323: Chapter 323: Poverty is the Disease 323: Chapter 323: Poverty is the Disease The mother and son looked intently at the injured man being wheeled into the hospital.
The young boy was about to step forward, but was pulled back by his mother.
The mother and son, dressed plainly, had distinctive looks: the woman’s face bore the marks of years, while the boy’s face was filled with youthful innocence.
The woman’s hands, roughened by years of labor, were gripping the boy’s arm tightly.
Qin Han observed the mother and son with curiosity.
They must be the family of the man who had just been admitted, but why weren’t they going inside?
“Mom, why aren’t we going in?
Dad is being resuscitated in there!” the boy said, his face a picture of urgency.
The woman didn’t speak but looked through the glass at the scene inside the hospital.
Seeing the man being rushed into the ergency room, she visibly relaxed.
Gently pulling the boy, her face filled with tension, she walked into the hospital.
Qin Han followed them into the hospital.
He wasn’t usually a curious person, but today this mother and son had piqued his interest, and he wanted to see what exactly was going on.
Having been a doctor for many years, he had seen many extraordinary situations.
So patients were critically ill and couldn’t survive, yet their relatives still wanted to see them one last ti because of events that had deeply hurt them in the past.
But this mother and son were clearly not like that, as the genuine concern in their eyes couldn’t be faked.
The mother and son stealthily hid inside the ergency room, watching the man who was being resuscitated, while expressions of worry, anxiety, and hesitation crossed the mother’s face.
“The patient fell from a great height, causing abdominal bleeding and head trauma, and he had a tumor removed here three months ago.
The tumor has recurred,” the nurse explained to Luo Ming, anxious about the patient’s condition.
Upon hearing this, Luo Ming took out a flashlight from his pocket, shone it on the patient’s eyes, and imdiately said, “Contact the patient’s family imdiately.
He needs surgery right now!
Hurry!”
While speaking, Luo Ming had already started preparing the defibrillator.
The tumor had been recently removed, and falling from a height had caused severe internal bleeding.
As the boy heard the voices inside the ergency room, he tried to rush in, but his mother grabbed him and pulled him aside, just missing the nurse who ca out looking for the relatives.
Struggling to get inside, his tears flowing, the boy said with a sobbing voice, “Mom, why can’t we go in?
Dad is about to die.
I need to go in!”
“Son, we can’t go in.
The surgery your father had before has already drained all our money, and we still owe so much.
This will cost tens of thousands more.
Where could we possibly find that kind of money?” the woman said, also in tears as she sadly looked into the ergency room.
“Not good, the patient’s heart rate is dropping.
Have you found his family?” Luo Ming shouted inside the ergency room.
The nurse who had gone out to look returned to the ergency room, saying anxiously, “Doctor Luo, I can’t find the patient’s family.
They clearly had followed the ambulance here.”
“What?
Without a family mber’s signature, how can we proceed with the surgery?
The patient can’t wait any longer!” Luo Ming said, frowning.
Outside the ergency room, the boy couldn’t hold back and shouted, “Dad!”
Hearing him, the woman imdiately covered her child’s mouth with her hand, trying hard not to cry out loud, whispering in the boy’s ear, “Son, we can’t go in.
Listen to mom, we can’t afford the treatnt!”
“You need to live.
Mom needs to keep you alive.
We can’t afford it!”
The boy struggled in his mother’s arms, but how could a child overco an adult?
While holding down her son, the woman looked at her husband lying in the ergency room and murmured, “Hong Sheng, don’t bla .
The child must live.”
“We have no money left.”
“In this world, we don’t deserve to live.”
“I must keep the child alive.”
Seemingly sensing his wife’s words, the man on the bed opened his eyes and looked toward the spot outside the ergency room where his wife and child stood.
For a mont, their eyes t, and the man seed to understand his wife’s actions, nodding gently.
At this mont, the woman could no longer hold back and cried silently, biting her lip so hard that it bled, to keep from making noise.
But the strength in her hands grew stronger, fearing that her child might run into the ergency room.
Seeing that he had seen his wife and child for one last ti, the man closed his eyes contentedly.
When the heart rate monitor showed a flat line, the boy struggled harder in his mother’s arms, making muffled sounds as if soone covered his mouth, which caught Qin Han’s attention.
“Dad…
Dad…
Mom, save Dad!”
“I don’t want toys anymore…”
“Dad…”
In the ergency room, Luo Ming said to the nurse beside him, “Start cardiac resuscitation imdiately!”
A few nurses hurriedly perford cardiac resuscitation on the man, and finally, after one minute, the man’s heart started beating again.
“Prepare for surgery imdiately!” Luo Ming said urgently.
“But Doctor Luo, without the patient’s family mber’s signature, we can’t arrange the surgery.
If any issue arises, you will be fully responsible!” the nurse said anxiously.
Luo Ming grabbed the dical order and signed his na on it swiftly, “Arrange the surgery now.
I can’t just watch a life vanish before my eyes.”
“But Doctor Luo…”
“There are no buts.
Take the patient to the operating room!”
Outside the ergency room, Qin Han heard Luo Ming’s words, nodded, and felt a surge of respect.
This is the honor of a doctor.
They were powerless to change many things, but they could save more people within their ability.
That is what they could do.
Did Luo Ming not know that he might bear the responsibility for this decision?
He knew!
But as a doctor, he couldn’t watch his patient, who had a chance to live, die.
Outside the ergency room, a glimr of hope suddenly lit up in the woman’s eyes.
In her heart, did she want her husband to die?
Of course not.
This could be seen from the brief eye contact just now; everything they decided was for their child to survive in the future.
Perhaps you might think, doesn’t saving the man an the child won’t survive?
Will the child starve to death because there is no food?
Maybe not!
But in the eyes of the man and the woman, the family had already incurred a huge debt, and taking on another huge debt, what would they pay with?
Their attire revealed them to be bona fide migrant workers with limited inco; should they let their child grow up burdened with debt?
There’s only one incurable illness in this world: poverty.
So people just want to live, they would spend everything they had to stay alive; life is money, and money is life!
Without money, many people give up their dignity, their lives, maybe just so soone else could live well.
Not everyone is capable of creating wealth, nor does everyone have the ability to change their fate.
When living becos a luxury, everything about life changes…
Qin Han walked slowly to the mother and son and said to the woman, “Go in, at this ti, he needs you by his side!”
Hearing Qin Han’s words, the woman’s face was filled with defeat and sha, as if she had been caught doing sothing wrong.
She let go of the boy’s hand helplessly, and the boy, freed from his mother’s grasp, hurried into the ergency room.
Perhaps he didn’t understand that, in reality, his mother was the one who felt the worst.
When the woman entered the ergency room, she heard a nurse nearby say, “There’s nothing we can do anymore…”
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