Chapter 730 Fang Qiu Fainted from Fatigue!
Fang Qiu was still seeing patients in the hospital. Even though he had been doing it for two days and two nights, he still had no intention of stopping.
Time flew as he busied himself with his work.
Afternoon arrived in the blink of an eye. The physicians from other departments of the Chinese Medicine Hospital got off work again.
Because of Fang Qiu, there were no patients in these departments over the past two days. Occasionally, few would come to get the medicine instead of seeing doctors.
In this case, the doctors simply treated the two days as a holiday and went about their own business in the consulting rooms, such as raising flowers, playing games, and so on.
They even got off work together.
“Fang Qiu hasn’t stopped yet.”
“How tough he is! We’re simply no match for him.”
“Yeah, it’s great to be young. He’s so energetic.”
“I’ve decided to study the video in which Fang Qiu practices Qi when I have time in the future. Even if I can’t do it like him, at least I can preserve my health and be in good spirits.”
“Hey, do you think Fang Qiu will be there when we come to work tomorrow morning?”
As soon as this question was heard, everyone expressed their opinions.
“The hospital begins to register at six o’clock in the morning, and doctors officially see patients at eight o’clock. I guess Fang Qiu will have finished his work by the time we get here tomorrow. It’s the third day, after all, and he’ll have worked three whole days by the next morning.”
“To my knowledge, Fang Qiu has been seeing patients for 58 hours in a row up to now. With 14 hours to go, he’ll have worked three straight days.”
“That’s true, but there are still quite a lot of patients waiting in line, and there are still plenty of people queuing for registration. I guess it’ll take him more than three days to see all the patients if he can hold on.”
“I don’t think there’s a need to wear himself out. After all, he’s not a machine. If he does see all these people, there’ll be other patients coming by then. I believe he can’t see all the sick in the world on his own.”
“But then again, the last three days when Fang Qiu has been treating patients have been the most leisurely time we’ve had in our entire career. We didn’t have a single patient, and we were so excited to see someone come here to get their medicine. We couldn’t leave the office all day and had to sit there drinking tea.”
With that, everyone shook their heads with bitter smiles and left with mixed feelings.
Fang Qiu was still seeing patients in the consulting room of the internal medicine department.
Time went by slowly. It was getting closer and closer to eight o’clock in the morning, the three-day time limit.
Over the past three consecutive days, Fang Qiu had seen more than 900 patients.
Although he saw more patients when he participated in the Young Chinese Medicine Doctor, the patients he saw this time were completely different from those he saw last time. This time around, the patients were all critically ill. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been using internal Qi to treat them all the time to improve his speed.
More than 900 people may sound a lot, but it was less than half compared with all the patients who came from all over the world to see a doctor.
There were still many patients waiting outside the consulting room.
Those who got registered were all on the third floor. The stairwells on the first, the second, the third, and even the fourth floors had been taken up. There were still a number of unregistered ones in the lobby on the first floor.
These people were all waiting.
“The three-day time limit is almost up!”
“Is it really going to end?”
“What if I fail to see a doctor before the time limit ends?”
“I’ve been lining up for almost a day. Wouldn’t it be a waste of time if I couldn’t make it?”
On the Internet:
Many netizens who were following this matter were also particularly curious.
“The three-day time limit is almost up. Is it true that Fang Qiu will stop seeing patients as soon as the time limit comes?”
“There are still so many people waiting to be treated. Will Fang Qiu really stop after seeing patients for three days?”
“He can’t stop even if he wants to under these circumstances. Something big will happen if he stops!”
In the consulting room in the hospital:
“Hiss…”
Xu Miaolin, who hadn’t slept for three days, almost fell asleep when he read the book. He immediately rose to his feet, took a deep breath, and opened the window. As soon as the cold wind blew in, he was so frozen that he shivered with his hands on his shoulders.
He grabbed the teacup on the table.
Right after that, he grabbed a large handful of tea leaves and threw them into the cup. He made a particularly strong cup of tea to warm his hands. After the temperature of the tea dropped, he suddenly got up and gulped it down.
“Whew…”
After drinking the strong tea, Xu Miaolin felt so bitter that he twitched his mouth and shook his head. Then he took a long breath, walked to the window, and looked at the people who were still waiting in line downstairs.
“The three-day time limit is finally coming to an end!”
As the three-day time limit approached, those patients who were waiting in line began to get irritated in the hospital. The staff at the registration office had even slowed down the speed of registration as much as possible. Their aim was to delay until three days had passed, and then they wouldn’t have to help those patients register with Fang Qiu. That was because Fang Qiu only worked for three days in the hospital system, so his medical services were only available during those three days.
Of course, they slowed down for the sake of Fang Qiu too. They knew that he had been seeing patients non-stop for three days and that he must be exhausted by now. Each additional patient was torture for him.
However, the patients who were waiting in line to see the doctor and those who were waiting to get registered didn’t think so.
As time drew near, these patients began to get agitated.
“What does this mean? Why doesn’t this procession move on?”
“Hurry up. Move!”
“How many people are there ahead?”
