As Feng Daxing finished speaking, the doctors and nurses present, including Hu Yun, couldn't help but cast wary glances at Chen Xiao. After all, they all believed Chen Xiao must have a powerful backing, otherwise, how could he be specially appointed as a clinical resident physician?
Subconsciously wiping a bead of cold sweat from his forehead, Feng Daxing explained with a look of terror, "Dr. Chen, please don't misunderstand. It's not that I don't trust your medical skills, but... but life is at stake, and we must be... we must be cautious."
As he spoke, he, who usually liked to put on airs in front of newcomers, nervously brought a stool and invited Chen Xiao to sit.
Chen Xiao paid no mind, focusing instead on flipping through the patient's past medical records and examination reports. He then personally examined the patient from head to toe, while the mysterious, wordless golden formula in his mind whirred at lightning speed.
In less than two minutes, he had formulated a treatment plan and said, "Dr. Feng, could you please help me prepare some glucose and a disposable syringe?"
Feng Daxing said with a dejected face, "Dr. Chen, are you planning to inject glucose for pain relief? But as far as I know, glucose has no analgesic effect."
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Xiao said while needling the patient's abdomen, "Glucose has a rare anti-cancer effect. Long-term injection will definitely completely cure Aunt Zhang's uterine cancer!"
"???"
Feng Daxing, Hu Yun, and the other doctors and nurses present exchanged bewildered glances, their heads filled with question marks.
Not to mention Feng Daxing, who was a qualified attending physician, even Hu Yun and the nurses knew that glucose was not an analgesic drug, let alone an anti-cancer one.
If it weren't for their imagined fear of Chen Xiao's powerful backing, they would have burst into laughter.
"A newcomer is just a newcomer. To show off, he even dares to brag about something so devoid of medical common sense! But since he wants to pretend, I might as well play along and fulfill his wish. Anyway, with the patient's current condition, injecting more glucose won't be fatal. If I can use this opportunity to curry favor with the big shot behind Chen Xiao, I'll be making a fortune!"
With this thought, Feng Daxing quickly prepared the glucose and disposable syringe himself, his face full of flattery towards Chen Xiao, but in his heart, he had already cursed Chen Xiao's ancestors a thousand times.
Soon, when Feng Daxing was ready, he was horrified to find that Chen Xiao had already inserted seventeen silver needles into the patient's abdomen.
These silver needles were arranged according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, appearing extremely profound.
What was most unbelievable to Feng Daxing was that the patient, who had been in excruciating pain just moments ago, was now lying quietly and could even speak to Chen Xiao.
"Dr. Chen, you don't look to be over thirty, do you? At such a young age, you can alleviate my pain with just traditional Chinese acupuncture. You're truly a formidable young man, much better than those arrogant experts and professors at the First Affiliated Hospital of Provincial Medical University!"
Feng Daxing, Hu Yun, and the other doctors and nurses were impressed, though they didn't fully understand. To curry favor with Chen Xiao, they all vied to praise him, showering him with compliments.
"Aunt Zhang, our Dr. Chen is only twenty-three this year. He's also benevolent, tall, and handsome. Countless girls in the entire hospital have a crush on him!"
"Dr. Chen is the first clinical resident physician in our Central Hospital's history to be specially appointed. His medical skills are superb, and his acupuncture is unparalleled!"
"Aunt Zhang, please rest assured and focus on your recovery. With Dr. Chen here, you will definitely get well."
Listening to everyone's praise for Chen Xiao, the patient looked at Chen Xiao with increasing satisfaction, smiling from ear to ear as if a mother-in-law was appraising her son-in-law.
Chen Xiao, however, was fully engrossed in treating the patient, his expression solemn. He took the disposable syringe that Feng Daxing had prepared and solemnly warned the patient, "Aunt Zhang, I'm going to give you an injection next. The pain will be a hundred times more intense than what you feel during an attack. Are you mentally prepared?"
The patient's face immediately turned pale with shock, her emaciated cheeks trembling violently.
Years of pain had tormented her to the brink of death. The thought of a hundredfold increase in pain made her scalp tingle.
Just then, the closed emergency room door burst open, and a tall, beautiful woman in a white coat appeared at the doorway with a cold expression.
Noticing the emblem of the First Affiliated Hospital of Provincial Medical University on her chest, Chen Xiao and all the doctors and nurses present froze.
The patient's eyes, however, suddenly lit up, and then she spoke with a guilty look, "Jia... Jiayi, why are you here?"
After a pause, the patient explained in an even more guilty tone, "I... I didn't mean to hide the fact that I was transferring hospitals from you. Dr. Chen at Central Hospital is indeed more capable than the experts and professors at your hospital. After a session of acupuncture, I don't feel any pain at all. And... and Dr. Chen also said that as long as I rest well, I can be completely cured!"
To let her beloved daughter Liang Jiayi know that she hadn't given up treatment by secretly transferring hospitals, the patient paused again and then urged Chen Xiao through gritted teeth, "Dr. Chen, I'm ready. Let's do the injection!"