When Aunt Wang came over today, she brought a bag full of apples and a few bananas.
These days, there's really nowhere to buy fresh fruit.
Even eating some canned fruit makes people incredibly envious.
"Xiao Chu, this is what your uncle brought back after the meeting last night. Xiao Meng said your uncle almost finished cleaning up all the fruit that was displayed at the meeting. There were just a few bananas left."
Upon hearing that Uncle Wang had brought the fruit back from the meeting, Li Chu was dumbfounded.
I bet Uncle Wang got a lot of laughs from his old friends yesterday.
"Keep all the bananas for Qiu Nan, and Xiao Chu, wash the apples and give one to everyone."
"Xiaoqin, don't blame your aunt for being biased!"
"Auntie, how could that be? Qiu Nan just gave birth and needs these things right now."
It's early in the morning, and no one's eating fruit yet. Everyone's either going to school or going to work; they're all getting ready to leave.
Before leaving, Li Chu said to Wang Ziwen, "Brother-in-law, could you please ask your friend at the Materials Bureau to issue some coal coupons today?"
Wang Ziwen nodded: "No problem, I'll call him when I get to the station and let him know. Is there anything else you need?"
"We don't need anything else for now, everything is enough."
Ding Ma and Wang Aunt were left at home; everyone else had left.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Li Chu glanced at the calendar on the table. Tomorrow was Sunday, and the day after was National Day. He could take two days off in a row.
You can stay home and spend quality time with Qiu Nan and the children.
"Dr. Li, the internal medicine department requests your consultation," said Nurse Su from the director's office as she appeared at the door of the examination room.
"Okay, I'll be right there, thank you." Li Chu stood up, took the white coat off the wall, and put it on as he walked out.
Li Chu is now a calling card for their Traditional Chinese Medicine department. Hospital consultations now directly request his participation.
He has participated in several off-site consultations, and now in Beijing's medical community, no one brings up his age anymore.
Of course, there are many who dislike him, after all, the real hatred comes from among colleagues.
Internal medicine is currently a general term, but in the future, it will separate out departments such as neurology, cardiology, and urology to form specialized departments.
Just like surgery, it will also be subdivided into several departments in the future.
Upon arriving at the internal medicine ward, an internal medicine intern was already waiting at the door and led him directly to the ward of the patient who needed a consultation.
This is rather unusual. Usually, the patient's condition is first reported in the meeting room, and the patient is only seen after the discussion.
Upon arriving at the ward, I found all three directors and deputy directors of the internal medicine department, as well as three attending physicians from the internal medicine department.
Several doctors who were interning in internal medicine stood timidly at the back.
The atmosphere in the ward was somber. The patient lay on the bed with his eyes closed, and it was unclear whether he was asleep or not.
A woman in her thirties stood beside the hospital bed, wiping away tears.
When Li Chu entered, everyone's eyes turned to him, clearly feeling a sense of relief that they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Despite his dark expression, Director Chen of the Internal Medicine Department forced a weak smile: "Xiao Li, thank you for your trouble."
"Yes, Director Chen. What's the patient's condition?"
The two deputy directors beside him nodded to Li Chu, but neither of them spoke.
Without turning his head, Director Chen said directly, "Xiao Liu, please describe the patient's condition."
A female doctor, who was about the same age as Li Chu, took two steps forward.
Li Chu glanced back. If he remembered correctly, this Dr. Liu was a classmate of his, but they weren't familiar with each other because they weren't in the same major.
Dr. Liu's eyes were red, clearly she had shed tears. Judging from the atmosphere in the ward, she had probably been scolded by the head doctor.
While listening to Dr. Liu describe the patient's condition, Li Chu kept staring at the patient on the hospital bed.
The patient looked to be in his thirties, with a sallow complexion, some facial swelling, and very noticeable dark circles under his eyes. Even his ears were a sallow color, which made Li Chu take a second look.
As Dr. Liu explained, Li Chu finally understood that a misdiagnosis had occurred.
The patient reported that he did not want to eat, and after eating he felt nauseous, had diarrhea, dizziness, and weakness in his lower back and knees.
As the first attending physician, Dr. Liu did not conduct many examinations and directly treated the patient as having a gastrointestinal disease, prescribing medication for gastrointestinal issues.
The patient's condition improved after taking the medication at home, so no further attention was paid to it.
However, not long after, the patient's condition relapsed and became more severe than before, with frequent urination, decreased urination, bloody stools, and high blood pressure. This time, the patient came to the hospital because he had fallen into a coma.
After listening to Dr. Liu's account, Li Chu turned around and gave her a deep look.
Was her misdiagnosis due to a lack of medical skill, or was it due to a lack of diligence?
Li Chu didn't give it much thought. Whatever the reason, these were things that Director Chen needed to consider. In any case, Dr. Liu wouldn't get away with it this time.
Director Chen handed over the lab report he was holding. Li Chu took it and glanced at it casually. He couldn't understand most of the data on the report.
However, one of the receipts stated that kidney failure was suspected.
Li Chu raised an eyebrow; the difference in these misdiagnoses was quite significant!
He walked directly to the bedside, patted the patient on the shoulder, and said, "Hello, comrade, I am a doctor from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. May I take your pulse?"
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The patient was not asleep; he slowly opened his eyes when Li Chu called him.
Li Chu noticed that the patient's eyes were covered in blood vessels.
The patient glanced at Li Chu by the bedside without saying anything, closed his eyes again, and only moved his hand slightly away from Li Chu's side.
Upon seeing this, Li Chu immediately reached out to take his pulse.
After putting down the patient's left hand, Li Chu went to the other side of the patient to continue taking the pulse.
After finishing with both hands, Li Chu pondered for a moment and nodded to Director Chen.
Seeing this, Director Chen said to the patient on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, "Comrade, you should rest first. We'll go out and discuss your condition to see what the next step of treatment should be."
Without waiting for the patient's response, he walked directly out of the ward.
As they walked, he said, "Xiao Li, let's go to the conference room to discuss this."
All the doctors followed them out, leaving only the patient and his family in the ward.
After everyone had left, the patient opened his eyes, turned to look at the woman next to him who was still crying, grasped her hand and stroked it, and sighed deeply.
After everyone was seated in the conference room, Director Chen finally spoke, "Xiao Li, what's your opinion on this patient?"
Li Chu thought for a moment before saying, "The conclusion I saw on the lab report just now was kidney failure?"
"This is the result of our comprehensive analysis based on the indicators from various tests."
"That's what Deputy Director Wang from the internal medicine department said."
Li Chu nodded: "Leaders, I am not very familiar with your Western medicine's understanding of the disease, its causes, and its names. I will simply give you the conclusions I drew from taking your pulse just now."
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