University Doctor and His Fragile Patients-Chapter 272 - 234: I Told You to Take Calcium, and You Ended Up with Kidney Stones? (Part 2)

White lab coats: "!!!!"

Speaking of which.

The boy felt even more wronged!

Tears started falling in big drops again.

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"Crying like a baby! He's cried twice in such a short time, this dude's really feeling it!"

"Wouldn't you feel wronged? He's been sick for over a month, finally finds a place to see a doctor, and still can't get an appointment!"

"It's bad enough not being able to get in line, and then Dr. Chen has a go at him for not being eager enough to get treated! Hahaha!!!!"

"Honestly though, Hai City's university hospital was strangely hectic yesterday, full of ICU cases. Compared to that, his isn't really an emergency?!"

"Dr. Chen, please take a look at the kid. If he continues not being able to pee, he's going to lose it!"

"..."

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Chen Mu watched as the boy sobbed, almost out of breath. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

He helplessly looked at the interns around him.

If it were a female student, he would definitely soothe her emotions gently.

But seeing a young man crying uncontrollably in the campus hospital room...

Chen Mu rarely encountered such situations and wasn't sure how to handle them well.

Most of the male interns, witnessing this scene, reacted much like Chen Mu, looking a bit lost and unsure.

Ironically, it was a female doctor with a cute fringe who stepped forward to the boy.

"Do you have your ID card or health insurance card with you, classmate?"

"You've queued at the small hospital for three whole days. You should know that with the foot traffic here at the campus hospital, if you take more time crying and delaying,"

"You might not get treated at all..."

Chen Mu: "???"

He instinctively wanted to tell the girl to stop trying to comfort people.

Was that supposed to be comforting?

Isn't that scary?

How could the boy possibly...

Just as this thought crossed Chen Mu's mind,

The boy, choking up, walked over to Chen Mu.

Handing his ID card to Chen Mu.

Chen Mu: "..."

Well then.

Turns out this way of handling it really worked?

Chen Mu silently took the boy's ID card.

"Cheng Qian."

Chen Mu glanced at the name on the computer screen.

He tapped the hand rest in front of him, "Place your hand here, I'll take your pulse."

Cheng Qian obediently placed his hand on it.

A student from Hai City Medical University, who was there yesterday, curiously looked at the hand rest in front of Chen Mu and couldn't help asking, "Dr. Chen, his situation sounds a bit like kidney stones."

"Can you find kidney stones just by taking the pulse in Chinese medicine?"

Chen Mu hadn't responded yet.

A student from Hai City University of Traditional Medicine couldn't resist saying, "No matter how brilliant Chinese medicine is, it can't detect kidney stones through pulse-taking!"

"Then why doesn't Dr. Chen just send him for a CT scan? Anyway, pulse-taking won't reveal much?"

"What if it isn't kidney stones? Dr. Chen might find something else through pulse-taking!"

"I believe Dr. Chen is an exceptional doctor."

"Looking at this student's situation, what he really needs is not Dr. Chen's pulse reading, but a CT scan."

While they were still debating.

Chen Mu withdrew his hand that had been taking Cheng Qian's pulse.

Without even giving his diagnosis, he couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Chen Mu: "Cheng Qian, do you have a long-term habit of taking calcium supplements?"

As Cheng Qian nodded.

The voices of medical students behind Chen Mu started buzzing.

"Can you even tell if someone has been taking calcium supplements through pulse-taking?"

"Of course! That's the magic of Chinese medicine!"

"Why are you so proud? Do you have this skill too?"

"I don't have it now, but I believe with long-term study, I can one day tell through pulse-taking too!"

"Honestly, if every doctor had this magical pulse-taking skill, it would save a lot of unnecessary detours in diagnosis!"

"The problem is... with pulse-taking, even those of us who attend traditional Chinese medicine college don't necessarily learn it well."

"At this age, achieving what Dr. Chen has, mostly comes from family lineage medical training since childhood..."

"Didn't you just say that your future self would definitely manage it?"

"Yes, my future self will definitely manage it!"

Chen Mu ignored the rising voices behind him.

He looked at Cheng Qian seated in front of him.

Sighing, he continued, "From your pulse condition, it seems like you've been continuously taking calcium supplements for about five years. How many years exactly?"

Cheng Qian looked at Chen Mu with eyes full of awe, as if seeing an Immortal.

He gave Chen Mu a thumbs-up, "Dr. Chen, you're truly amazing!"

"I've been taking calcium supplements for about a decade..."

Chen Mu nearly thought he misheard, staring at Cheng Qian incredulously, "How many years did you say you've been taking them?"

Cheng Qian: "A decade!"

Chen Mu: "Were there any breaks in between?"

Cheng Qian was earnest: "Ten continuous years."

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"Brothers, the medical students are already dumbfounded..."

"I only have one thought in my mind right now, Hai City University is truly efficient!"

"I don't quite understand why everyone's so shocked in the comments, isn't taking calcium supplements quite normal?"

"Taking calcium supplements is fine when you're deficient, but blindly supplementing when not can lead to an excess of calcium in the body!"

"Simply put, an excess of calcium can cause health issues. If the body isn't strong enough, it could even be fatal..."

"Honestly, Cheng Qian was truly modest earlier. With his decade-long calcium intake history, he could totally skip the queue at the campus hospital."

"..."

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Chen Mu momentarily fell silent.

He felt his scalp tingle slightly due to Cheng Qian's words.

If it weren't for the live stream at the moment.

There were things inappropriate to say on such occasions.

He really wanted to know, on the grounds of Hai City University, is there some kind of mystical explanation?

How does he always stumble upon such miraculous patients at the campus hospital?

Chen Mu gathered his thoughts before speaking, "Why did you start taking calcium supplements over a decade ago? Was it recommended by a doctor?"

"Did the doctor who suggested taking calcium supplements not advise you to come back for follow-up checks after taking them for a certain period?"

Cheng Qian shook his head: "I didn't see a doctor before starting calcium supplements."

Chen Mu: "..."

Cheng Qian: "About when I first entered primary school, my mom and I passed by a pharmacy. My mom saw there was a promotion, buying medicine and getting free eggs, so she stopped in."

Chen Mu opened his mouth: "That's quite ahead of its time."

He had only seen such buy-medicine-get-eggs type of promotions after the prevalence of electronic payments on Zhihu.

Didn't expect it to exist over a decade ago.

Cheng Qian nodded: "Yeah, we're from Shanghai, a legitimate first-tier big city."

"Originally, my mom just wanted to buy some common household medicine, but while she was about to pay, she casually asked the pharmacist if there was something I should take because I was a bit shorter than my peers."

"Back then, that pharmacist was very enthusiastic, recommending my mom buy liquid calcium for me."

Upon hearing liquid calcium, Chen Mu instinctively commented: "Was it in a blue bottle?"

Cheng Qian continued nodding: "Yeah, it's the one made famous by TV ads."

"At that time, I drank it for about two months, and I did grow two centimeters taller."

"Seeing it worked, my mom just let me keep drinking it."

Chen Mu recalled the image of Cheng Qian when he first came in.

Calcium supplementation might have some effect, as Cheng Qian is quite tall indeed.

But then...

Chen Mu looked again at Cheng Qian before him.

He couldn't resist asking further, "You're in college now, already eighteen years old..."

"Is it really necessary to keep drinking liquid calcium just for height?"

Cheng Qian confidently replied, "But I'm used to it! Now I can't sleep unless I drink a bottle of liquid calcium before bed!"