After lunch, Yan Feifan went to Director Qee Sheng's office in the Diagnostics Department and began quickly flipping through a stack of assorted medical records that was a good twenty centimeters thick.
A number of the reports were in English.
"The patient is from Jingcheng, and he'll be turning fifty-five in four months."
Qee Sheng began to explain in a measured tone, "The patient says that three years ago, he was drinking with his brother, who was fifty-five at the time."
"His brother joked that their grandfather and father had both passed away in their sleep at around the same age."
"Perhaps he, too, would pass away peacefully this year."
"Unexpectedly, his brother's words became a terrible premonition. Less than a month later, he also died in his sleep."
"The patient was terrified and became convinced it was a hereditary family disease."
