Chapter 729: Doctor Doesn’t Exist
Wen Liang nodded dejectedly, realizing that retrieving the video footage would not be so smooth.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind, "Oh, I remember..."
"What?"
Lu Yao and Xin Feng both stared at her.
"Car, David's car." Wen Liang thought carefully, "Silver Toyota Camry, license plate number..."
Wen Liang closed his eyes, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the table, "The last number is 703... The first number is..."
Although these three numbers seemed to be completely unrelated, Wen Liang remembered clearly that her father's birthday was July 3rd.
Lu Yao and Xin Feng waited with bated breath.
Wen Liang suddenly opened his eyes: "There's DAB in front."
Hearing this, Xin Feng asked, "Three digits?"
"Yes."
Now, new license plates in Philadelphia are followed by four digits, and those with three digits are old license plates from many years ago.
Xin Feng quickly entered the license plate number on his tablet, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter. "This license plate... is in the name of a man named Ethan Miller, but..."
He looked up at Wen Liang and said helplessly, "He called the police five years ago and said someone was using his license plate number."
Wen Liang: “…”
She pressed on, "Did the police find out who was using his license plate number?"
"I don't know this yet, but it's also a clue. I will check it out." Xin Feng said.
"The license plate number is fake, but the car is not. Do you remember what the characteristics of that car are?" asked Lu Yao, who had been silent all this time.
Wen Liang tried hard to recall, sighed and shook his head.
It's been a long time and I can't remember some details.
Just then, Wen Liang's phone rang.
She picked it up and took a look. It was an unfamiliar number, but looking at the beginning of the phone number, it looked like a number from Keller Hospital.
Wen Liang showed the number to Xin Feng and Lu Yao, and answered the call under their gaze.
"Hello, are you Ms. Wen Liang?"
A formulaic female voice came from the other end of the line, "This is Lisa from the Medical Records Management Department at Keller Hospital."
Wen Liang: "Yes, I am."
"You requested medical records from six years ago at our hospital this morning, correct?"
"Um."
"After your application came, our staff searched the archives but couldn't find your medical records or imaging data..." Lisa's voice suddenly became hesitant. "After a thorough check, we found no records of your visit in the hospital archives."
Wen Liang was stunned.
She, Xin Feng, and Lu Yao exchanged a glance and said, "That's impossible. I was clearly treated at Keller Hospital."
When she went to the hospital this morning, she still remembered the hospital's layout and familiar scenes.
"We've checked all our systems, including paper files and electronic records, but we couldn't find your information. Did you remember the wrong hospital? There are several with similar names in Philadelphia..." Lisa had reasonable doubts.
"No, I remember it clearly. It was on the third floor, in the neurosurgery department. My bed was by the window. There was an old oak tree outside. There was a vending machine across from the nurses' station. Every morning at eight o'clock, the cleaners would push the disinfection cart by..."
There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone.
Lisa spoke again, her tone more cautious. "Ms. Wen, your description is indeed the layout of our ward, but this only proves that you visited our hospital, not that you were treated there. There is indeed no record of you in the system... Do you have any payment records from that time? Or the original medical records issued by the hospital?"
Wen Liang pursed his lips.
At that time, all her medical expenses were paid by David. Now David can't be found, let alone the payment records and bank statements.
As for the original medical records, they have long been lost.
She said helplessly, "I have photos of my medical records from that time."
Lisa could only apologize: "I'm sorry, photos are easy to forge and cannot be used as official proof."
Wen Liang: "By the way, if the doctor who performed the surgery on me, Lucas Garcia, can prove it for me, would you guys recognize him?"
There was a pause on the other end of the line, followed by the sound of keyboard tapping. Lisa seemed to be looking something up. "Lucas Garcia? Sorry, that name doesn't sound familiar to me. I just checked, and we don't have this doctor in our hospital."
“…???!”
Wen Liang began to doubt his life.
David, the police, the doctors, none of them existed, and she was not treated at Keller Hospital.
For a moment, Wen Liang even began to suspect that there was something wrong with his memory.
After all, she had been hypnotized, so it was not impossible.
But she quickly denied it.
Wen Liang was somewhat unwilling, so she told Lisa the names of all the nurses she remembered.
Not surprisingly, Lisa said that these people were not in the hospital.
While Wen Liang was on the phone, Xin Feng had already opened the official website of Keller Hospital and quickly found the list of doctors in the neurosurgery department. There was indeed no such person as Lucas Garcia, nor was there any name in other departments.
He nodded silently at Wen Liang.
Wen Liang had no choice but to accept Lisa's statement temporarily.
After hanging up the phone, she said, "There's definitely something wrong with Keller Hospital. My records were deleted. Or maybe there was an order from above not to retrieve them for me."
The photos of her medical records on her phone, as well as the photos of the medical instructions Lucas Garcia wrote to her, are all real.
Lu Yao: "Do you remember what Lucas looks like?"
"Somehow I remember."
"Even if it's a fake name, after leaving Keller Hospital, he'll definitely find a job at another hospital, right? We can start with photos of all the neurosurgeons and let you identify them one by one."
Xin Feng disagreed with this proposal. "Do you know how many hospitals and neurosurgeons there are in Country M? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's too inefficient. Besides, how do you know he's a neurosurgeon? How do you know he's a doctor?"
Xin Feng's words stumped both Wen Liang and Lu Yao.
Yes, the name is fake, the identity is fake, who knows if he is a real doctor?
Wen Liang didn't even have a wound on her body at the time, and the injuries recorded in the medical records were most likely fake. So, Lucas might not be a real doctor. He only needed to prescribe medicine for her according to the plan of the person behind the scenes, learn some professional terms, and deal with Wen Liang.
"Then...what should I do?" Wen Liang asked with a headache.
Lu Yao and Xin Feng also looked pale.
It's too difficult to investigate.
It also means that in-depth investigations will involve great risks.
"Oh right," Wen Liang thought of something and looked at Xin Feng, "Director of Keller Hospital, have you investigated?"
Lucas and those nurses were not hospital staff, but they did appear in the hospital as doctors and nurses and acted in front of her.
The hospital director cannot escape responsibility for something like this.
Xin Feng: "I checked. The current director of the hospital is named John Black. He was promoted from the vice director. He was promoted three months after you were discharged from the hospital after recovering from the car accident. As for the previous director..."
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