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"Using magic?"
"Magic can do that?"
The two elders turned simultaneously. Master Tolga, tugging at his beard, gave Garrett Nordmark a thorough once-over with a fresh perspective before turning to Elder Wood and asking, "Old Wood, your student?"
"My friendās student, here to study at the council headquarters, asked me to look after him a bit." Elder Wood explained, then turned to Garrett. "Are you sure? Magic can really do this?"
"It should be able to." Garrett Nordmark stepped forward slowly, explaining to Elder Wood and Master Tolga, "Itās a new magic I just improved, and the paper has been approved. Letās see if we can determine whether thereās a pregnancy or not."
With that, he rummaged through his backpack, found the paper, and handed it over. Master Tolga eagerly snatched it, scanning through it rapidly. As he read, his pace slowed, his left hand twirling his beard from his layered chin to the nearly all-white tip, then releasing, moving up, and repeating...
Garrett Nordmark waited patiently, feeling no impatience whatsoever. Dealing with patientsā relatives, or the patients themselves, was much more drawn-out than this. Pre-op instructions, repeating them once, twice if they didnāt understand, making them think, calling relatives, pulling out the phone to Google right then and there...
Compared to that, having someone read a paper on-site and trying to understand what an ultrasound was, these patientsā relatives were simply adorable.
"Hmm... It seems to make sense." After a while, the old mage finally flipped to the last page of the paper, satisfied, stroking his beard. "Let me try! Old Wood, pass me the oilā"
"I should do it first!" Garrett Nordmark exclaimed with a wry smile, hastily intervening. "Let me finish, Iāll tell you what areas to pay attention to, then you can take another lookā"
After calming the patientās relative, Garrett turned to reassure the patient. Iris was teary-eyed, one hand clutching the female knight while the other reached for Garrettās sleeve. "I really am not pregnant... please, give me proof, I havenāt done anything wrong... I havenāt been with any man... sniff..."
"Donāt worry, as long as youāre not actually pregnant, this magic will definitely prove it." Garrett tried to comfort her as gently as possible. Although he said this, he had no certainty in his heart. A young female patient, abdominal swelling, denying any sexual history... how credible was that? Who knows.
For women of childbearing age, any abdominal pain, bloating, or acute abdominal symptoms should not be taken lightly. Send them all for an HCG test! Otherwise, you might think itās appendicitis, confidently make an incision, and it turns out to be an ectopic pregnancy...
Stupid, isnāt it?
Immediately call the obstetrician to the rescue, then, if youāre lucky, get scolded by the chief physician, if youāre not, torn apart, your credentials lost...
Of course, this is a different world, without HCG to rely on. Garrett could only be on edge, murmuring "Please donāt be ectopic... Please donāt be a molar pregnancy..." while coaxing the patient inside. Amidst all the busyness, he still had to keep a smiling face for Elder Wood:
"Elder, is there any sister available right now? Please ask her to come and accompany me. Itās not very convenient for me to examine a girl alone..."
"Freya went to Duylin Land, she wonāt be back until tomorrow. Annie has gone home." Elder Wood hesitated, glancing at the old mage and then at the female knight. "How about asking this young lady to accompany you?"
"I have no problem." Seraina immediately responded. She reached back and patted her companionās arm. "Donāt be afraid, Iām here with you!"
Well... I donāt have a problem either. A male doctor examining a female patient, with no female nurse, and the patientās relative accompanying is fine... If I canāt help, I canāt help. Iāll just provide proof and be grateful...
Garrett hurriedly followed. Finding a bed, he helped the girl lie down and drew the curtain. The female knight stood at the head of the bed, Garrett held the patientās hand, and tried to look into her eyes as gently as possible:
"Donāt be afraid, this magic wonāt hurt you or make you feel pain. Iāll just use a finger, on your stomachā"
He stood straight, drawing a circle on his own abdomen, up to the sternum and lower rib edge, down to the pelvis, left and right to the side axillary line:
"Iāll move back and forth here, using magic to take a look."
Irisās gaze followed his finger, shrank for a moment, then she forced a smile. Garrett tactfully pretended not to notice her little movements, softened his voice, and continued to explain to her:
"I might press a little inside, but not too deep. If it hurts, just tell me. To make the magic work smoothly, I need to lift your shirt and pour some oil on your skin, itāll feel a bit cold, bear with it.
You can lie flat, if I ask you to bulge your stomach, you bulge it, if I ask you to lie on your side, you lie on your side, donāt worry about anything else. I wonāt touch other areas, if youāre not comfortable, you can cover yourself with a blanket, leaving only your stomach exposed..."
