This sudden burst of smoke came and went quickly, and soon disappeared without a trace.
Along with the smoke, Professor Kurokawa's ghost also disappeared.
With the departure of Professor Kurokawa's ghost, the lights in the corridor were restored, and light shone into the ward from outside the door, adding a lot of brightness.
The bright light restored some of Dr. Satomi's courage. He gasped for a long time before he propped himself up and walked to Miss Ebina's bedside for a careful examination.
Miss Ebina's abdomen is smooth and flat, with no signs of surgery at all.
"How is this possible? I clearly saw Professor Kurokawa's hand inserted into Miss Ebina's abdomen. How come there is no scar, let alone a wound?"
It only took a minute or two for Professor Kurokawa to appear in the elevator and rush into the ward to complete the operation. If it weren't for the bloodstains on Miss Ebina's bedding, Dr. Satomi would almost think it was his own hysteria.
Dr. Satomi did not care about the difference between men and women. He put his hand on Miss Ebina's abdomen and groped it inch by inch.
"This is... Miss Ebina used to have a very obvious foreign body sensation in her stomach, but now she can't feel it anymore. Could it be that her tumor was really removed by Professor Kurokawa?"
Dr. Satomi had an expression of disbelief on his face and murmured in a daze.
"We must, we must do a comprehensive inspection."
Dr. Satomi rushed out of the ward impatiently, and stopped in the corridor as if he remembered something.
It's already early morning, and several departments including the Clinical Examination Medicine Department and the Pathology Diagnosis Department have already gone off work, so it would be useless to go there now.
He looked at the half-limp Nurse Asano at the door of the ward, and the puzzled intern nurse, and said in a deep voice:
"You're all at the door, did you see Professor Kurokawa come out?"
"Professor Kurokawa, is that the uncle doctor who took the elevator up? We didn't see anyone coming out of the door. Isn't he in the ward?" the intern nurse asked curiously.
"Why do you all have such strange expressions? It's as if you saw a ghost."
Nurse Asano's face was pale and her forehead was covered with cold sweat. She leaned on the intern nurse to avoid falling down. When she heard what the intern nurse said, she couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Professor Kurokawa, who had been dead for a year, actually took the operating elevator up again. Could it be that he encountered a ghost?
"Dr. Satomi, that really is..." Nurse Asano's face still showed obvious fear, and she didn't even dare to mention the person's name.
"I do not know I do not know!"
Dr. Satomi covered his face with his hands, his tone full of confusion and pain.
That familiar face and voice were indeed his mentor, but Professor Kurokawa had a cold expression on his face as if no strangers were allowed to approach him. He never even looked at Dr. Satomi from beginning to end, as if he didn't know him at all.
The worldview that Dr. Satomi has built up over the past thirty years collapsed in an instant tonight. Not only did the ghost of Mr. Kurokawa visit him unexpectedly, but he also performed a nearly supernatural method of removing the tumor with his bare hands in front of him.
In Dr. Satomi's field of expertise, this kind of thing is simply a fantasy.
But if you think about it carefully, Professor Kurokawa is no longer a living person but a ghost, so it is reasonable for him to display some mysterious methods.
"Doctor Satomi, should we report this to the hospital?"
"Of course!"
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"The ghost of Professor Kurokawa? Humph, Dr. Satomi, you are a graduate of the Medical University and an assistant professor, yet you actually believe such nonsense."
In the director's office of the Medical University Hospital, Professor Norinchi scoffed at Dr. Satomi's words.
Dr. Satomi also looked helpless.
He was guarding outside the ward last night, and within ten minutes after the power tripped, the hospital's electrician arrived at the scene.
The electrician checked the 13th floor and the elevator room for a long time, but could not find where the short circuit occurred. According to the electrician's judgment, there was no fault in the circuit system of the hospital building, and it seemed that someone turned off the power switch on the 13th floor. However, the electrician was guarding the power distribution room, and no outsiders came in or out.
Unless there is an invisible man.
It was also because of the power outage that the hospital’s surveillance cameras did not capture Professor Kurokawa’s ghost, and there were only empty words from Dr. Satomi and the two nurses, which could not prove anything.
"But, Miss Ebina's stomach tumor has definitely disappeared! The lesions that had begun to spread to other parts of the body have also disappeared."
Dr. Satomi took out a CT scan and placed it on his desk.
Early this morning, Dr. Satomi used his connections to urgently arrange for Miss Ebina to undergo an examination, and then obtained the CT scan on an expedited basis.
The CT image showed that the huge tumor that was originally in Miss Ebina's stomach had disappeared!
According to the latest examination results, although Miss Ebina still has some cancer cells in her stomach, they are only in the early stages of gastric cancer. As long as she undergoes surgery in the hospital, her five-year survival rate after the surgery will be as high as 84%.
