Chapter 565: What Would You Do Instead?

In the Review Room.

Guangtou Zhuchiren tilted his head and looked at Professor Shen.

"Teacher Shen, I've heard that undergoing a Gastrointestinal Endoscope is quite an ordeal."

"There is a Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope now, so it's actually not too bad," Professor Shen said.

"Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope? Is it very expensive? How is it done? Is it just like taking medicine, where you swallow a capsule?" a guest asked a series of questions.

"This examination costs over 4,000 at our hospital, and at some Er Jia Yiyuan, it can be done for over 3,000, so it's not too expensive," Professor Shen laughed. "However, the Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope is just one type of examination..."

It was clear the guests were very interested in the Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope; before Professor Shen could finish, another guest hurriedly interrupted him.

"Teacher Shen, what is the principle behind the Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope?" he asked.

Professor Shen smiled slightly.

This was human nature; it was clear the animated explanation of the Gastrointestinal Endoscope process had accurately struck everyone's curiosity.

"Capsule endoscopy refers to the patient swallowing an intelligent capsule, which uses the peristalsis of the digestive tract to move and capture images within the digestive tract, thereby understanding the patient's digestive tract condition and making a diagnosis of their illness."

"When our hospital first started doing this, there was one time we forgot to repeatedly instruct the patient to take the Defoaming Agent, which resulted in a large amount of foam in the gastrointestinal tract."

Professor Shen gave a long-winded explanation, full of zest.

"Teacher Shen, that sounds great!" Guangtou Zhuchiren said after Professor Shen's words came to a pause. "When did similar examinations become available?"

"A long time ago. The earliest I heard of the Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope was in 2006."

"!!!"

"!!!"

One guest asked in a daze, "Teacher Shen, it was that early? Back in my hometown in 2006, we still couldn't do a Painless Gastrointestinal Endoscope. It was said that less than a year after they first started doing it, a Patient died, and the hospital stopped the Painless Gastrointestinal Endoscope."

"It's a matter of technical level," Professor Shen said. "At that time, the Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope had just entered the country and was relatively expensive. What we use now is a product developed under the leadership of Academician Li Zhaoshen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also called the Magnetic Controlled Capsule Gastroscopy System."

"It only appeared in 2013, and it still hasn't been fully rolled out in Clinical practice to this day."

"Why is it so slow?" someone asked in confusion.

"It's expensive. If it can't be covered by medical insurance, its usage will definitely be restricted," Professor Shen said.

"Even foot therapy is covered by medical insurance..." a guest wanted to make a joke, but was kicked by the person next to him.

"Hahaha." Liu Zhuren laughed out loud. "Lao Bai, it turns out the joke about foot therapy being covered by medical insurance is known nationwide."

"Isn't there the internet now?" Bai Chuzhang laughed. "The internet is a big basin; no matter what you put in and shake it up, it all comes out uniform."

In the Review Room, as the animation continued, the guests' casual chat became more and more cheerful.

But Bai Chuzhang shook his head slightly.

"Lao Bai, what's wrong?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"If the show is made like this, it's indeed not bad, but it belongs to living off past glory. Just chatting and introducing some items, like the Capsule Gastrointestinal Endoscope or something, what's the point of that?"

"Sigh, why think so much," Liu Zhuren laughed. "This is medicine. Don't even talk about domestic; even those foreign movies and TV shows that put the things we usually see during surgery on screen are considered restricted."

Bai Chuzhang didn't speak, but shook his head slightly again; it was clear he was a bit disappointed.

The animation wasn't long, and the guests' chatting time wasn't long either. Bai Chuzhang sighed.

"It looks like the show's time was all allocated to advertisements."

"Variety shows are just for making money. There's no such thing as having money and not earning it."

Seeing Liu Zhi speaking up for the show at every turn, Bai Chuzhang was speechless and lost in thought.

According to Bai Chuzhang's thinking, the time for the guests to build up the atmosphere had been shortened, and a large number of advertisements should have been inserted in the middle.

But the advertisements Bai Chuzhang had anticipated didn't appear; the subsequent footage was so rough it was outrageous.

"Eh?" Bai Chuzhang let out an 'eh'.

"Shot on a phone? Is the production team courting death?" Liu Zhuren also looked at the screen, puzzled.

In the footage, the image quality was clearly shot on a phone, and the dizzying, nauseating shakiness was such a stark contrast to the beautifully crafted animation of the film industry before that it made one feel a sense of frustration.

On the screen, Ji Xiang was saying something to a Family Member waiting outside the Endoscopy Room.

A lip-reading Expert appeared at this moment, and like the previous episode, interpreted the words between Ji Xiang and the Family Member.

Several frames were broken down; although it was recorded on a phone and the image was blurry, after zooming in, the lip-reading Expert still managed to reconstruct the dialogue between Ji Xiang and the Family Member.

"Damn it!" Liu Zhi frowned. "The point is here?!"

"Maybe," Bai Chuzhang's brow relaxed; he had finally seen the scene he wanted to see.

The production team hadn't let people down after all.

"It must be that the 1cm polyp removed by Director Zou had a problem," Liu Zhuren said. "Lao Bai, have you encountered similar Patients?"

"Of course. Otherwise, why do you think our hospital's beds are so tight, yet I still make all Patients who have polyps removed observe for at least one day."

"Has anything happened?"

"Three years ago, a Patient had 2 small polyps removed and there were no problems at all. After going home, they only drank a little bit of rice soup according to the doctor's orders. In the middle of the night, their spouse felt the bed was a bit wet, and when they reached out to touch it, it was all water."

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

"When they turned on the light, the Patient was already in a coma, the whole bed full of blood, like a horror movie."

"That luck really wasn't very good," Liu Zhuren said.

"There is a 2 in 100,000 probability of bleeding, but it's rare to have that much blood. When they were sent to the hospital at the time, they received 5500ml of Blood Transfusion alone. Fortunately, the person was saved."

"How much did we pay in compensation?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"Confidential."

"Tch, boring. That's old news from how many years ago; what do you have to be confidential about."

Bai Chuzhang just smiled slightly and changed the subject. "Dazhi, let me ask you, what is the most feared thing in this kind of situation?"

"Afraid that the Family Member didn't notice," Liu Zhuren replied casually. "Once bleeding occurs, if they aren't in the hospital, it delays time, and it's possible that by the time morning comes, the person is already cold."

"Yes. You guess, facing such a Patient, what would Ji Xiang do?" Bai Chuzhang asked one question after another.

Liu Zhuren did not answer Bai Chuzhang's words; he watched the image on the television quietly, lost in thought.

It was very clear that the doctors in the Digestive Medicine Department had already given many instructions to the Patient and the Family Member, and the lip-reading Expert had just provided an interpretation; the Family Member was mocking them in every way, completely unaware of how important it was to stay for a one-day observation.

If it were himself, what would he do?

There is no way.

Liu Zhuren put himself in Ji Xiang's position and found there was simply no way to solve the problem.

The Family Member was very insistent, their medical compliance was extremely poor, and they would not listen to anything, instead repeatedly citing the local small hospital as an example. They even attributed the Affiliated Hospital's requirement for observation to a desire to make money; what could be done about this?

(End of chapter)