Chapter 2508: Psychological Burden

The final medical judgment must be completed according to the procedure. Following the stipulated process is to avoid any oversight. A medical oversight like a safety liability accident involves losing a life, a responsibility no one can afford.

From some perspective, his viewpoint leans towards Junior Xie Wanying, suggesting not to indulge too much in skepticism. Of course, Cao Zhao’s words earlier didn’t imply conspiracy, nor did they suggest doubting what the child’s parents intended. It was merely to convey the concern that the doctors shouldn’t hastily conclude any death verdict for the patient.

Regarding Second Brother’s reminder, Cao Yong, as someone in the neurology specialty, vouched for Brother: "The parents of this child, since they’re able to think about donating the child’s organs, surely it’s first out of goodwill. Secondly, these parents must be knowledgeable and educated, thus they can consider and don’t reject the notion of organ donation."

"Right."

"We neurosurgeons will explain the child’s condition to the family. As a neurosurgeon, I can frankly tell you that to comprehensively demonstrate the child’s absolute brain death is not something that can be accomplished within twenty-four hours. Neurosurgeons don’t have such capability. So if you ask me whether the child is currently brain dead, I can only tell you that at this stage, it cannot be determined, nor will I act recklessly against scientific principles due to family requests."

Without completely ruling out reversible conditions, how can doctors arbitrarily proceed with brain death determination? Besides, there’s no legislation on brain death in the country. Domestically, doctors are extremely cautious about this matter, fearing that any slight mistake might ruin the future prospects of organ transplants relying on brain-dead patients.

His brother’s professional explanation finally relieved his worries completely.

Cao Zhao nodded, smiled, and indeed felt more at ease.

It’s absolutely different from what the public might randomly think. Normal-minded transplant doctors actually bear a heavy psychological burden, fearing they’re mistakenly taking organs from a living person and transplanting them into another child, equivalent to killing another child.

"Alright then." Cao Zhao patted his brother’s shoulder, grateful for solving his confusion.

Opening the balcony window and returning to the hospital ward, Cao Zhao walked to the bedside, and accompanied by the attending physician, concernedly checked the student’s wound, then took his clothes to return to work at the hospital first.

The Immortal Brother left, Senior Tao and the others left, Teacher Ren went out to make a call, and Xie Wanying got up to have breakfast, looking towards the balcony.

Senior Cao stood alone on the balcony, his eyes seemingly gazing into the distance, his silhouette tinged with a touch of melancholy at the moment.

She could sense that Senior’s mood was not very good.

Specialist doctors are like this, able to comfort others but not themselves. He used a bunch of procedural words to comfort his Second Brother, but couldn’t deny the fact.

What is the fact? The fact is, as his Second Brother suspected, once he took over, he already felt there was no hope. No wonder that when sent to Fang Ze, Doctor Fang Ze’s technical skills were at least not inferior to his; upon speaking to the patient’s family, anyone in the family with some intellect and culture could understand what the doctor’s words meant, and naturally considered starting organ donation. Thus, there really is no conspiracy theory, only a depressing reality.

The child did have a bruise on the head, but this bruise wasn’t particularly severe; its significance lay in indicating the direction of the traumatic impact the child suffered.