Insufficient balance

  A hospital is a place that one cannot avoid in life, and most people come into this world here. Even if you weren't born in a hospital, you'll still end up here when you're sick. Nobody wants to come to the hospital, but no matter how unwilling you are, fate will always arrange for people to have opportunities to come to the hospital. This is the helplessness of life - there are some things that aren't what you want, yet you can't avoid them. How many people in this world can escape the torment of illness?

  Lin Xiaoyu didn't like the feeling of being in a hospital. The white and sterile colors, as well as the strong smell of disinfectant, made Lin Xiaoyu feel very uncomfortable. However, Lin Xiaoyu was not unfamiliar with hospitals. Every time she had a fever or caught a cold, her parents would take her to see the doctors wearing masks and white coats in the hospital. Most of Lin Xiaoyu's childhood memories of terror came from these hospitals.

  The doctor, wearing a white hat and a white mask, revealing only a pair of eyes, always makes young Lin Xiaoyu feel fearful. Because those long and thin injection needles that shine with cold light and the bitter and hard-to-swallow medicine are all from the prescription written by these doctors. Lin Xiaoyu has disliked hospitals since she was little, in the hospital, Lin Xiaoyu always feels that everyone is wearing a gloomy face, in the white and empty environment of the hospital, it seems particularly oppressive, making young Lin Xiaoyu feel scared.

  If Lin Xiaoyu had to find something he hated eating the most, Lin Xiaoyu would undoubtedly say it was cough syrup. Lin Xiaoyu wasn't a picky eater since childhood, even when facing those bitter Chinese medicines that made Lin Xiaoyu frown, Lin Xiaoyu wouldn't be too resistant. The only exception was the pink cough syrup in a semi-transparent white bottle, which made Lin Xiaoyu's face change color upon smelling it. Lin Xiaoyu couldn't stand the taste of the cough syrup, which wasn't sweet or sour, and would get goosebumps all over his body as soon as he smelled it, let alone being forced to drink it. So what Lin Xiaoyu feared most when he was young wasn't getting injections or taking medicine because of a fever or cold, but rather coughing, because every time Lin Xiaoyu coughed, he would be forced to drink that disgusting cough syrup. Unfortunately, Lin Xiaoyu often had a cough when he was young, so the pink cough syrup frequently became his nightmare during childhood.

  Later, a loquat paste for cough relief was introduced, which also proved to be very effective and became a blessing for Lin Xiaoyu. Those sweet loquat pastes were much more palatable than the pink cough medicine, allowing Lin Xiaoyu to escape the nightmares brought on by the cough medicine.

  Lin Xiaoyu sat in the hospital's hall, Yan Nan went to the hospital's service window to register for Lin Xiaoyu. It had been many years since Lin Xiaoyu last came to the hospital. Lin Xiaoyu, who played basketball all day, had developed a healthy physique, but he never thought that he would be visiting the hospital again because of injuries from fighting.

  It's been years since Lin Xiaoyu visited the hospital, and she found that the equipment and facilities had become much more advanced than before. However, the strong smell of disinfectant remained unchanged. The hardware in the hospital had improved, but Lin Xiaoyu felt that the doctors and nurses had become colder.

  Even the nurses who held cold and scary syringes would smile and tease the little kids who cried because they were afraid of injections. But now, Lin Xiaoyu found that the doctors and nurses in white coats in the hospital all had a look of indifference, which made Lin Xiaoyu feel that they regarded the patients waiting to be treated as machines waiting for repair, as if they couldn't see the patients' suffering, but rather mechanically examined and prescribed medicine for them without asking about their condition or showing concern. They were like road workers in white coats, following procedures to repair one machine after another. Lin Xiaoyu couldn't stand this indifference. Because she knew that patients needed not only the doctors' treatment, but also the confidence to overcome their illness from the care and comfort of the doctors.

  On the long bench where Lin Xiaoyu was sitting and waiting to see a doctor, such a scene occurred: an old man wearing very simple clothes was tremblingly asking the nurse about the usage of the prescription in his hand. However, the nurse in front of him responded with a face full of impatience and indifference, "Can't you read the instructions on the prescription yourself?" When the old man said helplessly that he couldn't recognize the words on it, the nurse had already indifferently walked away.

  Today's society is constantly telling people a reality: doctors and nurses in white coats are not necessarily all angels.

  Lin Xiaoyu endured the pain on her hands and body to help an old man who was a bit disheartened by the nurse's indifference, reading the words on his prescription and telling him how to take it. After the honest and kind old man left with gratitude, Lin Xiaoyu felt helpless about the current state of hospital care. Lin Xiaoyu knew she could never change this phenomenon, but facing such indifference happening around her, she couldn't help feeling a little distressed. Lin Xiaoyu wasn't one of those saintly people who worried for the world's troubles before their own, but as someone with a conscience and morals, she really couldn't accept the feelings that hospitals gave her nowadays.

  "This hospital has a queue for registration that takes up half a day, and the nurse at the front desk of the registration department has a really bad attitude. She was chatting with her colleagues while helping people register, completely ignoring us who were queuing up for registration............" After finishing the registration, Yan Nuo walked back to the long chair where Lin Xiaoyu was sitting, complaining about the service attitude of the registration department in his mouth.

  Lin Xiaoyu had already seen the indifference in this hospital and was very understanding of Yan Nan's complaints.

  "Xiao Yu, are you still in pain? Let's go to the surgical department on the fourth floor to check your injury." Yan Nan complained a little before showing concern for Lin Xiao Yu's wound.

  "I'm fine." Lin Xiaoyu didn't want to let Yan Nan worry about her injury, so she forced a light smile, but the intense pain in her hand made her smile reveal a few hints of agony.

