Chapter 556: Chapter 240: The Doorman Changed, The Eerie Vomiting
“Dr. Zhou just now suggested that the family of the woman patient should also get tested for Helicobacter pylori. The suggestion is very good, but in the actual diagnostic process, you must be careful with your approach. It’s best to wait until the female patient’s examination is plete and the Helicobacter pylori infection is confirmed, after diagnosing the patient’s condition, and once the treatment plan is given and both the family and the patient have accepted it. Only then should you look for an opportunity to gently remind the family.”
“If the family reacts negatively upon hearing the suggestion, then do not insist further. As doctors, our first task is to learn how to protect ourselves. Some family members are hot-tempered, and they might not appreciate your kindness, with verbal abuse being the least of your worries. There have also been incidents of family members throwing objects at doctors.”
Director Shang, as someone who has been through it, is sharing his experiences of being attacked with these young doctors.
When you go to the doctor’s, if you observe carefully, you’ll notice that the chairs the doctors sit on are those stable black leather armchairs. But the seats provided for patients and their families are plastic stools.
Many people think this is discrimination against patients, but it’s really not the case.
Previously, some hospitals provided high-quality iron-clad round stools for patients. As a result, family members used these iron chairs to hit the consulting doctors and caused fractures.
The young nurses were scared enough to hide under the desks.
And it’s not just a one-time occurrence of such infuriating events.
Afterwards, the family members are certainly subject to legal sanctions.
But when a doctor is injured, it’s a big loss for the hospital. Especially for some famous doctors in their field, their injury, especially work-related injuries, means they cannot work.
Not only does this include halting their consultation work, but the patients under the care of this injured doctor, be it for surgery or medication, have to be transferred to other doctors.
Handing over those patients to a new doctor, who is unfamiliar with their conditions, could lead to mistakes if one is lucky.
This can lead to a decline in the quality of treatment.
During the injured doctor’s recovery period, the hospital must still pay his salary, provide certain work injury pensation and fort.
It’s apparent how big of a loss this is for the hospital.
Furthermore, today one doctor suffers a fractured arm, tomorrow another suffers a fractured eyebrow bone and serious injuries. Other doctors are also afraid when they are on duty!
This will definitely affect the quality of the doctors’ diagnoses.
Finally, the hospital leadership thought of a solution. They changed all the chairs in the clinic for patients to plastic stools.
This way, even if they encounter a family member with an explosive temper, the doctors would only suffer minor injuries.
Later on, this good practice spread across the country and has bee the standard in outpatient clinics.
“Xiao Qiu, go open the door and call the next patient in! Dr. Zhou’s diagnostic approach is very flexible, and his foundational medical knowledge is profound. Moreover, he is able to apply it flexibly in clinical practice; you should learn from him.”
Director Shang is full of praise for Zhou Can’s performance.
What’s more interesting is that he specifically did not let Zhou Can continue playing the role of a ‘doorman’ any longer.
“Ah… Alright!”
Qiu Chengyu was stunned for a moment, then his face showed a hint of dejection.
Everyone petes fair and square based on their abilities.
In the first round of petition, he was pletely outclassed by Zhou Can and utterly defeated.
If Director Shang isn’t asking him to usher patients, then who would he ask?
After the consultation room door opened, a somewhat frail-looking thirty-seven or thirty-eight-year-old woman came in, carrying a middle-aged man who was much taller than herself.
The middle-aged man looked unwell and was emaciated.
You could tell at a glance that it was malnutrition.
Under normal circumstances, there are three kinds of malnutrition. The first is from starvation: eating nutritionally deficient, single-type food with little oils or fats. Over time the body will naturally bee emaciated.
The second is the presence of malignant diseases in the body, such as tumors or leukemia, leading to a rapid decline in the patient’s weight.
The crazed growth of cancer cells consumes a lot of body nutrition, which is an important cause of severe weight loss. In addition, it can also lead to a decrease in appetite for the patient, feeling no hunger, and not wanting to eat.
The third is indigestion. Some patients may have problems with their digestive tracts, resulting in symptoms of indigestion. Either feeling full all day after one meal or having weakened intestinal absorption capabilities, where they can only absorb a small part of the nutrition from the food they consume.
The rest is excreted.
This excretion doesn’t just refer to defecation; urine can also expel large amounts of nutrients.
For example, the most mon symptom is proteinuria.
“Can he sit?”
Upon seeing this ‘female Hercules’ gritting her teeth and struggling to carry the patient forward, Zhou Can quickly went forward to help.
This was just a small act of kindness.
Director Shang didn’t say anything after seeing it, but his eyes clearly showed approval when looking at Zhou Can. On the contrary, his gaze turned a few degrees colder when looking at Qiu Chengyu, who opened the door for the patient.
Having a kind-hearted nature is the most basic quality of all doctors.
A doctor without a heart of passion cannot bee a qualified physician.
“He can sit; it’s just that he’s too weak to walk,” said the woman to Zhou Can with a grateful smile.
“Take it slow, take it slow!”
After Zhou Can helped catch the patient, he assisted him to sit on the chair.
This patient must be over 1.85 meters tall, while the woman was no more than 1.60 meters. Carrying the patient all this way must have been very difficult.
Even though the man looked thin, with such a tall frame, his weight must definitely be over 100 kilograms.
“Thank you!”
The woman thanked Zhou Can.
“Don’t mention it. What is his ailment?”
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