Poverty brings sorrow to everything.
The economy is the foundation of everything.
Why become a doctor? Because being a doctor is a very happy thing. This is something their class monitor once heard Student Xie say. After hearing it, everyone just felt: Wow, Student Xie is amazing.
Later, it was said that after Student Panâs grandfather passed away, he seemed to have another layer of understanding of Student Xieâs words. This is probably not just greatness, but being forced by life.
Geng Yongzhe, carrying his backpack, went to the school canteen to catch the first breakfast and saw Student Xie standing in front of the steamed bun window in the dining hall.
Was she waiting for him? Geng Yongzheâs hand involuntarily tightened on the backpack strap.
After Xie Wanying nodded at him, they went up together, and the two bought steamed buns, eggs, and soy milk.
You should eat no matter how difficult life is. After the previous nightâs battle, he seemed to at least accept her viewpoint.
After finishing the steamed bun and drinking half a bowl of soy milk, Xie Wanying took a breath and asked, "Five hundred will definitely not be enough for hospitalization fees. If itâs several thousand, I personally donât have enough, but I can help you think of a way to borrow a bit from my childhood friend. You shouldnât go borrowing around all alone, as itâs not good for the patient either."
Geng Yongzheâs action of chewing on the bun had long become mechanical.
"The short-term money is not the problem; the biggest issue is how to spend money where it counts. You canât just treat it long-term without effect; to be honest, even the richest might not be able to afford it."
Hearing her last sentence, Geng Yongzhe looked up, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. Her words were considered clichĂ©d, something everyone understood. Everyone going to the hospital to get treatment wishes for a medication that could cure them, so there would be no long-term financial drain later. Like giving birth, long pain is worse than short pain. The crux of the problem is, itâs easy to say but so hard to accomplish.
"The county hospitalâs technical level is a bit lacking. However, I believe the counselor has helped you think about this issue." Xie Wanying pondered that the patient in Gengâs family was real and not just a future possibility like hers, which Teacher Ren could understand. Thatâs why Teacher Ren called the considerate Geng Yongzhe Xiao Zhe, a nickname filled with sympathy and praise.
Geng Yongzhe didnât deny it, which was tantamount to admitting it.
Teacher Ren was a famous teacher in their medical college, acquainted with famous doctors from Guoxie and other major hospitals, surely having helped Gengâs family seek various treatment plans to solve the problem. The one reason it couldnât be solved is probably because even Capitalâs famous doctors are helpless.
"If you trust me, can you tell me about the patientâs situation?" When Xie Wanying proposed this, she also knew that her medical experience was definitely not as strong as the teachersâ, but there might be one thing she and her classmates could do that teachers couldnât, "We have more time than the teachers. We can study the medical history more carefully to find a breakthrough and provide it as a suggestion to the teachers, helping them open new avenues of thought."
Interns, no matter how busy, are absolutely not as busy as clinical teachers with jobs. Clinical teachersâ busyness is multifaceted: treating patients, having teaching responsibilities, being assigned by the hospital for academic exchanges, and must meet yearly hospital work evaluation benchmarks. Research tasks belong to a fiercely competitive, intensely saturating industry.
In comparison, interns just doing more legwork on the clinical front is merely physical work, with a singular internal task: academic graduation. Much simpler than teachers.
Doctors are both physical and mental laborers, with a profession primarily led by mental labor.