Chapter 639 - 639 Waste no time

Chapter 639: Waste no time Chapter 639: Waste no time Without any test results from instruments, why call her here?

Was she expected to make a preliminary judgment like the Boss just by performing palpation and auscultation on a patient first? If she had that kind of capability, she would have been famous worldwide already. Shen Xifei inwardly scoffed at herself.

But the aloof teacher from General Surgery Department Two really thought that of her.

Even with the aid of medical equipment, a doctor’s various fundamental clinical skills must not be neglected. These are the most crucial skills that medical students need to learn and master in a clinical setting.

As a graduate student, she should be able to perform auscultation and palpation on a pregnant woman, right?

Seeing that the doctor opposite had not told her to stop, Shen Xifei steeled herself and walked over to the patient’s bedside. She took out her stethoscope first, and listened to the pregnant patient’s heart and lungs. The patient’s condition had improved, she was now conscious, the oropharyngeal airway had been removed, and she was breathing oxygen. It seemed that she had responded well after receiving emergency treatment since arriving.

“What feels uncomfortable?” Shen Xifei asked the patient, warm and gentle, careful and cautious, with the Boss watching.

“Pain,” Xu Xing moaned.

“Is your belly hurting?” Shen Xifei’s gaze fell on the patient’s slightly bulging belly, feeling a tingling in her scalp. How was she supposed to perform palpation for a pregnant woman with abdominal pain due to appendicitis? She seemed to have encountered it yet not encountered it. It must have been that she had not encountered it. That’s because cases of appendicitis are treated in the general surgery department, not their obstetrics and gynecology department. So, this situation was very sudden, and she instantly couldn’t recall the relevant knowledge.

With no other choice, she took out a soft tape from her pocket to measure the fundal height and abdominal circumference of the pregnant patient, noting down the numbers, which were within the normal range. She then tried using the stethoscope to listen for the fetal heartbeat below and to the left and right of the patient’s navel. She asked the patient if there were any symptoms like bleeding from below, and there were none for the time being.

After these routine obstetric examinations for pregnant women, Shen Xifei unwittingly wiped sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. She saw Sun Yubo and others watching her.

And the most terrifying thing was the look that she most feared, the one Tan Kelin cast her way.

Under Tan Kelin’s long brows, his cold gaze at this moment seemed as if he was about to chop down a scalpel onto her hand.

What now? Did she do something wrong in front of this terrifying man?

Shen Xifei was so scared she immediately withdrew her hands.

Wasting, time.

Did this person not realize the precious time being wasted?

Isn’t it said that people in obstetrics and gynecology are as urgent and quick to act as those from General Surgery Department Two? Why was it like this? Sun Yubo, just like everyone else, couldn’t understand. After waiting for so long, this person hadn’t conducted any relevant palpation for the abdominal pain?

Tan Kelin wanted to chop off this person’s hands as well, because those hands, which seemed unsure of what they were doing, could hardly be called a doctor’s hands as they didn’t even know which checks to perform.

The patient’s chief complaint was abdominal pain. Calling someone from obstetrics and gynecology here was exactly to primarily determine whether the pain was related to the uterus or not. After the general surgery folks had a palpation, it would be best for an obstetrics and gynecology person to palpate again, so that if everyone’s palpation felt the same, the diagnosis could basically be initially determined. Even if the patient was sent for an ultrasound, the doctors from general surgery could consider whether surgery was necessary and whether they needed to call someone back.

“Is her uterus hurting?” Sun Yubo asked her, as it seemed she wasn’t going to perform any further checks, and immediately inquired about her findings.

Shen Xifei, unable to confirm, could only relay the data she had just gauged from the obstetric check: “The patient’s abdominal circumference is at 80.5 centimeters, the pregnancy is almost 16 weeks, which falls within normal values. The fundal height is—”