Capturing the Young Doctor's Heart: Mr. Big Shot Won't Let Me Go-Chapter 99: Mr. Lancaster’s Emergency (Part 2)

Chapter 99: Chapter 99: Mr. Lancaster’s Emergency (Part 2)

After a short while.

Claire Prescott closed the documents.

She walked to the patient’s bedside, took his hand out from the covers, and placed three fingers on his pulse for diagnosis.

She then asked the patient to cooperate by showing his tongue.

Next, she expressed her viewpoint: "The patient’s hiccup symptoms after a severe illness indicate a worsening condition, not merely caused by wind-cold external symptoms."

She paused and continued:

"The patient’s internal injuries have accumulated, and the initial diagnosis was overlooked. At sixty-four years old, due to the severe condition, he took one hundred and ten grams of mirabilite in a day, leading to severe damage to the spleen and kidney’s primordial yang, inability of the thoroughfare vessel to maintain stability, depletion and weakness of yang energy, imbalance of yin and yang, and if treatment is delayed, it could be life-threatening."

Hearing her point out his mistake directly, the attending Chinese medicine doctor broke out in a cold sweat.

However, all the technical terms went over The Lancaster Family’s heads; they only heard the last sentence about life-threatening danger, which made their expressions extremely serious.

Claire Prescott then placed the patient’s hand back under the covers and glanced at the attending Chinese medicine doctor.

The patient’s condition became this serious, he must be aware.

If it wasn’t due to lack of skill, then he was probably intimidated by The Lancaster Family, losing courage and confidence to prescribe medicine.

Ethan Lancaster furrowed his brows and asked her, "How should it be treated?"

Claire Prescott met his gaze.

It was the first time she saw his eyes without any aggression, only the deep concern for his father.

She considered for a while, then recorded the patient’s pulse symptoms and treatment plan in the blank area of the stack of documents.

Afterward, she showed it to the attending Chinese medicine doctor.

Upon seeing the first medicine, 30 grams of aconite (boiled rapidly and taken frequently), a strange expression crossed his face. He looked further down her plan with disbelief.

"Who are you to Elder Lee?"

Elder Lee.

He was the renowned Chinese medicine expert known for his fierce treatment methods, often referred to as the "ICU of traditional Chinese medicine," and had unfortunately passed away ten years ago due to prolonged exhaustion from overwork.

He often used "poisonous" drugs to save many critical patients, and aconite was one of his frequently used medicines, even breaking the conventional dosage limit to up to six hundred and fifty grams to save a critically ill patient with heart failure.

Claire Prescott replied, "I was fortunate to attend his lecture when I was a child."

When she was a child...

The attending Chinese medicine doctor looked at her in disbelief.

Many practitioners of Chinese medicine dared not follow Elder Lee’s medication methods, including his disciples. Even though he had contacted Elder Lee’s disciples who lived far away in Suris to rush over, they might not dare to prescribe this after seeing the patient.

After all, the person lying in bed was no ordinary individual.

This young doctor dared to use Elder Lee’s toxic method after only attending one lecture during her childhood; her courage was indeed immense...

Actually.

Claire Prescott was not even on the invited list for that seminar.

She had only heard that Elder Lee was giving a seminar to the Chinese medicine experts in Kystral that day, so she sneaked alone, hiding outside the window to learn secretly.

It was also summer then.

The room had air conditioning, and the outdoor unit was right beside her. She held up her phone toward the slightly open window to record, sweating all over, as if in a sauna, the conditions were extremely harsh.

Thinking she concealed herself well, unexpectedly, someone discovered her, dragged her out, and into their office for questioning.

The Elder Lee she saw at that time was already an elderly man with graying hair, wearing presbyopic glasses.

But his demeanor radiated compassion and righteousness from within.

Seeing she was seeking knowledge, Elder Lee did not blame her, laughing at her innocence, yet kindly moved a stool for her to sit next to him.

So, she listened to that seminar particularly attentively, taking detailed notes.

Seeing her notes, Elder Lee kept her back after the seminar ended to teach her more, saying many things, the clearest being: "The difficulty in Chinese medicine is differentiation and treatment, but even more so, it requires courage."

However, she recorded all those words.

Later, she listened to it repeatedly, as if obtaining a secret manual, transcribing all the recordings into notes based on her understanding, and studied Elder Lee’s summarized experience against the Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Warm Pathogenic Diseases over and over...

Seeing the attending Chinese medicine doctor wavering.

Claire Prescott said, "Please rest assured, Senior, if you don’t dare prescribe, I will. If anything goes wrong, I will be responsible, won’t I?"

This prescription was clearly the last life-saving solution, and if the Lancaster individual died under his supervision, he would be finished too.

The attending Chinese medicine doctor hesitated no more, turned to The Lancaster Family and said, "Waiting for my colleague might be too late, theoretically, this prescription is feasible. This young lady’s differentiation skills are good, and though her approach is bold, this method is worth trying."

Upon hearing this from the attending Chinese medicine doctor, The Lancaster Family was slightly relieved.

But Yvonne Lancaster snatched the prescription.

She glanced at it for a few seconds, finding nothing unusual, eventually allowing them to proceed, though still unwillingly threatening, "If anything happens to my uncle, wait for a lawyer’s letter from the Lancaster Family."

Claire Prescott looked at her indifferently, "If Miss Lancaster doesn’t trust me, then let’s not treat."

With that, she deliberately snatched the prescription back from her hand.

Yvonne Lancaster was momentarily choked, "You..."

"If you continue causing trouble, get out!" Ethan Lancaster’s cold voice finally rang out, clearly enraged.

Yvonne Lancaster was so frightened her face paled and dared not speak further.

Claire Prescott no longer paid them any mind, followed the attending Chinese medicine doctor to the herbal pharmacy and returned with a large mugwort bunch.

Gently lifting the covers from Mr. Lancaster, she said, "I will place a large mugwort stick on your abdomen and moxibustion at Shenque for half an hour; this should alleviate some pain."

Weakly opening his eyes, Mr. Lancaster responded, "Alright."

With the lit mugwort stick placed, she started the timer on the side.

Then she turned back to assist in decocting the medicine in the pharmacy.

Generally, Chinese medicine needs to be decocted slowly, and the decoction time varies depending on the medicinal properties.

Aconite requires rapid boiling, and when its toxicity is at its peak, it should be decocted while being administered to the patient, achieving the effect of counteracting poison with poison.

So during the following time, the whole floor witnessed Claire Prescott rushing back and forth between the herbal pharmacy and the patient’s room, exuding a calmness and gentleness even she couldn’t perceive.

Ethan Lancaster took one medicinal bowl after another from her hand, personally feeding it to his father.

This cooperation inexplicably had a sense of tacit understanding. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The whole ward was especially quiet.

The members of The Lancaster Family watched quietly on the side, their impression of Claire Prescott undergoing subtle changes.

After taking the medicine, Mr. Lancaster’s hiccups stopped, and he could clearly feel his body temperature gradually warming, along with a growing hunger, wanting to eat.

This indicated the initial restoration of spleen and stomach function, gastric energy becoming active, successfully escaping danger.