sovbooks Chapter 595 - 470: Is Hai City University’s Kidney Deficiency Rate Really This High?
Chapter 595 - 470: Is Hai City University’s Kidney Deficiency Rate Really This High?
Complaining.
For Chen Mu right now,
it’s almost instinctual.
But when he looked at the resigned eyes of the intern doctor,
Chen Mu knew that as a doctor, he’d said the wrong thing.
Every patient’s physique is different, just like every person’s constitution is different.
Like what Zheng Xin encountered last night.
A patient ten months pregnant without showing—it’s happened before.
He just got too startled too quickly.
Chen Mu sighed, "So, when Zheng Xin got up there yesterday, the mother was already hemorrhaging?"
The intern doctor nodded.
Chen Mu began to understand,
just how helpless Zheng Xin must have felt last night.
He sighed, "Maybe he really needs a good day’s rest..."
As for whether the mother survived, that kind of useless question,
Chen Mu didn’t ask.
After all,
as the only formally employed physician at the university hospital,
if someone at the school really couldn’t be saved and died, he would definitely be the first to be notified.
And then have to write all sorts of reports.
Su Bingbing, following alongside Chen Mu, didn’t quite understand their conversation. "I have pregnant friends too—nausea, drowsiness, fetal movement are all common symptoms of pregnancy. Could someone really be pregnant for ten months and not notice?"
From Su Bingbing’s perspective,
the conversation between Chen Mu and the intern doctor,
seemed too far-fetched!
Chen Mu looked at Su Bingbing, his lips twisting in a helpless smile, "Reporter Su, you know all those things you just listed—everything you said, in the eyes of the patient, could be explained by just a case of gastritis?"
"Even including fetal movement?" Su Bingbing subconsciously rubbed her belly,
thinking Chen Mu might be exaggerating.
When her friends in her circle were in late pregnancy, she had felt their bellies,
the fetal movements were so obvious.
Could it be that the person pregnant wouldn’t feel anything?
Facing Su Bingbing’s incredulous look, Chen Mu could only smile wryly and sigh.
Then he nodded helplessly and gave a definitive answer, "That’s right, including fetal movement!"
"If you don’t believe it, you can look up some similar cases and ask the people involved later."
Su Bingbing: "..."
Seemingly fearing that Su Bingbing didn’t believe Chen Mu’s words,
the intern doctors also chimed in, "Reporter Su, even though it sounds incredible, there are indeed similar cases."
"Ten months of pregnancy being attributed to irregular menstruation and gastritis is not unheard of. If you work clinically, you’ll even find cases where cancer is attributed to feng shui issues!"
Feng shui issues?!
Just listening to the interns, Su Bingbing felt it was unreliable.
What necessary connection could there be between cancer and feng shui?
Shouldn’t cancer be a health issue?
Seeing that Su Bingbing still looked confused, Chen Mu understood,
that their Reporter Su had only been exposed to relatively normal people.
But clinical doctors are different. The shock and aftermath caused by a quirky patient is enough for a doctor to remember for a lifetime.
After sighing once more, Chen Mu said, "Let me tell you about a case I saw with my own eyes. Do you believe that, with today’s medical conditions, someone could die from appendicitis?"
Su Bingbing shook her head, feeling that Chen Mu was being alarmist, "I don’t believe it!"
Given today’s medical technology,
appendicitis surgery is long since not considered a major operation.
In fact, many hospitals.
have classified appendicitis surgery as outpatient surgery.
Patients in good condition can even be discharged the same day after surgery or within one or two days.
The mortality rate for appendicitis is extremely low.
Unless complications arise, or there are special conditions like drug allergies, the patient generally won’t be in danger.
Seeing Su Bingbing’s confident demeanor, Chen Mu just smiled, "In normal circumstances, it indeed wouldn’t be fatal. But what if in the case of an appendix rupture, the patient still refused treatment and only asked the doctor for painkillers?"
Su Bingbing continued to doubt, "But if it’s reached a perforated state, the hospital surely wouldn’t prescribe oral painkillers. Surgery would be necessary."
She didn’t have medical knowledge,
but she had enough common sense for that.
Chen Mu nodded, "The hospital indeed wouldn’t prescribe oral painkillers. They’d strongly recommend the patient stay for surgery, but the patient’s family disagreed, and the patient also showed resistance to treatment."
"The hospital did everything to dissuade them, but the patient’s family called the police, accusing the hospital of restricting their freedom."
"There was no other option, so the hospital had to let them go."
Su Bingbing was dumbfounded, "But in such a case, the hospital couldn’t prescribe them painkillers, right? Wouldn’t going home mean more discomfort?"
For any busy profession,
they’re likely to encounter colleagues with acute appendicitis.
According to a friend of Su Bingbing who had their appendix removed,
appendicitis, to some extent, is just like a toothache.
Most of the time it’s not too painful.
But when it does hurt, it’s excruciating.
Can someone really endure that?
Chen Mu shrugged, "In the beginning, the patient was willing to have surgery, but after hearing about the medical expenses—which added up to five or six thousand yuan for various tests plus the surgery itself—and the fact that the patient never paid into health insurance or the new rural cooperative medical system, requiring full self-payment, they gave up on treatment."
"They went to a roadside pharmacy and bought ibuprofen and those two-yuan OTC painkillers."