Chapter 2601: Symptom Confusion

She called the patient’s daughter, urgently saying a bunch about your mother’s condition being very serious and you need to pay attention. This approach, what’s it like? It’s like a school teacher, seeing a student hasn’t completed their homework, urgently calling the parents, thinking they’re being very responsible, scolding the parents with heartache, you should be watching your child do their homework at home.

What are the parents supposed to do?

Exactly, you being a doctor saying this, what do you expect Li Yaxi to do?

Li Yaxi must be as bewildered as the child’s parents. Doctor, teacher, my profession is not a doctor or a teacher, my ability is limited. You want me to work, you have to let me do work I can cooperate with you, okay?

You want me to watch my child do homework at home? The issue is, why does my child have to be watched to do homework? Other people’s children don’t? Doesn’t this mean my child has educational problems? You as a teacher, as an educator, should be giving me a professional explanation in this regard, not just asking me to watch my child do homework?

Similarly, what’s the reason my mother doesn’t listen to you, doctor. If she doesn’t listen to the doctor, can she listen to me? I’m not a doctor. Aren’t you as a doctor supposed to give a professional explanation in this regard?

Now you understand. Why Teacher Tan says you only complain to others is technical incompetence.

With a choked voice, Liu Li said: "Thank you, Yingying."

Previously criticized by cousin and Leader Cui, yet, she still didn’t know where to start. Only this classmate, Xie Wanying, handed hope to her.

Cui Shaofeng sighed inwardly: Ah, this old classmate’s student is too excellent.

Having been angry enough to have a stern face, Tan Kelin showed a hint of a smile.

Xie Wanying insisted on her thoughts, saying: "Teacher Liu Li, you care about the patient and are anxious for the patient’s sake, on this point, the patient’s daughter equally believes you are a good doctor."

Liu Li’s face reddened: "No, I didn’t do well enough."

"Clinically, many patients, when seeking medical attention, when doctors ask about past medical history, what they can typically mention are the diagnoses given by other doctors. When ultimately unable to identify, one can only look into her previous medical records to find clues, to see if there were any slips." Xie Wanying returned to the technical issue.

Like Mother Yaxi, a person with high assets, usually has doctor friends and listens to doctor friends’ words, definitely pays attention to all aspects of health issues. All medical records are perfectly preserved at home. So, finding the patient’s medical records from recent years is not difficult.

Then she took out a paper bag containing MRI scans, Xie Wanying said: "The patient had symptoms of dizziness a year ago, went to the hospital for a checkup, considered it as cervical spondylosis, did an MRI. Her daughter brought this scan."

Actually, before coming, a few classmates had a fierce academic discussion together. Whether from the examination report or from the scan, the patient’s cervical spondylosis is not severe.

It cannot be ruled out that Mother Yaxi is overly concerned about her health, even minor dizziness makes her go for an MRI. However, today’s complex situation of this patient must make the doctor consider all sorts of worse possibilities.

"Is her consultation only because of dizziness? Looking at her past medical records, it isn’t."

Cervical spondylosis has several major characteristics aside from dizziness, the most common are numbness, coldness, and pain in the affected side’s upper limb and other symptoms. Coincidentally, these common symptoms of cervical spondylosis frequently confuse with atypical symptoms of other major diseases. This will result in medical omission and misdiagnosis, possibly ultimately leading to loss of life.