In the ward of the Department of Cardiac Surgery of Gusu People's Hospital, Chen Changan was mixed in the team of the grand rounds.

Originally, it was impossible for the hospital to conduct rounds with irrelevant people, but after Chen Changan brushed his face, the director of the cardiac surgery department agreed to his request to conduct rounds with him.

His reputation is still good now, especially in the medical system in Gusu City, where he is basically unimpeded.

Following the rounds, one ward and one ward to check, Chen Changan found that as the attending doctor said, there were many patients in the cardiac surgery department who performed artificial valve replacement surgery, and about two or three out of every ten hospitalized patients had artificial valve replacement surgery.

This proportion is already very high. There are many heart diseases and are quite complicated. There are also various congenital heart diseases. It is amazing that artificial valve replacement surgery can have 20% of the number of surgery!

This is already comparable to the ratio of cardiology implanted pacemakers!

Chen Changan followed and asked, and all the patients chose imported artificial valves, with prices ranging from 50,000 to 70,000 to 70,000 or 80,000 yuan. In addition to the cost of surgery, medication and prognostic care, it costs almost 100,000 yuan for a surgery.

This price is not cheap at all!

Even if medical insurance can be reimbursed part of the reimbursement, it will only be reimbursed for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan at most, and the patient still needs to pay for it at his own expense.

Several patients were even admitted to the hospital and were preparing to undergo an optional operation, but they were still hesitant. They thought the cost of the operation was too high and wanted to give up and not perform the operation.

One hundred thousand yuan is a very heavy burden for an ordinary family!

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Just as the rounds were approaching, a patient who was also required to undergo prosthetic valve replacement surgery at the same time, suddenly said, "Doctor, I don't want to perform the surgery anymore. Can I help me cancel the surgery?"

The deputy director in charge of this rounds looked at the patient with surprise and said inconsistency, "Your surgery has been scheduled. The surgery is done at 3:00 tomorrow afternoon, and the preparations are done. Why do you suddenly cancel the surgery?"

The patient looked about in his early forties, with very dark skin and many yellow and black calluses on his hands. At first glance, he looked like a working class who was often exposed to wind and sun and engaged in physical work.

His expression was a little difficult to speak. He blushed and hesitated for a long time before he lowered his head and said in a low voice: "My son is in his third year of high school this year, and his academic performance has always been very good. He is about to go to college next year. This 100,000 yuan is for the child to go to college. If I use it for surgery now and can't continue working, I'm afraid my child's tuition and living expenses will not be able to get it out."

He saved up for a long time to save about 100,000 yuan in savings. Originally, the money was planned to cover the tuition and expenses of his child's college entrance examination, but this unexpected happened. At first, he did not react due to the sudden blow, so he agreed to the doctor's surgical arrangement.

However, after thinking carefully for a few days, after considering the future of the family and the importance of this money, he still felt that he could not have the surgery. Once he had the surgery, he would spend all his savings. His recovery period would take more than half a year, and he would not be able to do physical work in the first year after his recovery.

Moreover, the next half of your life will have to undergo anticoagulation treatment for life, which will cost a lot of money. Anticoagulation treatment will cost several hundred yuan at a time. After years of accumulation, it is also a bottomless pit!

"The doctor said that although my disease is life-threatening, it may not necessarily die immediately. My heart can still work. As long as I can hold on for another year or two, it will be worth it when my child goes to college!"

This patient is suffering from calcification of the mitral valve valve, and the valve is at risk of fragmentation and prolapse at any time. The doctor must advocate the implementation of valve replacement surgery as soon as possible. If the valve suddenly cannot support one day, it will break directly and cannot close normally, then his heart may explode!

If the heart is a pump, the valve is like a valve, controlling flow and flow rate, preventing blood from flowing back to the atrium or ventricle that has just left.

After the blood flows, the valve closes.

But if the valve is damaged, cannot be closed or simply broken, the heart will lose control and the consequences will be unimaginable!

Although the patient's aortic valve is still stubbornly performing its function when it is calcified, it may break or prolapse that day, and then it will have to go into the rescue room, and may even die before rescue can be rescued.

If you are lucky, you may be able to hold on for a year or two. If you are not lucky, the valve may break in the next second!

In this case, his best choice is to perform a valve replacement immediately and replace a mechanical valve to replace the calcified valve.

But for the sake of his child's future, he was reluctant to spend this money. He would rather choose to race against death and bet on how long his valve could last.

This spirit is both touching and sad.

It’s really hard to say how important money is, it depends on whether you have it and how much you have it.

When you have it, it doesn't matter at all.

When you don’t have it, it is fate, even more important than fate.

As long as you have money, you can basically solve all the difficulties in life, but if you don’t have money, you may be a luxury to live a stable life.

Next to the patient, there was a family member who was accompanying the bed. Seeing that he was about the same age as him, it was probably her wife. When her husband lowered his head and said that he didn't want to have the surgery, she was crying silently, but she forced herself to make no cry.

In fact, she knew very well that even if her husband had an artificial valve replacement surgery, he might not be able to continue to undergo long-term anticoagulation treatment. This is a bottomless pit for swallowing money.

For their fragile family, perhaps giving up treatment is the best choice, even if the husband is the only pillar of the family!

Chen Changan looked at the scene full of sadness in front of him, sighed, and whispered a few words in the ear of Director Zhao, who was leading the team to conduct rounds.

After listening to Chen Changan's whisper, Director Zhao looked at him in surprise, turned his head and said to the desperate patient: "The hospital now has charity funding. For those who do have financial difficulties in their families, after passing the review, they can be partially exempted and the treatment costs are allowed to be paid in installments. If you are really nervous at hand, the treatment costs can be repaid in ten years."

Two pairs of hopeful eyes immediately looked at Director Zhao of the cardiology department.

"Really?"

"real."

The two of them immediately laughed in surprise, and a sense of joy to regain their new life arises.

"Then I'll treat it!" If possible, who doesn't want to live longer?

Chen Changan looked at the patient who had regained his hope and felt much happier.

Although his personal abilities are limited and he cannot help every poor family who has no money to treat his illness, since he happened to meet him today, he can still help as much as possible.

After all, for him, a hundred thousand yuan may be just a string of numbers that can be earned in a few minutes, but for this fragile family, it is equivalent to the price of a life.

Some are ironic and some are sad.
Chapter completed!