Chapter 509: The price of worshipping foreigners is a bit high, sitting in the ophthalmology department
With Director Yang's status and connections, it is not difficult for him to find famous doctors and experts.
Director Yang asked Li Quan to treat his daughter's disease, which so many experts and professors could not cure.
What does this mean?
Doesn’t this mean that Li Quan’s medical skills are better than those of experts and professors?
If I could receive personal guidance from President Li, my medical skills would definitely become more advanced in the future.
They couldn't help but desire even more to become Li Quan's apprentice one day.
Li Quan told them that as long as they performed well, he would personally teach them medical skills after the one-year internship.
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In the corridor outside the outpatient clinic, there are still nearly thirty orthopedic patients waiting in line for treatment.
Li Quan immediately spotted Yang Caixuan, who was wearing purple sports casual trousers and a white lace long-sleeved shirt. Compared to her heroic appearance more than two months ago, she now looked particularly haggard and weak.
He even needed someone to support him.
The person supporting her was a lady in her forties, who was well dressed and had a sharp look in her eyes.
It is probably because her husband is powerful and many people come to her house to give gifts and establish relationships with him. Over time, she has become a so-called "powerful woman".
"Hello! I guess this is Director Yang's wife?" Li Quan greeted with a smile.
"Hello, Director Li! Thank you for your concern for our daughter's illness." Deputy Director Yang's wife was very polite to Li Quan.
She had been with Deputy Director Yang for a long time and had learned how to deal with people. She knew who she should respect and who she could put on airs in front of.
Li Quan's rank is the same as Deputy Director Yang's. Even if her daughter doesn't have to beg Li Quan to treat her illness, she doesn't dare to put on airs.
"Don't worry, Director Yang and I are friends, and he is my leader, I will definitely do my best." Li Quan promised. "There are too many people here, take her to the outpatient department over there, I will check her and then go through the admission procedures."
Li Quan brought Director Yang and his family of three to the outpatient department of the Hematology Department.
It's very quiet here.
However, in the past two days, a number of blood patients have come to Li Quan for treatment.
So far, Li Quan has cured four leukemia patients. After they return, they will definitely help promote Li Quan.
Then the press conference held last time was somewhat useful.
It has accumulated some popularity.
Now that they knew Li Quan had returned to Huier Hospital, those blood patients in need naturally came to seek treatment one after another.
"Ms. Yang, let me take your pulse first, and then do two necessary medical tests."
After Li Quan asked her to sit down, he took her pulse first.
There is obvious feeling of blood stasis in the extremities.
Then by palpation, you can find that the muscles at the ends of the patient's four limbs are stiff and slightly atrophied.
Even Miss Yang's ten fingers can no longer be straightened like a normal person.
ALS is a very scary disease.
It is not as fatal as cancer, but it can make patients and their families, including doctors, watch helplessly as the patient becomes paralyzed little by little, eventually living a life worse than death and becoming a living dead who cannot take care of himself.
The strong young man eventually turned into a deformed dwarf, and the beautiful woman became neither human nor ghost.
However, this disease is usually more common in people between the ages of 30 and 60, and it is more common in women.
ALS is not actually a professional medical name.
Doctors call this disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or motor neuron disease.
It is caused by damage to upper and lower motor neurons, leading to gradual weakness and atrophy of muscles including the bulbus, limbs, trunk, chest and abdomen.
What is the bulbus? It refers to the part of the muscle innervated by the medulla oblongata.
Generally speaking, the early stages of this disease are characterized by weakness and gradual atrophy of the extremity muscles.
Currently, there is no cure for this disease in any country in the world, including the most developed Western countries and the United States, and the prognosis of this disease is extremely poor.
"Ms. Yang's condition is rapidly developing and worsening. I estimate that if no effective treatment or medicine is found, she will soon be confined to a wheelchair or even unable to move. She can only eat liquid food. Now only the muscles at the ends of her limbs are beginning to atrophy and become stiff. After a period of time, the muscles in her trunk, chest, abdomen and other parts will also atrophy severely.
Logically speaking, Miss Yang's condition should not have progressed so quickly.
Director Yang, did you use large doses of Western medicine or some highly stimulating drugs to treat it?"
