Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic-Chapter 149 - 116: Proprietary Technique Is the Key Ingredient_3

Chapter 149: Chapter 116: Proprietary Technique Is the Key Ingredient_3

Li Jingsheng helped Xiaogao out of a predicament.

He understood Xiaogao’s concerns about switching to the Sunshine Clinic, having surely promised Boss Zhao not to leak the Quick Recovery Clinic’s trade secrets.

Otherwise, it would be like digging up Boss Zhao’s ancestral grave.

Xiaogao’s ability to keep promises actually made Li Jingsheng happy.

Should Xiaogao jump ship from here someday, he would be able to keep his promises too.

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After calculating the accounts and completing today’s medical records, Li Jingsheng finally went out to eat.

That kid Xiaogao is really something; today he alone sold more than 7,600 yuan. Meanwhile, Tang Ping only sold around 3,500 yuan.

If Sunshine Clinic didn’t have Xiaogao’s participation, sales of health supplements would quickly fall to a daily turnover of one or two thousand.

Without a large customer base foundation and accumulation, the rise is quick, but the fall is equally swift.

Li Jingsheng realized that to achieve great success, one still has to proceed steadily and surely.

Media exposure and promotion can provide a certain boost, but without core competitiveness, it’s still hard to become big.

While eating fried rice outside, his phone rang.

It was an unfamiliar number.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

"Are you the doctor from Sunshine Clinic?"

"Yes, I’m Li Jingsheng! Do you need something?"

"Hello Dr. Li, I’m the person who recently brought my grandson to your clinic, the little boy who broke his right hand. Do you remember us?"

"Oh, it’s you! Did you receive treatment at the big hospital?"

Li Jingsheng was quite surprised.

That elderly couple shouldn’t have had his phone number, so calling him could only mean one thing: they were outside Li Jingsheng’s clinic.

The spray-painted sign that cost more than 400 yuan had Li Jingsheng’s phone number on it.

Originally, it was to make it easy for patients to contact him in emergencies.

"We went, but the community health service station couldn’t treat him. The emergency room at the Second Hospital told us we need to wait until 8 AM tomorrow when the manual repositioning clinic opens for treatment. So, could you extend your working hours and treat my grandson? We’re currently outside your clinic, and we see the glass door is locked."

The old man must have considered that waiting until tomorrow for treatment would mean the child would endure pain for a whole night.

Moreover, no one could guarantee that the injury wouldn’t worsen during the wait.

The urgency in his near-pleading voice was palpable.

These two elders have really been through a lot, only to end up seeking Li Jingsheng’s treatment in the end.

But their feelings are understandable.

"I’m outside right now, but I’ll head back right away. It might take about ten minutes."

Li Jingsheng didn’t waste any words.

When patients need help, he will try his best to provide assistance.

"Okay, thank you so much! We’ll wait for you outside your clinic!" The old man breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Li Jingsheng was coming back soon.

Li Jingsheng quickened his pace to finish his meal.

He gulped down the complimentary seaweed egg soup and hurried back to the clinic.

When he arrived, he saw the elderly couple standing under the night sky from afar, the old man holding the child.

The little boy, four or five years old, was not light.

Holding him for that long must have been tiring.

Yet the old man didn’t want to put his grandson down.

The old lady looked anxiously around.

One wonders if the old man had scolded her.

It’s likely they exchanged some complaints.

"He’s here, he’s here, the doctor’s here!"

The old lady, seeing Li Jingsheng striding swiftly, immediately showed a joyful smile.

"Sorry to keep you waiting!" Li Jingsheng apologized while quickly unlocking and opening the glass door. "Come in!"

He led the three of them inside the clinic.

When he left, he had only left one light on to save electricity.

Now with patients, he turned them all on.

Instantly, the dim little clinic was brightly lit.

"Let’s put him on the bed first; I’ll check him again."

Out of caution, Li Jingsheng definitely needed to feel the bone again.

When he felt the shoulder joint dislocation area, his brow furrowed slightly.

"Did you undergo manual repositioning at the hospital?"

The old lady’s face suddenly turned a bit red.

The old man straightforwardly admitted, "When we went to the community health service station, a General Surgery doctor named Jin was on duty. He had us take an x-ray there, and after seeing it, said manual repositioning was possible. But he failed."

Manual shoulder joint repositioning isn’t difficult, but it depends on the situation.

Dr. Jin is a General Surgery doctor at the community health service station, with a strong drive.

He probably isn’t well-versed in the field of orthopedic surgery.

He was likely overconfident in his manual repositioning technique, which led to embarrassment.

"Did you take an x-ray at the Second Hospital’s emergency room?"

"No! Their doctor, seeing that we’d already taken x-rays at the community service station and here, said no further examination was necessary. He also told us that judging from the dislocation on the x-ray, my grandson’s dislocation is quite severe. Physician Xu at their hospital is the only one with the bone-setting expertise, so we have to wait until 8 AM when he starts his shift for consultation to determine whether manual repositioning is possible."

The old man was quite honest.

He told it all.

"Doctor, does the failed manual repositioning at the community health service station affect my grandson?"

The old lady asked worriedly.

Earlier, when Li Jingsheng felt the boy’s bones, his expression clearly changed.

"It’s okay."

Li Jingsheng could only provide an ambiguous answer.

He’s not about to badmouth Dr. Jin from the community health service station.

"That’s good. Can you try to manually reposition my grandson now?"

"We can try. The charge here is 200 yuan."

After examining, Li Jingsheng found some hematoma at the site of the boy’s shoulder joint dislocation, indicating some damage to the blood vessels and muscles.

Dr. Jin’s re-positioning technique is sincerely unimpressive.

Thankfully, he didn’t cause tearing of the shoulder joint capsule or serious damage to the bones, otherwise, it could have been a big problem.

Seeing how much these two elders love their grandson, if they found out Dr. Jin caused severe injury to their grandson’s bones during the repositioning process, they would definitely pursue it to the end.

"Money is not an issue. As long as my grandson is safe." 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The old lady’s monthly pension is likely quite substantial.

She doesn’t care about the treatment fee.

And charging only 200 yuan is quite reasonable.

"Could you hold the child and sit in the chair? Try to stabilize his body as much as possible."

Li Jingsheng instructed the old man.

The old man followed his orders.

Li Jingsheng grasped the boy’s shoulder with one hand and held the humerus of the boy’s arm with the other.

Then, using the new traction technique he learned from Doctor Xu, he gently pulled the child’s right arm straight upward, gradually externally rotating the arm, and slightly exerting upwards.

A very soft sound of bone alignment echoed.

This was the sound of the humeral head successfully returning to the joint capsule.

The little boy had been crying out in pain, but suddenly quietened down at this moment, and then burst into loud sobs.