These words stunned Director Yang. In all these years, this was the first time he had ever heard Li Chu say that he shouldn't have any expectations.
"Director Li, from what you're saying, you've encountered this type of patient before?"
“I have indeed encountered this before, and it was my mother-in-law. She had a similar experience once before, and I couldn’t find anything out. However, it hasn’t happened again in the last two years.”
"You mean your mother-in-law was in the same situation as Director Chen?"
"Yes, she fainted for no apparent reason, as if she had just taken a nap. When she woke up, she was just like a normal person. We couldn't find anything wrong with her. I tried both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine."
Li Chu nodded solemnly.
"Hiss!" Director Yang felt a sharp pain in his tooth.
If it were anyone else, you might guess that Li Chu hadn't put in the effort, but this was his mother-in-law. As far as Director Yang knew, she was incredibly kind to her wife's family.
"Sigh, Director Li, let's do our best and leave the rest to fate. You don't need to feel any pressure. Human strength has its limits. You are doctors, but you are only doctors. It's impossible for you to cure all diseases."
Having served as the director of the health bureau for so many years, although Director Yang knew nothing about medicine, he had still managed to grasp the gist of it.
In recent years, as the older comrades have gotten older and some old ailments have accumulated in their bodies, several of them pass away every year. Therefore, Director Yang has long since seen through the cycle of birth, aging, illness, and death.
If he used to think that these healthcare doctors could cure any illness, he has become much more rational after dealing with them for years.
They arrived at Xiehe Hospital quickly, and Tian Jun drove directly to the inpatient building at the back. Several hospital leaders, who had been informed by the security guard, were already waiting downstairs.
After meeting, there was not much small talk. Led by the hospital leaders, they went to the internal medicine ward on the second floor.
In the ward, several doctors from the health care team were huddled together discussing something while looking at the lab results. Hearing the noise at the door, they turned around and came over to greet them.
Li Chu casually replied to them for a few words, then walked to the bedside. Without bothering to greet the person on the other side of the bed, he directly reached out and took the pulse of the unconscious Chen Fangguo.
Standing on the other side of the hospital bed is Chen Fangguo's youngest daughter, Chen Xiangli.
She watched Li Chu taking her father's pulse and sighed inwardly.
Back then, her father wanted her to date Li Chu, but she refused, saying she was still a student. Little did she know, he already had a boyfriend at the time.
Although she herself disagreed at the time, she still felt somewhat resentful.
Looking at this man now, she began to doubt whether her choice back then was wrong.
What would things be like now if I had been willing to date him back then?
"Impossible," she immediately dismissed the idea. At the time, the other person already had a boyfriend, and even if she agreed, he wouldn't.
She then thought of Ding Qiunan, whom she had met while shopping during the National Day holiday. Time seemed to have forgotten to stand still on this couple; she looked no different from what she had looked more than twenty years ago.
No, she looks even more beautiful and charming than she did more than twenty years ago. As she rose in rank, her capable demeanor, combined with her pretty face, gave people an indescribable feeling.
Looking at herself, now in her forties and already past her prime, she gave a bitter smile to herself.
After a long while, Li Chu withdrew his hand and nodded gently to Chen Xiangli across the bed.
"Director Li, have you made any discoveries?"
"Director Zeng, you should have taken his pulse just now. Old Chen's pulse is no different from that of a normal person. It feels like he is asleep."
Director Zeng of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Peking Union Medical College Hospital breathed a sigh of relief. The result he got from taking the pulse was the same as this one, which put his mind at ease.
"Yeah, that's really weird."
"Director Wang, do you have the X-rays taken along with your examination report? Let me see them."
Director Wang from the internal medicine department quickly handed over all the test reports he had in his hand.
After reading it, Li Chu frowned, looking somewhat troubled.
"How about this, I'll wake him up first, and then we'll ask him how he feels."
His words stunned everyone in the ward.
"Director Li, you can wake the patient up? We've tried so many methods." Director Wang of the internal medicine department asked incredulously.
"Uh... I'll give it a try. Director Zeng, could you please lend me your acupuncture needles?"
"Oh? Oh, Director Li, please use it. It's just been disinfected."
After Li Chu took the needles, he inserted two needles into the patient's head and two into his chest. Less than a minute after the needles were inserted, the patient's eyelids began to twitch noticeably.
These two techniques are truly eye-opening. As for acupuncture, Director Zeng had tried it before, but it was completely useless. It seems that it wasn't that it was useless, but rather that the needles weren't inserted in the right places.
As the patient let out a long sigh, he opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was his daughter's anxious face.
"Xiang Li, where am I?"
“Dad, you forgot, you fainted last night. We took you to the hospital. You woke up once around six o’clock this morning, but then you fainted again.”
After listening to his daughter's explanation, Chen Fangguo thought for a while before he realized what she meant.
"Uncle Chen, do you remember me?"
"Xiao Chu? They invited you here too." Seeing that the patient's expression and memory were normal, the reason for asking that question earlier was probably because his memory was a bit confused after just waking up.
"Uncle Chen, when you were unconscious just now, did you feel anything unusual, or was there anything that made you uncomfortable?"
"Feeling?" Chen Fangguo frowned and pondered for a long time before slowly shaking his head: "I don't feel anything special, it's just like sleeping."
How do you feel now?
As he spoke, Li Chu had already removed all the needles.
"I just feel a bit dizzy, like when I sleep too much at noon and it takes me a while to recover after waking up."
Well, it all boils down to sleeping, which left the doctors in the ward feeling quite helpless.
If you have any discomfort, it's fine, but if you don't feel anything and just faint like you're sleeping, what if you faint one day and never wake up?
This is what everyone is most worried about.
However, they really didn't have any good ideas at the moment. They were even completely clueless about what medicine to prescribe. What medicine should a perfectly normal person take?
"Xiao Chu, can I go home now? I really don't like the smell of the hospital."
"It's probably not feasible now. You'd better stay here for a few more days and observe the situation."
After saying that, Li Chu looked up and winked at Chen Xiangli, signaling her to chat with her father for a while, before turning around and walking out.
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