Many people saw the young man's post after he put it on his Moments.
Ma Pengfei, the young man's friend, had been having a rough time lately.
His entire body was swollen, making him look like an overinflated balloon.
The swelling was particularly bad below his waist; if you pressed a finger into his skin, the indentation would take a long time to disappear.
He had visited several major hospitals in the city, rotating between their nephrology and cardiology departments. He'd taken all sorts of diuretics and hormones, but the effects were always temporary, only treating the symptoms and never the root cause.
Initially, he wasn't sold on the doctor his friend recommended, Li Xu.
"A Divine Physician? Who's ever heard of a real Divine Physician these days? It's all just manufactured hype."
