University Doctor and His Fragile Patients-Chapter 329 - 266: Taught to Heal, Not to Protect Themselves!
"Driver He, pull over and check the patient’s condition first!"
As the vehicle jolted, Secretary Lu immediately realized that something might go wrong.
Seeing Shen Yan and Chen Mu lying on the floor of the ambulance, Secretary Lu’s heart sank.
He shouted anxiously.
"Okay, okay, I’ll pull over right away!"
Driver He was also panicking; he didn’t expect someone to throw a baseball bat onto the middle of the road in the city.
If not for that,
the car wouldn’t have jolted.
Driver He knew very well that now wasn’t the time to explain; the most important thing was to first confirm if the patient in the back was injured.
"Dr. Chen!"
"Dr. Chen!"
"Dr. Chen!"
At the back of the school ambulance. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
At the moment he saw Chen Mu’s head slam into the ground, the videographer instinctively wanted to undo his seatbelt and support the two of them.
But when his hand touched the seatbelt,
he hesitated...
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to help.
It’s just that,
he still had the camera on his shoulder; if it slipped out of his hands,
this car could head straight to the funeral home instead of the hospital.
Understanding this,
the videographer clutched his camera tightly and sat firmly in his seat.
Instead, it was the intern doctors Chen Mu brought along,
who quickly unbuckled their seatbelts and rushed over to check on Chen Mu.
"Don’t worry about me, check the patient first."
Chen Mu, somewhat speechless, pushed away the white coats rushing to him, "I can examine myself. Check first if the patient has any external injuries."
"I might survive bumps and bruises, but that mobile blood bag might not."
Listening to Chen Mu’s mutterings,
the white coats were scared into shivering.
At that moment,
none of them dared to spend more time on Chen Mu, and all crowded around Shen Yan, carefully checking his body.
Shen Yan tightly guarded his clothes.
"Doctors, there’s no need to check inside the short sleeves, right?"
The white coats were equally stubborn: "No! Your case is special; we must rule out the possibility of any bleeding points on your body!"
Shen Yan: "Really, there’s no need..."
—
Shen Yan was still struggling to resist.
As a result,
when the vehicle came to a stop,
Chen Mu was the first to get off, seeing the videographer still sitting foolishly in the school ambulance.
He was momentarily speechless.
Thinking to himself that this new videographer was slightly better than the previous one, but still lacked discernment.
Despite his internal complaints,
Chen Mu helplessly waved to the videographer, "Get down!"
"Oh, oh! Yes, Dr. Chen!"
Realizing his blunder, the embarrassed videographer quickly got off the school ambulance with the camera.
Chen Mu stood at the ambulance door.
Seeing Shen Yan still guarding himself inside, he frowned and said, "No one but doctors will be on the car."
"There’s a privacy curtain on the school ambulance; they will pull it when they examine you later."
Shen Yan, feeling hopeless: "Dr. Chen, is it really necessary to go this far?"
Chen Mu, expressionless: "It’s very necessary. Even a tiny bleeding point on your body could very well be life-threatening."
"The live broadcast camera is right behind me now."
"If you strongly refuse routine medical examination, you can state your stance in front of the camera, and any subsequent risks will be borne by the patient themselves."
Getting off from the front passenger seat, Secretary Lu was surprised to hear Chen Mu speak so seriously and glanced at him.
But when Secretary Lu met Shen Yan’s pleading gaze,
he just said, "I don’t understand medical matters well; everything follows Dr. Chen’s guidance. Student Shen Yan, inform Dr. Chen of your decision."
Shen Yan lowered his head,
mumbling, "I accept the examination..."
As he finished speaking, the white coats on the car mercilessly closed the car door and drew the privacy curtain.
Secretary Lu held his thermos,
turning his head to look at Chen Mu, who was checking himself for injuries, and helplessly said, "I remember you used to speak quite gently with patients. Why are you so forceful with this Shen Yan?"
Chen Mu was taken aback,
then smiled wryly: "Secretary Lu, to be precise, what I just said wasn’t meant for Shen Yan."
Secretary Lu was stunned: "If not for Shen Yan, then who were you talking to?"
Seeing Chen Mu lower his eyes without speaking,
the image of Chen Mu from two or three years ago at the university hospital overlapped in Secretary Lu’s mind.
Secretary Lu suddenly had a flash of realization,
exclaiming, "You were saying those words for those intern doctors who came with you?"
"Dr. Chen, are you really treating this group of interns like students?"
Chen Mu gently shook his head.
After confirming he had no wounds, he squatted by the roadside and sighed, "It’s not really that I’m treating them like students, I just think this is a very suitable teaching moment."
