Chapter 643: [(643)] Trust in doctors is most important Chapter 643: [(643)] Trust in doctors is most important Hearing the doctor’s words, Aunt Li’s expression changed drastically, as if lightning had struck above her head.
“My grandchildren might not be able to be saved, right?”
“Did you know she is carrying twins?”
Since the pregnant woman’s condition wasn’t good, the doctor had some questions that he didn’t want the pregnant woman to strain herself to answer, so he asked her family instead.
Little did he expect Aunt Li to act as if she too had been struck by lightning: “Twins!”
“Haven’t you done prenatal check-ups before?”
“We did, at the local hospital when she first became pregnant.”
Apparently, the small hospital hadn’t done a careful ultrasound, or the doctor lacked experience, missing the twins’ diagnosis.
“Did you not get a prenatal care card?” Doctor Xin, standing beside them, asked the patient’s family. “Which hospital did you go to for that?”
“We asked the hospital at that time, and they told us we needed to go to a specialized maternity hospital to give birth, that they couldn’t issue a card. Later–” Aunt Li couldn’t finish her sentence; later, for families like hers, the only option was to wait, wait, and wait for a hospital willing to take in the pregnant woman.
In the Capital, medical resources were already strained, and specialized maternity hospitals had long waiting lists for local mothers-to-be, let alone outsiders like them.
Aunt Li’s fingers touched the tears at the corner of her eyes: “If it weren’t for Miss Wu–”
Wu Lixuan had gone to help their family with hospital admission procedures, and the admission deposit was funded by Wu Lixuan’s own money; Aunt Li’s family couldn’t come up with such a large sum all at once. The pregnant woman wasn’t even an employee of Wu Lixuan’s company, but in circumstances like these, those who were able had the mind to help if they could, and Wu Lixuan was no exception.
Her childhood friend was a very good and kind person, Xie Wanying heard footsteps and turned to go to the doctor’s office door.
Having just run downstairs to complete the patient’s admission, Wu Lixuan came back up. Following her was Huang Zhilei, the house supervisor for the night, who had come in to see what was happening so he could make the duty records.
Xie Wanying suspected the two had met somewhere else again.
On the way, Wu Lixuan said, “Xie Xie, Doctor Huang.”
“No need to be polite,” Huang Zhilei replied. “You’ve been to our hospital many times, but you still didn’t know where the admission procedure window is.”
“I never needed to go there for anything, so I didn’t know.”
“I’ve heard you come here to deliver tea? Who do you deliver it to?”
“You’ve heard what others say, how could you not know who I deliver it to?”
“Not giving some to us?”
“It costs money,” Wu Lixuan clarified, she wasn’t bribing any doctors.
“I know it costs money.”
“Didn’t you and Senior Cao say during dinner that you didn’t like tea?”
“Who said we didn’t like tea. Senior Cao’s office has several boxes of tea, all sorts. Why did you run to thoracic surgery to deliver tea?” Huang Zhilei thought there was something wrong with the situation — why was his junior sister’s childhood friend frequently delivering tea to thoracic surgery? She should have come to neurosurgery first, as neurosurgery had always been best to his junior sister.
Did Senior Cao really like tea that much? Wu Lixuan was somewhat perplexed. Wasn’t she acting according to her friend’s expressions that night?
“Tomorrow, hurry up and bring a box of tea over,” Huang Zhilei pointed at her face as he spoke.
“Got it,” Wu Lixuan gave him a look in response.
When they reached the doctor’s office door, Wu Lixuan stood beside Xie Wanying and asked softly, “How is it going, Yingying?”
“The ultrasound room called, the surgery can proceed, we need the patient’s family to sign,” Xie Wanying said.