Leaders, the proctology department has received a 43-year-old male patient who is a classical rectal cancer patient. After a preliminary diagnosis followed by more detailed checkups after hospitalization, it’s absolutely confirmed that he has rectal cancer.” Zhang Fan didn’t waste any time with getting to the main topic.

“How are the patient’s vitals and nutritional state?” the surgeon vice superintendent asked after Zhang Fan introduced the basics.

“They’re alright. He’s ready to undergo surgery.”

“What is your plan for this surgery?” asked general surgery director Zhao Quanping.

“Reconstruction. Not only will I perform anal reconstruction, I also intend on performing urinary tract reconstruction! My analysis of the patient’s PET-CT scan and MRI scan is that the patient’s tumor has already been confirmed to have invaded the pelvic cavity.”

“In that case, this surgery will truly be incredibly major. This will be several times more difficult than an ordinary rectal cancer surgery,” commented general surgery director Zhao Quanping.

In Chasu City Hospital’s general surgery department, there truly were many talented doctors. The three vice directors and the director were all roughly equal in skill level.

Normally, none of the vice directors would really listen to each other or to the general surgery director. However, they suddenly discovered that the world had changed around them. Things were already at the point where a resident doctor could so easily discuss the reconstruction of the anus and urinary tract, the two most important final portions of the digestive system? The three vice directors glanced at each other, and could tell that each felt this was inconceivable. This highly difficult rectal cancer surgery wouldn’t only be about general surgery and proctology, as urology would also be involved. If the patient had been female, then gynecology would have been involved as well.

That was why highly difficult surgeries were usually the work of various departments working together. But right now, a youngster who seemed like he was in his early 20s was confidently speaking about such a topic. His expression was resolute, and his tone was filled with confidence. This gave the vice directors an immense amount of pressure, especially because he was so young!

The general surgery director proudly looked at his three vice director subordinates who were always so rebellious. He felt really satisfied at this sight!

It wasn’t that he was satisfied that Zhang Fan was slapping their faces, but rather because this particular type of rectal surgery was incredibly difficult. General surgery director Zhao Quanping knew that the proctologists in the proctology department were still quite inexperienced, which meant that his opinion would definitely be sought regarding such a highly difficult surgery. Zhao Quanping also knew that Zhang Fan’s personality was that the latter wouldn’t care about anything at all as long as he was allowed to be the primary surgeon. This meant that Zhao Quanping would get to pick all of the remaining surgeons for this surgery. This was a chance for him to finally do something about his three rebellious vice director subordinates!

“It will be somewhat difficult, but there won’t be any problem!” Zhang Fan spoke quite confidently to the hospital leadership and expert doctors. He wasn’t facing the patient’s family right now, and now was the time to show off. Otherwise, if he didn’t even show any self-confidence, how were others supposed to support him?

“Vice Superintendent Wang, what do you think?” Superintendent Ouyang asked the surgeon vice superintendent.