Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Medicine Doesn’t Need to Be Expensive—What Suits Is Best

Whether it’s a hospital or a clinic, what they sell has never been service, but skill.

Medicine is a resource.

Li Jingsheng’s small clinic is just starting out, and if they don’t greet patients with a smile and various forms of flattery, the patients will quickly turn to other clinics. His clinic would lose its chance to survive.

On the contrary, if one day his reputation spreads far and wide, and his medical skills improve.

Once a patient comes in, they can be cured.

By then, patients will actively try to flatter him, begging him for treatment.

"Don’t worry, I will use the best medicine for you."

What Li Jingsheng said wasn’t just empty words.

Doctors certainly hope that every patient can recover soon, so when prescribing medicine, they naturally choose the most effective drugs.

This involves a choice between imported drugs and alternative substitutes.

Small clinics generally seldom stock imported drugs.

Because the clinic’s specialty is that treatment is cheap, there’s no need to queue or undergo tests, and patients can get diagnosed and treated quickly.

The price of imported drugs is never cheap; if they can’t sell them after stocking, and can’t return them either, they’ll have to be disposed of after they expire.

The worse the business of a clinic, the higher the rate of medication loss.

This is similar to restaurants.

The worse the business of a restaurant, the more troublesome it is to stock ingredients. If they buy too few, and a customer comes and finds there’s little to choose from, the experience is poor, and people are unlikely to return. But if they buy too much, the surplus can’t be used up in a day, and much ends up being wasted.

"Please sit and have a glass of water first, and let our Dr. Li prepare the best medicine for you."

Tang Ping smiled as she handed a glass of water to the patient.

"Okay, thank you!"

The female patient took it with both hands and nodded with a smile to Tang Ping.

The cause of the patient’s illness is now diagnosed, just one more step to earn both money and praise.

And that is to prescribe the most suitable medicine for the patient.

A true expert in medication never relies on the most expensive drugs to treat illnesses but uses medicines that are most suited to the patient’s condition and constitution.

Whether it’s oral or injection, it requires consideration of drug absorption and the patient’s constitution, whether there are allergies to such drugs, or other diseases contraindicating such drugs, etc.

In addition, factors like the patient’s age, weight, gender, whether they are pregnant or breastfeeding, and so on, must also be comprehensively considered.

Omitting any one of these could result in catastrophic consequences.

Or fail to achieve the desired therapeutic effect.

This is why Li Jingsheng, after obtaining his golden finger, prioritized upgrading pharmacology and pharmacokinetics.

Because these two medical skills are really too important.

Standing in front of the medicine cabinet, his proficient pharmacology and pharmacokinetics once again brought him significant benefits.

"Acute tracheobronchitis caused by pollen allergy, the patient’s current condition is quite severe. Relying solely on keeping warm, drinking more water, rest, and other conservative treatment measures, it is hard to heal on its own. When medicating, first consider antitussives. Oral dextromethorphan hydrobromide should be a good choice, and the two drugs levodropropizine and bencyclane can be considered as alternatives..."

His mind swiftly goes over which drugs to use, in what dosages, and which method of medication would benefit the patient the most, etc.

Over ten minutes later, the medication is ready.

Mainly anti-coughing, expectorating, antispasmodic and antiallergic drugs, along with antibiotic treatment.

Bronchitis, tracheitis causing fever, must be treated with antibiotics for antibacterial therapy.

Li Jingsheng thought to himself, this time he met the patient’s desires, without the patient needing to ask him to prescribe antibiotics with a sodium chloride drip.

"Ms. Ou, let me explain the treatment costs. Because your symptoms are quite many and near the threshold of high fever, it’s necessary to begin symptomatic treatment immediately. This includes antitussives, expectorants, antiallergics, antispasmodics, and antibiotics. Thank you very much for your trust and support for our clinic, and also the lady who introduced you here is our old customer, so the medicines I have prescribed for you are the best picks."

"Today’s treatment cost a total of 381.5 yuan, and the chest X-ray examination is 100 yuan."

This charge is considered a reasonable level.

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