Chapter 215: Bai Xiaoliang's Junior Brother - Lucas
Hearing this treatment plan, Jiang Ran thought for a moment and said: "Only hypnosis? Don't I need to take any medicine or undergo surgery?"
Hearing this, Bai Xiaoliang quickly shook his head: "No no no, regarding medication, you can just continue taking that imported American medicine you've been using to stabilize your condition."
"As for surgery, to be honest, I'm most opposed to performing operations on mental patients."
"The brain is humanity's most precise organ."
"Not to mention the brain - have humans truly fully understood even our other organs?"
"If surgery were truly necessary, then we'd do it, but your current condition absolutely doesn't require surgery."
"You only need hypnosis therapy."
"So, Jiang Ran, do you agree with this treatment plan?"
Jiang Ran said: "I agree, let's give it a try!"
Bai Xiaoliang: "Alright then, Jiang Ran, go out and make the payment, then you can come right in for hypnosis." Jiang Ran nodded, walked outside, found the self-service payment machine, and began making the payment.
What greatly surprised him was that this hypnosis therapy actually only cost one thousand yuan?
This price would be normal if an ordinary doctor was performing the hypnosis.
Domestically, this hypnosis price was basically standard.
Of course, there were even cheaper options - one or two hundred, a few hundred.
But one thousand? For someone of Bai Xiaoliang's caliber performing your hypnosis, there's no way it could possibly be this cheap!
Just look at that long string of credentials on his poster - it's downright intimidating.
Jiang Ran thought there must be some mistake and returned to the examination room to ask.
After inquiring, he discovered there was no mistake.
Bai Xiaoliang's fee for one hypnosis session was: approximately fifty thousand yuan.
Yes, it was that expensive.
So why was he only charging Jiang Ran one thousand per session?
Mainly because Jiang Ran's case was too rare.
Bai Xiaoliang was afraid that quoting a high price might scare him away from treatment.
So he just charged one thousand yuan as a token amount.
After all, the hospital director was his father.
Therefore, rather than saying Bai Xiaoliang was treating Jiang Ran to make money, it would be more accurate to say he was studying Jiang Ran out of his own curiosity and desire for exploration.
After Jiang Ran completed the payment, he returned to the examination room.
Then he heard Bai Xiaoliang say: "Jiang Ran, the one who will be performing your hypnosis therapy this time isn't me, but my junior brother, Lucas."
Hearing that it wouldn't be Bai Xiaoliang performing his hypnosis but this Lucas instead, Jiang Ran didn't know why but felt a sense of foreboding.
Even though Lucas was very handsome and constantly wore a smile.
"Why aren't you the one doing it? Doctor Bai?"
At this moment, Jiang Ran questioned Bai Xiaoliang.
Bai Xiaoliang sighed and said: "Every doctor who practices hypnosis has one hypnotic prop they use most comfortably."
"The pocket watch I used to hypnotize you before was a substitute. My real one was stolen right before I returned to China, back in America. So when I use other substitutes to hypnotize you, the effect is very poor - I can't utilize my full ability."
"So for the sake of effectiveness, I can only have my junior brother help you first. But don't worry, his skill level is no worse than mine, and his pocket watch hasn't been lost."
After hearing this, Jiang Ran hesitated.
He estimated that perhaps this danger warning alarm was about Lucas.
So letting a dangerous person - one worth +10 points at that - perform hypnosis on him?
If Jiang Ran really let him do it, wouldn't that be like dancing on the edge of a knife?
What if during hypnosis, he suddenly tried to do something harmful to him?
Although the likelihood of this seemed quite small.
After all, this was their first meeting.
No need to have malicious intentions toward someone at the first meeting, right?
"Jiang Ran, don't worry, my junior brother's technique is truly excellent, not inferior to mine."
As if sensing Jiang Ran's concerns, Bai Xiaoliang smiled and said: "While he's performing your hypnosis, we'll also be nearby, so you can rest assured."
At this moment, Bai Xiaoliang's junior brother Lucas also said: "Yes, rest assured, Jiang Ran. I've already reviewed your documents, so I have some understanding of your case."
"Also, my technique is excellent - my senior brother can vouch for me."
"If you're still worried about something, don't be afraid - I'm half Hua Country person myself."
"As the saying goes, Hua Country people don't deceive Hua Country people."
Lucas's Chinese was excellent.
Completely without a foreign accent.
Jiang Ran listened carefully, and when he heard that line about Hua Country people not deceiving Hua Country people, he wanted to complain about something, but ultimately didn't say it out loud.
"Alright, you can hypnotize me."
"Doctor Bai, and everyone will still be nearby, right?"
Jiang Ran confirmed again.
Bai Xiaoliang said: "Yes, I'll be nearby, and all the other doctors in this room will also be here observing and learning."
Jiang Ran scratched his forehead and said: "Let's begin."
Jiang Ran ultimately agreed, giving face to Bai Xiaoliang.
After all, he had been persuading for so long, and he'd given him such a discount on the hypnosis fee.
Next.
Jiang Ran assumed the hypnosis would be conducted in examination room number 1.
After all, that's where Bai Xiaoliang had performed his hypnosis last time.
So he thought it would be the same place this time.
But he was informed that wasn't the case.
It would be in a room on the upper floor.
Therefore, Jiang Ran followed Bai Xiaoliang, Lucas, and the others upward.
They took the elevator all the way.
The elevator was large enough to accommodate everyone who had been in examination room number 1.
In the elevator were these people:
Bai Xiaoliang, Lucas, and ten other doctors totaling eleven medical staff.
One patient: Jiang Ran.
Then there was Bai Xiaoliang's dedicated pretty nurse who liked wearing red colored contacts, called Xiao Tong.
While in the elevator.
Jiang Ran suddenly asked: "Doctor Bai, your Red Leaf Hospital is a specialized hospital that only treats mental illnesses, right?"
Bai Xiaoliang didn't know why Jiang Ran suddenly asked this and said: "Yes, why do you ask?"
Jiang Ran said: "Nothing, just asking. Is your hospital's business lately - oh, no, I mean have there been more and more patients coming for mental health issues recently?"
Even though Jiang Ran corrected himself quickly, in the enclosed quiet space of the elevator, everyone definitely heard him.
Although the term "business" isn't really appropriate for hospitals.
But these days, it didn't seem entirely inappropriate either.
Just wasn't sure how people working in the hospital would feel hearing it.
Anger? Or some other emotion?
Bai Xiaoliang naturally heard it too, but he still maintained his smile, not minding: "Indeed, looking at our hospital's data from recent years, there really have been many more patients coming for mental health issues."
Jiang Ran said: "That makes sense. After all, with social development, mental and emotional aspects will definitely receive increasing attention."
"For example, twenty or thirty years ago, if you mentioned depression, probably many people hadn't heard of it, and even if they had, they wouldn't take it seriously because they didn't consider mental and emotional psychological conditions as real illnesses - they only regarded physical conditions as diseases."
"But now it's different. So I think the future trend will see tremendous growth in these mental, emotional, and psychological industries."
Bai Xiaoliang seemed somewhat surprised that Jiang Ran could think so deeply and analyze so much.