Chapter 607: The Fame Grows, the Patient Vomiting Blood
"Have a good rest. I think after taking two more doses of medicine, you will be able to recover completely to normal." Li Quan's face was full of smiles, and when he looked at Sophie, his eyes were full of deep affection.
Walking along with Sophie, we have experienced many ups and downs and passed one test after another.
It's really not easy.
Li Quan walked out of the ward and Sophie's mother immediately came forward to inquire about the situation.
"Xiao Li, how is my daughter?" She had been outside for more than an hour without sitting down, but walked anxiously back and forth in the corridor outside the ward.
"After taking the medicine, her condition has improved significantly. She was able to recognize me just now. I think she will be back to normal soon." Li Quan said with a smile.
"Good! That's great! Xiao Li, thank you for your hard work." Sophie's mother was also very happy to hear that her daughter's condition had improved significantly.
"It's not hard! I'm very happy to see Sophie's condition getting better. Auntie, you stay with Sophie here. I still have some hospital affairs to take care of, so I'm going to work first."
Li Quan said hello and hurried to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics Department.
After being away for more than half a month, there has been a backlog of difficult orthopedic patients. At present, no apprentice is capable of treating those patients, and they must wait for Master Li Quan to treat them personally.
Although Li Quan has now developed the Black Jade Fracture Ointment which can be regarded as an alien medicine, it can quickly promote the healing of broken bones.
Many serious fractures that would have cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses can be cured with just one or two bottles of Black Jade Ointment.
But there are still many situations that must be treated by a doctor.
For example, if you have a minor fracture or bone crack, you usually need to put a splint or plaster board on it and then apply medicine.
If you are not a professional orthopedic surgeon, you definitely can't handle it.
Ordinary fractures and bone cracks like this are just the simplest cases, and Tang Zhengyuan, Luo Wenhao and others can treat them.
There are some extremely difficult special cases, such as open rib fractures and dislocations, which are not something that ordinary orthopedic surgeons can handle.
Conventional treatment requires opening the chest to align and fix the broken ribs.
Thoracotomy, craniotomy, and laparotomy are all major surgeries.
The cost is high and the risk is great.
Patients travel thousands of miles to find Huier Hospital just to spend the least money, reduce surgical risks, and cure their diseases.
Li Quan quickly came to the orthopedics department to deal with those difficult orthopedic patients who had been waiting for treatment for many days, not to mention.
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In the inpatient ward, Li Quan first classified and evaluated all the patients to be treated.
Patients with bone injuries who have open fractures are given priority treatment.
Because after a human bone is broken, there will be a self-repair period.
In theory, the sooner a bone injury patient can align the broken bones, the better it will be for the patient's recovery.
If more than a month passes, bone growth at the broken ends is basically complete, and it will become very difficult to align and connect them.
Just imagine, when the bone is broken, the total length is twenty-four centimeters.
After a month of growth, if the two ends grow by even 0.2 cm, they will no longer be able to align.
Fortunately, Li Quan’s current bone therapy skills have reached the master level.
In such cases, he has special medications that can be used together with surgical repair and correction to treat the condition.
"President Li, I'm relieved now that you're back! I accidentally fell half a month ago. After examination, I found that my femoral head was comminuted and fractured. The doctor recommended that I undergo hip replacement surgery. I heard that you have cured patients with bone injuries similar to mine. Please take the trouble to help me."
A female patient in her forties pleaded with Li Quan with tears in her eyes.
She is still so young, and if she doesn't have a hip replacement, she may never be able to stand up again.
"Sister, don't worry. I'll take a look at your X-rays and try to develop the most cost-effective and safest treatment plan based on your actual situation. Then I'll minimize the impact on your hip joint movement function after treatment and recovery, and try not to affect your work and life after recovery."
Li Quan discovered that this older sister was only accompanied by a little boy of about eleven or twelve years old.
"Son, please show the X-rays I took to the doctor." The woman said to the little boy.
"Uncle, please help my mother take a look!" The little boy was quite polite and handed the bag of X-ray films to Li Quan with both hands.
"What a sensible child! Why doesn't your father come to accompany you?" Li Quan praised the little boy with a smile.
Judging from his age, he should be studying.
"I don't have a father." The little boy lowered his head in inferiority.
