Chapter 31: Opportunity
Messed up again.
The proportion of saline is somewhat high, and the infusion speed is too fast, and the patient is very uncomfortable. Starting from the left wrist where the needle is inserted, the cold sensation climbs up the arm, gradually occupying the left arm and spreading to the left half of the body. He grumbled, swearing in his mouth.
Some time ago, he was tossed by acute gastroenteritis and vomited and diarrhea, and could only barely drink some gruel every day, eat some bread for three meals, and go to the toilet once after eating. After two days, he was dehydrated and exhausted due to excessive excretion. In the past few days, after the doctor's conditioning, the body has gradually recovered.
Today, according to the doctor's request, he went to the clinic for infusion, anti-inflammatory and replenished salt water to restore his strength, but he was unlucky again. Because of the infusion of too thick saline, his hands are weak again, and then it may cause symptoms such as cell shrinkage, and if he doesn't get it right, he will add new diseases.
Fortunately, the doctor and person in charge of the clinic found out in time, removed the needle, and asked the nurse to take the patient from the infusion hall to the ward and take care of it herself.
As for the initiator of this accident, the doctor's daughter, there were harsher words waiting for her later than the patient's complaints.
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Vidiai, a developed country located in the west of the continent of Anzhou, is a member of the Ambras Union. Every country that joins the Ambras Union has a "specialty". VDI's specialty is medicine, which is known as the world's most developed medical technology, the most advanced medical equipment, and the most complete medical security system. Successive governments have attached great importance to the pharmaceutical industry and supported it as a key strategic project in their own countries, so that it can continue to grow and develop.
In addition to the large general hospitals run by the state, WDI also actively encourages individuals to start their own businesses, opening hospitals and clinics. More than 40 years ago, the government drastically reduced the tax pressure on private medical institutions, and for a time various private hospitals and clinics sprung up. However, after the precipitation of time and the elimination of the market, only those hospitals that have reached a certain level of medical treatment and management have survived. The directors of large private hospitals are all well-known figures, and some have even influenced the political scene of Vidi.
At Vidi, being a doctor is a respected profession. But on the other hand, not everyone can do it. He can not graduate in medicine, as long as he passes the medical qualification examination and obtains a nationally recognized qualification. And that's hard enough.
The medical qualification examination is divided into three sessions every year, starting in early April and ending at the end of May. The first is a theoretical written test, which focuses on basic medical knowledge. This exam is not divided into subjects, whether you want to specialize in treating bruises and bone injuries in the future, or focus on internal medicine, the test questions you face are the same. A qualified doctor, he can specialize in the arts, but before that, he must be a generalist.
The second exam is held one month later and is categorized according to the subjects taken by the candidates. In addition to common-sense questions, there are also a number of difficult problems related to clinical diagnosis and treatment. For example, give part of the patient's information and condition to analyze the pathology and formulate a treatment plan; How to use two weeks to get an RX6 addict to quit the addiction to some extent. In recent years, there has been a greater degree of freedom, such as how to conceive of a cure for cancer and AIDS.
The original intention of these questions is to test the candidate's understanding of the disease. You can't come up with a reasonable solution, but you must have a good enough narrative to impress the examiners, and the difficulty often gets stuck with many candidates.
Finally, and most troublesomely, hands-on. It is still a month to start, and it is divided into subjects like the second written test, and lasts for four days. Each test room has a special simulation program that uses induction IMAX technology to simulate the scene to highly replicate the actual treatment situation.
This type of examination is widely used only by Vidi in the world. The whole process of judgment is completed by the program first, and then re-checked by the invigilator. Any inadequate action of the candidate will be immediately detected. For example, if the pressure stops bleeding, even if the pressure position is only a few millimeters off, your results will be ugly.
Every year, in addition to the home country, there are also many foreigners, because some countries recognize the medical qualification of the company. The number of applicants usually reaches 70,000 or 80,000, and the number of people who stand out after three exams never exceeds 200. The test results are not simply the sum of the three subjects, and even the first two exams are worse, as long as you have excellent performance in practical operations, you also have a chance to pass. This is to improve the practical operation level of candidates, after all, you can't see a doctor on paper.
Those who win the examination will be interviewed by the National Medical Board within half a month. After this last hurdle, you can obtain a medical qualification certificate. The state would give them a handsome bonus to start a business or refer them to a certain hospital.
Therefore, anyone who embarks on the path of practicing medicine knows that his career is not easy to come by. Not only because it takes several years, or even more than ten years to pass the exam, but also because in the process of learning and practice, I realized that practicing medicine is an honor and a responsibility. Therefore, they will never allow anything to hurt patients and smash their own signboards.
