Chapter 2796: with translation of chapter title

"Doctor Liao, you're too naive." Su Yun said bluntly.

"Hmm, I also have a similar incident on my side." Gao Shaojie said.

"Teacher Gao, please speak." Doctor Liao said humbly seeking advice.

"It wasn't a doctor who said it; it was a friend of a friend I know who said it at a drinking gathering." Gao Shaojie said: "We had eaten together twice; once he mentioned his stomach hurt, he consulted online, looked up some related information online, bought medicine himself and took it, and then got better."

Gao Shaojie smiled elegantly: "The first time was also after drinking a bit; he looked at me and said, 'Brother Gao, you say I should queue up to go to the hospital outpatient clinic to see a doctor, without mentioning the time, the doctor prescribes a big pile of useful and useless medicines, some of which are even not allowed to be sold by the state. Isn't that cheating money? I might as well just buy some medicine myself and take it.'"

"Even saying this to my face is relatively polite; if I weren't there, who knows what they'd say."

"Mm, Lao Gao is right." Su Yun smiled, "This contradiction is pushing healthcare toward the market; marketization will inevitably cause this. If we switched to another industry, high-end… say, lawyers, appointment-based, how much per hour? Boss, do you know how much Lawyer Ge charges per hour for consultation?"

Zheng Ren shook his head.

"5000."

"This is a mid-range lawyer; if it's the top-tier lawyers in Di Du, they start at 10,000." Zhou Chun Yong said.

"Right." Su Yun said, "If the Boss goes out for a clinic visit, a registration ticket…"

"Talking about this is meaningless; nobody has a solution, we can only blindly follow the times forward. Those with luck can endure until they rise. Uh, what I mean by rising is that the whole industry becomes standardized, all employed people rise." Zheng Ren said.

"Lao Gao, keep talking." Su Yun said dissatisfiedly: "This kind of thing shouldn't be listened to from the Boss; he stands in the middle, straddling two boats."

"Have I ever lain in a hospital bed? I still remember when I was in Hai Cheng, a patient asked me—Doctor, are you drawing so much blood to sell it? At the time I didn't understand, but later I did. I was hospitalized due to an allergy to Tonic Water, having blood drawn twice a day, and I felt that each tube was really a lot."

"You're just too timid, it's psychological. You aren't unaware of how big our needle is; if you insist on thinking the worst, who do you blame?" Su Yun said contemptuously.

Gao Shaojie laughed, then continued: "I didn't speak up then either; this contradiction isn't something a small doctor like me can solve."

"After a long time passed, about three to five months. When we met again for a meal, he had lost a lot of weight; upon asking, he said he was sick, he treated himself at home for seven days with no improvement, then went to the hospital, entered critical care, and finally recovered."

"This time you're not going to say you got better from seeing a doctor?" Su Yun asked, knowing the answer.

"……" Gao Shaojie sighed, glanced at Su Yun, then at Zheng Ren. The outcome is simple, but what Zheng Lao Ban just said really hit home.

Just one sentence, and Gao Shaojie lost the will to continue speaking.

"It's fine." Zheng Ren smiled: "Things will get better eventually."

"Boss, this chicken soup is too greasy and utterly devoid of nutrition."

"Still okay." Zheng Ren said, "After entering the market, it starts with unspoken rules, later it becomes formal rules. Now we're in a period where the unspoken rules are being broken and formal rules are being rebuilt; it might be tough to get through. Doctor Liao, you'd better avoid doing anything too dangerous; being an online doctor is no easy task."

Doctor Liao nodded.

"Medicine is a very complex discipline; the same cause doesn't necessarily produce the same symptoms, and the same symptoms don't necessarily mean the same disease. Simply basing a diagnosis on a patient's typed description of symptoms and directly confirming it is playing fast and loose." Su Yun said, "When something really goes wrong, you won't even have time to cry."

Doctor Liao was speechless.

"If something happens to you in the hospital, Director Zhou can still cover up a bit and suppress the matter. After all, he who often walks by the river won't keep his shoes dry… uh, except for the Boss, whose fate is good."

"Don't talk about me; I'm usually very careful." Zheng Ren said, "Things like being an online doctor, I've thought about it carefully, and I feel the risk is uncontrollable and it's irresponsible toward patients."

"See? Even those with such good luck don't dare to do it; you really think you'll get lucky?" Su Yun laughed.

"Besides, online you have no idea whether the person on the other side is a patient's relative or the patient themselves; you'd need to chat for hours with Chang Yue and the patient to sort out all contraindications, yet you prescribe medicine and claim to treat symptoms in just a few minutes online? If an allergic reaction or similar occurs, just wait to die."

"……" Doctor Liao continued to remain silent.

"Nowadays online, they charge a few bucks…… or even tens of bucks; you say is that a consultation or a diagnosis? The legal boundaries are too blurry; once something happens, the online company will definitely pass the buck, will they protect you like Director Zhou does?"

"Cut it out; with that time you'd be better off learning more skills. I watched Director Zhou's surgery today, and it was pretty good."

"Little Su Teacher, look what you're saying." Zhou Chun Yong waved his hands repeatedly; Su Yun's words made him feel uncomfortable all over. To praise his own surgery as pretty good in front of Zheng Lao Ban? Zhou Chun Yong knew the score.

"To be frank, the failure to finish was due to a flawed approach. When I came in, I thought the possibility of removing a staple with interventional surgery was low; it definitely required surgical treatment. The Boss kept saying to give it a try, and it ended up working. We can't compare ourselves to him; he's ill, possibly suffering from scholar's syndrome."

"As soon as you mention scholar's syndrome, I think of the male lead in Good Doctor."

"I watched that show for ten minutes and then dropped it, but its Douban rating is high, and everyone who watches it enjoys it." Su Yun said.

"Mm, I guess that's it; did you see that at the start, while rescuing a patient with pneumothorax caused by glass shards, they temporarily performed a closed chest tube drainage, and you gave up when the bottle was positioned about 60 cm above the chest cavity?"

"The pressure inside the chest bottle is negative, the making is fine, the temporary bottle looks proper. But raising it that high, are you really worried the fluid will flow back into the chest cavity causing secondary infection?"

"So then, the public's taste and appreciation level need to be blurred. Too professional won't do, not professional enough won't do; the middle ground… I think Chang Yue has grasped the best of it." Zheng Ren glanced at Chang Yue, seeing her and Xie Yiren lowering their heads to look at their phones.

"You two, can you be honest?" Su Yun said while holding her phone, yet she had no self-awareness at all.

"It's none of your business; you chat your chat, I'm watching a suspense movie with Yi Ren, right at the crucial part."

"Huh? You two can even understand a suspense film?" Su Yun said contemptuously, "Let me see."

"Drawing the Blade, the one about how nurses kill people?" Su Yun glanced and immediately knew what film they were watching.

"Nurses, killing people?" Zhou Chun Yong exclaimed in astonishment.

"Mm, it's just a suspense film, that's what it's about. It has some flaws, but it's the kind that's watchable." Su Yun laughed.