This temptation was quite strong, Xie Wanying was tempted and almost took the bait.

Zhou Junpeng’s sly gaze captured the expression on her face, clearly wanting to catch this academically driven person with just an academic lure.

They parted ways with the senior at the entrance of the ward. The senior went down to the third floor to the operating room, while she went up to the ninth floor to the neurosurgery department.

Doctor Hu’s hospital room wasn’t hard to find.

The flowers that colleagues sent were placed on the bedside table of Doctor Hu. Although Doctor Hu couldn’t see them, she could smell their fragrance.

Mr. Liu had taken leave from work to accompany his wife during this period. At this stage of life, they were an old couple, and for a couple who had shared life’s ups and downs for half a lifetime, facing challenges together was the most meaningful thing.

"Teacher Hu." Xie Wanying approached the bedside.

Hearing her voice, Doctor Hu turned her head and, if she could see clearly, she would have recognized her and said, "You’ve tied up your hair today."

Not working today and having nothing to do, she styled her hair in a casual fashion, tying it up in a ponytail.

Xie Wanying sensed the patient’s eyes seemed to have improved and asked: "Teacher Hu, are your eyes—"

"After being admitted, Dr. Cao prescribed some medication, and strangely, my eyes felt a bit more comfortable after taking it," said Doctor Hu. This was also why she insisted on having Cao Yong treat her.

"Dr. Cao is amazing, he said no injections were needed, just pills," added Mr. Liu.

Ordinary people who don’t understand medicine often think injections are quick and the best. In fact, they are not; the effectiveness depends on whether the medication is appropriate for the condition and the patient’s illness.

In China, there is a tendency to abuse intravenous injections.

Part of the reason may be some doctors’ lack of skill or the limitations of current medical technology, resulting in prescriptions that are not very targeted, so they resort to high-dose intravenous use to cover it up. Another reason is that some patients want quick recovery and insist on intravenous injections.

Intravenous injections take effect faster than oral medications, and the correct clinical practice of using intravenous injections is generally for emergencies, very urgent emergencies that threaten the patient’s life, when oral medication would be too late.

What is an emergency is not determined by the patient and family thinking the patient’s condition is urgent; it is the doctor’s judgment based on various test indicators. Some patients may not have obvious clinical symptoms, but the test indicators show critical conditions. Some patients feel their condition is very serious and urgent, but test indicators show it is not.

Moreover, some drugs don’t have an oral form and can only be administered by intravenous injection, and some conditions have special usage requirements for intravenous injections, so these situations also require intravenous injections. Thus, professional matters need to be left to professionals to decide and manage.

In the context of the aforementioned doctor-patient relationship, encountering a doctor who can relieve symptoms with oral medication without injections, people like Mr. Liu, who are laymen, can’t help but praise the doctor as miraculous. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Xie Wanying estimated that Senior Cao would probably just smile helplessly at such compliments from the patient’s family.

It’s not about the doctor being miraculous; Senior Cao was fulfilling his duty according to medical principles. Another reason Senior Cao might not like such compliments is that if the patient’s condition requires a change in treatment strategy to include intravenous injections, the patient’s family might change their attitude and think he’s not so miraculous after all.

Doctor Hu tugged at her husband and said, "Since we trust Dr. Cao, we should just follow Dr. Cao’s arrangements."