Chapter 251 - Do what you are capable of (1/2)

Zhang Fan was truly rendered speechless when he performed the daily morning patient checkup. Although the hospital was no jail, most normal people would clean things up to wait for the doctor’s daily morning checkup. However, these four patients were truly different.

Not only was the young man still fast asleep at the time of the scheduled morning checkup, another young woman, who wasn’t one of the three female patients, was sleeping in his bed with him!

“What’s with this?” Zhang Fan asked a nurse with dissatisfaction. Chasu City Hospital wasn’t a mega hospital. There wouldn’t be enough staff to have a nurse constantly accompanying every patient. Still, this was the infectious diseases department, so it normally wasn’t recommended to have visitors staying over the night.

The young nurse hurriedly answered, “Yesterday, this lady came over to visit. She said that she would leave in just a little bit, but…!”

Zhang Fan truly didn’t know what to say. The infectious diseases department was clearly labeled on the entrance with very large lettering. Yet, it was as if these young people were illiterate.

“Wake them up!” Zhang Fan told the nurse as he went to go check up on the other patients first. To these young people who liked to be active at night, they would always be most tired early in the morning. Their biological clocks would already be in chaos. Their messy hair dyed in several different colors made them seem like demons!

Pitiful! What was pitiful? As the saying went, heaven’s actions could be deemed pitiful, but one’s own foolish actions would lead to death. It was natural law for people to get old, become ill, and die. Medical technology hadn’t advanced to the point where people would stop dying of old age. Thus, illnesses would always come visit every single person in their lifetime.

Getting ill was unavoidable. To describe this using idealism, this was a trial that the heavens sent to humans. If you didn’t care enough to manage or improve your condition, then you would be foolish. Was it that China wasn’t doing enough to spread common knowledge regarding infectious diseases? Did these young people know nothing but AIDS? Did they think that hepatitis B wouldn’t be fatal?

Morning checkups in the infectious diseases department involved drawing blood on an empty stomach as well as taking urine and feces samples for various checkups. Zhang Fan just finished the checkups when the young nurse came to tell him, “Doctor Zhang, those four patients of yours have run out of money on their accounts. When I went to talk to them about their medical fees, it seemed like they were having some difficulties.”

This was something rather ridiculous about Chinese society. Whenever a patient owed medical fees, the nurse’s telling them to pay up would sometimes result in the patient or their family members arguing with the nurse. Meanwhile, if a doctor went to ask for the medical fees instead, unless the patient was truly having financial difficulties, they would usually obey and pay up. That was just how ridiculous it was!

Seeing how awkward the young nurse felt, Zhang Fan knew that the youngsters were giving her trouble.

“How much money did you pay for hospitalization fees yesterday? How come it’s all gone before any treatment even started?”

“I know, Bro. I’m confused as well. I paid 2,000 yuan yesterday. How come it’s all gone before anything was even done!” The young man had just finished cleaning himself up. The young woman from last night had already vanished! Completely disappeared! She vanished as if she was a Bloody Mary!

“Where’s the young woman from earlier? Did the two of you have sex?” Zhang Fan asked directly.

“Hey! Bro, that’s so rude of you to ask. She’s my girlfriend!”

The more than Zhang Fan interacted with the young man, the more he felt the latter seemed demonic! Zhang Fan became really angry when he heard this!

“Say it! Where did she go! Do you realize that your disease is infectious? Hurry and call her to come over here! She needs to get a hepatitis B immunoglobulin injection!” This wasn’t about Zhang Fan minding things that weren’t his own business. This was his care for others as a doctor!

“Bro, don’t be angry. I bet that she was the one who gave me this disease in the first place! Let’s just talk about my treatment instead! I feel rather bad! I want to vomit!” Unfortunately, Zhang Fan couldn’t force this unreasonable patient to tell him the fourth girlfriend’s contact information!

“You paid 2,000 yuan for the four of you. That’s only 500 yuan per person, which isn’t even enough for the checkup fees. You should hurry and pay the medical fees. Also, don’t have anyone stay with you overnight anymore. You’re only harming yourself as well as others!”

“Oh! I’ll go get some money.” The young man didn’t object, but it also seemed like he didn’t really listen to Zhang Fan’s medical advice.

“Where’s your medical insurance card?” Zhang Fan inquired.

“What medical insurance card?”

“It’s something that lets you receive treatments for free at the hospital. Doesn’t your karaoke bar workplace buy insurance for you?”

“No, they pay our salary on a daily basis. They’ve never owed me any money!”

“Fine! Go! Hurry and pay your medical fees so that we can start your treatment as soon as possible. If it’s at all possible, you should ask your direct relatives to also come here!” Zhang Fan said in a depressed tone.

Were there many such people in China? Indeed, there still were. China had developed a national medical insurance program immensely, yet such people seemed as if they were living under rocks, not knowing about any of this! Maybe they were stuck in their own little worlds! After Zhang Fan got off from work today, while he wasn’t physically tired, he was really mentally drained! It wasn’t like he was a block of wood!

Zhang Fan took a hot shower, which helped him to somewhat calm down from that awkward feeling he had. While he didn’t have any special feelings towards these patients, their behavior still made him uncomfortable!

Ma Wentao had established a proper foundational start for his hospital. Although Ma Wentao had now sold his hospital to Zhang Fan, the prior’s influence could still be seen. Currently, Zhang Fan was somehow managing to maintain the hospital despite its expenses. They were still receiving the same number of surgery patients. However, there were no longer any internal medicine patients or people coming in for physical examinations. Perhaps this was all because Zhang Fan didn’t have the money to keep additional departments open like Ma Wentao.

Over the Spring Festival, things would always be busy in China. On the day before the Spring Festival, everyone was eating together with their families, but not Zhang Fan. He spent his Spring Festival at his hospital due to two surgeries that his hospital received.

One surgery patient was a middle-aged woman who had accidentally slipped with her hand while she was cutting meat. She cut off her own left hand’s index finger, middle finger, and ring finger!

The other surgery patient was a young child who had injured his fingers with firecrackers. His thumb and index finger were seriously injured.