Live Broadcast: My Blunt TCM Practice and My Patients Are Dying Online - Chapter 74

After completing the examination, Qin Jiang held the X-ray films, his brow furrowed tightly.

Tang Weimin came out and wanted to change back into his own clothes. Qin Jiang shook his head directly and said, “Keep that on. It’ll save you from having to change again later.”

Though Tang Weimin didn’t understand what Qin Jiang meant, he obediently followed him out of the examination room.

Tang Ping had also seen the situation inside through the live stream. He quickly stepped forward to ask, “Dr. Qin, what’s wrong with my dad exactly? Is there really something in his brain?”

Qin Jiang nodded, pointing at the white shadow on the film. “According to the imaging, there is indeed a foreign object in the old gentleman’s head. But we’ll have to wait a moment to see exactly what it is.”

“Wait for what?” Tang Ping asked.

“Wait for the computer to generate the 3D model image.”

As soon as Qin Jiang finished speaking, his phone vibrated. Qin Jiang opened his phone, and the cameraman quickly zoomed in for a close-up.

Everyone could clearly see it was a computer-generated 3D model simulation video. As the video played, the object inside Tang Weimin’s skull was displayed from various angles. It was finally confirmed: it was indeed a fruit knife!

The netizens were shocked.

“So, there’s really a fruit knife in the old man’s head?”
“You’ve got to be kidding me. The video shows the knife is about ten centimeters long. How can someone survive with a knife that long stuck in their head?”
“Even a fruit knife is longer than me? Dammit.”
“Could this be the old man’s ‘Martial Soul True Body’?”
“What the heck is ‘Martial Soul True Body’? Are you trying to make me die laughing?”
“This old man’s life is seriously tough. Could it be a machine malfunction?”
“Impossible. You all are only focusing on the old man’s condition and not on Dr. Qin’s medical equipment. It’s too advanced. I haven’t seen anything this advanced even in provincial hospitals.”
“How so?”
“Well, for example, X-rays are available at most hospitals. But being able to generate a 3D model this quickly isn’t easy at all, and after just one scan.”
“What does that mean? It means Dr. Qin’s equipment is so advanced that it only needs one scan to capture most of the patient’s body data clearly, and it’s fully automated!”

The netizens thought about it carefully, and it seemed true. Hospitals have various types of examination equipment—X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, MRIs, etc. To this day, no device on the market combines all these functions, nor can any produce various types of images from just one scan.

Could Dr. Qin actually be a hidden rich kid? Otherwise, where did he get all this cutting-edge equipment?

Before the netizens could recover from their surprise, Qin Jiang began to explain, “Grandpa, the reason your breath has gotten progressively worse is because this knife has been stuck in your brain for too long and has started to corrode and rust.”

“Then, the wound cut by the blade keeps getting infected and healing, which is why your breath is so foul when you open your mouth.”

“When I checked your mouth earlier, I also saw the blade. I just didn’t dare confirm it. I thought you might have swallowed it and it got stuck. I never imagined it came out from inside your brain.”

Qin Jiang’s explanation left both Tang Weimin and his son dumbfounded.

How could a fruit knife just appear in someone’s head for no reason?

Tang Weimin looked utterly confused. “Dr. Qin, why is there a knife blade in my brain? How did it get in there?”

Qin Jiang gave a wry smile. “I’d really like to know the answer to that myself.”

“You have to understand, the brain is the part of the body with the most nerves and blood vessels, the most complex and critical area.”

“With such a large fruit knife in your head, you shouldn’t have absolutely no memory of it, right?”

Tang Weimin fell silent again. He thought carefully for a long while before hesitantly saying, “There was this one thing. I don’t know if it’s related.”

“Tell me about it.”

Tang Weimin began to recall as he spoke. “Four years ago, when I was still farming in the village, it was during the Chinese New Year. I was riding my motorcycle home from town.”

“On the road, I ran into a man who said he was heading the same way and asked if I could give him a lift.”

“I thought since we were going the same direction, I’d give him a ride. So, I let him get on my motorcycle.”

“But when we were halfway there, he suddenly hit me really hard. I felt dizzy right away and lay on the ground for a long time without being able to get up.”

Tang Ping remembered too and added from the side, “That’s right, there was this incident. At the time, my mom saw that Dad hadn’t come home for a long time, so she took us out to look for him.”

“Dad’s ear was cut open and bleeding a lot. We took him to the hospital overnight to get stitches.”

Qin Jiang leaned over to look. Tang Weimin’s right ear indeed had suture marks.

Tang Weimin, frowning, said, “Dr. Qin, does this have anything to do with the fruit knife in my head?”

“But at the time, he shouldn’t have been holding a knife, right? He just punched me, and it was a pretty heavy punch.”

“When I went to the hospital for stitches, the doctor didn’t say anything was wrong either.”

Qin Jiang looked at the location of Tang Weimin’s stitches, then at the 3D video on his phone, and sighed in amazement. “Grandpa, your luck is anything but ordinary.”

“That person probably stabbed you with a fruit knife. It’s just that the handle might have come loose after it went in, so the blade of the fruit knife ended up inside your brain.”

“Because a foreign object entered your brain, that’s why you immediately fell to the ground, dizzy and unable to stand up.”

“Did he rob you?”

Tang Weimin nodded. “Yeah, he took my motorcycle and wallet. Later, he was caught by the police and sentenced to ten years.”

Qin Jiang sighed. “That’s too light. What he did counts as robbery and attempted murder. It should have been the death penalty.”

Tang Weimin, still not grasping the severity, said with a smile, “The death penalty is a bit much, isn’t it? It was just a motorcycle and a wallet, not much money.”

Qin Jiang looked at Tang Weimin with a complex expression. “Let me put it this way, Grandpa. Even if we used a computer now to calculate the angle of insertion for that knife, we couldn’t guarantee you wouldn’t suffer any effects from it being stabbed in.”

“You said it yourself, this happened four years ago.”

“A fruit knife has been in your head for four years, and you’re still alive. This can’t even be described as a miracle anymore.”

“During these four years, if you had ever bumped your head, or even just bitten into a walnut hard with your teeth, causing the fruit knife to shift from a severe vibration, you probably would have had to be rushed to the emergency room immediately.”

“But all you have now is bad breath. Think about how incredibly lucky you are.”

Tang Weimin still didn’t seem to fully grasp it, but Tang Ping was already breaking out in a cold sweat.

Holy crap.

The old man had been running five kilometers every day for four years! If he had fallen during one of those runs, the consequences would have been unimaginable!