It is almost the
end of the month of the ghost… well, it had been a cool month, the bed
occupancy rate is about 70% only and admin had asked us to admit as many as we
could from time to time…
The great thing for me
was less patient in the night, Chinese are so superstitious about the month of
the ghost, the chance of encountering “dirty” stuff is
way higher than the other month.
I had this patient
who gave me the creep few weeks earlier.
It was a quiet
night when the ambulance ferried over a patient covered with mud to us. The
patient was a middle-aged male who was confused. He was moaning in the bed. The
EMTs told me that he had rammed his bike into a big “pothole”. The electricity
company had dug a big pothole few km away from our hospital. The EMT told me
that someone had seen the victim rammed his bike into the “pothole”. I did the
routine and tried to dig up some story from the patient. He was obviously drunk
but yet was still able to answer some of my question. He had kept telling me
that someone had abducted him and dumped him elsewhere. He had later moaned and
cried while repeating his story.
Later the police had
arrived and asked about the patient condition. The patient sustained multiple
wound over his face and no intracranial hemorrhage was noted. I had chatted
with the police about the accident later.
The police told me
that the patient bikes had overtaken a young girl bike and headed straight
toward the pothole ignoring the barricade set around the pothole. The pothole
was few meters high and the pothole was filled with water and mud. The police
had said that the patient had swum and climbed to the surface after the crash. The
rescue department had however summoned a excavator to the site trying to locate
if there is any other victim. I felt strange and asked the police why ? the
answer of the police gave me a creep as he told me that the young lady who
witness the crash was not sure that if there is 2 or 1 rider on the bike. She
thought she saw 2 riders ….. however there was only 1 person who climbed out
from the pothole….
Well… I felt
chills over my back as the lady story was correlated to the patient account
that he was abducted and dumped….
Well… it is ghost
story of the year I presume…
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