"Dr. Li, are you here to take the temperature of the patient in bed 53?"
"Yes!"
"Be careful though, that family mber complained about all three of us nurses yesterday. Everyone’s scared of her now."
Nurse Tang softly reminded.
It seems Li Jingsheng’s gesture of buying them milk tea wasn’t wasted. Gaining their favor ensured tily warnings when issues arose.
"Alright, thanks for the heads-up, Teacher Tang. Otherwise, I really might have fallen into a trap."
Li Jingsheng took the borrowed infrared thermoter and went over to take the patient’s temperature.
36.7 degrees, normal.
"Your son’s temperature is normal!"
Li Jingsheng showed the asurent result to the family mber.
"In the evening, I felt his forehead and it was a bit warm, really, I’m not lying."
The family mber tried hard to explain.
"I’ll co and check his temperature again after my shift ends, just to be sure."
Li Jingsheng could only answer this way.
So patients have a normal temperature during the day and develop a fever at night; this does happen.
"Get so good rest! Now that you’re admitted, our dical staff definitely won’t ignore the patient’s condition. The departnt’s chief physicians take it very seriously because your son’s condition is difficult to diagnose, so it takes ti. It’s not as if we’re ignoring you, please understand."
Li Jingsheng spoke to the family mber and the patient.
"Young doctor, rember to relay what I said to your director! If I find out tomorrow you didn’t, I’ll file a complaint."
The female family mber’s emotional intelligence really left people speechless.
"Alright, alright, I’ll report it."
Li Jingsheng’s forehead broke into a sweat; Nurse Tang’s warning was right, he must avoid this family mber.
Complaints for the slightest thing, whoever gets involved is unlucky.
If a complaint is substantiated, at least fifty yuan is deducted, plus penalty points.
However, dical staff can usually appeal complaints. After verification by the dical Departnt, so can be canceled while others result in fines.
No one wants to stir up trouble.
You have to speak nicely to the leaders of the dical Departnt, make various appeals, and face the risk of a failed appeal, who wouldn’t be afraid?
"Teacher Tang, here’s your thermoter back!"
"How was it, the patient’s temperature was normal, right? We asured it twice, and it was normal each ti, but his mother insisted it wasn’t. You shouldn’t listen to her nonsense next ti."
Nurse Tang took back the thermoter and advised Li Jingsheng not to heed that woman’s words next ti.
Li Jingsheng returned to the consultation room and described the patient’s situation.
He also ntioned the family mber’s claim that the patient had a fever last night.
But he didn’t ntion that the nurses ignored the family mber.
Undeniably, people rely on relationships, and covering for each other is inevitable.
The nurses were good to him; Nurse Tang even kindly warned him away from pitfalls. Reporting the issue to the departnt head ant helping to cover up so small work problems for the nurses.
"Later in the evening, take the patient’s temperature again. Sotis patients think they’re feverish, but it might not be real. The nurses say he had a normal temperature both tis yesterday, so the patient might be mistaken. Thank you, Dr. Li. You go ahead with your outpatient duties!"
Director Hua didn’t seem very concerned about the reported nightti temperature rise of the patient.
It doesn’t hold much importance diagnostically anyway.
Li Jingsheng returned to the manual realignnt outpatient clinic and busied himself, but we won’t ntion that.
Once he got busy, he couldn’t attend to Director Mu’s patient with respiratory disease or the paralyzed patient in orthopedics.
It was finally around five forty in the afternoon when he finished dealing with the patients in the outpatient clinic.
He could finally take a break.
Tonight, he was to host colleagues from the Old Street of South City, so he needed to head there early as the inviter.
After work, he didn’t leave imdiately but went back to the inpatient ward in orthopedics to asure that patient’s temperature once again. Still normal.
There was nothing more he could do.
He could only wait for the nurse to take the nightti temperature or have the on-duty doctor do it.
Li Jingsheng knew he couldn’t fully rely on the nurses.
When they throw a tantrum, nobody can handle it.
Three won make a drama, not just a saying.
He arrived at the office.
"Dr. Li, are you habitually eting Dr. Ou to leave work together?"
"Not really. Dr. Qin is likely on duty in the inpatient departnt tonight, right?"
Li Jingsheng looked at Qin Fei.
"Of course! I, as the chief, have to be at the hospital all day long. I really envy you for skipping general residency and directly becoming an attending physician."
Talking about this, Qin Fei was sowhat upset.
His favorite female doctor was taken by Li Jingsheng, and now the attending position he wanted was also taken by Li Jingsheng.
He found that Li Jingsheng was his nesis.
Sotis workplace competition is like this, not intentionally targeting anyone. Resources and positions are limited, whoever is capable rises.
"That patient in bed 53, if he reports a fever tonight, could you take his temperature and record it?"
Li Jingsheng didn’t engage with Dr. Qin on this topic but directly addressed the issue.
He wasn’t the only one who got promoted without doing general residency.
Undeniably, being a general resident is tough, living at the hospital day in and day out, making it ho. There’s hardly ti for a date with a girlfriend.
But being a general resident is very instructive; you have to handle various sudden patient issues promptly, which greatly improves clinical diagnostic skills.
Managent and coordination skills are also preliminarily exercised.
"OK!"
Dr. Qin didn’t refuse.
"Thanks!"
After assigning this task, Li Jingsheng hurriedly caught a cab and returned to the clinic.
All four employees were still on duty.
The clinic’s treatnts and dication sales were orderly.
Li Jingsheng had been out all day, initially a bit worried, but now he was reassured.
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