Hospital Survival Guide

"Alas..." Yun Xi walked out of the optical shop, took off the old glasses she had worn for three years, wiped them carefully, and put them back on. Then she lowered her head, took out her mobile phone, and started complaining to her roommates. Last week, her glasses were unfortunately pressed under the quilt for a whole night. By the time she found them, the legs of the glasses were already on the verge of falling off. These old glasses had served her for so many years, and it was time to let them retire honorably and be put in the glasses case. Moreover, this pair of old glasses was fitted at the optical shop at the school gate. Yun Xi had always felt that the frame was a bit crooked and not very comfortable to wear. So this time, Yun Xi originally planned to go to the ophthalmology department of the provincial hospital to get a new pair of glasses properly. But when she asked at the ophthalmology department of the hospital, she found that the cheapest pair of glasses fitted at the hospital would cost nearly a thousand yuan! Yun Xi's monthly living expenses, including all kinds of miscellaneous bonuses and subsidies, were less than two thousand yuan. She turned around and left on the spot, thinking that it would be better to go back to the optical shop at the school gate and honestly get a pair of cheap ones that matched her poor graduate student income. But unexpectedly, the optical shop at the school gate also said: The cheapest package of optometry and glasses fitting in our store starts from eight hundred yuan. What else could Yun Xi say? She could only turn around and leave again. Then she started chattering in the group chat. [Xixi: No, are glasses so expensive nowadays? It seems that I was left behind when the world had inflation.] It was a sunny afternoon at that time, and there were people coming and going on the roadside at the school gate. Yun Xi was sending messages while walking, and people kept handing her flyers on the road. Yun Xi's roommate had also done this kind of part-time job of handing out flyers, so adhering to the idea of helping others and believing that taking one more flyer could help others get off work earlier, Yun Xi took all the flyers that were handed to her. Then, while walking towards the school, she was thinking that her old glasses were not completely unusable. Otherwise, she could ask the senior brother in the neighboring laboratory to try welding the legs with tin tomorrow. At this time, her roommate replied to her message in the group chat. [Lele: I think glasses are quite cheap online. Why don't you go to the hospital, just register and have an optometry test, and then get a pair of glasses online with the test results. As long as the degree is correct, isn't it the same when you wear them?] Yun Xi stopped in her tracks and quickly opened an orange shopping app. Seeing that the online shopping price was not that outrageous, she felt that this could really be done! Yun Xi immediately thanked her wonderful roommate affectionately. But when she opened the registration mini-program again, she found that the ophthalmology department of the provincial hospital had no available appointments for that afternoon. So it had to be postponed until next week. Yun Xi thought resentfully, only hoping that her old glasses could hold on. After entering the school gate, she walked towards the trash can while casually looking through the flyers in her hand. At this time, Yun Xi suddenly found that she still had a promotional page for the free clinic held by Meili Hospital in her hand! Meili Hospital is a world-class top medical institution. When this province introduced this hospital to open a branch, it was boasted as a great thing and was vigorously promoted for a while. In Yun Xi's impression, this was a high-end hospital dedicated to the wealthy. Would such a hospital also hold free clinics? Yun Xi took another look and found that several departments holding free clinics were listed on the promotional page, and ophthalmology was exactly one of them. Moreover, it was specifically written on it: Free optometry is provided in the ophthalmology free clinic. "Hey! What a coincidence!" Yun Xi perked up like a hungry wolf that had found a fat sheep and immediately took out this flyer to look at it carefully. It turned out that today was the last day of the free clinic. According to the simple map and the bus route map marked on it, if she took the No. 111 bus special line from the school gate now, she could just catch the last bus of this free clinic! "Ah, sure enough, good deeds are rewarded." Yun Xi happily threw all the other messy flyers into the trash can. Then she held the promotional page of the free clinic and turned around and rushed straight to the bus stop. The No. 111 bus spanned three districts, and Meili Hospital was located in the farthest district. That area was already a newly developed district. As the bus left the first ring road, there were gradually no people on the road. Only the newly built straight roads and the neatly and beautifully arranged green belts on the roadside were flashing by outside the window. Yun Xi was bored sitting on the bus, so she took out the promotional page again and read it carefully word by word. [... As a world-renowned comprehensive medical center, our hospital has numerous top-notch advanced laboratories in the industry and is equipped with all kinds of top professional talents. In the past ten years, many breakthroughs have been achieved in organ transplantation, orthopedics, neurosurgery and other fields...] Besides the introduction to the free clinic, this flyer also briefly introduced the historical evolution of Meili Hospital and the situation of its branch in this province. Of course, since it was a promotional flyer, it was full of self-praise. But since Yun Xi was here to take advantage of the free service, she didn't mind this kind of self-promotion like pyramid schemes and read it with great interest all the way. After getting off the bus at the bus stop, the hospital was right behind. No wonder it was a top hospital! Outside the extremely wide hospital area, there was a long white jade relief fence. In the front, the geometrically designed and layered hospital gate towered high. At a glance, it looked low-key and luxurious. And on the front, on the mellow and thick white marble nameplate stone, four bright red characters were written neatly: Meili Hospital. Once inside, the greenery in the hospital also had a courtyard style everywhere. At first glance, Yun Xi thought she had accidentally entered some high-end residential area. The security guard uncle at the entrance also took the initiative to come over: "Hello! Are you here to see a doctor? Do you have an appointment?" "Ah, no, I'm here to participate in the free clinic." Yun Xi took out the promotional page and shook it at the保安 guard uncle. "Oh." The uncle also nodded cheerfully, "Then, little girl, which department are you going to see?" "Ophthalmology." "Ophthalmology is in the Surgical Complex Building. Go from the left." The security guard uncle pointed out the approximate location to Yun Xi, and Yun Xi naturally thanked him repeatedly. Walking on the road, Yun Xi just felt that it was quite quiet here, not at all as bustling as the entrance of a public hospital. Instead, it was like taking a walk in a park with birds singing and flowers fragrant all the way. When she arrived at the lobby on the ground floor of the Surgical Complex Building, there were obviously more people coming in and out. And the electronic LED bar above the glass door of the lobby was also scrolling to introduce the free clinic activities. As soon as Yun Xi entered, the nurse sister at the door smiled and welcomed her. After a brief inquiry, she also kindly showed her the way. When Yun Xi went to the elevator hall, she counted that there were less than ten people waiting for the elevator with her. This was completely different from the situation of squeezing into the elevator like sardines in a public hospital. Judging from the clothes, watches, bags and conversation of these people around her, they were obviously all successful people in society and were not in the same world as Yun Xi. But Yun Xi, a poor student who came here to take advantage of the free service, didn't care about these and just regarded it as broadening her horizons. She stood in the corner, pricking up her ears, and silently listened to a middle-aged man behind her talking on the phone about the implementation details of a key project in this province that she had heard of from the news. At this time, a noise came from the direction of the entrance hall. "Hey, what's your hurry! Let's go to the inpatient department first, and it will be in time to come back here later." "No, no, no. Don't talk nonsense to me! The free clinic is about to end. We have to go directly to the fifth floor to have your waist checked first, and then go to see Uncle Liu!" The two people were arguing and pulling each other, and they also came towards the elevator.