Chapter 1240: [1240] The senior apprentice-brother is a straight man.

The person in front of her was rambling on about wanting this and that from the doctors, but the reason was simply—

“You can’t shirk your own responsibilities,” said Xie Wanying.

Hearing this, Xin Yanjun froze for a moment: she hadn’t expected her own student to be so bold, saying aloud the things she herself didn’t dare to say.

Going on about this and that but refusing to heed the doctor’s advice—such family members essentially aim to wear the doctors down and make them bear the blame for their wrongful actions. How could doctors possibly do that?

Sure enough, Xie Wanying’s words struck a nerve. The patient’s daughter, as if ignited by a sudden fury, jumped up with bloodshot eyes and lunged at her as though she wanted to grab her neck. “I’m shirking responsibility? I’m shirking responsibility, but I still brought my mom to the hospital, didn’t I?”

Seeing the scene unfolding, Huang Zhilei and Li Chengyuan quickened their steps toward the commotion.

“Calm down, calm down,” Huang Zhilei intervened to stop the family member. “I’m from the neurosurgery department—where is your patient? Let me take a look.”

Senior Brother Huang had arrived. Xie Wanying blinked, a slight sense of foreboding rising.

Huang Zhilei adjusted his glasses and first shot a glance at his junior: Yes, when something happens to you, I’ll come to your rescue.

Senior Brother Huang, was that really necessary? Xie Wanying felt that tonight’s incident wasn’t worth making such a big deal over.

How could it not be? If her junior sister nearly got taken advantage of, it wasn’t something to be minimized. If Senior Cao heard about this, he’d probably rush straight to the hospital from home.

The doctors and family members headed off to check on the elderly patient.

Huang Zhilei took out his flashlight and examined the patient’s pupils and consciousness levels, then checked both the superficial and deep reflexes of the body.

The left side of the body was numb and worsening at a steady pace. The speed of this progression made the doctors suspect acute intracerebral hemorrhage. Even if it was cerebral infarction, such rapid deterioration might indicate either a large-area infarction or a blockage of a critical vessel, which was equally dangerous and potentially life-threatening for the patient.

Upon realizing this, Huang Zhilei strongly supported what his junior sister had said earlier. Addressing the family member, he stated, “What you’re doing is essentially dragging her to her death—do you realize that? If you brought her to the hospital, were you planning to let her die here?”

Senior Brother Huang spoke even more directly than she did, Xie Wanying thought.

She glanced at Teacher Xin and Senior Li, whose expressions betrayed that they had seen this kind of situation far too many times.

Xin Yanjun and Li Chengyuan were unsurprised—after all, Huang Zhilei was notorious in the hospital as “Hero Huang,” someone who loved to stand up for justice, blunt to the extreme. His straight-shooting nature had earned him the nickname “Little Fool” from Cao Yong.

After hearing a torrent of words from the group of doctors, the patient’s daughter finally dropped heavily onto a chair, sulking, then turned back to her mother, torn between choices. Treat or not treat? Continue or give up?

It’s said that there are no filial children at the bedside of long-term illnesses. She was close to her limit, worn down beyond exhaustion.

“Do you love her? She surely loved you deeply when you were little.”

Those words, delivered by the intern she had scolded earlier, struck a chord. The patient’s daughter managed a bitter smile, her eyes brimming with uncried tears, almost as if recalling scenes from her childhood when her mother took care of her.

“Alright, let’s do the CT scan.”

At last, the family accepted the doctor’s advice.

Convincing a family member to agree often takes nearly an entire evening—a common part of a doctor’s daily work. Sometimes, it’s not even about trust or distrust of the doctor; it’s the family members themselves on the verge of collapse.

The patient must be strong, but family members have to be even stronger; without their strength, the road to treatment becomes impassable.

The elderly woman was comparatively fortunate to have a daughter who stayed by her side throughout. Xie Wanying turned to Teacher Xin and said, “I’ve asked Sister Seo to call Doctor Dong; Liu Wenyu’s condition isn’t looking good.”