Chapter 22: The benevolent heart of a doctor, a man-made miracle

"I am a little worried after all. After all, I don't know anything about medicine. Even the term 'hyperventilation syndrome' was coined by you. I had no idea there was such a disease."

While teasing Zhou Hanya, she explained to Lin Yan: "So, I am really worried. What if Director Gao made a misdiagnosis? Think about it, Yan, he only diagnosed for 2 minutes in total, and he asserted that Hanya is healthy and just needs to take care of her body. Of course I would be scared!"

Lin Yan asked: "Does it mean in your mind that this kind of consultation should take more than ten minutes or even half an hour?"

"That's not it!"

Martha said aggrievedly, "How can we know what the disease is without a careful examination? I believe there are indeed some doctors with high medical skills. They are experienced and have diagnosed diseases for countless people, so they can make professional judgments with just a few simple words. But aren't those doctors all old, top-notch doctors who only work in private hospitals and enjoy generous salaries?"

"And Director Gao looks like he's only 50 years old and he's a doctor at a public hospital. How can I trust him? Public hospitals see so many patients every day. I'm afraid each doctor only has less than ten minutes to diagnose each patient. I find it hard to believe that they are really making serious diagnoses instead of just talking nonsense for their own 'performance'!"

Lin Yan couldn't help but laugh.

Martha was even more confused: "Yan, what are you laughing at again? Is there something wrong with what I said?"

Lin Yan coughed lightly: "Well... Strictly speaking, there is no problem. I believe that in most countries in the world, your concerns are justified. The 'hospital' you think of is applicable everywhere - the only exception is China."

Is China another exception?

Martha's eyes were almost sparkling.

"Yan, you can't lie to me!"

Martha pouted and said, "You Chinese are really amazing. You have exceeded my expectations time and time again. I have seen it many times in just a few hours! But, those wonders are still in the human realm after all! Chinese people are only human beings, not gods!"

"Seeing nearly a hundred patients a day, and accurately diagnosing each of their illnesses within ten minutes - this is not something a human can do! Even the top doctors on Blue Star can't do it! This is a complete miracle, only God can do this 'impossible'!"

Lin Yan smiled and said:

"The Chinese are indeed human beings, not omnipotent gods. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The Chinese are least interested in the so-called 'gods'. However, there is also one thing that the Chinese are very uninterested in, that is, we never believe in 'impossible'."

"Let me tell you a story. During the Song Dynasty in China, there was an old man who sold oil. He had this story..."

Lin Yan told Martha the story of "The Oil Seller".

"It's nothing but practice that makes perfect" - the old oil seller's words tell us that things that seem impossible to others are not really impossible. As long as you work hard day after day, what others think is 'impossible' will become as normal to you as eating and drinking water."

"The same goes for the speed of Chinese medical care that you think is impossible."

"Actually, Martha, what you just said has already solved all your doubts, but you just don't realize it or don't want to believe it."

Martha tilted her head: "Where?"

Lin Yan replied: "You mentioned it yourself. Chinese doctors see nearly a hundred patients a day and give accurate diagnoses within ten minutes. You think this is impossible, but in fact the cause and effect logic is reversed. It is because our Chinese doctors have done it that all this is possible."

"At the beginning, they were really in a mess and couldn't make accurate judgments on all the symptoms. They had to ask their teachers, senior brothers and sisters, and make careful diagnoses based on the knowledge in the textbooks. As a result, they could only see a very small number of patients every day, probably about 30 people. If it exceeds this range, they will become like you worry, and speak without thinking." people! ?

When Martha heard this number, she was so scared that she almost bit off her tongue.

Here it comes again, the unique way of showing off that is unique to the Chinese!
What the Chinese consider to be "little", "weak" and "insufficient" are completely unreasonably high standards in the eyes of outsiders!
Each doctor diagnoses 30 patients a day? If this happened in any other country in the world, doctors would go on strike to protest the workload, right?

But in your China, this is just the beginning?
Is it that Chinese doctors are crazy or is it that this world is crazy?
"If not, China will be in big trouble."

Lin Yan sighed softly: "Martha, even if we start from a hundred years ago when China was poor and weak, China still has a huge population of more than 4 million. With such a huge population base, countless people get sick every day. Of course, we need doctors, lots and lots of doctors."

“But where are there so many doctors?”

"As Brother Alian said just now, training a medical student is not easy. Although China has changed a lot compared to a hundred years ago, we have only been able to live a life of 'not starving to death' in the last thirty years. How can we afford to train so many medical students?"

"In other developed countries, a doctor normally works 10 to 20 patients a day. Even if the workload is doubled to 40 patients a day, it is still far from meeting the population base requirements of China."

He held up a finger:
"Take the Jinghai Third People's Hospital for example. The number of outpatient visits recorded in this hospital is stable at over 1 per day, but do you know how many professional doctors are registered in this hospital?"

What!? Ten thousand?
This number really shocked Martha!
She thought that her estimate of the number of patients seen every day was already exaggerated, but she didn't expect that the real number from Lin Yan was even more outrageous!

More than 1 patients are seen every day? If everyone didn’t have to wait in line for months, but came and was treated on the same day… even the top hospitals in the UAE would be paralyzed on the spot! Even if the second and third hospitals were brought in, it might not be enough!
Martha spoke with difficulty:
"With an average of 700 patients seen per day, I guess... there should be 500 practicing doctors? No... ? ?"

Lin Yan shook his head.

"If we only count frontline clinical physicians, there are only a little over 300."

three hundred……?
"These 300 great doctors are also human beings, not gods who can work 7/24. They need to rest, they need to take vacations, and they need to meet the needs of more than 1 outpatient visits every day."

"The situation is similar for other hospitals. Some hospitals have more doctors, and some hospitals have fewer. But the number of patients they need to deal with is not much different."

"When doctors in other countries are faced with this situation, many of them will naturally say that they have done their best, that so many patients are beyond the limits of their job scope, and that they are unfortunately unable to handle it."

“From their perspective, this may be right.”

"But as a price, so many patients will not receive treatment, and they will live in pain and danger. If it is just a few hundred or a few thousand patients in a hospital, then maybe we can close our eyes and pretend not to see it. But once the scope is expanded to more than one billion Chinese people, and every hospital has thousands of patients who cannot receive treatment every day and have to endure pain, what will the scene be like?"

"So, our Chinese doctors made this great decision. Because of this, they are among the most respected people in China."

"They gave up their generous treatment, rejected a comfortable life, and devoted themselves to endless busyness every day, taking on heavy work that far exceeded their wages. All of this was just four words of faith."

"Doctors are kindhearted. They are the most soft-hearted and cannot bear to see people suffering from illness in this world!"

(End of this chapter)