My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 989: Chapter 391: Gaining Small Fame in Pediatrics, Conversation Skills 3

If I’m not mistaken, this little girl likely has acute enteritis.

When I pressed on her stomach earlier, it was very sunken, indicating she hasn’t eaten for one or two days. The parents are really careless; it’s so serious, they should have brought her to see a doctor much earlier.

Zhou Can doesn’t naively believe that patients would wait two days just to see him.

If it’s an emergency, waiting two or three days to see a specific doctor or specialist is out of the question. Let alone two or three days, they wouldn’t even wait half a day.

When an emergency occurs, the majority of patients or their families react as if there’s a fire, rushing to the hospital in a hurry.

At that moment, all they think about is saving lives and they don’t care which doctor treats them.

As long as they can see a doctor immediately, that’s enough.

As soon as the first patient left, the second patient came in.

It was a little boy, about five or six years old, with a chubby face, but he was crying so hard that his face was all messed up.

"Did you injure your right hand?"

Zhou Can looked the little boy over and then asked the anxious-looking parents.

The child’s parents were extremely worried.

"Yes, yes, my son climbed onto the car roof to play and then fell down. His right hand couldn’t be lifted at the scene," the child’s mother said with a sob.

"Don’t worry too much, children’s bones are very resilient, usually there won’t be any major issues."

Zhou Can walked over to the little boy, squatted down.

"Little buddy, uncle is going to check you out, if it hurts where I touch, you just nod or tell me."

The main checks are on the head and back.

Compared to injuries to the limbs, injuries to the head and spine require more vigilance.

Fortunately, this chubby kid’s fat layer is thick, and there are no obvious bruises on important parts. There’s an abrasion on his right forehead, it seems to be bleeding, but it’s not serious.

"Let’s take an X-ray first, preliminary examination suggests the right shoulder joint might be dislocated."

Zhou Can didn’t rashly perform any joint correction.

After issuing a check-up order, the child’s parents took him for the examination.

Zhou Can’s eyes lingered on the child’s mother’s back until she left the consultation room.

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This is basically what Zhou Can’s daily clinic routine is like.

Compared to ordinary pediatric outpatient doctors, he sometimes performs simple treatments in the consultation room. The most frequent treatment is joint correction.

It didn’t take long for the little boy who injured his right arm to return after the examination.

It only takes a short time to get an X-ray.

"Look, the child’s shoulder joint has come out of the joint capsule. This is quite a severe fall; in the future, you mustn’t let him play on the car roof anymore. Fortunately, he didn’t hit his head, or the consequences would be unimaginable."

Zhou Can said seriously to the parents.

"Doctor, what should we do about my son’s right hand? Does he need to be hospitalized for surgery?"

The child’s mother, in her late twenties, dressed well and had a decent temperament, but when it came to her son’s injury, she sounded tearful. It’s imaginable, the little boy must be quite spoiled at home.

Nowadays, many families have only one child.

They are cherished as precious treasures, feared to melt if held in the mouth, or to break if held in the hand.

Seeing the child in even a bit of distress causes extreme anxiety.

"Surgery would be greatly harmful to the child, delay his study, and leave ugly scars. I’ll try to see if I can manually fix his dislocated right arm, that would be the best."

Zhou Can was actually over ninety percent confident.

But he had to speak cautiously, leaving some room for error. If he couldn’t fix it, or it wasn’t done well, the parents would at the very least scold him. Some more irritable parents might even get physical.

After sitting in the clinic for a long time, Zhou Can’s communication skills with family members became more refined.

First, describe the condition as more severe, then emphasize the benefits and advantages of his proposed treatment when offering solutions. This way, he could guide the family to choose his proposed plan on their own.

Otherwise, some family members always believe the most expensive option is the best.