Chapter 1231: Honest people always end up at a disadvantage.
In the company, she endured until she couldn’t anymore and came to the hospital. The hospital wanted her to endure further, and finally, her inner world collapsed.
Noticing something was off with the patient, the nurse turned to Xie Wanying and exchanged glances, suggesting, “Dr. Xie, before Doctor Xin comes, why don’t you order some lab tests for her? I can draw her blood first. How does that sound?”
This nurse at the triage desk, Sister Seo, was fairly familiar with Xie Wanying, so she spoke in this kind of tone to her. Xie Wanying nodded immediately, accepting Sister Seo’s suggestion, and said, “Thank you for your help.”
Healthcare workers are full of compassion for their patients. Everyone who enters this field does so because they can’t bear to see people suffer from illness and are determined to do everything they can for their patients.
“It’s no trouble at all.” Sister Seo smiled and left, though in truth, she was just as busy tonight to the point where her hands and feet were cramping.
Xie Wanying pulled up a chair and sat across from the patient.
Hearing the movement, the patient looked up. She saw Xie Wanying sitting in front of her in a white coat, yet the doctor’s age seemed similar to her own?
It was strange. This young female doctor was unlike others; she simply sat there silently looking at her, as if waiting for something from her.
“Liu Wenyu, if you feel like crying, you can cry. Sometimes crying is a way to release stress. Don’t feel guilty about it,” Xie Wanying said, glancing at the patient’s medical record to confirm her name.
Liu Wenyu’s eyes widened slightly, as if something was stirring inside them.
Young people, in this society, don’t even have the right to cry anymore.
They cry and get scolded by their parents. They cry and get reprimanded by their boss. Where is a place they can cry?
Forcing herself to sniff back her tears, she didn’t want to cry or show weakness. She said to the doctor, “I’m not trying to be angry. I’ve never argued with someone like this before.”
Only kind and honest people would follow rules, abide by the principles of goodness, and yield until they could no longer go on.
Xie Wanying thought of a sentence her mother often reminded her of over the phone: Don’t be too naïve.
Sun Rongfang clearly understood her daughter’s inherently kind nature and worried that one day her daughter would give in to others until she collapsed herself. Xie Wanying knew her mother had initially hoped her aunt could help her stay at Third People’s Hospital because she feared her daughter working far away would leave her lonely and uncared for.
Perhaps for this reason, Xie Wanying felt particularly empathetic toward patients who were also out there struggling alone, just like herself.
“Once you’ve had your injection, I’ll see if I can find a bed for you to rest and lie down properly,” Xie Wanying said, flipping through the patient’s newly purchased emergency medical record and starting to write out orders for tests. “Don’t worry. I won’t overlook you.”
Hearing her last words, Liu Wenyu froze.
Sister Seo came in with the treatment tray for the injections and told Xie Wanying where Xin Yanjun had gone: “Doctor Xin went to check on that elderly lady.”
The elderly lady’s daughter had grabbed hold of Xin Yanjun, possibly to make more strange demands of a senior attending doctor like her. The family refused to let the patient undergo additional tests but was insistent on pestering the doctors and nurses, asking why the medication hadn’t produced instant results.
In this world, there’s no such thing as miracle drugs. Some illnesses may require surgery rather than medication to resolve. If the family refuses testing, how could doctors possibly propose more precise treatment plans?
The problem now was that the elderly lady’s daughter, as evident from how she fought to snatch a spot in the queue right from the start, was an extremely domineering family member who was difficult to deal with and demanded things her way from the doctors.