Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 380

Chapter 380: Chapter 193: The Little Girl with Ascites—You Should Have Come to Me for This_3

The woman’s tears had started to flow.

She quickly wiped them away with her hand, afraid her daughter would see.

Li Jingsheng watched this heartbreaking scene, feeling a knot in his chest.

It was quite an unpleasant feeling.

However, he also understood the nurse’s predicament. Taking in such patients would mean scolding for the nurse, and the emergency department couldn’t handle it either.

"Sister, what illness does this child have?"

Li Jingsheng strode over.

He was ready to get involved in this matter.

He knew two chief physicians at the People’s Hospital. For patients with difficult-to-treat conditions, the People’s Hospital shouldn’t refuse admission.

But he couldn’t be sure.

At least he could try to put in a word for this woman, open a convenient door if possible.

"It’s just that there’s fluid in the stomach, they say it’s some kind of abdominal effusion. It’s been a few years now. We’ve treated it at our local health clinic, the county’s maternity and children’s hospital, and the People’s Hospital, costing tens of thousands with little effect."

The woman spoke of her daughter’s condition and the arduous journey seeking medical help, and she couldn’t help but cry again.

For an ordinary rural family, paying tens of thousands for treatment is by no means a small amount.

Pay no mind to how the impressive chief physicians make fifty to sixty thousand, or even seventy to eighty thousand a month.

But many ordinary rural families’ annual income may not even reach fifty thousand. Many are at an income level of twenty or thirty thousand a year, or even lower.

This is why education is important.

Education might not necessarily change one’s destiny, but having at least an undergraduate degree is certainly better than having none.

"Have any examinations been done?"

"Yes, so many, I can’t even count. Every time we go to a hospital, it’s one test after another, waiting in line takes most of the day."

The woman shook the several folders of materials she was holding.

Judging by the thickness, they really did a lot of tests.

"Come, sit over there and let me take a look at the examination materials."

Li Jingsheng guided the patient to the nearby seating area provided for patients and their families.

Since Li Jingsheng was wearing a white coat, the woman trusted him a lot. She handed the materials over to Li Jingsheng as he said.

There were at least ten complete blood count tests inside.

Can’t these hospitals be a bit more flexible and conscientious?

Many hospitals don’t acknowledge test results from other hospitals, or if the tests were done too long ago, they make the patients redo them.

It’s understandable, but sometimes they could be more accommodating.

This child is so small, so thin, like skin and bones. Drawing blood so many times is heartbreaking just to think about.

The patient underwent liver function tests, protein electrophoresis, hepatitis B virus serology, abdominal CT, X-rays, chest film, MRI—every possible test was done.

Yet no hospital identified the cause of the illness.

The diagnoses were all normal pathological descriptions, changes in certain tissues, and the discovery of a large amount of effusion in the abdominal cavity...

But there was no result for the diagnosis of the cause.

Li Jingsheng had a certain level of expertise in gastroenterology, hepatology, cardiology, and thoracic diagnoses. At this moment, carefully examining these films, he acknowledged that diagnosing the cause in a short time was entirely unrealistic.

"Sister, I’m Li Jingsheng, a doctor in the orthopedic outpatient clinic. I have to go back to work at my clinic now. If you trust me, I can help you contact the People’s Hospital. You can take a cab there with your child. The People’s Hospital is one of the two largest hospitals in Lijiang City. They are more skilled at treating such difficult and complicated cases."

These last words from Li Jingsheng weren’t really supposed to be said.

But there was no other way.

This woman from the countryside didn’t understand much, and if he didn’t say it, she might think Li Jingsheng was a medical scam artist.

As if he was trying to deceive her into going to another hospital to earn a hefty broker fee.

"Can’t your place treat it?"

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