"After all that reasoning which does nothing but prove Teacher Tan's perspective correct, you support performing laparotomy?" Luo Yanfen reorganized her thoughts before speaking again.
"What I mean is, Teacher Tan's viewpoint isn't wrong. However, could we consider whether the patient's anemic appearance might be due to intermittent minor bleeding? The patient eats very little, and when they do eat, it's only a small amount of liquids. With no bowel movements, it's difficult to conduct a stool occult blood test. Teacher Tan had ordered several stool occult blood tests without any results; the samples can't be retained, which further confuses the clinical judgment," Xie Wanying explained calmly and methodically.
"There's the CT scan—"