“Damn it, it’s almost time. We’ve been queuing here for so long. What are we going to do after Fang Qiu gets off work?”
“That’s right. We’re all registered.”
“We’ve already paid the registration fee. Can’t the doctor see us?”
Gradually, more and more people were getting impatient, and the slight noise grew louder.
Everyone started to get emotional.
Hearing the noise coming from outside, Xu Miaolin opened the door of his consulting room, glanced outside at the anxious patients who were beginning to make a noise, and thought to himself, “It’s inevitable. It finally happened!”
However, outside Fang Qiu’s consulting room, there were tall stacks of casebooks on the consultation desk.
A patient came forward and asked the nurse sitting at the consultation desk, “Is Doctor Fang Qiu still seeing patients?”
“I don’t know.”
The nurse immediately shook her head.
The patient was in a bad mood and asked aloud, “If Doctor Fang Qiu isn’t going to see patients, what about us who came all the way from far away?”
“That’s right. What should we do?”
“In order to see Fang Qiu, I specially bought a flight ticket. If I can’t see a doctor, who’s going to pay for my plane ticket?”
“We’ve been waiting in line for so long, can’t we see a doctor?”
“That’s right. If we can’t see a doctor, your hospital will be deceiving customers!”
“If Fang Qiu doesn’t treat us, your hospital will violate the spirit of contract since we’ve paid the registration fee. Do you know that it’s improper?”
All of a sudden, the other impatient patients echoed.
They were scared, too. They had no idea what they should do if Fang Qiu really stopped seeing them.
In the face of so many people’s questions, the two young nurses at the consultation desk were frightened.
“I, I don’t know either.”
One young nurse panicked and said, “It has been announced before that Doctor Fang Qiu only saw patients for three days, and he has been seeing patients for three days without rest. I don’t have a clue if he can hold on.”
“What do you mean by ‘you don’t have a clue’?”
A patient instantly got angry and said loudly, “It has nothing to do with Doctor Fang Qiu. It’s the problem of your hospital. If we can’t see a doctor, the hospital must give us an explanation.”
“Yes, the hospital must give us an explanation.”
“The hospital isn’t kidding us, is it? How can we come all the way here without seeing a doctor?”
“I’ve paid the registration fee. Fang Qiu must see me. Otherwise, you’ll know the consequences!”
The voices of the patients grew louder and louder.
All of them were clamoring for an explanation from the hospital.
There were patients who were so anxious that they even targeted Fang Qiu.
The two nurses were scared out of their wits this time.
Seeing that things were going out of control, the two nurses, who were afraid of provoking public anger, could only report to the hospital and find Fang Qiu in the consulting room respectively. It was too much for the two nurses to handle.
In Xu Miaolin’s consulting room:
Hearing the noise outside, Xu Miaolin raised his head and looked at the clock hanging on the wall. It was exactly eight o’clock!
At this point, the nurse came out of Fang Qiu’s consulting room.
“Don’t worry, everyone. Doctor Fang Qiu asked me to inform you that he’ll continue to treat you.”
On hearing that, all the people present cheered.
Their anxiety abated, and they gradually calmed down.
Seeing this scene, Xu Miaolin returned to his consulting room and sat down. He took a big sip of tea and continued to read.
During work hours, the physicians from all other departments smiled bitterly after receiving the news.
“Looks like we’re going to rest again today.”
On the Internet:
Everyone clicked their tongues in admiration of Fang Qiu.
“He said he would only see patients for three days, but he continued because there were too many patients. He hasn’t had a rest for three days and three nights. It’s outrageous that he should go this far for patients.”
“Fabulous medical ethics!”
Meanwhile, everyone began to worry about Fang Qiu’s health.
“It’s been three days. Why not let Fang Qiu have a rest?”
“Yeah, he’s a human, not a machine!”
In the consulting room, Fang Qiu went on seeing patients like a Sea-stabilizing Magic Needle.
However, at this moment, the internal Qi in his body was almost drained.
After checking the internal Qi inside him, Fang Qiu couldn’t help but smile bitterly in the consulting room.
Even so, the belief that he wanted to treat everyone was still firm in his eyes, because there were still tons of patients waiting for him outside the door.
He took a deep breath and continued to squeeze out the internal Qi in his body to treat the patients.
One hour… two hours.
As time went by, the internal Qi in his body was gradually disappearing.
After an unknown period of time, there was only the last wisp of internal Qi left in his body.
In this case, he could only use the last wisp of internal Qi to mobilize the Qi of Heaven and Earth to continue treating patients.
Nonetheless, it was not so easy to master the Qi of Heaven and Earth, especially when he was treating patients.
Though that was the case, he still tried his best to do it.
In the end, the last wisp of internal Qi was also consumed.
He had no way to mobilize the Qi of Heaven and Earth.
After seeing a patient, he said with a smile, “Go and have a check.”
The nurse in front of the door asked, “Do you want me to call the next one?”
However, she was answered by a loud noise.
“Bang!”
In the nurse’s inquiry, Fang Qiu smiled. Before he could speak, he fell to the ground and fainted.
