Chinese Medicine: Starting with Daily Intelligence

Chapter 638: Chapter 638: Furious

"President, what’s wrong?"

The assistant in the passenger seat turned around, startled, and quickly asked.

"It hurts... it hurts... I can’t take it... Quick... get to a hospital."

Gao Tang squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, his hands clamped tightly below his waist.

"Go to the City People’s Hospital."

The assistant hurriedly told the driver.

The driver glanced at the GPS and frowned. "The City People’s Hospital is pretty far from here. There’s an overpass up ahead under construction, and the traffic is a sea of red. It’ll take at least half an hour to get there."

"Half an hour?"

Hearing that number, Gao Tang’s vision went black, and he almost passed out.

Every extra second of pain was torture. Half an hour would be the death of him!

He curled into a ball, trembling as he asked, "The... the nearest hospital... how long?"

The driver glanced at the map. "The closest is the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It’s just two intersections ahead. We can be there in five minutes."

"Go... go to the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine."

Gao Tang roared, "Hurry, go now..."

...

Five minutes later, Gao Tang was wheeled into the emergency department of the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

"What happened here?"

The attending physician on duty in the ER, Doctor Zheng, was doing rounds with a group of residents and interns. Seeing the commotion, they quickly gathered around.

"The patient is experiencing sudden, severe pain in his right testicle, shooting up to his lower abdomen. He can’t move from the pain, and we don’t know what caused it."

Gao Tang’s assistant described his condition.

"Let me see."

Doctor Zheng was very experienced. With a wave of his hand, he said, "Move him to an examination room. Get his pants off."

A large crowd followed them noisily into the examination room.

Gao Tang lay on the examination table, looking at the crowd of white coats surrounding him. He felt particularly awkward seeing several young female interns and nurses among them.

’I’m a man of some standing, after all. What kind of decency is this, putting my junk on display for everyone?’

"Um... could we maybe... have fewer people?"

Gao Tang protested weakly, enduring the pain.

"Fewer people? Everyone is here to treat you."

Doctor Zheng retorted bluntly, "How are we supposed to examine you if you don’t take off your pants? Hurry up."

A young, strong male resident stepped forward. "I’ll help."

As Gao Tang watched with a look of despair, his pants were ruthlessly pulled down, and his legs were mercilessly pried apart into an extremely shameful "M" shape.

"Oh, it’s already swollen."

A young nurse at the side pointed in surprise at the obviously swollen and red area. "No wonder it hurts so much. It looks terrifying."

"Was he bitten by something?"

another nurse guessed.

"Doesn’t look like it. It looks like an external injury."

Doctor Zheng put on his gloves and leaned in for a closer look. "Did you bump into something? Or get kicked in a fight?"

"No, everything was fine, then it just suddenly happened. We were just sitting in the car,"

the assistant explained from the side.

"Have you notified urology?" Doctor Zheng asked.

"We have. They’re on their way."

Just as they were speaking, two more people walked into the examination room.

An attending physician from the urology department arrived in a hurry with a resident.

At that moment, Doctor Zheng, still wearing gloves, was prodding the area, pressing down from time to time. "Does it hurt here? What about here?"

"It hurts! It hurts! Gently!"

Gao Tang sucked in a sharp breath, feeling like the area was about to be crushed. "Can you guys hurry it up? At least give me a painkiller shot, or do an ultrasound or something!"

This whole group was just standing around studying him, and no one was taking any real action.

’Have they never seen one of these before?’

’What’s so interesting to look at?’

Especially the female nurses on the side, who were watching and whispering to each other. Their eyes held only curiosity, not a hint of shyness.

For veteran hospital nurses, they’d seen this sort of thing so many times it was no different from looking at a pig’s trotter.

One nurse was even swabbing the area with an iodine-soaked cotton ball, her movements so practiced they were heartbreaking.

"Aren’t we examining him right now?"

The urology attending stepped forward and took over the examination. "No impact? No strenuous exercise?"

"No."

"It just happened out of the blue?"

"Yes." Gao Tang nodded weakly.

"It could be acute orchitis, or maybe a ruptured varicocele? Can’t rule out testicular torsion either."

The urologist finished his examination, then asked a question that made Gao Tang want to die: "You haven’t... had intercourse recently, have you? Or been... overly active in that department?"

"No!!!"

Gao Tang was on the verge of tears.

’At his age, who had the time or energy for that?’

"Alright. Let’s give him a painkiller shot first, then send him for a color Doppler ultrasound to confirm the diagnosis."

The doctors from the ER and urology exchanged opinions and made their decision.

As they spoke, the two attending physicians left the examination room first to write up the orders.

However, the group of residents and interns lingered, reluctant to leave, and continued to spectate.

Even though every man has one, a case as classic as this—so swollen and red—was a rare teaching opportunity.

Everyone wanted to get a good look to build up their experience.

"Hey, look. It’s been so long, and there’s been no reaction at all."

A blunt young nurse couldn’t help but comment, prodding him with a cotton swab.

Gao Tang: "..."

He felt he had suffered the utmost humiliation.

"The man is in pain, how could there be any reaction? What do you know, you silly girl."

A slightly older head nurse scolded with a laugh, "Besides, you can tell at a glance that he’s got problems in that department. He probably doesn’t get much of a reaction normally, either."

Gao Tang: "!!!"

PFFT—

The interns and residents at the side couldn’t help but cover their mouths and snicker.

Gao Tang wished a hole would open up in the ground and swallow him whole. He might as well just die.

...

In the specialist consultation office.

Li Xu was organizing the morning’s medical records.

Just before the end of his shift, Ding Kaifang called. He recounted how he had rejected an invitation from Gao Tang, the president of the cosmetics association, and given him a thorough dressing-down.

"Doctor Li, you should have seen the look on that old geezer’s face. It was like he’d swallowed a fly. Serves him right for all the dirty tricks he pulled behind our backs," Ding Kaifang said, laughing happily.

Li Xu laughed too. "Good on you for rejecting him. Those kinds of associations do nothing but collect fees and create monopolies. Joining one is just asking for trouble. We just need to focus on making good products."

Just as he hung up, there was a knock on his office door.

"Dean Li."

A young nurse peeked her head in. "The emergency department called. They said a strange patient came in and asked if you could go take a look."

"Alright."

Li Xu didn’t refuse.

As the vice dean in charge of medical affairs, it was his duty to handle difficult and unusual cases that the ER couldn’t resolve.

On his way to the emergency department, the nurses and doctors he passed all greeted him politely.

"Hello, Dean Li."

"Dean Li, the examination room is that way."

A young nurse pointed the way, the corners of her mouth twitching upwards.

Li Xu was a bit baffled.

’The ER is usually like a warzone, so why is the atmosphere so cheerful today?’

When he pushed open the door to the examination room, he was instantly stunned.

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