Professor Zenei picked up the new CT scan, and a hint of doubt flashed across his eyes, but he put it down nonchalantly, shook his head and sighed:
"Dr. Satomi, I didn't expect you to make such a low-level mistake. You must have misdiagnosed Miss Ebina and diagnosed an early-stage stomach cancer as a late-stage one."
"But weren't you Miss Ebina's initial doctor?" Dr. Satomi asked seriously.
"This has nothing to do with me. There must be something wrong in the diagnostic department! Maybe the machine is malfunctioning, or someone else's test results were mixed in." Professor Zenei frowned and immediately denied it.
This is a very rational judgment.
Compared to the absurd ghost story about Professor Kurokawa returning to the hospital to perform surgery on patients, this explanation is more in line with real logic.
Although Professor Zenei immediately denied responsibility, he thought about it and realized that if the matter were made public, it would not only do him no good, but would also affect the reputation of the hospital.
Early-stage gastric cancer, a disease with a relatively high five-year survival rate, was misdiagnosed as a late-stage terminal illness. This is a scandal of some magnitude. If it gets reported to the news media and becomes a big deal, he, the director of the Medical University Hospital, might have to bow and apologize.
"Doctor Satomi, we don't want misdiagnosis to happen. It is because of serious and responsible doctors like you that we can discover the mistakes in time." Professor Zenei changed his expression and said in a friendly manner.
"What we need to do now is to calm Miss Ebina down and stop her from talking nonsense."
"How can this be? This is so irresponsible!" Dr. Satomi said indignantly.
"Then what are you going to do? Hold a press conference and tell the media the ghost story about a ghost doctor coming to the hospital to treat patients?" Professor Zenei was so angry that he said unhappily.
"The newspapers and TV stations in Tokyo are going crazy with joy. It turns out that the professors and doctors at the Medical University Hospital are all crazy! Who would dare to come to us for treatment? Are you also planning to transfer to the health center of Hokkaido University?"
At the end, Professor Ze Nei said directly in an imperative tone:
"Doctor Satomi, Miss Ebina trusts you, so I'll leave this matter to you. You must shut her up. Since Miss Ebina is in the early stages of gastric cancer, there is no need to transfer her to another hospital. This is also a good thing for her. After all, our Medical University Affiliated Hospital has rich experience in treating early gastric cancer."
Japan is one of the countries with a high incidence of gastric cancer because the Japanese diet prefers pickled foods, and miso soup is also indispensable for three meals a day, which consumes a lot of salt.
Moreover, as an island country, there is a shortage of material resources, people eat less fresh vegetables, fruits and melons, and lack vitamins. Pickled foods contain more nitrite, which is also an accomplice of gastric cancer.
Gastric cancer is a serious threat to the lives of the people. Japan has begun to mobilize the whole country to popularize early screening for gastric cancer. Early detection and early treatment have made the five-year survival rate of early gastric cancer as high as 80%.
Dr. Satomi came to Miss Ebina's ward in a bad mood.
His mood was also quite complicated. Intellectually, he also believed that Professor Zenei's judgment was correct. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, which normal person would believe such a bizarre thing as a ghost doctor removing a tumor with his bare hands.
When Dr. Satomi opened the door of the ward, he saw Miss Ebina standing at the window looking out.
Unlike her usual sickly appearance, Miss Ebina's complexion was noticeably rosier, and what was even more different was that her eyes, when she looked over, were sparkling with hope.
"Doctor Satomi, what is wrong with me?"
Seeing Miss Ebina's shining eyes, Dr. Satomi suddenly felt much more relaxed and laughed.
Whatever the reason, Ms. Ebina's advanced stomach cancer has turned into early-stage cancer, which means she has a good chance of survival.
Dr. Satomi was sincerely happy for Miss Ebina.
"Ms. Ebina, congratulations, your stomach cancer is only in the early stages."
Congratulating someone on having stomach cancer may sound a bit strange, but for Miss Ebina, who was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer that was incurable, it was like going from hell to heaven.
"really?"
Miss Ebina covered her mouth, tears streaming down like pearls from a broken string, and she cried with joy.
"It was a misdiagnosis by our affiliated hospital of the Medical University that led to your diagnosis of late stage. I am so sorry!"
Dr. Satomi had thought it over carefully on the way here, and decided not to tell Miss Ebina about Professor Kurokawa's ghost removing the tumor with his bare hands.
"In order to show the sincerity of our affiliated hospital of the Medical University, we have decided to reduce your treatment expenses as appropriate..."
Miss Ebina buried her face between her hands. Although she tried her best to suppress it, sobs still flowed out from between her fingers.
After crying for a long time, she raised her head, her eyes red and swollen, and said:
"That doctor last night, was it Professor Kurokawa?"
Dr. Satomi was a little surprised.
"Do you know Professor Kurokawa?"
"I am a medical student, and my previous goal was to go to medical school, so naturally I recognize the highly respected Professor Kurokawa."
