Chapter 156: 【156】Patients Who Can’t Wait for the Ambulance
They arrived to see a skinny young man in his twenties leaning against a traffic officer.
The frail young man was breathing laboriously, his face ashen and pale, lips purple, fingers swollen.
“Clubbed fingers, first suspect cardio-pulmonary disease. At his age, lung cancer is unlikely, and it’s rare for young people to have idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, so we should first rule out if he’s a heart disease patient.” Xie Wanying could tell the patient’s obvious symptoms without using her Special Ability.
Doctor Jiang looked at her: under such pressing circumstances, for an intern to make such an accurate judgment, she indeed was no ordinary person.
Zhao Zhaowei struggled to recall the medical terminology that Xie Wanying mentioned, wondering what “clubbed fingers” meant.
“Tell me, do you know what disease you have?” Doctor Jiang crouched down and asked the young man.
The young man was too weak to utter a word, only managing to look in Xie Wanying’s direction with his eyes.
Seeing the patient’s expression, Doctor Jiang understood: just as Xie Wanying had said, the young man knew he had a heart condition.
This was troublesome.
The one with the blood loss needed to be rushed to the hospital for surgery right away, as waiting any longer could lead to shock and death from excessive blood loss.
The young heart disease patient in front of them couldn’t wait either, likely without any major external injuries, but having been shocked by the traffic accident, his heart could stop at any moment.
Who to put in the ambulance first was the question, as there was only one ambulance available.
The sound of an ambulance siren, woo woo, at this moment was an absolute lifesaver. Doctor Jiang and Xie Wanying turned around happily, thinking that both patients could now be saved.
Unexpectedly, as the newly arrived ambulance stopped, a firefighter carrying a child just rescued from a bus sprinted towards it, shouting hysterically while running: “It’s a child, save the child first!”
The doctors and nurses from the ambulance ran down to take the child and loaded him into the ambulance, which then hurriedly drove away.
Doctor Jiang and Xie Wanying were left speechless: Really? Hijack the ambulance without evaluating who was more critical? Even if it’s a child, the ambulance should take the more seriously injured first.
Seeing this scene, the young man’s face lost even more color. He must have been waiting for a long time, through ambulance after ambulance, and it was never his turn. Maybe he would die before his turn ever came.
A tear fell from the corner of his eye.
Heartbroken, Doctor Jiang pulled out his stethoscope and comforted the patient, “Don’t worry, it’ll be your turn very soon.”
The young man opened his eyes wide, not sharing Doctor Jiang’s optimism; in fact, he had already lost hope.
Then a nurse attending to another victim called out, “Doctor Jiang, I’ve administered the injection, but I think his blood pressure might continue to drop—”
Nonsense, how could it not drop with the bleeding not stopped, fluid replacement is just buying time for the patient. Clearly, that patient had to be taken by ambulance first.
A firefighter rescuing people from the bus shouted,”We’ve found another child, still alive!”
The young man heard these shouts, realizing that he would need to wait for two more ambulances to arrive, or maybe just keep on waiting, until the very last one. Without saying, he couldn’t wait; he definitely wouldn’t last that long.
The traffic officer holding him said to Doctor Jiang, “Can’t you think of something, doctor? Maybe give him an injection first? Nitroglycerin?”