Check-in at the Hospital: The First Surgery Shocked the Nation!-Chapter 135 - 99: The Girls Who Love Japanese Food—Were They Duped?

Chapter 135: Chapter 99: The Girls Who Love Japanese Food—Were They Duped?

The ambulance stopped at the entrance of the restaurant, and the door opened.

Two nurses jumped out of the vehicle with a stretcher, followed closely by a familiar figure, Zhao Yitian.

"Dr. Zhao."

Qin Feng called out to him with a smile.

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Zhao Yitian looked up, his face immediately lighting up with surprise.

"Director Qin? What are you doing here? I’ll save the patient first, we can chat back at the hospital."

After saying this, he squeezed through the crowd with the nurses, shouting,

"Who called the emergency number? Where’s the patient?"

"Uh, uh, it was me."

A middle-aged woman quickly stepped forward, pointing at the old lady who was gasping heavily,

"It was my mom who just choked and couldn’t breathe, so I called the emergency line. She’s already coughed it up."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Zhao Yitian paused momentarily, then proceeded with the nurses to place the old lady on the stretcher for an examination.

"It was him! He just broke two of our grandma’s ribs!"

At this moment, the middle-aged man from before immediately stepped forward and pointed at Qin Feng.

Zhao Yitian ignored him and continued to examine and ask questions while pressing.

After the examination, it became clear that there was some damage between her ribs, as the elderly woman winced visibly when pressure was applied.

"Hey, are you listening to me?"

The man walked over and said to Zhao Yitian.

He stood up and sized up the man.

"And you are?"

"I’m her son!"

Hearing this, the man immediately spoke with more confidence.

"If it weren’t for Director Qin’s timely Heimlich maneuver, the patient might not have made it."

Zhao Yitian said sternly,

"You should thank him; two broken ribs or a life lost, which do you think is worse?"

"Hey, what are you talking about?"

The man couldn’t help but become anxious upon hearing his words, "But he broke my mom’s ribs, how do we account for that?"

Hearing this, Qin Feng decided not to say anything more.

He stepped forward and addressed the middle-aged woman and the man,

"I’m Qin Feng, the director of the transplant center at the First City Hospital. Take the elderly lady to get examined, and report any issues directly to the hospital."

"Yitian, take them in the vehicle back to the hospital and arrange a chest CT for the patient."

"Understood!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yitian nodded and said no more.

Instead, some onlookers in the crowd began to exclaim.

"Qin Feng! He’s Director Qin from the First City Hospital? My goodness!"

"Make way, make way! Don’t block the road!"

"I recognized him earlier but didn’t dare to approach, ahhh!"

"Please step aside up front, make way, make way."

...

As soon as the words fell, people started surging forward with excitement.

At this moment, a slightly chubby middle-aged man in a casual T-shirt pushed past the man in front and hurriedly walked up to him.

"Director Qin, it’s an honor!"

"I’m the vice chairman of Hengfeng Construction Company in Jiangcheng, here’s my business card, please accept it."

"Hello, Director Qin, I’m the general manager of the Jiangcheng branch of Kaiyuan Design Group. It’s truly a pleasure to meet you!"

...

Voices quickly disrupted the previously tense atmosphere, and the old lady’s son was just in shock.

He dabbled in small business himself, never leaving Jiangcheng, but he knew those names very well!

All these people eagerly handing out their business cards to Qin Feng were influential business figures in Jiangcheng; he might never meet them in his lifetime.

Yet now, they were all being courteous to Qin Feng, and appeared quite respectful.

It was simply bewildering!

A group of men in their thirties to fifties was speaking softly to this handsome young man in his twenties, it was unbelievable.

"President Sun, you’re here too?"

At this point, a man in a sharp suit emerged from among the old lady’s relatives and walked over joyfully to the chubby man handing out business cards to Qin Feng.

"Old Yao? You’re here too? Weren’t you in Jiangning?"

The chubby man turned to look and laughed.

"Well, it’s my mother-in-law’s 60th birthday, so I came back."

"So this guy is your relative?"

