Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 693

Chapter 693: Chapter 319: Immediate Difference in Skill Level, Electrolyte Imbalance

After coming out from Dean Jin’s office, Li Jingsheng went straight to the orthopedics department to find his girlfriend.

Busy until now, he hasn’t eaten!

Life is really difficult.

When the clinic’s business was bad before, money was hard to earn, and even meals weren’t guaranteed. Now, even though he can earn quite a bit of money, he has become extremely busy, still unable to have regular meals.

Arriving at the orthopedics department, from afar he saw Ou Qinglan walking briskly with medication in hand.

This situation suggests she’s heading to the ward to change a patient’s dressing.

Usually, things like IV drips are done by nurses, but some demanding dressing changes need to be performed by doctors.

During the dressing change, doctors check the recovery of the wound or examine the drainage’s amount, color, and other factors.

He followed her into the ward she entered, wanting to see if her work had improved.

He also wanted to check if the department was dumping all the dirty and tiring work on her.

Once inside, she was changing the dressing on a patient’s leg wound. The patient was a man in his fifties whose calf had undergone surgery. The external fixation steel frame was still visible.

It should be a fracture fixation surgery.

Generally, for severe bone fractures, if they can’t be set manually, surgery is the only treatment option.

In fact, most hospital orthopedics departments primarily rely on surgery for treatment.

Manual readjustment is mostly for simple dislocations like shoulder dislocation.

For highly difficult and complex cases, they simply don’t have the ability to set them manually.

The treatment for this patient involved drilling holes on the intact bone ends of the fracture, drilling two holes on each end, placing a steel frame, and tightening screws to fix the broken bone.

This treatment method causes extreme pain for the patient.

The hospital stay is long, and the costs are quite high.

Ou Qinglan carefully removed the outside wrapped gauze, then checked the wound’s condition.

Clearly, she was very meticulous.

The family was watching nervously beside her.

"Hmm, recovery looks good, the swelling of the wound has basically subsided. Do you feel better today?"

She checked the wound at the fixed site while changing the dressing, asking the patient.

"Everything else is fine, just always feel weak all over, can’t muster energy, and feel dizzy." The patient expressed his feelings.

"It might be because you haven’t rested well since your injury and just had surgery, which caused this. It should get better in a few days." She explained to the patient.

"I think that’s the reason you mentioned. We came here because we heard that your hospital’s orthopedic department has excellent skills, specially came for the surgery."

The family interrupted.

"Darling, hand me my water bottle."

The patient said to the family member.

The woman was forty-five or six, seemed younger than the patient by several years.

Her dress was quite ordinary, slightly overweight, with good complexion.

No doubt, she’s another woman pampered by her husband.

"Don’t just drink water! Should I go buy you something to eat? Doctor, can my husband eat?"

The woman handed the water bottle.

The bottle had quite a large capacity, could hold about twelve hundred milliliters at once.

Only a little water was left inside.

"He can eat, just avoid raw spicy or other stimulating foods, nothing else specific."

Ou Qinglan answered without looking up.

"Dr. Ou, can I eat?"

Li Jingsheng asked with a suppressed smile.

She didn’t pay much attention initially, thinking it was a patient from the neighboring bed, yet the voice sounded familiar. Instinctively, she turned her head towards the questioner.

"Oh, it’s you! I’m going to hit you!"

She playfully said.

Upon seeing Li Jingsheng, she couldn’t help but show a delighted expression.

Being teased by him naturally made her a bit bashfully annoyed.

"Doctors hitting patients can get them fired. Dr. Ou, you need to think it over!"

Li Jingsheng winked and said jokingly.

"Say another word, and I’ll beat you into a patient! Just in time, help this uncle with his dressing change. I’ve been busy all day, my back is about to break."

She immediately enlisted Li Jingsheng for help.

The patient watched the two young doctors bickering and couldn’t help but smile.

Perhaps, from these young people, he saw the likeness of him and his wife in their youth.

"Uncle, does the wound feel a bit swollen and painful?"

Li Jingsheng asked the patient.

"Young man, you are indeed a doctor! You’re spot-on, my leg actually feels swollen and painful, intermittently. After the surgery, the nurse told me that slight swelling and soreness are normal. I didn’t mention it then."

Upon hearing Li Jingsheng accurately describe his symptoms, the patient was greatly surprised.

He also looked at Li Jingsheng anew with admiration.

"He’s Dr. Li Jingsheng from our department, quite famous!" Ou Qinglan proudly mentioned.

The stronger her boyfriend’s skills, the prouder she felt.

"Don’t give me too much credit! I’m very susceptible to praise, once flattered, I get carried away."

Li Jingsheng glanced at Ou Qinglan, then deftly changed the patient’s dressing.

His operations were evidently more skilled than Ou Qinglan’s, appearing more professional.

The only difference was that he wasn’t wearing a white coat.

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