yready Chapter 468 - 223: One Breached, I Came to Broaden My Horizons
Chapter 468 - 223: One Breached, I Came to Broaden My Horizons
The taxi driver wisely shut his mouth.
The car sped down the street and soon arrived at the Second Hospital.
After paying eight yuan, Li Jingsheng got out of the car.
The two smoky-eyed girls also felt a bit relieved, seeing Li Jingsheng get off at the entrance of the Second Hospital; they somewhat believed in his identity.
However, there would be no interaction between the two sides.
Living in a big city, you encounter too many people each day.
Li Jingsheng quickly headed into the hospital.
At night, the outpatient area was blacked out, many glass doors were already locked.
But there was still access.
He went in, took the elevator directly to the fourth floor, and started navigating like a maze, quickly shuttling through the corridors.
For patients and family members visiting the Second Hospital for the first time, finding the outpatient clinic needed is often not easy. It’s easy to get lost inside.
Even though there are direction signs everywhere on the walls.
At the inpatient building where the orthopedic department is located, he directly took the elevator to the sixth floor.
"Dr. Li, what brings you here tonight? Our department doesn’t have any emergency cases!"
The night shift nurses were surprised to see him.
"I won’t be working tomorrow, I heard from Dr. Qin that the patient in bed 53 had a fever tonight, so I came to take a look. You all aren’t busy tonight, are you?"
"Not really! For now, it’s manageable, but don’t jinx it or else we might get busy, we’ll definitely blame you then."
"Haha, doctors are atheists, do you all really believe in that?"
Li Jingsheng thought these nurses were quite adorable sometimes.
Of course, they could be fierce when they lost their temper.
They wouldn’t scold Li Jingsheng; anyone with a bit of insight would know he was the rising star in orthopedics now.
Offending him wouldn’t bode well for them.
After chatting with the nurses for a while, he borrowed a thermometer and headed straight to bed 53.
"I heard the fever was back?"
Li Jingsheng asked the family members.
The patient lay in bed, groggy, with a poor state of mind.
Probably hadn’t eaten much and looked even more sickly due to the mental slump.
"It’s you! Almost didn’t recognize you!"
The family member stared at Li Jingsheng for a few moments before realizing he was the young doctor from noon.
Li Jingsheng had already taken the patient’s forehead temperature.
37.5 degrees, a low fever.
"I was off work, but heard your son had a fever, so came especially to check, didn’t wear my uniform."
Li Jingsheng explained with a smile.
"It’s indeed a fever. How long has this been going on?"
"I wasn’t paying attention before, it might have started in the recent days!" The family member wasn’t too sure.
The patient had undergone surgery three months prior; if there was postoperative low fever, it would have been detected.
Because post-surgery, there’s a focus on monitoring.
Some require temperature and blood pressure checks every half hour, observing drainage volume.
If abnormalities arise, they need to be reported to the doctor immediately.
Postoperative hemorrhage, thrombosis, various complications are very dangerous.
"Let me examine you again!"
He greeted the patient and tried to palpate the bone again.
Perhaps due to the fever, the patient’s back was sweaty, felt a bit sticky to touch.
The texture felt wooden, hard to describe, like touching a frosted surface, yet different.
Concentrated on the injured vertebra, extending to both ends.
"The patient’s condition seems to be progressing!"
Upon careful examination, Li Jingsheng found the diseased bone area slightly expanded since noon. Though small, it was significant at the fifth vertebra, memorable to him.
If it wasn’t a sterile inflammation, the scans showed no issues, yet the vertebral disease continued.
What could the cause be?
This wooden texture hadn’t been encountered before, no frame of reference.
It’s said, experience is quite crucial for doctors.
Some cases require accumulation, broad exposure to develop insight.
After thoroughly examining the patient, no other abnormalities were found.
The diagnosis couldn’t be made, nothing he could do.
Not just him, even the heads of orthopedics had stepped in, but the patient’s etiology remained extremely elusive, impossible to pinpoint.
He went to the nurse’s station to return the thermometer.
A family member chased after him, "I told you yesterday my son had a fever at night, you didn’t even measure it, just said nothing’s wrong. Now what? This doctor verified my son has a fever. I’m definitely filing a complaint tomorrow."
This woman seemed either poorly educated or hadn’t faced enough adversity in society.
Grabbing onto minor issues and picking fights, making enemies with nurses.
Really worried for her son.
Infusions, changing dressings were all nurse duties, they wouldn’t act rashly.
But there might be unequal treatment, issues raised by family and patients may be ignored; it’s quite common.
As for complaints, when a family member repeatedly files against various patients and doctors, as if the medical office was clueless?
They’d likely deem the woman neurotic.
Usually, it results in bureaucratic responses, no substantial action.
The hospital isn’t any one person’s, but a collective of the healthcare staff, administration, and maintenance.
"Measured yesterday, there were no issues, so there were truly none. If you like complaining, there’s nothing we can do."
The nurse’s face was cold.
The two younger nurses were even more irate, expressing their displeasure.