"Regarding your issue, ahemâ" Doctor Lee Yuen was just about to speak, but unexpectedly, a couple of coughs made him choke, and uncontrollably, he kept coughing and couldnât speak.
The patient, seeing the doctor like this, didnât think the doctor was sick, but feared the doctor was deliberately coughing to avoid explaining the condition to her clearly. She pursued the doctor, asking, "Doctor, what is my condition? Was the previous doctor wrong?"
The teacher couldnât speak, and the patient was very nervous. The two students sitting opposite tightened their nerves.
Teacher Zheng had said that at critical moments, they must help Teacher Li speak up. Xie Wanying saw that Student Geng hadnât spoken. Perhaps Student Geng, being a male medical student, found it inappropriate to face the heavily drama-prone area of female patients, so it could only be her to speak up.
"Listen to us first." Xie Wanying intervened to comfort the patient for the teacher. As she spoke, she observed the teacherâs expression, ready to stop speaking immediately if the teacherâs gaze showed disagreement.
Doctor Lee Yuen didnât stop her, nodding while coughing, indicating for the student to continue speaking on his behalf.
With many students under his wing, the Boss was very experienced in controlling situations, not fearing to let students speak.
Receiving the teacherâs approval, Xie Wanying continued with a medical explanation for the patient: "Teacher Li just mentioned that you donât have facial hair; itâs unlikely to be Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Before looking at your medical history, the previous doctorâs suspected diagnosis wasnât that either. It might have been the previous doctorâs unclear explanation that caused you to misunderstand after hearing it."
The voice speaking was very professional, and equally donned in a white coat, the female patient turned to Xie Wanying without a hint of suspicion that she was merely a student and asked her as if asking a doctor: "What did I misunderstand?"
"Infertility and sterility are two different concepts." Xie Wanying corrected the patientâs medical understanding, "Infertility refers to women, sterility refers to men. The ability to conceive is not just a womanâs issue; itâs also a manâs issue. Besides you needing a comprehensive examination, your husband equally needs an examination to check whether heâs the reason you cannot conceive."
"My husband didnât come today." The female patient furrowed her brow deeply and said displeased, "The previous doctor never mentioned such things to me."
Did the previous hospital doctors really not disclose these medical basics at all? Xie Wanying and Doctor Lee couldnât go back to the previous hospital where the female patient received treatment to inspect their doctor-patient dialogue records, but they knew itâs unlikely that colleagues wouldnât inform patients of these things, as such content is part of a doctorâs routine obligation to inform patients about their condition.
Itâs possible the doctors mentioned it but the patient didnât retain it. Some patients are like this, almost as if they have amnesia, asking the same questions in front of every doctor and denying they heard it before. The cause is nervousness: some people become so highly tense when they hear about their illness that their mind goes blank, unable to fully remember what the doctor said. This results in doctors knowing they surely mentioned it, but patients firmly claiming they didnât hear it.
As a doctor, explaining on behalf of colleagues is beneficial for oneself, so Doctor Lee Yuen followed the studentâs words to tell the patient: "The previous doctor didnât misstate your condition. They wanted you to treat the currently identified illness for the sake of your health. Yours is not Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; itâs an ovarian cyst. These are two different conditions. The former is a metabolic endocrine disease. The latter involves a mass in the ovary that needs to be assessed for malignancy or benignancy."