My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1037: Chapter 409: Hospitals Sabotaging Each Other, the Terrifying Gangrene Patient

"Young man, I’m afraid I can’t give you the remittance account number right now. I’ll report this to the leaders of the office tomorrow and hold a meeting. After confirming everything, I’ll send you the account number. Of course, it would be best if you could come in person to sign a written agreement."

For donating charity funds to individuals, you can simply give the money directly.

If it’s a donation for a specific purpose, it can also go through an intermediary department.

Donating to an organization involves slightly more complicated procedures.

Signing a written agreement, Zhou Can thought, was quite good as it provided protection for both parties. His main concern was that the office leaders might embezzle the funds.

He could trust Chen Guoli, but that didn’t mean he could trust the others at the office.

Especially some of the administrative leaders, who are exceptionally skilled at embezzling money.

"That’s fine, let me know once you’ve discussed it tomorrow. I have to work during the day, and I have no time. If we’re going to sign a donation agreement, it will have to be in the evening. If this charity fund is used effectively, I might consider continuing to donate. Your spirit of traditional Chinese medicine and the significant efficacy in treating my girlfriend have shown me the potential and importance of Chinese medicine. It’s heartbreaking to see Chinese medicine continuously decline."

After agreeing with Chen Guoli, Zhou Can left with Su Qianqian.

"Take care!"

This time, Chen Guoli treated them with much more respect, personally escorting them to the door, while Zhou Can turned back and said, "Please, don’t go any further!"

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Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.

The Emergency Department’s performance was steadily rising with the addition of Zhou Can, the skilled surgeon. The official number of inpatient beds increased from four to ten. The department attached great importance to this and even converted a room from the infusion ward into another inpatient room.

The reason it didn’t exceed ten beds is due to a clear requirement from the health authorities that for every ten additional beds, at least one physician and four nurses must be assigned.

The Emergency Department was understaffed.

Having just expanded last month, it was now a time for continued strategic retreat, no matter how tough it got. Climbing too fast attracts attention, and resistance from various quarters becomes more likely.

The ten official beds, plus the temporary beds, were basically sufficient for the time being.

There were initially three doctors in charge of the beds: two official Resident Doctors and one intern.

Now with over twenty actual inpatient beds, Director Lou assigned another intern to help manage them. The shortage of nurses was similarly resolved through Niu Lan, the head nurse.

Overall, the Emergency Department’s operating room and inpatient ward were running smoothly enough.

Patients were first admitted in the front hall, then undergo emergency screening in the examination room in the back, before those manageable by Emergency were sent to the operating room. After surgery, patients either went home or were hospitalized for further treatment.

This process was essentially complete within the Emergency Department.

It also became one of the most important revenue-generating chains in the Emergency Department.

The revenue from the Emergency’s resuscitation room and intensive care unit chains was similarly considerable.

As for other Emergency Department services, they were basically just there for appearance.

The revenue from various examination items and prescriptions in Internal Medicine could only be considered barely satisfactory.

In summary, despite its many shortcomings, the Emergency Department managed to attract a substantial number of patients daily, thanks to the huge volume driven by the well-known figure of Tu Ya. Over the years, under Director Lou’s leadership, they had developed a way to generate revenue.

Not prosperous, but not starving either.

Compared to high-profile departments, they were quite pitiful, but certainly stronger than the desolate county-level hospitals.

This led to the conclusion that having backing supports like a big tree provides shade.

PhD candidates and direct doctoral students from various places tried every means to enter grand institutes like Tu Ya’s for a reason.

On this day, as Zhou Can finished lunch and prepared to return to the operating room, a dispute broke out in the Emergency Department’s reception hall.

A patient lay on a stretcher, his right pant leg rolled up near the knee, revealing severely rotten tissue with some seepage and tissue liquefaction. Some stitches had already come undone.

Zhou Can immediately recognized this as typical gangrene.

If not handled properly, it could be life-threatening.

Limb amputation to save a life was a relatively common procedure.

However, generally, neither the family nor the patient would be willing to undergo amputation.

Thus, doctors would be asked to find other treatment options.

The only solution for treating patients with such severely infected and purulent wounds and significant gangrene was to remove all necrotic tissue. Then, admit the patient to hospital care, where antibiotics and professional nursing could aid the wound’s natural healing.

Normally, as long as the infection is controlled, the patient’s limb can be preserved.

In some severe cases, or when the patient has weak immunity or underlying conditions, surgery may not be effective.

Eventually, amputation might still be necessary to save the patient’s life.

This is especially true for elderly diabetes patients, who are highly susceptible to such blackened and necrotic leg conditions.

The patient’s family tearfully pleaded on their knees for the nurses and doctors to admit the patient for treatment.

However, the emergency doctors insisted this case had to be referred to the specialized inpatient department. The Emergency Department could only handle simple acute patients and not such severely infected and purulent cases that had progressed to gangrene.

It was too risky for the Emergency Department to admit them!

Judging by the petrified look on the admitting doctor’s face and how vigorously he shook his head, it was apparent just how terrifying this patient was.

Even though the patient appeared to still be okay at the moment, the condition could deteriorate overnight, potentially progressing to septicemia or even more severe septicemia conditions without warning.