My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 807: Chapter 324: Negligent Parents, This Isn’t Just a Cold

The man mumbled.

Encountering such parents, it truly leaves one speechless.

“Oh dear, the fever is quite severe, 39.8 degrees, almost reaching 40 degrees.” Zhou Can measured the child’s temperature and couldn’t help feeling worried about the child’s condition.

According to his clinical experience, prolonged fever, whether low or high, usually indicates a serious illness.

It’s truly heartbreaking to see such serious diseases occur in such a young child.

“If it wasn’t severe, would we need to go to the hospital to see doctors like you? Even the cheapest registration fee costs ten bucks, you people make money so easily.”

When the man first came in, he was quite polite.

After interacting a while, it immediately became clear that his ingrained bad qualities got revealed.

“Little one, let uncle see where your chest hurts!”

Zhou Can lifted the little boy’s shirt and found that the child’s abdomen was clearly abnormal.

He was obviously emaciated, with ribs sticking out prominently.

Yet the child’s abdomen was protruding, especially the upper abdomen was extremely notable.

This area is the Liver Area.

Considering that the little boy’s chest pain symptoms had been persistent for a long time, Zhou Can almost instinctively thought that there might be something wrong with the patient’s liver.

“My son hasn’t eaten for two days.”

The woman suddenly said.

“Does he drink water?”

Zhou Can felt a tightness in his heart, what kind of devilish parents are these! The child hasn’t eaten for two days, has had a fever for two years, and consistent chest pain, yet they’ve never taken the child to see a doctor.

They even find the ten-buck registration fee too expensive.

In major hospitals, the ordinary outpatient registration fee is about this price now. It’s the lowest priced.

The deputy chief physician’s fee starts at a minimum of 50 yuan. The ordinary is half that, only 25 yuan.

But the market is just so twisted, the cheaper it is, the less it’s sought after. The one with a 50 yuan registration fee, appointments for the next three days are completely booked.

“Drinking water is fine. On the way to the hospital, he saw other kids drinking yogurt, and he was yelling that he wanted it too! Got him a bottle, and he drank it all.”

The woman casually replied.

“Please take the child for a routine blood test and also a chest and abdominal ultrasound.”

Zhou Can prescribed two examinations for them.

Originally intended to prescribe more tests, but he didn’t dare to. Seeing this irresponsible attitude from the parents, prescribing more might directly scare them away.

“Where do we pay the fees?”

“You can pay using the hospital’s APP, or take the receipt to the manual payment window, or use the self-service payment machine with an ID card; all of these are fine.” Zhou Can patiently instructed them on how to make the payment.

The man took out his phone and operated it for a while, then exclaimed like someone had cut a piece of him, “It costs 120 yuan, how can it be so expensive?”

Zhou Can was left speechless, this was already very cheap.

The combined chest and abdominal CT hadn’t been prescribed yet.

After the ultrasound, depending on the situation, if things look bad, a CT scan is definitely needed. At that time, with examination fees amounting to hundreds of yuan, this man might flip the table.

The predecessors in the Pediatric department didn’t lie to him, encountering such bizarre family members on his first day of solo consultation.

“All diagnostic fees are priced by the superior department, every charge in our hospital is clear and transparent. After you complete the examinations with the child, remember to bring the results back to me.”

Zhou Can felt that handling such troublesome family members was not his forte.

It felt like he was losing several years of his life.

“The charges are too high!”

The man cursed while seemingly operating on the phone to make the payment.

Just the expression on his face while paying, it was as if he was getting a piece of his flesh cut off.

“You little spendthrift, splurged 130 of my bucks just like that, do you even know that?” He yelled at his son after paying.

At this moment, his phone rang.

Seeing the number, the man turned excited.

“Hello! Missing one for a game, right? Okay, okay, I’m bringing my son to see the doctor in the hospital, will head over right away. Wait for me, wait for me, ha!” The man hung up, looked at the woman. “I’m leaving; you stay with the kid to see the doctor! The examination fees are paid.”

Upon saying this, he left without a backward glance.

The woman stomped her foot and called after him, but he ignored her completely.

Eventually, the woman took the child for the examinations alone. As they walked, she cursed the child, “You little jinx, bad luck… ”

Zhou Can heard this, and even his gums hurt with anger, these parents are truly unworthy and utterly detestable.

Taking a deep breath to calm the inner fury.

Without a strong heart, one truly cannot become a doctor.

At this moment, another family entered with a patient.

“Dr. Zhou, my granddaughter suddenly started vomiting after eating, is very weak and dizzy these past two days, please take a look!” The elderly woman who came in was well-dressed, seemingly having dyed hair.

Because on her face there were deep crow’s feet, age spots, and the skin on the back of her hands was wrinkled, but her hair was a shiny black, jet-black, not a single white hair to be seen.

Under normal circumstances, once people reach over thirty years of age, they may possibly have gray hair.

Especially with the high pressures of modern life, staying up late and working overtime, anxiety of all kinds, easily leading to the growth of gray hair.

Zhou Can’s gaze shifted to the little girl, around seven or eight years old, pale and bloodless face, lips equally white, eyes unfocused, looking just like someone who hadn’t woken up yet.

“Little girl, do you remember when exactly you started feeling unwell?”

Zhou Can deliberately engaged in conversation with the patient.

This was done for multiple purposes, like diagnosing whether the patient’s consciousness is clear, listening to whether the patient’s voice is hoarse, if they have enough energy, if there are any respiratory infections causing them to cough while speaking.