Hearing this, the chubby man looked at the middle-aged man who had just confronted Qin Feng, his face turning odd.

"Uh, he’s my wife’s brother, a bit unrefined."

The man in the suit looked embarrassed, quickly explaining.

"Old Yao, you should manage him better when you get back; you can’t have relatives like this, they’ll just bring trouble sooner or later."

The chubby man shook his head and said mockingly, not sparing him any face in front of everyone.

Upon hearing this, the relatives of the old lady were all stunned.

After speaking, the chubby man exchanged a few polite words with Qin Feng and left with a beautiful woman.

The family was left standing awkwardly in place.

"Who among the family is riding with us? Hurry up and go!"

At this time, Zhao Yitian leaned out from the ambulance and shouted loudly.

Only then did everyone remember the old lady was still in the vehicle!

....

As the commotion ended, Qin Feng looked at the extra business cards in his hand and exchanged a helpless glance with Liu Yan’Er.

"Let’s go bring a meal to our mom."

"What do you mean ’our mom’? That’s my mom! Hmph!"

Just as they were about to step away, the floor manager rushed out.

"Director Qin, Director Qin!

Thank you for your help just now. We don’t have much to offer in gratitude, here’s a free meal card. Next time you come, all expenses will be on us as a small token of appreciation."

Seeing the manager’s sincere smile and attitude, Qin Feng nodded and accepted it.

A free meal?

Why not? No reason to refuse!

"Thank you, manager."

"No need to thank me, it’s what we should do. Take care."

Amid warm farewells, Qin Feng finally left.

Glancing at the time on his watch, he suddenly felt his eyelid twitch, quickly saying to Liu Yan’Er, "Hurry, hurry, call your mom and tell her not to cook."

"Huh? Oh, oh, oh, oh!"

Liu Yan’Er, realizing it, quickly took out her phone and called Chen Yuanfang.

...

The next day,

Qin Feng arrived at the emergency department. Today, Zhou Xianren had taken leave for an out-of-town trip, and Chen Yuanfang was in the city for a meeting, leaving no senior staff in the emergency department.

So Director Zhou pulled him in to help cover the morning shift.

Perhaps due to it being a Saturday, the emergency room was busy today, but fortunately, there were no major cases. So Qin Feng settled in one of the consultation rooms to help with the influx of patients.

Around 10 o’clock, two girls walked in.

One girl was supporting the other, who was holding her stomach in apparent pain.

As soon as the two girls saw Qin Feng, their eyes lit up with the same glow.

Wow!

So handsome!

"Sit down first, where does it hurt?"

"Doctor, my stomach hurts, and I also have a slight fever."

"Stomach pain? What kind of pain is it?"

Hearing this, Qin Feng looked at the girl and asked.

"It’s like my whole stomach hurts, sometimes mildly, sometimes intensely."

"Lie down, and I’ll check you."

With that, the girl lay down on the bed next to her, and Qin Feng checked her while asking questions.

But after the examination, he didn’t find any obvious abnormalities, and there were no special hard lumps in the abdomen, essentially ruling out bowel obstruction and similar conditions.

He inquired briefly about diet and found nothing out of the ordinary.

He held the girl’s hand, took her pulse with three fingers, and began a diagnosis.

Suddenly, he frowned. This pulse seemed quite abnormal—noticeably fast and weak with irregularities, mainly concentrated around the stomach.

Could it be acute gastroenteritis?

"Alright, get a complete blood count first. I need to evaluate the condition."

He then gave her a slip to get tested.

But he felt something was off because the pulse was strangely erratic, not like a typical pain response.

When the blood test results came back, they showed a significant increase in white blood cells and eosinophils.

These were consistent with symptoms of acute gastroenteritis!

"Have you had stomach pain before?"

Qin Feng put down the report and continued to ask.

The girl shook her head to indicate no.

"Alright, I’ll prescribe some medicine, then you can get an IV drip afterward."

Qin Feng began to enter the prescription in the computer,

"If there’s an issue, we can do further tests, or you can get an abdominal CT now to rule things out."

