Some serious illnesses, with treatment costs running into hundreds of thousands, are truly beyond the means of an average family. Even if they can bear it, the family could still fall back into poverty because of the illness.
Zhou Can finished checking on the gastric cancer patient in bed 77, then looked at the patient with liver cirrhosis in bed 79.
At present, the patient's condition was about the same as yesterday.
There had been no obvious deterioration.
He really hoped that Director Shang would agree to arrange for this patient to have a venography soon.
Finding the cause earlier allows for earlier treatment.
Patients with non-severe conditions like this one are generally not the main concern for attending physicians.
Because they focus on some key patients.
Later, Zhou Can might have to take the initiative to talk to Director Shang again about arranging an examination for the patient in bed 79.
