Chapter 160: Report Good News, Not Worries
Although there was an oolong, Su Tang was still happy to see and treat the next patient.
In addition, Su Tang was also pleased to find out that a student who was still studying at school did not have cancer but was just drunk with love.
As the old saying goes: "If only people in the world were healthy, why would we mind if the medicine on the shelf collected dust?"
Of course, if there are really sick patients who trust her and are willing to come to her for treatment, Su Tang will still be very happy.
This is an affirmation of her ability.
After pressing the call button, Su Tang and Director Fan sat at the clinic table like elementary school students, waiting for patients to come.
However, this time the patient did not wait in front of the clinic door early like the previous patients. Instead, he called three times in a row, but no one came to the clinic...
Director Fan frowned slightly. This kind of situation of being left out is very common in hospitals.
Sometimes patients may not be able to arrive at the hospital on time after registering, or sometimes they simply forget about it, or they are delayed by other things.
However, as the director of the department and a renowned chief physician, even if Director Fan only works in the outpatient clinic for half a day, there are still a lot of patients who want to see him. If it weren't for the limit on the number of patients, Director Fan would have to work in the outpatient clinic until he was exhausted.
So after calling the number three times in a row and the patient didn't show up.
Director Fan did not waste any more time. He reached out and grabbed the mouse, and directly dialed the diagnosis number of another patient on the computer APP to change to the next patient...
But just when Director Fan pressed the number of another patient.
A middle-aged man who looked to be around 50 years old and had slightly graying hair walked into the clinic looking around a little awkwardly. He looked like someone who seldom came to the hospital.
The middle-aged man was very reserved when he saw Su Tang and Director Fan. He looked at Su Tang and Director Fan awkwardly and asked cautiously: "Excuse me, is this... Director Fan's office? You are Director Fan, right? I am patient No. 37, Ding Xinhe..."
As the middle-aged man spoke, he stepped forward to shake hands with Su Tang and Director Fan, looking like an honest man who occasionally exchanged pleasantries with others in the workplace.
"Oh, Mr. Ding, right? Please sit here." Director Fan was a little confused, but he immediately came to his senses and arranged for the patient to sit at the treatment table for a face-to-face consultation.
During this consultation, the number of patients who did not explain anything but came up to shake hands with him was slightly more than that of the oolong patient just now, but it was not very common.
"Mr. Ding, if you feel uncomfortable somewhere, just tell me... This is my student, let her take a look at you first. I'll take a look at you later, is that okay with you?" Director Fan said a few words to the middle-aged man who was still a little embarrassed at the moment, and saw the middle-aged man nodded.
Director Fan immediately smiled and winked at Su Tang, asking Su Tang to examine Ding Xinhe first.
The patient's name, age, where he feels uncomfortable, and whether he has had any examinations before.
These are all questions that Su Tang wants to ask.
"Doctor, this is what happened... I've been having a sore throat since the end of last month. I thought it was pharyngitis..." Ding Xinhe looked at Su Tang, then at Director Fan and said, "Because I had chronic pharyngitis a long time ago, I often have swallowing discomfort and a foreign body sensation in my throat..."
As he spoke, Ding Xinhe's eyes seemed to be lost in memories and thoughts. He said with a serious expression: "But since last month, this discomfort has obviously worsened. When I coughed two days ago, there was blood in my sputum. Yesterday afternoon when I was at work, I also had pain in my left ear. Although I don't know if this has anything to do with pharyngitis."
"But I don't think these are...good signs." Ding Xinhe sighed. He hoped that things were not as bad as he had imagined, but he always felt uneasy.
A premonition that something big was about to happen spread in the middle-aged man's heart, making him feel a little depressed.
"Have you taken any medicine for treatment during this period? For example, antibiotics, drugs for treating inflammation... Have you consumed too much tobacco, alcohol, and spicy food?" Su Tang took out the medical records and recorded them carefully. He also took out the pulse pillow that he always carried with him from the pocket of his white coat and placed it on the examination table.
Signaled Ding Xinhe to put his wrist up.
