Ten days passed quickly, and the young apprentices were able to take up their posts after Tian An's training.
After discussing with Zhao Yiming, Tian An set the opening date on the sixth day of February.
Because the hospital's main targets are women and children, Zhao Yiming and Tian An unanimously decided to name the hospital Anping Women and Children's Hospital.
A few days in advance, Tian An asked his housekeeper to pay beggars to help with publicity, paying them 20 cents a day, and asked them to shout in the streets and alleys of the inner and outer cities of the capital.
Three days before its opening, the clinic held free clinics for women and children, with 80 spots available each day on a first-come, first-served basis.
As soon as the news was released, the whole city started talking about it. This was the clinic opened by the wife of the Protector of the Country! Tian An's medical skills were obvious to everyone. If it weren't for the fact that he only treated women and children, all the men in the city would have wanted to grab this position.
The status of women in this era was already low, and most doctors in the world were men. Even the women in wealthy families who suffered from gynecological diseases or felt unwell had to endure it due to the strict rules between men and women.
What's more, in the homes of ordinary poor people, not to mention gynecological diseases, they have to endure even common typhoid and colds, so they suffer from many chronic diseases. And the old women in their seventies and eighties, in order not to become a burden to the young people, always try to only report good news and not bad news, and the illnesses they suffer from are countless.
Tian An's free medical consultation was a godsend for them. Many people even regarded this opportunity as their life's salvation.
On the fifth day of February, many people lined up in front of the clinic.
The concierge thought they had misremembered the time and kindly advised them to come back on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, but the women just smiled and said, "It's okay, just do what you need to do and don't worry about us. We worked so hard to get this opportunity with my husband and parents-in-law, we can't miss it. I'll wait here until tomorrow."
"What? Wait here until tomorrow? It's still cold today! Are you kidding me?" the doorman asked in surprise.
A woman sitting on a small stool she had brought with her took over the conversation. "Who would joke with their own body? Doctors and medicine are so expensive on a normal day! The Lady Protector of the Nation is personally seeing me. Not only is her medical skills excellent, but it's also free. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you miss this opportunity, you don't know if you'll ever have another one."
"That's right. It's hard to find a doctor who specializes in treating women! Rich ladies are lucky, but we poor women can only rack our brains to take advantage of this." A lady who was dressed in old but very neat clothes said self-deprecatingly.
Everyone talked about how difficult it was, and even though the wind was blowing cold, they still refused to leave the door of the clinic.
Seeing that they insisted, the doorman stopped trying to persuade them, but turned around and reported the matter to Tian An.
Tian An didn't expect that the people would pay so much attention to this medical consultation, and he also sympathized with those women.
After a moment of silence, he turned to look at his disciples and said with a smile, "Looks like we have to start the free clinic early. How about it? Are you guys ready?"
In response, the twelve disciples, with excited faces and determined eyes, said in unison: "Always be prepared to fight for the medical profession."
"Very good. Notify everyone that the free clinic starts now." Tian An nodded in satisfaction and gave the order.
In preparation for tomorrow's free clinic, Tian An sent someone to Hope College in advance to pick up the female students from the martial arts class and asked them to be responsible for the security and maintenance of order at the Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
At Tian An's command, they were the first to open the door and guard the left and right sides of the clinic's gate.
Deng Xue stood at the door and said loudly to the crowd, "Madam feels sorry for everyone waiting in the cold wind, so she's making an exception and starting the free clinic today. Since the originally scheduled three-day clinic wasn't convenient, today is added. Please line up in an orderly manner, don't crowd, and come one by one."
Upon hearing this, there was a cheer from the audience, all praising Tian An.
Outside the gate, everyone lined up in an orderly manner. Inside the gate, eight examination tables were placed in order from the door.
After Tian An decided to open a clinic here, he had the house's layout altered, especially the front yard. The fancy decorations were removed, leaving only an empty hall. Then there were the consultation room, the pharmacy for picking up medicine, and two examination rooms for coordinating tests.
Because there are so many people these days, except for Tian An, the eight apprentices in charge of seeing patients are all in the hall.
There are twelve apprentices, eight of whom are responsible for seeing patients, two are responsible for prescribing medicine, and two are responsible for doing physical examinations.
At this time, there were four consultation tables on each side of the hall. Behind each table was one of Tian An's apprentices, led by Yaoyao, Zhao Shuhua and Yuhong.
As soon as they were ready, Deng Xue started letting people in.
The first time they released eight people at once, the female guards guided each of them to sit in front of a consultation table.
When they were outside, Deng Xue told them that during this free clinic, Tian An's apprentices would first examine everyone and fill out information, and then Tian An would make a follow-up examination.
So after everyone came in, they sat obediently in front of Yaoyao and the others' consultation table, registered their basic information, and then described their symptoms.
After Yaoyao and the others took their pulses and wrote a prescription, they asked them to take their medical records to the clinic to find Tian An.
If Tian An confirms that his pulse is correct after the follow-up visit, he will stamp his seal on the medical record. They can then go to the medicine window to collect a course of medicine with the medical record stamped with Tian An's impression.
It was a free clinic, and it was good enough that they could see the doctors. The women didn't expect that there would be medicine. After all, in the past, when there were doctors providing free clinics, they only saw the doctors and didn't give them medicine.
They originally thought that after getting the prescription, they would go to the pharmacy to ask. If it was cheap, they would take two doses. If it was expensive, then they would just forget it. Knowing what disease they had would allow them to rest in peace even if they died in the future.
The first woman to receive the medicine, looking at the actual medicine package in her hand, felt tears in her eyes and could not help but kneel down in the direction of Tian An. "Madam, you are so kind and the ladies are so righteous. I will remember it in my heart and will never be able to repay you in this lifetime. Whenever I come across a Buddhist temple in the future, I will pray devoutly for you and the ladies."
After saying this, he stood up and left without anyone trying to persuade him.
There are still many sisters behind her! She can't waste other people's time just because of herself.
With this example, from now on, everyone who has seen a doctor will thank Tian An and his disciples in the hall.
There were so many people coming that almost no one was idle. Although they were tired, seeing the grateful looks on the women's faces, everyone's hearts were filled with passion.
Yaoyao, in particular, felt that she had been a princess for so many years, but never had a day been as fulfilling and valuable as today.
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