Lu Jiu TCM Hospital.
Department of Difficult and Complex Diseases, outpatient room.
A group of disabled individuals gathered here, all receiving treatment from Lu Jiu.
Today is Lu Jiu's free clinic day!
Several departments are also holding free clinics, so there are more patients at the hospital today than usual.
"Can you hear me clearly now?"
Lu Jiu leaned forward to speak into a patient's ear. His voice was two or three times louder than usual, almost at a shouting level.
The patient slightly tilted his head, with confusion in his eyes. Clearly, he could feel Lu Jiu speaking by his ear due to the sensation of breath, but he couldn't hear a single sound.
"It probably wasn't this bad a year or two ago, right?" Lu Jiu turned his head and looked at the patient's mother.
Tao Yuting nodded, "A few years ago, he could still manage to hear us talk. Later on, we had to shout, and then he started hearing less and less. No matter what we said, he didn't respond."
