Emergency Doctor Mercenary Road

Chapter 8: The Little Yellow Man And The Falling Water Baby

Chapter 8 Minions and Fallingwater

After   Mandy arranged for Chris, he led two people in from outside the clinic. A man and a woman came in. The woman Lu Fei knew was Jesse, the cashier in the supermarket. The man wore sunglasses and a mask on his face, so he couldn’t see his face clearly.

“Jack, thank you very much yesterday, the boss Tracy Zhang asked me to thank you, please be a guest when you have time.”

“Jesse, you’re welcome, I’m also a town resident. By the way, are you here to see a doctor or this gentleman?”

“It’s for my son. My son has a strange disease, and I’m ashamed. I’m worried to death. Today, I deliberately took a long leave to accompany my son to see the doctor.”

“Oh, what’s your son’s name, let him tell me. Take off your sunglasses and mask, there’s no one else here except me and Nurse Mandy.”

The man took off his sunglasses and mask and said, “My name is Lucas and I am 17 years old. You can see what’s wrong with me at a glance.”

Lu Fei raised his head and glanced at it, surprised, this Lucas’ entire face, neck and exposed skin were dark yellow!

“What’s wrong with your body?” Lu Fei started the physical examination. He listened to Lucas’ heartbeat and lungs first, and then asked Mandy to bring the blood pressure monitor over to measure his blood pressure.

“I don’t know, I just feel uncomfortable all over my body. Am I going to die?” Lucas asked with a sad face.

Jessie listened from the side, her face drooping, looking like she was about to cry.

“Stop, first of all, Jesse is not allowed to cry. I haven’t figured out what’s going on yet. Don’t cry, it will affect judgment. Secondly, it doesn’t look like you have any vital signs wrong at first.” Lu Fei interrupted her.

Jessie held back her tears in embarrassment, and Lu Fei asked again, “How has your life and diet changed recently?”

Lucas said shyly: “I’m in love, and I love my girlfriend Moira very much. By the way, she’s a vegetarian, and in order to be consistent with her, I’ve also been vegetarian since last month. Everyone says that eating a vegetarian diet is good for your health.”

Lu Fei raised his brows, thinking of something in his mind: “How long has the body turned yellow? What do vegetarians mainly eat?”

“I found that my whole body has turned yellow for about 2-3 days. I mainly eat carrots and green leafy vegetables. I eat about 3-4 carrots per meal, and basically don’t eat meat and staple food.”

“I know what’s wrong with you.” Lu Fei laughed.

“What’s the problem, is it serious?” Jesse asked eagerly.

Lu Fei said with a smile: “Lucas’s disease is indeed rare, because he ingested excessive beta-carotene, which caused “caroteneemia”, which caused temporary yellowing of the skin. Simply put, eating carrots too much!”

Jesse said anxiously: “Dr. Jack, how should this disease be treated and how much it will cost? We didn’t buy medical insurance this year.”

“Don’t worry, I promise to treat this disease without spending money, as long as your son is not afraid of breaking up, no longer crave carrots, no longer eat vegetarian food, and eat more foods with high fat content, such as milk and beef. It will improve immediately.

Recently, you should eat at least 3 grams of fat-containing meals each time you eat to ensure that carotene can be quickly absorbed by the body, and it will be fine after a few days. Otherwise, it’s hard to say how long “Little Yellow People” will be done. “Lu Fei teased.

Jessie let out a long breath and taught Lucas: “What vegetarian food, treat yourself as a rabbit, and eat carrots for food.”

Lu Fei said with a smile: “Okay, remember to let him eat beef when he gets home, and don’t eat carrots recently. Let’s go, I don’t think I have received you today, and the outpatient fee will not be used.”

Jessie pulled Lu Fei’s hand happily: “I know you are a good person, thank you Dr. Jack, we’re leaving.”

Lu Fei received a few more elderly patients, took blood pressure, measured body temperature, and took care of the precautions for these elderly people’s daily life. In a blink of an eye, it was time for lunch.

Lu Fei and Mandy went to a nearby fast food restaurant and returned to the clinic after eating a hamburger set meal. No one came in the afternoon. It was estimated that on the first day, the residents of the town were still not aware that the clinic was back to normal. But there are a lot of phone calls.

Around 3:30 PM. The phone on Lu Fei’s desk rang. Lu Fei picked it up and asked, “Who is this? This is the Oguli Town Clinic. I’m the doctor on duty, Jack.”

Someone on the other end of the phone yelled, “Jack, I’m Daddy Mayor, I’m at Lake Tahoe, and a child drowned, just got it, and I’m going to bring it to you. I’m driving, and the child and him father in the car.”

“Hello, Dad, do as I say, answer my questions concisely, and turn on the speakerphone.” Lu Fei sat up straight.

“Open.” Dad shouted loudly.

“Is the child breathing? If not, ask his father to press his chest. The person is flat in the back seat, and the father presses with his hands straight. The frequency is about 120 times per minute, and the chest should sink more than 3 centimeters. Then give the pressure at 15-second intervals. When the child does artificial respiration, you must pinch the nose and blow until the child’s chest bulges.” Lu Fei spoke quickly and clearly.

“The child is not breathing, his father is doing what you said.”

“How many minutes do you have to be at the clinic? It’s been a few minutes since the child was drowning”

“I have about 2 minutes to go to the clinic, and the child may have been drowning for 5 or 6 minutes now.”

“Okay, drive safely and deliver it as soon as possible. I will be at the door of the clinic. As soon as you arrive, you can take the child to the clinic with me. You can hang up now.”

