My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1528 - 618: Spinal Cord Transection Basically Ruled Out, Terrifying Infection_2

Even if you want to find the Medical Department for an explanation, they will confidently say, "Sorry, our department is really too busy. Although Doctor So-and-So is just a resident doctor, their skill level is quite good."When diagnosing this type of case, they are extremely excellent.

Then the leader of the Medical Department won’t say anything more.

After all, they’ve already sent reinforcements over. If you’re still not satisfied, you could diagnose it yourself if you’re capable!

This is also a situation many patients encounter when visiting the hospital; after a preliminary understanding, the doctor who receives the patient might say, "Why don’t you refund your appointment? Our department is not specialized in your illness. You need to make an appointment with a different department."

This is the kind of indifferent doctor, or a doctor with little networking.

Directly and bluntly guiding the patient to other departments.

If it’s a doctor with extensive connections, and they know and are familiar with a doctor from another department, they will directly call and arrange it. "I have a patient here with such and such illness. I’m not quite sure about it; could you help take a look?"

The other person will mostly agree.

This amounts to introducing a patient to them.

Even a small mosquito is still meat.

Treating one more patient means one more income. Sometimes, picking up a big case can be a win-win for both performance and reputation.

If appointments are allocated by the receptionist or chosen by the patient themselves, such opportunities might be missed.

Let’s talk about a little secret regarding hospital appointments.

If you’re making appointments on your own, for minor problems, just choose the regular doctor. Those qualified to sit in consultations are basically at the attending physician level or above. Even if they are just resident-level doctors, they are outstanding among them.

If you make an appointment at the window, there is a default rule followed by the hospital staff. As long as there are still specialist slots available in the department you’re booking for, they will assign you to a specialist.

Anyway, patients are prioritized to be assigned to higher-level doctors.

Specialist slots are not included in this rule.

For one, the prices of specialist slots are expensive, at least over 50 yuan, and for the slightly pricier ones, basically starting from 300 yuan.

Many patients themselves have become impoverished due to illness, and if you assign them a slot costing several hundred yuan, if they don’t spray you with spit on the spot, it’s just because they’re being polite.

Therefore, when making an appointment, if a patient feels their condition is not serious or complicated, they can actively ask the receptionist to give them a regular slot. They generally agree readily.

One should know that whether it’s the receptionist handling appointments, the outpatient doctors, or nurses, they’re all working in jobs.

Each of them has a certain amount of kindness in their hearts.

No one will make things difficult for a patient for no reason.

Zhou Can knows many department directors and top experts, which indeed is a very big advantage.

Every patient who seeks his consultation has the opportunity to enjoy top VIP treatment.

Booking his slot is just 8 yuan, yet it provides the chance for various specialist experts to assist in a joint consultation.

It’s worth noting that specialist slots for experts like Wu Baihe and Director Yin Hua are hard to get.

Of course, Zhou Can is also somewhat extravagant with the resources he holds.

Whenever he invites other directors for consultation assistance, he needs to return the favor.

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Because of finishing surgery later at noon, it was almost 1 PM when the surgery was completed, so he ordered food and ate in the surgery break room.

Some Level 3 surgeries are quite difficult.

In fact, only a skilled surgeon like Zhou Can would find doing a regular Level 3 surgery as easy as drinking water or eating. For many doctors, even for seasoned deputy directors, performing any Level 3 surgery is like walking on thin ice, being extremely cautious.

Zhou Can remains respectful and cautious when performing any surgery, yet his skills are evident, so there’s rarely anything he can’t handle.

Even now, when it comes to surgeries related to Orthopedics, he can manage them to some extent.

"Boss, the test results for that child are out."

Jiang Wei specifically asked someone to bring over the test results for the child.

"There’s a bacterial infection!"

After reviewing them, Zhou Can couldn’t help but exclaim.

This was something he never anticipated.

Originally, he thought the child’s high-level paraplegia was due to a neck injury. Now it seems things are unexpected.

Thankfully, he visited Director Yin Hua late that night.

These senior experts have nothing but broad and extensive experience, very steady.

Director Yin Hua advised him to be cautious of reasons other than spinal cord injuries.

After returning, just to be safe, he filed an application for a spinal fluid test for the child. Now it seems this step was correct.

Being cautious makes no big mistakes.

Through this incident today, he also realized that practicing medicine requires utmost caution and attentiveness.

If this unconventional examination had been missed, opening up the child for surgery could have had unimaginable consequences.

Spinal cord infections are sometimes hard to detect through ordinary blood tests.

Moreover, the child’s spinal cord infection turns out to be the most troublesome tubercle bacillus.

It left Zhou Can dumbfounded.

Tuberculosis is known as a stubborn disease in clinical practice, difficult to diagnose, hard to treat, and prone to recurrence.

The tubercle bacillus has a large quantity of extracellular bacterial populations and strong metabolic and reproductive capacities. These are its two main advantages, allowing it to cope calmly in the face of many drugs.

Clinical treatment for tuberculosis often requires combined drug therapy.

And long-term medication.

Why is tuberculosis so difficult to treat?

Tubercle bacillus in the human body is roughly divided into two types of bacterial populations.

One is the extracellular bacterial population, often parasitic in cheese lesions, tubercular nodules, and cavities, which only need anti-tuberculosis drugs to exert sufficient killing effects.