By the time Lou's father and Xu Damao left, it was already past ten o'clock.
Li Chu didn't waste any more time. He tidied up the things on the table, put his white coat back on, and came to the clinic.
There were no patients in the consultation room at the moment; the three of them were huddled together, seemingly discussing a previous patient.
"What's wrong? What illness is it that's being brought up as neither male nor female?"
As soon as Li Chu entered the consultation room, he heard what they were saying and asked curiously.
Hello, Teacher Li!
"Um, what were you guys discussing just now?"
"It's like this, Teacher Li. We just saw a patient, a couple from Tongxian County. The woman is 25 and the man is 26. They've been married for four years but haven't had any children, so they came to visit," Li Wenxuan said.
"Then when I took the woman's pulse, I found something was wrong; her pulse was that of a man."
"What did you say?" Even Li Chu was taken aback. Over the years, he had seen countless patients, but he had never seen anything like this.
“Really, all three of us took her pulse, and we came to the same conclusion.”
Then I asked her about her menstrual cycle, and she said she had never had her period. I also noticed that she had an Adam's apple. Later, I had my junior sister Duan check her from behind the curtain, and she showed signs of female sexuality in both her breasts and genitals.
But her pulse clearly told me that she was a man.
In traditional Chinese medicine, judging whether someone is male or female by taking their pulse is a basic skill. Li Chu had no doubt that the three of them would all make a mistake. So there was only one possibility: this person was hermaphroditic.
Or, it could be said that when this person was in the mother's womb, they were originally twins, one male and one female. Later, due to some circumstances, the female absorbed the male, or vice versa.
g.
Where is this person now?
“I didn’t say anything, I just told the two of them to go to the OB-GYN together.”
"Hey, I'll go check it out. Do you three have some kind of special constitution? How come you can even attract patients like this?"
Li Chu smiled, shook his head, and walked out of the consultation room.
The three of them were left staring at each other in the consultation room, completely baffled as to what the "special constitution" meant and why it attracted such patients.
The obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinic was on the far east side. When Li Chu walked over, there was a dark-skinned young man who looked to be in his twenties sitting at the entrance. This must be the man.
The door to the obstetrics and gynecology department was closed; they were probably conducting an examination inside.
Li Chu walked over and knocked on the door, which opened quickly.
"Dean Li, is that you? I have a patient inside." The door was only opened a crack, and a head peeked out. It was Dr. Song, the attending physician in the obstetrics and gynecology department, a female doctor.
Nowadays, there are no male doctors in obstetrics and gynecology departments, and male doctors are generally not allowed to enter when patients are undergoing examinations, unless there is no other way, in which case the situation must be explained to the patient's family first.
"I know there are nurses inside, right?"
"have"
"Come here first, I need to talk to you about something."
Li Chu led Doctor Song to a slightly farther place, making sure the man sitting at the door couldn't hear him anymore, before stopping.
Doctor Song looked at him curiously. In her memory, she had no personal relationship with this expert.
"That's right, Xiao Song. The female patient inside you just came from the traditional Chinese medicine clinic."
"Yes, that's what the patient told me. She said a traditional Chinese medicine doctor asked her to come over."
Dr. Song quickly explained that she was a little worried that this person might be there to cause her trouble.
"Yes, the patient I was talking about has a problem, a physical problem. I don't know if you asked, but she hasn't had her period."
Moreover, her pulse indicated that she was likely male.
Dr. Song felt herself fall to the ground. Did she mishear or what happened?
That's clearly a woman!
"I suggest you order an ultrasound to check her. I don't think there's any need for other tests. If she doesn't even have the ability to carry a child, then any other tests you do will be a waste of time."
If it weren't Li Chu standing opposite him, Doctor Song would have already started criticizing him.
What a joke! But looking at the man in front of her, she didn't have the guts yet, and nodded obediently: "I understand, Dean Li. I'll have her do the ultrasound when I get there."
"Okay, let me know if there are any follow-up updates. I'll be in the third consultation room of the Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic."
"Dean Li, are you seeing patients today?" Dr. Song suddenly seemed a little excited.
"Oh, I'm with my students. I haven't had much to do lately, so I've been here. Is there something you need?"
"Dr. Li, my father's blood pressure has been a bit high recently, and he's currently hospitalized in the internal medicine department. Could you please take a look at him?"
"sure."
"Thank you, I'll take him to you right away."
"OK"
Watching Xiao Song walk excitedly towards his clinic, Li Chu suddenly sighed.
Even people in their own hospital don't trust doctors in the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) department. They come to him for just a case of high blood pressure, otherwise they'd rather be hospitalized in the internal medicine department than see another TCM doctor. How can ordinary people outside the hospital trust TCM?
There's a reason why traditional Chinese medicine is losing its influence.
A few well-known traditional Chinese medicine doctors alone cannot save this industry.
The ultrasound results didn't come out until after 4 p.m.
Sure enough, the so-called woman had no place in her belly to carry a child; most importantly, her abdomen even had a male...penis.
When the doctor who performed the ultrasound saw the result, she almost went crazy. She thought she had made a mistake, so she dragged the person to do it again and even invited the head of the department to come over.
The results were exactly the same both times, which made the female doctor who performed the ultrasound question her life choices.
The couple who received the news could hardly believe their ears. What a joke! They didn't believe the doctor at all and left cursing.
Li Chu looked at the conclusion in his hand and nodded. It was the same as what he had seen in the book his master had left behind. He just couldn't figure out whether it was the boy absorbing the girl or vice versa.
He had originally planned to take the patient, whom he would tentatively call a girl, to do a DNA test to see what her gene sequence was like, but she ran away, so there was nothing he could do.
dNA?
Yeah, the case Meng Ge mentioned the other day involved bloodstains, so why not do a DNA test to find out if it was the person who was arrested?
After handing the report back to Xiao Song, Li Chu said goodbye to Wenxuan and the other two, and headed towards his office.
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