Chapter 1033: 1010 Really Unreliable

"Boss, you're also considered rich now." Walking to 912, Su Yun happened to meet Zheng Ren halfway, and after stating the details, he laughed and joked.

"I haven't looked at the contract; is it after tax?" Zheng Ren asked.

"Definitely." Su Yun said, "This kind of income has countless ways to be recorded, each with different tax thresholds. It's not that I'm worried about paying taxes, but I'm afraid someone might dig into the small accounts over this and accuse us of tax evasion."

"The way you say 'we,' I feel like this 10 million Hong Kong dollars should be split half to you." Zheng Ren laughed.

"You can't be too harsh with your assistant. Being stingy isn't what makes a good boss."

"You really opened a private account to save the money? That works, and it's under your name, right?"

"Saying that sounds just like marriage, putting the property deed in my name." Su Yun said disdainfully, "This time I'm going to Germany; I'll also check how the prosthetics are done there."

"That's a huge sum of money; just thinking about it gives me a headache." Zheng Ren sighed.

"Do whatever step you can; there's no need to overthink."

The two talked as they walked back to the department.

After glancing at the post-op patients, they were all stable.

Today's surgery went extremely smoothly; Zheng Ren felt he could perform a TIPS surgery even with his eyes closed.

Well, that's just a figure of speech; no matter how skilled, Zheng Ren still needs to review the images multiple times before surgery, repeatedly rehearsing the procedure in his mind, being extremely cautious.

While making rounds on the post-op patients, Dr. Shen called out to Zheng Ren.

"Boss Zheng, Director Kong is looking for you."

"Oh, okay." Zheng Ren said, after checking the last patient, he went to Director Kong's office and lightly knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Zheng Ren pushed the door open, gave a slight polite bow, and said, "Director Kong, what's the matter?"

"Boss Zheng, there's a patient; come take a look." Director Kong stared at the image on the viewer, didn't turn his head, and spoke directly.

Zheng Ren first glanced at the director's office; two middle-aged people were looking at Director Kong with tense faces, neither noticing his entrance.

They must be the patient's family, Zheng Ren thought to himself.

He walked up behind Director Kong, glanced at the image, and felt a stir in his heart.

This is a head CT scan showing an irregular space-occupying lesion in the field of view.

Although it's described as a space-occupying lesion, it's actually irregular, and its internal appearance is not typical.

Judging by the appearance, it likely belongs to the category of difficult and complex cases, which is why they came to Director Kong for diagnosis.

"The patient is 25 years old, with sudden hoarseness, blurred vision, abnormal behavior, accompanied by cirrhosis and ascites. Hepatitis B has been ruled out, but cirrhosis nodules were found." Director Kong briefly summarized the condition, his eyes fixed on the head CT the whole time without blinking.

"The image looks a bit strange."

"Well, the local hospital judged it as an intracranial tumor. But because of liver issues, they suggested coming to Di Du to first control liver function, resolve the cirrhosis and ascites, then perform intracranial surgery or gamma knife therapy."

"I don't think it looks like that either." Zheng Ren mentally reconstructed the image; radiologically, there is a possibility of malignant tumor, but after reconstruction he found that the intracranial changes in the patient should be abnormal signals caused by cerebral edema.

"There really is a problem, Boss Zheng; come take a look." Director Kong then also hung up the liver CT.

The two family members were stunned for a moment.

They were introduced by an acquaintance to see Director Kong for the images. They had heard beforehand that Director Kong specialized in imaging, his image-reading skills were extremely high, especially adept at various difficult and complex cases. Moreover, his treatment of cirrhosis and ascites was also excellent.

The person who introduced them knows the medical field well; likely an insider.

But… why would Director Kong have a junior doctor look at the images and give a diagnosis? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Or does Di Du have special rules?

Really hard to understand.

A junior doctor who couldn't make sense of the image sought help from the white-haired senior director. The senior director stepped in, took a glance, and immediately knew what the disease was.

Now that makes sense.

Having a junior doctor "take a look" is too far-fetched and perfunctory.

"Director Kong, there's a problem here." Zheng Ren, accustomed to discussing cases with Director Kong, without worrying about the family's doubts, took out a pen from his coat pocket, pointed to the image on the viewer, and said.

"I think the same; the density is off, I suspect it's due to cerebral edema." Director Kong pondered: "But the appearance of this kind of cerebral edema on imaging resembles a space-occupying lesion, which is rare."

"The liver shows changes, and the kidneys also have some alterations; the patient needs further tests for a definite diagnosis." Zheng Ren frowned, looked at the images for a few minutes, and then said slowly.

"Not a tumor?!" The family members were stunned and asked.

"No, it's another kind of disease."

"What disease?" The family members asked, dazed.

Before coming, they had visited many hospitals, each diagnosing an intracranial malignant tumor. Only the treatment order and methods differed; they couldn't decide, so they wanted Director Kong to take a look and give advice.

But they never expected that after coming to room 912, the entire diagnosis would be overturned.

This… is it reliable?

"I suspect it's galactosemia, which is usually seen in infants and young children. This patient's galactosemia is mild, so it only manifested in adulthood." Zheng Ren said, "Director Kong, what do you think?"

"An intracranial tumor can likely be ruled out, but we need a 3D reconstruction to be certain." Director Kong, being experienced, was still unsure about diagnosing this disease, and explained following the standard procedure.

The office fell silent.

Regardless, Director Kong and Zheng Ren reached a unanimous judgment—the intracranial malignant tumor was a misdiagnosis; they concluded it was due to cerebral edema.

After the family members felt happy and excited, they were somewhat at a loss.

Not being a malignant tumor is fantastic! Although truth is held by few, many experts and professors said it was a malignant tumor, yet room 912 directly denied it—so is it or isn't it?

Zheng Ren and Director Kong discussed a few points, wrote a bunch of things on an A4 sheet with a pen, and handed it to the family.

"These are the tests that need to be done; hurry up and get them." Zheng Ren said: "The results come back quickly. Let's keep in touch via WeChat; when you get a test done, send me one so I can take a look."

"Huh?" The family members exclaimed in surprise.

Doctors in Di Du are all aloof and detached; how come this young man is so enthusiastic?

Actually, they're not aloof; seeing over a hundred patients a day, each gets only about five minutes on average—who has time to chat more?

That's why they appear aloof.

And this young man is obviously quite idle, actually saying he'd give the same result for them to look at.

Really unreliable—the patient's family instantly lowered their opinion of Zheng Ren a lot, and even the little respect left was almost gone.