Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 1850: How to Handle It
Mifepristone, a three-day dosage, one pill each time, taken twice daily in the morning and evening, no food two hours before taking the medication. If the patient’s family said that she took it for the first time this morning, there should be two and a half days’ worth left in the medicine bag, but now there’s only two days’ worth left.
What’s going on? Did the medicine spill or get thrown away?
Doctor Zuoliang asked the patient’s family: "How much medicine did she take this morning?"
Being questioned this way by the doctor, the patient’s husband had no choice but to admit: "The ER doctor said she took too much medicine. My wife said after getting the medicine, she ran upstairs to find the doctor again, and it was the doctor here who told her to take it this way. A female doctor told her to take two pills." After speaking, the patient’s husband saw that among their group of male doctors, there was only Xie Wanying as a female doctor, pointing her out as the culprit, saying: "It must be this female doctor who taught my wife to take too much medicine."
"Impossible." Doctor Zuoliang shook his head denying the accusation from the patient’s husband, "Dr. Xie was with me all afternoon yesterday. After we prescribed the medicine, we didn’t see the patient. If she did come, it was me who guided your wife on how to take the medicine, not her." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
"If it wasn’t her, who could it be? There’s clearly only her as a female doctor here." The patient’s husband locked onto Xie Wanying determinedly.
Du Haiwei encouraged the family not to get too excited and turned to instruct Doctor Zuoliang: "The patient is now in the emergency room, make a call to the ER to ask what her current condition is. If necessary, arrange for an extra bed in the ward and have the ER send her up for observation."
No matter the reason causing the patient to overdose, the doctor needs to handle the patient first. After all, the patient’s life is most important; other matters can be addressed later.
Following the mentor’s instructions, Doctor Zuoliang thought it was reasonable, went off to make the call to the ER and instructed the nurse to arrange the bed. While walking, he silently felt sympathy for Student Xie.
The patient’s husband relentlessly wanted to continue pursuing the doctors’ responsibility, saying: "You say, if my wife can’t get pregnant again due to physical abnormalities after taking the medicine, what then? It’s you who taught her to take the medicine this way; my wife wouldn’t lie."
Du Haiwei, maintaining a calm demeanor, told the family: "Please don’t worry about the medical expenses for now; I’ll cover them first. As for the specific reason causing the patient to take the wrong dosage, we’ll investigate and give you a response. If it’s our fault, we’ll admit it. Regarding the patient’s future physical condition, as doctors, we’ll definitely observe and handle it with care."
Upon hearing Du Haiwei’s statement, the patient’s husband calmed down a bit but still coldly regarded Xie Wanying as a culprit, saying: "If you did it, you have the guts, you better not deny it."
Xie Wanying thought it over and confirmed repeatedly that she only saw the patient once yesterday afternoon with Teacher Zuo. Having not met the patient again, both she and Doctor Zuoliang indeed didn’t know what happened to the patient afterward. They could only wait for the patient to arrive in the ward for further questions.
After finishing the call with the emergency room, Zuo Liang came up to report to the teacher: "They said the bleeding is slightly more than usual menstrual bleeding, it’s the patient herself feeling a bit tense, but the issue doesn’t seem major at the moment. I had them send the patient to our gynecology department for observation." After speaking, because he heard the family continuously accusing the doctors, Zuo Liang argued back to the family: "We initially told you that the method like a medical abortion itself could have adverse effects on the patient’s body, and seriously could lead to infertility in the future. The doctors advised you to consider carefully before deciding."
