A Patient with Stomach Cancer

Okay. Just be careful about what you eat. Don't take it lightly!

Su Ziyang gave a few more specific instructions, and the patient thanked him repeatedly before limping away.

Just as Su Ziyang finished tidying up the acupuncture needles, a middle-aged man who looked to be about fifty years old walked in. The man seemed to be in good spirits.

He was carrying a white bag, a bag containing examination reports from the First Municipal Hospital.

"Doctor, could I trouble you with something?"

The middle-aged man spoke very politely to Su Ziyang.

"Oh, please have a seat. What can I do for you?"

Su Ziyang chuckled and gestured for the man to sit down and talk.

"Could you take a look at this medical report for me? I don't mean anything by it, I just mean you're young, so please tell me the truth. Thank you!"

The patient placed the bag he was carrying on Su Ziyang's table.

After Su Ziyang opened it, he found a barium meal X-ray of his stomach. Su Ziyang frowned and looked at it under the light, noticing many irregular shadows on his stomach.

Needless to say, it must be something growing in the stomach.

Looking at the diagnostic report, it states that there is a suspicion of stomach cancer and further examination is recommended.

If further examination is needed, it will definitely involve something like a biopsy.

However, Su Ziyang's heart sank when he saw the extremely irregular shadows in his stomach. In this case, it was undoubtedly stomach cancer, and a biopsy would not be of much use.

"Sir, did you come alone?"

Su Ziyang put the film on the table and asked with a smile.

"Ah, why are you asking this?" The patient's mood immediately plummeted when Su Ziyang didn't answer his question directly.

"Haha. It's nothing. Sir, I don't quite understand your scan either. What I mean is, I suggest your family member go to the hospital for further examination to see how it goes. It's too much trouble for you to go alone, all that registering and stuff."

Fearing the patient might misunderstand, Su Ziyang quickly offered a few more explanations.

"Oh, okay, thank you then, young man."

Although the patient outwardly feigned composure, Su Ziyang's heart skipped a beat when he noticed the man's hands trembling slightly. Oh no!!!

"Thank you, thank you."

The patient kept repeating "thank you," and the X-ray film in his hand trembled so much that he couldn't put it into the bag.

The light in his eyes when he first entered vanished instantly, and he looked utterly listless, as if his spirit had vanished and he resembled a rotten piece of wood on the verge of collapse.

Su Ziyang felt really bad seeing this, so he quickly got up and helped the patient put the X-ray into the bag.

"Thank you, thank you, young man."

The patient continued to thank them quietly, then lowered his head, his legs trembling, and started to walk out.

"Hey, sir, please sit down and rest for a while. What's the rush? Tell me what's wrong. We're a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner; maybe we can help."

Su Ziyang couldn't bear to see people suffer, so he forcibly stopped the patient and said those words.

Divination is not done in vain, a divination is not performed on a convenient route, and a doctor is not knocked on the door.

This person didn't actually come to Su Ziyang for a medical consultation; he already knew he had stomach cancer and was just seeking comfort from Su Ziyang.

So Su Ziyang stopping this person was a slightly unconventional act.

This is a very important point: if you don't seek treatment yourself, you should never offer to treat someone else.

"Ah!" Upon hearing Su Ziyang's words, the patient's eyes suddenly lit up, and he sat back down.

"Doctor, do you have a solution?"

The patient stared at Su Ziyang as if grasping at the last straw in his life.

"I can't guarantee it, but if it helps even a little, we can try. But if you want to see me, you'll have to make an appointment down there, is that alright?"

So I patiently explained it to the patient, who nodded, took the film in his hand, and went downstairs shakily.

Half an hour later, Su Ziyang still hadn't seen the patient come up.

Only then did Su Ziyang realize that the patient didn't trust him and thought he was trying to scam him out of money, so he left.

"Sigh~ We should avoid doing things that are against the principles of medicine."

Su Ziyang sighed softly and sat down in the chair, flipping through the pages of a book.

As expected, the stomach cancer patient did not return by the time he was supposed to leave work, so Su Ziyang did not wait any longer and went straight home.

I'll make braised noodles with green beans and pork belly in a bit.

Recently, Fairy Li has been keen on all kinds of noodles. When she got home, Fairy Li was picking green beans. Su Ziyang washed his hands and sat down with her. The two of them picked green beans together.

"I encountered a patient today..."

Su Ziyang Su Ziyang the story of the stomach cancer patient he had encountered.

Fairy Li sighed along with Su Ziyang: "You know the saying, 'There's a time to be born, and a place to die.' So you don't need to blame yourself."

"Mmm." Su Ziyang chatted with Fairy Li for a while, and his mood improved a lot.

Fairy Li cooked, Su Ziyang helped in the kitchen. The oil sizzled and produced a fragrant aroma.

In no time, a pot of braised noodles was ready.

"It smells so good!"

After taking a bite, Su Ziyang's mouth was greasy with the delicious aroma.

"Is it delicious?" Fairy Li's eyes crinkled into slits as she watched Su Ziyang eat happily.

You're amazing!

Fairy Li's cooking skills have improved remarkably, which greatly surprised Su Ziyang.

"That's a must. My mom said, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. I've really put my heart into it. If you ever treat me badly, I'll break your legs!"

Fairy Li is the kind of beautiful warrior who is docile but suddenly becomes violent. With a clench of her little fist, she can dent a wall. Seeing this, Su Ziyang didn't dare to cause any trouble and could only lower his head and shovel noodles into his mouth.

In the afternoon, Su Ziyang had just entered the consultation room when he saw a woman holding a child who was crying loudly.

"What's wrong?"

Su Ziyang quickly asked.

The woman at the payment window quickly called Su Ziyang over and said, "This child's arm seems to be dislocated. We're waiting for Master Zhang from our clinic."

Master Zhang is the head of the massage and manipulation Daoist Medicine Clinic, and he also knows some bone-setting techniques.

"Oh, let me see. Don't let the child cry. Where does it hurt, baby?"

Su Ziyang gently patted the child in the woman's arms. Having learned the kind and gentle aura of Daoist Jin towards children, Su Ziyang chuckled softly as he approached, and the child actually stopped crying.

"Are you a doctor at this clinic? You know bone setting, please take a look at the child, stop him from crying."

The woman pointed to the child's elbow, indicating that it was dislocated.

Su Ziyang reached out and touched it; sure enough, the Bones Bones dislocated and no longer in its original position.

For Su Ziyang, the orthodox successor of the Bian Clan Bonesetting technique, this was as simple as drinking cold water.

Su Ziyang pinched the dislocated joint with his thumb, gently twisted it, and his elbow snapped back into place.

"Alright!"

Su Ziyang didn't even wait for the woman to say thank you before picking up his bag and going upstairs, leaving the child's parents still a little confused, and the child with tear stains still on his face.