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 ti, 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 appointnt!"
"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 ergency?!"
"Dr. Chen, please take a look at the kid. If he continues not being able to pee, he's going to lose it!"
"..."
—
Chen Mu watched as the boy sobbed, almost out of breath.
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 ti 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 na 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 dical 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 dicine?"
Chen Mu hadn't responded yet.
A student from Hai City University of Traditional dicine couldn't resist saying, "No matter how brilliant Chinese dicine 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 sothing 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 supplents?"
As Cheng Qian nodded.
The voices of dical students behind Chen Mu started buzzing.
"Can you even tell if soone has been taking calcium supplents through pulse-taking?"
"Of course! That's the magic of Chinese dicine!"
"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 dicine college don't necessarily learn it well."
"At this age, achieving what Dr. Chen has, mostly cos from family lineage dical 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 supplents 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 supplents 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 dical 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 comnts, isn't taking calcium supplents quite normal?"
"Taking calcium supplents is fine when you're deficient, but blindly supplenting 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."
"..."
—
Chen Mu montarily fell silent.
He felt his scalp tingle slightly due to Cheng Qian's words.
If it weren't for the live stream at the mont.
There were things inappropriate to say on such occasions.
He really wanted to know, on the grounds of Hai City University, is there so 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 supplents over a decade ago? Was it recomnded by a doctor?"
"Did the doctor who suggested taking calcium supplents not advise you to co 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 supplents."
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 dicine and getting free eggs, so she stopped in."
Chen Mu opened his mouth: "That's quite ahead of its ti."
He had only seen such buy-dicine-get-eggs type of promotions after the prevalence of electronic paynts 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 so common household dicine, but while she was about to pay, she casually asked the pharmacist if there was sothing I should take because I was a bit shorter than my peers."
"Back then, that pharmacist was very enthusiastic, recomnding my mom buy liquid calcium for ."
Upon hearing liquid calcium, Chen Mu instinctively comnted: "Was it in a blue bottle?"
Cheng Qian continued nodding: "Yeah, it's the one made famous by TV ads."
"At that ti, I drank it for about two months, and I did grow two centiters taller."
"Seeing it worked, my mom just let keep drinking it."
Chen Mu recalled the image of Cheng Qian when he first ca in.
Calcium supplentation might have so 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!"
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