“Mandy, you heard the call. As soon as the child arrives, you quickly open an intravenous channel and prepare epinephrine, atropine, and lidocaine. You are ready, I will go out to pick up someone.” After speaking, Lu Fei rushed out.

Lu Fei ran out, and Mandy agreed in the clinic.

Lu Fei waited at the door for half a minute. The Ford Raptor-150 in the distance quickly drove into the open space at the entrance of the clinic from the road. With a squeak, the father and the middle-aged man holding the child rushed through the front and rear doors respectively. When they got down, Lu Fei instructed them to carry the child into the clinic and put them on the hospital bed.

“Father continues to press, Daddy walks away, Mandy opens the vein channel.” Lu Fei shouted.

Lu Fei quickly intubated the child’s trachea. At this time, the stabilization skills he had trained all year round came into play. Lu Fei’s hand was very stable and accurate.

“The father of the child goes away, I’ll take over, Mandy pushes epinephrine, if it doesn’t work, pushes atropine and lidocaine in a minute.” Lu Fei shouted, and began to do CPR chest compressions. Compared with the child’s father, Lu Fei’s pressing is much more standard. He clenched his hands in a standard position, and pressed his sternum with his arms straight. After one set of compressions was completed, Lu Fei continued to press, while giving the doctor’s order: “Electrical monitoring.”

Mandy immediately went to pick up the ECG monitoring, and it was nearly 10 minutes before the child was drowning in a coma.

After another 2 minutes, Lu Fei became more and more tired, but still maintained a high frequency, more than 120 times per minute. Lu Fei thought to himself: Fortunately, I had enough exercise at night, or I couldn’t hold on now, and the movements would not be in place.

Mandy stared at the ECG monitor and said loudly to Lu Fei, “Jack, the heartbeat seems to be there, but it’s unstable.” At this time, the child suddenly lifted his body up on his own, and Lu Fei quickly let go of his hand, seeing that the child was about to start violently. The vomiting reflected that Lu Fei immediately extubated the trachea.

At this time, the water in the child’s mouth spurted out and coughed loudly. After a while, the child finally spit out all the water and cried out with a wow.

“Hoo”, everyone let out a sigh of relief, and the mayor and the father of the child gave a happy high-five.

At this point, the child was able to breathe on his own, and he said a few words to his father intermittently. Lu Fei continued to observe the child’s vital signs, and his heartbeat and breathing gradually returned to normal.

The father turned his head and said to Lu Fei excitedly: “I’m Callahan who came to travel from Los Angeles. You saved my son Enrique, thank you very much! I must repay you!”

Lu Fei said with a smile: “It’s mainly due to the father’s credit, the delivery was timely, Mandy was also very professional, and the child is temporarily fine.

Lu Fei said solemnly: “But it’s too early for us to celebrate the miracle of life. The child is still in an unstable stage and has been choked by a lot of river water. The risk of lung infection is very high. We can only provide first aid here, and there is no ICU and various hospitals. This facility, you rush the child to the emergency department in Carson and have them schedule a follow-up comprehensive examination and treatment.”

Seeing Callahan being a little nervous again, Lu Fei continued: “Don’t worry, it doesn’t seem to be a big deal at the moment. Listen to my arrangement, Mandy is now giving little Enrique an intravenous drip to replenish electrolytes, and Dad arranged to send them to the card. Mori City St. Kathy’s Hospital Emergency Department. I called my teacher, Mr. Anderson from St. Kathy’s Hospital Emergency Department.”

Everyone moved. Dad called a police car to take the father and son to Carson, so it would be faster. Nurse Mandy hung the bottle on the car for a while and told the police not to fall off. Five minutes later, the police car took Callahan and Enrique to Carson.

Lu Fei called Dr. Anderson in St. Cassie and briefly described his condition. Anderson praised Jack for doing a great job, and he was very relieved. The two made some jokes and hung up the phone.

Seeing that his father had not left yet, Lu Fei casually asked the child what happened to the drowning.

“This is a rich man living in Los Angeles. He took his son on vacation. He rented a small yacht here and went fishing on Lake Tahoe. The son caught a big fish, but he didn’t expect the fish to be too big. It was dragged into the river. Fortunately, my father reacted quickly and jumped into the water to save his son.

Of course he is very lucky. Two of his lucky points are that one is that he knows me and has my phone number, and the other is that I ate at a restaurant by the lake, and it only took 3 minutes to drive there, and you all know what happened later. ‘ said Dad proudly.

“The luckiest thing is that Jack takes office today, or the child will die.” Mandy looked at Lu Fei admiringly and said.

“Yes, that’s what I asked him to come back, haha.”

“Okay, the mayor is the most wise and powerful, here are some orders for the purchase of medical equipment and medicines, please sign for us.” Mandy took the opportunity to negotiate with the mayor.

“No problem, I’ll solve these administrative problems.” The mayor of the town agreed.

“I have something to trouble Daddy too.” Lu Fei told the mayor about the female tramp Chris. He hoped that the mayor could give Chris a job, check the door at the clinic, and clean up. I lived in the clinic for a period of time, and I gave 2,000 dollars a month to eat, drink, and dress. Otherwise, the people who had just been rescued would eat and sleep outside, and they would get infected if they didn’t keep them safe.

Take pity on my world, there are many worries, help if you can.

The mayor pondered for a while, and agreed, after all, they are all decent people, and they have compassion.

(end of this chapter)