Ten minutes later, the HCU ward. (Intensive Care Unit, a type of intensive care unit lower than the ICU)

"Mr. Nagano just had his second seizure within ten minutes," the doctor said to Mrs. Nagano. "Considering that this happened after the scopolamine patch was removed, I believe it may be a disease related to the central nervous system."

"And what should my husband do?"

"I've never seen these symptoms before," the doctor said. "But there is a very good doctor at the Rice Flower Central Hospital during this time, and I am sure he will be able to find out your husband's condition."

"Rice Flower Central Hospital?" Mrs. Nagano asked.

"Yes," the doctor nodded. "There's a Dr. Grigory-Asker who specializes in treating incurable diseases, and who, in the past few months, has treated more than 20 extremely rare and incurable diseases, and he is now one of the best experts in Tokyo, if not in Japan."

"Okay, so what do we do now?" Mrs. Nagano continued to ask.

"Mr. Asker's standard of diagnosis and treatment is very tricky, and if it is not for a particularly strange illness, it is generally impossible for him to find his eyes." The doctor explained. "So I'm going to write a letter of introduction for you now, so that your husband can be taken over by Mr. Asker's medical team."

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In the early 90s, Japan's medical system was much worse than it is now, and it was mainly focused on the following points.

1. Nowadays, if you want to go to a large hospital, you must have a letter of introduction from a small or medium-sized hospital, otherwise you may be charged an additional fee of about four figures. (Before the Ministry of Health and Welfare introduced the referral letter system in 2014, about half of the major hospitals had implemented the system.) But in the early '90s, large and small hospitals were open to the Japanese people, so there was a lot of pressure on big hospitals. In addition, since Japan's economic growth was sufficient to support the growth of national health care costs before '97, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has no incentive to reform the medical system. However, Gregory himself was a doctor hired by the Rice Flower Central Hospital, so he had the privilege of choosing whether or not to take patients.

2. At present, hospitals are basically not responsible for prescribing medicines, but let patients buy them after prescribing them. But in the early 90s, although there were more than 36,000 pharmacies where drugs could be purchased, more than 10,700 psychiatric hospitals, general hospitals and general hospitals were still the main options for patients to buy drugs.

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At Rice Flower Central Hospital, the whistle-blowing ambulance stopped at the special entrance where a group of nurses were already waiting, and Koji Nagano, who was lying on a stretcher, was quickly carried by these nurses to the cart that had been prepared and pushed into the hospital.

Then, Chiba, Conan, and Lady Nagano walked out - Mr. Nagano and his three apprentices seemed to have been rushing to work on a project, and tomorrow night was the deadline, so Lady Nagano asked the three of them to go back and continue to work so as not to overdue.

"You've got the letter of introduction, haven't you?" Said a man who looked like the head nurse. "Come with me and I'll take you to the Gregorian group."

Led by the head nurse to a door marked "Gregory Group", Chiba was surprised by the person who opened the door after the head nurse knocked. "Are you still working here?"

Hoshino Kaede's lazy face immediately became serious after seeing Chiba, and he took the letter of introduction from Mrs. Nagano's hand.

"Working with Gregory was able to meet and learn a lot, which helped me a lot, so I came to the Gregory group as a pro bono assistant when I had time. But then again, I didn't expect your little guy to come too, is the patient your acquaintance? While opening the envelope, Kaede Hoshino said.

"It's an acquaintance of the Doctor," Chiba shrugged. "It wouldn't have been me and Conan who came in an ambulance with Lady Nagano anyway, but because his three disciples had a task that was approaching the deadline, Madame drove the three of them back. As for why Conan and I asked to come together, it's just because we don't feel right. ”

"No matter how strange you think this gentleman is, the objective fact is that this case is not strange enough, so Gregory will probably not take over this patient himself." Kaede Hoshino said after reading about half of the letter of introduction at a glance. "But if the doctor deems it necessary, we will provide medical care to Mr. Nagano.

"What are the symptoms of this case?" In the room behind Kaede Hoshino, someone asked.

"The patient has a history of diabetes mellitus and is stable after insulin control." Kaede Hoshino replied. "I just made a plane a few days ago, I think I just came back from abroad. Before lunch...... To be precise, it is a sudden fainting before taking insulin. After being sent to the hospital, it was found that the blood sugar was not abnormal, and the patient developed epilepsy after removing the scopolamine patch from the patient's head. ”

"Do you need to ask?" The man (henceforth known as A) said. "What is the symptom of scopolamine? It would be nice to give him a central nervous system check! I estimate that more than 90% of this symptom is a brain tumor. ”

"It could also be a toxin," another voice (abbreviated as BB) sounded. "Considering that he still has a wife at home, we should mainly check his private work area for toxins."

"If you've just returned from abroad, you should prioritize things from abroad, right?" A woman's voice rang out. (called C)

"Ah, yes," B's tone was a little strange. "I almost forgot that there are no toxins in Japan."

"But if it's really his family's factors, it's too coincidental." A retorted. "Since it was a few days after he came back, it is very likely that he contracted the disease during the time he went abroad."

"You two are really a good match." B continued.

"Why do I think you're targeting us?" C asked. "Is there anything wrong with us co-producing?"

"I'm not talking about your current fit," B snorted. "I just think your interaction in bed must be very compatible, and judging by how well you two are in tune now, I think your interaction must be wonderful."

"Forehead......" Qianyu frowned. They ......"

"Leave them alone," Kaede Hoshino shrugged. "It is because of this that Gregory gave me the right to manage this situation. I'll write you a note, and you'll take it to the CT later. ”

"Wouldn't it be more appropriate to leave it to me?" The head nurse asked.

"There's a lot of stuff to go, I'm just asking this kid to take a little work off your shoulders." Kaede Hoshino took out a pen and paper from his pocket and said as he scribbled. "Miss head nurse, you go and make an appointment for the patient to be screened for toxicology of common poisonous ingredients, a full set of blood biochemical cultures, and venereal disease tests."

"What did you say?" Lady Nagano couldn't help but be stunned when she heard this.

"This test can check for some difficult diseases that other tests are too good to check," Kaede Hoshino handed the note to the head nurse, and said with a pleasant face. "Believe me, I'm not asking for this test to check for STDs."

Subsequently, he handed another small note to Chiba. "Take this little note and make an appointment for Mr. Nagano for a brain CT."