Fire Chief vs. Surgeon: A Tale of Relentless Pursuit-Chapter 768: The Fastidious Old Lady
Lu Jing and the others were dragged into a tent by the villagers, unable to refuse such overwhelming hospitality.
After sitting down, they began to examine everyone.
"Anyone who doesn’t feel well can come over for a check.
Oh yes, we also have some cold prevention medicine here, Mr. Village Chief, please distribute one pill to each person to take."
The Village Chief was very excited, nodding his head repeatedly:
"Ah, yes, yes, thank you, Doctor, thank you all."
As soon as the village chief finished speaking, the surrounding villagers also began to thank them profusely.
Lu Jing and her colleagues felt a bit sentimental; after all, they hadn’t really done much, had they?
Yet everyone was thanking them with such genuine sincerity.
Usually, to encounter even one patient in a hospital who sincerely thanked the doctor was considered lucky.
The majority, weren’t they cursing?
And the curses were all sorts of unpleasant to hear.
Some even resorted to physical violence, causing disturbances in the hospital.
Too many people believed that once they spent money at the hospital, they were like gods, and the doctors had to bow and scrape before them.
But they didn’t consider that doctors weren’t in the service industry; doctors spent years of diligent study and earned their wages through their skills and expertise.
"No need to thank us, ma’am, please sit down."
This old woman had always been assisted by Lu Jing, so the two of them were quite familiar.
The old woman nodded and then came forward to sit.
"Ma’am, do you have any discomfort, or does it hurt anywhere?"
The old lady had been continually rubbing her leg:
"It’s an old problem, hurts whenever it rains."
Lu Jing stood up and squatted in front of the old lady:
"Ma’am, let me have a look."
The old lady suddenly clutched it tightly:
"No, no, just prescribe me some painkillers, that’s enough."
As doctors, naturally intuitive, how could they not realize why the old woman behaved this way?
After walking such a long mountain road in the rain, her trousers and shoes were covered in mud.
Although she was elderly, she still cared a great deal about cleanliness.
Lu Jing smiled:
"Ma’am, it’s alright, I need to check to know what’s going on, okay? Really, it’s okay, lift it up."
Her voice was very gentle, the kind that was soothing to hear.
Finally, the old woman relaxed her grip and lifted up her trouser leg.
Upon seeing it, she gasped sharply.
"Ma’am, this... was it caused by a heavy object in the past?"
The bone was deformed, and the knee was crooked; there was also a large scar on her leg.
Judging from the scar, it was an injury from a long time ago.
The old lady nodded:
"Yes, it happened decades ago. Back then during the busy farming season, we were transporting grain with donkey carts.
It was late at night, and we couldn’t see the road clearly; there was a huge pit, the wheel got stuck on it, and all the grain from the cart fell off. I didn’t manage to jump off in time and was crushed under the sacks of grain."
Sss.
That must be at least forty or fifty years ago, right?
How painful must it have been?
And to think, medical conditions back then were not good, and everyone was so poor they could barely afford food, let alone money to go to a hospital.
Generally, they would just rely on the local or town "barefoot doctors" to cling to life.
What kind of complications might follow, depended on individual fate.
Lu Jing carefully felt the old lady’s leg; fortunately, it was just the knee that was crooked, the rest didn’t seem to have significant issues.
If the old lady had been just a bit younger, say by about ten years, she could have considered surgery at a hospital.
Unfortunately, now the old lady was already eighty years old, so it wasn’t necessary.
At her age, it was very possible she might not survive the surgery.
