Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 292 Exclusive follow-up patients! (Subscribe)
"Doctor Zhou, I originally made an appointment with Professor Huang today, but Professor Huang told me to come see you for a follow-up visit. Are you free?" Outside the operating room, a patient wearing a hand brace leaned against the door and asked with a smile.

Zhou Yanqing didn't even turn around: "Please wait outside for a moment. I will finish this operation."

"Okay, Dr. Zhou." The patient was a young man in his twenties, and he actually saw Zhou Yanqing busy.

Although his follow-up visit had some twists and turns, the patient Zhou Yanqing is currently treating is the same emergency patient he had encountered before.

Zhou Yanqing quickly outlined the stitches, and after another five minutes, the stitches were complete. He then took out an aluminum plaster and bandaged it: "Don't take off this aluminum plaster."

"After you buy the brace online, come over and I will help you put it on!" Zhou Yanqing said.

The middle-aged woman stood up, looked at her fingers, and asked cautiously, "Doctor Zhou, you just said that this brace can be customized, right?"

“Wouldn’t a custom-made brace be better?”

"It will be slightly better, but the cost performance is not very high! In comparison, the braces on the Internet are cheaper and easier to use." Zhou Yanqing nodded, but did not say anything definite.

If he were to ask a medical equipment manufacturer to make it for him, that would be good, but the price would be more than six times what it costs online.

"Doctor Zhou, if it's better, I'll use a better one."

"Could you please make a phone call?" The middle-aged woman looked like she had plenty of money.

Zhou Yanqing was sorting out the suture bag. When she heard this, she raised her head slightly and said, "Sister, please think carefully. If you want to order a custom brace, the price will be several times higher than buying it online."

“But the effect won’t be much better.”

The rights of informed consent and informed refusal are equally important. Zhou Yanqing only suggested that she buy it online, but did not require her to buy it online.

"It's okay, Doctor Zhou. I'm too lazy to look at it."

"Doesn't it take time to ship online? If it's custom made, you said I can get it this afternoon, so the sooner I buy, the sooner I can enjoy it."

"Is that young man outside the same one you performed surgery on before?" the middle-aged woman asked secretly.

Zhou Yanqing turned his head and took a look: "I don't quite remember, but it should be! ~"

Zhou Yanqing saw too many emergency patients, and they met so quickly that he really couldn't remember all of them.

"Doctor Zhou, you seem to be very experienced. Thank you for taking the trouble to make the call for me." The middle-aged woman immediately understood.

The reason why she came to Xiangya Hospital was that she had actually inquired in advance about where the technology for tendon suturing was better, and someone in the know recommended Zhou Yanqing to her.

And she specifically named him. After she arrived at the emergency department of Xiangya Hospital, she asked other nurses and doctors, and they said that there was only one doctor named Zhou Yanqing in the hospital.

I guess I didn't find the wrong person.

……

The middle-aged woman temporarily left the emergency department after receiving a tetanus shot and made an appointment to meet with the equipment supplier in the orthopedic ward.

Although custom-made braces are relatively expensive, not every patient will accept the doctor's suggestion to buy braces online just to save money.

Zhou Yanqing began to examine the young man who came for a follow-up visit.

After removing the simple brace in his hand, Zhou Yanqing said: "The wound has healed, and the flexion and extension functions are improving steadily."

"It doesn't hurt anymore, does it?"

Zhou Yanqing only then realized that he had performed the surgery on the 29th of last month, and he was the main surgeon. It has been less than a month since then.

It just so happened that he was in Shashi and worked in a company near Xiangya Hospital, so he came here for a follow-up visit.

The young man shook his head: "I feel fine. I haven't been in much pain since I was discharged from the hospital."

The young man continued, "Doctor Zhou, my motor function is more radical than that of other patients. Is that okay?" "I checked online and other doctors recommend that the range of motion should only reach 90 degrees of flexion after two months, for fear that the sutured tendon will rupture."

"I've already bent to 100 degrees, and it's been less than a month." The young man hesitated.

He is young, so he will look up information and consult other doctors online.

"Functional rehabilitation varies from person to person and should not be too intense, but rehabilitation exercises should be performed as early as possible."

"It's okay!~" Zhou Yanqing was very happy to hear the patient say this.

My suturing method is effective and can at least advance the patient's recovery by one month. That's the significance of it.

A new tendon suturing technique will improve not only the time and degree of functional recovery for these patients.

It is very likely that once it is recognized, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of patients will benefit from the suture technique developed by themselves.

This value cannot be compared to how many surgeries an individual performs.

"But I still say that you must not act too hastily. Don't compare yourself with others, just compare yourself with yourself. Adjust at any time according to the plan I have adjusted for you."

"Try to achieve flexion of more than 120 degrees within two months, so that the functions of your two fingers can be repaired to the greatest extent!"

"Now that it has this opportunity, we should not miss it."

"After two months, you can start to gradually practice with weights, which is to squeeze rice bags, starting with one or two meters, and gradually increase the weight, step by step..."

The young man immediately said, "I think we can start with one pound!"

Zhou Yanqing's voice suddenly stopped and he looked at the other party without saying anything.

"Doctor Zhou, I'll listen to you." The young man replied quickly.

"Gradual progress is a process. It doesn't mean you have to do functional exercises suddenly. There's nothing else to it. Now your fingers are not swollen anymore, so you don't need to take any medicine."

"Continue to wear the brace!" Zhou Yanqing sent him away.

I feel comfortable.

Being a doctor is not just about emergency situations, it's about how many lives you save and how many lives you save that counts.

It is also of great significance to be able to bring patients a better quality of life and help them recover from physical and psychological trauma more quickly.

After Zhou Yanqing sent the patient away, he was about to return to the trauma center.

Yan Huanyu walked over and waved: "Yanqing, come and help me look at the film. Does this patient have a fracture?"

"It looks like there is a fracture, but it doesn't look like a fracture."

"Okay!" Zhou Yanqing nodded and followed Yan Huanyu to the surgical clinic opposite.

If a joint dislocation is accompanied by a fracture, manual reduction is not appropriate.

According to the orthopedic diagnosis and treatment guidelines, intra-articular fractures are currently an absolute surgical indication, and no one can currently reverse this surgical indication and use conservative treatment.

Even if conservative treatment is successful, patients will be left with serious sequelae, develop osteoarthritis in middle age, and have to undergo joint replacement at an early age.

The impact on quality of life is huge.

When Zhou Yanqing came to the computer and saw the flat picture on the screen, his brows frowned instantly!
"This movie is a bit weird!" Zhou Yanqing said.

(End of this chapter)