"Secretary Lu, you know, I’ve always felt there’s a fatal flaw in the medicine we studied..."
Secretary Lu was puzzled, "Are you saying there are some unresolved medical challenges? Dr. Chen, although you’re a brilliant doctor, you’re working at a school hospital, not a medical lab."
Chen Mu shook his head, "No, what I’m saying is that schools only teach healthcare workers how to treat and save patients, but no one teaches them how to protect themselves."
Secretary Lu: "..."
He glanced at Chen Mu but didn’t say anything.
Chen Mu: "Like just now, if a patient refuses to let the doctor examine them, but the doctor insists to ensure the patient’s safety."
"No matter the doctor’s intentions, if the patient reports an invasion of privacy, it could easily become a legal issue in court."
—
"I don’t quite understand why Dr. Chen suddenly said this. Isn’t he being too pessimistic about doctor-patient relationships?"
"Actually, most of us patients are good people! Dr. Chen shouldn’t judge a group by an individual; that’s too biased!"
"A patient might only encounter a few doctors in their lifetime if they’re healthy. But a doctor deals with possibly hundreds of patients every day..."
"For doctors, it doesn’t take many unreasonable patients, just one can ruin a doctor’s career."
"As a doctor, I’m siding with Dr. Chen this time! Though his view is a bit pessimistic, to help more patients, a doctor must protect themselves."
"..."
—
Watching the immobile school ambulance.
Chen Mu sighed, "I’ll apologize to Student Shen Yan once we’re on the bus."
Secretary Lu glanced at Chen Mu again.
This guy’s been doing things his own way at Hai City University these past two years.
Hai City University has seen many school doctors, but only this guy dared to install a dishwasher and an electric oven—stuff completely unrelated to medicine—in the infirmary.
But from another perspective.
Chen Mu seems to treat the hospital like home, even if it’s just a school hospital.
For patients like Shen Yan, who may be delaying treatment, with Chen Mu’s temperament, an apology wouldn’t be sincere.
Yet, Chen Mu took the initiative to apologize to Shen Yan.
So...
There’s only one possibility...
Chen Mu is afraid of complaints. Realizing this, Secretary Lu fell into deeper silence.
A former genius.
Now so cautious.
Feeling the silence hanging between them, Chen Mu was quite uncomfortable with this awkward silence.
He turned his head.
Looked at Secretary Lu, "Secretary, have you contacted Shen Yan’s parents?"
Listening to Chen Mu’s voice.
Secretary Lu’s expression turned somewhat bitter.
"I’ve contacted them, but Shen Yan’s parents are abroad and have no immediate plans to return..."
"They said they’d transfer the medical expenses to Shen Yan’s bank account and asked the school to find a suitable caregiver."
Chen Mu was stunned, "Find a caregiver?"
"In a situation like Shen Yan’s, wouldn’t he really need family care?"
In front of the live broadcast cameras.
Chen Mu couldn’t speak too harshly.
The caregiver market varies greatly in quality.
He had seen some who took money without properly caring for patients in the emergency observation ward before.
But.
Those caregivers mainly took advantage of the elderly and young ones who didn’t dare to complain to their parents.
Thinking of this.
Chen Mu couldn’t help but worriedly glance at the school ambulance.
As if sensing what Chen Mu was thinking, Secretary Lu smiled and said, "We’ve communicated clearly with the parents, and we’ll find a few students not too busy with their studies to care for Shen Yan."
"And it will be compensated accordingly."
Hearing Secretary Lu’s solution.
Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
—
The school ambulance door opened.
Shen Yan was already lying back down, and several white coats had thoughtfully secured him with straps on the bed.
Chen Mu and the others boarded the car.
Driver He started the vehicle again, and Chen Mu asked, "What’s the diagnosis?"
"There’s no sign of bleeding externally, but we can’t be sure if there’s internal bleeding."
The few in white coats spoke with a touch of dejection.
Looking at their expressions, Chen Mu’s lips couldn’t help but curl up, "While examining the patient, did you also check the pulse?"
The white coats nodded.
"But, we didn’t reach any conclusions."
Chen Mu smiled, "It’s normal not to draw conclusions. Subtle internal bleeding is actually very difficult to detect via pulse reading."
"If one could detect internal bleeding through pulse alone, with his platelet count, even Hua Tuo couldn’t magically heal it."
Listening to Chen Mu’s playful remark.
Shen Yan, on the hospital bed, looked at Chen Mu pitiably, "Dr. Chen, please, say something auspicious..."
