Lin Jie looked at the picture on his phone and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Wow, the heart is outside the body!"

The photo showed a newborn baby. Normally, a person's heart is on the left side of the chest cavity, but this baby's heart was in the center of the chest cavity, protruding downwards, barely covered by a thin layer of skin.

Lin Jie knew this was an extremely rare congenital developmental deformity, known as Cantrell's pentad.

This condition was discovered by a foreign doctor named Cantrell, and it includes five malformations: sternal defects; pericardial defects; diaphragm defects, allowing the large and small intestines to move upwards; abdominal muscle defects, causing the internal organs to bulge out; cardiovascular malformations!

"If I were still alive, this would be great. I've never handled such a case before. It's a really nice challenge!"

Shen Lanruo, intrigued by the rare case, couldn't help but comment, then sighed and said, "The pity is, you can't get involved either. Not every doctor gets a chance with such a case."

Yang Leyi, seeing Lin Jie deep in thought, softly explained, "This is the child of a relative from my hometown. They finally had this child after a lot of effort, but who could have imagined this would happen!"

"They've been to several big hospitals in the provincial capital, and they've all said there's nothing they can do, that it's untreatable. Dr. Lin, you know the top doctors at Kangning Hospital. Could you help this child?"

Lin Jie thought for a moment and said, "Though such developmental deformities are extremely rare, there is hope for a cure through surgery."

"However, this involves a major surgery, requiring heart, general, and orthopedic surgeons to work together. The demands on doctors, especially heart surgeons, are exceptionally high and the difficulty level is extraordinary."

"Dr. Lin..."

Yang Leyi's tone was full of supplication.

Compared to Yang Leyi, Lin Jie had a certain level of doctor connections. Feeling sympathetic, he said, "Tell you what, send me this child's information, and I'll reach out to see if any hospital can take on the case!"

The correction of this infant's developmental deformity focuses on heart surgery.

Based on Lin Jie's preliminary understanding of the capabilities of major hospitals in Binhai, there are only three hospitals capable of performing this heart deformity correction surgery: Kangning Hospital, Binhai University Affiliated Hospital, and Binhai Tongren Hospital.

Speaking of this, Lin Jie thought of another issue and said, "This surgery is not just any expense, plus there's no guarantee of success. Has your family member prepared themselves mentally for this?"

Yang Leyi, somewhat emotionally, said, "My relatives have a small factory, so they can come up with several hundred thousand. Dr. Lin, thank you."

Lin Jie's personal connections contributed six to seven ten thousand sales to the clothing store, a pretty decent figure. Considering no more sales would come from there, he left the department store and headed straight to Kangning Hospital.

After asking the nurse, he found out that Hu Yuanqing was in the MRI room of the diagnostic building.

Lin Jie, without hesitation, strolled casually as if it was his own garden and went straight to the imaging room of the diagnostic building. He saw Hu Yuanqing sitting in front of the computer, examining a newly generated cranial image.

At this moment, Hu Yuanqing, speaking through the microphone, said to the patient lying in the MRI machine on the other side of the isolation window, "Mr. An, we're done. You can get up now!"

"Mr. An?"

The surname was quite uncommon. Lin Jie looked through the isolation window and was surprised to see that the man getting up in the examination gown was none other than An Weize.

"Lin Jie, why are you here?"

Hu Yuanqing noticed Lin Jie intruding and, seeing where his gaze was directed, said helplessly, "Since you've seen it, I won't hide it from you!"

"This patient is the one who signed a confidentiality agreement with us! His name is An Weize, and you must keep it a secret!"

"Well... follow me first. I hope Mr. An doesn't blame the hospital for this!"

Hu Yuanqing was quite frustrated. This was a hospital's restricted area, accessible to doctors only!

But because he had previously brought Lin Jie here, the outer nurse remembered Lin Jie and let him pass without obstruction.

"Mr. An, this is Lin Jie, my assistant, part of my medical team. He..."

When An Weize saw Lin Jie, he was momentarily stunned.

After listening to Hu Yuanqing's explanation, he smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Dr. Hu, there's no need to sign an additional confidentiality agreement with Lin Jie. I've known Lin Jie for a long time, and our relationship is much deeper than you imagine!"

Saying that, he looked at Lin Jie and solemnly said, "Lin Jie, neither Kexin nor Kemeng knows about my condition; can you keep it a secret for me?"

Lin Jie nodded and solemnly stated, "Uncle An, no problem! But why hide it from them?"

An Weize smiled bitterly and said, "Their mother passed away from cancer a few years ago, and it took them a long time to recover from the grief. If they knew I had a brain tumor, I'm afraid they couldn't bear it!"

Keeping the illness a secret from his closest ones, Lin Jie couldn't say whether this was good or bad. This was An Weize's personal choice, and all he could do now was respect his decision.

Seeing that An Weize and Lin Jie already knew each other and weren't pursuing the matter, Hu Yuanqing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Mr. An, you may not believe it, but with Lin Jie's involvement, my confidence in the success of your tumor surgery has increased significantly."

This statement surprised An Weize, making him take another look at Lin Jie.

After advising An Weize for a while, a nurse led him to change clothes, while Hu Yuanqing took Lin Jie into his office, saying, "You always have a purpose coming here, so go ahead and tell me what's going on!"

Lin Jie didn't beat around the bush and directly pulled out the infant's information from his phone to show him.

"Oh, it's Cantrell's pentad!"

Hu Yuanqing's eyes lit up too, and he eagerly flipped through the pictures and examination data on the phone.

After reviewing it, he returned the phone to Lin Jie, looking troubled, said, "I understand what you mean, but currently my competition with Hu Xinyi has reached a fever pitch, and our two departments have never gotten along."

"It's more effective for you to speak to them yourself than for me to intervene."

"I believe my brother will definitely be interested in this surgery. At our level, we all like challenges and special cases."

Lin Jie put away his phone, puzzled, and asked, "Aren't you both surnamed Hu? Aren't you family? Why is the relationship so strained?"

Hu Yuanqing also looked helpless and said bitterly, "When work relations, interest relations, and family relations are intertwined, everything changes."

"Also, Lin Jie, do you know why, even to this day, Kangning Hospital only has cardiac and brain departments?"

Lin Jie shook his head, indicating he didn't know.

"Previously, we also hired doctors from other departments! But after working here for a while, they discovered the strong family management style and the limited personal development prospects, so they all left."

Hu Yuanqing sighed, "The reason these two departments continue their reputation is that our family members are holding it up. If future successors are missing, we might decline."

"You're probably not interested in this topic, so I won't bother you. Why don't you take a look at Mr. An's brain tumor images!"

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