As Du Heng's voice dropped, the people behind him revealed their various expressions.
There was the bewildered Director Liu of the Obstetrics Departnt, the shocked Director of the Pediatric Care Departnt, and Director Cao of the Internal dicine Departnt with a look of confusion on his face.
Yet, it was the confused Director Cao who spoke up, "Dean, are you intending to treat this child?"
With a firm gaze, Du Heng nodded without hesitation.
The confusion on Director Cao's face faded, replaced with a touch of worry.
He didn't rush to speak. Instead, he pointed at the young man who was still filming, "Turn off your cara."
The young man didn't move, just took two steps back, and continued his filming work.
This action, however, triggered Director Cao's anger, and he scolded in a low voice, "I said turn it off, didn't you hear ?"
Seeing the anger starting to show in Director Cao's eyes, a nurse behind him quickly reached out and pressed the young man's cara, "Turn it off quickly, Director Cao wants to discuss sothing with the Dean."
The young man reluctantly lowered his hand, muttering, "Director Zheng asked to film, and the Dean didn't say anything."
Hearing the young man's complaints, Director Cao's anger flared up, "You're not dical staff. Who allowed you to enter the observation room? Get out."
Du Heng cast a glance at the young man, sowhat exasperated by his cluelessness. If it hadn't been for the fact that his uncle was Qiu Pingzhen, Du Heng himself would have wanted to fire him.
"Director Cao, calm down. Don't argue with a young man." Then he turned to the young man and said, "Go out and wait. Co back in when you're called."
Watching the young man reluctantly leaving, Director Cao was still angry. But when he turned his head to look at Du Heng, his anger couldn't help but turn into worry.
"Dean, I don't know much about traditional Chinese dicine or the child's situation. I don't know how it's diagnosed in traditional Chinese dicine, but from a modern dical point of view, the consequences of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in children are irreversible.
We can only try to minimize the damage caused by the complications. But this requires highly experienced doctors and more professional dication."
Director Cao sighed, "Dean, I still suggest that you consider it carefully.
If you don't treat the child now, and we send them directly to the Provincial Won and Children's Hospital, it will be the best choice for us, the child, and the family.
But as soon as you intervene with treatnt, all the responsibility falls squarely on us."
The directors of the Pediatrics Departnt and the Pediatric Care Departnt were the main people in charge of this treatnt; they should not have been making remarks that shirked responsibility. However, although they didn't explicitly say so, Du Heng saw the sa sentint in their eyes.
This made Du Heng, who was resolute, waver a bit.
After pondering for a while, Du Heng turned around. "Director Liu, I need to trouble you once more. Go talk to the mother and the family mbers again. Make sure the child's condition is clearly explained.
I can't guarantee the child will fully recover to a normal child's characteristics. However, I can correct abnormalities such as reflexes, muscle tone, and opisthotonos within a short ti. This will give the child the reactions a normal child should have.
Rember, we have twenty minutes. Beyond this ti, I can't make any promises."
"Alright." At this mont, Director Liu was very decisive. She was pretty much at her limit dealing with this family and just wanted to put an end to this matter quickly.
"Rember to have the family sign a consent form," Du Heng added.
Director Cao didn't stop Director Liu. Instead, he looked at Du Heng with a frown. "President Du, do you fully understand what you just said?"
Du Heng gave a slight nod. "I understand."
"You don't understand!" Director Cao suddenly got angry. "Quickly redying the child's external symptoms and making the child have reactions like a normal child... Do you know what that implies? It implies that the child will be a normal person!
Can you solve problems that modern dicine hasn't been able to solve?"
Du Heng wasn't angry. Instead, he addressed Director Cao's point, "I can't say I can completely solve it, nor can I say this child will definitely beco a normal child.
What I can do is alleviate Cerebral Hypoxia Complications. Since cerebral hypoxia has already affected the brain nerves, among other things, the child's intelligence will definitely be affected.
But what I'm not sure about now is how significant this impact will be."
Du Heng frowned as he spoke. This treatnt had far more uncertainties than the tumor treatnts he had perford before.
"Compared to children of the sa age, whether this child is one or two years behind, or three or four years behind, I can't determine that right now."
Director Cao looked very serious. "Dean, for a child, a three or four-year gap isn't a big deal; they'd just be considered a bit slow. A one or two-year gap is even less of an issue; saying their developnt is slow would be an overstatent.
But Dean, are you really sure you can bring the child back to this level?"
"The child is full-term. According to all the check-ups before birth, this child was a completely healthy baby before birth."
As Du Heng spoke, he started comparing and calculating in his mind how much his treatnt could help with the child's current condition.
"Looking at the child now, although his eyes are tightly closed, we can see that his eyeballs are not rolling up; he just hasn't opened his eyes.
Also, his tightly closed mouth and the slight phlegm sound in his throat, which I initially thought was due to a developntal problem in his lungs..."
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