Chapter 660: Destroying One's Worldview

"The two were married in the name of a shotgun wedding; they had a child three months after the marriage. Later, some things happened, and the patient took the child for a Paternity Test."

"It wasn't his?" Ji Xiang asked.

"Mm, it wasn't. It was his younger brother's."

"Whose younger brother?"

"The patient's younger brother," Meng Qingfei said. "In other words, his daughter is actually his niece. Later, through some channels, he found out that the person his original wife cheated with was also his younger brother."

"That really is... retro."

Ji Xiang thought for a moment and finally used the word 'retro' to describe it.

"Hahahaha." Meng Qingfei laughed as he prepared to clear the table. Ji Xiang scratched his head, just about to remind Meng Qingfei, when his body suddenly shook. "Why is there still a person here! Oh right, Doctor Lin Jiuze, look at me, I forgot you were still here, I scared myself."

"..." Ji Xiang sighed.

Lin Jiuze being by his side caused the probability of an acute Myocardial Infarction occurring around him to skyrocket.

"The matter wasn't over yet. The patient divorced his second wife a year ago and didn't want the child either. A middle-aged man with money will always find all sorts of women. He felt that young women were unreliable and that it would be better to find someone of a similar age."

After Meng Qingfei said one sentence to Lin Jiuze, he forgot about him and continued telling gossip to Ji Xiang.

"Then, he found a woman nearing forty who still had charm and knew how to take care of people, and married her. Unfortunately, today he discovered that this woman was his father's mistress several years ago and they are still in contact to this day."

"!!!" Ji Xiang was stunned.

He absolutely did not want to feel Empathy for this kind of thing.

However, the patient's father should be around sixty or nearly seventy; he could be considered vigorous in his old age, an old horse that knows the way, old but still strong, and old but still spicy.

"Meng Laoshi, how did you counsel the patient?" Ji Xiang asked.

Meng Qingfei stared wide-eyed at Ji Xiang. "What is there to counsel about such a mess? Just go home and think about it yourself; it's fine once you figure it out. If you can't figure it out, living in a muddle is also a lifetime."

That is indeed how it is, Ji Xiang thought.

It wasn't any kind of illness, not even a psychological disorder; a Doctor is not omnipotent.

"The patient has a few large bumps on his head; I estimate they are hematomas. The neurological examination is normal. Go get a cranial CT, and when you come back..."

Just as he was speaking, the shrill sound of an 120 Emergency Vehicle came from outside.

"Damn it!" Meng Qingfei cursed immediately.

"Did the 120 go out on a call?"

"No, it's one sent from another hospital. Patients brought by 120 Emergency Vehicles from smaller hospitals below—the light cases stay at their hospitals for treatment, and the ones that come here are all critical! It's either a Myocardial Infarction or a major car accident."

Meng Qingfei entered "combat" mode immediately and trotted to stand at the entrance of the Emergency Rescue Room. Ji Xiang followed behind him, leaving Lin Jiuze still eating half a dumpling, somewhat at a loss.

Soon, a stretcher appeared in view. Meng Qingfei asked loudly, "Surgery or Internal Medicine!"

He and the Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor waited nervously for the answer.

"Surgery, a jumper!"

The Emergency Internal Medicine Doctor's expression suddenly became relaxed. She patted Meng Qingfei's arm. "Old Meng, then I'm heading back."

Meng Qingfei sighed almost imperceptibly.

The patient was sent to the Emergency Rescue Room. It was a female Patient, looking under 30 years old, with a Femoral Shaft Fracture; the fractured ends had severe distortion and deformity.

The Doctors and Nurses of the Second Affiliated Hospital Emergency Department were well-trained. They immediately attached a Cardiac Monitor and, while establishing Intravenous Access, took a tube of blood for testing.

The blood pressure was slightly low, but it was at a level hovering on the edge of Hemorrhagic Shock, which was still acceptable. A bedside Ultrasound found a small amount of fluid in the pelvic cavity and a small amount of fluid around the spleen.

It wasn't a big problem; Meng Qingfei had his own judgment.

He ordered the examinations and had the nursing assistant take the patient to do them, and as they left, he told the nursing assistant that if there was nothing else, don't come back, just send her directly to the Orthopedics Department.

"Xiao Ji, are you prepared to go back and perform the surgery for the Femoral Shaft Fracture?" Meng Qingfei asked after calming down.

"Femoral shaft, I don't want to go."

"That's true, it's just carpentry work, no interest, not a bit of difficulty, better not to do it," Meng Qingfei said. "Use some steel nails and steel plates to fix it, and it's done."

That may be how it's said, but the Resident Chief of the Orthopedics Department should be quite fond of performing similar surgeries.

"I don't see the Family Member."

"It's possible she's a migrant worker," Meng Qingfei said, suddenly revealing a very strange expression.

"Meng Laoshi, what are you going to say?" Ji Xiang asked.

"The most incomprehensible patient I've ever seen is... what was it? Let me think about how to describe it." Meng Qingfei hesitated for a few seconds.

Ji Xiang was curious, and Lin Jiuze was even more curious.

Just how complicated could the matter be that he even needed to organize his thoughts?

"That was five years ago. I was on duty and also encountered a patient who fell from a building," Meng Qingfei recounted the story from the past. "The patient's injuries were very severe, and he wasn't young either, about 55 years old. After emergency surgery, he stayed in the ICU for more than 20 days."

"I later heard the Nurses gossiping, saying his son was a lackey for a big company boss, helping the boss take over the mess by marrying the boss's mistress."

"Perhaps the big boss had a protagonist's halo; the patient's son soon started taking medicine and became a sissy. I didn't know what a sissy was back then and was laughed at by the Nurses."

"It's said that not only did they have to serve the big boss, but they also had to serve the boss's guests. The couple went at it together; it could be considered... working in unison. His first child was the big boss's, the second child was his own, and after having children, they found the patient's lover to come and take care of them."

"A mother going to see her grandchild is a very normal thing. But I don't know how it happened, the big boss slept with her too, the whole family... so the patient couldn't accept it for a moment and chose to jump off the building to commit suicide."

"Uh..." Ji Xiang was stunned.

There was actually such a bizarre incident.

"Later I heard the hospitalization fees were all paid by the big boss. When he was discharged, I don't know if the big boss felt guilty, but he came to pick up the patient personally and gave him 2 million in cash on the spot."

"Is this trying to smash an old man with money?" Ji Xiang asked.

"Who knows," Meng Qingfei said. "No way around it, in this world, people are all sorts of characters, and things like values are very hard to describe."

"Meng Laoshi, taking medicine to become a sissy, that's estrogen-type medication, right? Won't that cause irreversible damage to the patient?"

"How would I know that? Endocrine matters are especially complex; I'm a Surgeon, right?" Meng Qingfei shrugged indifferently.

"That's true," Ji Xiang laughed. "But isn't doing this kind of thing illegal?"

"Illegal? Someone has to report it for it to count; otherwise, it's basically 'the people don't sue, the officials don't investigate'."

"That doesn't seem right..."

Before Ji Xiang could finish his sentence, Meng Qingfei's phone suddenly started ringing frantically.

Meng Qingfei took out his phone, and when he saw the number on the screen, his face instantly turned ashen.

(End of chapter)