"How many times have I told you? If you can't figure out the exact amount, just ask me! ”
In the hall, the doctor, Vidkan Saru, was mostly left with his daughter, Luna Sarudo. Luna is only 8 years old, but she has been trained several times more than 8. Since she was in primary school last year, she has been helping out in her father's clinic, but she has never been able to satisfy him.
"Isn't it just a little bit more......" she muttered.
This immediately caused a storm. "What do you think this is? Mineral water? A little more? Even a little can kill people! Why don't you understand yet? Medicine can cure diseases, but it can also harm people! Do you want your dad to be infamous as a Mongolian doctor? ”
Widkan kept talking, and Luna kept her head down. She got used to it, and she got used to it a long time ago.
Primary school life should be happy and free. The so-called learning is just to satisfy the thirst for knowledge in school. The rest of the time, devote yourself to hobbies and do what you like, which is what children should be. Luna thinks so, especially when she sees other children playing outside while she has to learn boring medical knowledge at home.
Widkan's emphasis on medicine can be described as loyalty. He had already planned the development route for his clinic. Ten years ago, he went to work in a hospital. Six years ago, he quit his job and built his current clinic. By the time Luna graduates from elementary school, he plans to make the clinic possible beyond his hometown of Goldley to eventually become a nationally renowned hospital. Luna, as her own daughter, is obligated to join the project.
He knew that learning had to be gradual, but even in Vidi, there were no medical textbooks for primary school students. However, Widkan believes that he can be a teacher, from simple to difficult, first to get started, and then go deeper. He prepares a set of medical tutorials for Luna, all of which he has created after "careful consideration". In fact, this is a bit of a seedling to help and does not achieve the desired effect, so he often can't help but get angry.
Luna doesn't hate studying medicine at first, but after being forced by her father to teach her cramming, her disgust grows. All her grievances were suppressed by Widkan, and she began to dislike her father again. But after all, a child has no resistance skills, so he has to learn and learn again.
Of course, the clever Luna knew something like salt water rationing, and she hoped that after a few times of making trouble, she would get her father to give up. Children are like this, they will always express their dissatisfaction in childish ways where you don't expect it, and often surprise you. This is a manifestation of children's creativity. Of course, in the eyes of adults, this is called "Tao".
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After more than 20 minutes of being harassed by her father, Luna was released from the clinic. In April, the spring breeze on the street is blowing, everything is recovering, and the small trees on the roadside and the grass on the ground are all spitting green. The cherry blossoms are one step ahead and bloom to their fullest. The petals of the flowers falling in the wind flutter like elves announcing the arrival of spring. Luna looks at the falling cherry blossoms and holds out her little hand.
"What is a man doing here?"
A little girl appeared with the crisp voice, and she appeared to be the embodiment of the elf. The light blue skirt, with a certain amount of white, with some shiny decorations and gold trim, dressed the little girl as a little fairy. She tilted her head, looking at Luna.
"Daze, what about you, Jessica?"
"My mother asked me to come out and buy snacks that I like to eat, and I will take them with me when I am ready for the spring outing." Jessica replied.
Luna envies her classmate and best friend. Jessica's parents are ordinary office workers, and the family is not wealthy, but she is happy. She can eat candy she likes, wear clothes she likes, and play things she likes, so her parents won't force her to study medicine.
Seeing Luna's sad face, Jessica comes over to persuade her.
"Don't be upset."
"My dad said me again."
"Because of what?"
"Because I didn't learn how to use medicine." Luna usually speaks of practicing medicine as medicine.
"Oh, then why did your dad let you learn?"
"I don't know."
"Then you won't learn?"
Luna hadn't thought about it, but she was just thinking about it. The stern image of her father had been engraved in her mind, like a god with a three-foot head in his head, firmly locking her.
"My dad won't let me."
Jessica doesn't know what Luna is struggling with, so the little girl comforts her friend and continues on her way.
Seeing Jessica away, Luna fiddles with her fingers to see the flowers outside, turns around, and reluctantly returns to the clinic.
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On April 22, 125 years of the new era, the sun was very sunny, and the last trace of cold left by the rain some time ago was swept away. This week, Luna's school organizes a spring outing for teachers and students. It's an annual school-wide event. In order to avoid chaos, the school set aside a week without classes, starting on Mondays, with Grades 1 through 6 taking turns traveling, with the last day reserved for faculty and staff.
Luna is in second grade, so she waited until today, which is Tuesday, to go out. This is the day she has been looking forward to for a long time, and you can see it from the red crosses painted on the wall. Since the beginning of the school year, she has silently counted the days, counting them in her heart every day. Because of this day, only this day, my father can't help her.
The night before, Susan, the mother, picked up her daughter's backpack. The lunch box contains Luna's favorite steak, fried rice with eggs and peas, and in addition to the main meal, you should also bring some snacks, mainly candy and cakes, after all, it is a child.
