Soon, Xie Wanying and the others noticed that they had waited for half a day without hearing Teacher Du order any examination slip. The pens in their hands felt unprecedentedly idle, as if all they needed was to watch Teacher Du draw on his calendar.
Such a truly reputable old expert doctor like Teacher Du is really too different from the young doctors.
Young doctors tend to order tests first when treating patients. Regardless of where they see the illness, they would recheck the key items and check anything not covered before, allowing the instrunts to fully help them understand the patient’s condition. This is because young doctors indeed lack confidence in their technical skills.
This is why people prefer older doctors. Sotis the reason is not money; instead, it’s because they are frustrated by being repeatedly subjected to endless tests by the doctor. They just can’t understand why tests have to be done over and over again without end.
Of course, so tests are necessary. Young doctors forget an important point: they do not distinguish between outpatient and ergency patients. Here, we refer to patients, not the outpatient or ergency departnts, because so ergency patients co to the outpatient departnt, and so outpatient cases appear in the ergency departnt. The characteristic of outpatient patients is that tests don’t need to be done urgently and can wait until hospitalization.
Old doctors are very aware of patients’ psychology. These patients only hope to undergo tests once. For mild illnesses, they want to simply get a prescription and go ho, and for severe cases, they want systematic treatnt, so naturally, hospitalization is best in such cases. For a doctor to have a good reputation, they must understand the psychological needs of the patients thoroughly.
The vast majority of patients who co to see an expert have already sought dical treatnt at other hospitals and undergone many tests. All the doctor needs to do is one thing: assess whether there are errors in these external test results.
Young doctors act in a more straightforward manner, telling patients to redo the tests. However, old doctors, with their extensive experience, can roughly gauge the level of external tests and discern whether there’s a significant difference. Instead of redoing them, they either admit the patient for treatnt or prescribe dication for the patient to take at ho and return after a treatnt cycle.
The third patient was in this situation; after undergoing tests at another institution, they were still unsure and ca to ask the expert for confirmation. Without hesitation, Teacher Du prescribed a treatnt cycle, instructing the patient to return after finishing the dication.
Thus, the pens Xie Wanying and the others used to assist their teacher in making examination orders were once again idle.
It is evident that Teacher Du will always avoid the minefield—one that receives the most criticism against doctors from society—by never allowing patients to undergo any additional tests here.
For patients who have not undergone any examinations during their first consultation, how would Teacher Du handle them?
The fourth patient was a first-ti visitor. Knowing the reputation of Beidou Third Hospital and living nearby, they ca directly to book an appointnt with Beidou Third Hospital due to feeling unwell.
Typically, other doctors would imdiately order a variety of examinations with different types of slips for such patients, to then make a decision based on the examination results.
Student Geng Yongzhe thought this ti it would be absolutely right, picking up his pen intending to fill in the lab slip with the patient’s na before the teacher spoke. Beside him, Student Xie Wanying’s hand reached out discreetly, signaling for him not to waste pen and paper and to wait and see.
As for Student Xie, classmates all say that Student Xie is a bit like an old doctor. Perhaps Student Xie understands Teacher Du’s thoughts better, so Student Geng temporarily put down his pen, ready to make changes at any ti.
The patient sitting in front of the doctor started describing their symptoms: "Bleeding. I can’t even figure out where I’m bleeding."
User Comments
0 comments from readers