The operating room of the Second Provincial Hospital was full of people.

They were wearing scrubs, masks, and serious expressions. There was a sense of silence on and off the stage.

Although no one spoke, one could see the anxiety in their eyes. In the operating room, there was only the beeping sound of the instruments and the metal sound of the operating instruments colliding.

On the stage was a male patient in his 70s with gallbladder cancer. The operation had been going on for almost 5 hours, but it was not over.

With the strength of the hepatobiliary surgery department of the Second Provincial Hospital, even the gallbladder cancer operation with severe adhesions should be stepped down at this time.

But the operation in front of him was not even half completed.

The operation time determines the patient's recovery. The longer the time, the worse the recovery, and the more surgical risks and postoperative complications.

Everyone in the operating room knew this clearly.

Of course, not only them, but also the family members who had been waiting outside the operating room.

"It's been so long, why hasn't it been done yet? Didn't I say before that if everything goes well, the operation will only take four or five hours?"

"If I had known this, I might as well go to the capital for surgery. Although I have to wait in line and there are no private rooms, at least the technology is better than here."

As time goes by, the family members' hopes are gradually shattered.

"Hongzi, if it doesn't work, ask again, what's the situation inside, whether it can be done, don't make people nervous."

The person being questioned by the family members is a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties. At this time, his face is cold and his expression is unfriendly.

At this time, it is his father who is on the operating table.

As the eldest brother in the North Park, Qiao Hong has made a fortune by demolition in recent years. He has done many shameful things. Later, he got better and better, and his career was booming. Dance halls, KTVs, and bath centers are all over the provincial capital.

Although he is domineering, he is a well-known filial son in the local area.

After he got the money, he brought his parents from the countryside. Because he liked to grow vegetables, he specially built a yard in the villa worth millions of square meters, and built a shed for the old couple to grow vegetables.

But two days ago, his father was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer, which made him feel very bad.

In order to earn money to support the family and the four siblings, his father was injured when he was young.

Now that he is old, his body can't bear the big surgery, so he asked people about it and learned about laparoscopic surgery.

Originally, he planned to go to the imperial capital for his father's surgery, after all, it would be reassuring.

But Qiao Hong was used to being arrogant in the provincial capital, and who would tolerate him when he went to the imperial capital.

Like other people, he scalped, queued up to see a doctor, waited for a ward, waited for an expert, and waited for surgery.

After seven days, he didn't even see the face of the surgical expert, not to mention the single room, special care, which are common in the provincial capital.

Even the hundreds of thousands of cash prepared in the suitcase could not be delivered.

In a fit of anger, he took his father back to the provincial capital. It happened that the hepatobiliary surgery department of the Second Provincial Hospital in Beiyuan could perform laparoscopic surgery.

So, he spent money and found the director, and arranged a single room and special care.

But the gallbladder, because of its structure, is located in the liver area, pancreas, and duodenum, and has arteries and veins, blood vessels, common hepatic duct, and common bile duct. Once severe adhesion occurs, surgery is really more difficult than climbing to the sky.

And CT scans can only give a rough idea. All problems can only be clearly seen by opening the abdominal cavity.

However, Qiao Hong's father was unfortunate. When the hepatobiliary surgery department inserted the lens into the old man's abdominal cavity through a laparoscope, the scene in front of them stunned everyone.

The entire gallbladder was tightly wrapped by cancerous tissue, the blood vessels on it were intricate, and the original anatomical structure completely disappeared.

The entire tissue was like a mess, which dazzled everyone.

Even the abdominal cavity at the beginning was seriously adhered. It took them nearly three hours to free it bit by bit.

This was just the preliminary work. No one dared to move the gallbladder. The eroded tissue around it spread everywhere like vines.

The liver, gallbladder, and pancreas were crawling with brown cancer cells. To successfully complete this operation, the difficulty was no less than a pancreaticoduodenectomy.

This is hepatobiliary surgery, known as the "Mount Everest" operation.

Shen Yiwei, director of hepatobiliary surgery, has been doing this for so many years and has performed more than a thousand cholecystectomies, but he has never seen such a patient.

If it was in his prime, and the patient had better basic conditions and was younger, and he chose to do it with a major surgery, the probability of success might be higher.

But now, he had no confidence in doing such an operation with a laparoscope, which he was not good at.

"Xu Guoqiang, you preside over the operation, and I will talk to the family members. If they agree to transfer to laparotomy...…”

Shen Yiwei, who was in the main position on the stage, took off his gloves without waiting for others' opinions and threw them into the yellow medical waste bin beside him.

Xu Guoqiang's face twitched involuntarily on the stage. He had an ominous premonition about the director's request.

At this time, Shen Yiwei, who was under great pressure, walked out of the operating room with worry, ready to explain the old man's condition to Qiao Hong.

Now he regretted taking this operation very much, but regret was useless. After all, the other party had great power in this area. Even Shen Yiwei could not make the final decision on some things.

But one thing is certain, the operation can't be performed. Even if the family agrees to convert to laparotomy, it can only alleviate the old man's condition.

If you want to completely remove the old man, There is a high probability that he will die on the operating table.

The most ideal way is to give up the operation directly and take conservative treatment.

Although the old man will not live for too long in the end, he can wake up and go down the stage, see his relatives, and explain his funeral affairs. This is better than being unable to get off the stage.

"Brother Qiao, abdominal surgery is really impossible. The best way now is..."

Shen Yiwei, who is a few years older than Qiao Hong, called him brother. At this moment, his surgical cap was soaked with sweat because of nervousness.

The big beads of sweat kept coming out, and soon they met at the neck, forming a stream that kept flowing down.

"I don't accept other methods. Only laparoscopy can save my father. You can ask for anything. I just want my father to live."

Qiao Hong rejected all other plans of Shen Yiwei as if he was determined.

"But if we continue, I'm afraid the old man will not be able to get off the stage..."

"Then don't even think about leaving the operating room. "

Qiao Hong's eyes were red, like a tyrannical lion, and that look seemed to be able to bite Shen Yiwei to death at any time.

Shen Yiwei was very clear about Qiao Hong's methods. Even now, if he said another bad news about the old man, he would probably get punched in the face.

Although it felt incredible, this kind of thing often happens in this era.

Shen Yiwei heard from the doctor who was on duty in the emergency room last time that there was a fight between two gangs, and the ambulance was on duty, and someone put a knife on the neck to suture the wound.

That scene, now recalling it, makes people feel scared.

Shen Yiwei returned to the operating room in a daze. He stood in front of the operating room door for a long time without moving. His feet felt like a thousand pounds and he couldn't move. It seemed that there were mountains of knives and seas of fire inside, and once he entered, he would never get out again.