Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 643

Chapter 643: Chapter 295: Skin Expansion, A Pig at the Whirlwind’s Crest

It seems what’s inside should not be cash, but possibly a bank card.

"The total cost is conservatively estimated to be around three thousand! Once the surgery is completed, a pathology test will be needed. If it’s a benign tumor, there won’t be any issues. If it’s malignant or has the potential for malignancy, you will have to take the child to a big hospital for radiation and chemotherapy. There might even be a need to expand the scope of surgery."

The treatment fee quoted by Li Jingsheng isn’t very high.

He treats poor patients, sometimes even just breaking even.

Though in the majority of cases, he will make a slight profit. The clinic has to survive, so it must make money.

"If three thousand yuan can fix it, we’re willing to pay."

The child’s father gritted his teeth and agreed to the price.

No matter how low the couple’s income is, since they are both very young, as long as they save a little, they can fully gather the three thousand yuan.

"I can only estimate this price, can’t guarantee it absolutely. Has the child ever experienced abnormal conditions like nosebleeds or bleeding gums in typical situations?"

"No! Besides the birthmark on his back, everything’s normal."

"Alright, we’ll arrange the surgery for you here. Since there’s a need for skin grafting, we’ll have to do skin expansion first. The little one will be quite uncomfortable, can he handle it?"

"Uncle, I’m not afraid."

The little boy looked around quietly but was unexpectedly quite sensible.

"Meng Luo, register them and collect the three thousand yuan in advance, then find a suitable spot on the thigh for disinfection. Once that’s done, I’ll come over to do the skin expansion."

Skin expansion is actually a commonly used surgical technique.

Selected at suitable locations on the patient’s body, using expansion balloons typically made of silicone, similar to the principle of a balloon.

Then saline is injected inside, causing the skin to stretch out into a large lump, achieving the purpose of skin expansion.

This can be used to treat scars or for other skin grafting needs.

Since it’s an autograft, survival rate is high, rejection reactions are almost nonexistent, and there are many benefits.

Therefore, it’s commonly used in surgery.

Speaking of this technology, it was actually invented by medical beauty institutions and gradually refined before being widely applied in the field of surgical procedures.

Medical beauty, due to its many pitfalls, is often criticized.

But legitimate medical beauty has nonetheless made significant contributions to human medicine.

For example, the most common scar treatments and post-incident treatments for burn patients are all medical beauty treatments.

Sometimes a scar on the neck, arm, face, or head can bring great distress to a patient.

Not only does it cause itchiness, but it also seriously impacts appearance.

Imagine if a person had a lump on their face or neck resembling a tumor, wouldn’t it be frightening?

The patient would undoubtedly feel inferior, affecting their life, work, and romance.

Then spend a few thousand yuan successfully treated at a medical beauty institution.

The patient can live and work confidently thereafter, no more worrying about receiving strange looks from passersby, colleagues, friends, or relatives.

From this perspective, doesn’t medical beauty benefit humanity?

As for some, particularly beauty-loving women, spending money on cosmetic surgery to enhance their breasts, nose, and eyelids, or even grinding bones, that’s their own choice.

No one has the right to interfere.

The only thing that needs to be done is to eliminate those black industries.

Some unqualified medical beauty institutions often cause accidents resulting in deaths, or disfigurements like pus-flowing noses, collapsing, crooked mouths, stiff faces... or even death during cosmetic surgeries.

These are the real sources of the problem.

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Busily working until close to 12:40 PM, Li Jingsheng finally processed all the patients at hand.

As for the remaining ones, there’s no choice. He’ll have to eat and continue in the afternoon.

Today, the number he personally issued has reached sixty-seven.

He handled twenty-five in the morning.

This is already his limit.

Buying mobile numbers, new phones, making business cards took up quite a bit of time.

Compared to misdiagnosing or missing a diagnosis, he’d rather be a bit slower.

While eating, he consulted General Surgery’s Director Bi at the Second Hospital about the treatment of plexiform neurofibromas.

The Second Hospital has a dermatology department, but it only treats infectious diseases.

Especially adults, if they lead impure lives, are prone to various infections.

Dermatological surgical treatments, including handling superficial tumors, are all completed by General Surgery.

Previously, Li Jingsheng couldn’t connect with Director Bi.

But after returning from the skills competition, this situation changed.

On the third day after returning, Li Jingsheng was having lunch in the cafeteria. Ou Qinglan was on night duty, not present during the day.

So he was eating alone in the cafeteria.

He went in quite late, resulting in a poorer selection of dishes.

At this time, Director Bi also came in for lunch, saw him, finished serving food, and proactively sat next to him with his tray.

The doctors under Director Bi were a bit surprised.

At that time, after sitting next to him, the first thing Director Bi said was, "Today’s luck isn’t bad, being able to sit and eat with our department’s most outstanding young doctor."

Li Jingsheng responded with, "If you add ’one of’ after the most outstanding young doctor, I’ll shamelessly accept."

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