His voice was calm and gentle, his gaze focused. As Iris listened, she gradually relaxed her grip on the cloak, and the edges of her nails gained some color. After Garrett finished explaining the precautions and was about to get up, his sleeve suddenly tightened. Iris propped herself up, her small hand gripping his sleeve tightly:
"I... I really am not pregnant, right? Last month, I drank water from his cup..."
"..."
"..."
Could it be, miss?!
Garrett Nordmark couldnāt help but chuckle wryly. Oh well, even in his past life, 21st-century girls had pulled off similar stunts, let alone here where the level of development resembled the Middle Ages. He gently patted the girlās hand and said, "Donāt worry, as long as youāre really not pregnant, the magic will surely prove it. Maāam, could you please help your friend prepare? Thank you. Iāll go get the magical materials and be back shortly."
With a bag of bat brains in his left hand and a bottle of glycerin in his right, Garrett had just settled down when the curtain behind him was lifted, and Master Tolga and Elder Wood entered. Garrett could only helplessly turn back and say, "Elder..."
Sheās just a young girl, could you all leave first?
"Iāll watch, you do it." Elder Wood held onto the paper tightly, his gaze sharp. The old mage had only one thing to say, "Iām her father!"
Alright... Garrett made a gesture, indicating for the female knight to lift Irisās belly blanket. The girl lay still, her abdomen rising upward from the navel, with no obvious bulging on the side abdominal wall, and her navel wasnāt protruding. Garrett breathed a sigh of relief:
Thank goodness, itās not ascites.
If it were ascites, heād be in trouble: conditions that cause ascites, such as cirrhosis with portal hypertension, heart failure, constrictive pericarditis, peritoneal metastasis, nephrotic syndrome, pancreatic ascites, and tuberculous peritonitis, none of them were easy to deal with! Without conducting a bunch of relevant tests, he couldnāt even make a diagnosis. Even if he succeeded in diagnosing it... he couldnāt cure it...
Garrett handed the glycerin to the female knight, indicating for her to apply a thick layer on her friendās belly, while he himself held a bat brain, activating the ultrasound magic. With his right index finger pressing on Irisās lower abdomen, the ultrasound waves swept over the pelvic area, observing carefully.
The belly seemed to be about five or six months pregnant. Garrett was extra cautious, holding his breath, searching diligently from top to bottom. Pelvic area, middle abdomen, upper abdomen, he even thought about the possibility of ectopic pregnancy, and finally confirmed that there was noneāthere was no fetus even as small as three months.
There was no choice, there were no facilities here to do an HCG test, so he had to be extra careful himself. šš»āÆšš¤š¦ššā“šāÆš.š¤šøš
After searching carefully once again, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and confidently concluded, "Donāt worry, itās not a pregnancy."
"Really?!"
"Let me seeā"
"I want to see too!"
The two old men crowded forward quickly. Garrett had just shouted, "Iām not done with the examination yet," but he was already squeezed to the side, almost falling down. Master Tolga eagerly grabbed a bat brain, saying, "How do I see? Just send out ultrasound waves inside?"
Garrett could only step aside helplessly. Well, let them take a look. This was the advantage of magicāmagic that any mage could learn and verify on their own. He nervously reminded them from the side:
"Thatās right, move your finger forward a bit, then down a bit, right here! Activate the magic, and youāll see that thereās no baby in her bellyāsurely you wonāt mistake what a baby looks like!
Oh, and use a bit less magic! Just enough to see clearly, too much magical fluctuation could damage the intestines!"
"Emmmm..."
Master Tolga picked up a bat brain, then another one, his fingers moving back and forth, looking several times. Finally, he let out a long sigh, raised his right hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead:
"Itās really not..."
The glycerin on his fingers wiped onto his forehead, which was already covered in sweat, immediately sparkling and colorful. Garrett dared not laugh either, turning his head to watch the old mage out of the corner of his eye, seeing him look towards Elder Wood with anticipation written all over his face:
"Old Wood, you were right. The girl isnāt pregnant, sheās sickāso what illness is this? How should it be treated? Youāve watched her grow up, you must make sure to cure her!"
Hey, hey, your daughter isnāt pregnant, I just proved it to you!
If you have any questions, you should ask me!
Oh well, with a chief physician and an attending physician here, or even just a gray-haired attending physician and a young associate chief physician, the patient, the patientās family, would definitely run to the senior doctor...
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