Li Quan had diagnosed Miss Yang last time, but the symptoms had not yet become apparent.
This disease develops slowly.
Li Quan felt particularly worried when he took her pulse just now.
"We asked someone to buy some imported drugs for this disease. The dosage was taken strictly according to the instructions! What can we do? It has harmed our daughter... I was wondering how a healthy person could become like this in less than two months... Dean Li, you must think of a way to save my daughter!"
Deputy Director Yang is also a person of high intelligence.
After Li Quan's reminder, he immediately realized that he had acted too hastily and overestimated the level of foreign medical technology, which ended up harming his daughter.
Director Yang’s wife was also panicked and cried anxiously.
"Director Yang, I suggest that during your daughter's hospitalization, all medications should be managed and used by our Huier Hospital. Your daughter can no longer take the imported drugs you bought.
Otherwise, the damage to her will be irreversible."
Li Quan said very seriously.
Director Yang is very artistic in his words and deeds. Sometimes he says one thing and does another behind the scenes.
Li Quan must warn him not to be so worshipful of foreign things again.
In fact, Director Yang has already suffered a loss once, but for some reason he just doesn’t learn his lesson.
I always feel that foreigners’ medicines are so amazing.
This time, a heavy price was paid again.
A lot of money was spent, but my daughter's illness did not get better. Instead, it accelerated the progression of the disease.
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you." Deputy Director Yang nodded repeatedly.
Yang Caixuan kept crying and was full of fear about the future.
Li Quan opened an examination application for Yang Caixuan and asked her to go for a medical examination first.
Because she had already undergone many examinations, Li Quan only applied for two auxiliary examinations for her this time: MRI and electromyography.
Magnetic resonance imaging is a painless, noninvasive test that provides very detailed images of the spinal cord and the bone and connective tissue that surrounds and protects it.
It can help Li Quan better understand the patient's important neurological conditions.
Many people may not have heard of electromyography.
It is one of the important tests for diagnosing ALS .
This test may be uncomfortable for the patient, but it must be done.
The first part uses small electrodes to send stimulation to a specific part of the nerve being tested, and receive the signal at another part. The conduction velocity is measured based on the time required to determine whether there is nerve damage.
The second part tests the electrical activity of selected muscles. Very fine needles are inserted into the selected muscles and used to "listen" to the electrical activity patterns of these muscles.
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About an hour later, Director Yang's daughter came back after the examination.
Li Quan looked at the results and found that they were worse than he had imagined.
Many Western medicines contain hormones, which actually have very serious negative effects on the users.
"Director Yang, your daughter's condition is not optimistic! I will first go through the admission procedures for her and vacate a separate inpatient ward for her. Then I will organize relevant experts and doctors in the hospital to consult together and work together to come up with a practical treatment plan as soon as possible."
Li Quan has paved the way for Dr. Wen.
There is only one thing to do now, which is to improve your meridian-opening skills in the shortest possible time.
Raise this medical skill to the level of minor success.
Once you are able to cure Yang Caixuan, you can find an opportunity to ask Dr. Wen to give the most correct diagnosis and treatment plan during the consultation.
Then Li Quan boldly used her to "treat" Yang Caixuan.
The matter was settled.
That’s all Li Quan could do to help her.
It is estimated that she will most likely leave Huier Hospital and work in the Health Bureau.
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After making arrangements for Director Yang's daughter, Li Quan began to prepare for improving his meridian skills.
This is actually simple.
Just go directly to the optic nerve clinic of the ophthalmology department for a consultation.
It’s a good time to go and support Doctor Xin Le.
Although the optic nerve clinic has reopened in the past two days, there are very few patients seeking treatment.
Li Quan has been busy seeing patients in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics Department these days and hasn't had time to pay attention to that area.
Doctor Xin Le has not asked him for help yet.
He made his way to the optic neurology clinic.
"Dean, you are here!"
Doctor Xin Le quickly stood up to greet him, his expression and tone extremely respectful.
The respect he had for Li Quan from the bottom of his heart was written all over his face.
Li Quan helped him solve Luo Sanxiong's medical accident and saved his future, which made Dr. Xin Le grateful to him.
"I see that although you have been reopened for two or three days, the number of patients has been very small. It happens that I have some time these two days, so I plan to help increase the popularity of the ophthalmology department."
