University Doctor and His Fragile Patients-Chapter 267 - 231: For This Disease, It’s Better to Err on the Side of Caution!

Secretary Lu was shouting complaints over there for quite a while.

Chen Mu awkwardly shrank his neck, cautiously asked in a low voice, "Secretary..."

Secretary Lu: "Yes."

Chen Mu: "It's really urgent, how about saying a little less?"

Secretary Lu: "Take the people to the school gate now, I'll wait for you with the bus at the school gate!"

Listening to the "beep beep" of the phone being hung up on the other side.

Chen Mu felt a bit awkward.

He walked towards the already queued-up college students.

Su Bingbing, who finished the call, followed behind Chen Mu.

Seeing the long line of college students, she couldn't help but question, "Dr. Chen, the boy just now looked really scary, but..."

Su Bingbing pointed to the boy still in a frenzy over there, "The security guys moved pretty quickly, could that kid really have hurt so many people in such a short time?"

—

"My wife! She's literally echoing my thoughts!"

"That kid, though he was running about wildly, didn't seem purposeful, could he really cause such large-scale harm?"

"Medical students are already numb, yesterday with Che Liang's case, the professor asked us to write a paper, and today's Hyperman Syndrome, we have to write another paper???"

"We might have the same professor, does he think we're computers, just demand a paper and we can produce it?"

"Don't think I'm old and don't watch bullet comments! The two of you playing on your phones below!"

"!!!"

"Professor, we'll write the paper right now! Your teachings are etched in our minds!"

"..."

—

Chen Mu shook his head with a wry smile: "How could it really cause such a large-scale injury?"

Su Bingbing frowned: "Then..."

Chen Mu pointed to the boy still screaming over there: "Fear of water, red eyes, no rationality."

"Ninety-nine percent, it's rabies."

Hearing this probability, Su Bingbing involuntarily took a sharp breath: "Ninety-nine percent, how is that different from a hundred percent?!"

Chen Mu pointed to the college students still queuing.

"These kids are clumsy every day, many of the wounds on them, they probably got by accidentally bumping into something."

Su Bingbing: "Yet you still let so many..."

Chen Mu sighed: "But Reporter Su, don't forget, rabies has a one hundred percent fatality rate, and with the current level of medical technology, it's incurable."

Su Bingbing: "..."

Chen Mu: "So for the school now, it's better to be safe than sorry."

"Every student who witnessed the commotion, even if they have only the smallest, immediately healable external wound!"

"They must get vaccinated!"

Su Bingbing opened her mouth.

This time, she didn't say anything, but handed her phone to Chen Mu.

"Dr. Chen, my phone doesn't have a password, the emergency center will probably call me once they reach the school."

"I'll take these students to the school gate, you wait here for the ambulance?"

Chen Mu nodded, "Alright."

—

"Doctor, what do you mean by the one hundred percent fatality rate you mentioned earlier?"

"Is my grandson's rabies incurable?"

"That's not right!!!"

The older lady was in tears, clutching her hair, looking like she'd lost it, "If anything happens to my child, I'll make the family who owns the dog pay..."

Chen Mu frowned, "Was your child bitten by a dog kept in your neighborhood?"

The older lady nodded.

Chen Mu: "Do you have contact details for the family that owns the dog?"

The older lady, tears streaming down,

picked up her phone and quickly dialed a number.

Just as the phone connected.

The older lady started wailing, "You shameless little xx, your dog..."

As soon as the older lady spoke.

The person on the other side of the phone exploded, "My dog is dead! Rabies! Are you happy now!"

The dog is dead!

Rabies?!

The usually fierce older lady looked like she lost her soul, collapsing to the ground.

She stared blankly ahead.

Chen Mu sighed, picked up the phone on the ground, "Hello, I'm a doctor."

"You just mentioned that your dog passed away, was it finally confirmed to be rabies?"

Hearing that it wasn't the older lady's voice.

The voice on the other side of the phone became noticeably more polite, "Hello, doctor..."

Speaking about their dog, the person also choked up a bit, "When we later examined the body, we found my dog had wounds, should have been bitten by another dog, but we didn't notice in time."

Chen Mu: "My condolences..."

Chen Mu: "The reason I'm calling you is this, the grandson of this lady is now showing symptoms of rabies!"

As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking.

The person on the other side of the phone exploded, "Even if her grandson has rabies, it has nothing to do with us!"

"Absolutely nothing!"

Hearing this.

The older lady immediately wanted to rush up and argue with the other person, Chen Mu held her phone, deftly avoiding the older lady's attempts to grab it back: "Why do you say that?"

"We're very sorry about the dog biting incident."

