Chapter 359: Chapter 359: Calling for Help Chapter 359: Chapter 359: Calling for Help Bai Xiao’s acupuncture indeed played a significant role in the camp, as many team members suffering from severe gastroenteritis and debilitating rheumatism found relief here, to the point where Bai Xiao was almost described as a highly sought-after doctor.
The scarcity of medicine led to unanimous approval of the miraculous medical skills of acupuncture here.
Since that first encounter with An Zhiyuan, the two hadn’t been able to meet again. On one hand, the road to the highlands was fraught with danger. Unless there was a special need for medical personnel to go up for severely injured patients, health workers were generally protected as a priority. It was preferable for transporters to carry the injured down rather than letting health workers risk their lives by going up.
The weather was bad today, with a persistent drizzle that had started last night and lasted all night. The oppressive heat was gone, but the humidity was heavy, making people feel as if they couldn’t catch their breath.
Being from the north, Bai Xiao and her colleagues felt this acutely,
“Doctor Bai, Doctor Bai!” Someone was calling outside the tent in a strained tone, and Bai Xiao, puzzled, lifted the tent flap.
A man, clad in a gray-yellow robe with exposed shoulders and wearing a conical hat, stood anxiously outside in the light rain, draped in a raincoat made of bamboo leaves. Two team members stood by his side, clearly there to seek her out.
The rain had lessened considerably by then.
“I am Doctor Bai. Who are you?” Bai Xiao was the only person with the surname Bai here.
So there was no mistaking the person.
“Doctor Bai, please, I beg you to save my wife! She’s dying. They all say you’re the Divine Doctor, that your medical skills are exceptional, please save her!”
The man knelt before Bai Xiao all of a sudden.
Bai Xiao’s mouth twitched—why did everyone like to kneel before her?
She had lost count of how many people had knelt before her—it was a gesture she really couldn’t accept.
She hurriedly helped the man to his feet, and several female health workers came out of the tent too, the commotion so loud that unaware individuals could not be present.
Several people helped him up.
“Please, stop this! Fellow, just tell us what’s happening. You’ll scare our Doctor Bai!”
This was still a humorous situation for them, not having encountered kneeling pleas before.
The man looked at Bai Xiao desperately, “Doctor Bai! Please save my wife! I beg you! She’s about to die!” The man almost pulled Bai Xiao along to leave.
“Tell me clearly what’s wrong? Even if we want to save someone, we need to know the situation to bring the necessary tools, otherwise we might delay treatment,” Bai Xiao had to speak up. Since hiding her medical skills, her favorite thing had been to find a cooperative partner-doctor, so that the credit for any treatment wasn’t hers alone, thus ensuring that everyone had a share. Of course, rheumatic diseases, gastrointestinal discomfort, or coughs and asthma were solely hers to treat, as other doctors couldn’t handle these and the medicines were ineffective! Western medicine had few solutions as well.
“My wife… she’s giving birth, and the midwife says it’s a difficult labor. Both mother and child… might not be saved. Now, only… you doctors can save her, please!” the man finally blurted out the situation, stammering.
“Dr. Wei, you’re best at cesarean sections, being an obstetrics and gynecology doctor, this is your forte,” Bai Xiao immediately found the ideal doctor for the case.
It wasn’t that she wouldn’t save the woman, but when it wasn’t necessary for her to desperately intervene, she preferred to stay in the background.
“But we’re out of anesthesia!” Dr. Wei urgently said.
“We’ve been out since the day before yesterday. We were supposed to wait for the next supply, and now there’s none at all!” She too was in a predicament of a skilled wife without rice.