Li Quan spoke straight to the point.
"Are you going to come here and see the patient in person?"
Doctor Xinle is quite smart.
"Not bad!" Li Quan nodded. "By the way, aren't there any nurses here?"
Dr. Xin Le was the only one in the outpatient clinic.
Normally, there is a nurse in the outpatient department. There are many tasks that require the help of nurses.
"The number of patients in the optic neurology clinic is so small, how could the hospital assign a nurse to me? It's good enough that they don't transfer me to another place."
Doctor Xin Le smiled bitterly.
"Well, let's do this. When someone comes for treatment, please help me record the on-site diagnosis and treatment process." Li Quan could also understand the hospital's difficulties. Hiring one more nurse would mean additional expenses.
The optic neurology clinic sees too few patients and is actually operating at a loss.
Adding a nurse would only result in greater losses.
The hospital can still bear the loss of one or two small outpatient clinics.
If every small outpatient clinic is equipped like this, the hospital will probably collapse soon.
Therefore, which doctor is assigned a nurse as an assistant, or how many medical staff positions are allocated to a department, are all determined based on the business volume of the department.
After Li Quan started seeing patients here, there were still no patients.
When Professor Xia Ping was seeing patients here in the past, there were a lot of patients with optic nerve diseases.
Now, Professor Xia Ping has jumped to Golden Eagle Eye Hospital and has been advertising shamelessly, attracting most of the patients there.
In addition, He Zhen simply closed the optic nerve clinic for more than a month.
All these reasons combined have led to a decrease in the number of patients seeking ophthalmology and optic neurology treatment at Huier Hospital.
The two waited in the outpatient clinic for nearly an hour, and finally a patient came to seek treatment.
This is a little boy who is only six or seven years old. He is very cute, chubby, with a square head and big eyes.
It looks normal.
Not knowing the reason, why are you coming here to seek medical treatment?
"Excuse me, who is Doctor Xin?"
The boy's mother came with him. She looked to be about 27 or 28 years old and was very pretty. She had double eyelids and thin red lips. She wore only light makeup and was dressed very casually.
But it still can't hide her natural beauty.
"I am!"
When Dr. Xin Le saw that a patient had finally come to see him, he was greatly encouraged and gave his best to treat the mother and son.
"Doctor Xin, my son has some eye problems. He always says he can't see clearly. I have consulted an ophthalmologist and done some tests, but they said it can't be cured. They asked me to take my son to a big hospital for treatment. Can you please help my son and see if it can be cured?"
The fact that the woman was able to accurately make an appointment at this clinic shows that she already knew that her son's eye disease fell under the broad category of optic nerve disease.
"Okay, don't worry, I'll register your son's basic information and then do a checkup for him."
Dr. Xin Le quickly registered the little boy's basic information and then began a physical examination.
Li Quan, who was sitting next to him, had already started performing visual diagnosis on the little boy for the initial examination.
This little boy has double eyelids and big, shiny black eyes that many people envy.
But his eyes looked a little distracted.
I can't explain it, it's just that he has no focus. It's as if he is always thinking about something wildly, and I don't know where his eyes are looking.
"What is wrong with the little boy's eyes?"
Li Quan pondered secretly.
It would be nice if I could take the little boy's pulse.
But now this condition obviously does not exist.
When Dr. Xin Le was treating this patient, Li Quan took the initiative to step forward and take the little boy's pulse. Even if the boy's mother reluctantly agreed, she would still feel that Li Quan was meddling.
According to the registration information, the little boy’s name is Huang Hui and he just turned six this year.
Seeing that the child was about to enter primary school, the child's mother followed the advice of the kindergarten teacher and brought the child to seek medical treatment.
"May I ask your name?"
Doctor Xinle asked.
"No need to mention your surname is Huang." She and the little boy actually have the same surname.
Is this a coincidence, or is there something else going on?
However, it is no longer a new thing for a child to have the same surname as his or her mother as people are becoming more and more open-minded today.
They treat diseases, so naturally they won't pry into the patients' privacy.
"Ms. Huang, can you tell me about the child's basic condition? For example, when did he start to have blurred vision? Was it caused by an injury? And so on."
Dr. Xin Le began to learn more about the little boy's condition.
