Chapter 2627: with translation of chapter title

2528.2433 Female outgoing (Alliance Leader Wang Li Ping, extra chapter 3)

After Lin Yuan briefly finished explaining Xiao Shitou's condition, Lin Yuanzhang frowned and said: "Such patients have already undergone chemo and radiotherapy, even Modu's proton heavy ion bombardment radiotherapy has been tried, there is no cure left; why are you asking about this?"

"I think Zheng Lao Ban means he wants to do surgery." Lin Yuan tilted his head, his ponytail lightly swaying to one side, completely losing the tense, ready-to-rescue demeanor he had at the hospital, and instead putting on a relaxed expression.

"Surgery? Does Zheng Lao Ban really think that?" Lin Yuanzhang frowned.

"Old Lin, why still bombardment? Sounds scary." Lin Yuanzhang's lover asked.

"Oh, that's not what you mean. Proton heavy ion therapy for cancer is a contemporary recognized advanced effective radiotherapy method; the so-called heavy ion refers to particles heavier than helium that are ionized."

"It's just radiotherapy, making it so mysterious; I, who don't understand this field, even thought cancer had been conquered." Lin Yuanzhang's lover said dismissively while knitting a sweater.

"Proton heavy ions travel at near-light speed, forming radiation; they release only a small amount of energy at the tumor's front end, so as to avoid damaging normal tissue as much as possible; when they reach the tumor site, they release a large amount of energy, forming an energy peak, thereby killing tumor cells." Lin Yuanzhang said, "It's technological progress, the effect..."

"Not that miraculous." Lin Yuan interrupted Lin Yuanzhang's words, standing firmly beside his mother, "It's just an upgraded version of radiotherapy; although the U. S. has also developed quite a few, it was mainly first developed in the East."

Lin Yuanzhang's lover happily held up the half-knitted sweater in her hand and measured it twice against Lin Yuan, full of affection. She had no interest in proton heavy ion therapy at all, her mind wholly on the sweater she was knitting for Lin Yuan.

"A few years ago, Modu's proton heavy ion radiotherapy facility was completed, and Far North Province also wanted to build one. But due to funding issues, it was never built." Lin Yuanzhang said, "The effect is still not bad; although it's not a cure, it greatly helps delay the disease."

"Dad, you're getting further and further off topic." Lin Yuan said in a cute voice, "Do you think Xiao Shitou can't undergo surgery?"

"Can't be done; the meaning of chemo and radiotherapy doesn't exist." Lin Yuanzhang said firmly, "Based on your description, I can only make one suggestion—give up treatment."

"Really strange."

"Did Zheng Lao Ban say he wants to do it?" Lin Yuanzhang also asked curiously.

"No, he also clearly said he can't do it. But before leaving work in the afternoon, I saw him sitting in his office looking at patient records, and it was clearly over an hour."

If something is meaningless, someone would definitely do it for fun. But professionally, knowing full well that surgery and chemo/radiotherapy aren't possible for this patient, Zheng Lao Ban still looking at the medical records means there's more meaning to it.

Lin Yuanzhang thought for a moment, then smiled and said: "Zheng Lao Ban has had things go too smoothly all along."

"Guess you'd say that." Lin Yuan leaned against his mother's side, with an expression that said he already knew you'd say that, "Zheng Lao Ban is steady."

Lin Yuanzhang laughed and cried at once.

Truly, girls are outgoing; his own daughter not yet married, just being in the Medical Team is like standing opposite himself.

You can't really say there's anything wrong with young Zheng Lao Ban; if you do, you'll provoke his daughter's rebuttal.

But for a patient with late-stage tumor, he's still looking at medical records—not trying to figure out how to do surgery or something else.

Lin Yuanzhang has seen many young achievers in his lifetime.

The vast majority are extraordinarily talented youths, but not every one can steadily move forward. In the medical profession, many risks lie not in the disease itself but in people's hearts.

But by rights he shouldn't; before coming to Di Du, Young Zheng Lao Ban was the Inpatient Chief of the Emergency Department at Haicheng First Hospital, having seen every kind of disease as an Emergency Department Inpatient Chief; having gone through every kind of danger, how could he still have such a naive idea?

Lin Yuanzhang also couldn't figure it out; he watched the TV screen with a puzzled look, but what came to mind was what method he had forgotten.

After a few seconds, he let out a helpless laugh. There's still no way to cure late-stage cancer patients; if there were, it would have been widely publicized by now—no need to think about it.

"Dad, you don't think Zheng Lao Ban would really want to do surgery, would you?" Lin Yuan asked with some worry.

"No way, don't worry." Lin Yuanzhang said: "What time is it now? I estimate the Nobel Prize call will come within a week. If we don't get the call, we can only wait until next year. Now is a time of unsettled mind; any difficult surgery should be put aside."

Saying that, Lin Yuanzhang turned his head to look at Lin Yuan and asked: "Do you feel Zheng Lao Ban has confidence?"

"Yes!" Lin Yuan said confidently.

"Then just follow Zheng Lao Ban well." Lin Yuanzhang said: "Whatever news I've received on my side, you name it; in short, don't worry about it, just……"

"Dad, I think you're more nervous than I am." Lin Yuan said in a cute voice, "Whether or not we get the Nobel Prize has nothing to do with me. I just need to study surgery well; by then being able to perform intracardiac intervention surgery on my own will be enough."

Lin Yuanzhang didn't speak, just smiled as he looked at Lin Yuan. His mother is still young, either unaware or not caring about the difficulty and great significance of this matter.

After chatting a while, the family of three washed up and prepared to sleep. Returning to the room, Lin Yuanzhang's lover saw him put on reading glasses, start looking up information, and asked: "Old Lin, what are you looking for if you're not sleeping?"

"Look up information about the Nobel Prize."

"You've been looking it up all the time lately, haven't you figured it out yet? Besides, it's not your hospital's business."

"You don't understand anything; if Zheng Lao Ban can win the Nobel Prize, later his daughter's business card could bear the title of Nobel Prize project team member."

"Do you think the daughter can handle it?" Lin Yuanzhang's lover said: "With her temperament, she's always waiting for others to say you're Dr. Lin's dad..."

"That's not the same." Lin Yuanzhang lowered his head to look for materials, "Having the Nobel Prize title is a shortcut; later the daughter's path will also be much smoother."

"You just said it was impossible a few days ago, why are you suddenly so concerned now?" Lin Yuanzhang's lover asked.

"Go to sleep first, I'll look for more information." Lin Yuanzhang didn't answer his lover's question, but urged her to hurry up and sleep, not to bother him.

Why the change in attitude? Recently, the medical circles in Di Du have been turbulent; the chair of the Nobel Prize evaluation committee came to Di Du to give lectures, and reportedly even personally visited Zheng Lao Ban at his door, eventually going to great lengths to go to Fu Yuan Hospital to see a patient.

Not mentioning the illness, just the fact that the chair of the Nobel Prize evaluation committee personally paid a visit is already full of things worth pondering.

Lin Yuanzhang thought about the Nobel Prize, his heart also burning hot.