That year, he was interning in the hematology department when they admitted a strange patient.
It was a 10-year-old boy who had been hospitalized for over 20 days due to recurring bleeding throughout his body.
Doctors suspected poisoning, but the boy's parents said that his eating and sleeping habits were normal before the onset of the illness, making poisoning impossible.
The diagnosis seemed hopeless…
That day, he went to the ward. The boy's parents were out, and he suddenly realized he hadn't spoken to the boy himself, so he started chatting with him.
He jokingly asked, "Did you secretly eat something that made you sick?"
The boy said his parents would buy him whatever he wanted to eat and he never stole anything.
He asked, "What do you like to eat?"
The boy said he loved dried sweet potatoes. He casually asked, "Are you the only one in your family who eats dried sweet potatoes?"
Hearing this, the boy hesitated for a moment and quietly told him something unexpected.
The boy said, "Every time my mom buys dried sweet potatoes, she only lets me eat them. She says they're precious and won't let me give them to my sister."
The boy had a sister? His parents had never mentioned it!
The boy told the doctor that his parents always saved the best food for him, and sometimes he would hide some to share with his sister.
His sister was also very kind to him. Before he came to the hospital for treatment, his sister had found a hole in the grain storage room where they kept dried sweet potatoes. Every day, she would take some dried sweet potatoes from the hole, and the two of them would eat them together.
Hearing this, he suppressed his emotions and asked the boy, "How is your sister now?"
The boy suddenly burst into tears and said, "My sister is sick too, just like me! Doctor, please come to my house and save her!"
At this moment, he understood. The boy's parents had deliberately concealed his medical history because they were poor and only had enough money to treat one child. So, they chose
the "dried sweet potatoes" that his sister had picked up from the hole. It was likely bait placed in a rat hole, and the two children were poisoned after eating them.
The subsequent investigation confirmed his suspicions. The hospital treated them appropriately, and the boy and his sister quickly recovered...
The truth of life is sometimes more unexpected than stories. Unveiling the layers of mystery, behind the surface lies a shocking aspect of human nature.
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