"Huh? What's wrong with my sister?" Lu Dongjie had just finished washing up in the morning and saw Lu Xiaomei sitting listlessly aside, with a large bowl of porridge untouched.

"I feel dizzy and hot, and I have a nosebleed. I must have secretly eaten something unclean outside." Mother Lu gently nodded her little sister's head and said in a reproachful tone.

"I don't think I have any. I just bought a bowl of beef offal from the ghost stall at the school gate yesterday." Lu Xiaomei retorted weakly.

"Dad went out so early, what did he say?" Lu Dongjie walked over, knelt down and said, "Open your mouth and stick out your tongue."

Now the little tiger has become a good cat. She does whatever Lu Dongjie says.

"Your father said she has hot lungs and liver fire. Last night she had a pig moistened and made chrysanthemum soup, but today she turned into a quail again." Mother Lu pointed at Miss Lu helplessly.

"Let daddy cook another twenty-four flavor for her tonight." Lu Dongjie stroked the sick kitten's head.

Before Lu Dongjie could stand up, Lu Xiaomei suddenly sneezed, pinched her nose and hurried to the bathroom.

"Look, it's getting more serious now. Do you think your dad made a mistake in his diagnosis?" Mother Lu put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hands and said with some worry.

"I'll take her to the French hospital to see Dr. Gui Lao for a detailed examination later." Lu Dongjie wiped his face and looked at the bloody nose in his hand. He turned around and saw the little girl standing in front of the sink, lowering her head and holding water.

After rinsing his nose, Lu Dongjie couldn't help but frown, stood up, picked up a towel and handed it over.

Lu Xiaomei rinsed the blood from her nose with water, raised her head and took the towel from Lu Dongjie's hand, pouted her mouth and said with a pitiful expression: "Boss, do you think I was poisoned by some seven-step soul-stimulating powder? How could I still be here?"

Nosebleed?"

"Silly girl, I will take you to a French hospital later to see what Dr. Gui Lao has to say." Lu Dongjie was amused by Lu Xiaomei.

"Boss, I don't want to go. Every time I go to Gui Lao's doctor, I get injections. Why don't I take Chinese medicine? You ask my father to prescribe Chinese medicine for me to eat. I'd rather take bitter medicine. I don't want to go see him."

Doctor Guilao." Lu Xiaomei put down the towel to wipe her face and looked at Lu Dongjie pitifully with her big eyes.

"There's nothing to be afraid of about injections. I don't know how many injections I've had since I was a child." Lu Dongjie patted his arm hard and said with a smile.

"Mommy, I don't want to see Dr. Guilao, okay?" Lu Xiaomei turned her head and ignored him, and looked at Lu's mother for help.

"Listen to your boss, I will take you there after breakfast." Mother Lu glared at her and said with a cold face.

Lu Dongjie took the towel from Xiaomei Lu's hand, helped her wipe off the water droplets on her face, and said with a smile: "Who said that you must get an injection when you see the ghost doctor? Maybe he will prescribe two doses of western medicine and it will be done.

"

Miss Lu curled her lips angrily, frowned, lowered her head and said nothing.

"I'll take you to the doctor today, and next time the boss will take you to Ocean Park, okay?" Lu Dongjie pinched her face slightly with both hands, and pulled out a cute smile from the corner of her mouth.

"Humph, I don't want it." Lu Xiaomei turned around, pouted, and had small dimples on her face.

"One more time at Liyuan Amusement Park, do you want to go?" Lu Dongjie raised a finger and added with a smile.

"Humph, since you sincerely invite me, I reluctantly agree to it." Lu Xiaomei snatched the towel from Lu Dongjie's hand, wiped her face haphazardly, and ran back to the room briskly.

Lu Dongjie clapped his hands and was about to sit back and continue eating breakfast. Mother Lu next to him gently pressed 500 Hong Kong paper into Lu Dongjie's hand and whispered: "Don't let your dad know first. You know he doesn't like ghosts very much." The guy’s Western medicine”

When Xiangjiang opened as a port, Western medicine was not yet popular, and most of the medical services for local residents were provided by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.

However, with the development of the times, traditional Chinese medicine is gradually becoming a supporting role and declining day by day. Western medicine has become the mainstay of Hong Kong's health care system.

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"Hey, friend, what a coincidence it's you again, where are you going this time?" The driver saw Lu Dongjie taking Lu Xiaomei into the car, recognized him at once, and asked with a smile.

"Oh, it turns out it's you again. We are really destined." Lu Dongjie pulled Miss Lu to sit in and replied with a smile.

"Is this your sister? She's so beautifully dressed, are you going out?" The driver looked at Lu Dongjie and asked him one more question.

"Well, let's go to the French hospital." Lu Dongjie said nothing more, smiling and rubbing Miss Lu's head.

"Humph, don't mess up my hair," Lu Xiaomei leaned her head on Lu Dongjie's shoulder and whispered.

When the driver saw Lu Dongjie with a little girl, he was not as talkative as last time. After saying a few words, he turned off the radio and concentrated on driving.

St. Teresa's Hospital is located on Prince Edward Road West in Kowloon. People usually like to call it the French Hospital. It is a private hospital of the Hong Kong Catholic Church.

"This missionary hospital charges like a vampire, but the doctors are really good. It is one of the best among the hospitals in Kowloon." The driver leaned his hand against the window and looked up at the hospital building.