"I'm sorry, I'm a single mother. Now my son is the only one left to depend on me. I have no brothers or sisters, my parents have passed away, and my family is not well off financially. I have no choice but to let my son come to take care of me."
The woman explained with some guilt.
"You are a strong mother. Once I have determined the treatment plan, I will arrange surgery for you as soon as possible." Li Quan held the X-ray film under the light and saw that the woman's femoral head was broken in many places and the situation was extremely serious.
But he was confident that he could cure her.
"I have a rough idea of the extent of your broken bones. Surgery is required, but the entire hip joint does not need to be replaced. I will stitch your broken bones together through surgery, and then use drugs to promote the rapid healing of the broken bones and cracks. During this period, you may not be able to turn over , so you must be mentally prepared. The cost of treatment is estimated to be no more than 10,000 yuan.
Have you bought medical insurance?
Li Quan took into consideration that the woman was a single mother and had financial difficulties, so he tried his best to consider her.
“I bought it!”
The woman nodded repeatedly.
"Well, after reimbursement, your actual personal expenses should be lower."
Li Quan estimated that after medical insurance reimbursement, the woman's treatment would cost no more than 4,000 yuan.
If I hadn't sought his treatment, and had my hip replaced in another large hospital, a few hundred thousand would have been the least expensive.
"Cough cough cough... Ugh!"
At this time, a coughing sound was heard, accompanied by the sound of vomiting.
"He's vomiting blood, vomiting blood again, doctor, help, please save my son..."
An anxious cry for help was heard with a crying tone.
Li Quan heard it clearly, it seemed to be a cry for help coming from the ward next door.
"Let's go and check out the situation." Li Quan immediately hurried to the next ward.
As soon as I reached the door, I saw a boy of only thirteen or fourteen years old, supported by his parents, lying on the edge of the bed, coughing and vomiting blood.
It looks very scary.
Vomiting blood usually means internal bleeding.
For example, lung bleeding, esophageal bleeding, gastric bleeding, etc.
"Director, this patient was admitted to the hospital four days ago. His thoracic spine was injured before, and he has been feeling very painful recently. After examination at another large hospital, it was found that he had thoracic vertebrae hyperplasia and bone spurs. The family heard that our Huier Hospital has excellent orthopedic medical skills, so they brought their son here for treatment."
Chen Xia, who was following nearby, introduced the patient's condition in a low voice.
"Did you vomit blood when you were admitted to the hospital?" Li Quan asked.
"There is coughing, and there is blood in the sputum, but I haven't seen the patient vomit blood." Chen Xia shook her head repeatedly.
Li Quan nodded and walked quickly to the bedside.
"I guess the bone spurs growing in your child's body have pierced his lungs or damaged his blood vessels. You can't let him lean forward like this anymore, and he shouldn't lie prone." Li Quan quickly stepped forward and straightened the child's body.
There are bone spurs on the thoracic spine. Lying down like this will only make the bone spurs go deeper.
"Doctor, my son is vomiting blood, please help me take a look!" the boy's father said anxiously.
"Let me see the X-ray first." Li Quan squatted down and calmly put his hand on the child's wrist.
"What are you doing? Are you checking my son's pulse? He's already vomiting blood, hurry up and save him! If anything happens to my son, I'll make you pay with your lives."
I don’t know whether the boy’s father was anxious or had low quality.
After discovering that Li Quan was taking his son's pulse, he pushed Li Quan away roughly.
"Sir, we doctors are human, not gods. Your son is sick, and we will definitely try our best to treat him. But if you want us to pay with our lives if we can't cure him, then I can only tell you that no doctor in the world is willing to treat such a patient."
Li Quan has encountered quite a few arrogant patients or their families.
But this is the first time I have seen a family member asking the doctor to pay for his life before the treatment has even started.
"You, what's your attitude? I'm going to complain to you!"
The man was so angry that his neck became thick and his eyes were glaring.
"Sir, I think you should try to find a way to get your son treated quickly instead of making a scene in the hospital. Otherwise, if something happens to your son, you will regret it for the rest of your life."
Li Quan is the director of this hospital. Would he be afraid of patients complaining?
When he was still an intern, he was often complained by patients, but I never saw him being naughty.
“You, you …”
The man was so angry at Li Quan that he was speechless.
