1036 Don’t Worry (1/2)

It was quite a shocking sight for an extraordinarily handsome doctor to be walking into the ward, shadowed by a middle-aged doctor, a couple of doctors who were doing their in-service training, and several medical interns.

”This is Doctor Ling, the leader of our treatment group.” Zuo Cidian stood forward and introduced Ling Ran to the patient and his family members so that they would not mistake him for the leader.

In the hospital, doctors who were older usually had a higher position, and this kind of misunderstanding was unavoidable. The first few times this happened, Zuo Cidian felt pretty good about it. But now, it gave him nothing but sorrow.

”Doctor Ling?” The patient who was talking about how much he was craving for a steamed bun sized Ling Ran up. He then said a little bashfully, ”All the doctors in the General Surgery Department are at least thirty or forty years old, and some are even fifty.”

”But Doctor Ling is more skillful than them,” Zuo Cidian said without hesitation, and the way he was talking about it in such a straightforward manner shocked the patient and his family member a little.

Ordinary people would not say anything like that, would they?

”I've already taken a look at all your scans. I'll perform a physical examination for you now,” Ling Ran said and started washing his hand with some alcohol based hand sanitizer.

This was Ling Ran's favorite thing to do when he made ward rounds.

This was one of the very few things he liked that involved physical contact, as he was able to get a good grasp of the condition of the patients' bodies by doing so.

Physical examination was the most basic method of examination. But in modern medicine, the value of physical examination had been replaced by CT scans, X-rays, MRIs, pathological examinations, urine examinations, stool examinations, sperm count tests, and other such tests.

However, physical examination was still a valuable skill to possess.

To be more politically correct, physical examinations could pick up some of the symptoms and problems that could not be detected by modern machines.

And Ling Ran preferred to conduct physical examination so that he could get a complete picture of the patient's condition in his mind.

Not all patients were suitable candidates for a full-body checkup, and not all of them were willing to do it either. For example, the patient before Ling Ran had hesitated for a long time about receiving an MRI scan.

Comparatively, it was a more straightforward solution to carry out a physical examination. Aside from this, it was cheap and effective.

”Come over and give it a try too.” After Ling Ran was done, he gestured at Ren Qi and Ye Sigong to conduct a physical examination for the patient too.

This question stunned the doctors who were prepared to be tested by Ling Ran.

The nurse by the side smiled and said, ”No, we won't be charging you.”

The patient smiled in embarrassment before he said, ”It's good that you don't. I was worried that I'll end up owing you and not be able to clear my debt to the hospital. The medicine fees in hospitals are so expensive, and so are the examination fees. You won't be able to get anything from them either. I just want to finish my surgery earlier so that I can go back home to rest, is that possible?”

”We'll make arrangements later.” Zuo Cidian did not want Ling Ran to answer this question. He turned his head around to speak to the family member. ”Are you already in debt with the hospital?”

He was not actually pressing them to pay their fees, but when he said this, the patient did indeed not press the issue. Instead, she hastily explained her situation. ”I haven't paid what I owed today. My family is already borrowing money. Once we get that sum, we will definitely pay it.”

Zuo Cidian shrugged in Ling Ran's direction.

They had all seen similar patients before. Even though the current new rural cooperative medical insurance could help farmers claim a certain amount of medical fees, the remaining amount was still a huge sum that was difficult to bear for certain people.

The doctors from the General Surgery Department were also able to decipher the situation. Hence, when the Emergency Department asked for the patient, they immediately handed him over.