Both doctors felt a hint of seriousness about the child's condition.
Yet the child's mother didn't take it seriously, urging her daughter, "The doctor is talking to you, answer them."
Clearly, the mother didn't know that when a child is seriously and severely ill, they're listless, not the other way around.
Taking out a tongue depressor, Nie Jiamin prepared to check the child's throat first.
The child's mother tapped her daughter's arm again, "Hurry up and open your mouth!"
Xie Wanying moved around the table, squatted on the other side of the child, looked into her eyes, and said, "You say—ah," and then she opened her own mouth as an example for the little girl to follow.
Imitating adults is a common behavioral trait for children of this age, and the five-year-old little girl followed Xie Wanying's lead and opened her small mouth.