To see a doctor in Xiangjiang, if it is not necessary, you will not choose to go to a public hospital for examination, because public hospitals require appointments, and usually even a general examination takes a week or two.

Public hospitals are funded or subsidized by the government, have relatively low fees, and have the best examination equipment and medical teams.

However, the budget bill and regulations reviewed and approved by the Legislative Council every year limit the funds invested in public health services, causing public hospitals to have very tight and scarce resources.

Therefore, if there is demand, there will be a market, and private hospitals and private clinics have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Many senior doctors from public hospitals have even quit their jobs to start their own businesses.

Therefore, there are two problems with medical treatment in Xiangjiang now: it is difficult to see a doctor in public hospitals, and it is expensive to see a doctor in private hospitals.

"Okay, thank you very much. I will remember to support you next time when you release a record." Lu Dongjie closed the door, smiled and waved his hand.

Lu Dongjie thought he would be treated by a bearded doctor, but unexpectedly it was a Chinese female doctor in her forties, wearing a pair of metal-rimmed glasses and sitting upright with a serious face.

After Lu Dongjie finished telling her about Lu Xiaomei's condition, he asked her to lie on the examination table, picked up the instrument and made a detailed observation. He frowned, lowered his head and said a few words to the nurse, and then took Lu Xiaomei there. Have radiological equipment checked.

The nurse took Lu Dongjie to pay the examination fee of more than 300 yuan, and then returned to the office to sit and wait for the examination results.

An hour passed, and Lu Dongjie couldn't sit still. Just when he was about to go to the nurse to ask, he saw the female doctor coming back with a stack of test results, followed by a confused Miss Lu.

"How is the doctor? Is my sister okay?" Lu Dongjie took Lu Xiaomei's hand and sat back on the chair.

"Mr. Lu, I may have some bad news to tell you." The female doctor sat down, pushed up her glasses, hung an X-ray film in front of the developing lamp, and adjusted the position.

When Lu Dongjie heard this, his heart sank and he stared at the female doctor closely.

"Just now, through repeated and detailed observation and analysis by several colleagues and I, we can confirm that the patient has a hemangioma in the nasal septum, and the granulations of this tumor are still spreading. It causes capillaries to rupture. This is the reason for the little girl's nosebleeds.

"The female doctor pointed to the location of the X-ray film and rubbed her forehead solemnly.

"Tumor? Is it benign or malignant?" Lu Dongjie was startled and stood up and asked.

"Unfortunately, it is malignant, but fortunately you let us discover its existence early, but that's all." The female doctor shook her head

"Can I have surgery right away? There shouldn't be much risk in the early stage," Lu Dongjie asked eagerly.

"Mr. Lu, you must understand that nasal hemangioma removal surgery is a very important operation. The entire operation takes more than half a day and is also very complicated. More importantly, with Xiangjiang's current medical technology,

We are not completely sure that the operation will be successful. Once the operation fails, the consequences will be unimaginable." The female doctor leaned back in her chair and said solemnly.

"Then which other hospital in Xiangjiang can do this kind of surgery? If not in Xiangjiang, which other hospitals abroad can do this kind of surgery?" Lu Dongjie asked a little nervously, obviously the sudden bad news made him lose his sense of proportion.

"Our church also cooperates with many hospitals in France. As far as I know, there is a French medical and surgical expert who is studying minimally invasive surgery who can complete this operation."

"If necessary, the hospital can invite this French doctor to perform the surgery, but you must be mentally prepared for the medical expenses." The female doctor looked back and forth between Lu Dongjie and Lu Xiaomei.

"So how much does it cost to do this surgery, including inviting this French doctor?" Lu Dongjie couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news, and asked directly.

"Two hundred thousand" the female doctor spat out softly

"Two hundred thousand?" Lu Dongjie said in surprise, a little unbelievable.

"Yes, two hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars." The female doctor added two words without a smile.

In an era when ordinary working-class people only earn more than 1,000 yuan a month, even the annual salary of the Governor of Hong Kong does not exceed 200,000 yuan. For ordinary people, it is undoubtedly an astronomical sum.

"How long will it take to prepare for this surgery? I think I need time to raise the surgery fee?" Lu Dongjie calmed down, stood up and stared at the female doctor closely, and said in a heavy tone.

"At least a month later, but this operation must be performed within half a year, otherwise it will be difficult for us to guarantee how far her condition will worsen." The female doctor tapped the table with her pen and looked at Lu Dongjie with a somewhat suspicious look.

Lu Xiaomei's little hands were tightly grasping the corner of Lu Dongjie's clothes. Although she had had no worries about food and clothing since she was a child, she had never seen so much money as 200,000 yuan. So when the female doctor just said 200,000 yuan, she was frightened.

They didn't even come back to their senses.

"Doctor, please don't worry. I will take her for surgery soon." Lu Dongjie said to the doctor with a firm look on his face. He pulled the distracted Lu Xiaomei to stand up, picked up the stack of medical examination records on the table, pushed the door out, and walked out of the doctor.

office.

After the office door closed, the female doctor took off her glasses and frowned.

Humans are not grass and trees, how can they be ruthless, and she is not a cold person, but she is used to seeing life and death in the world, and her heart has gradually become hardened.
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