Chapter 497: 【497】The senior apprentice brother saw through everything at a glance Chapter 497: 【497】The senior apprentice brother saw through everything at a glance The two of them walked toward the ward of Bed 23. Upon arriving, they could only hear the murmuring voices of two people chatting beside the window.
Fortunately, the volu of their conversation was low, not disturbing the patient sleeping in the next bed.
Approaching, they saw it was the auntie from Bed 23 chatting with Li Qi’an.
Noticing soone’s arrival, the auntie and Li Qi’an turned their heads.
“Senior Cao,” Li Qi’an said nervously as he sprang up from his seat.
Hearing him address soone respectfully, the auntie realized a superior had co and praised Li Qi’an, “Doctor Li is so good. My stomach doesn’t hurt anymore with him here.”
Li Qi’an’s cheeks turned red from the patient’s praise.
The patient, feeling lonely and finding soone to talk to, suddenly no longer felt stomach pains?
“Her stomach hurts?” Huang Zhilei turned to ask his junior sister about the patient’s condition.
Xie Wanying whispered into her senior brother’s ear, “Colorectal cancer. It’s unclear what’s going on, but she keeps complaining about stomach pain, even though there’s clearly no obstruction or symptoms of bleeding. Teacher Sun said it’s not an ergency and to wait for the attending doctor to deal with it during the day.”
After hearing his junior sister’s description, Huang Zhilei pondered. At that mont, by the moonlight shining through the window, he could just make out that the patient’s lips seed to have a purplish hue.
“Hasn’t she been on oxygen?”
“The dayti doctor prescribed it, but she seed uncomfortable using it.”
Overhearing the two doctors, the auntie understood and said, “The oxygen is really uncomfortable, blowing right in the nostrils.”
“But with your current condition, you need the oxygen, auntie,” urged Xie Wanying to the patient.
“He just helped wear it for a while, and I breathed so in,” the auntie said, indicating that she had indeed used the oxygen earlier, for Li Qi’an’s sake.
“Maybe we should prescribe her so pain relief dication,” Huang Zhilei suggested to his junior sister, turning his back to her.
“We considered that before, but we’re worried she might suddenly develop complications that could be masked by painkillers,” responded Xie Wanying.
Hearing this, Huang Zhilei pulled her out of the ward. Outside, where the patient couldn’t hear, he said, “Her condition seems to be in the advanced stages. Painkillers are an option. I’m guessing Sun Yubo didn’t check her dical record, did you go look at it?”
After a mont of silence, Xie Wanying finally said, “It seems the full-body CT results haven’t co out yet. According to her dical record, the tumor isn’t that large.”
“You must have suspected sothing, which is why you called to see her,” Huang Zhilei said, adjusting his glasses and discerning her thoughts. “The patient Senior Brother Cao and I consulted on yesterday afternoon wasn’t her.”
His junior sister was a smart person; she wouldn’t call her neurosurgery senior brother to see just any patient without good reason.
“Moreover, her pain isn’t from the intestines; it’s bone pain. Colorectal cancer that has tastasized. Oxygen depletion in the lungs indicates lung involvent, confusion of the mind suggests brain tastasis, and if the whole body aches, it’s the bones. Even if consultation with our neurosurgery departnt is requested, it’s likely to discuss chemotherapy options. Otherwise, she should be directly transferred to oncology,” Huang Zhilei continued to explain.
While the two were speaking, Li Qi’an stood quietly at the door of the ward, listening without showing any reaction and then returned inside.
Xie Wanying turned to look at the receding figure of her classmate.
“Is there another patient whose condition we need to discuss?” Huang Zhilei asked his junior sister, trying to lighten the slightly sorrowful atmosphere. Like Senior Cao, he disliked the ward being shrouded in gloom; it affected the emotions of other patients and dical staff.
Before resting, they needed to review all the critical patients once more. Xie Wanying, rembering Bed 62, spoke while walking with her senior brother, “If soone is extrely irritable, could that indicate a problem with the brain?”
“We need to clarify the situation, whether his temper has always been like that or if there’s been a sudden change,” he replied.
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