Chapter 263 Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Li Quan took a look at the work ID card hanging on the other party's head.
"Zou Quanliu, chief pharmacist!"
It turns out that this person is a pharmacist at the supervisor level. This is equivalent to the chief physician among doctors. This is already an intermediate professional title.
This level of status in a pharmacy is neither too high nor too low.
If the pharmacists at the director or deputy director level are not present, they can also come occasionally. When the tiger is away, the monkeys are king.
The people who are usually responsible for getting and dispensing medicines in the pharmacy are junior pharmacists. Some important positions may be assigned a junior pharmacist who is at a higher level than the junior pharmacist.
And it doesn’t require many people.
In terms of shifts, even during the busiest day shift, a Western pharmacy can handle it with eight or nine pharmacists. The business volume of a Chinese pharmacy is much smaller, so usually only three or four pharmacists are assigned to work the day shift.
There is no way, hospitals also have to consider labor costs.
Li Quan was looking for a Chinese medicine store. Western medicine does not require processing.
"Pharmacist Zou, I'll leave first. See you later!" Li Quan was very grateful to the pharmacist named Zou Quanliu.
"Doctor Li, don't forget to come and get the lunch box in half an hour!" The middle-aged pharmacist waved his hand, with a smile even brighter than Li Quan's.
The reason was simple: he seized this small opportunity, helped Li Quan do a trivial thing, and thus curryed favor with Li Quan.
This made Pharmacist Zou feel like he had gotten a great bargain.
In fact, this is true.
Normally, pharmacists and doctors don't even say hello when they meet.
I'm not really trying to disparage pharmacists, I'm just speaking based on the actual situation.
After the doctor writes the prescription, does the pharmacist dare to find fault?
I would never dare to find fault with a doctor unless I found an obvious mistake.
Although pharmacists are responsible for recommending the most suitable and economical medicines to patients, that is only a theoretical responsibility.
Have you ever seen a big hospital where a pharmacist gets to prescribe medicine for a patient? It's all up to the doctors.
This also means that if pharmacists want to increase their gray income, such as recommending a drug that has kickbacks, they cannot do it on their own and must seek cooperation from doctors.
Given the supply and demand relationship, it is conceivable that pharmacists are inferior to doctors.
In addition, doctors also have a certain say in the evaluation of pharmacists in hospitals.
Another point is that many doctors have opportunities for promotion when they have reached a certain length of service.
The dean and vice dean are basically selected and promoted from among the outstanding doctors. They are all senior executives of the hospital.
Let’s look at pharmacists. The best they can do is become a chief pharmacist.
Basically, when you reach this level, you are ready to retire. It is best to retire honestly and wait for your retirement.
This means that it is difficult for anyone from the pharmacy department to be promoted to senior positions in the hospital.
The end result is that no one speaks for the pharmacy during meetings.
In the fight for some profit distribution, other departments got the big share, while the pharmacy could only stare and swallow dryly.
If there are any orders coming down from above, the pharmacy has no choice but to execute them.
Zou Quanliu is just a chief pharmacist. Judging from his age, he is not young, probably in his forties.
This is an awkward age that is close to the end of life.
Anyone with a little bit of ability and talent would have been promoted to deputy chief pharmacist long ago.
Pharmacist Zou Quanliu should be considered a mediocre person. After all, to be promoted to deputy chief pharmacist, one needs to publish papers in core journals, and there are also strict requirements for length of service.
It is not easy to publish a paper in a core journal.
This is also the main reason that prevents most supervisor pharmacists from getting promoted.
He had no hope of being promoted to deputy chief pharmacist, but was unwilling to stay in the position of chief pharmacist. If he wanted to move up further, he could only seek an administrative position.
If he establishes a good relationship with Li Quan, a potential stock, and needs help in the future, he can come to Li Quan and he will definitely help him.
It can be considered an early emotional investment.
Li Quan didn't care what Pharmacist Zou Quanliu was thinking.
For him, as long as he could process the placenta in the shortest possible time, it would be fine. The fact that he could be used by others showed that Li Quan was valuable.
This is also a good thing.
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Half an hour later, Li Quan came to the pharmacy again.
After knocking on the door, Pharmacist Zou Quanliu came out with the plastic bag in hand.
"Doctor Li, thank you for the food you gave me. It's delicious. I've washed the food box and am returning it to you now."
Pharmacist Zou Quanliu returned the bag to Li Quan.
Holding it in the hand, it feels light.
Compared to how heavy it was when it arrived , people who didn’t know the situation would actually think that all the food inside had been eaten.
Li Quan smiled slightly, he knew that the placenta inside had been processed and ground into powder. The moisture in the placenta was dried, so it naturally became many times lighter.
"Thanks!"
Li Quan said gratefully.
"Haha, Doctor Li, you're too polite. Take care!" Zou Quanliu didn't even make any requests, not even asking for Li Quan's phone number.
This made Li Quan like him even more.
Now that the last medicine was in hand, Li Quan did not hesitate any longer and rushed back to his girlfriend's ward to prepare to perform acupuncture treatment on Sophie.
Because acupuncture is performed on the torso, you may only be able to wear very little clothing.
Considering Sophie's privacy, Li Quan specially borrowed a temporary physiotherapy .
It's empty most of the time anyway.
Director Qin was very supportive of Li Quan and agreed without hesitation.
In the therapy room, Sophie shyly took off her coat, wearing only her underwear, and lay on the therapy bed as Li Quan requested. Sophie's mother watched nervously from the side.
Li Quan was seen twisting a silver needle and slowly fumigating the burning medicine.
When it was almost done, he pierced the Xinshu point on Sophie's back.
puff!
It was so accurate and fierce that only a small part of the needle handle was left outside.
Acupuncture at the master level is simply extraordinary.
Even using a five-inch long needle, he can do it with ease.
The back of a person is an area with many important acupuncture points, many of which can be fatal.
After the first injection, I thought he was going to start the second injection. But it turned out not to be the case. He held the burning medicine box, twisted the silver needle inserted into the Xinshu acupoint, and fumigated the acupoint.
Acupuncture actually consists of two parts.
It is divided into acupuncture and moxibustion.
In the past, when Li Quan treated patients, including brainstem hemorrhage, he only used acupuncture.
The so-called acupuncture is to use silver needles to prick acupoints to stimulate the potential of the human body, or to stimulate the meridians, internal organs, etc.
Moxibustion is a method of burning special medicine to smoke the acupuncture sites.
Let the medicinal properties penetrate.
This is a slow, gradual process.
Many people who have had acupuncture know that it often takes a very long time.
And multiple treatments are required.
When the skin around the Xinshu point on Sophie's back changed from bright red to dark red and finally to purple, Li Quan stopped fumigating and twisting the silver needles.
Keep the silver needle in the original position of the acupuncture point.
He took out the second silver needle calmly and used the same method to insert it into the lung point on Sophie's back.
The heart and lungs are the two most important power organs in the human body.
One is the blood center, and the other is the place for blood oxygen exchange.
