"What happened?" the on-duty doctor hurried out of the consultation room.
He found a middle-aged couple standing in the lobby of the outpatient department. In the arms of the middle-aged man was an elderly woman.
"Doctor, doctor, please save my mother!" the middle-aged man said, rushing the old woman to the doctor.
The two doctors who had come out of the consultation room frowned slightly at the sight and asked, "What's the situation?"
The middle-aged man explained anxiously, "We're not sure. My mother was fine last night, but suddenly she started vomiting. Then she said she had a headache, and then she collapsed on the ground."
The doctors observed the elderly woman in the middle-aged man's arms and saw that her vital signs were very unstable. They quickly said, "You shouldn't have brought the patient here. This is a psychiatric hospital. You should take the patient to a major hospital immediately."
"Aren't you all doctors? How can you not save people? I'm telling you, if you can't cure my mother-in-law, I'll sue you!" the middle-aged woman beside him snapped at the two doctors.
"We are doctors, but this is a psychiatric hospital. Your mother's condition is very serious, and our hospital cannot treat it. Staying here will only delay the patient's precious treatment time," the doctor explained patiently.
"Honey, I think this doctor makes sense. Why don't we take Mom to another big hospital?" the middle-aged man asked his wife.
"Can't you hear them shirking responsibility? Believe me, in Mom's current condition, even if we go to another hospital, they'll find a way to send us away. Hospitals are all like this. Don't listen to them. Let them treat Mom. They'll definitely have a way!" the middle-aged woman retorted coldly.
The middle-aged man had no choice but to look at the two doctors again. "Doctors, please think of a way. I beg you, save my mother!"
Saying this, the middle-aged man, holding the old woman, was about to kneel on the ground.
The two doctors were stunned and quickly helped him up.
This was the first time they had encountered such a situation. Patients with this kind of illness were not something their psychiatric hospital could handle.
"Don't try to shirk responsibility. I'm telling you, if anything happens to my mother here today, you'll be in big trouble!" the middle-aged woman threatened, appearing unreasonable.
The two doctors were speechless, wondering why this middle-aged woman was so insistent on their psychiatric hospital. Everyone knew that psychiatric hospitals were specialized hospitals. It was like going to a proctology clinic for a stroke; the specialization was wrong, so how could they treat it?!
"Let me take a look." However, at this moment, Chen Fan's voice suddenly sounded at the consultation room door.
"Dr. Chen!" Seeing Chen Fan come out, one of the doctors quickly walked up to him.
He whispered to Chen Fan, "Dr. Chen, this patient is in critical condition. Hurry up and send them to another hospital. It's best if we don't take this case."
"Let me see the situation first." Chen Fan nodded slightly, understanding that this was a kind reminder.
He approached the middle-aged man and asked him to place the elderly woman on a stretcher. He then used a flashlight to examine the old woman's pupils.
However, at this moment, the old woman suddenly began to convulse, foaming at the mouth, and her body arched backward like a bow.
"Mom, Mom! What's wrong!" the middle-aged man frantically grabbed his mother's hand, his face full of anxiety.
Seeing this, Chen Fan's brow furrowed slightly. He looked at the middle-aged man and asked, "What did your mother eat tonight?"
The middle-aged man shook his head. "I don't know. I just got home and saw my mother like this. My wife ate with my mother tonight."
Then, Chen Fan and the middle-aged man both looked at the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman's expression was clearly flustered. "Why are you asking this? Whatever I ate, my mother ate. We ate the same thing, and I'm fine, so it's definitely not a food issue."
"Are you capable or not? Are you a doctor? You're so young, and you're not even wearing a white coat. Does your hospital have no other doctors?" the middle-aged woman then picked on Chen Fan.
"Madam, this is indeed a psychiatric hospital. You should go to another hospital as soon as possible," the previous doctor reminded them again.
"Hmph, you're just trying to shirk responsibility. If anything happens to my mother on the way, who will be responsible!" the middle-aged woman questioned coldly.
"This!"
The two doctors were speechless.
They didn't know if this woman was afraid of her mother-in-law getting into trouble or not.
With Chen Fan's eyesight, he could naturally detect the flicker of panic in the middle-aged woman's eyes. He frowned slightly, held his breath, and looked at the old woman's body.
Chen Fan carefully examined the old woman's stomach and found a lot of undigested food inside. There were also many tiny black particles.
"This is..." After thinking for a moment, Chen Fan realized that the black particles looked very much like something: apple seeds.
Moreover, the number of these particles was large, not like the quantity from one or two apples.
This made Chen Fan a little confused. How could an old woman with almost no teeth eat so many apples in such a short time? It was simply impossible.
Chen Fan put on sterile gloves, pried open the old woman's mouth, and shone a flashlight into her oral cavity for a moment.
"Dr. Wang, please get a cyanide test strip and test the cyanide levels in the old woman's mouth."
"Dr. Zhao, please get some potassium permanganate and mix it with water at a ratio of 1:5000 to prepare for gastric lavage for the old woman."
Chen Fan instructed the two doctors.
"Dr. Chen, but..." The two were still hesitant.
"We are all doctors. Our priority is to save lives," Chen Fan said earnestly.
"Alright!" Hearing this, the two nodded and went to prepare separately.
"What do you mean by this? Why are you going to lavage my mother's stomach? Are you suspecting that I poisoned my mother? You're just a kid who hasn't even grown a beard. Do you know how to treat people? Hurry up and call other doctors from your hospital!" The middle-aged woman's expression became even more nervous upon hearing about gastric lavage.
"Wife, let's listen to the doctor," the middle-aged man said softly.
"Wang Dagui, you ungrateful wretch! What do you mean? You think I poisoned our mother too!" the middle-aged woman yelled, pointing at her husband's nose.
"Wife, I see how you treat my mother. How could I think you would poison her?" Wang Dagui quickly explained.
"Then why are you letting him lavage our mother? If this gets out to the village, how will I live? I might as well just hit my head against the wall and die!" As the middle-aged woman spoke, she started crying and even made a move to smash her head against the wall, scaring Wang Dagui into holding her. Da Feng Novel Network
[Author's Note]
The author has a cold today and is feeling very unwell, so the update is a bit late. I apologize to all the readers and would appreciate it if you could leave a good review. Thank you for your support!