Doctor Zhao, help!

Chapter 56 The moon is round everywhere
"Dr. Zhao, next time you encounter this situation, you should ask the patient to call another department. You see, you owe another favor for this matter."

Song Wei looked at Zhao Sheng and couldn't help but say.

Although Zhao Sheng and Song Sixian are very familiar with each other, when acquaintances do things, they still owe favors, and no one will talk about such things openly.

But this time you asked me to do something, I handled it beautifully. Next time I ask you, you must have the same intention. This is also a tacit thing.

Otherwise, as the chief physician of neurosurgery, Song Sixian, he could call for consultation with just a word.

"It's not easy to come to see a doctor from such a far away place."

Zhao Sheng just said this, take care of what you can manage, and do your best in everything. This is what Yu Zhongbo solemnly said to him when he went to work with his teacher Yu Zhongbo on his first day.

This sentence had a profound impact on Zhao Sheng, and he always remembered it.

Not for anything else, just for peace of mind.

"Call the next patient."

After a pause, Zhao Sheng said.

"it is good."

Song Wei nodded.

After a while, a mother and daughter came in. A middle-aged woman with a very elegant but sad face came in with a pretty but pale girl who looked not very good and about fifteen or sixteen years old. .

After the little girl sat down, Zhao Sheng asked routinely: "What's wrong?"

"Doctor, we are here specifically to see a doctor. Can you give us a chest CT examination first?"

Before the little girl could speak, her mother spoke first.

The tone was very urgent.

"Let's talk about the symptoms first. We must understand your symptoms before we can get you checked."

Zhao Sheng continued.

For patients who need to be prescribed medications, tests and even infusion treatments, there are simply too many patients seen in the emergency department, and there are various reasons for this.

"Doctor, we saw him in Singapore. He just had chest tightness and difficulty breathing. He said it was pleural effusion."

said the girl's mother.

"Said it was pleural effusion? How long has it been? What treatments and examinations have been done?"

Zhao Sheng asked again.

"Doctor, it has been more than two months since we came back without any examination or treatment."

The girl's mother said helplessly with a wry smile.

"No tests were done?"

Zhao Sheng said with some surprise.

Pleural effusion is a relatively common complication in lung diseases. There are many reasons that may cause pleural effusion, and many tests are needed to rule it out.

Increased hydrostatic pressure in pleural capillaries (such as congestive heart failure), increased pleural permeability (such as pleural inflammation, tumor), decreased colloidal osmotic pressure in pleural capillaries (such as hypoproteinemia, liver cirrhosis), parietal layer Pleural lymphatic drainage disorder (such as cancerous lymphatic obstruction) and chest injury can cause pleural effusion.

"Doctor, my daughter actually started to have a fever in Singapore half a year ago. I took her there to see the doctor, and he prescribed a few antipyretics for her. Then she kept having a fever. We made an appointment with a specialist, and I said it must be inflammation. , I want to prescribe some antibiotics, but the doctor there said that if I prescribe antibiotics casually, my license will be revoked, so I won’t prescribe them.”

"Two months ago, we made an appointment for a chest X-ray. It was said that it was pleural effusion and we needed a chest CT, but we had to wait in line. This week, I asked several times and it wasn't our turn yet. There was nothing I could do. I just came back with my daughter."

The girl's mother said with a bitter look on her face.

She and her daughter had basically spent all their savings in order to immigrate. They were already struggling to maintain daily expenses and send their daughter to school. They had no money to go to a private hospital.

Singapore is a country that implements free medical care. In Singapore, medical treatment procedures are very strict. Sometimes it may take three months to make an appointment for an examination.Since Singapore pushes a large number of patients to community clinics, the costs are low and the burden of state reimbursement of medical expenses is not heavy.

At the same time, Singapore has a large number of private clinics and hospitals. Private clinics are very expensive. The state only reimburses the basic medical part. The higher part is borne by the patient himself or through commercial insurance channels.Singapore strictly distinguishes between foreigners and citizens. The cost of medical treatment for foreigners in Singapore is much higher than that for citizens, and it is all borne by the patient himself. This is one of the reasons why the mother and the girl look down on medical treatment.

"This..." Zhao Sheng didn't know how to react after hearing this. There was an old man who worked in Belarus before. He also endured acute abdominal pain and took dozens of hours to fly back to his country for medical treatment.

Now the situation of the mother and daughter is not much better.

In China, when a girl with this condition goes to see a doctor for the first time, a chest X-ray, CT scan and blood test may already be done.

In some foreign places, the quality of medical care may indeed be high and the services may be indeed good, but there is a prerequisite for this: you must have money.

If you don’t have money, you’ll have to wait in line for months to see a public hospital.

"Let's get checked first, and then we'll talk about it later."

Zhao Sheng looked at the girl's mother with a sad face and could only say.

This girl has had a fever for half a year, I hope it won't be a big problem.

Zhao Sheng thought in his heart.

Prolonged fever and pleural effusion may indicate lymphoma or malignant chest tumors.

"Okay, thank you doctor, thank you."

The girl’s mother said to Zhao Sheng very gratefully.

She was really fed up with the medical system of waiting around for one appointment after another.

Of course, you don’t have to wait, and you don’t need to make an appointment at all, that’s okay.

You have to be rich, very rich.

It is true that foreign countries are paradise, but only for the rich.

Next, Zhao Sheng ordered a check-up, and the girl's mother took the girl for a check-up.

"Dr. Zhao, this is the second time in this period that he has come back from abroad to see a doctor. Isn't it said that the medical level abroad is high?"

Song Wei said with some confusion.

"The high level of medical care does not mean that you can enjoy such good medical resources. These are two different things."

Zhao Sheng shook his head slightly and said.

"Then it seems we are better off. At least we are crowded and it is difficult to get home. At least we can still see the disease."

Song Wei nodded and said.

Next, Zhao Sheng finished the morning clinic on time and was finally on his way to the canteen on time, ready for lunch.

However, when he walked into the small canteen, Zhao Sheng saw a tall man standing in the small canteen, his eyes staring at the plates of the people eating in the canteen.

This person is clearly the burly Brother Ao who had accompanied the wandering brother to see a doctor before.

This scene was seen by the contractor of the small canteen.

The middle-aged boss came out and said to Brother Ao in a panic: "Let me tell you, we have security guards here. If you act like this again, I will call the security guards to arrest you!"

"What did you say?!"

When Brother Ao heard this, he was unhappy. He stood in the canteen and stared at others, just to see which hospital employee had no appetite. He ordered too much and couldn't eat it, so he packed some and went back to eat with his brothers.

When the boss said this, he seemed to be a bad person.

There are many people eating in the big cafeteria, but it is a patient cafeteria. It is naturally impossible for patients to eat the things that patients have eaten, and it is not hygienic.

This small canteen is a hospital staff canteen, where doctors and nurses come to eat. It is relatively clean.

When Brother Ao, a 1.9-meter tall man with a strong beard and shabby clothes, looked at him like this, the middle-aged boss suddenly became a little frightened and was ready to run out and call security at any time.

(End of this chapter)