Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 334

Chapter 334: Chapter 178: Worry and Treating Patients on Behalf of the Master (Part 2)

Outside, it’s overflowing with people again.

I really don’t understand why so many people encounter misfortune every day.

Patients coming here for bone setting are mostly injured by various accidents.

Falls, sprains, car accidents, high falls, bone fractures due to osteoporosis, and so on.

"Dr. Li, we’ve been looking forward to seeing you! Ready to start?"

Li Li greeted him with a smile as radiant as a flower.

"Teacher Li is being biased! I clearly came earlier than Dr. Li, but I’ve never seen you smile like this."

Dr. Chen silently prepared the tools and consumables for bone setting.

"Hmph, what’s the use of coming early? If you have the ability, like Dr. Li, to handle everything on your own, treating each patient as they come. The patients outside have urged me several times already, haven’t you always told me not to call for numbers first?"

Li Li rolled her eyes.

This remark made Dr. Chen smile awkwardly.

Nurses tend to behave like this, often bullying doctors with lower status.

Dr. Chen is relatively lucky; some intern doctors get scolded by nurses just like they’re being scolded as children.

"Start calling the numbers! Isn’t Doctor Xu here yet?"

Li Jingsheng didn’t see Doctor Xu’s figure in the outpatient room outside.

"Probably will arrive a bit later; Doctor Xu seemed to have coughed up blood yesterday." Li Li spoke of Doctor Xu’s condition with concern.

"Was it sudden coughing up blood?"

Li Jingsheng’s heart sank slightly; as a resident doctor with years of experience in Pulmonary Medicine, he knew that coughing up blood indicates damage to the respiratory tract.

"He was treating a patient with a femur fracture on the right leg, maybe exerted too much force or something. After treatment, he began coughing vigorously, and later coughed up blood."

Li Li described the scenario.

Li Jingsheng couldn’t help but feel anxious.

If it’s just dry upper airways or overexertion causing capillary rupture and coughing up blood, or a laryngeal hematoma leading to submucosal vascular rupture and bleeding due to coughing, those issues aren’t serious.

The concern is when there’s a problem with the lungs.

On a day visiting Doctor Xu at his home, the doctor’s wife briefly mentioned it being an old ailment.

Doctor Xu then prevented further discussion.

Some chronic issues aren’t of major concern; however, some can develop into tumors or severe conditions.

The first patient had already been assisted inside by family, initially thought to be a simple shoulder dislocation.

After examining the x-ray, there was unexpected damage to the joint capsule.

The difficulty of repositioning this isn’t high, but the treatment is particularly cumbersome.

A long recovery time is needed, and there’s a chance of habitual dislocation later on.

After repositioning this patient, applied a suspension band, then prescribed medicine for bone injuries, and it’s considered done.

One patient after another came in for Li Jingsheng to treat; he has evidently become the new main force in the manual repositioning clinic.

Around 8:40, Doctor Xu arrived.

His complexion looked a bit pale, his voice slightly hoarse while speaking, otherwise seemed okay.

"How many have been treated already?"

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