University Doctor and His Fragile Patients-Chapter 390 - 322: Fun Fact—Can the Tear Duct Be Unblocked?
Seeing Chen Mu start taking the patient’s pulse.
The white coat behind Chen Mu couldn’t help but speak up: "Dr. Chen, you students of TCM, when faced with patients unable to articulate their symptoms, can rely on pulse-taking to determine their condition."
"But what about us who study modern medicine, what do we do in this situation?"
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[A student of modern medicine quickly opened their notebook. The intern doctor’s question is also what I want to know! Boo hoo!!!]
[Every time I see TCM practitioners take pulses, it feels like cheating. How can you use pulse-taking like a scanner to identify every condition?]
[TCM students cry, every time I go home, my family wants me to take their pulse. When I can’t confirm a diagnosis, they say I’m not skilled. Only the big shots can pulse-take like a scanner!]
[I really want to know what modern medicine students should do in this situation!]
[No wonder our teacher makes us hang out in Dr. Chen’s livestream, turns out you can really learn something?]
[Dr. Chen: Being in my livestream is your fortune!]
[...]
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Facing a group of eager-eyed white coats.
Chen Mu shrugged: "If it’s a condition severe enough to be seen at a glance, I assume even with your current level, you can identify it, like sudden cardiac arrest, sudden cerebral infarction..."
Simply gave an example.
And received unanimous nods from the white coats in front of him.
Chen Mu continued: "In such situations, you basically save the person first, then do every possible examination."
"Not only you, even with TCM, we would request similar things from patients and their families."
"Pulse-taking is magical, but sometimes certain conditions can only be confirmed through test results."
Watching the white coats continue nodding.
Chen Mu paused, then continued: "But if..."
"In situations like this, you only need to give her a phone or a tablet to let her type!"
Listening to Chen Mu’s voice.
The white coats in front of him were momentarily stunned.
"What? The solution is this simple?"
"Thinking carefully, this solution is easy to think of! Why haven’t we come up with it before?"
"I actually proposed a similar idea before, but you said the patient’s emotions were unstable and might damage the items, so it wasn’t adopted."
"I was foolish! I rejected the solution myself, I apologize!"
Chen Mu stood up: "This patient doesn’t have any major problems, she can basically use her own phone to explain why she’s crying."
A nimble white coat approached.
The patient smoothly took the phone and started typing in her notes.
About five or six minutes passed.
When the white coats saw the reason for the patient’s tears.
One after another fell into bewilderment.
Primarily because...
The reason for the patient’s tears was unimaginably simple to a normal person.
Actually.
Even though the patient wrote a lengthy explanation in her notes.
The truth is.
A sentence or two could clarify it.
The patient didn’t bring tissue to the bathroom, called her roommate early in the morning to bring her tissue, around four or five o’clock.
The roommate, due to waking up cranky, yelled two lines when handing her the tissue.
Which made her cry her way to the campus hospital.
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[My goodness! Putting myself in her roommate’s shoes, I’d feel helpless too, who wouldn’t have an attitude being woken up early morning?!]
[But from the perspective of a patient with tear-incontinence, she doesn’t want to cry like this, but can’t control it?]
[So many interns went silent, speculated all sorts of absurd possibilities, but who would think the reason is so simple...]
[I only have one thought now, would tear-incontinence this severe really not affect normal life?]
[Yes, just getting yelled at once and crying this much, what about entering society and starting work later?]
[Society is realistic, workplaces are too, many workers without tear-incontinence suffer, crying a few times like this might get you fired.]
[Exactly! A business is not a kindergarten, bosses aren’t obliged to console anyone!]
[Modern medicine is so advanced, surely there’s some solution?]
[Being so easily upset might need psychological help more?]
[...]
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Looking at the slightly speechless expressions of those white coats around them.
The girl on the hospital bed.
Subconsciously thought they disdained her for being petty.
Instantly.
Tears again moistened her eyes.
Seeing this, the white coats became visibly flustered.
"Student, we mean no harm, don’t cry!"
"Your eyes are swollen, crying continuously isn’t good for your eyes!"
"Exhale! Inhale! Let’s control emotions, alright!"
"..."
As medical students.
They indeed know some patients with tear-incontinence might be emotionally sensitive.
But the one before them.
Her emotional sensitivity slightly exceeded their expectations.
Watching the flustered medical students.
Chen Mu could only shake his head with some helplessness, not opening his mouth to assist.
Before issues arise, it’s indeed important for these youngsters to realize how a slight micro-expression facing sensitive patients might cause trouble.
In the elder’s era.
There was once a patient who asked the doctor over ten times, if they could eat hotpot.
Facing a patient with gastric bleeding, the doctor harshly replied.
The patient jumped off the hospital roof that night.
Then due to media smearing, many people protested at the hospital entrance.
The doctor, unable to bear the disturbances, returned home to open a clinic.
Despite the unfairness.
As seniors, he can only teach these youngsters to avoid risks as best as possible.
In this vast world.
Nothing is strictly black or white.
Everyone feels justified from their standpoint.
Often when arguing, people fail to realize how aggressive a different perspective can be...
But clearly.
From his own perspective, he is not wrong.
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Unsure which time it was.
Helping the patient wipe away tears.
Chen Mu sighed looking at the patient, "Student, have you considered treating your tear-incontinence?"
"Your condition has already become severe enough to affect normal life."
Despite crying, the girl’s eyes brightened.
Typed on her phone, "Is tear-incontinence treatable?"
"I’ve seen a psychologist before, but the effect wasn’t clear."
Chen Mu: "Perhaps, have you heard of tear duct flushing or probing surgeries?"
Behind Chen Mu, a voice sounded: "Dr. Chen, not just her, us medical students haven’t heard of that."