"Let’s start with the medicine first."

The girl thought for a moment, then looked at Qin Feng and decided to take the medication first.

She then took the slip to pay, got the medicine, returned to the clinic to take it, and went for the IV drip.

An hour later,

suddenly another girl rushed in anxiously.

"Doctor! Doctor! My friend isn’t okay! Please come quickly!"

"Let’s go!"

Upon hearing her words, Qin Feng didn’t hesitate for a second and rushed towards the infusion hall.

As soon as he pushed open the door, he saw the girl who had stomach pain curled up like a shrimp ball, shaking all over in pain and repeatedly crying out.

"Nurse! Bring over a stretcher!"

He immediately shouted outside, frowning slightly.

This shouldn’t be just simple gastroenteritis!

Soon, the girl received a painkiller injection and was wheeled into the CT room.

It was quite busy in the emergency room, so there was a line at the CT entrance. Qin Feng personally arranged a priority check.

Five minutes after the scan, he got the images.

The CT results showed multiple lesions around the liver.

And in the images, the clusters and speckles of dark spots made Qin Feng’s heart tighten.

This is... parasites!

And quite a few, all of them cysts.

"Have you eaten anything raw or cold recently?"

Qin Feng immediately asked the girl.

"We usually like eating sashimi and other Japanese foods, so we often buy salmon, tuna, and the like to eat."

...

Hearing this answer, Qin Feng could almost be sure.

"Doctor, what’s wrong with me?"

The girl with stomach pain grasped his hand nervously and asked.

"You’ve got a parasitic infection, and there are quite a few of them."

He then placed the CT image in front of the girl to show her.

In an instant, the girl’s face turned pale with terror, and the girl accompanying her trembled in fear as well.

"Doc... Doctor, I eat with her sometimes when we’re... um, I won’t have them too, will I?"

"You ate them too?"

Qin Feng looked at the girl beside her with a serious expression,

"I’ll give you a slip as well to get an abdominal CT for confirmation."

Back in the clinic,

he immediately typed rapidly on the computer while the two girls sat together, holding hands tightly and starting to sob.

"Don’t cry yet; go for a parasite antibody ELISA test, and you should get a CT as well."

After saying that, each girl took their slip and hurried for blood draws and scans.

When they returned, Qin Feng reviewed both reports and was momentarily speechless.

The girl with stomach pain had practically every type of parasite in her body.

Taenia solium, liver fluke, schistosoma japonicum, sparganum, all positive!

Qin Feng was shocked—how much raw food must one eat to end up like this?

Or could their so-called salmon and tuna have been stored too long or not even be those fish at all!

"Do you have pictures of the salmon you ate?"

A thought struck Qin Feng, and he looked at the two and asked.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

The two girls paused, then quickly pulled out their phones to find photos of previous salmon meals and showed them to him flusteredly.

"Look."

As they said this, they flipped through the photos for him.

"Stop!"

When the slideshow reached the 7th photo, Qin Feng suddenly spoke up to stop them, and pointed at the fish in the picture,

"Are you sure what you ate was salmon?"

"Yes, when we either go to Japanese food places or buy from supermarkets, it’s labeled as salmon."

The girl was puzzled by the question.

Hearing this, Qin Feng couldn’t help but shake his head with a bitter smile and showed them the phone.

"This piece here isn’t salmon at all, but the flesh of freshwater rainbow trout."

He then began to explain to the two,

"Salmon has a high fat content, its flesh has an orange-yellow hue, with more distinct white marbling and wider, more blurred edges.

However, rainbow trout have less fat, finer lines, and hardened edges, which means the red and white colors are distinct, and there are significant differences in taste and smell between the two.

Most importantly, rainbow trout are freshwater fish and shouldn’t be eaten raw, or else the likelihood of parasite infection is high!

Look, this one here is salmon, but the edges of the meat have darkened, it’s been stored for too long..."

After some explanation, the two girls looked at each other, feeling chills down their spines.

So the salmon they’ve been eating all along was a lie?