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Chapter 631 - Chapter 631 【631】Powerless Patient

Chapter 631: [(631)] Powerless Patient Chapter 631: [(631)] Powerless Patient Of course, having a positive mindset does have its benefits, and it can help one naively get through these nine months. Xie Wanying doesn’t rule out the possibility that Senior Li Xiaobing thought this way, as some pregnancy accidents are simply unpredictable.

Like the pregnant woman in front of her–how could she and her family have imagined that four months into the pregnancy, she would suddenly experience severe abdominal pain and vomiting, reaching a point where she seemed to be in dire straits?

Aunt Li was so anxious she was close to tears–the child in her daughter-in-law’s womb was her precious grandchild; what would they do if something went wrong? For the older generation, who place great importance on continuing the family line, it’s generally difficult to accept a sudden miscarriage.

“Doctor, please, help her. She and my son have been married for five or six years, and she finally got pregnant with much difficulty,” Aunt Li stated, clearly prioritizing concerns about the child first.

In clinical practice, doctors always prioritize the mother over the child without being asked or prompted by others, unless a mother explicitly requests to save her child over herself.

Xie Wanying told herself not to overthink at the moment and to quickly check on the pregnant woman’s condition.

“How many days has she been vomiting?” Xie Wanying asked the family, while helping the patient to lie on her left and then her right side to determine the location of the abdominal pain.

“She told me herself, it’s been almost a week,” Aunt Li replied. “She also had diarrhea, that’s why we thought it wasn’t just pregnancy sickness, and it seemed like she ate something bad.”

“Abdominal pain?”

“Yes, she said she went to a nearby clinic several times, and at first, the doctors diagnosed her with gastritis because she had upper abdominal pain. Later, when she said her lower abdomen hurt, the doctors changed their diagnosis to enteritis and just gave her injections. After many days of treatment, there was no effect. I told her early on to consider going to a big hospital, but she said she couldn’t get an appointment. Finally, Miss Wu mentioned she knew a doctor at your hospital, and that’s why we hurried over here today.” Aunt Li’s words were soaked with the common people’s feeling of helplessness.

For an average family without connections, the difficulty of seeking treatment at a reputable big hospital is evident, let alone for Aunt Li’s family, who are ordinary workers who migrated to the Capital. The top-tier, triple-A hospitals in the Capital dominate the superior medical resources, and people from all over the country flock here for complex conditions that local hospitals struggle to manage, leaving little room for ordinary people with common diseases.

Truthfully, common diseases don’t always require the top hospitals for treatment; community clinics with adequate technical expertise can handle these cases and refer them to higher-level hospitals if necessary. However, the capabilities of community clinics vary greatly, and it’s uncertain how many hospitals one must visit to find a doctor capable of making an accurate diagnosis.

If the people are unlucky and the condition is urgent, situations like this pregnant woman’s can occur, where there’s no time to receive accurate treatment at the community level. Therefore, it’s not unusual for doctors at big hospitals to be shocked by what they see, finding patients whose optimal treatment time has been delayed, eventually leading to death without treatment.

At this stage, Xie Wanying is not contemplating the worst outcome, but her intuition already tells her that the pregnant woman has been misdiagnosed at the community level.

The patient definitely has more than ordinary enteritis or gastritis. She felt the patient’s forehead, confirming she had a fever, even after being given fever-reducing injections–such persistent fever after treatment is unusual and can be very deadly.

If injections over several days do not alleviate the symptoms, community doctors should consider that it might not be an ordinary case of gastroenteritis.