"Li Qinxue?"
Wang Youqing furrowed his brow deeply, having never heard of the Health Center ever receiving such a patient.
"Old Xiao, can you tell exactly what illness she had?"
"Although the Health Center doesn’t see a huge number of patients every day, it’s not a small number either, and it’s been a few days. I really don’t know if there was a patient nad Li Qinxue that you’re talking about."
Wang Youqing thought for a mont and said.
Xiao Boheng patted his forehead, "Look at , I wasn’t clear. I previously had a colon cancer patient who underwent surgery here but developed a rather severe case of postoperative urinary retention. After multiple treatnts and even catheterization surgery, it wasn’t successful.
She went to the City First Hospital but seemingly had no success there either. I asked Director Zhang from the gastroenterology departnt about it, and there was indeed such a case, and she went there several tis but still wasn’t cured. Then I heard from her daughter that she was cured by a doctor at your Health Center, so I wanted to inquire if this was true."
Colon cancer surgery?
Urinary retention?
Wang Youqing seed to have thought of sothing and looked up, saying, "The patient with urinary retention you ntioned, there indeed was one at the Health Center a few days ago—an old lady. I don’t know if her na was Li Qinxue, but if it was postoperative urinary retention after colon cancer surgery, it was indeed treated at our Health Center."
His words caused everyone in the room to be taken aback. Although postoperative urinary retention after colon cancer surgery is not uncommon, it was the first ti they’d heard of a case so severe that catheterization surgery couldn’t resolve it.
Moreover, based on what Xiao Boheng said, she went to the Ninth Hospital several tis without being cured. This wasn’t a case of ordinary incompetence.
Everyone knew Xiao Boheng’s capabilities, and he was sowhat underappreciated at the Ninth Hospital.
As for Director Zhang of the City First Hospital’s gastroenterology departnt, he was even more of an expert in this field. Yet, both of them couldn’t cure the urinary retention, while a doctor from the Health Center did, which was sowhat unbelievable.
Zhou Qihua, who had been listening on the side for a while, chid in, "Previously, Old Zhang ntioned this case. He was troubled by it for a long ti and specifically sought us out to discuss treatnt options. At the ti, none of us could propose a good solution, and in the end, suggested trying catheterization surgery, but Old Zhang had already tried that to no avail.
I heard from Old Zhang that he advised the patient to perhaps visit a provincial or Beijing hospital. Afterward, it seed like the patient never returned to the City First Hospital. Old Zhang assud she went to Beijing, so he stopped following up on her case. In reality, she went to Qiu City’s Health Center?"
Initially, everyone thought the patients attended to by Xiao Boheng and Old Zhang from the City First Hospital might not be the sa person, but Zhou Qihua’s account made everyone’s expressions beco a bit odd.
When did the Health Center get such a skilled doctor?
They had never heard about it before!
Even those from the Ninth Hospital who had kept in contact with Wang Youqing couldn’t help but fix their gazes upon him. Wu Liguo couldn’t resist asking, "Old Wang, what’s going on? I never heard you ntion that such a skilled doctor ca to the Health Center. Did an expert from a provincial hospital do a ’Flying Knife’ at your Health Center?"
"It wasn’t a Flying Knife."
Then what was it if it wasn’t a Flying Knife?
Faced with the puzzled expressions, Wang Youqing took a deep breath and said, "It’s not that I haven’t ntioned it, but they aren’t really part of our system. We’re all Western dicine practitioners; he’s a Traditional Chinese dicine (TCM) doctor. Plus, Lu hasn’t been here long, which is why I haven’t brought it up.
Regarding the patient with urinary retention, it was indeed Dr. Lu who treated her. When I first heard it, I was astonished and a bit skeptical, but the next day, the patient brought a banner to Dr. Lu, looking much better. Even if I didn’t want to believe it, I had to."
After he finished speaking, Wang Youqing suddenly noticed the room had fallen into a dead silence. He subconsciously glanced around and noticed everyone was staring at him blankly. He couldn’t help but ask, "Why is everyone looking at like that?"
"I’m not lying to you. The whole Health Center knows about it."
After a while, it was still Xiao Boheng who took a deep breath and said, "It’s not that I don’t believe it, it’s just that this is indeed a bit beyond belief."
"Old Wang, if you told us it was a Flying Knife from the province that cured it, we wouldn’t be so shocked. But you said it was a TCM doctor from your Health Center who did it. Who wouldn’t find that astonishing?"
Wu Liguo interjected, "If I rember correctly, wasn’t your Health Center’s TCM departnt always inactive? When did it open?"
"It opened just half a month ago."
"Old Wu, don’t interrupt. This isn’t the ti to discuss that."
Xiao Boheng gave Wu Liguo an annoyed look, then turned back to Wang Youqing, "Old Wang, from what you said earlier, it sounds like the doctor is quite young?"
"That’s not the main point!" Wu Liguo muttered.
But Xiao Boheng obviously didn’t pay attention to him.
Wang Youqing nodded, "He should be about twenty-five or twenty-six this year. I haven’t asked specifically, but he’s not very old. However, Lu is quite skilled. Since coming to the Health Center, the TCM departnt has beco the most popular departnt here. He sees seventy to eighty patients a day, and that’s even after we’ve implented a cap. Otherwise, there’d be more. The TCM departnt is now relying solely on Lu to manage, and there’s barely enough ti to handle the crowds."
Upon hearing this, everyone’s gaze toward Wang Youqing beca sowhat incredulous.
Seventy to eighty patients a day, which is a number an entire departnt might see in a day, let alone for TCM. Everyone knows that TCM consultations are slower; much relies on observation and asking questions, unlike Western dicine, where tests and checks can be quickly conducted. Even if follow-up consultations are needed, they don’t take nearly as long.
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