Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic-Chapter 257 - 152: Successful Bone Fracture Reduction—Now I Can Sleep Soundly

Li Jingsheng finished speaking and began to shake the patient's wrist.

This scene is actually quite frightening.

The patient has already experienced a fracture and wrist joint dislocation. At this moment, most people's thoughts are to stay still to avoid further injury.

In the hands of the doctor, however, the patient is treated not like a person.

But rather like a machine.

Despite being a man in his fifties, the patient was so scared that he closed his eyes and turned his head away.

Li Jingsheng shook the patient's hand for a while, thinking it was about enough.

Then he started to feel the patient's bone.

He discovered there was still some soft tissue adhesion present.

The previous shaking had some effect, relieving some of the adhesive soft tissues.

But this was definitely not enough.

"It's okay to increase the movement slightly!"

Doctor Xu watched from the side. He could guess the general condition of the patient without even feeling the bone.

He spoke out just at the right moment to bolster Li Jingsheng's confidence.

"Understood!"

This time, Li Jingsheng increased the force of the shaking and boldly integrated the flexion-extension technique while shaking.

This wasn't his first time flexibly breaking down and combining advanced bone setting techniques.

He had just mastered the shaking method, and his skill level was still limited.

After the shaking and flexion-extension for a moment, he tried inspecting the patient once more.

There was still a small portion of adhesive soft tissue that remained.

That small portion was near the joint area, and his shaking method wasn't particularly adept. He had just mastered it preliminarily, and it was his first time handling a fracture combined with joint dislocation with such intensive movements.

It's natural to feel nervous inside.

What if he aggravated the patient's bone injury?

Then there would be big trouble.

So he was somewhat hesitant.

After shaking twice, he still hadn't successfully treated the patient. He knew that the patient's patience had run out.

If he couldn't get it right the last time, it's very likely the patient would get angry.

Just like when Dr. Chen was scolded for turning a patient's injured limb around.

Li Jingsheng instinctively checked the attribute panel.

Based on experience, his fifth advanced bone setting technique, the shaking touch technique, might have reached the entry level.

In the skills section, under the category of bone setting technique.

When he found out that the shaking touch technique had really appeared on entry level 1/10, he was instantly overjoyed.

The advanced bone setting technique had finally reached entry level at this critical moment, practically providing a pillow when he needed it.

Without any hesitation, he expended 99 points of life value to raise the proficiency of this medical skill from entry level to mastering.

This time it was secure.

Regarding his understanding of the shaking touch technique, his grasp of various techniques had reached the low-level Attending Level.

"This young doctor's grip doesn't seem strong enough. Wouldn't it be better to have an older doctor treat me?" The patient said, feeling a bit unhappy since Li Jingsheng hadn't succeeded twice.

But he spoke politely.

"I was afraid of hurting you earlier! I'll add more force this time, please relax!"

After saying this, Li Jingsheng grabbed the patient's hand and started shaking and flexing it again.

This time, it seemed like a completely different person was operating; the movements were more skillful by tenfold. The strength was adequate, and the amplitude was surprisingly large.

"Oh, oh, stop, don't mess around with me!"

The patient's arm had been numbed with anesthetic and felt no pain.

But seeing this young doctor grab his injured hand and shake it like a rag, he was scared enough to sit up from the treatment bed.

This was too terrifying.

You indeed shouldn't offend a doctor.

If they kept shaking it, his already injured hand might be ruined.

"Don't move, don't move!"

After finishing the shaking, Li Jingsheng casually manipulated the patient's wrist and applied techniques of pressing, squeezing, lifting, and holding.

"It's done."

He said to the patient.

"Is, is it really cured?"

The patient evidently couldn't quite believe what he said.

"You're numb from the anesthetic now and can't feel it, but no worries, I'll fixate your wrist first, and then you can get an X-ray to check if it's healed."

Li Jingsheng spoke with confidence.

Doctor Xu came over, seriously feeling the patient's wrist bone, and revealed a satisfied, relaxed smile.

"All the adhesive soft tissues have been relieved, the joint is flexible, the bone has returned to normal, and both fracture sites have been repositioned. It's as good as it gets. You'll see the positioning effect yourself after the scan."

Hearing Doctor Xu say this, the patient's expression relaxed considerably.

But he was still afraid the doctors were colluding to deceive him.

After the fixation was done, he proactively asked for another scan to recheck.

More than half an hour later, the patient returned, elated.

Apparently, he had asked the radiology department doctor.

"Doctor, the radiology department doctor says it's repositioned properly. He told me to show the scan to you."

In terms of professional level, the expertise of specialist doctors in reading scans is more authoritative.

In the medical imaging department, some doctors are truly skilled with exceptional scan-reading abilities. Some are connected people or those who just muddle through work, usually doing things perfunctorily.

While describing the results, they often passively glance and recite textbook content casually.

Doctor Xu took the scan and looked at it carefully against the light.

"The repositioning is extremely successful, just go home and take care of it, and come back for a check-up in four weeks."

"Haha, now I can completely relax."

After receiving confirmation twice, the patient dispelled the last bit of doubt in his mind.

"Honestly, when this young doctor Li was operating on me, shaking so vigorously really scared me. It seems the big hospital's technique is indeed excellent and reliable, coming here was the right choice."

The patient was subtly apologizing to Li Jingsheng.

After all, not long ago, he misunderstood the young doctor.

"Now you realize coming here was the right choice? In your situation, besides us, few places would be willing to perform manual repositioning; most would require surgery. Now that manual repositioning is successful, you've saved a significant amount on treatment costs, not to mention avoiding the suffering of hospitalization."

Doctor Xu's words were clearly in favor of his apprentice.

However, the difficulty of this patient's treatment was indeed high.

He himself had visited two big hospitals, both claiming surgery was necessary.

"Thank you all! Now I can finally go home and sleep peacefully tonight! To be honest, these days, thinking about the possibility of disability, I haven't been able to sleep. What would happen to my family if my hand became disabled? My wife only earns a little over three thousand a month, we have four children to raise, plus elderly parents."

"It's because you wanted a son and insisted on having more kids! See, now you know they're hard to raise?"

His wife complained from the side.