The patient's name was Liu Ping, a 31-year-old woman.
According to her medical records and her own account, Liu Ping had missed her period six months ago.
She thought she was pregnant.
Overjoyed, Liu Ping waited patiently for a while before going to the hospital for a check-up.
But at the hospital, both the urine and blood tests came back negative. Liu Ping was not pregnant.
If she wasn't pregnant, a missed period meant she was sick.
Liu Ping started by visiting the obstetrics and gynecology department at her local county hospital.
The doctors ran some gynecological exams and prescribed a lot of medication, but her condition didn't improve.
Later, someone told Liu Ping about an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor in a certain village, a master whose family had specialized in treating gynecological diseases for generations.
Many people had supposedly been cured there and had their wishes fulfilled.
