Chapter 516: The Patient Faking Illness

Zhai Yuhan looked up and saw two girls under 20 years old standing at the door, one of whom was clutching her stomach.

"Get to work!" Zhai Yuhan stood up briskly, walked to the Patient, and gestured, "Come on, let's go to the dressing room."

Ji Xiang followed Zhai Yuhan out of the Doctor's Office immediately; Zhao Zhe followed beside Ji Xiang, looking the Patient and the Family Member up and down, and cautiously nudged Ji Xiang with his elbow.

He didn't speak, and the action of nudging Ji Xiang with his elbow looked unintentional, but feeling Zhao Zhe nudge him, Ji Xiang raised his eyebrows to signal that he understood.

The small interaction between the two was not seen by Zhai Yuhan in front or Zhao Mengmeng behind.

And it was only after the figures of Zhao Mengmeng and the others had almost disappeared that she stood up, completely unaware of what had happened.

Arriving at the dressing room, Zhai Yuhan had the Patient turn her head to the left, stood on the right side of the Patient's body, and asked while rubbing her hands, "Let me see the examination slip from the emergency room."

"Doctor, we didn't go to the emergency room," one girl said.

Zhai Yuhan frowned and glanced at the Family Member.

The two of them were likely not sisters, but rather colleagues, classmates, or something like best friends.

"My stomach hurts badly; I've had Cholecystitis before, so I came straight here," the Patient said while clutching her stomach and lying in front of Zhai Yuhan, describing the course of her illness while crying out in pain.

Zhai Yuhan was also somewhat helpless; she rubbed her hands warm, had the Patient curl her knees, and began the physical examination.

The Patient's symptoms were quite typical: obvious tenderness at the gallbladder Murphy's Sign, accompanied by rebound tenderness, with no muscle guarding.

"Get an Ultrasound," Zhai Yuhan patted the Patient's shoulder, "Get up."

"Can I just be hospitalized directly?" The Patient looked at Zhai Yuhan imploringly, "Just drip some Anti-inflammatory Drug."

"To be admitted, you need admission indications; our hospital beds are very tight. If you only need Antibiotic, you can do it in the outpatient emergency department," Zhai Yuhan turned to go wash her hands.

"Doctor, I might need surgery. Why don't you let me be hospitalized and just cut out the gallbladder?" The Patient propped herself up with her arms and said to Zhai Yuhan.

"That is surgery, don't be in a rush. Besides, cutting out the gallbladder is just a minor surgery, but it still has an impact on the body," Ji Xiang smiled.

"Doctor Xiao Ji, it's you!" Hearing Ji Xiang speak to her, the Patient's eyes sparkled, "I saw you on the show, so handsome! You're even more handsome in person than on TV!"

"Please lie down, I'm going to perform a physical examination."

The Patient lay down again without a word.

Zhao Zhe frowned slightly, remembering the meme about an uncle checking your body.

"Which episode did you start watching from?" Ji Xiang asked with a smile while rubbing his hands.

"The second episode, my classmate told me. Doctor Xiao Ji, is it true that you got a perfect score on the Practicing Physician Examination and were first in the country? First in the country, and a perfect score, that's too amazing!" the Patient asked enthusiastically.

"It's true, it's mainly because the questions for our Practicing Physician Examination aren't difficult; they can't compare to the college entrance exam." Ji Xiang rubbed his hands warm and pressed them onto the Patient's mid-abdomen, "Does it hurt here?"

"Uh..." the Patient hesitated for a moment, "It doesn't hurt, but it pulls a bit here."

She reached out and grabbed Ji Xiang's hand, and after Ji Xiang moved it away calmly, she pressed her hand onto her own gallbladder area.

"Which episode did you like the most?" Ji Xiang moved his hand away calmly and asked casually.

"I liked the one where a terminal Cancer patient wanted to be hospitalized, the director said there was no cure and told him to go home, but you insisted. You were leaning forward with both hands on the table, so cool! So manly!"

"Does it hurt here?" Ji Xiang's hand pressed on the Patient's left upper abdomen.

"It doesn't hurt."

"That's because Interventional Surgery isn't promoted very well, and many patients don't know about it." Ji Xiang chatted with the Patient while his hand wandered over the Patient's stomach, pressing occasionally.

He only asked if it hurt twice.

"But at that time, you had both hands clenched into fists, propped in front of you, leaning forward, so impressive!" the Patient repeated again.

Because she was excited, she forgot that she had said it before.

"Yeah, our classmates all imitate that move of yours, but not one of them does it like you," the other girl said.

"Doctor Xiao Ji, our classmates all say that just this one move alone is enough for you to become the best new star this year."

"It was even on the trending list, but it was taken down very quickly; I think the director here did it. They just can't stand to see you doing well! Why take down a perfectly fine trending topic!"

The two of them spoke one after another like they were performing a crosstalk act.

"There was a trending topic? I didn't even know."

"It was out for less than an hour, then it dropped like a stone. It reached the top hundred at most; it was a sketch drawn by an artist, just the way you looked when you were talking about it earlier, full of pressure, handsome!"

"Alright, get up," Ji Xiang moved his hand away from the Patient's stomach and said with a smile, "You two came here, I guess you won't be on the show. Did you see that girl with the Tracheal Foreign Body on the show and get the idea?"

"..."

"..."

The two girls looked at Ji Xiang as if they had seen a ghost.

"Doctor Xiao Ji, I'm not faking illness, I'm really in pain," the Patient said while lying on the examination bed.

"We are doctors, we won't perform surgery on healthy people. Which book were you reading?"

"Surgery."

The girl beside her let it slip, immediately covered her mouth with her hand, and her eyes flickered.

"Just now while we were talking, I pressed your gallbladder area; you were too busy talking about the trending topic and didn't notice. I pressed with a little force, there was no tenderness, it's not Cholecystitis." Ji Xiang turned to press the hand sanitizer and began to disinfect, "Get up."

"..."

"..."

The two girls stared at each other, their faces full of unwillingness.

"How about this, leave me an address, and I'll get you a signed photo of Mao Mao, okay?" Ji Xiang asked as if coaxing a child.

"Okay!"

"And we want your signed photo too."

Ji Xiang frowned slightly, "I am a doctor, there's no point in having my signed photo."

"Doctor Xiao Ji, you're definitely going to be a star!"

"Yeah, if we wait too long, it'll be too late."

"It won't be." Ji Xiang finished hand disinfection and subconsciously reached his hand toward his buttocks, wiping it twice on his White Uniform.

Zhai Yuhan could only shake her head as she watched.

"Heh heh, this is a habit of Teacher Meng from the Emergency Department; I learned it without realizing it." Ji Xiang felt a bit embarrassed; before his eyes were the two dark marks on the seat of Meng Qingfei's White Uniform.

After much persuasion, he finally sent the two young women away; they stopped pretending as they were leaving, and after finalizing that they wanted signed photos of Mao Mao and Ji Xiang, they disappeared, skipping away happily.

Zhai Yuhan asked helplessly, "Doctor Xiao Ji, how did you figure it out?"

"Zhao Ge told me."

Zhao Zhe spread his hands, indicating his helplessness.

He knew that Ji Xiang was unwilling to waste words with Zhai Yuhan, so he had shifted the blame onto him.

At the time, he had hinted at it to Ji Xiang, but Ji Xiang had claimed he already knew.

(End of chapter)