Whether it's a hospital or a clinic, what they sell has never been service, but skill.
Medicine is a resource.
Li Jingsheng's small clinic is just starting out, and if they don't greet patients with a smile and various forms of flattery, the patients will quickly turn to other clinics. His clinic would lose its chance to survive.
On the contrary, if one day his reputation spreads far and wide, and his medical skills improve.
Once a patient comes in, they can be cured.
By then, patients will actively try to flatter him, begging him for treatment.
"Don't worry, I will use the best medicine for you."
What Li Jingsheng said wasn't just empty words.
Doctors certainly hope that every patient can recover soon, so when prescribing medicine, they naturally choose the most effective drugs.
This involves a choice between imported drugs and alternative substitutes.
Small clinics generally seldom stock imported drugs.
Because the clinic's specialty is that treatment is cheap, there's no need to queue or undergo tests, and patients can get diagnosed and treated quickly.
The price of imported drugs is never cheap; if they can't sell them after stocking, and can't return them either, they'll have to be disposed of after they expire.
The worse the business of a clinic, the higher the rate of medication loss.
This is similar to restaurants.
The worse the business of a restaurant, the more troublesome it is to stock ingredients. If they buy too few, and a customer comes and finds there's little to choose from, the experience is poor, and people are unlikely to return. But if they buy too much, the surplus can't be used up in a day, and much ends up being wasted.
"Please sit and have a glass of water first, and let our Dr. Li prepare the best medicine for you."
Tang Ping smiled as she handed a glass of water to the patient.
"Okay, thank you!"
The female patient took it with both hands and nodded with a smile to Tang Ping.
The cause of the patient's illness is now diagnosed, just one more step to earn both money and praise.
And that is to prescribe the most suitable medicine for the patient.
A true expert in medication never relies on the most expensive drugs to treat illnesses but uses medicines that are most suited to the patient's condition and constitution.
Whether it's oral or injection, it requires consideration of drug absorption and the patient's constitution, whether there are allergies to such drugs, or other diseases contraindicating such drugs, etc.
In addition, factors like the patient's age, weight, gender, whether they are pregnant or breastfeeding, and so on, must also be comprehensively considered.
Omitting any one of these could result in catastrophic consequences.
Or fail to achieve the desired therapeutic effect.
This is why Li Jingsheng, after obtaining his golden finger, prioritized upgrading pharmacology and pharmacokinetics.
Because these two medical skills are really too important.
Standing in front of the medicine cabinet, his proficient pharmacology and pharmacokinetics once again brought him significant benefits.
"Acute tracheobronchitis caused by pollen allergy, the patient's current condition is quite severe. Relying solely on keeping warm, drinking more water, rest, and other conservative treatment measures, it is hard to heal on its own. When medicating, first consider antitussives. Oral dextromethorphan hydrobromide should be a good choice, and the two drugs levodropropizine and bencyclane can be considered as alternatives..."
His mind swiftly goes over which drugs to use, in what dosages, and which method of medication would benefit the patient the most, etc.
Over ten minutes later, the medication is ready.
Mainly anti-coughing, expectorating, antispasmodic and antiallergic drugs, along with antibiotic treatment.
Bronchitis, tracheitis causing fever, must be treated with antibiotics for antibacterial therapy.
Li Jingsheng thought to himself, this time he met the patient's desires, without the patient needing to ask him to prescribe antibiotics with a sodium chloride drip.
"Ms. Ou, let me explain the treatment costs. Because your symptoms are quite many and near the threshold of high fever, it's necessary to begin symptomatic treatment immediately. This includes antitussives, expectorants, antiallergics, antispasmodics, and antibiotics. Thank you very much for your trust and support for our clinic, and also the lady who introduced you here is our old customer, so the medicines I have prescribed for you are the best picks."
"Today's treatment cost a total of 381.5 yuan, and the chest X-ray examination is 100 yuan."
This charge is considered a reasonable level.
If this patient had gone to Boss Zhao's clinic, they would have spent at least seven to eight hundred yuan, and might not even discover the cause of the illness.
And going to the hospital is out of the question, just the examination fee will cost at least a thousand yuan.
"That's fine, as long as it can be cured, this amount of money is very worthwhile."
She didn't really mind the total fee of less than five hundred yuan and happily paid the entire amount.
For a somewhat well-off family, expenses under a thousand yuan are typically not a big concern.
Especially for matters as important as medical treatment.
Ms. Ou paid much more straightforwardly than the nanny.
"Next, our professional nurse here at the clinic will administer your medication. During the infusion or medication process, if you feel any discomfort or don't understand, you can ask her at any time."
Li Jingsheng felt a wave of satisfaction seeing the 481.5 yuan credited to his account.
The feeling of earning money through skill is truly wonderful.
Tang Ping took the patient to the infusion room for medication.
Li Jingsheng then hurried to the bakery across the street to buy two meat buns and a cup of soy milk, resolving his breakfast.
"Dr. Li switched to eating meat buns today, no more dieting?"
The bakery owner's wife is quite the chatterbox.
As long as she's not too busy, when she sees familiar faces coming by for breakfast, she always smiles and chats warmly.
This is also a way to attract customers.
"Yeah, I got tired of having steamed buns every day. Time to change things up. Your meat buns have lots of filling, thin skin, fluffy and delicious, really nice!"
Li Jingsheng usually just buys two plain steamed buns for breakfast.
He says it's to lose weight, but really, it's because he couldn't afford meat buns without making any money.
The plain steamed buns cost only fifty cents each, while meat buns are two yuan each.
He owes Tang Ping three months' salary, which makes him uneasy, eager to save every penny.
"Haha! You well-read folks really speak differently. If it's tasty, come by often!"
"Sure thing!"
Li Jingsheng walked a few steps, then turned around and said, "Can I have a hot red bean eight-treasure porridge too?"
"Sure!"
The owner's wife sold another cup of porridge, her face beaming with joy.
Her husband, however, kept his head down in the back steaming buns, occasionally helping to sell upfront, always with a stern face, never smiling.
The two-yuan-a-cup red bean eight-treasure porridge was to reward Tang Ping.
Last night she treated him to dinner, and this favor needed returning.
A cup of porridge certainly costs far less than a meal, but it's enough to make her a little happy.
After all, everyone likes to feel cared for.
The baker's wife just watched his back with a knowing smile.
The eight-treasure porridge had red dates, lotus seeds, white fungus, red beans, etc. Men rarely drink it. It's often bought for women, helping with anemia and dizziness.
She mused to herself that the clinic owner probably planned to get involved with the divorced female nurse.
Back at the clinic, Li Jingsheng placed the cup of eight-treasure porridge into the foam box behind the counter.
This foam thermal box was usually for temporarily storing medications and special consumables that needed to stay warm.
While eating a meat bun and drinking soy milk, he multitasked, calling out the attribute panel to inspect.
Spending 27 health points and still unable to upgrade the Pulmonary Medicine diagnosis was quite bothersome to him.
Busy with patient care earlier, he had no time to check, but now he had to figure out why the upgrade failed.
Next time he could be mindful and avoid making the same mistake.