Chapter 935: Patient Consultation
Manbao looked at the interior layout and nodded, saying, "That's great, but I want to change the curtains and the quilt on the bed."
Manbao looked around and pointed to an empty space against the wall behind her. "I want to put a shelf here. I can put books and other things there. It doesn't have to be too high. Just enough to go up here. Make it into three or four compartments..."
Although it was the first time that Shopkeeper Zheng heard such a request, he was no longer surprised by all kinds of requests from doctors.
For example, Doctor Gu liked to drink tea, so he had to have a set of tea sets in his room, and also a small stove for him to make tea every day.
So he just paused for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
Manbao was satisfied, so she put down her backpack and took out her pulse pillow, cloth towel, needle bag, etc.
She looked around and said, "I also need a stove to boil water."
Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng said it was no problem. Seeing that she had no other requests, he left and called a waiter. He brought in the stove in a short while and also ordered some charcoal to boil water.
After Manbao had put everything in order, the other three doctors arrived. Manbao went out to greet everyone and then asked some daily questions. Then the patients entered the pharmacy and began to squeeze in to line up to see a doctor.
Doctor Gu smiled slightly, nodded to Manbao and said, "Then Doctor Zhou, please go ahead and we will get busy too."
Manbao nodded, observed the patients in the lobby, and then went into the room.
The patient who came in after drawing aside the curtain saw Manbao sitting behind the examination table, looking at him with a smile. He hesitated for a moment, turned around and said, "Doctor, I've come to the wrong place."
Just as he was about to wave him to sit down, Man Bao's smile froze. After the man left, he shrugged, sighed, and muttered, "It has to start all over again..."
It was the same at the beginning in Yizhou City. The patients were reluctant to see her as the one who would treat them. It was only after she examined them that Doctor Ji sat next to them and examined them again that everyone was willing to see her.
Later, she got used to sitting in the hall, and the patients who came to see her also got used to it. When it was her turn to see patients independently, everyone was used to it and showed no resistance.
Since the free clinic on Double Ninth Festival, the number of patients who come to her on their own initiative has increased. Manbao has finally become a true doctor, the kind that relies on her own abilities.
Now it seems that once she arrives in the capital, she will have to start all over again because of her age and gender.
Manbao quickly adjusted her attitude, smiling as she waited for the next patient to come in. Then she watched as one patient after another opened the curtain and came in. After seeing her, they gave a stiff laugh, saying they had come in the wrong way, and finally left...
Manbao leaned his elbows on the table, his face in his hands, looking at the door, watching someone come in, then leave, then another person come in, then another person leave...
The curtain was drawn again, and an old lady came into the room pulling a blushing girl.
Seeing them, Manbao's eyes lit up, he put down his hands and sat up straight, smiling and waving, "Old lady, you are here, please take a seat."
The old lady said embarrassedly: "Young doctor, it's not me who is treating the disease, it's my granddaughter."
"I know. There's a stool here. You can sit and wait."
The old lady felt that Manbao was very considerate. It turned out that female doctors and male doctors were different.
She pulled her granddaughter forward and said with a flattering smile, "This is my granddaughter. She is thirteen years old. Can you show me what's growing on her body..."
Manbao then looked carefully at the girl. She was about the same age as her and was standing there with a flushed face. However, her head, which had been lowered just now, was slightly raised and was looking at Manbao quietly.
When she met Manbao's gaze, she lowered her head again as if she had been electrocuted.
Seeing that Manbao looked about the same age as her, she bravely raised her head and looked at Manbao.
Manbao smiled at her and waved to her, "Come here and let me see you."
The girl hesitated, and the old lady pulled her forward, pressed her down on a stool, and took her hand and placed it on the examination table, "Look, look."
Manbao gently took her hand and placed it on the pulse pillow. Then he tilted his head slightly to feel her pulse. She listened to her pulse for a while, looked up at her face, and asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is Zhu'er."
Manbao asked, "What's your last name?"
The girl looked at her grandmother before whispering, "Dou, Dou Zhu'er."
Manbao praised: "What a nice name. How old are you this year..."
Manbao asked her about what she had eaten recently, when she became ill, what she did when she became ill, and what she ate.
After noting everything down in his mind, Manbao opened a notebook and wrote down Dou Zhuer's basic information. Then he pulled her up and said, "Come on, let's go behind the curtain. I want to see what's growing on your body."
Dou Zhu'er and Manbao talked for nearly a quarter of an hour, and they became more familiar with each other. Although her face was still flushed, she was not as resistant as at the beginning.
She took a look and saw her grandmother nod slightly before following Manbao behind the curtain. The old lady stayed by the examination table. Occasionally, a patient would lift the curtain and peek in. She would look up and glare at them, saying, "I'm still seeing patients. Wait."
The patient can only shrink back.
Manbao helped Dou Zhuer undress and found red rashes on her chest, waist and abdomen. She looked carefully and found that the red rashes on her waist and abdomen were connected into one piece. It seemed that it was caused by friction from the clothes, or it might be that the flesh on her waist and abdomen was folded, so there were two folds. The flesh in the folds was almost eroded and some liquid was oozing out. Just looking at it made Manbao feel itchy and painful.
Manbao washed his hands, tapped the rashes with a clean cloth, and asked, "Does it itch?"
“It itches sometimes, but most of the time I don’t feel anything.”
“When does it itch?”
"At night, or when it's quiet."
"Besides the rash, where else do you feel itchy?"
"Sometimes I feel itchy on my back and face, but my grandma tells me not to scratch them. If I do, I will be disfigured and the itching will get worse."
Manbao nodded slightly, "Your grandma is right, you can't catch him."
Manbao examined her whole body before asking, "Did you really not eat anything special on the day you fell ill or the day before?"
Dou Zhuer thought about it and shook her head. "No, the doctor asked me about it when I saw him before, so I remember that I ate the same as usual that day."
"What's different? For example, you went to a different place, touched different things." Seeing her stunned, Manbao smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, your illness is probably an allergy. Although you have dryness and heat in your body, these large patches of rash are probably not eczema. So think carefully, did you go to any special places or touch anything special that day or the day before?"
Manbao said, "You're lucky. The allergy is just a rash. If it became an inflammation of the respiratory tract, it could be fatal. But your rash hasn't gotten better in such a long time, and it's gotten worse. It's obvious that you've been exposed to the allergen, which is why it keeps coming back. Think carefully, since that day, have you come into contact with anything that you've never come into contact with before?"
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