Malignant arrhythmia, acute left heart failure, aortic dissection... These were all world-class cardiac and cardiovascular diseases. Not only are they difficult to treat, but their mortality rates are exceedingly high. It's even more severe to have all three conditions present at the same time... No wonder Old Tuqi was so desperate as to treat a dead horse as if it were still alive and come to me. He had probably run out of options and just wanted to do everything humanly possible—to give it a try. After all, there couldn't be any impressive practitioners of Chinese medicine in Italy, could there?
He then switched to English, asked the person on the other end to pass the phone to Old Tuqi, and said slowly, "Alright, Mr. Tucci, I'm aware of the situation. Send me the address you just mentioned, and I'll make my own way over."
