Everyone was watching closely as the professors from Beijing and Shanghai made their speeches.
There were two professors both from Beijing and Shanghai, evenly matched in number.
"Actually, I think this surgery should be performed, it's worth the risk. As long as postoperative infections are avoided and rejection reactions are well controlled, I think it's not large issue. We doctors are supposed to solve the patients' problems. What's the point of sitting here discussing it if we can't solve the problem? After all the discussion, do we just say: 'Send them home' in the end?" One of the Shanghai professors spoke calmly, as if a teacher was gently chastising a student.
This upset the Beijing professors. They believed that a doctor needs to know when to act or when not to act, sending the patient home sounded like an admission of incapability.
