He’d even consulted colleagues and experts in the field, but unfortunately, the conclusion was always the same: no illness.
From the perspective of Western medicine, Duanmu Qing’s mother’s condition was merely a muscle injury in her lower back, something Western medicine couldn’t cure at its root.
Though modern medicine had advanced significantly, with examples of organ transplants, replacing human muscle tissue was unheard of.
Besides, Dong Tianyi couldn’t just recklessly operate, what lay before him wasn’t a slab of pork chops but a living person, potentially his future mother-in-law!
“What do I do? Am I, Dong Tianyi, really going to lose to that poor kid today?”
The thought alone, combined with the bold claims he’d made earlier, sent cold sweat dripping down his forehead.
Thankfully, he’d been quick-witted, when he realised he was clueless, he’d shooed out all the accompanying nurses and left the operating room.
Otherwise, if they’d seen the youngest medical director of the capital’s top hospital sweating buckets and at a loss, the gossip would’ve been disastrous!
Now, Dong Tianyi’s mind raced, he felt sharper than he had during his exams, yet he still couldn’t come up with anything.
“My God! What do I do, what do I do, what do I do!”
After this triple soul-searching question in his head, a medicine bottle suddenly flashed in his mind.
It was a special chronic painkiller developed abroad in recent months.
Designed for prolonged effect, it was made for specific cases like severe burns to reduce pain during treatment.
“That’s it! This is what I meant!”
Dong Tianyi instantly had a plan, the drug lasted long enough, and as long as he got through today, any recurring back pain could be blamed on farm work triggering a relapse, shifting the responsibility off him.
“The key is, as long as it’s not obvious today, I win, and that kid has to quit medicine and lose his job!”
With this in mind, Dong Tianyi hurried to his office.
The hospital hadn’t imported this drug in bulk yet, but out of curiosity, he’d previously used connections to buy a bottle, and now it was coming in handy.
He quickly prepared a day’s dose, then slowly injected it into Duanmu Qing’s mother’s body, dragged the time out for another half hour, and finally wheeled her out of the operating room.
“How’d it go, doctor? Did you cure her?”
When Duanmu Lei saw Dong Tianyi emerge from the operating room drenched in sweat, his first concern wasn’t his mother, which made Xu Fei shake his head in disbelief.
“It’s fine, the process was tough, but I managed to cure her, now we just wait for the anaesthesia to wear off!”
Dong Tianyi feigned exhaustion, though in reality, after injecting the painkiller, he’d had plenty of time to sneakily scroll through his phone!
Another hour or so passed, and Duanmu Qing’s mother woke up in the ward, prompting Duanmu Lei and the others to crowd around her.
“Mum! How do you feel now? Is the back pain better?”
Hearing this, Duanmu Qing’s mother sat up, tentatively moved a bit, and said, “Huh? That’s odd, my back feels a bit numb now, but it doesn’t hurt anymore!”
“Hmph, hear that, you little wandering healer? What do you have to say now? Time to quit medicine!”
