"Liu Yiqing, looking at this chest X-ray, what are your thoughts?" Liu Banxia asked after the patient left.
"I also feel that his pneumonia isn't that simple, especially the diffuse inflammation in the right lung," Liu Yiqing said.
"Yes, the current presentation of lung inflammation is too disparate. So mild on the left, yet so severe on the right. It's only been three days, right? He must have been taking antibiotics along with cold medications at home," Liu Banxia said.
"It could very well be a tricky pathogen. Notify the lab for a blood culture. When the patient returns, remind me to take a sputum culture as well."
"Teacher Liu, is it that serious?" Liu Yiqing asked curiously.
"Better safe than sorry. Pneumonia caused by a normal cold is rarely this severe; at least, I've never seen it," Liu Banxia said.
