My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1529 - 618: Spinal Cord Transection Basically Ruled Out, Terrifying Infection_3

However, due to the large number of extracellular bacteria and their vigorous metabolic and reproductive capabilities, if the treatment does not involve a combination of medications or if the combination is inappropriate, it may lead to selective reproduction, mutation, and antibiotic resistance, causing recurrent infections that are difficult to cure.There is another type, intracellular bacteria, which compared to extracellular bacteria, have a much slower metabolism and reproduction.

Their slow metabolism greatly reduces the rapid killing effect of anti-tuberculosis drugs, which is one of the reasons they are difficult to treat.

Clinically, even a case of pulmonary tuberculosis is enough to leave doctors at their wits’ end.

Not to mention that the infection now is actually in the spinal cord.

This is the nerve center of the human body!

If the test results were from another hospital, Zhou Can might even suspect there was a mistake.

The laboratory at Tuya Hospital is among the best in the country, especially in bacterial testing, due to ample funding, and the hospital places great importance on this area, often sparing no expenses.

For example, a patient lab test fee might be 80 yuan.

The laboratory might not be able to provide an accurate result from one test, or doubts may remain. At this time, retesting is required, even a third or fourth test.

It’s conceivable that if four tests are needed to finally achieve an accurate result, the total cost would be 320 yuan.

Should this fee be charged to the patient?

The patients would probably dismantle the hospital’s billing counter right away.

The hospital can only cover this cost itself.

As far as Zhou Can knows, almost all responsible large hospital laboratories are not in a profitable state.

This is related to the meticulousness of large hospitals.

Small hospitals conduct basic regular tests. If they can’t find anything, they directly tell the patient, "We don’t have the technology or conditions here to find out what’s wrong; you need to go to a large hospital."

Then the patient happily heads to a large hospital for further examination.

It is conceivable that primary care hospitals refer all such patients to large hospitals, and large hospitals cannot refuse.

They can only silently accept the patients, conducting whatever tests are necessary.

Even at a loss, they must do it.

How is a good reputation earned? It’s obtained by not counting the cost!

Large hospitals not only spare no expense in laboratory testing but also in rescuing critically ill patients in the ICU.

Seeing daily ICU treatment costs as high as twenty to thirty thousand, or even over a hundred thousand, patients think the hospital is so damn profiteering, really making a lot of money.

The hospital, however, is secretly wiping its tears.

Every medical professional knows how well-equipped the ICU is. During patient rescue, all types of equipment, materials, and manpower are invested without regard to cost. Also, the ICU operates in three shifts.

There are dedicated doctors and nurses on duty 24 hours a day, providing meticulous care.

How high is this cost?

Plus, if a day in the ICU costs over a hundred thousand, it’s because either ECMO or special medications and materials are used.

Many of these are 100% imported, which is why the cost is so high.

Previously, the import price of a titanium alloy staple was over six thousand yuan. Unable to be produced domestically, it had to be imported.

If a patient’s bone is broken or fractured, without this staple to fix it, they can only become disabled.

After using it, there’s great hope for recovery.

Also, it does not need to be removed for life and can remain in the body.

Domestic products, firstly, have strong rejection reactions; secondly, their corrosion resistance, strength, and other aspects do not meet such high standards.

Both patients and doctors prefer imported versions.

The ICU does not earn money but gains reputation and improves the success rate of rescuing critical patients.