My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Zhou Can originally did not intend to meddle.
Otherwise, people might think he was deliberately showing off.
However, when he saw the patient’s primary complaint and medical history stated that the abdominal pain had lasted for more than ten hours. The patient experienced the pain after working, not continuous pain, but in bouts.
After resting for a while, the stomachache stopped.
But after a while, it started to hurt again.
This type of situation is often a dangerous warning sign.
“I’ve had stomach pain before too, it always got better after going to the bathroom or resting for a bit. This time the pain is different, it’s intermittent, and it gets worse and worse. I couldn’t take it anymore, that’s why I came to see the doctor.”
When the patient explained, his wife remained silent at the bedside.
It was clear that the wife didn’t have much standing at home.
“Most ordinary people think the same way as you, afraid of spending money in the hospital! Is the stomach pain dull, or is it a sharp pain? Sharp pain feels like needles pricking inside.”
Zhou Can started a conversation with him along these lines.
“Seems like dull pain! Anyway, it hurts a lot, in bouts, like someone is viciously pulling the flesh inside.”
The patient answered truthfully.
“Take a shallow breath, and I’ll press on your stomach to see if the pain lessens.”
Zhou Can instructed the patient to breathe in.
But the patient seemed a bit distrustful of his medical skills because he looked young.
“This guy is a doctor at Tuya Hospital, it surely won’t go wrong if you do as he says.” Cheng Dazhuang chimed in to speak for his buddy.
Dr. Luo, however, remained silent.
He probably didn’t have much confidence in Zhou Can’s medical skills either.
“Honey, just listen to the doctor!” The family member urged the patient from the side.
Only then did he cooperate by breathing in, and Zhou Can pressed on his stomach.
“It hurts, the stomach still hurts a lot, not lessened at all! Young doctor, your method is useless, useless!” The patient, in severe pain, was much more irritable than usual.
After trying Zhou Can’s method with no effect, he was quite angry.
Dr. Luo Jian subtly smiled, likely thinking that Tuya’s doctors are just so-so.
“The appendix is fine, and we can basically rule out enteritis, there’s no obvious tumor in the abdominal cavity. I suggest a heart ECG or echocardiogram.” Zhou Can said in a very serious tone.
“Doctor, although I don’t understand much about medicine, what’s the connection between my stomachache and the heart? You can’t just make us ordinary people waste money.” The patient retorted, enduring the pain.
“Heart disease causing abdominal pain, I’ve never heard of it.”
Dr. Luo Jian disagreed with Zhou Can’s opinion.
Essentially, undermining Zhou Can.
He simply didn’t know how impressive this young resident in training was.
At Tuya Hospital, he is often invited by attending physicians to diagnose difficult cases and participate in various consultations.
Cheng Dazhuang felt that Zhou Can came at the right time, offering more learning and practical experience opportunities.
They should actually be grateful to encounter such an impressive doctor like Zhou Can on the ground level.
“Dr. Luo may have never heard of it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. This patient’s situation is not optimistic, I suggest doing an ECG or heart ultrasound immediately, or report to the chief physician right away and say that I suggested it, the patient may have a heart problem.”
Zhou Can’s tone was grave and serious.
A life was quickly slipping away before his eyes, and out of a sense of medical responsibility, he felt obliged to issue the warning.
“It can’t be as serious as you say, right?”
Seeing that he wasn’t joking, Dr. Luo felt a hint of unease swelling inside.
“Ah Can, why don’t you and Dr. Luo go to the office and talk?” Cheng Dazhuang mediated between the two.
Many words are inappropriate to say in front of the family and patient.
It’s even worse for the two doctors to argue in front of them.
The nurse who finished taking the patient’s blood pressure also looked at Zhou Can with a gaze filled with a certain amount of exclusion. This young doctor is really clueless; no matter where he’s from, how dare he talk to Dr. Luo like that when he’s only been studying medicine for a few days?
It’s beyond arrogance.
“If Dr. Luo doesn’t trust my diagnosis, there’s a simple and straightforward way, just measure the patient’s left arm blood pressure and right arm blood pressure.”
Zhou Can ignored the hostile, unusual gaze of the female nurse, and didn’t care about Dr. Luo’s unpleasant expression either.
What he had to do now was ensure the fastest way for the patient to get treated.
“The nurse just measured the blood pressure on the left arm, now just measure the right arm.”
Zhou Can said to the nurse.
“From my more than four years of nursing experience, the blood pressure on the left arm and right arm is the same, there’s no need to measure it.” The nurse was not as agreeable as imagined.
She totally dismissed Zhou Can’s suggestion.
This is normal too, facing outside hospital doctors, in-house medical staff will naturally stand together, united.
“Measuring it won’t take much time, and perhaps you might learn some different clinical knowledge?” Zhou Can said calmly.
His level and mindset didn’t bother arguing with a mere nurse.
“Tutu, just measure the right arm’s blood pressure, let’s see if the Tuya doctors are really different!”
When Dr. Luo Jian spoke, the nurse immediately measured the patient’s right arm’s blood pressure.
Everyone quietly awaited her results.
Gradually, the female nurse with a somewhat cold expression began to look surprised.
Shock and amazement slowly grew on her face.