Their Teacher Ren is very nice, but he truly doesn’t quite understand the thoughts of children from poor families.
Teacher Ren might think, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have money; once you’re here, fellow students and teachers can donate funds together to solve the problem imdiately. But this approach, for her and Student Geng, would beco a ntal burden.
Having already troubled the teachers for dical help, asking them to donate money too? Isn’t that the epito of shalessness? As students, they couldn’t bring themselves to do it.
It’s like when her cousins left last ti, to thank the teachers and senior students who helped, she sent fruit and candy to express her gratitude, donated to the hospital’s charity box in the na of her teachers, and ensured she wouldn’t bear a psychological burden.
To ensure Student Geng and his brother have no ntal burden in seeking treatnt, the approach cannot be like Teacher Ren’s. It should be as she previously suggested: spending money judiciously. As long as the money is spent judiciously, even if not in large amounts, they can find a way to gather it themselves.
The biggest expense in treatnt is the inability to diagnose the cause of the illness. Repeated examination fees and ineffective initial treatnt costs would encroach upon the funds needed for actual treatnt. The priority is to have an accurate direction for examination.
"Co first for a CT scan. This is precisely what I want to discuss with you. Besides seeking help from Doctor Lin, we need to seek help from an orthopedics teacher," Xie Wanying said.
"The counselor helped find an orthopedics teacher," Geng Yongzhe added.
"The counselor likely didn’t find an Orthopedics Three teacher," Xie Wanying said.
"Orthopedics Three?" Geng Yongzhe recalled the past. His brother’s issue was addressed shortly after he enrolled four years ago, with a counselor seeking input from clinical doctors. The feedback from orthopedics was that his brother’s calf fracture might not have been adequately treated at the county hospital back then, leading to imperfect bone healing, thus causing occasional pain, possibly due to insufficient nutrition later on. However, it was deed largely unrelated to the calf fracture, seeming more like his brother’s psychological issue, as many patients experience psychological trauma after severe accidents.
After the orthopedics teacher spoke, there was no further follow-up. He could only think about becoming an orthopedic doctor himself in the future to consider how to help treat his brother’s leg.
Thinking this way, he surely harbored so skepticism about this orthopedic diagnosis.
Student Geng is very much like her in this regard. She also perpetually doubted her grandfather’s diagnosis back then, thinking she could only treat her family’s illness by becoming a doctor herself.
"For a calf fracture, you likely went to Orthopedics One. Orthopedics One specializes in hand and foot surgery, Orthopedics Two focuses on artificial joints, and Orthopedics Three is developing spine surgery," Xie Wanying explained. "You should have heard this ntioned before."
During the internship phase, teachers talked about the three sections of orthopedics. Geng Yongzhe asked, "For a calf fracture, seeing Orthopedics One is correct; why do you suggest Orthopedics Three? Do you suspect an issue with his spine?"
"Yes," Xie Wanying nodded, "If you don’t quite believe , I think we can discuss it with Teacher Chang from Orthopedics Three, show Teacher Chang the dical records."
"Teacher Chang?" Geng Yongzhe realized she ant Chang Jiawei, surprised why they would seek out Chang Jiawei. People in the class said he was quite unorthodox, famously a playboy and unreliable.
Whether Teacher Chang is a playboy or not, Xie Wanying couldn’t easily conclude.
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