NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8: Chapter 7: Double Chamber Right Ventricle
"Ah!"
The woman suddenly rolled her eyes and fell to the side!
"Oh no, this young lady is upset; it's a severe case of distress, she couldn't catch her breath and has fainted!"
"Everyone, please step back and make some room!"
"Driver, driver, stop the bus! Someone has fainted; we need to get to a hospital quickly!"
Seeing this, the people around immediately started chattering, with some even beginning to blame Lin Feng. If it weren't for Lin Feng's previous misconduct, such an incident wouldn't have occurred.
"Don't panic, everyone, listen to me, I'm a doctor. Now, please lay the woman down on the ground. The hospital is just two stops away. It would help if you drove a bit faster to get her to the hospital!" Lin Feng shouted.
"Are you really a doctor?"
"A doctor? For real? You're not taking the chance to cop a feel, are you?" someone said, expressing doubt as they saw Lin Feng stepping forward to provide aid to the woman, harboring a deep suspicion.
"This is a matter of life and death! I'm not joking around! Please believe me!" Lin Feng said as he crouched beside the woman who had collapsed in the vehicle.
At the same time, Lin Feng took out his phone and called a colleague in the emergency department, "I am Lin Feng, and there's an unconscious patient here. We'll be at our hospital in five minutes, help me out when we arrive, please!"
Seeing Lin Feng's earnest demeanor, the crowd slowly started to believe him. Moreover, in today's society, with good Samaritans often being bitten in return for their help, everyone preferred to err on the side of caution and consequently made way to the back as much as possible.
"Young man, what do you think caused this young lady to faint?" Qi Luyi spoke up at this moment.
"Is that even a question? Judging by her symptoms and the triggers, it's obvious that she fainted due to acute distress causing insufficient blood supply to the heart, leading to temporary myocardial and cerebral ischemia," Lin Feng quickly thought to himself while providing simple treatment.
"Heh, kid, you're wrong this time! This person didn't faint because of distress affecting her heart. She fainted because she has a heart condition!" Qi Luyi said with a know-it-all tone.
"A heart condition? Is it congenital heart disease?" Lin Feng asked, puzzled.
"You could simplify it to congenital heart disease. But this isn't just a straightforward ventricular septal defect or atrial septal defect. This woman has a small partition in her right ventricle that has divided it!"
"What?!" Lin Feng exclaimed in shock.
"Old fraud, don't talk nonsense! If it's as you say, and she has two right ventricles, that would be a double-chambered right ventricle. How could there be no signs of this condition physically?" Lin Feng, who had a basic understanding of double-chambered right ventricle, immediately retorted.
The pathophysiological changes and clinical manifestations of a double-chambered right ventricle depend on the degree of intracardiac obstruction and the presence of additional congenital anomalies. Severe cases may present with cyanosis and clubbed fingers or toes. Generally, this condition is discovered in infancy or early childhood, and it's relatively rare in adults. Moreover, this woman showed no symptoms of the disease.
"Double-chambered right ventricle? I never said that! If it were that, she could have had surgery already! This woman's right ventricle is divided into four sections! With the current state of cardiac surgery in our country, it's impossible to operate on! If you don't believe me, boy, have her fully examined at your hospital. Then you'll believe what I'm saying!" Qi Luyi said with a smug tone.
At that moment, Lin Feng found himself starting to believe Qi Luyi and couldn't help being taken aback by his words.
Just then, they heard the driver announce, "We're at the hospital!"
As soon as the driver finished, they heard a man's voice from the platform, "Where's the patient?"
Lin Feng immediately recognized the voice as his classmate and brother, Shen Congwen.
"Ah Wen, I'm here, quickly bring the stretcher!" Lin Feng called out, signaling the driver to open the back door.
Seeing this, the onlookers finally became convinced that Lin Feng was indeed a doctor.
Lin Feng no longer cared about how everyone saw the situation. He helped the emergency room nurses lift the unconscious woman onto the stretcher and hurried alongside Shen Congwen toward the emergency room.
"Is this kid really a doctor? I didn't see it coming, doctors nowadays are so bold, daring to flirt with respectable women in broad daylight!"
"Hmph, the kid is from the second hospital. Let's conduct a human flesh search later and find out what his name actually is," one of them said.
"Haha, within a day, the protagonist of the 'chest-touching' incident will be blazing across the internet!"
Seeing Lin Feng's retreating figure, people started to tease.
Just then, an old man spoke up, "I think we shouldn't be hard on that young man! There were so many people earlier, a little physical contact is nothing significant! And when the young lady fainted, besides him, who else offered to help? Put yourselves in his shoes!"
As soon as the elderly man finished speaking, those who had been making a commotion quieted down, and nobody brought up the 'chest-touching' incident anymore.
Second Hospital.
"Brother Feng, what's the situation?" Lin Feng chatted with Shen Congwen as they walked.
"Encountered her on the bus, she fainted due to panic and distress, but I suspect she might have a heart problem. You'd better arrange for a cardiac ultrasound for her later," Lin Feng said, not daring to admit that his "indecent" act led to these consequences.
"Not bad, Brother Feng. The girl looks pretty good. What's up? Trying to take care of personal issues under the guise of playing the hero?" Shen Congwen said laughingly, but Lin Feng could clearly hear a teasing undertone in his laughter.
"Beat it!" Lin Feng said irritably, "Stop talking nonsense. I've got the night shift and need to get going for the handover. The patient is in your hands! I'll call you later."
"Got it. For the sake of your future happiness, Brother, I will take good care of your future sister-in-law! Haha! But remember, you owe me a meal!"
"Damn, why is it always me paying?" Lin Feng cursed and turned towards the surgical building.
After entering the surgical building and changing into his work clothes, Lin Feng started the shift change with his colleagues.
The handover in the hospital mainly involved the offgoing doctor briefing the incoming colleague on the total number of patients for the day, an overview of each patient's condition, which patients were critical, and who needed special attention, etc.
All was peaceful.
There were twelve beds in the ward, and the patients were all more or less stable.
That's when Shen Congwen called.
"Brother Feng, your sister-in-law has just woken up," Shen Congwen reported.
Lin Feng quickly clarified, "Don't spout nonsense, man! 'Sister-in-law'? I don't even know her; I just met her on the road. It was only out of the duty and obligations of a doctor that I brought her back to our hospital!"
"Heh, Brother Feng, that's a grand way of putting it! But what's wrong with not knowing each other? You helped her out this time, doesn't that mean you've met now?"
Lin Feng felt helpless. Shen Congwen was not only his university classmate and dormmate but also a close guy friend. After graduation, they both found jobs at Quancheng City's Second Hospital.
When it came to his buddy, Lin Feng knew him all too well: he didn't have any significant flaws except that he talked too much and often messed things up.
"You never get serious, do you? Is she alright? Did you do the checkup?"
"So far, everything seems fine," Shen Congwen began, and then, suddenly, he overheard someone shouting from Lin Feng's end of the phone, "Doctor Lin, it's not good, the drainage tube in bed nine is bleeding!"
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