He wanted to hit someone, but when he saw the aura Li Quan exuded and the seven or eight medical staff following behind him, the man knew that he would not get away with it.
So I didn't dare to do anything.
Fortunately, he did not take action, otherwise Li Quan would have knocked him to the ground with one hand.
"Does your son need treatment? In other words, if you don't trust our hospital, I can immediately assist you with the transfer procedures. Yuanyang Hospital and Provincial People's Hospital are both large hospitals, and they may have better treatment methods."
Li Quan said lightly.
"Doctor, doctor, please don't be angry. My man is just like that. Since we sent our son to Huier Hospital for treatment, we must trust you. This is the X-ray of my son, please take a look."
The older boy's mother saw that the situation had become tense, and the doctor at the hospital showed no fear at all.
She quickly stepped out to smooth things over.
Otherwise, they might really have to transfer to another hospital.
"This bone hyperplasia is very serious! There are many bone spurs, and they are long."
Li Quan has treated quite a few orthopedic patients, but this is the first time he has seen a patient with such severe bone hyperplasia.
For ordinary patients, the lumbar spine and knee joints are the two areas most prone to bone hyperplasia and bone spurs.
Even if the bone spur is only a few millimeters, it may cause great pain to the patient and limit the function of the joint.
"Doctor, how do you think we should treat him now?" asked the older boy's mother.
"Since you won't let me take his pulse, let's do a chest X-ray first to see where the bone spur is injured, how many bleeding points there are, and whether it is serious." Li Quan was too lazy to waste words when he encountered such an uncultured family member.
I will never be a good person with excessive kindness.
Originally, he took the boy's pulse for free.
The examination effect is better than enhanced CT.
Given the boy’s father’s attitude, let them pay for the CT scan.
Otherwise, if something really happens, Li Quan will not be able to handle it well and may even be involved in a lawsuit.
Just follow normal medical procedures.
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More than twenty minutes later, the big boy completed the CT scan.
The bone spur injured my lung, but it wasn't particularly serious.
But if those bone spurs are not treated, they will continue to grow and endanger the boy's life.
The human lung is divided into two parts: the left lung and the right lung.
When there is a problem with one of our lungs, we will feel stuffy, but the breathing function is still there.
The boy's bone spur injured his left lung.
If you don't get immediate treatment, the lung wound will become inflamed, and fluid will accumulate in the lungs, and the left lung diaphragm may even be completely submerged.
"Doctor, how should my son be treated?" The boy's father spoke in a much better tone this time.
He no longer shouted that if he couldn't cure his son, he would have to pay twice as much with his life.
"What caused your son to be injured before? Did he have thoracic spine surgery?"
Li Quan did not answer but asked instead.
Before giving a treatment plan, you must understand the situation clearly.
When you go to see a doctor, many doctors will ask about your medical history in detail .
This is not the doctor being nagging, but ensuring the safety of the patient.
For example, when myocardial infarction patients undergo bypass surgery, many of them have already undergone one or even two bypass surgeries. It is very likely that they are no longer suitable for bypass surgery.
Some patients encountered poor medical skills as doctors during their first treatment, and their disease relapsed after treatment.
Or some diseases are prone to complications, and other symptoms may appear after treatment.
Doctors have to take all these things into consideration.
"Three years ago, my son fell from a tree and fractured his thoracic vertebrae. He underwent a major thoracotomy and was discharged from the hospital after treatment. He has been fine since then, but a few days ago he suddenly complained of chest pain. We heard that the medical skills of Huier Hospital are good, so we rushed here for treatment."
The man quickly explained the situation.
As he spoke, the man's eyes flickered and he didn't dare to look Li Quan in the eye.
"Was the injury three years ago? It's not been that long. Logically, it's impossible for such a long bone spur to grow! Are you sure the child only became ill in the last few days?" Li Quan has rich medical experience.
I immediately realized that there was something wrong with what the man said.
"Well... yes, the disease only broke out in the past few days." The man insisted.
"Under normal circumstances, each segment of our thoracic vertebrae is round, smooth, and tightly occluded. A bone spur that is more than a centimeter long, even if it is only a few tenths of a millimeter, is enough to cause obvious discomfort and pain. If you don't tell the doctor the truth, then I can only regretfully tell you that we can't treat this child's disease here."
Li Quan despises this kind of people the most.
