After all the examinations were completed, Li Chu gave the patients another acupuncture treatment and then let them go, only reminding them to remember to have an enema at the outpatient clinic every three days.
The test results won't be available for another two days, and Nurse Wang will retrieve them then.
After they left, Li Chu went directly to the office of Director Chen of the Internal Medicine Department.
"Director Chen, I'm sorry to bother you."
"Xiao Li, please sit down. What's the matter?"
Li Chu thought for a moment and then said, "That kidney failure patient just came to my clinic for a follow-up appointment."
Upon hearing Li Chu's words, Director Chen immediately perked up: "How is the situation now?"
"It's not good. Based on my pulse diagnosis, the patient's kidneys have lost most of their function. I had him undergo some tests, and the specific results haven't come back yet, but I estimate the results will be the same."
"Sigh," Director Chen sighed, "Is there really no cure for this kind of chronic renal failure?"
"Director Chen, I have a preliminary idea to share with you."
"Just say what you're thinking."
"There's a dialysis treatment, I wonder if you've heard of it, Director Chen?" Li Chu asked.
Director Chen looked at him with some surprise: "Xiao Li, I didn't expect you to even know about dialysis. Where did you learn that?"
"I saw it in a document in our library; it seems to be a translated foreign language document," Li Chu said, making it up.
"That's impressive, Xiao Li. You've put a lot of effort into this research."
Before Li Chu could speak, Director Chen continued, "This dialysis therapy has indeed entered the clinical stage in several European countries. Dialysis can also be called an artificial kidney. Simply put, it involves drawing blood, filtering out harmful substances from the blood using special equipment, and then transfusing the blood back in."
Director Chen spread his hands: "But as far as I know, our country does not have such equipment, and the current dialysis therapy is still very immature and poses a great risk to patients."
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Without the instruments, there's nothing more to say; the chances of developing something now are zero.
Li Chu pondered for a moment and then said, "Director Chen, is it possible to give the patient a kidney transplant?"
"Kidney transplant? From where? Where does the kidney come from? How is it done?" Director Chen stared wide-eyed at Li Chu.
"This is just one of my ideas. We all know that there are two kidneys in the human body, but even if only one kidney is working, it is not a problem to maintain a normal life."
Director Chen nodded: "I understand what you mean. You mean to take a kidney from a normal person and transplant it into a patient, right?"
"Director Chen, you're right."
"So here's the question: putting aside whether we can perform this kind of surgery, the key question is who would be willing to donate their kidney to someone else?" Director Chen asked.
"What if it's a close relative of the patient? For example, in the case of the patient we're dealing with now, would the son or the patient's father be willing?"
"This..." Director Chen was speechless, not knowing what to say.
Is this possibility possible? Definitely.
"Hey Xiao Li, let me make a call and we'll invite Director He from the Department of Surgery to go to Dean Zhang's office to discuss this issue. Your idea may seem a bit unbelievable, but upon closer inspection, it makes some sense. It's worth studying."
When the two of them met up with Director He and arrived at Dean Zhang's office, the newly arrived Dean Yang was also there.
Director Chen explained the purpose of his visit, and Director He and the two deans looked at Li Chu with curiosity.
How come you, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, are now studying Western surgical procedures?
Li Chu smiled awkwardly at the stares of the group, introduced the patient he had encountered, and then shared his thoughts.
After listening, Dean Zhang said, "When I was studying in Germany, they were actually doing this kind of research, but I don't know if they succeeded or not."
"Dean Zhang, could we also conduct this kind of research?" Director He from the Department of Surgery was clearly very interested in this.
Dean Zhang thought for a moment and said, "It's fine to do research, but theory must come first. Our hospital can join forces with the medical school to establish a research project. At the very least, we need theoretical support first."
"Another thing is to see if we can find the latest foreign literature on this topic, so we can learn from other people's advanced experience and see how far they have come. We can also consult with the ministry to see if there are any researchers in our country doing this kind of research."
Li Chu nodded secretly. The leader's ideas were more comprehensive, unlike himself, who would come up with an idea on a whim and dare to say he wanted to do research without understanding anything.
He now realizes that his idea was indeed too naive. According to his own words, it meant conducting live experiments right away, which was maddening.
Next, Dean Zhang discussed it with Director Chen and Director He, and decided to meet with the leaders of the medical school in the next two days to discuss the establishment of this research project.
Dean Yang sat quietly to the side without saying a word until Dean Zhang asked for his opinion at the end, at which point he expressed his full support.
See, this is the art of leadership. No matter how you look at it, you can't get around him. He doesn't care about the process at all. As long as the project can be successfully approved, no matter what the outcome is, it will be a political achievement for Dean Yang.
Having said all that, Li Chu decided to retire gracefully.
He suddenly realized that he seemed to be the one digging the hole, constantly coming up with ideas, while the hospital and the ministry were all responsible for filling it in.
It seems I only have the ability to raise questions, but not the ability to solve them.
Sigh, forget it. I'll just stick to being a good little doctor. I seem to have been standing out too much lately, and I need to calm down a bit.
Thinking of this, Li Chu took his leave. Things had already come to this point, and there was no need for him, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, here. The people who were discussing the matter didn't care about his departure.
To his surprise, Dean Yang came out with him.
"Xiao Li, you're young and quick-witted. You should ask more questions in the future. Only when these questions are solved one by one can our country's medical skills continue to improve."
Li Chuzhen was surprised that Dean Yang would say such a thing. He smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dean Yang, I will."
Dean Yang nodded and patted his shoulder, saying, "Alright, you can go back now."
Back in his office, Li Chu immediately put the matter aside. What he needed to refine now was the description of the manifestations of chronic renal failure at different stages.
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