The Forensic Doctor Better Than a Detective

”Jiang An agrees with my judgment, he also believes that Li Xu certainly hasn’t told the whole truth.

Mr. Jiang speculates that while Li Xu might have mostly described the situation accurately regarding his medical treatment after the injury, he likely tampered with the details about how, where, and even why the injury occurred.

So, he went back to the construction site again to reassess possible injury points and see if any clues were overlooked.”

”The construction site is so large, trying to find a specific location based solely on the vague description of ’finger injury’ is like searching for a needle in a haystack.”

”Exactly,” Qin Feng sighed in agreement. ”But Mr. Jiang is sparing no effort in this case, leaving no detail unchecked.

You wouldn’t believe it, he’s barely slept these past few days, he’s personally gone over all potentially relevant scenes.”

At this moment, a young officer sitting in the back chimed in with a smile: ”I’ve heard before that Captain Jiang An from the Jiangcheng Branch is a ’Titan’, and this collaboration has really proven his reputation. He’s tireless in his investigations, even we younger guys feel inadequate in comparison.”

As they chatted, the police car arrived at the City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Once they got out, they walked straight to the outpatient building, showed their IDs at the entrance to the staff on duty, explained their purpose, and handed over an introduction letter from their department.

The process went smoothly, as the nurse at the guidance desk verified their information and then led them to the medical records room on the third floor.

The medical records room is where the hospital stores all inpatient medical records, with tall file cabinets lined up inside.

Qin Feng approached the counter and provided Li Xu’s ID number to the staff.

Shortly afterward, the search results appeared on the computer screen—records indicated that Li Xu had an inpatient medical record from three months ago.

”Three months ago, was this admission due to an injury on the right hand’s ring finger?”

”It was!”

At that moment, Qin Feng felt a mix of emotions: a faint excitement because the existence of the medical record seemed to preliminarily verify part of Li Xu’s statements;

but also a deeper confusion—if Li Xu wasn’t lying about the key aspects, where exactly was the breakthrough point hidden?

Soon, the staff finished printing and compiling a thick stack of medical records and handed them over.

Qin Feng took the medical records, opened the cover page, and quickly focused on the patient information section of the admission record: ”Li Xu, right hand ring finger injury with secondary infection.”

Li leaned in to take a look and suddenly spoke up: ”Mr. Qin, it says here ’injury with secondary infection.’ According to general medical knowledge, if someone is hospitalized immediately after being injured, the diagnosis should directly say ’finger injury’ or ’open injury.’

Once ’infection’ appears, it indicates that a significant time must have passed between the injury and treatment, likely not occurring on the same day.”

Qin Feng sharply turned his head, ”Are you sure?”

Li smiled and explained, ”My girlfriend studies medicine, and I’ve heard her mention this quite often.

Infections typically need several days or even longer to develop into clinically visible symptoms.

This means Li Xu probably delayed receiving medical treatment after getting injured, which might not match his earlier claim of ’going to the hospital immediately after the injury.’”

Upon hearing this, Captain Qin quickly looked up and asked the staff inside the window, ”Excuse me, you mentioned earlier ’admitted after infection from injury’, does this mean there was a substantial gap between the injury and the hospital admission?”

The staff behind the window nodded gently and replied with certainty, ”That’s right, just as this young officer said. Typically, for our hospital’s emergency trauma patients, the time recorded from injury to admission is usually just a few hours or a day or two.

But for this patient’s case, the wound had already ulcerated, which doesn’t develop in a short time—I’d estimate it took at least a month or more.”

”Over a month...”

Captain Qin repeated quietly, his brows slowly knitting together, ”The time span indeed seems quite long.”