Healing Doctor

Chapter 652 is just speculation.

"Xiao Gao, please get me a basin of warm water, thank you," the patient's family member said, sobbing.

Ji Xiang was exhausted, but giving him warm water was better than using all his strength to perform chest compressions.

Holding the basin prepared by the patient's family, Ji Xiang went to the water room to fetch a basin of warm water and adjusted the temperature.

"The crazy family members of patients are really hard to deal with, even if she's a doctor," Ji Xiang thought to herself.

He asked the nurse to get some alcohol, and looking at the patients crowding the doorway of his clinic, Ji Xiang felt a wave of helplessness.

Two hours of busy work, two hours of useless effort, and even causing irreversible damage to the patient's body... All of this left Ji Xiang with countless knots in his heart, making it difficult for him to even breathe.

After making the warm water, Ji Xiang carried it back. Just as he reached the door, he heard a "thump" from inside the house, as if something heavy had fallen.

Oh shit!

Could it be that he fell while turning over the patient's body? Ji Xiang quickly walked a few steps into the emergency room.

next second.

Ji Xiang saw another middle-aged woman, who was probably his sister-in-law or sister-in-law, lying on the ground, her limbs twitching.

"What happened?"

Ji Xiang asked quickly.

"My sister-in-law couldn't accept the news of the old man's death and fainted immediately," the patient's family member said.

For some reason, Ji Xiang sensed a hint of pleasure in her words.

One wave subsides only for another to rise, leaving Ji Xiang in tears. This is truly bizarre!

Another round of emergency treatment.

This patient has a typical brain disease, with a blood pressure of 230 mmHg, which is alarmingly high.

There was no other way but to rush him to the neurosurgery department.

The priority is to save lives. The patient only has Sister Li in her family, and her husband is on a plane back to China. There's practically nothing they can do.

As a result, the patient's body remained in the emergency department for another 3 hours.

Every time Ji Xiang finished his work and came out, he felt very strange when he saw the bodies covered with blue sterile sheets in the emergency room.

Like a thriller, or a post-apocalyptic film, Ji Xiang even felt that the patient was about to sit up at any moment.

However, this supernatural event did not happen; it was merely Ji Xiang's imagination.

A few hours later, the patient's family returned to clean the body and contacted a yin-yang master and the funeral home.

After getting dressed and seeing the person off, the emergency room finally returned to quiet.

"Brother Gao, your shift is really busy, it's incredibly unlucky. I swear, I'll never work the same shift as you again. It's like you're constantly trying to salvage the situation from the moment you take over. Who can stand that?"

After finishing everything, it was already past midnight, and the nurse complained wearily.

Ji Xiang found it strange; the patient's body had already been sent away, so how could he possibly empathize with the situation?

From beginning to end, I felt like a puppet on a string, only doing one thing: emergency rescue.

"I'll go see a neurosurgeon," Ji Xiang said. "A patient came to me seeking a surgeon's opinion."

After saying that, Ji Xiang ran off to the neurosurgery department.

Dr. Li's sister-in-law was not around, so Ji Xiang went to the nurse to find out what was going on.

"Brother Gao, they're going into surgery," the neurosurgery nurse said.

"How is the situation?"

"An emergency CT scan revealed a brain hemorrhage of over 100 milliliters. I estimate that even if he survives, he will be in a vegetative state."

"!!!"

At this point, the nurse looked at me mysteriously, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

Ji Xiang's heart skipped a beat; he vaguely sensed that the drama was about to reach its climax. A moment of empathy had taken an unexpected and bizarre turn, the true reason hidden so deeply.

In that instant, Ji Xiang saw the image of Dr. Li during the emergency room resuscitation.

Doubts arose.

"It's so pitiful, a family gone in the blink of an eye." Ji Xiang sighed and began to probe the nurse for information.

"Pitiful? I think she deserves it." The nurse lowered her voice so much that if Ji Xiang hadn't had such keen hearing, he probably would have heard her.

"What's going on? Don't curse the patient like that. Be mindful of the impact," Ji Xiang frowned and scolded.

"Brother Gao, I heard that back when there was still a family planning policy, Sister Li got pregnant, and her husband and mother-in-law kept pestering her to find out if it was a boy or a girl."

Ji Xiang listened quietly.

"It turned out to be a girl, but Sister Li still doesn't want to have an abortion. After all, she's too far along in her pregnancy; that would be murder!"

"And then?"

"They said that Sister Li was beaten by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and ended up having a miscarriage. She suffered severe bleeding, and if it weren't for the doctors and nurses at our hospital donating blood, Sister Li would have died long ago. You know, people who do evil will eventually get their just desserts."

Ji Xiang was stunned.

Evil will be punished? Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs; who cares?

If one insists on the idea that evil will be punished, then there must be something fishy going on.

Connecting the dots, when Dr. Li insisted on resuscitation and requested a 300J defibrillation, Ji Xiang vaguely understood what was going on.

The nurse had gone to get busy, and Ji Xiang needed to rush back to his shift, but then he changed his mind and went to the doctor's office instead.

Having found an open workstation, Ji Xiang saw the patient's laboratory tests after admission.

Other tests showed no problems, but the blood potassium level was 1.8 mmol/L, which is extremely low.

What's the connection between these things? Ji Xiang's mind was full of questions.

According to the usual procedure, the empathy should have ended, but the system did not recall Ji Xiang. He could only continue to go to work and leave work, not knowing what else the system wanted him to experience.

But a few days later, when Ji Xiang went to work again, he heard from the nurse that Dr. Li's husband had rushed back, her mother had passed away, and her sister had become a vegetable.

He cursed at Dr. Li a few times, and Dr. Li demanded a divorce without hesitation, ignoring all attempts to persuade her. She even hired a lawyer to divide the property, declaring that she didn't care if it meant fighting a lawsuit for a lifetime.

At this moment, Ji Xiang's suspicions became clearer.

The worst thing isn't just that the place is empty, but that it's left with a person in a vegetative state... then the assets are divided, and lawsuits are filed.

All of this seems to indicate something.

A flash of light, and Ji Xiang returned to the system's operating room.

"Teacher, I don't understand." After returning, Ji Xiang directly "reported" his empathetic results to the system NPC.

"Hehe, it's normal not to understand. Xiao Zhou and I speculated about this case afterward, but we had no evidence," the system NPC said softly, hands behind his back and bowing.

guess?

Ji Xiang pricked up his ears, bent down, and said, "Teacher, please tell me about it."

Do you know about compound glycyrrhiza tablets?

"I know. The commonly used drugs were addictive and have since become prescription drugs, requiring a doctor's prescription. But the hospital doesn't have the drugs, so they can't get a prescription even if they wanted to," Ji Xiang said.

Compound licorice tablets are a legendary old medicine with a mild cough-suppressing effect, and it is said that they were frequently used in the past.

However, it was later banned because of its addictive properties.

Have you ever tried licorice candy?

"I've eaten." Ji Xiang frowned slightly, seemingly understanding what the system NPC meant.

A while ago, Ji Xiang had just diagnosed a patient who had bloody stools due to eating licorice candy. He remembered it vividly and never expected that the system NPC would bring it up again.

(End of this chapter)