He later blithely tells the doctor at the hospital that he’s diagnosed this man with an intracranial haemorrhage. However, he proceeds to do capillary pinprick followed by ear lobe pinprick all the while instructing a hapless bystander to massage this man’s ears until they turn red. With the loss of consciousness and facial asymmetry, a stroke is indeed a good clinical diagnosis.
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Moving along, the driver of the vehicle he is in suffers a stroke. What?! No doctor who follows evidenced-based medicine or is aware of Advanced Trauma Life Support would do this kind of quackery! Good intentions do not protect you from behaviour that puts the patient’s life at further risk! The blog link above says it’s a cricothyroidotomy but the area of insertion is wrong, it’s more likely an improvised needle decompression.Īnd the best thing is that at the committee, the committee points out that no one is questioning his motives but he should not be performing such risky manoeuvres before he is a doctor. Now compare that with The Oath, where the medical student played by Christopher Lee on his way to an exam runs to a polytrauma patient from a road traffic accident, does not try to assess / open the airway, does not listen for breathing, and proceeds to jab a pen into her chest. It starts from 0:45min, where they make a judgement after listening for breathing and percussing for hyperresonance that this lady has suffered bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax requiring urgent needle (pen) decompression to buy time pending arrival of the ambulance. First, please contrast what happened in the above video with the below video (read: Singaporean scriptwriters may have copied a few things from more successful dramas) Then there’s this blood-vomitus-inducing car accident part at 12:30 of the above video that explains why the character acted by Christopher Lee basically got kicked out of medical school for general quackery. Similarly, we have actually had people ask: “Can poking the fingertips and rubbing the ears help to treat acute stroke?” It’s like how forensic experts roll their eyes at the popular show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and lament how juries in the US nowadays expect the same impossible magic before convicting criminals (“What, you don’t have DNA evidence + tire trails + electronic money trail + 5 CCTV surveillance tapes + trace chemicals matching the one from this obscure chemical plant 20 years ago, we can’t convict this robber!”) Guo En past memories of dancing with someone flashes through his mind and he assumed the girl is Zhiyi.Loathe as I am to admit it, the medical drama The Oath by Wawa Productions, is actually quite entertaining to watch. Minfei decides to not to tell Guo En about their relationship so as not to upset him over her condition. Guo En wakes up but can only remember his parents and Zhiyi but not Minfei. Zhiyi rushed to the hospital only to discover that Yongtai has changed his mind and claimed that he was just joking. Yongtai tells Minfei that Dewei is the one responsible for Jianzhong’s death and has a witness to prove it. Zhiyi warns Siyun that these are all conjectures and she has no evidence. Jianzhong dies in a car accident, Siyun suspects Dewei is the mastermind behind the accident. Dewei is jealous and angry with Guo En when he finds out that he and not her dad is the main reason why Minfei rejected him. Dewei wants Minfei to go Germany with him to seek treatment, Minfei turns him down using her dad as an excuse. When Guo En feels that Dewei is biased against him, Minfei feels that Guo En is too sensitive. Her patients lose trust in her after finding out about her condition.ĭewei is jealous and throws a fit after discovering that Minfei is taking Guo En’s Chinese medicine. Minfei develops side effects as a result of her chemo but continues to keep herself busy at work. Guo En accompanies Minfei for treatment while Dewei tries to contact a professor based in Germany, in the hope of finding a treatment for her. Synopsis summary and plot of The Oath drama series, from episode 16 to the final episode 20: