Chapter 401: Transformation

A strange odor drifted over.

It seemed to be coming from the child, who was uncomfortable in their mother's arms and had been emitting meaningless cries.

Meng Qingfei suddenly turned serious; he walked up to the mother and raised his hand to touch the child's bottom.

This action was very strange; at the very least, a whole crowd of Family Members did not react in time.

"What are you doing!"

The child's father was somewhat furious and reached out to grab Meng Qingfei by the collar.

Ji Xiang wanted to pull them apart to prevent Meng Laoshi from getting hurt.

But Meng Qingfei seemed different from his usual self and did not care about the threat from the Patient's family.

In Ji Xiang's impression, Meng Qingfei was the type of Doctor who was cautious to the Extreme Point, the kind who would chase away a female patient who came to have stitches removed without her Medical Record without a moment's hesitation, never doing anything extra.

To use current parlance, this person Meng Qingfei was cautious to the Extreme Point.

It was unclear what he had experienced in his many years of medical practice to forge such a cautious personality.

But the current Meng Qingfei was not the one Ji Xiang knew.

"Shut your mouths, all of you! If you keep yapping, the kid is done for!" Meng Qingfei's voice rose by 30 decibels.

At this moment,

Meng Qingfei's angry eyes were like a Vajra possessed, his roar like a thunderclap on flat ground.

Not only were the small Patient's family stunned, but others who were waiting to be seen or holding children in the corridor for IV drips because there was no room in the Observation Room were also stunned.

Those children seemed to sense a sharp, murderous aura and instinctively all shut their mouths obediently.

The Emergency Pediatrics corridor, which was noisier than Emergency Surgery or Internal Medicine, fell silent for the first time.

"The child is now suffering from fecal and urinary incontinence; are you sure you don't want an examination?" Meng Qingfei asked coldly.

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"..."

The small Patient's family members reacted after a few seconds, only then realizing in a panic that the strange odor was the smell of feces.

They took off the child's pants, and just as Meng Qingfei had said, the child was suffering from fecal and urinary incontinence.

It had happened just now, and this Doctor had actually discovered it before them.

"Doctor, what should we do?"

One elderly man was relatively calm; although panicked, he did not lose his head, choosing instead to ask Meng Qingfei and trust this meddlesome Doctor.

In such moments, the White Uniform represented trust.

"Draw blood! If you keep yapping, I'm leaving," Meng Qingfei cursed.

"Draw it!" the elderly man immediately made the call.

The situation was urgent; it was no longer the time to agonize over whether one could hit the vein on the first try.

Meng Qingfei roared for the Nurse to come over immediately, but the small Patient's skin was deathly pale, and after patting it a few times, no trace of subcutaneous veins could be seen; she was in a difficult position and looked up at Meng Qingfei.

"I'll do it," Meng Qingfei said.

The child's mother was sitting on a chair holding the child; Meng Qingfei squatted in front of her and forcefully patted the back of the child's hand twice more.

The "slap-slap" sound made the Patient's family's eyelids twitch.

But they still had their reason and could distinguish between fecal incontinence and having the back of a hand patted a few times, and which was more serious.

It was just that the child's mother was crying in her panic, her shoulders heaving.

"Don't move, damn it, be quiet!" Meng Qingfei's language wasn't so clean in his urgency, but it was more intimidating.

The child's mother immediately stifled her crying, holding the child like a wooden statue, not moving at all, not daring to move a muscle.

Ji Xiang focused his mind and entered the System Operating Room.

Meng Laoshi had suddenly become a different person; Ji Xiang felt quite surprised by this.

One needle, hit the vein.

Meng Qingfei's level was still beyond question; even when drawing blood, he displayed a super-high standard.

It was just that his needle hurt a bit, and the child began to struggle in a daze.

"Hold him!" Meng Qingfei had just drawn half a tube of blood when the needle shifted with the child's struggle, and subcutaneous purple bruising appeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If it were any other time, one wouldn't dare guarantee whether someone behind him would fly up and kick Meng Qingfei into the wall of the Emergency Pediatrics.

But now, the Patient's family only tried their best to force a fawning smile.

Blood was drawn again, and the collection was finally complete.

"Do you know how to order the lab tests!" Meng Qingfei asked the young Nurse.

The young Nurse had long been stunned; she recognized this Doctor as Meng Qingfei from the Emergency Surgery across the way, and she guessed in her heart that he must be a friend or relative of Meng Qingfei.

"Yes, yes," the young Nurse said.

"I'm going to deliver the blood. If your Doctor doesn't have time, you order an emergency blood ammonia test immediately. Remember, it's an emergency! Emergency!!" Meng Qingfei said as he ran further and further away with the blood collection tube.

Ji Xiang followed behind Meng Qingfei, admiring him greatly.

Meng Qingfei's diagnosis was correct; the moment he saw the Patient, he had already vaguely formed a diagnosis.

Not only did he provide the diagnosis, but he had even anticipated that the Emergency Pediatrics Doctor would misdiagnose, which was why he overstepped his bounds to run over and yell at the Patient's family, and finally had to deliver the blood himself to urge the emergency lab staff to produce results immediately.

The emergency lab was not far; Meng Qingfei handed the blood in and came out after a quick exchange with the Doctor inside.

"Meng Laoshi," Ji Xiang said, "I didn't expect your temper to be so short."

"If my temper were good, I wouldn't be working in Emergency Surgery," Meng Qingfei reached out and sniffed in front of his nose. "Boy's urine, want a sniff? Cures all diseases."

He reached out and joked with Ji Xiang.

"No thanks."

Meng Qingfei pulled his hand back and, just like he did every time he finished washing his hands, wiped it haphazardly on the back of his White Uniform near his bottom.

This scene made Ji Xiang unable to bear watching any longer; Meng Laoshi was just too slovenly.

Although Ji Xiang did not have mysophobia, Meng Qingfei was a bit too careless about details.

"Meng Laoshi, what do you estimate the illness is?"

"Reye Syndrome." Meng Qingfei gave the correct answer.

This answer was the same as the one given by the System NPC, and Ji Xiang felt inexplicably gratified.

"Meng Laoshi, how did you determine that?" Ji Xiang asked while the Laboratory Department was running the tests.

"It is easy for children with viral infections to develop Reye Syndrome if they take salicylate-type drugs; if a family is in a panic and feeds them the wrong medicine, increasing the dosage, it is even easier for such a situation to occur."

"!!!"

"They went to the wrong place just now; they didn't go to the Pediatrics Department but to the Emergency Internal Medicine instead. I heard them arguing and blaming each other, so I knew that the elders of both families usually fight over the child, and they fight quite fiercely."

"What does 'fighting over the child' mean?" Ji Xiang asked because he did not understand.

"I have a friend who, when he first had a child some years ago, had his parents, his father-in-law, and his mother-in-law all saying they wanted the child to stay with them. In the end, they decided on one week per family, which was relatively fair."

Ji Xiang scratched his head; he was very unfamiliar with such matters, but he listened very attentively.

"One time, his father couldn't bear to send the child over, so he turned off his phone and flew directly to Hainan with the child. The family searched everywhere and almost called the police. In the end, the two families had a huge fight, and the young couple... hahaha."

As Meng Qingfei spoke, he seemed to think of something funny and laughed out loud three times.

But there was no joy in his laughter, and his eyes kept glancing at the emergency lab tests, waiting for the results.

(End of this chapter)