811 Old Xu (2/2)

”Oh, I always receive compliments.” Ling Ran remained calm and looked at Old Xu.

Old Xu was stunned and wanted to tease him. When he looked at Ling Ran's expression, his skillset as a policeman finally came into play. ”What you said is real.”

Ma Yanlin could not bear listening to the conversation anymore. ”Of course. Look at his face. Your dog is handsome too, and it's often praised, right?”

Old Xu finally became quiet and sighed for the last time today. ”Sigh, praises are not all that it ever received...”

Ling Ran changed to another pair of gloves, turned around, and said to Old Xu, ”Let me do a physical examination for you.”

”The doctor just now already examined me…”

Ling Ran only hummed without giving further explanation. Surgeons would never believe in other doctors. There was nothing much to be explained about this. Even Doctor Zhou was far away from being omniscient.

”Does your stomach usually give you trouble?” Ling Ran asked.

Old Xu laid down and smiled when he saw that the curtains around him were drawn. Then, he said, ”How healthy can a policeman's stomach be? It's especially so for us, who have already worked in a few departments. They're just thinking of new ways to torture you all the time. You can just perform a few CT scans on me, if you want.”

”Wait a minute. Let me examine you for a while.”

Old Xu was worried that Ling Ran would come under the notion that Old Xu just refused his offer for a physical examination because he thought that Ling Ran was young. He showed an embarrassed smile and said, ”It's not that I want to take advantage of the medical insurance covering my examination fees, but it's just that I have no time. I came to the hospital because of a work injury. And since I need an examination, I decided to have it all done…”

”Does any part of your stomach bring you discomfort?” Ling Ran did not reply immediately.

”It's not really a discomfort, just occasional bloating.” Old Xu chuckled. ”I'm much better than others. Our captain is far worse. He already went through gastrointestinal bleeding twice. He already stopped drinking, but whenever there's a martial arts tournament in the police force, he'll be so nervous that he can't eat…”

”Do you feel any tension in your muscles?” Ling Ran pressed on the Old Xu's upper abdomen.

”A little bit.” Old Xu frowned. ”This is normal, right?”

Ling Ran did not reply and asked, ”Did you recently lose weight?”

Enquiry was part of physical examinations, and it could not be neglected.

Old Xu felt proud and laughed. ”I did not have much of an appetite recently. So, I took the opportunity to lose weight. I lost almost 22 pounds. It's pretty effective, right?”

Ling Ran still did not reply and palpated the entire upper abdomen before he looked at Old Xu's left collarbone and said to Ma Yanlin, who waited at his side. ”Send him directly for a CT scan of the abdomen. Call Doctor Zuo over.”

Ma Yanlin could not help but look at Old Xu with pity and pushed him away.

Qin Min found the situation off the more she listened to the conversation, and she asked, ”What's going on?”

”Ask the patient's family members to come over.” Nurse Niu, who was beside Ling Ran, was worried that Ling Ran would say something wrong, so she took the chance to speak first.

Qin Min shook her head. ”Old Xu's wife is still their children, studying elsewhere. It will take some time for her to come over.”

”Does he have no other immediate family members?”

Qin Min sensed that something was wrong. She hesitated for a few seconds and said, ”Old Xu is an orphan of someone who died for the country, and he has been taken care of by the organization. After he finished studying, he no longer had any immediate family members. He was… raised up at the Public Security Compound since he was young…”

Nurse Niu was already in her middle age, and she had grown far more kind hearted, which was why she was shocked when she heard that. Then, she said to Ling Ran, ”Doctor Ling, you should directly tell Officer Qin in this situation.”

Ling Ran looked stern and pondered about this for a few seconds, before he said directly, ”The physical examination indicated that he might have stomach cancer. We'll have to look at the CT-scan for the specifics.”

”Impossible. You've just checked for a few minutes and pressed on his stomach, How can it be…?” Qin Min immediately said before she stopped and gulped, ”I'm not questioning you, but… could it be a wrong diagnosis?”

Ling Ran remained silent and repeated what he said previously, ”We'll wait for the CT-scan.”

He now had Master Level Physical Examination. The error rate in his judgment was very low. However, Ling Ran did not confirm it straight away. After all, the CT-scan would not cause any unnecessary delays for his treatment.