"After being infected with Salmonella, simply rehydrating won’t solve the problem. Some patients can pull through with their own immunity, while others may die from severe illness due to various reasons. Therefore, medication must be used when it’s time for treatment."
Director Shang had just finished speaking when the family member beside him was terrified.
"Professor Shang, you must save my husband, our family can’t live without him." The family member probably regrets it to their guts now.
She had no idea that sneaking a bowl of chicken soup to her husband would have such serious consequences!
The thought of her husband possibly dying caused her tears to flow ceaselessly.
"Don’t cry, please don’t cry! I’m teaching the doctors under me how to treat this disease. Although your husband seems to be in very serious condition, the discovery was made very promptly, and the disease is still within a controllable range. I believe that after medication, he will recover quickly."
Director Shang went to great lengths to clarify and console the family member’s grief and panic.
"Dr. Yu, I must praise you again. Being able to detect the patient’s abnormalities for the first time and diagnose the patient with a Salmonella infection in a timely and accurate manner shows not only that you are highly responsible but also that your medical skills have improved greatly."
After consoling the family member, Director Shang once again praised Yu Xin.
He also meant to indicate to Zhou Can that his team was not lacking in capable resident doctors besides Zhou Can.
It’s equivalent to dampening Zhou Can’s arrogance.
Mainly because Zhou Can’s performance was too conspicuous, achieving merits repeatedly, he feared that this would bolster Zhou Can’s pride, which is detrimental to growth.
Yu Xin was quite embarrassed.
It wasn’t she who diagnosed the Salmonella infection.
With her current diagnostic ability, she simply didn’t have the capacity to diagnose such a complex etiology.
She bit the bullet, ready to confess the truth.
In the end, pretending to be more than one is just pretense.
Director Shang looked puzzled; she never acted so coyly in the past.
"Professor Shang, actually, the doctor who diagnosed my husband with that Salmon-something bacteria is him. But Dr. Yu is also very conscientious and dedicated, taking great care of my husband’s treatment."
The family member helped reveal the truth.
Director Shang instantly understood after listening.
It turned out that it was Zhou Can, that kid, who had accomplished the deed. Still thinking of putting pressure on him by praising Yu Xin, this seemed to backfire.
He’s also an experienced figure; facing changes without panic, he naturally turned his head to look at Zhou Can standing at the foot of the bed.
"Wasn’t this patient under Dr. Yu’s care? How did you come to diagnose it?"
"I just provided a few suggestions, the diagnosis should be a coincidence with Dr. Yu’s. At that time, Dr. Yu had already diagnosed the cause, but seeing that the patient’s condition was not very good, for the sake of prudence, she followed your attending physicians’ approach of gathering wisdom through a joint consultation. She called on me and Doctor Duan Zifu to consult together."
Zhou Can didn’t lack that bit of credit.
He decided to be generous and crafted a well-intended lie, giving all the credit to her.
Director Shang looked pleased after hearing this.
"Yes, you did very well. Using the collective intelligence for joint consultations can indeed greatly avoid misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis."
Standing nearby, Yu Xin had been thinking about how to explain herself in a face-saving manner.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Can thought of an almost perfect excuse.
With this, no matter how Director Shang continued to question, it wouldn’t shake her achievements.
Nor would she have to worry about Director Shang finding out the truth later and thinking she deceived him.
Yu Xin gratefully looked at Zhou Can.
The latter, however, just smiled and winked at her.
"Dr. Zhou, are you familiar with the pathogenic mechanism of Salmonella?" Director Shang asked him.
He was probably testing his basic medical knowledge.
If it was in the past, Zhou Can might have given a vague answer. Now, the medical knowledge he had crammed was not for nothing.
"There are many types of Salmonella. They can parasitize in livestock and poultry such as chickens, cats, and ducks. Chickens are the main intermediate hosts for Salmonella. They live in balance with chickens and coexist peacefully. However, when eaten by us humans, Salmonella leverages its strong defensive capabilities to effectively defend against the erosion of stomach acid."
"After their baptism in stomach acid, with the movement of the muscles, they enter the human intestines, immediately finding a breeding ground. They quickly burrow into the cells of human intestinal walls and divide rapidly. In about two hours or so, the infected cells die. At that point, Salmonella will drill out of the dead cells and spread around, using the same method to destructively attack the body’s normal cells and reproduce in large numbers."
Zhou Can had made an effort to understand the pathological mechanism of Salmonella and looked up professional materials.
He was clear about every destruction process it imposed upon entering the human body and the body’s defensive reactions.
"Salmonella reproduces very quickly in the human body, with the number increasing three to four times per hour on average. A thousand Salmonella entering the intestines can grow to over a million in just seven to eight hours. After another hour, that is, about nine hours, they can reach as many as over four million. Such a massive colony of bacteria crazily kills the body’s normal cells in the intestines, triggering the body’s immune response mechanism."