Miss Ebina smiled, but the tears still flowed down her face.
"Thank you, thank you. When I recover, I will definitely go to Professor Kurokawa's tombstone to express my gratitude. Doctor Satomi, can you please accompany me then..."
Miss Ebina knew what happened yesterday and that she was saved because of the ghost of Mr. Kurokawa, but she did not feel any fear. Instead, she was full of gratitude towards Mr. Kurokawa.
Dr. Satomi was deeply moved.
No matter whether Mr. Kurokawa became a ghost or something else, he is still saving lives just like when he was alive.
"must."
It was almost midnight again. Dr. Satomi switched shifts with the doctor on duty and stood in the duty room on the 13th floor, staring at the elevator entrance without blinking.
There was a video camera next to him.
Will Mr. Kurokawa perform surgery today?
Chapter 130 and 132 are all filmed! Emergency meeting! (4k)
"It's almost twelve o'clock..."
Dr. Satomi raised his head from time to time and looked at the wall clock, with an expression of nervousness mixed with anticipation on his face.
Looking up, the bright light inevitably shone onto Dr. Satomi's face. Dr. Satomi squinted at the fluorescent light above his head. It was obviously very bright, but it made him feel a little dazed.
The hospital is a very strange place. Even in the bright daytime, it is so cold that it gives people a sense of loneliness and distance from the world. Perhaps it is because the hospital is the place closest to death, like the dividing line between the human world and the underworld.
Light can dispel darkness, but it cannot dispel the most primitive instinct of human beings, which is the fear of death.
In the duty room, there were two nurses besides Dr. Satomi.
One of them was a young trainee nurse who had been on the night shift yesterday. She was waving the video equipment in her hand with excitement on her face.
As for the nurse Asano who had more experience, she was not here. She had been replaced by another lady in her fifties with a stern expression.
"Head nurse, are you on duty tonight? Where's Nurse Asano?"
Dr. Satomi knew the hospital's rules that the nurses on night shift were rotated once a week, and it was not yet time for Nurse Asano to take over.
"Nurse Asano has taken a leave, I will take her place on duty tonight." The head nurse said calmly.
After the strange incident happened in the early hours of last night, Dr. Satomi and Nurse Asano immediately reported it to the Nursing Department, which alarmed many doctors and nurses on night shift in the hospital. Even the head nurse got up in the middle of the night and rushed to the 13th floor.
Professor Kurokawa's ghost returned to the hospital to perform surgery. This was such an incredible thing that the people in the nursing department could not be convinced by just the one-sided statements of a few people. They suspected that Dr. Satomi was hallucinating because he was thinking about it during the day and dreaming about it at night.
But it was a little strange that three people had the same hallucination at the same time, and the whole thing exuded a vaguely weird atmosphere.
It is better to have less trouble than more. The nursing department finally believed that it was a false alarm. Maybe they read it wrong, or someone played a prank on them.
Dr. Satomi and Nurse Asano have also worked in the Medical University Hospital for many years and have good relationships with people, so this matter was taken lightly.
Nurse Asano was criticized somewhat harshly by the nursing department.
They also didn't want this kind of supernatural story to spread in the hospital. It would not be a good thing if it was heard by patients or among medical staff, so they immediately issued a gag order.
Nurse Asano was also extremely frightened by the ghost doctor incident last night and was under great mental pressure, so she simply took a leave of absence and went home to recuperate.
"I didn't expect that the head nurse would come to take over the shift. It seems that the Nursing Department is still worried about what we reported." Dr. Satomi thought to himself.
The head nurse, although her expression was stern, was actually a little helpless in her heart.
Although the hospital had issued a gag order, the strange incident of the moving bodies in the morgue and the strange rumors about Professor Kurokawa returning to life to perform surgery inevitably spread within the hospital. The nurses were all a little panicked, and at this juncture, no one was willing to take over Nurse Asano's night shift.
As a last resort, the head nurse had to take action herself to calm people's hearts.
In fact, the head nurse didn't really believe in such weird things. She had worked in the hospital for half her life and had seen countless corpses, but she had never seen anything like ghosts with her own eyes.
However, it is indeed somewhat abnormal that two rumors of hauntings spread continuously within one day in the Medical University Affiliated Hospital.
The head nurse is here in person to see if this is just a coincidence or someone is playing a prank.
As for the other intern nurse, she also learned from later news that the pale-faced uncle doctor was actually Professor Kurokawa who had died a year ago. She was terrified and excited at the same time, and her whole body was trembling.
This girl, who has always been interested in urban ghost stories, is not just a hypocrite. She has the courage of a newborn calf that is not afraid of a tiger. She prepared the video equipment on her own and was eager to record the first-hand video footage.
As the hour hand of the wall clock gradually pointed to zero, the atmosphere in the entire duty room became more and more solemn.
