The initial treatment for pharyngitis had no effect on the patient.
Then the treatment was switched to addressing typhoid fever.
Various antibiotics and oral chloramphenicol were used, but there was no significant improvement. The high fever persisted.
Li Jingsheng had gained some new insights.
The standard of county hospitals varies, and the diagnostic level of this county hospital was indeed quite questionable.
Actually, this is a sad reality for many local health clinics and county hospitals, where doctors don't know how to diagnose but only mechanically perform tests.
They would take an X-ray, test the blood, urine, and stool, and when no problems are found, the doctors start doubting their lives.
Among the fifty-one textbooks studied in school, none taught how to diagnose when all test results are normal but the patient is still ill.
Pharmacology is all about medication, its use for various infections and diseases, precautions, pharmacology, etc.
