"Doctor, can you please help me out here and go ahead and get her admitted? I'll pay later. Would that be possible?"
Put on the spot, the doctor replied awkwardly, "I cannot do that. You need to pay first and then arrange for her to be admitted. That's standard procedure. How could I let you leave? What would we do if you left and didn't come back?"
They had encountered incidents like this before at the hospital. Abandonment of a sick elderly person wasn't uncommon!
There had even been cases of new-born infants being abandoned!
Ye Tianxin was so desperate that tears started to well up in her eyes. Seemingly out of control, she yelled, "Of course not. I would never desert my grandmother! I'm just going to head back to get the money. If you don't believe me, I can leave my applicant's pass with you as collateral…."