Chapter 218: Instant fa
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
It seed like things had a good outco, since both patients were fine in the end.
However, that wasn’t the case at all! The hospital administration departnt wouldn’t let things go that easily. Although nobody had died, which ant that no report needed to be made to the Bureau of Health, this still counted as a dical incident. The administration wouldn’t care about the specific circumstances. The administration would only punish you severely so that you wouldn’t easily forget. Was the hospital or the hospital administration departnt being too severe? Not at all, because this was about human lives. No mistake would be allowed, whether it be major or minor!
In this flu epidemic, the majority of patients had virus-type colds. Only a small minority had germ-type colds. While antibiotics could be used for the germ-type colds, colds caused by the flu virus were far scarier.
This was due to the fact that there was no highly effective dicine against the flu virus. People would have to rely on their own immune system to resist the flu. Foreign antiviral dicine would only be most effective during the first two days that soone got infected with the flu. However, most people would still be at ho during the first two days, not having hospitalized themselves yet. Those who ca to the hospital were almost always on their third or fourth day of the flu already. Besides, how were ordinary people supposed to know how to fight against the flu?
As the flu epidemic went on, Director Yang Guangwei of Chasu City Hospital’s traditional Chinese dicine departnt ca to talk to Superintendent Ouyang. Here in northwestern China, dicine wasn’t as developed even in modern days. Additionally, there was less population here, so the northwest had produced fewer famous doctors. With the past several decades of no progress, the Chinese dicine departnt was incredibly marginalized in Chasu City Hospital.
There were only two doctors in the traditional Chinese dicine departnt under the director. These two doctors would take turns providing clinical treatnt. As for the old director, he had actually been rehired after retirent. Why was such an ancient dicine branch unable to produce enough doctors to fill a normal departnt? Who knows?
Yang Guangwei was from a family of traditional Chinese dicine doctors, which was quite rare in the northwest. He had been studying tuberculosis for his whole life. He was the first in China to ntion that tuberculosis and diabetes were connected. But, due to lacking conditions, that was all he could do. He didn’t have the conditions necessary to perform higher-level research. Although he was getting quite old now, he was still continuously learning, and paid close attention to the field of Chinese dicine.
He was quite worried about the flu epidemic this ti as he was indeed a caring doctor. He worried more about this matter than most youngsters would. He was easily able to talk to leaders as well as deal with civilian questions.
“Superintendent, take a look at this report.” Yang Guangwei brought a one-year-old magazine to Superintendent Ouyang. Although Superintendent Ouyang was incredibly busy due to the flu epidemic, she had to be polite to Director Yang as the latter had worked hard at the hospital for his entire life. She had to respect that.
“Director Yang, you should pay attention to your health as well. This flu epidemic is far too vicious. The hospital is basically like a plague area now,” Superintendent Ouyang comnted while preparing to only pretend to look at the magazine. That was because Director Yang was too much of an academic who could blabber on endlessly.
However, Superintendent Ouyang was instantly drawn to the magazine’s report when she took a look. Very few people would even read a magazine about Chinese dicine combined with the effects of western dicine, but Superintendent Ouyang saw a report on evidence-based dicine that China had done for H1N1.
Back in 2009, H1N1 had been running rampant. The largest hospitals in China had done so simple tests on various antiviral dicines. Although the experintal data wasn’t enough to be absolutely certain, 1000 tis wasn’t a low number at all.
According to the report, lianhua qingwen capsules were far more effective against influenza than oseltamivir. Without regards to anything else, just based on price alone, oseltamivir was nine tis more expensive than lianhua qingwen. Not only that, oseltamivir was also really short on supply.
Superintendent Ouyang put down the report, and asked Director Yang, “Shall we try it?”
“Yes, we should. Let’s add lianhua qingwen as a dicine in addition to the basic treatnt. We can’t just continue with the basic treatnt. We must be responsible towards our patients.” Director Yang began to give a lecture. He really loved to blabber as he was getting old.
