Patient letters| excellent doctors can not only do beautiful surgery, but also light up the patient's life

"The value of a good surgeon is not only to do a beautiful operation, but sometimes, to light up a patient's life." Recently, Peking Union Medical College Hospital received two thank-you letters from patients, which vividly recorded their mental journey before and after undergoing surgery in basic surgery. "Sometimes healing, often helping, always comforting". From the words of the thank-you letter, we see not only the superb medical skills of the Concord people, but also the benevolence of their healers.

Dear Leaders of Union Hospital,

I am a patient with a pancreatic malignancy. After "Eleven" last year, my ultrasound showed up as a "pancreatic head entity placeholder". At that time, with an extremely negative attitude, I walked into the consultation room of Han Xianlin, deputy chief physician of the basic surgery department. Dr. Han read my report and issued me a checklist directly, telling me that I had applied for hospitalization in the system. Worried about increasing my psychological burden, he did not explain the condition in detail, but neatly solved the key problem of hospitalization. Under his rigorous and professional appearance, I felt his warm and meticulous heart.

The waiting time was shorter than expected. After being hospitalized, Dr. Han told me that because my indicators were already very high, if I exceeded the limit, I could not operate immediately, so I was given priority in hospitalization. Hearing this, my heart was shocked and hot at the same time.

On Wednesday, enhanced CT and PET/CT reports came out, with tumors not only in the pancreas, but also suspicious metastatic lymph nodes next to them. After reading the report, my mood dropped to the bottom.

Laparoscopic pancreatic duodenectomy was performed on Thursday. At 9:30 p.m., I opened my eyes well in the ward. The family members in the same ward said, "Dr. Han has just come to check the room, and he seems to be in a happy mood, and you have done a good job with this operation." "Indeed, the post-operative recovery is good. I didn't expect to be able to get off the ground on the first day, push the infusion rack to the corridor the next day, pull out the bile intestinal duct on the fourth day, pull out the pancreatic intestinal tube on the sixth day, and successfully discharged from the hospital. Three weeks after surgery, I have been able to walk at a normal pace in the park for two hours a day. Four weeks after the operation, I was at home with a mop to wipe the floor.

Pancreaticduodenectomy ends with the reconstruction of the digestive tract. Dr. Han's surgery not only rebuilt my digestive tract, but also allowed me to regain the "feeling of being alive". I am not a tenacious person, from the beginning of the B ultrasound report, I was basically in a state of numbness, deeply feeling that living is a burden and superfluous. But sometimes, a person's thoughts may change in a single thought. When registering, the text introduction of Dr. Han on the APP was simple, and I just roughly judged that this doctor had a fairly professional level. Only after the operation did I realize that he was indeed very good. One night, after Dr. Han finished his room examination, I had a thought in my heart: I want to stand up and live up to such a beautiful operation done to me by such an excellent doctor!

In the second ward of Kiwai, I saw the hardships of Doctor Xiehe. Every morning before 7:30, the doctors begin to make early rounds. There is no fixed time for the evening rounds, and they are often "dragged" to ninety o'clock in the evening. Like Dr. Han, who didn't eat or drink, stood and did five or six hours of surgery for me and then came back to check the room, it was "commonplace" for doctors.

Thanks to Peking Union Medical College Hospital for cultivating a large number of life guardians with both ability and political integrity, and also thanks to many outstanding Concordia people for struggling in the clinical frontline and adhering to the sacred cause of medical treatment, which is not matched by material returns. The value of a good surgeon is not only to do a beautiful operation, but sometimes, to light up a patient's life.

Thank you again.

Patient Ms. Wang

I am a thyroid papillary cancer patient. He had an operation in the outer hospital in 2009 and recurred in 2021. When I reach middle age, I am the mother of a pair of young children, and there are still parents over seventy years old in the family who need to be supported, and life is very stressful. The complications of hypothyroidism and parathyroidism left over from the last surgery have always bothered me. When I thought about what my home would be like if the second operation was not successful, or if the world did not have me, I shuddered and panicked.

Pushing open the door of the clinic, Wang Weibin, deputy director of basic surgery, received me. He examined the body in detail, asked about the medical history, viewed the information, and made an accurate prediction of my condition. He explained that due to the hypoparathyroidism and hypocalcemia caused by previous surgeries, coupled with the adhesion of tissues at the location of the wound, it may cause greater difficulties for re-operation. The most feared is that the recurrent laryngeal nerve will be injured during the operation, affecting the function of vocalization and swallowing, and if the trachea is injured during the operation, it will be fatal.

After comprehensively informing the condition and risks, Director Wang gave the most stable and reliable surgical plan: intraoperative application of recurrent laryngeal nerve monitor, from the lateral approach, pay special attention to protect the recurrent laryngeal nerve, the right side of the residual thyroid tissue and the right central group lymph nodes, especially the posterior lymph nodes of the recurrent laryngeal nerve completely dissected. This outpatient visit dispelled my concerns about re-operation and strengthened my confidence in overcoming the disease.

The operation, which was led by Wang Weibin, went more smoothly than I thought. When I was woken up, the surgery had been done for a long time. My first instinct was to talk and see if I could still make a sound. The experience of nearly losing my voice a month after my last surgery left a huge shadow on me. To my surprise, I can not only make a sound, but also have the same sound as before the operation! Lying in my hospital bed, I felt as if I had regained my life. After four hours, I was able to get out of bed on my own, drink water normally, and have no obvious discomfort in the wound and throat.

On the night after the operation, when Dr. Wang Weibin and Li Tianyu came to visit me, I was able to get up and talk to them. Director Wang briefed me on the operation and told me that there would be no more problems with the thyroid and lymph nodes on the right side. Carefully, he also observed that there was a scar about 5 cm long on the wound after my last surgery, so he removed the scar and "gave you a plastic surgery." Having seen qiankun and greatness, I am still pitiful, and I am touched by Director Wang's consideration and heartfelt care.

The fourth ward of basic surgery is an outstanding team that can entrust life, from Director Wang Weibin to the competent doctors Hou Rui and Li Tianyu; from the head nurse Guo Shuli to the competent nurses Feng Rui, Liao Xiaoyi and other medical staff, they are superb in medical skills and superb medical ethics. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Angel in White!

Patient: Ms. Yu

Editor/Dried Bamboo Chen

Editor-in-Chief/Chen Mingyan

Producer/Wu Peixin