This miracle doctor just wants to be fired!

After sitting in the doctor's office for about ten minutes, Zhou Cheng couldn't sit still any longer and got up to go to the observation room.

But as soon as he reached the door of the observation room, he saw the man's wife come out and talk to Zhao Wenqi.

"After the injection, my husband said he felt much better and didn't hurt as much. He even said he was going downstairs to buy a bottle of water and asked me to come and let you know."

Zhou Cheng's heart skipped a beat; something was wrong!

Painkillers don't work that quickly, and even if they relieve spasms, they can't make the pain caused by inflammation disappear instantly.

This is more like the symptoms being masked than a genuine improvement!

He quickly stepped forward and asked, "How does he look now? Has he said his stomach is bloated or he feels nauseous?"

"You look fine. You were just joking with me, saying you should have listened to Director Wang." The woman waved her hand dismissively. "I didn't say I felt bloated or nauseous, just a little thirsty. I'm going downstairs to find him now."

After saying that, she hurriedly ran out.

"Haven't you had the check-up yet?" Zhou Cheng asked Zhao Wenqi, who was standing to the side.

Zhao Wenqi shook her head: "I've tried to persuade her many times, but she just doesn't want to do it. She even said that she wants to go home as soon as the pain stops."

Zhou Cheng wanted to say something, but he swallowed the words back.

We already had a conflict, and now that the patient says he's feeling better, if he insists on getting further tests, he'll just be seen as deliberately causing trouble, making things even harder to resolve.

He could only pray in his heart that nothing bad would happen.

But fate always seemed to be playing tricks on him.

Five minutes later, a series of hurried footsteps accompanied by a woman's cries came from the end of the corridor.

"Doctor! Doctor! Help! My husband is in so much pain again!"

Zhou Cheng's heart sank, and he immediately ran towards the emergency observation room.

As soon as I arrived at the observation room lobby, I saw the man curled up on the hospital bed, his body arched like a cooked shrimp.

His face was deathly pale, his lips were cracked and peeling, cold sweat soaked his hair, and he was groaning in suppressed pain.

"It hurts, it hurts so much, it's so painful..."

The "improvement" I had just experienced has completely vanished, and the pain I feel now is several times more intense than before.

The man's body twitched occasionally.

His wife knelt beside the bed, tightly holding his hand, tears streaming down her face. "He was fine just a moment ago, how could he suddenly become like this?"

Zhou Cheng immediately stepped forward, squatted down, lifted the man's clothes, and began to examine him.

The moment he touched the man's lower right abdomen, the man let out a piercing scream and his body jerked violently.

Zhou Cheng could clearly feel that his abdominal muscles were as hard as an iron plate, and the tenderness and rebound pain were more obvious than before. Even the periumbilical and upper abdomen had diffuse tenderness.

This is very likely a manifestation of acute appendicitis with perforation and peritonitis!

"Oh no!" Zhou Cheng's heart skipped a beat. He immediately shouted to Zhao Wenqi, who had rushed over, "Establish intravenous access immediately! Check blood pressure! Then immediately notify the general surgery department for an emergency consultation! Tell them that there is a high suspicion of acute suppurative appendicitis with perforation, secondary peritonitis, and signs of impending shock!"

The man's wife was still crying and shouting, "But he clearly promised himself he wouldn't feel any pain anymore..."

"The medication is masking the symptoms!" Zhou Cheng spoke rapidly, watching the nurse connect the oxygen tube to the patient while keeping an eye on the readings on the monitor.

Blood pressure 89/56 mmHg, heart rate 120 beats/min, respiratory rate 28 breaths/min, blood oxygen saturation 92%, all indicators are at the warning level.

"The painkillers temporarily relieved his pain, but they allowed the inflammation to continue spreading in his abdominal cavity, and now he's showing early signs of septic shock!"

Just then, Director Wang Jianming returned.

He forgot to bring his USB drive.

Seeing the chaotic scene in the emergency observation hall, hearing Zhou Cheng's words, and seeing the red alarm numbers jumping on the monitor, his expression instantly turned somewhat grim.

"What do you mean by 'masking symptoms'?" Wang Jianming said coldly. "We can't jump to conclusions before we've got a proper diagnosis!"

Zhou Cheng glanced at Wang Jianming but said nothing.

The priority now is to save lives; this is not the time to deal with the conflict with Wang Jianming.

"Director, please make way. They're treating someone right now, so please don't block the way." Zhou Cheng looked at Wang Jianming coldly.

Wang Jianming paused, looking at the man's face contorted in pain on the hospital bed, and then at the strange looks from the other patients. His face turned pale and then red, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say a word.

……

The general surgeon arrived quickly, and after examining the patient, immediately made a decision, his voice grave: "Get him to the operating room immediately! Exploratory laparotomy! Clean the abdominal cavity of pus! Any later, and the infection will spread, and the patient will be in danger!"

The patient was already somewhat disoriented when he was wheeled onto the operating table.

At this point, the patient's wife naturally took the doctor's words as gospel.

The patient's wife was sobbing uncontrollably: "Dr. Zhou, I'm so sorry! If only I had listened to you sooner, things wouldn't have come to this..."

Zhou Cheng's tone remained calm: "Go wait outside the operating room first, the surgery will go smoothly."

The patient's wife wiped away her tears, nodded, and quickly followed him to the operating room.

……

Several patients who were receiving IV drips in the observation room forgot their own pain and leaned over to look in their direction.

An elderly man wearing reading glasses frowned and whispered to the woman next to him, "I just heard this young man arguing with the doctor, saying he had a stomachache and wanted medicine. Now it seems the young doctor was right; you can't just give someone painkillers without consulting a doctor!"

The woman nodded repeatedly, her voice still tinged with fear: "That's right! I just heard him say he wasn't in pain anymore and was going to buy water. It's only been a few minutes and he's like this now. It was terrifying!"

These whispers, though not loud, reached Wang Jianming's ears clearly.

He stood on the outskirts of the crowd, still holding the USB drive he had forgotten to take, his face extremely grim.

Several young doctors from the emergency department also rushed over. They had initially thought Zhou Cheng was "too rigid" and inflexible.

Seeing this scene, everyone fell silent.

Cheng Peng, in particular, always felt that he wasn't that unlucky and wouldn't encounter a critically ill patient with an acute abdomen.

However, the stark reality before him sent chills down his spine!

The crowd in the hall gradually dispersed, and the patients returned to their beds, but the chatter continued.

As Zhao Wenqi packed up the emergency equipment, she overheard several nurses at the nurses' station whispering among themselves.

"The look on Director Wang's face just now was absolutely awful. Luckily, Dr. Zhou didn't listen to him, otherwise this medical malpractice case would have been unavoidable."

"Yes, if something happens to this patient, our emergency department will get complaints again."

Zhou Cheng had no interest in any of this.

He followed the stretcher to the operating room door and watched the patient being wheeled in before finally letting out a sigh of relief.

……

When Zhou Cheng returned to the doctor's office, Director Wang Jianming was nowhere to be found.

The way young doctors like Fang Hang and Cheng Peng looked at Zhou Cheng had changed.

Zhou Cheng not only did what they dared not do, but he also succeeded!

They lacked professional ethics, but Zhou Cheng's behavior was clearly evident to everyone.