Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 51: Then Doubt It (Please Collect and Read)

"Brother Zhu, shall we start sewing the leather?" Zhou Yanqing narrowed his eyes slightly and replied in a gentle tone.

This topic is not suitable to be discussed now, at least not in front of the patient.

"Come on, try moving your middle finger." Ning Zhu tapped the patient's palm with hemostat.

"Can you move, doctor?" The patient lay on the bed, his back raised, with the back of his head bent like a shrimp.

"Why are you afraid if I tell you to move? Move." Ning Zhu nodded to him.

The patient's middle finger had just been injured, and moving the middle finger was a matter of muscle memory.

The middle finger slid quickly, with a slight arc.

"Use a little more strength, aren't you afraid? Even if it breaks again, we can just sew it up." Ning Zhu continued to give instructions.

The patient shook his head quickly: "No, doctor, I'm afraid! ~"

It’s such a big deal to you, I don’t want it to be such a big deal.

What do you mean you can just sew it up again?
"This is to verify the quality of your suture. Move, should I listen to you or you?" Ning Zhu could understand the patient's feelings, but also made a stern request.

In order to save more functions, intraoperative movement is a good way to verify.

The patient was given local anesthesia and the suture was at the proximal end of the middle finger, but the origin of the muscle that controls the movement of the middle finger was not at the middle finger, so after anesthesia, the patient could still move without pain.

The patient increased his force slightly, bending his middle finger into a fishhook shape.

"Okay, okay, it's done. Your tendon was sutured very well, and the quality is solid. You can start functional training step by step soon after the operation. The initial arc doesn't need to be too large, about 20 degrees will be fine, and then slowly increase the flexion..."

"We started sewing the leather..."

Another fifteen minutes later, the patient, wearing an aluminum plate, playfully looked for his wife at the door of the emergency operating room and shook his middle finger at her as if selling a treasure, smiling like a child who had received candy.

But his wife slapped him and blushed: "It's already this late, and you're still thinking about this..."

Ning Zhu, who was about to go out to give the doctor's instructions, suddenly felt weak in the legs, as if his soul had been crushed by a car tire.

What the hell?

After Ning Zhu went out in his washcloth, he knocked on the wall and said, "Let's not talk about anything else. If you want to talk, go back and talk."

"I'll tell you a few things."

"First, you need to go back to the emergency department for a tetanus shot. I saw rust when I was cleaning the wound. You said it was from prying open a pineapple. This will reduce the chance of tetanus infection."

"Second, you are not cleaning the wound. Go home and buy some oral antibiotic cefuroxime. It is very cheap and only takes three to five days."

"Third, buy a finger brace as soon as possible, then come to our hospital for a checkup and replacement, and then start functional exercises as soon as possible!"

"Fourth, this finger cannot be used for other purposes." Ning Zhu answered the question and handed the medical record page with the electronic doctor's order to the patient's wife.

After handing it over, he said a few words and turned away.

"I told you not to move." His wife finally got shy and hit him again.

The young man protested: "Why don't you try hitting another one? It's obvious that you have an impure mind. I'm doing this to show you how good the surgery is..."

When Zhou Yanqing saw Ning Zhu slide past him, he hurriedly followed him, his face covered with wheel marks and his eyes blinking rapidly.

Seeing Zhou Yanqing didn't say anything, Ning Zhu asked, "Have you never experienced this kind of situation?"

Zhou Yanqing shook his head.

Ning Zhu shook his head gently: "You will understand when you have a wife in the future. The saying that thirty is like a wolf..." "This is still good. I have seen people with middle finger tenosynovitis and contracture deformity."

"There are both men and women." Ning Zhu emphasized.

"Ah?" Zhou Yanqing was unable to understand the logic for a moment.

"Tenonitis is a chronic wear disease. If tenosynovitis is not treated properly or if you continue to use your hands excessively, it can lead to contracture deformity. Do you understand?" Ning Zhu explained to Zhou Yanqing.

Then he said, "Don't change your clothes yet. I'll take you to the practice room in our hospital. I think I need to open you up more objectively."

Zhou Yanqing felt that Ning Zhu's driving skills were almost omnipresent.

"Brother Zhu, you mean that you want to test my technical level and then teach me, right?" Zhou Yanqing could only understand it indirectly.

Isn't the purpose of opening a person up to see what he is really like?

"Open" is also a serious word, but Ning Zhu's meaning is a bit vague.

But unexpectedly, after Zhou Yanqing said this, Ning Zhu couldn't help but burst into laughter, and then Kukuku laughed.

When Zhou Yanqing was confused, Ning Zhu held his hands and whispered in Zhou Yanqing's ear: "In the future, you should be especially careful when saying the word 'teach' in front of Brother Liu Qingshan. It's better to say 'guide' instead."

Just as Zhou Yanqing was getting more confused, Ning Zhu said, "When Brother Qingshan was the chief resident, he was once crushed by a wheel. He was originally talking about teaching the exercise method, but people understood it as commanding the exercise method."

"Fingers point, shouts shout."

"Well, let's talk about the training methods of these two people just now."

The corners of Zhou Yanqing's mouth twitched.

Wow, not only are the diseases here in Xiangya Hospital weird, but the patients also have multidimensional thinking. In the modern Chinese dictionary, how many simple and easy-to-use words are there?
"Oh, don't use the word 'instruction' anymore." Ning Zhu once again used words to knock Zhou Yanqing away.

……

"Fuck you, you're a beast, right?"

Half an hour later, Ning Zhu opened his eyes wide, watched carefully as Zhou Yanqing sewed the floating foam board, and saw that the floating foam board was as steady as a rock and did not move, then he burst into swear words without manners.

My eyeballs are about to be vomited out of my eyes.

Zhou Yanqing tilted his head and glanced at Ning Zhu, secretly delighted.

This level of suturing has already reached the level in a single item, and the Jishuitan Hospital has selected doctoral supervisors as "technicians". How could it be as nonchalant as Professor Tan said last time?
The reason why Professor Tan Zhongyu did not show shock on the spot was to suppress the emotions of many people.

After a two-second pause, Zhou Yanqing continued to tie the knot, cut the thread with one hand and continued to sew the next stitch.

After Zhou Yanqing sewed a total of eight stitches, the upper surface of the two rows of foam boards were sewed tightly by Zhou Yanqing.

The control of strength and needle angle has reached a very skilled level.

"Brother Zhu, that's it. It can't go down anymore." Zhou Yanqing replied honestly.

Zhou Yanqing started by suturing the skin jelly, then suturing the stretched compression cuff, and demonstrated it to Ning Zhu step by step.

Suture the jelly and stretch the cuff to prove that you are not lying.

I'm not trying to trick Ning Zhu into giving me surgery.

Because some of our senior brothers were very smart. They did not learn the basic skills of controlling the suture force and angle first, but practiced the Kessler suture method or the Tang suture method first.

The moves were learned, but the internal strength was not enough, and the suture angle was not found right, so it collapsed within a few days, which directly made the road for Zhou Yanqing and other junior brothers very narrow...

(End of this chapter)