"Old Chen, why did you involve me in this?"
The next morning, Liu Banxia muttered this while scrubbing in.
"What else could I do? I'm not confident enough to go up there alone. Besides, the angiogram shows that the patient's great saphenous vein was completely used up during the last bypass. Our options are very limited," Chen Xuehai said.
"I'm quite curious. Last night, when you heard the patient's family decide to take a chance on the surgery, what were your feelings and thoughts?"
"Me?" Liu Banxia shook his head. "I'm not sure. Maybe a little happy?"
Perhaps, deep down, I also leaned towards the patient having the surgery. Instead of living in constant fear, it's better to take a gamble. If it succeeds, he could have a good few years, maybe even ten or twenty.
"But that's looking at it from an outsider's perspective. For the family, who are so worried about the patient, making such a decision is incredibly difficult."
