Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Chapter 18: Trouble After All

"I’m not going to lie to you, I did see the doctor at Quick Recovery Clinic. Dr. Zhao told me that there were several people still waiting for IVs there, and since I’m an old patron, they didn’t want me waiting until the middle of the night. They recommended I come to Sunshine Clinic for an IV. They said I wouldn’t have to wait here. They weren’t lying, I really didn’t have to wait here. Young man, Dr. Zhao has already checked me out and said I only need two bottles of IV fluid, so please hurry up!"

The old lady urged to start the IV as soon as possible.

Almost all patients are eager to receive the fastest treatment.

Upon hearing it was Boss Zhao who sent the patient over, Li Jingsheng became extremely cautious.

Boss Zhao had long wanted to eliminate Li Jingsheng as a competitor.

He’d played countless dirty tricks.

Just this evening, he had a direct conflict with Li Jingsheng because of entanglements with Tang Ping.

The two of them had practically torn into each other.

Would he really be so kind as to send an old patron to Li Jingsheng’s clinic?

Boss Zhao has run his clinic for many years without any major incident, so he must have some extraordinary skills.

Even chief physicians in big hospitals can’t promise a lifetime without medical accidents.

Misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis are almost unavoidable.

Operating a clinic for over twenty years without issues isn’t merely a matter of being cautious.

Boss Zhao’s diagnostic skills must be much stronger than imagined.

It’s already close to 8:30 PM; even if business is booming at Quick Recovery Clinic, the patients needing IVs should have already been treated.

So why did Quick Recovery Clinic treat this old lady?

Giving an IV isn’t a big deal.

Mixing the medicine takes some time, but the injection itself is quick. As for hanging the bottle, it takes one or two hours, during which medical staff barely need to do anything. They just need to remove the needle after the IV is done.

Why pass up money and send it to Li Jingsheng, a nearly starved rival?

It’s a no-brainer that no one would do this.

This old lady can walk and talk, but her heart sounds can’t be detected.

Could it be she has an artificial heart?

Upon closer inspection, there’s no sign of one!

Patients with artificial hearts carry a battery pack. Because it pumps blood continuously like a water pump, circulating it through the body without a heartbeat or pulse.

But through a stethoscope, you can still hear the humming of the machine.

"Aunty! Have you had heart surgery? Like getting an artificial heart?"

"No, my heart has always been fine."

If there’s no artificial heart, why is she alive without a heartbeat?

Li Jingsheng racked his brains to find the reason.

The world is full of wonders.

All sorts of strange diseases and unique physiques, many not even seen by doctors.

A flash of inspiration struck Li Jingsheng’s mind.

In a medical journal, he once read about a case of ectopic heart.

The probability of newborns with ectopic heart is about one in five million.

This old lady didn’t have a heart transplant, is still alive, and her left chest cavity isn’t registering heart sounds. That leaves only two possibilities.

Either he encountered a supernatural event tonight.

Or this lady is a patient with an ectopic heart.

"Let me listen to the right side of your chest,"

Li Jingsheng said, pressing the stethoscope’s probe to the right side of the old lady’s chest.

"Thump thump thump..."

The familiar sound of a heartbeat greeted his ears, and a look of joyful realization spread across Li Jingsheng’s face.

It was just as he suspected.

The patient has an ectopic heart.

Her heart is positioned in the right chest cavity.

After listening carefully for a while, Li Jingsheng’s face gradually turned serious.

The heart sounds had an obvious murmur, a regular swishing sound. It definitely wasn’t normal.

However, in terms of cardiovascular medicine diagnosis or cardiothoracic surgery diagnosis, Li Jingsheng was at an entry-level at best.

He didn’t know what illness this old lady had.

But it was certain that the elderly lady’s heart had problems.

Chest tightness, irregular pain in the right chest, labored breathing, dizziness, with the heart located in the right chest cavity... taking these symptoms together, Li Jingsheng’s heart trembled. Isn’t this the precursor of a heart attack?

Good heavens, Boss Zhao, what a scoundrel you are.

Sending a heart disease patient over here and urging the old lady to have Li Jingsheng give her an IV.

This is basically murder by proxy.

Boss Zhao knows that Li Jingsheng is so poor he needs to sell his motorcycle to keep the clinic running, so he’s definitely desperate for money. On top of that, being young and inexperienced, once faced with a chance to earn money, he might impulsively administer the IV.

By then, if the patient suffers a heart attack during the IV and dies at Sunshine Clinic,

Li Jingsheng would most likely face a lawsuit.

And Sunshine Clinic would be thoroughly ruined.

Uncovering Boss Zhao’s plot, he took a deep breath to calm his anger.

Even though Boss Zhao’s plan to use a human life to destroy Li Jingsheng’s Sunshine Clinic was despicable,

the patient was innocent.

Li Jingsheng couldn’t bear to see a life wither away.

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