Doctor: Picking Up Attributes in the Hospital-Chapter 401 - 352: The Dangerous and Alluring Psychiatrist
"Originally, after I mentioned it, the branch said we needed to schedule a time, but then I told them it was a patient you’re treating. They said we could come anytime."
Liu Meng smiled as she spoke, not expecting that at the branch, they could now rely on the backing of Zhao Heng.
"Do I really have that much influence?"
Zhao Heng asked, utterly puzzled.
He still hadn’t realized how influential he had become in the hospital now.
A person who could become a deputy director at twenty-five had never existed in the history of Eastern Hospital since its establishment.
So, now you could say Zhao Heng was known by everyone in the hospital.
"Of course, otherwise, why would the branch say you could go anytime?"
Liu Meng smiled again as she said this.
The reason the branch said you could go anytime was indeed partly due to Zhao Heng, but also because currently, the psychology and psychiatry clinics didn’t have many visitors, unlike the overcrowded regular outpatient clinics.
In regards to psychological and mental illnesses, the public often tends to avoid seeking treatment, even if they realize their psychological or mental issues, most are reluctant to admit or face them.
"Alright then, go to the general affairs department and get a vehicle. We’ll go now."
Zhao Heng nodded and told Liu Meng.
Since Liu Meng had said she’d taken Gao Qilan’s elective course, it would be better to bring her along. As for Li Yang, he should stay behind to handle things.
"Sure."
Liu Meng nodded and immediately got up to get a vehicle.
"Dr. Li, keep an eye on things in the ward here. Call me if anything comes up."
Zhao Heng instructed Li Yang.
"Alright."
Li Yang also nodded. Unlike Liu Meng, he wasn’t too interested in psychiatry and psychology.
Shortly after, Liu Meng got the vehicle, brought the driver to the ward. Since the young man had a minor surgery and can move freely now, Zhao Heng and the driver helped him to the hospital entrance, where they got in the ambulance and headed to the branch.
Zhao Heng, the young man, and Liu Meng sat together in the back of the ambulance, with the young man in his hospital gown, looking very nervous.
After all, Zhao Heng had just told him that they were taking him to see a psychiatric specialist.
This made the young man feel like he must have a very serious mental illness, possibly something like BT, which left him very uneasy inside.
Because his impression of mental illness was that of someone locked in a psychiatric hospital, wearing a white striped hospital gown, talking to themselves every day, sometimes gesturing wildly and ignoring the surroundings. The young man definitely didn’t want to become like that.
"Doctor, do I have a mental illness?"
The young fellow, looking a bit pale, asked Zhao Heng nervously.
"You have a psychogenic disorder, which is quite different from schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses."
Zhao Heng thought for a moment and said.
Mental illnesses refer to severe psychological disorders like schizophrenia and other delusional disorders, characterized by psychotic symptoms and a lack of alignment with the environment and reality.
Psychological disorders often refer to neurosis problems, psychological, and behavioral issues, such as functional disorders due to psychological stress, accompanied by physiological disorders, or behavior syndromes due to physical factors. Clearly, there’s a distinction between the two.
Mental illnesses and psychological disorders are not the same.
However, he also understood the young man’s worries.
"So how do I treat this? Do I get tied up for injections?"
The young man asked, trembling and pale.
He had heard that people with mental illnesses are confined in a room, tied up, and receive injections or even electric shocks daily.
"Those are protective measures for patients with bipolar disorder. In your case, the main treatment will be psychological counseling or some hypnosis."
Hearing the young man’s worried words, Zhao Heng patiently explained.
From what the young fellow said, one could see that tying up for injections or electric shocks was the common impression people had of mental illness treatment.
"Hypnosis? I have to undergo hypnosis?"
The young fellow was instantly filled with images when he heard the word hypnosis.
"These are auxiliary treatments. We’re taking you to see a very authoritative psychology and psychiatry specialist."
Zhao Heng said. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
"Don’t worry, mental treatment isn’t as terrifying as you imagine."
He added after a pause.
With Zhao Heng’s reassurance, the young man finally calmed down.
An hour and a half later, the ambulance arrived at a hillside in the suburbs beyond the fifth ring.
Getting off the vehicle, Zhao Heng looked around at the branch built on the remote hilltop, which was the Eastern Hospital’s Mental and Psychological Rehabilitation Hospital.
From the outside, the hospital looked much like any other hospital.
But as Zhao Heng and the driver helped the young man, followed by Liu Meng, just as they stepped through the hospital’s gate, Zhao Heng saw a scene unfold before him.
A young girl in a white-striped hospital gown, barefoot and with disheveled hair, came running unsteadily towards the entrance, shouting, "I’m not ill, I’m really not ill. Can I go home?!"
Soon, several beefy middle-aged nurses dressed in nurse uniforms rushed out, one grabbed the young girl while two stocky nurses lifted her and dragged her back.
The young man, originally reassured by Zhao Heng, turned pale and started trembling at his calf upon seeing this. It was precisely what he had imagined!
"Don’t worry, this is just an isolated case."
Zhao Heng felt the young man’s body trembling and could only offer comfort.
As Zhao Heng’s group had just entered, a woman in her thirties with gold-rimmed glasses, wearing a white lab coat and white high-heeled shoes, possessing an intellectual air, walked over towards them.
"Teacher Gao."
Liu Meng joyfully addressed the woman before her.
Zhao Heng suddenly realized that the elegantly poised woman in front of him must be the specialist in psychiatry and psychology Liu Meng had mentioned, Gao Qilan.
Gao Qilan appeared to have a slightly detached elegance, with an aroma akin to an orchid in a secluded valley. A bit like Song Chen but with somewhat more aggression. Zhao Heng couldn’t quite say why Dr. Gao exuded an aggressive aura, but her demeanor made it clear she wasn’t one to be trifled with.
"Yes."
Gao Qilan nodded.
"You must be Zhao Heng; I’ve heard a lot about you."
After a pause, Gao Qilan smiled interestly and spoke to Zhao Heng.
In the past two months, Zhao Heng’s name had been echoing throughout Eastern Hospital, and despite Gao Qilan being at the branch, she’d heard people talk about Zhao Heng constantly.
Being a deputy director of a department at twenty-five was simply unheard of.
"Hello, Teacher Gao."
Zhao Heng cautiously nodded, greeting her.
For some reason, when facing someone like Gao Qilan, who was proficient in psychology and psychiatry, Zhao Heng felt as if she could see right through him.
Undoubtedly, the beginning of studying psychology and psychiatry was about learning to read others’ minds.
"Follow me."
Seeing Zhao Heng’s slightly cautious expression, Gao Qilan couldn’t help but smile and said.
Then, Zhao Heng’s group followed Gao Qilan into the hospital.
Interestingly, wherever Gao Qilan walked, all the psychiatric patients in white-striped hospital gowns wore an expression of fear and automatically made way for her.
It was like they were avoiding something dangerous.
But Gao Qilan was a doctor; why would she make the patients feel this way?
That indeed was strange.
Nonetheless, Zhao Heng was very intrigued by Gao Qilan. Rather than being interested in her as a person, he was more fascinated by her skills and experience.
After all, since accumulating and integrating the skills and experience of almost all elite doctors at Eastern Hospital, Zhao Heng had hit a bottleneck.
Zhao Heng hadn’t yet absorbed from a psychiatrist or psychologist, which was a blind spot for him.