  "Let's go. Come, I'll support you." Yan Nan could see that Lin Xiaoyu was pretending to be relaxed so as not to worry him, and at this moment, Yan Nan wished he could share half of the pain on Lin Xiaoyu's body for him.

  Yan Nan and Lin Xiaoyu walked into the elevator. Just as the doors were closing, a hurried voice sounded from outside the elevator door.

  "Wait a minute."

  Lin Cijie hastily ran into the elevator.

  "How did you get here?" Lin Xiaoyu was surprised that the female manager of the team had come to the hospital, when she had refused Lin Cijie's offer to ride with her to the hospital.

  Lin Cijie took a deep breath and said slowly: "I'm quite familiar with this hospital, my mom works here, so I came to take a look. It'll be better this way."

  Yan Nan looked at the team's female manager, who was running a bit out of breath. Although Yan Nan had been angry with her earlier for snatching his Sprite, when Lin Xiaoyu was attacked, this female manager had gone to call for help and even handed him a tissue to wipe away his tears. This made Yan Nan's attitude towards her change somewhat, and his gaze at her became much friendlier.

  The elevator stopped on the fourth floor and automatically opened. Lin Xiaoyu and Yan Nan walked out of the elevator, and Lin Cijie closed the elevator door while saying to Lin Xiaoyu and Yan Nan: "I'll go upstairs to find my mom first, you two wait for me at the surgery department." After finishing speaking, Lin Cijie pressed the elevator button.

  There were no patients in the emergency room, and a middle-aged doctor on duty was reading a newspaper. When Lin Xiaoyu and Yan Nan came in, he casually asked about Lin Xiaoyu's injury. After Lin Xiaoyu said that her hand hurt and might have broken a bone, the doctor told her to get an X-ray to confirm whether the bone was okay before prescribing medication. After finishing speaking, the middle-aged doctor returned his gaze to the newspaper.

  When Yan Nan asked where to go for the X-ray, the doctor didn't even lift his head and pointed directly at the left side of the door with his hand. The middle-aged doctor seemed to realize that pointing the way like this was a bit too vague, so he casually mentioned the specific location of the X-ray room.

  Yan Nan was furious with this extremely unserious middle-aged doctor, but Yan Nan knew that Lin Xiaoyu still needed to rely on the doctor for treatment, so she couldn't afford to get angry with him. She held back her anger and took Lin Xiaoyu to take some X-rays.

  When Yan Nan and Lin Xiaoyu put the X-ray film in front of the middle-aged doctor, he reluctantly put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at Lin Xiaoyu's injury. The doctor said that there was a fracture in the metacarpal bone, so he asked the nurse to come and apply medicine to Lin Xiaoyu, then use a splint to bandage Lin Xiaoyu's injured hand. However, the petite nurse had a strength that didn't match her appearance, and Lin Xiaoyu felt a sharp pain during the bandaging process, sweating profusely. Lin Xiaoyu couldn't help but wonder if this nurse used to work in a factory packaging goods, because he felt that she didn't care about his injured hand's pain at all, just mechanically bandaging it with force.

  The middle-aged doctor picked up the pen on the table and wrote a bunch of messy, illegible handwriting on the prescription. Lin Xiaoyu had also broken her leg in junior high school, but it seemed that she didn't need to take too much medicine. Lin Xiaoyu saw that the middle-aged doctor had already filled one sheet with prescriptions, but he still seemed unsatisfied and opened a second sheet to continue writing his extraterrestrial-like handwriting.

  Lin Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask: "Doctor, I'm injured externally, do I really need to take so many medicines?"

  The middle-aged doctor immediately replied angrily, "Am I the doctor or are you the doctor? I'm prescribing more medicine to help you recover faster." Lin Xiaoyu's small inquiry seemed to make the middle-aged doctor feel like his medical skills were being questioned, and he continued to write on the prescription with a flourish, quickly filling up the second page.

  Just as the middle-aged doctor was writing a prescription, Lin Cijie knocked on the door and came in. After entering, Lin Cijie asked if Lin Xiaoyu had finished seeing the doctor and how serious her injury was.

  The middle-aged doctor seemed very unhappy that someone had come in to disturb him as he practiced calligraphy on the prescription, and said with great displeasure that one must keep quiet inside the hospital.

  At this time, a beautiful middle-aged female doctor with a white coat and gold-rimmed glasses walked in behind Lin Cijie. This elegant and refined middle-aged female doctor looked somewhat similar to Lin Cijie. It was estimated that this female doctor was Lin Cijie's mother.

  "I'm so sorry, Dr. Jia. My daughter is usually like this, making a ruckus and disturbing your patients. I apologize for the trouble." The female doctor said with a gentle tone.

  "Ah, Director Su! How do you have time to come here? Please sit down quickly." The middle-aged doctor immediately changed his attitude by 180 degrees as soon as he saw Lin Cijie's mother. Not only did he stop writing with the pen that was scribbling in a foreign language, but he also stood up enthusiastically to greet her: "Oh, this girl is your precious daughter? She has grown so big and beautiful, just like you."

  "This patient is my daughter's classmate, he was injured this time completely because of saving my daughter and getting hurt. It turns out that this classmate is a benefactor of our family, Dr. Jia you must help him get well." Lin Cijie's mother said gratefully to the middle-aged doctor while still looking at Lin Xiaoyu who was being bandaged by the nurse.

  "Oh, I see. It's all my fault for not knowing. Dean Su, don't worry, I'll definitely do my best to treat this brave student's injuries..." The middle-aged doctor almost patted his chest as he spoke.

  PS: This book is dedicated to everyone who keeps struggling in real life. If you like it, please collect and recommend it, thank you...

  Welcome to join book group 58801975 Let's discuss this book and talk about our lives