"Let's go, let's first check on the patient." After slipping the pen back into its cap, Tan Kelin turned around.
Xie Wanying followed her teacher with quick, small steps.
The two arrived at the temporary treatment room where Xiao Yazhi was staying. Father Yazhi was doing his daughter's hair in pigtails, but he immediately made way when he saw the doctors arrive.
Xiao Yazhi lay obediently on the bed, waiting for the doctor to examine her.
Feeling the young patient's abdomen, Tan Kelin paid particular attention to the blood oxygen levels mentioned by his student, noting that indeed, neither her fingernails nor her lips were blue or pale.
"Has she always been this thin? And her mother, is she thin too?" Tan Kelin turned and asked the patient's family member in detail.
"Yes, she has always been thin, so we didn't notice her belly wasn't swollen," Father Yazhi said. "Her mother is skinny."
"And her mother?"