After the baptism of a oolong patient just now, Su Tang felt that she might not necessarily have to practice Western medicine's visual percussion.
She still...uses whichever diagnostic method is the fastest and most efficient.
Because the patient in front of her, named Ding Xinhe, seemed to be in a serious condition and there was no time for her to delay her studies.
Su Tang just observed Ding Xinhe's expression and looked at the condition of his teeth, and her heart skipped a beat.
Especially when she pressed her fingers on the other person's pulse, her expression gradually became serious!
Su Tang looked serious, staring at Ding Xinhe's face... The complexion of the man in front of him was normal, and there was no sign of swelling or darkness on his face. But his lips were slightly paler than those of ordinary people. This subtle change would be overlooked by most people if they were not very careful.
After all, a person can make his originally bloodless lips turn red in just a moment by closing his lips tightly. But the white of the person in front of him was a bit deathly gray.
As the other person spoke, his lips opened and closed, and Su Tang could clearly see the yellow stain on the middle-aged man's teeth from smoking.
——This is an old smoker who smokes frequently!
Su Tang made the judgment almost immediately!
Cough, coughing up blood, ear pain, foreign body sensation in the throat, plus a history of long-term smoking and chronic pharyngitis...
Su Tang felt a sinking feeling in her heart. Even if she didn't take the patient's pulse, she would have considered the patient a suspect of laryngeal cancer.
Not to mention that the opponent's pulse was obviously abnormal.
Su Tang lowered her eyes slightly, motioning Ding Xinhe to use his other hand so that she could take his pulse.
"What, what happened?"
Seeing Su Tang's serious face, Ding Xinhe's anxious heart was about to be raised to his throat. He took two deep breaths and slowly said, "Doctor, I used to smoke, but since the end of last month when my throat was uncomfortable, I haven't smoked anymore... I haven't eaten spicy food these days. But I did take anti-inflammatory drugs before, but they didn't have much effect."
"The symptoms in my throat seem to be getting worse during this period..."
The atmosphere in the room seemed to become more peaceful and depressing as Ding Xinhe spoke.
Director Fan's brows slowly furrowed as Ding Xinhe spoke.
As an experienced oncology director, Dr. Fan knows the meaning of every word and symptom of the patient.
All their arrows, all their directions, are pointing in one direction!
"Doctor, just tell me what you want to say..." Ding Xinhe calmed down, took a deep breath, and said with a heavy heart: "I can handle anything."
"Don't be so pessimistic for now." Su Tang was silent for two seconds, and decided to let Ding Xinhe do another examination for the final diagnosis. "I'll open a laryngoscope for you and do a test."
After Su Tang finished speaking, she turned her gaze to Director Fan and said, "Teacher Fan, do you think this is okay?"
"Well, OK!" Director Fan picked up the test form written by Su Tang, looked at it, entered it into the computer, and asked Ding Xinhe to do a rapid laryngoscope test first, and then make the final diagnosis after waiting for the results.
When Su Tang saw Ding Xinhe's back disappear in the outpatient office, she sighed and shook her head, "Director Fan, I think Ding Xinhe has throat cancer. He is a male over 40 years old and has a long history of smoking. In addition, he has coughing, coughing up blood, ear pain, foreign body sensation in the throat, and his voice sounds a little hoarse, which are all important indicators of throat cancer."
"Also, ear pain may be caused by cancer cell invasion."
Su Tangzai explained in detail why he suspected the patient had throat cancer. He also mentioned the patient's pulse changes: "The patient's pulse is strong and rapid, showing signs of blood clotting and poisoning... Combined with the patient's previous symptoms, I think the possibility of the patient having throat cancer is at least 95%."
According to historical records, Chinese medicine had already proposed the concept of "cancer" as early as the Song Dynasty hundreds of years ago. Cancer tumors were even divided into more than a dozen names according to different causes, locations, symptoms, etc.
But at that time, no one could guarantee that they could cure all cancers. Even with advanced technology today, no one can guarantee this. All we can do is to remove cancer cells as much as possible and improve the patient's own resistance and immunity.
Strive to defeat the opponent in this war without gunpowder!
