Chapter 1061: Who will she ultimately side with?

She was summarizing the case.

Tao Zhijie and He Guangyou, upon hearing her, seemed to be recalling past scenes about the patient, both displaying deeply solemn expressions.

If one could barely breathe, He Guangyou turned away, walked to a corner to sit down, and stared hard at the curtain. Turning to look at Tao Zhijie, it seemed as if he had sunk into someplace, with his eyebrows and eyes downturned, his gaze blurred and lost, only the pen in his hand rhythmically tapping on the notebook like a pendulum.

Xie Wanying paused after speaking for a while.

“Continue,” Tao Zhijie said.

“I personally think that, given the medical technology available at that time, perhaps the treatment plan was already the best effort by the hospital and the doctors. The development of medical technology can’t be dictated by time. Some technologies might take decades to develop without breakthroughs, and once there’s a breakthrough, it might only take a few years. So, for patients and doctors alike, it seems like fate.”

“Yingying, are you comforting me?”

Senior Tao said this with a laugh, his voice sounding like it was overflowing, about to shatter his previous image.

“No,” Xie Wanying denied.

Tao Zhijie, after hearing her statement, seemed surprised; he scrutinized her face carefully to confirm she was not lying, and was even more astonished. Then, he turned his head away, the smile gone from his face, replaced by a flash of doubt in his eyes.

He Guangyou moved closer and asked her, “Do you think the patient’s treatment plan was correct?”

“It was correct,” Xie Wanying said, “I’ve made it very clear just now.”

“If Dr. Cao heard what she said, I wonder what he would think,” He Guangyou seemed to be talking to himself.

“Senior Cao can’t accept that the patient ultimately opted for a euthanasia-like resignation to death, right? I saw it written in the medical record that since the patient was in the late stage of cancer, they had the will and had signed for it, the attending physician gave up on resuscitation measures at the patient’s last moments, did not perform cardiac compression or tracheal intubation,” Xie Wanying said.

Calling her to speak frankly, she indeed did.

Tao Zhijie raised his eyebrows and gave her a meaningful smile, “Yingying, by saying this, you’re siding with me, you know?”

His junior had always been adamant that she would stand by his side. So ever since their meeting four years ago in Songyuan, he had been waiting for this moment. He knew.

“Senior Cao is probably not angry about this,” Xie Wanying said.

Not about this?

He Guangyou’s eyes, inadvertently, wandered over to the door, which was locked, yet he felt as if someone was standing outside listening, perhaps it was just his own paranoia.

This time, after a pause, Tao Zhijie spoke again, his voice lower, “You say.”

“Senior Cao is a pragmatic person; those who have dealt with him know that he is well aware of which diseases can be treated and which, at the current stage of medical technology, can only be treated to a certain extent and the doctors must give up, as further treatment would only add to the patient’s suffering without any meaning. Therefore, there’s no way he would oppose symbolic yet meaningless resuscitation when a patient’s death is imminent, especially since the patient themselves had signed, legally there is no issue. He wouldn’t be angry about that kind of thing.”

“What kind of anger is he having then?” He Guangyou turned back to ask her.