Liu Gaohai is from Shanghai, in his 40s, a well-known local entrepreneur with a small fortune.
But he has a disease that is difficult to talk about, that is diabetic foot.
This is a condition where poor blood sugar control leads to distal lower limb nerve abnormalities and peripheral vascular disease in the distal lower limbs.
It would be fine if he couldn't walk and his feet hurt, but now he has ulcers and gangrene on his lower limbs, accompanied by a foul odor.
This is absolutely intolerable for an entrepreneur, someone who often has to attend various social occasions.
Some customers need something from him, but he can still endure it and pretend not to smell it.
Some of his clients, who needed help from him, turned around and left when they smelled the strange smell and saw Liu Gaohai limping.
There's no way to talk business properly.
Moreover, as blood sugar has been difficult to control for a long time, the condition of diabetic foot has become more and more serious. Doctors in Shanghai have judged that it has reached level 3. If it is level 4 or 5, the infection will spread to the bones.
At that time, the only treatment option is amputation.
Because of the long-term poor control of blood sugar, his cardiovascular system deteriorated, protein in his urine appeared, and various complications gradually emerged.
Liu Gaohai was afraid. The richer he was, the more afraid he was of death. He was afraid that he would have a myocardial infarction at any time and all the family property would go to his beautiful second-married wife.
Liu Gaohai felt upset just thinking about the possibility that someone would sleep with his wife, use his money, and even beat his kids.
He went to all the major hospitals in Shanghai and the capital, but his blood sugar could not be controlled. There were too few related drugs and they had a lot of side effects.
If blood sugar cannot be controlled, diabetic foot will get worse day by day.
Just when he was in despair, he suddenly saw in the newspaper that Yuezhou was going to open a new "Four Seasons International Hospital", which was a branch of Hong Kong Hospital in the mainland. Most of the hospital's experts came from abroad and Hong Kong.
This gave him great hope. If the Chinese doctor wasn't working, how about trying a foreign doctor?
A doctor friend of his in Shanghai strongly supported him to visit Four Seasons Hospital and told him that the world's largest diabetes drug production base was in Yuezhou, and all types of drugs were specially supplied to Four Seasons Hospital.
Upon hearing this, Liu Gaohai immediately asked his secretary to drive to Yuezhou a day in advance to wait for the hospital to open.
He was a man who had seen the world, but he was still deeply shocked when he saw the huge and magnificent lotus-shaped building of Four Seasons Hospital.
At the same time, a thought immediately came to my mind: this hospital is strong, so it must be able to cure his illness.
When he saw that the leaders of the Ministry of Health came in person to cut the ribbon, his trust in Four Seasons Hospital was further strengthened.
When the opening ceremony ended, Liu Gaohai, supported by his secretary, couldn't wait to walk into the hospital outpatient hall, but he was confused again.
What caught his eyes was an outpatient hall of over ten thousand square meters, with smooth floors and bright glass. The registration and payment counters on the first floor were divided into four sections: east, west, south and north, with more than 40 windows.
The first floor is the auxiliary examination department, the second floor is the surgical treatment area, the third floor is the internal medicine treatment area, the fourth floor is the women and children treatment area, and the fifth floor is other departments.
Each floor is accessible by escalators and elevators, so you don’t even have to walk. How many bosses in this country have ever seen an elevator?
Various college student volunteers wearing red vests have been guiding patients on where to register, which floor and clinic to go to for treatment, and where to go for examinations. Their attitudes are kind and full of sunshine.
Liu Gaohai got an appointment with a general surgery specialist, Dr. Xiang Jiang. One appointment cost 20 yuan, which is a sky-high price in the mainland. In other hospitals, one appointment only costs 2 yuan.
But Liu Gaohai didn't care about money. He was already so ill, and he still wanted to save money? Then he might as well not come to see a doctor.
After getting a number, he went to the general surgery treatment area on the second floor. This was a separate area with rows of chairs outside where patients sat and waited, and their names would be called over the radio at any time.
When a patient is called, he or she goes in. It is no longer like before when the doctor's office was packed with people.
Not only is privacy not guaranteed, but sometimes family members talk too loudly, seriously affecting the doctor's mood and performance.
Because Liu Gaohai's number was number 3, it wasn't long before the radio called out, "Number 3, Liu Gaoqiang, please go to Clinic Room 2."
Amid the curious and envious gazes of other patients, Liu Gaohai walked into the treatment room.
The doctor who treated him today was Dr. Sun Yi, a general surgeon from Hong Kong Margaret Hospital. As a senior doctor, he knew at first glance that it was diabetic foot.
Then, I asked Liu Gaoqiang several questions in English, such as when did he develop diabetes? How is his blood sugar control? When did the foot lesions appear? Where have he traveled to and what medications have he taken? How effective are the treatments? And so on.
In order to facilitate communication, all inquiries were made in English. Anyway, others would not understand if they spoke Cantonese. The college students behind Dr. Sun helped translate, and then communicated in Mandarin.
Liu Gaohai answered very cautiously. Oh my god, he has to speak English when seeing a doctor. This is so fucking advanced.
Dr. Xiang Jiang just helped clean the wound, applied some ointment, and then told Liu Gaohai that if he wanted to treat diabetic foot, he must first go to the endocrinology department for blood sugar lowering treatment.
So I got a referral and went to the endocrinology treatment area on the third floor.
With this referral form, you can directly queue up in the endocrinology department without having to queue again.
Liu Gaohai also took the risk today and made appointments with all foreign doctors. Look, his endocrinologist is Dr. Rachel from the United States.
When Liu Gaohai entered the clinic and saw the blond-haired, blue-eyed white female doctor, he was stunned for a long time.
The doctor from Hong Kong just now was at least of the same race, but this endocrinologist was a white man. This made Liu Gaohai and his secretary feel that this hospital was going against the will of heaven.
The registration fee of 50 yuan is totally worth it.
After asking about Liu Gaohai's condition, Rachel asked him to do some basic examinations. Considering that he already had many complications, she recommended that he be hospitalized directly and receive insulin therapy.
When Liu Gaohai and his secretary arrived at the West Inpatient Department on the 12th floor of the Internal Medicine Building with the admission form, they were stunned again when the elevator door opened.
Today, they didn't look like they were here to see a doctor, but rather like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden.
The conditions in this inpatient department are not worse than those in ordinary star-rated hotels. Each ward even has a color TV.
The nurse station is right in the middle of the ward. If the patient has any problems, he or she can just press the bedside bell and the nurse will come in time. It’s so convenient.
By the way, Liu Gaohai discovered that the head nurse was from Hong Kong and was allocating beds to the young nurses with a serious look on her face.
The other newly admitted patients, like Liu Gaohai, had only one thought in their minds:
This Four Seasons Hospital is really awesome.
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