Chapter 2317: What Illness Could It Be
This kid was like he’d been cast a spell by Immortal Brother’s whisper, suddenly in a good mood?
"Is that okay?" Cao Zhao patted the kid’s small shoulder and asked.
Zhu Xing nodded his little head.
Since the child agreed, Cao Zhao hung the stethoscope on and let the kid listen to his own heart. Pediatricians must avoid forcing children to do anything. On this point, his working principle was the same as Teacher Nie’s and Senior Luo’s.
Seeing her son perk up, Mother Zhuxing praised the doctor wildly: "Dr. Cao, you really know how to talk him round." After that, Mother Zhuxing grew very curious about the attending doctor’s magic trick: "What did you say to him, Dr. Cao?"
Parents intended to figure it out so that if the kid made trouble and refused to come see the doctor again, they could copy the doctor’s magic trick to "treat" the child.
To this, Cao Zhao only gave the parent a vague smile: some doctors’ tricks are better left untold—once you spell them out, they’re liable to lose their effect.
Immortal Brother is impressive, the two watching students thought.
"What illness does this kid have?" Student Wei asked Student Xie curiously.
Xie Wanying shook her head. "I don’t know, I haven’t seen this patient’s chart. It’s my first time coming with Teacher to see this patient."
Even with zero knowledge about this child’s past condition, as doctors they could still infer some things. For example, this was pediatrics. Teacher Cao was a pediatric cardiac surgery specialist. Most pediatric heart diseases are congenital heart malformations.
This child probably has congenital heart disease.
The teacher has had him come back regularly for follow‑ups for years—relapsing condition? Looks like he hasn’t had surgery?
Is it that he temporarily doesn’t need surgical treatment? Probably not. If he didn’t need surgery, Shou’er has very strong pediatric cardiologists who could take over. If he does need surgery and they’re still doing regular follow‑ups because surgery can’t be done yet, it’s likely a rather tricky case.
Student Xie’s analysis was the most grounded and reliable. If that was the case, the child in front of them really tugged at the heartstrings.
It was mealtime; the teachers let them go.
They followed Student Wei to the cafeteria at Shou’er. Zhao Zhaowei and the others had arrived first and were already questioning Student Wei Shangquan: "We asked you to go ask Yingying what she wants to eat—did you fall into the toilet pit or something?"
Seeing he hadn’t come back for ages and worrying that if they waited any longer the dishes would be gone, Zhao Zhaowei and the others had no choice but to help get everyone’s food first.
No worries, there was the gentle, considerate Student Pan. Student Pan Shihua got for Student Xie Wanying the tomato‑scrambled eggs and eggplant casserole that girls who care about their looks love to eat. As for Student Wei Shangquan, giving him big chunks of beef was a sure bet.
The cafeteria food at Shou’er turned out to be more of a feast than these students had imagined. The few of them sat down and ate while chatting.
Having just arrived on someone else’s turf, there were tons of surprises. Zhang Desheng shared the intel he’d picked up with the others: "That guy surnamed Duan basically doesn’t even count as a student. He’s already got his practicing physician license."
"Where’d you hear that from?" Wei Shangquan asked him, checking how reliable the source was.
"I went to the bathroom and grabbed someone to ask." Zhang Desheng said, "You should know, Guodu Medical University, unlike our Guoxie, currently doesn’t have an eight‑year track. He can’t possibly be an undergrad; he can only be a clinical PhD in training."
"Yeah, I was with him and heard it too." Zhao Zhaowei added.
The other three students glanced at the two of them. Truth be told, information coming from these two was very trustworthy. After all, the dorm Zhao Zhaowei lived in was the class’s famously gossipy "four‑person intel squad," with first‑rate information‑gathering skills. Back then, when the four of them were the first to proactively approach Student Xie, it wasn’t really to make friends with her, but to dig up information about her.