Reborn in 1977

Chen Fan quickly checked her. Her face was pale, her lips devoid of color. Her eyes were tightly closed, but she showed no other signs of pain. His initial assessment was that she had fainted due to low blood sugar.

He then pressed her wrist pulse.

Oh, he forgot he couldn't take a pulse. But her hand was really thin, with veins popping out.

Being so thin, no one would believe she wasn't malnourished.

Chen Fan exerted a little force, helping her to sit up. Then he turned around, pulled her onto his back, picked up the travel bag, supported her thighs with both hands, and ran home with all his might.

The kestrel immediately soared into the sky, chirping and flying towards the educated youth spot.

In this situation, it was useless to look for Doctor Zhang. He would take her back first.

Objectively speaking, after this period of contact, Chen Fan could basically conclude that Doctor Zhang's medical skills were very limited, roughly equivalent to those of a rural veterinarian.

He couldn't take a pulse, couldn't perform acupuncture, and mainly relied on experience to judge the condition, then prescribed medicine or gave injections based on that experience.

For example, the medicine he prescribed for Chen Fan was a formula for treating wind-cold cold with antipyretic and sweating effects. The reason it could cure the illness with one dose was not because of his superb medical skills, but because the formula in the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" was the right one.

It was also possible that the effect of the medicinal materials in this era was really good.

If it were another situation, such as not being able to determine whether it was wind-cold or wind-heat, he would... uh, people wouldn't go to him anyway. They would usually just endure it themselves.

Only patients who couldn't endure it would ask him to come to their door to prescribe medicine. In the case of not being able to determine the specific cause of the illness, Doctor Zhang's most common treatment method for this kind of severe illness was to give an injection, using the most common antibiotic of this era, "Gentamicin."

Young people may not have heard of Gentamicin, because it was later banned or restricted.

Gentamicin's "ototoxicity" was relatively obvious, and it had caused many patients to become deaf, especially children. It was not uncommon for a single injection of Gentamicin to cause lifelong disability.

Even if the probability was only a few ten-thousandths, when magnified to the whole country, with such a large population base, there were still quite a few victims.

In this era, there were quite a few antibiotics with side effects like this. For example, "Tetracycline" was also the same. Many people born in the 60s and 70s had yellow or gray teeth because they ate too much Tetracycline when they were young, which formed "Tetracycline teeth."

Everyone knows the classic Spring Festival Gala dance "Thousand-Hand Guanyin". But few people know that 18 of the 21 deaf-mute dancers were deafened by drugs. The culprit was aminoglycoside antibiotics, represented by Streptomycin, Gentamicin, and Kanamycin, among which Gentamicin was the most widely used.

He also liked this program, and he specifically searched for the information of these actors before he learned about Gentamicin.

In the 70s and 80s, this antibiotic was widely used throughout the country. An injection for trauma and inflammation, an injection for cold and fever, an injection for gastroenteritis...

There was no way around it. The drug conditions in this era were really, really limited. If these antibiotics were not used, the number of deaths would be even greater, and many more.

In comparison, the situation was even more tragic in the 50s and even earlier, when there were no antibiotics with side effects.

Faced with this situation, Chen Fan could only be thankful that he didn't have a fever when Doctor Zhang came over, or he might have activated a skill: lip reading.

He would rather not have that.

So, if he took Sister Jiang to Doctor Zhang, Doctor Zhang would most likely give her an injection of "Gentamicin", and then encounter that one in tens of thousands probability...

Oh no, that would be the end.

However, Chen Fan didn't dare to remind Doctor Zhang not to use it.

This thing was being used all over the country and had saved countless lives. If he dared to say that this thing had great side effects, he didn't know if it would save people, but it was very likely that he would get himself into trouble.

The premise of saving people is to protect yourself. This matter can only be discussed when there is a chance in the future.

Moreover, there are no conditions to provide better alternative drugs now. When weighing the lesser of two evils, so be it.

...

Running back to the educated youth spot in one breath, Chen Fan entered the courtyard gate panting.

Jiang Lili heard the movement and walked out, her face full of smiles, "You're back, the food will be ready soon."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the woman on Chen Fan's back and couldn't help but be stunned. Who was this?

Chen Fan strode to the door of her room, "Come over and see if it's your sister."

Jiang Lili was immediately stunned. Sister?

In the next second, she immediately ran forward, but both legs were weak and she almost fell to the ground.

Staggering, Jiang Lili ran to the door, holding on to the door frame to enter.

Chen Fan was putting Sister Jiang on an empty bamboo bed, using a travel bag as a pillow, and helping her lie down.

Jiang Lili rushed over, recognized her sister at a glance, and immediately hugged her, crying and shouting, "Sister, sister, wake up, sister..."

Chen Fan wiped his sweat, "Don't cry first, fetch a basin of hot water to wipe her down, I'll get some sugar water, she should have low blood sugar."

Hearing his words, Jiang Lili seemed to have found her backbone, and quickly stood up, flustered and about to go out.

Chen Fan quickly called her to stop, "Wait a minute."

Jiang Lili turned around, her face without a trace of blood, staring straight at him, "Huh?"

Chen Fan walked over, put his hands on her shoulders, squeezed them hard, looked at her, and said sternly, "Calm down, you can't do anything like this, your sister will definitely be fine, you must calm down, do you hear me?"

Jiang Lili gasped for air, her eyes staring at him without blinking.

After a while, she exhaled a long breath, and a little blood returned to her face. She nodded vigorously, "I, I'm calm."

Chen Fan patted her shoulder again, "It's okay, I'm here."

Jiang Lili barely pulled the corners of her mouth, then took a deep breath, and then turned around and walked out, but her steps were much steadier at this time.

Chen Fan looked down at Sister Jiang again and checked her breathing and neck pulse again. Relying on his veterinarian skills, he felt that she should not have any major problems.

He stifled a laugh.

In this era, veterinarians can really treat people, and some veterinarians are even more powerful than barefoot doctors. There was once a veterinarian in Jiangsu who became a barefoot doctor, and with his excellent medical skills, he became the director of the town health center, and he worked for twenty years, until he was about to retire, the superiors respected his personal wishes and transferred him back to the veterinary bureau.

Now that Chen Fan's veterinarian skills have reached LV3, he is already a qualified veterinarian. Perhaps he is not able to treat people well, but it is still no problem to judge whether a person is in a dangerous state.

While Jiang Lili went to fetch water, Chen Fan also returned to the room, made a bowl of brown sugar water, and also beat an egg into the sugar water, stirring the egg flowers evenly, which was a bowl of hot egg flower sugar tea.

He brought it to Jiang Lili's room, and she was carefully wiping her sister, her hair, face, hands, and all the places that were stained with dust were wiped clean.

Chen Fan brought the sugar tea over and put it aside first, "It's a bit hot, let it cool for a while before drinking."

Then he walked to the end of the bed and took off Sister Jiang's shoes and socks.

Jiang Lili looked at him, not knowing why.

Chen Fan looked up at her and smiled, "For syncope, you can massage the temples or the philtrum, but these two acupoints are important acupoints. I haven't learned acupoint massage, and I'm afraid I won't be able to control the strength, so I'll massage the Yongquan acupoint on the sole of her foot, she should wake up soon."

Then he sat down, grabbed her feet and put them on his lap, holding her feet with one hand, and pressing them lightly with the knuckles of the other hand.

After a while, Sister Jiang suddenly exhaled a long breath and woke up faintly.