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?Chapter 354: ?354?Was praised by the old professor Chapter 354: ?354?Was praised by the old professor “She went to have an ultrasound, and they said there was nothing wrong with her appendix. If there was suspicion of a problem with her urinary or gynecological system, the ultrasound didn’t show anything. Later, I found that when my hand pressed below her navel towards the bladder area, she felt discomfort, a kind of pulling pain,” Xie Wanying reported her line of thinking. “I suddenly remembered that this area might be related to the urachus. With an ultrasound, unless it’s imaged directly at that area, as the teacher said, generally doctors wouldn’t suspect this place. If the urinary stones are too small, anything within 1 centimeter can be missed by an ultrasound—only a CT can confirm it. I ultimately suggested that she go get a CT scan of that area to see what’s going on.”

“How long did you perform the palpation for?” Professor Li asked. As an experienced professor, he knew that it would be hard to detect such subtle symptoms, so he was curious how the intern managed to identify the issue.

“I pressed on it for about half an hour,” Xie Wanying recalled, estimating the time she had examined the patient.

A half-hour examination focusing just on the abdomen is indeed something an intern would have time for, as they harbor the curiosity necessary for slow and deliberate study. Clinical doctors, relying on experience, whisk through the palpation quickly out of habit. If a palpation took half a day, patients might doubt the doctor’s competence. Yet, when medical students do it, no one questions them since the patients know they’re students.