Susan also prepares a bottle of boiled water for Luna, which is used to quench her thirst, and two bottles of juice, which are used to "flavor", although Luna still wants to bring some fruit milk, but it is too much for her to carry herself.
Watching the mother and daughter happily prepare their things, Vidkan on the side frowned.
"Eat and drink, just bring enough. Did you bring the medicine? Prepare some external medicine, if you fall or whatever, you can also use it. ”
Medicine again? Luna pursed her lips, less noticeably. In terms of weight, the potions weren't as good as a bottle of water, but Luna still found them in the way.
"Take it, baby, it's easy to fall when walking in the mountains, just in case." Susan persuaded.
"I'll get you some." Vidkan said. But before he could act, he was restrained by the ringing of his mobile phone. He picked up the phone, chatted hurriedly, and began to put on his coat.
"What's wrong?" Susan asked.
"A patient's family member came to the clinic to make trouble, and I will deal with it."
Luna chuckled inwardly, it was the patient who had been "specialized" with salt water by herself a few days ago, and she looked down at her father. Fortunately, Widkan did not reprimand her, leaving only a word and left in a hurry.
"Find some for yourself."
Seeing her father go out, Luna breathed a sigh of relief, and hurried to the small room at home dedicated to medicines, found some topical medicines, and put them in her backpack.
The small backpack is stuffed with various things and becomes spherical, and when it is carried on it, the part that is in contact with the back does not rest well on the back, which makes Luna feel uncomfortable. She wanted to take out the medicine, but when she thought of the spring outing the next day, she put all these unhappiness away.
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At 8 o'clock, the children gathered in the school playground on time. Under the sun, these cuties in colorful costumes are like a flock of chirping chicks. Noise filled the playground, the teachers who led the team were busy counting the number of people, and the vice principal who led the team looked outside the school gate, looking down at his watch from time to time.
At 8:20 a.m., six buses drove into the campus one after another. One per class. The teacher took the students into the car and let the children get on the bus one by one. The children who got on the bus first cheered and ran to their preferred seats, usually by the window, and there were also thrill-loving boys who sat in the last row.
Ten minutes later, the convoy set off for their destination, a hill 70 kilometers from the school. It is a nice local scenic area, created by the government.
After a full hour's drive, the tour group arrived at the place, followed by a chaotic queue. According to the process, the children have to walk through the forest and enter a local cultural landscape, and then they are free to play.
Children are always curious about nature, and Luna is no exception. Walking among the trees, the sunlight turned into "raindrops" under the shade of the leaves, sprinkled on the ground. The chirping of birds surrounds the surroundings, and when you look up, you can't see them, as if they were the chirping of trees. The singers were accompanied by the sound of the rubbing of leaves, which came and went, and when they disappeared, the woods were covered in silence for a moment, and then the sound of children laughing filled the woods again.
Luna and Jessica hold hands, and they look around hoping to see a bird or some other critter.
"Ah, there was a shadow just now!" Jessica said, pointing to it.
Luna looked over and was stabbed in the eye by the sunlight.
"I didn't see it, is there really one?"
"Really." Jessica insisted, but there was no time for them to stop and search, now was the time for group activities.
This forest covers almost the entire mountain, and as you cross the forest, you climb the mountain before you know it. The children walked and stopped and walked in the forest for half an hour. After walking out of the woods along the forest road planned by the scenic spot, you will come to the cultural attraction.
Compared to the natural landscape, the cultural attractions here are really lackluster. I don't know what was left in what era, but now I can only see some boring stone carvings, a few decaying compounds, and a sign of "Cultural Relics Protection Area" standing outside. Two female guides try to explain the history of the place, and they try to explain it in lively language, but it is still obscure to the children.
Fortunately, this link is relatively short, and the following is the time for free activities.
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"Lulu, let's go find that bird."
At lunchtime, the two friends still sat together. They are used to sharing their own things, and food is no exception. After tasting each other's mother's handiwork, Jessica brings the conversation back to the birds.
"But, the teacher won't let you go there, right?" Luna said worriedly.
Even if it is free, it does not mean that you can run around, and the children's activity area is limited to the plaza near the attraction, surrounded by teachers and plaza staff. But how can children say that they can watch it?
"It's okay, let's just sneak out and come back on time."
Luna didn't care much about the bird, but on this day of freedom, the day of being free from her father's shackles, she cherished every minute and every second. It's a rare opportunity, so why not be freer, bolder, and experience something more unexpected?
"Okay."
Having made up their minds, the two girls set to action. It's really not that hard to sneak out while the teacher isn't looking. The teachers are also tired, they also want to sit down and chat, and as for the staff in the square, their attention is more focused on the garbage.
Luna and Jessica made it through the "encirclement network" without much effort, walking more than 400 meters along the same path and returning to Linhai. Looking up, the sun was still shining through the trees, but the birdsong had become much more sparse.
"Where?" Luna asked.
