Chapter 750: Chapter 305: Turning Point, Beware of Children’s Minor Injuries
People say that women are the most meticulous creatures in the world, and the ancients certainly did not deceive me.
Zhou Can deeply offended her, and now, attempting to mend their relationship with an apology would likely not be an easy feat.
With the news playing on the large advertising screen, some family members and patients recognized Zhou Can.
“Look quick, isn’t that young doctor the Dr. Zhou who was just reported on the news?”
“He seems quite free right now! Honey, let’s quickly register our daughter to see Dr. Zhou!”
A well-dressed young couple, after watching the news, directly left Du Leng’s waiting queue.
Then they rushed to the registration window to get a number for Zhou Can’s clinic.
After all, registering for a specialist’s appointment was free, so changing the appointment didn’t affect them at all.
“Without surgery or hospitalization, they effortlessly healed the child’s broken arm; is it really true?” An elderly person treating his grandson looked up at the large advertising screen, hesitating in his heart.
After a battle within himself that lasted more than a dozen seconds, he decisively carried his grandson to the window and registered for Zhou Can’s clinic.
Zhou Can had originally been of no interest to anyone, but with the halo of the news report, the situation immediately changed.
Patients had begun to take the initiative to register with him and seek out his medical advice.
Looking back, the reason hardly anyone had registered to see him before was mainly because he didn’t have a clear medical specialty.
His personal profile only stated he was skilled in treating emergency and miscellaneous diseases.
This description was very vague and lacked a clear and distinct recognition for patients and their families seeking treatment. Given a better choice, families would certainly consider registering for other specialists first.
For example, if a pregnant woman caught a cold and experienced severe abdominal pain, her condition could be classified as both an emergency and an obstetric disease.
Then she goes to Xinxiang Women and Children’s Hospital and sees among the sitting specialists that Director Zhang Bihua’s profile states she is skilled in treating gynecology and obstetrics diseases.
The patient would immediately think about the baby in her belly, definitely classifying it as an obstetric disease.
She would subconsciously ignore the fact that it is an emergency.
Moreover, at nearly sixty years old, Director Zhang seems to be an old expert with rich experience. Then looking at Zhou Can, a young and impulsive lad, one would definitely think he’s a rookie doctor, not even worth considering.
So she would immediately and decisively register for Director Zhang’s clinic, even if it meant waiting in a long queue.
Encountering cold reception during clinic hours forced Zhou Can to ponder these issues.
He was still in the residency training phase, and in more than a year, he would finish his training and become an official Resident Doctor. At that point, he would need to face the challenge of conducting clinics independently.
Setting one or two specialties would help him create a personal brand.
“Hello, Dr. Zhou, could you please take a look at my daughter for me?”
“Please take a seat! What’s wrong with her?”
Zhou Can, seeing that a patient had finally arrived, quickly perked up with full attention.
“My daughter has been feeling under the weather since last week, and then she started having fevers and constant chills. She would complain about leg pain one moment and then arm pain the next.” The family member roughly described the girl’s symptoms.
Looking at the little girl, she seemed to be about two years old, indifferent in her gaze, with flushed cheeks, breathing that was both heavy and rapid, seeming quite unwell overall.
Pediatrics is known as the “mute specialty.”
This is because most children remain quiet when they are sick, unable to articulate their symptoms or the course of their illness.
It essentially requires the doctor to guess.
This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of the doctor’s diagnosis.
“The illness started last week, and it’s been several days now, why didn’t you promptly bring her to the hospital for treatment?”
Judging by the couple’s financial condition, they didn’t seem to be lacking.
Having let the child become this ill before seeking medical attention, they were being quite irresponsible.
“We initially thought it was just a common cold. We read in a parenting guidebook that if a child catches a common cold, you shouldn’t rush to give them injections or infusions, as this can lead to drug dependency and also deprive the child of an opportunity to boost their immunity. She had a cold before, and we just gave her some brown sugar ginger juice, had her drink plenty of warm water, and made sure she kept warm and rested well, which she recovered from pretty quickly.”
“We didn’t expect it to be so severe this time. Plus, her condition progressed very fast; two days ago, it was just a slight fever, but by midnight she started to feel cold, clenched her teeth, and began to shake. We immediately took her to the community health clinic to see a doctor. After examining her, the doctor also said it was a cold and prescribed a box of children’s cold medicine.”
“We gave her the medicine, but after a day, she still didn’t get any better. So we rushed her to a big hospital for treatment. We happened to see on TV that Xinxiang Women and Children’s Hospital was holding a free clinic with specialists, so we came over here.”
After listening to the family’s description, Zhou Can didn’t say anything further.
He began to carry out some necessary examinations for the child.
Ji You was assisting by measuring the child’s temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and other vital signs.
Zhou Can noticed the little girl’s hands and feet were cold to the touch, her face slightly cyanotic, indicating that she had a serious acute illness, certainly not just a common cold.
“What medicine did you give to the child?”
“Here, we brought it with us, it’s these pediatric Chai-Ge antipyretic granules.”
The medicine is a type of Chinese patent medicine with relatively few side effects.
The community health clinic doctor probably wanted to try to bring down the fever for the patient first.
Indeed, the level of a hospital generally determines the level of its doctors. Much like hardworking and talented students get to attend prestigious universities for higher education, students who do not put in effort or lack talent may fail in critical exams and end up diverted to vocational schools, community colleges, or even unaccredited institutions.