Chapter 1284: 【1284】Go to Xuanwu Hospital
Currently, the patient has somewhat high blood pressure.
The family members said that the patient has been irritable recently, and they were afraid of further brain issues, so they decided to have the patient checked at the hospital.
In fact, given the patient's condition, the family could easily take the patient downstairs themselves and visit the outpatient clinic. However, as the family straightforwardly mentioned, they are unable to carry the patient down from the seventh floor, so they simply called emergency services to get medical personnel to assist.
Internal medicine emergency doctors are helpless when dealing with stroke-paralyzed patients and their families. It's understandable. Once a stroke patient has paralyzed limbs, they mostly rely on others for care. That's why they say one illness can bring a family down, and it's no joke. Sometimes, it isn't even about the money. In situations like this, who can the family find at short notice to help move the patient?
Relatives? Could relatives really travel long distances just to help you carry a patient downstairs? They might do it once, but not repeatedly.
Truly family members? Like this elderly person's only remaining caregiver is a daughter in her forties or fifties. How could she lift the elderly person on her own?
If doctors consider all these aspects and put themselves in others' shoes, they wouldn't complain, at most making a joke to themselves.
After completing a physical exam on the patient, they brought over a wheelchair, secured the patient onto it, and began the difficult process of carrying the elderly patient downstairs. It took almost half an hour to carry them from the seventh floor to the ground level. Once downstairs, they placed the elderly patient in the ambulance. There wasn't enough space in the ambulance for the family members, so they took a taxi to the hospital. They told the Guoxie doctors, "My father isn't going to Guoxie, please take us to Xuanwu."
Why go to Xuanwu? Because Xuanwu's neurology department is more renowned than Guoxie's.
Listening to their hospital's ambulance being reduced to a rideshare service for patients going to other hospitals, Xin Yanjun and Sister Seo could only laugh bitterly and suggested to the patient's family, "Why not our hospital's neurosurgery? Our hospital's neurosurgery department is very well-known."
"We know, but my father can't undergo surgery; he missed the surgical window. He can only receive internal medicine treatment now." As a family member of an old patient, they weren't swayed by the doctors' words.
Xin Yanjun and Sister Seo exchanged glances and gave up, deciding not to say more. Their hospital's neurosurgery beds were in high demand, with many patients seeking treatment from Cao Yong, who was already overburdened. How could a neurosurgery expert at Guoxie only be capable of performing surgeries? Neurosurgery experts are also able to develop conservative, non-surgical treatment plans for recurrent stroke patients. Moreover, someone like Boss Cao could offer conservative treatment and, if a surgical window opened up, perform the surgery without needing to transfer departments—wouldn't that be even better?
The ambulance headed toward Xuanwu Hospital. Sister Seo was particularly worried about the lengthy travel time to Xuanwu and called back to the hospital to report.
Xuanwu is far from Guoxie, taking the ambulance a full forty minutes to get there.
Sitting in the ambulance, Xie Wanying recalled that her classmate, Li Qi'an, mentioned the director of Xuanwu Hospital was the class monitor's uncle. She quietly turned to look at the class monitor.
Yue Wentong seemed indifferent to going to Xuanwu, his expression very calm.
When it came to the doctors at Xuanwu, coincidentally, Xie Wanying had met several of their surgeons on different occasions, including their hospital's urology department head as well as General Surgery's Wei Guoyuan and Doctor Xiao Yang.
Arriving at the entrance of Xuanwu Hospital's emergency department, the medical staff escorted the patient off the ambulance. Xin Yanjun led the students into the hospital's emergency department, calling for someone to hand over, saying: "A patient has arrived, a regular of your hospital. The blood pressure is a bit high, admission might be needed."