"Alright then, I'll try it at home after eating. To be honest, the fact that you don't take the opportunity to sell more medicine here already sets you apart from other clinics and pharmacies. If the treatment works well, I'll definitely help you guys promote it in the future. Our place really needs good doctors who are both skilled and ethical."
The man happily bought the medicine and left.
A total of 30 yuan.
With the cost of the X-ray, it's 130 yuan.
If you go to a big hospital, it would start at at least fifteen hundred, and the waiting time would probably take more than half a day.
After an ECG, they would also do an echocardiogram, and might even do a pericardial puncture, then send the sample for testing. The lab would perform bacteriological, biochemical, and cell classification tests on the extracted fluid.
It would likely take until the next day to get all the results.
Then, for pericarditis patients, the hospital outpatient clinics often admit them as inpatients.
