Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Chapter 27: This Isn’t a Cold

Li Jingsheng first took a good look at the elderly lady. Her complexion looked much better than yesterday, and her spirits had improved a lot as well.

The effects and pharmacokinetics of the medication at a proficient level were indeed impressive.

To be honest, treating cold patients never had such good results before. Moreover, this elderly lady had accompanying symptoms of wheezing and coughing, which were quite severe for a cold.

Reaching such satisfactory results in just one day and night without using antibiotics was something Li Jingsheng had never dared to imagine before.

He gained a little more confidence in his own medication skills.

"Thank you, thank you! Please come in!"

Li Jingsheng repeatedly expressed his gratitude to the elderly lady.

"Sister Tang, please attend to them first. I’ll wash up and come out. Last night, a heart disease patient came in without family accompaniment. I took the person to the hospital emergency room and came back very late."

Mentioning last night’s incident, Li Jingsheng still felt a lingering fear.

When his small clinic encountered such incidents, it felt like a practitioner’s tribulation in a fantasy world. Any slight mistake could lead to total ruin.

"Oh my... That patient was really something, going to see a doctor with heart disease in the middle of the night without family accompanying. If anything went wrong, a life could have been lost. Fortunately, they met you!"

Tang Ping was also shocked upon hearing this.

The two patients nearby were listening attentively.

Middle-aged women in their fifties or sixties loved gossip, eager to dig out every bit of detail.

Li Jingsheng didn’t give them a chance to ask questions and went straight inside to wash up.

Opening the door to business, he was quite pleased.

After washing up, Tang Ping had already recorded the symptoms, medical history, and other information of the two patients.

She had also measured their blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and other basic vital sign data.

She was just a nurse and didn’t have the authority to prescribe medication. All she could do was complete the preliminary work, waiting for Li Jingsheng to come over and prescribe based on the illness.

"One by one, please!"

Li Jingsheng first reexamined the elderly lady. Her temperature had dropped, her heart rate was slightly fast but still considered normal.

The current symptom was a bit of a headache, but much better than yesterday.

This was a normal phenomenon.

An illness attacks like a mountain, but recedes like drawing silk.

No matter how miraculous the medication, it couldn’t restore health immediately after being taken.

The process from sickness to recovery involves the immune system being breached, then defeating the virus or disease, and rebuilding and strengthening the immune system.

Therefore, recovery takes time.

Yesterday, an antiasthmatic medication was used, and the elderly lady felt much better after the infusion.

Today, she almost didn’t experience wheezing while breathing, but Li Jingsheng conducted an auscultation of her lung sounds and concluded that today’s infusion should still involve antiasthmatic medication to consolidate the effect.

The main symptoms the elderly lady currently experienced were fatigue, mild headache, and a lack of appetite.

Decreased appetite after catching a cold is a common symptom.

It usually starts to recover around the fourth day.

If it is a mild cold, the appetite might recover as early as the next day.

Glucose solution, antiasthmatic, and oral cold medication, Li Jingsheng still prescribed these three medications to the elderly lady, but adjusted the dosage.

After preparing the medication, Tang Ping carried it to lead the elderly lady to the infusion room for the infusion.

There was no other option.

The concept of infusion curing all diseases was deeply rooted in people’s minds. If you didn’t give a patient an infusion, they wouldn’t agree.

After dealing with the elderly lady, Li Jingsheng invited the middle-aged woman brought by the elderly lady to sit at the consultation table.

"Your main symptoms are cough, phlegm, and a slight fever, correct?"

"Correct!"

The patient nodded slightly.

Li Jingsheng silently observed this patient, about fifty years old, with fair skin, slender fingers, wearing a ruby ring and a wristwatch with a brown leather strap on her left wrist.

Dressed appropriately.

The clothes weren’t 20 or 30 yuan stall goods but medium-priced clothing.

Both workmanship and material, as well as style, showed some attention to quality.

The elderly lady receiving the infusion worked as a nanny for someone, while this patient had a look of shrewdness in her eyes, a calm demeanor, and an aura of leisure.

In his heart, he noted that this patient was likely a local resident with a decent standard of living.

Such patients generally have higher quality-of-life standards.

They seldom visit small clinics when they’re ill.

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