Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s

Currently, the average folks don't have much money, and not everyone can afford a PCI procedure. Additionally, PCI surgeries are short, usually completed in about an hour or so per patient, sometimes even less than an hour. In slower cases involving special circumstances, such as patients undergoing ablation for arrhythmias, the doctor must slowly adjust and verify the patient's heart rhythm during the surgery, which can last from morning to late afternoon, up to ten hours long. However, such surgeries are rarely encountered. The quick turnover rate of operating rooms means that many are not needed.

Most patients can't afford stent implantation and only undergo angiographic examination, which is even faster.

Unlike President Wu, clinicians don't have to calculate economics, and Jin Tianyu expressed his dissatisfaction purely because, as a cardiovascular doctor, he internally desires to compete against Guo Zhi Hospital, a strong specialized hospital akin to a brother.

Guo Zhi's cardiovascular intervention labs amount to seven, not counting hybrid operating rooms with internal and external functionalities. Guo Zhi is also building a new tower, which, once completed, will expand the catheterization labs to ten. Guoxie's new construction is a surgical building with no allocation for internal medicine. Why wouldn't their cardiovascular department strive for more?

It can be imagined that Senior Jin's irritability might be due to excessive pressure. Guoxie's cardiovascular department has to contend not only with the cardiothoracic department within the hospital but is also frequently compared to Guo Zhi Hospital outside.

Everyone knows that Guoxie ranks first; then why is it so that when it comes to cardiovascular interventional surgeries, no one mentions Guoxie, and the public universally praises Guo Zhi? Being talked about this way would make any doctor with a sense of shame feel a bit embarrassed.

What's more, the recent major event has occurred. One of their unit's veteran figures, Teacher Lu, is going to Guo Zhi to further his heart disease treatment. Rumors are rampant outside that Guoxie's technology didn't pass muster, forcing the unit's teacher to transfer. No matter how many times Jin Tianyu explains that Teacher Lu didn't transfer because he doubted Guoxie's cardiovascular department, nobody believes him.

Moreover, classmates from the same class as him in the past went to Guo Zhi, also engaging in cardiovascular medicine. When comparing the two hospitals, it's inevitable that they would discuss the technical competition among their classmates.

Xie Wanying and her group walked to the interventional lab.

At the entrance, they saw the patient's friend, a middle-aged man, sitting on a long bench waiting for the surgery results. The patient's family isn't in the Capital, so a friend accompanied him to sign the surgery consent. While waiting, the man was making a phone call at the same time.

Seeing someone coming, the man glanced at the group of medical students, assessing their young age and assuming they weren't the operating doctors and didn't have a say, turned back to continue his call.

The students brushed past him, overhearing his conversation, which seemed to be a call with an external doctor.

"Yes, yes, Doctor Seo. What should we do now? Old Zhang has gone in. The doctor says an urgent angiography might be necessary, possibly needing a new stent. Gone in where? The operating room, of course. Doctor Seo, his first surgery was done at your place; how could he have issues again so soon?"

"It could be that another coronary artery is blocked. What symptoms did he have when he came to the Capital hospital for emergency treatment this time?"

"It seems more severe than last time, the chest pain was intense. He called me, and when I took him to the emergency room at the hospital, he was sweating profusely, his face very pale."

"From the sound of it, his condition has worsened, and it's necessary to do another angiogram to determine which artery is blocked. Re-blockage is quite normal. Was he taking his medication on time? I haven't seen him come for a recheck with me for a long time."