"We paid compensation at the time, for the rabies vaccine fee, treatment fee, guardian's lost work time, the child's nutrition fee, mental distress fee..."

"All these miscellaneous fees added up, we paid thirty thousand yuan!"

Chen Mu: "..."

The person on the other side of the phone continued, "The original transfer was done at the police station, the officer on duty at the time can testify for us, we also have the receipt signed and fingerprinted by their family."

—

"???"

"If you look at it this way, it's not the dog owner's fault, thirty thousand yuan is more than enough to get twenty rabies vaccines..."

"Took their money but couldn't bear to get their own child a rabies vaccination?"

"If something really happens to this kid, his own family would be the biggest culprits!"

"When the call connected earlier, the aunt was even preparing to demand an explanation from them, how shameless!"

"..."

—

Even though earlier he had seen the aunt looking a bit guilty.

But hearing what the other side said, Chen Mu couldn't help but gasp.

That sentence.

How does it go again?

In many cases,

Ignorance,

Can truly kill, even those closest and dearest to you.

Chen Mu: "I'm just a doctor, thank you for cooperating with me to understand the patient's condition. Now that everything is clear, I won't disturb you any further."

"I think I'll head to the police station again, just in case this family tries to extort..."

"Doctor, goodbye, goodbye!"

The person on the other end hurriedly hung up the phone.

Chen Mu squatted down.

Staring directly at the aunt on the ground, who was crying almost to the point of fainting.

At this moment,

Or at least at this moment,

Chen Mu truly couldn't understand what the patient's family was thinking.

"Miss, after taking their medical compensation, why didn't you take the child for the vaccine?"

The aunt, sobbing uncontrollably: "In our village before, children being bitten by dogs wasn't unheard of..."

Hearing this familiar beginning,

Chen Mu felt a twinge in his mind and instinctively said, "After being bitten by a dog, going to the dog's owner's pickling jar to get pickles?"

The aunt's eyes lit up: "Doctor! You've heard of this too?"

"Then our village's traditional remedy should be effective!"

Chen Mu: "..."

—

"No way, eating pickles cures rabies, where did this folk remedy come from?"

"The parent of that student the other day also mentioned this remedy, don't know if they got the child vaccinated..."

"Trembling with anger, and yet they still have the nerve to cry!"

"The fear is that they might later sue the dog owner's family..."

"They've already compensated! Thirty thousand yuan, what rabies vaccine isn't affordable with that?!"

"..."

—

Chen Mu rubbed his aching forehead: "With your grandson's situation now, do you think your folk remedy is effective?"

"Forget about these things, quickly call the child's parents, and meet directly at the hospital later."

As Chen Mu was speaking,

Su Bingbing's phone rang.

The ambulance had arrived.

Chen Mu asked the students who hadn't left the scene to help watch over the aunt and her little grandson, making sure they didn't leave the scene.

Then he hurried off to meet the emergency personnel.

With effective communication beforehand,

The emergency personnel pushed the bed directly inside.

The team donned gloves and protective gear to prevent being scratched by the rabies patient.

Once the person was secured on the bed,

They promptly administered a sedative to the patient.

After sending the aunt and her party onto the ambulance, Chen Mu turned around and rushed to the school clinic without delay.

Joking aside...

A whole busload of patients needing rabies vaccines.

From then on,

Just writing the school hospital referral forms could leave him with a tired hand.

Sighing,

He once again deeply felt that being a school doctor is a truly overwhelming job.

—

Upon entering the school clinic,

Chen Mu saw several medical students from the traditional medicine college, eagerly surrounding a girl and discussing.

"A case of facial paralysis, only ever seen in books; it's my first time seeing it in real life!"

"Classmate, facial paralysis can be treated with acupuncture, why not nod, and I'll give you a couple of needles?"

"Get outta here! With your half-baked skills, one needle could turn facial paralysis into partial paralysis!"

"Indeed, meet some lousy skill and it might even turn from partial paralysis to full paralysis!"

Listening to their discussion,

The girl surrounded in the center shivered,

Desperately trying to distance herself from these intern doctors.

Even though she already had facial paralysis,

Chen Mu, from the doorway, could still see the girl's eyes showing a teary, helpless look.

Girl: "Actually... I think facial paralysis is kinda cool, maybe I won't treat it after all..."

Right now, she only had facial paralysis.

If this group actually gave her a few needle treatments and turned it into partial paralysis,

Her whole life would be ruined!

Hearing the patient's refusal, the intern doctors kept voicing their opinions.

"Classmate, perhaps you don't fully understand the risks of facial paralysis, let me educate you on its drawbacks!"

Facial paralysis girl: "..."