University Doctor and His Fragile Patients-Chapter 384 - 316: Not Unconscious, Just Asleep???
Chen Mu had just gotten off the school ambulance.
He saw a skinny boy with red, swollen eyes eagerly coming up to him.
He glanced at the boy.
Chen Mu understood: "Were you the one who just called me for help?"
Seeing the boy nod, Chen Mu continued to ask, "Didn’t you say there were only two of you in the dorm? Why did you leave him to come out to meet me?"
"Or did you find someone else to help look after the patient?"
The boy shook his head with a somewhat nuanced expression: "No one is helping me look after my roommate; I decided to come out to meet you myself."
Chen Mu: "???
At this moment.
Not just Chen Mu, even Su Bingbing, who had followed him, found it hard to believe her ears.
She even had the urge to call the police.
Her voice unconsciously rose: "He’s unconscious, and you actually left him alone in the dorm?"
The boy gave Su Bingbing a strange look: "But I’m not a medical student. Even if I stay by his side, I can’t help, can I?"
Su Bingbing: "..."
That’s true, but...
But!
What kind of reasoning is that?
Chen Mu frowned, planning to go in to take a look himself when—
He heard the boy beside him ask puzzledly: "Dr. Chen, do unconscious patients snore?"
The boy was still eagerly looking at Chen Mu.
But Chen Mu swore under his breath, not waiting for a reply from the boy, he randomly grabbed a passing student at the apartment entrance to guide him.
Without any pause, he entered an apartment.
—
"Dr. Chen was a bit exaggerated, wasn’t he? If the patient is snoring, doesn’t that mean he’s just sleeping? He’s okay?"
"Would you sleep so deeply that you wouldn’t wake up even if someone slapped you dozens of times?"
"Fun fact... a person can snore even when they’re unconscious..."
"Wow! Today is another day of learning new knowledge in the live broadcast room!"
"A snoring unconscious patient is inherently a dangerous thing, easily leading to suffocation. Once suffocation occurs... without anyone to watch over, there’s a high chance..."
"I really feel like calling the police for the patient right now. Knowing your roommate is unconscious, and you still went out to get someone..."
"..."
—
"Dr. Chen, it’s this room."
The boy Chen Mu randomly grabbed was already waiting at the dorm entrance because he had watched the live stream proactively.
Seeing Chen Mu had rushed to the patient’s side.
The boy asked from the side: "Dr. Chen, is there anything I can help with?"
Chen Mu shook his head: "No, thank you."
The boy, feeling he had successfully helped Chen Mu, left somewhat excitedly.
Su Bingbing stood quietly nearby, waiting for Chen Mu to diagnose the patient.
Listening to the heart and lung sounds.
Seeing that after a full two minutes, Chen Mu still hadn’t taken out any medication or Silver Needle for acupuncture.
Su Bingbing was somewhat bewildered: "Dr. Chen, is this patient’s condition very difficult?"
Chen Mu shook his head and said: "It’s not difficult, but strange."
"His body is very healthy, with no signs of internal bleeding or brain hemorrhage, but... he should have difficulty falling asleep, or once asleep, any slight movement can wake him up."
"Commonly known as, neurasthenia?"
Su Bingbing frowned, carefully contemplating the possibility mentioned by Chen Mu, "Neurasthenia?"
"Dr. Chen..."
"I’m not really knowledgeable about medicine, but I know that patients with neurasthenia shouldn’t sleep this soundly."
Chen Mu sighed: "That’s why I said his condition is a bit strange."
From the time they entered, the patient hadn’t snored again.
Just at this moment.
The patient’s roommate, with red, swollen eyes, returned from outside.
Chen Mu pointed at the patient on the ground, asking the boy: "Where are his desk and other daily items usually stored?"
The boy pointed to a desk.
Chen Mu walked over to the desk and began to search through it.
—
"Isn’t it inappropriate to search through someone else’s belongings even if the patient is unconscious? It’s an invasion of privacy, right?"
"????"
"Why is there a strange atmosphere happening again in the live broadcast room?"
"Given this situation, the most likely cause is from ingesting something unusual. Dr. Chen is considering life-saving matters, and you’re worried about privacy?"
"Some people, if their home door is pried open, they’d call the police, but when they themselves rummage through someone else’s room, well, isn’t that funny!"
"Yeah, yeah! There are so many hypocrites in the comments! To you, everything Dr. Chen does is right, isn’t it?"
"Damn it! You’re making me laugh from anger!"
"Bring it on! I’m ready to battle these keyboard warriors for eight hundred rounds today!"
"..."
—
"Your roommate usually doesn’t have a good sleep, does he?"
The boy nodded: "Yes."
"Many times when I get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, around three in the morning, four or five, or even around one, he’s always awake."
"Even after putting down his phone, he’d often stay up all night before possibly falling asleep."
Hearing the boy’s answers, Chen Mu continued to frown.
The patient’s insomnia.
It was just as severe as he had diagnosed.
The roommate, staying close to Chen Mu, didn’t want to miss any chance to redeem himself.
Even though Chen Mu hadn’t continued to ask questions.
The boy was racking his brain thinking about all the information he knew.
"Come to think of it, the past week has been strange."
"Every time I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, he was snoring like he was sleeping well, suddenly having good sleep?"
Chen Mu’s movements paused.
He glanced at the patient’s roommate: "If you have time, I suggest you visit the school hospital to see a doctor."
"I suspect you have frequent urination!"
Ignoring the roommate’s slightly embarrassed face.
After quite a bit of searching.
Finally, Chen Mu found what he was looking for.
A whole set of five bottles of melatonin.
He looked at the packaging.
Turned to the patient’s roommate, "Can you remember how long your roommate’s sleep got better?"
"Let me see, it was the day he broke up with his girlfriend. I remember it was the day I ordered something online..."
"What I bought isn’t important, let me check that order date."
The boy seriously looked through records on his phone for several seconds.
He looked up at Chen Mu: "Dr. Chen, I found it, five days ago."
Chen Mu put down the melatonin bottle.
Rushed to his medical kit, "Reporter Su, please help prepare a few more trash cans!"
Blasted heck!
This is not a student, but a living Buddha!
In five days.
An entire bottle of a hundred melatonin consumed without leaving a single piece?!
You know.
This melatonin stuff.
Even if a normal person needs it, taking one or two pills a day is usually enough.
Who’s supposed to eat it like this????
Chen Mu took a deep breath, thinking silently to himself.
He would suggest to Secretary Lu later to add another school rule.
Do not consume melatonin casually without a doctor’s prescription!!!!
