My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1267: Chapter 498: Reverse Surgery, Encountering Congenital Heart Disease Again (Part 3)

The patient’s father gestured with his hands, making indistinct sounds.

So, he was a mute.

Zhou Can looked at the patient’s mother.

"Yiyi..."

She was also mute.

The patient’s parents were both mute, considered as disabled individuals.

I wonder if their daughter has inherited it?

"Little one, are you feeling uncomfortable now?"

Zhou Can gently asked the little girl.

"Uncomfortable! It feels like something is pressing down on me here!"

Her speech was clear when she spoke.

Indicating no problems with hearing or speech.

"Mmm mmm..."

The patient’s father used a pen he carried to write two sentences in a notebook.

"The child’s mother and I are mute, and I also have hearing loss. Our daughter was born with a slightly bluish complexion and suddenly collapsed today. Please save her!"

Only then did Zhou Can notice that the child’s father was wearing a hearing aid.

His attention was entirely on the child earlier, so he hadn’t noticed it.

Modern hearing aids take into account the feelings of disabled people, aiming to reduce their chances of facing discrimination, often using skin-colored designs.

Worn on the ear, they are generally hard to detect without close inspection.

The patient’s father was deaf-mute, and the mother had a leg disability and was mute, making them a vulnerable family.

"Don’t worry, we will do our utmost to treat your child."

Zhou Can reassured them with a sentence and then quickly began a preliminary physical examination of the child.

For patients with poor blood oxygen levels, percussing and auscultating lung sounds is very necessary.

With the aid of a stethoscope, Zhou Can found that the breathing sounds of the patient’s lungs were clear, with no extraneous noises.

He then auscultated the heart sounds of the patient.

He heard an indescribable murmur.

Every heartbeat produced this murmur.

His expression changed slightly; misfortune often seems to target those already suffering. Initially, he thought the child might have an upper respiratory or lung issue, but now it seemed the problem likely resided in the heart.

The patient’s father reported that the child had a slightly bluish complexion since childhood, indicating the illness had persisted for years.

Without a doubt, it was likely congenital heart disease.

Zhou Can had extensive diagnostic experience in cardiothoracic and pediatric cases, having encountered many patients with congenital heart disease.

Even without any auxiliary tests currently, he could preliminarily determine there was a ninety-nine percent chance the patient had congenital heart disease.

"Little one, don’t be afraid, uncle needs to check your chest and rib area, so we need you to take off your top, okay?"

Considering the patient was a girl.

Before the examination, Zhou Can sought consent from the patient herself and her family as much as possible.

Actually, in the eyes of healthcare workers, once you enter the hospital, there’s really not much difference between genders. In the operating room for slightly larger surgeries, patients are usually either completely undressed or wearing a hospital-issued surgical gown.

If admitted to the ICU, removing all clothing is one hundred percent expected.

Sometimes, patients may be dressed in hospital-issued gowns, depending on the situation.

So, if you think male doctors might have inappropriate thoughts when conducting examinations of sensitive areas on female patients, it’s basically impossible. At most, they might find visually appealing young and pretty female patients a visual pleasure.

Many male doctors, when performing electrocardiograms or similar checks on female patients, often instruct them to unbutton themselves, guiding them on what to do. Male doctors often deliberately turn away, fiddling with the examination instruments to avoid causing the female patient embarrassment.

Then, after placing the test probe on the female patient’s examination area, they will quickly help cover her up to shield the sensitive parts.

This is to reduce the embarrassment of female patients.