The formula review moved into follow-up testing, giving the group a quiet day. Ning spent the morning at the clinic helping workers request treatment copies. She had chosen a younger patient representative to share the work, and now showed her how the appointment slips were sorted by time rather than by name.
“If a worker asks to remove a page?” the younger woman asked.
“We remove it from the shared summary. The clinic still keeps the original treatment record, because it belongs to the patient and the physician.”
The woman nodded and tried the filing sequence herself. Ning corrected one date, then let her finish. She walked between the archive and waiting room without stopping for breath. Yan had come to ask how her work was going, but left her to the project she had built.
Ning came by the institute courtyard before lunch to deliver the week’s clinic schedule. She carried the paper herself and pointed out the new specialist slots to Yan.
“We have two appointments a week now,” she said. “Mei says the line has been shorter since the clerk stopped putting names on the table.”
“That sounds like a good change.”
“It is. I asked the volunteer to take over the Thursday list.”
