264 Physical Examination (1/2)

Early in the morning, Ling Ran, who had only performed one surgery before that, languidly performed a ward round. He obtained four Sincere Gratitude treasure chests during that wardroom.

Ling Ran hesitated a little when he looked at the sixteen Basic Treasure Chests which he had accumulated from the system. Theoretically speaking, the number sixteen was the fourth power of the number two, and could be obtained by performing a 2x2x2x2 calculation. And in the binary system, sixteen was written as 10,000. It was the epitome of a whole number.

So, should he open the treasure chests, or should he open the treasure chests?

The previous time he opened multiple Basic Treasure Chests at the same time, he obtained two skills at once.

Even though the heavy reinforcing suture technique and intradermal suture technique overlapped quite a bit, they could be seen as a group of related skills. When he thought about it this way, Ling Ran found it more useful if the Basic Treasure Chests gave him two skills at the same time.

Hence, he had most definitely not expected to obtain two skills at the same time if he opened sixteen Basic Treasure Chests at once.

Ling Ran was absorbed in his thoughts and quickly made a decision. He said, ”Since no surgery is arranged for us yet, shall we perform another round of physical examinations?”

Lu Wenbin naturally did not mind, but he asked curiously, ”Did we miss something just now?”

”How is it even possible to catch everything in one round?” Ling Ran twitched his lips.

Lu Wenbin had no way to object.

From a doctor's perspective, it would never be enough no matter how many rounds of physical examination they performed. The human body was much more complicated than what human beings could fathom. Take, for example, the simplest procedure of all: the measuring of blood pressure. Different methods of measuring blood pressure would bring about different results, and a person's blood pressure on the left arm would be different compared to the blood pressure on his right arm. Blood pressure also differed according to the position the patient was in and the time of the day the blood pressure was taken. Hence, they did not ask for high accuracy in blood pressure indices. However, similar situations would still be found for tests that required high accuracy.

Even when it came to MRI scans, the reference material for judging whether a patient's anatomical structure was normal only consisted of around a hundred, or at most around four hundred healthy people's scans.

If it were not for the fact that various scans produced radiation which was harmful to the human body, or that procedures such as the drawing of blood led to damage to the human body, a patient's daily examination would become much more complicated.

The physical examination was considered a very economical examination method. It was just that the frequency at which it was performed was slowly reducing.

Patients always wanted answers that were certain. It was the same when it came to medical lawsuits. And it was very hard for physical examinations to provide certain answers.

However, the functionalities of physical examination for preliminary screening purposes still could not be ignored.

Ling Ran made a ward round again and performed physical examinations on the patients, one by one.

Lu Wenbin followed behind Ling Ran, and he was so busy that his head was spinning. He could not help but say with a sigh, ”I have heard stories about how all the doctors in the 1960s and 1970s perform ward rounds twice every day. Never have I thought that something like this would happen at this day and age.”

”The first round is for a rough check-up to fulfill the patients' basic needs. The second round is for us to perform a meticulous examination and solve the patients' problems based on their exact needs. There's nothing bad about this.” Ling Ran paused for a moment and said, ”It's too bad that I'm not a doctor of internal medicine.”

The indications made by surgeons and internists were completely different, and their abilities to handle various problems were also different.

Take diarrhea as an example. It might be a small problem that the patient could handle by himself if he were at home. But in the hospital, when a surgeon heard that the patient experienced diarrhea, he would not be able to handle it as well as internists.

There were way too many things that had to be taken into consideration, to the point that surgeons could usually only get rid of the patients' symptoms instead of getting to the root of the problem.

Surgeons would prefer to hear terms such as ”cramps”.

Ling Ran could not simply prescribe medicine to patients either. Every now and then, when he discovered a problem during a physical examination, he could only arrange for the patient to undergo further checkup.

Lu Wenbin had not even grasped many of the surgical skills, and was still at the stage where he was climbing the roots of the skill tree. He felt as if his notebook was getting heavier and heavier, and he was worried about how this was going to make it harder for him to write the medical records of Ling Ran's patients.

However, these were not the kind of things that you could tell a senior doctor, and you could only think about it in passing. Any senior doctor would definitely scold a junior doctor the moment he heard these words.

As Lu Wenbin stared at his notebook, he could only say something that was pleasant to the ears. ”Your physical examination skills are a lot better than many internists. You discovered quite a few problems only after performing one round of physical examinations.”