"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin..."
"Sir, what's the matter?"
Lin Miao was about to close the clinic and go home for dinner when suddenly a young man burst in, running all the way to the consultation point.
"My, my wife can't, she can't give birth..." the man stammered, sweating profusely as he spoke.
"Sir, I'm a physician, not a midwife. If your wife can't give birth, you should find a midwife..."
"Midwives don't work, I've already found three..." the man said anxiously, holding up three fingers.
Lin Miao was in a difficult position. Although delivering babies wasn't unfamiliar to him, there was the issue of gender separation. As a male physician, assisting with a woman's childbirth might raise issues of "propriety and laws."
It wasn't like at the Heaven-Reaching Temple, where he helped the nun named Jing Hui give birth. She had already seen through worldly conventions and didn't mind.
