First-hand Canada's universal health care: using "staples" to fix surgical wounds

"emergency" is actually "slow"that time, our family lived in Canada, my husband ran to the United States every day to studyOne afternoon, he went home early and said he was feeling sickI hurried him to the nearby family doctor's clinicThe doctor pressed a few times on my husband's stomach, saying it might be appendicitis, to go to thehospital immediatelyWhen she arrived at the emergency room of theof thehospital, the nurse asked about the situation, filled out the form, and waved us and asked us to sit asideThis is my first time in Canada to see an emergencyThere are twenty or thirty people in the waiting room, there are tv, there are newspapers and magazines, there areeating,all over the place, which is not like a sick lookIt was only later that it was understood that the real emergency patients were sent by ambulance and went straight in from another door to rescue them, and the patients in the waiting room were arranged by the nurse according to the urgency of the conditionI have a friend who has a high fever in the middle of the night and went to the hospital to see the emergency room, waiting in the emergency room for more than four hours before seeing the diseaseWaited for more than half an hour, the husband was too painful to sit still, biting her lips and bowing his waist, pressing her hand on his stomachI asked the nurse when it was our turn, and the nurse didn't answer clearly Appenditis is no more than other diseases, perforation will be life-threatening, the nurse obviously did not take my husband's disease as an emergency, thought it was just ordinary gastrointestinal disease My husband's English is much better than mine, and I asked him and the nurse to explain the situation The husband refused, saying that everyone was waiting So I asked him what he said in English about "acute appendicitis" and "perforation" and then went to the nurse The nurse finally led us into the clinic A moment came a young doctor, asked the situation, in my husband's stomach pressed a few times, on the arrangement of the nurse blood test When I asked him if he could give him a little painkiller, the doctor shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I know he's in pain, but he can't give it until he's diagnosed." "Then i went out to see the other patients Half an hour later, the doctor came back to tell us that the test results came out, is appendicitis, he has called the surgeon, the doctor arrived an hour later, he arrived immediately on the operation At this time, the nurse handed her husband a glass of water and two painkillers, let her husband take My husband soon fell asleep After a while of sleeping, he sat up and said to me, "It's all right, let's go home." "I couldn't help laughing, no wonder the doctor didn't give him painkillers before the diagnosis Mistakenly into the "no-go" dark, my husband let me go to eat something I bought a cup of coffee and came back and found my husband missing The nurse told me that the surgeon arrived early and that my husband had been pushed into the operating room The nurse said the position of the operating room, and I turned my head and ran to the operating room Walked a few steps, only to see a strange light from above, I crossed the light, the ear immediately sounded a short bell I stood and glanced around, only to see a few doctors in the room on the right were busy under the shadowless light, and they heard the sound and turned their heads to look at me A doctor came up and told me, with a pleasing look, that the operating room could not be casually entered, it was sterile As he said, He led me out of the door, pointed to the location of the waiting room, and advised me not to worry, the operation will be completed soon I sat without a master in the waiting room, and the TV was on, but I didn't seem to see anything I don't know how long it took, an old doctor came in and shook my hand and said he was the doctor who operated on my husband He detailed the procedure and said that his assistant was doing the sweep and that in half an hour I would be able to go to the observation room to see my husband Then came a nurse who gave me a detailed account of the operation and led me to the observation room See the husband all over the body are connected to the instrument
, tube, lying there motionless A kind middle-aged nurse sat on the side with a smile Can put down the cattle painkillers
husband finally opened his eyes, the nurse leaned down to ask him "pain does not hurt." The husband nodded, and the nurse immediately pushed the fluid fixed to a huge needle in his arm into his veins, and he fell asleep again Half an hour later, he opened his eyes again, and the nurse asked, "Does it hurt?" "He replied, confusedly, "Pain..." The nurse then went to push the needle I realized that there was painkillers in the needle and asked the nurse, and that was true Then a large tube of painkillers if all into the blood vessels, is a cow also put down My husband will have to work with his brain in the future, which is not good Wait for my husband to open his eyes again, I first step forward, with Chinese whispered to him: "Does it hurt very much?" He shook his head and said it's not very good I said if I can bear it don't say pain, the nurse gave you the painkillers I took a swipe of the thickness of the needle pipe with my hand, and my husband was startled When the nurse asked him again if it was a pain, he quickly shook his head After half an hour, the nurse asked again, and her husband shook his head again So repeated 3 times, the nurse looked at her husband all normal, he will be most of his instruments
, tube shone down, he pushed into the ward Later I know that foreigners are afraid of pain, the hospital first considered how to let patients not pain, so absolutely do not see the patient after the operation covered the knife "oops" shouting scene It was midnight, and the nurse on duty on the ward said to me that she would take care of everything and let me go home with confidence When I asked when I could visit tomorrow, she looked strangely and said, "Whenever I want to come "
the benefits of "universal health care" when I went to the hospital the next morning, my husband was already able to move I remember a friend who said that her husband had surgery, the wound is not stitched, but nailed together with staples My curiosity, so set off her husband's clothes, a look, can not help but be disappointed I thought I'd see a bandage wrapped around my stomach, but I saw a small piece of gauze covered in the belly Carefully lift the corner of the gauze, and see the "staple" nailed to both sides of the wound! Think about it, it's definitely not real staples, just the same shape; stitching must not be a stapler - how big a staple can hold people ah! Husband bought a fixed carpet tool, like a pistol, a pull the trigger shot out a staple-shaped nail nail, estimated that the doctor is using similar devices "Shooting" is much easier than stitches Later listen to the doctor said that the knife is not directly nailed, first to use a special glue to stick the wound, and then nailed We walked around the hospital, not long, my husband's body made a subtle noise, I hurriedly sent him back to the ward rest, and told the nurse he "breathed" The nurse said happily that it was lunchtime and that she could eat it at will Immediately someone sent lunch plates, milk , juice
, sandwiches, stewed vegetables, mashed potatoes, canned fruit and other food I asked my husband when booked a meal, he said no I suddenly felt the benefits of Canada's "universal health care" , in the hospital surgery, testing, medicine and all the costs of all , even three meals a day Seven hamburgers a day
old fair to eat , a large waist round man walking pregnant women , slowly swayed over The husband and he said hello, it turned out that they were the same ward of the sick friend The sick friend's stomach is as big as pregnant woman's I asked my husband what illness my sick friend had, and the answer was: 10 days without a bowel position Originally this person love hamburgers, every day 7 hamburgers thunder can not move, eat only can not get out, had to regularly go to the hospital The sick friend looked at what her husband was eating and shook his head and said that the hospital's food was simply feeding the pigs The husband asked the sick friend what to eat at noon, the man replied, just ate two hamburgers in the fast food restaurant He then said that the hospitalization made him feel so painful that he decided to ask a lawyer to sue a fast-food restaurant for selling food that damaged health Two days later, my husband was discharged from the hospital 7 days later, back to the hospital will be "book staples" taken down, appendicitis incident ended (
Cai Jinni)