Superintendent Ouyang hurriedly stopped him. “Director Yang, let’s talk about such things later. Is your body still doing alright?”
“Yes! No problem at all. Please give any mission that you like.” Director Yang stood up straight even though he was getting slightly hunchbacked already.
“Due to the high number of patients and especially infectious nature of this flu epidemic, as you have ample amounts of Chinese dicine knowledge, I would like to ask you to help gather data on the patients’ recovery with lianhua qingwen if we start to use it on a large scale.”
“Not a problem! I’ll definitely do my best!”
“The prerequisite is that you must protect yourself. You’re soone irreplaceable at our hospital.”
“Not worries. I’ve been a doctor for all my life. This tiny flu won’t be able to defeat .”
Treatnt and dicine would always go together. An excellent doctor would also have to be an excellent pharmacist. However, due to modern categorization, doctors now only knew so basics about dicine. Director Yang was more old-school, and he was an expert on both treatnt and dicine.
Chasu City Hospital began to use lianhua qingwen on a large-scale basis to treat the flu. Director Yang led younger doctors in constantly gathering data on the patients’ recovery.
Gathering data was a very complex process. It wasn’t as simple as seeing how well the patients recovered. Instead, the doctors would have to take detailed asurents of the patients’ temperature, breathing, heart rate, and so on in comparison to patients that didn’t take the lianhua qingwen dication.
From morning to night, Director Yang worked hard constantly for three days in a row. After this ti, so younger and stronger flu patients were already showing obvious signs of improvent. Based on the data so far, lianhua qingwen’s effects were definitely far better than oseltamivir’s at dealing with the flu symptoms.
This was effective! Everyone in Chasu City Hospital could heave a slight sigh of relief. A doctor would always feel sad about having no effective thods or techniques to deal with an illness while being only able to watch the patient fight against the illness by themselves.
Soon, patients kept being discharged in large numbers. Gradually, no more patients remained in the hospital’s main hallway. Only so patients in serious condition remained. One week later, on Monday morning, Superintendent Ouyang happily announced that the period of exceptional asures was over, and that all doctors could return to their own departnts or vacation.
The governntal higher-ups soon issued rewards as well. It would make everyone lose morale if no reward was issued in such a situation. For a workplace like a hospital, since everyone worked in a team, there would rarely be individual awards for only a single person as everyone had helped out. It would also be bad to have individual awards as that would make it harder for others to develop as everyone was supposed to be a team.
Every hospital staff mber was awarded 1,000 yuan as bonus money! Chasu City Hospital was also issued a gold commorative badge.
Director Yang didn’t participate in the award ceremony. Although he hadn’t caught the flu in the end, he had worked extrely hard, which was a bit much for him as he was almost 70 years old already. Now that all the flu epidemic patients had left, Director Yang gave a thick stack of data on the flu patients to Superintendent Ouyang before slowly trudging ho. He only wanted to sleep for as long as he possibly could!
After the award ceremony, it was now ti to self-reflect and find problems. In the dical system, self-reflections were required to be especially severe. This wasn’t only about correcting mistakes.
The strictness of dicine was all in order to ensure that no mistakes which would lead to dical incidents were made.
The hospital administrator director had a stern expression as he spoke to Zhang Fan and the other rotation doctors and nurses from the respiratory departnt. “What mistakes did you make! All of you, tell by yourselves! Doctors go first.”
Everyone looked at Zhang Fan when it was his turn. He had to think his very best if he had made any mistakes at all during this ti. However, he was absolutely confident that he hadn’t made a single dical mistake!
“I should have stood in between patient #8 and patient #9 so that patient #8 wouldn’t have been able to watch perform surgery.” There was no helping it. This was the only problem that Zhang Fan could identify with his own work!
Everyone else also self-reflected on their own mistakes! This was the dical field, a really strict field of work that required extra caution. Was this going overboard? Not at all, because experience could only be gained this way!
Lianhua qingwen beca a famous dication due to this incident! Traditional Chinese dicine wasn’t such a garbage many people thought it was! Chinese people had just forgotten how to use it properly!
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