After all, the human body already has proto-cancer cells, and the reason why most of these people get cancer is because their own immunity is low and insufficient to fight cancer cells, causing cancer cells to invade other healthy human organs.
Su Tang frowned. This was also what she said to Wei Feng when she first met him and found out that he had cancer.
What she can do now...
It is to help each other, improve the body's immunity and resist the invasion of cancer.
"Your judgment is correct..."
Director Fan nodded and said seriously, "But we still have to wait for the specific results. We can make a conclusion after the other party's inspection report comes out!"
In the oncology clinic, new patients are diagnosed with cancer every day.
Director Fan spoke with a heavy tone, but he had to continue to see the next patient.
However, the laryngoscope test at the Sixth Hospital was very fast, and the biopsy report was quickly sent to Su Tang and Director Fan.
Su Tang and the other person looked at the tumor marker data results on the test form, and then looked at Ding Xinhe's slightly bitter expression.
Director Fan finally sighed helplessly: "Mr. Ding, judging from the test report... you'd better apply for hospitalization later. We can perform surgery for early-stage laryngeal cancer. With the current level of technology, the possibility of early recovery of laryngeal cancer is very high."
"Of course, you can also go home and discuss it with your family first, and then come to the hospital for treatment... The ENT department and our oncology department can perform this surgery..."
"Okay..." Ding Xinhe's voice was hoarse, his mind was in a mess.
Bitterness and heaviness were revealed in almost every wrinkle of the middle-aged man's hair...
Su Tang sighed and fully understood Ding Xinhe's psychological changes at this moment.
It's like you were fine, and suddenly someone told you that you had cancer. You didn't want to admit it, but you couldn't do anything about it. Thinking about it over and over again, you felt heavy and painful, and you were unwilling to accept it...
Su Tang estimated that the patient named Ding Xinhe would most likely go to other hospitals in Shenzhen for additional examinations in the next few days.
This is also the first reaction of many cancer patients when they first learn that they have cancer.
Sure enough, just as Su Tang finished thinking, he saw Ding Xinhe beside him take a deep breath, and finally shook his head and said in a heavy tone: "Doctor, I've thought about it, I'm not going to be hospitalized for the time being... I plan to go back and discuss it with my wife."
"Of course, no problem...but this disease cannot be delayed, you have to make a decision as soon as possible. I will be working in the outpatient clinic tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. If you can't make an appointment with me, you can come directly to my office and I will write you an admission form." Director Fan nodded and didn't persuade him too much, but just gave a few brief suggestions to prevent patients from delaying their treatment due to not being able to make an appointment.
Ding Xinhe felt as heavy as if he were wearing a piece of armor. He sighed and stood up. He was in no mood to say anything more...
Just at this moment, the middle-aged man's cell phone started buzzing.
Ding Xinhe took out his cell phone and answered the call in front of Su Tang and the others. From the other end of the line, a girl's cheerful voice came over, like a happy little bee!
"Dad! Have you had lunch yet? I just finished my PE class!"
"Haha, I've eaten. It's so late, how could I not have eaten yet?"
"Dad! What did you eat for lunch today? The food in our school cafeteria is terrible. I missed the roast duck you made~" the girl continued chattering.
"Then when you come back from college on winter break, I'll make it for you every day!"
The middle-aged man laughed heartily at the girl on the other end of the phone, completely unlike the heavy and sorrowful look he had just shown.
The sun shone through the glass window onto the man's face. Ding Xinhe waved to Su Tang and said goodbye. He left the clinic, talking and laughing while holding his cell phone.
Su Tang sighed when she saw this.
Many parents are like this, they only report good news and not worries. Even if they are sick, they will not show it at all when they receive a call from their children.
"As doctors, what we can do is to try our best to make sure that Mr. Ding's daughter does not find out that her father had surgery after returning from winter vacation." Director Fan patted Su Tang on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Let Mr. Ding walk into the hospital upright and walk out of the hospital upright. The only thing we can do is to ensure that he is safe..."
Director Fan: "Of course, the premise is that the other party chooses us."