Jessica's neck was sore, and she didn't see any birds, so it's no wonder that birds don't sing all day on the branches, and maybe they have lunchtime too.
But Jessica was still walking slowly among the trees very seriously, and suddenly, she raised her hand and pointed and shouted.
"I saw it!"
She starts running, Luna doesn't see anything, and she runs along, and the two little girls chase through the woods after a bird they don't know if it's the first one they saw, so much so that they forget all about one crucial thing—they're on the mountain.
Although it is a tourist area, except for a few paved stone roads, it is forbidden to enter, and you can see warning signs such as "no entry" at intervals. It's not that there are birds or beasts, but there are more dangerous things than that.
After running for an unknown amount of time, the two girls rushed out of the woods and to the edge of the cliff. This grove is located on the mountainside, close to the cliffs. If you walk by, you can see the terrain clearly. But the two children ran out, barely looking at the ground.
By the time they realized that the road in front of them was gone, it was too late.
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"Ah!!h
Jessica, who was running in front, did not brake the car, stepped on the air with her left foot, and shook half of her body, but after all, she still couldn't resist the gravity, and then her body tilted and began to fall. Luna subconsciously reached out to grab it, and as soon as she grabbed Jessica's backpack, she was taken down by Jessica, and the screams immediately echoed in the air.
The two children rolled down the hillside, their petite bodies colliding with the stones. Luna was fine, because Jessica fell first, and underneath her was a way out of her. However, she was also hit by a stone and injured her arms, legs, and lower abdomen, and the pain hit her whole body.
After rolling for an unknown amount of time, Luna fell a flat ground, several wounds cracked, and the blood that flowed out added a few patches of red to her clothes. The blow to her head also caused a brief concussion, which blurred her eyes. When she struggled to get up and looked around, she couldn't help but scream.
"Jessica!"
In front of me is Jessica, who is lying flat. The beautiful dress was almost scraped to shreds, and a large amount of blood oozed from it, staining the skirt crimson. I don't know where the backpack I was carrying had fallen. Jessica shuddered, and the red area widened by a point, and she couldn't speak, only staccato whimpering.
Luna tried to walk over immediately, but the pain in her leg didn't allow her to do so, so she had to crawl over little by little. Jessica was bleeding, and the amount of bleeding was increasing, and she had to find a way. Otherwise, Jessica would have died before she was rescued.
But what to do?
Looking at the blood-red Jessica, a panicked Luna grabbed her backpack, poured out the contents one by one, and lay on it to find them one by one. She remembered that she had brought an ointment that clotted blood, and where? Luna rummaged around, picked up something, and put it down immediately.
Half a minute passed, she found it, and there were several, and she realized that she had made a mistake - the ointment was useless without stopping the bleeding first.
Jessica's lips were losing their blood, her face was starting to turn white, and her limbs, which had trembled occasionally, were almost motionless at the moment. The only characteristic that could tell her that she was alive was the fainter sound of breathing.
"It hurts...... It hurts ......."
"Jessica, I'll save you! You won't die! ”
Cheering Jessica on, Luna rummaged through the bandages. She was so nervous and anxious that she didn't know what she was doing, and her hand was just moving mechanically at the thought of "trying to save Jessica" until she found the bandage and pulled it open. At this point, she wasted two minutes.
The bandage is found, but a new puzzle makes Luna stop again. Where is the wound? How to stop the bleeding? Facing Jessica, who was constantly reddening, she was holding a bandage in her hand, not knowing where to start and how to find the location of the wound.
She should have known, and this knowledge may have been said from Widkan's mouth when she slipped away, and it became a deaf ear.
Her bandages were not in place, and her father had told her many times. Her method of stopping the bleeding is also not good, either the position is not accurate, or the strength is not enough.
The worst thing is that she forgot to bring alcohol. If the wound is not disinfected, it cannot be bandaged.
Luna still wonders if she can try it, but her father's words keep stopping her.
"Medicine can cure diseases, but it can also harm people."
That's right, if she does something wrong, Jessica will die, even faster. And do nothing? Jessica will die as well, it's just a matter of time.
No matter what she chooses, she can't save Jessica's life.
"Dew...... Dew ......"
Jessica gathered the scattered breaths into a single name. Luna grabbed Jessica's hand and held it tightly in her own, which was losing its body temperature, and some were just cold, cold when she was dying, and Luna's hand was clenched tightly, trying to pass her body temperature over.
Jessica ...... Jessica...... Sorry, woo woo........."
"Save ...... I ......"
These are Jessica's last words left. The next thing Jesica said was no more. Just as Luna is in a hurry, time is wasted, and she misses the best chance to save her. When the adults heard the noise, they rushed to find the ropes, put them down, and rescued them, Jessica was already dying.
Fifteen minutes later, Jessica was pronounced dead by a doctor who arrived.