Chapter 507: Actions, Not Hearts
After lunch, Yu Zhiming didn't return to the center's main office to rest. Instead, he brought his follower Zhou Mo to the ward area and found the patient with esophageal spasm...
"Can my illness heal itself without treatment?"
Facing the patient's surprised expression, Yu Zhiming cautiously replied, "I can only say that there is such a possibility."
"There are patients internationally with very similar conditions to yours, and their symptoms suddenly disappeared after a year."
"It's just that everyone's situation is different, and your symptoms are quite rare. What happened to that patient may not be replicated in you."
The chubby patient touched his almost disappeared neck with some difficulty.
"Doctor Yu, is there really no cure for my illness?"
Yu Zhiming said frankly: "My teacher, Director Qi Yue of the center, has contacted Dr. Ramon from the UK, who has treated a case similar to yours."
"Dr. Ramon said he tried many treatments but none worked, so he gave up."
After a pause, Yu Zhiming explained, "Your situation is extremely rare. This is the first time we've encountered it."
"As for treatment, we can only exhaust all kinds of examinations and then try different treatment options."
“There will be considerable expenses in this process.”
After a pause, Yu Zhiming added, "Coupled with your obesity, you are experiencing problems with your cardiovascular system, heart, liver, kidneys, and other organs."
"Trial-and-error treatments may also cause unexpected damage to your body."
Yu Zhiming suggested: "You might as well be optimistic and treat this symptom as a forced weight loss."
“After a year, if your esophageal spasm hasn’t gone away, you can come back to see us.”
"By then, facing a much thinner but healthier you, we can be more bold in our trial and error treatment."
Yu Zhiming's words made the patient quite interested.
He touched his round belly and said with a wry smile, "Doctor Yu, I actually know that I'm too fat."
"My family and friends kept urging me to lose weight."
"But I just can't control myself. When I see food, I just want to eat it."
"Ever since I started having difficulty swallowing and it hurts, I really don't feel like eating anymore."
"Even at mealtimes, I still feel fear and terror when I see food."
"only……"
The patient showed a painful expression again and said, "From now on, I will have to drink porridge, eat liquid food, and eat all kinds of paste all day long."
"It's a scary thing just to think about it."
Yu Zhiming smiled and said, "Losing weight is a very difficult and painful thing."
"You can't control yourself, and now you have a physical abnormality to force you to lose weight, which is a good thing!"
The next moment, Yu Zhiming became serious.
"I have to tell you, you're thirty-seven years old this year. If you continue to gain weight like this, given the condition of your internal organs, you probably won't make it past forty-five."
As soon as these words were spoken, the patient immediately became nervous.
"Doctor Yu, are you sure?"
Yu Zhiming nodded and said in a deep voice, "Your three highs have caused varying degrees of damage to your blood vessels and internal organs."
"Once people are over 40, their body and internal organ functions will show a significant decline."
"By then, your brain and internal organs will be damaged at an accelerated rate, your immunity will rapidly decline, and all sorts of diseases, even tumors, will come to you one after another."
"Forty-five is an optimistic estimate."
After hearing this, the patient finally made a decision.
"Losing weight is incurable."
"Doctor Yu, I'll listen to you and turn harm into benefit. I'll use this opportunity to lose weight and work hard to lose weight."
"If my esophageal spasm symptoms haven't disappeared in a year, I'll come to the hospital to see you again."
Yu Zhiming nodded in agreement and continued, "I'll tell the nurse and I'll handle your discharge procedures this afternoon..."
After returning to the big office together, Zhou Mo, who had remained silent all the time, couldn't help but speak.
"Doctor Yu, facing such a rare case, shouldn't you actively persuade him to receive treatment? If the treatment is successful, a core journal article will definitely be published."
Yu Zhiming glanced at her.
"A doctor's duty is to cure illnesses and save lives, but the ultimate goal of curing illnesses is to save lives."
"The patient's esophageal spasm, while rare, was not fatal. What was fatal was his excessive obesity."
"Since he doesn't have enough willpower to lose weight, we might as well use this esophageal spasm to force him to lose weight."
Zhou Mo nodded and said, "Indeed, his fat body makes me feel sick just by looking at it."
She put on a fangirl expression again and said in an exaggerated manner: "Doctor Yu, I admire you more and more."
"We truly act in the best interests of the patient and put ourselves in their shoes."
Yu Zhiming chuckled and said, "You don't have to worship me so much. I'm not as noble as you say."
"I simply had no idea about the patient's condition and didn't have much energy to invest in him, so I took advantage of the situation and persuaded him to lose weight first."
Zhou Mo chuckled and said, "Judging from your actions rather than your heart, from this incident itself, you do put the interests of the patients first."
"Hey, Doctor Yu..."
Zhou Mo then asked, "You said that if the patient doesn't lose weight, there's a high probability that he won't live past 45. Is that your honest guess?"
Yu Zhiming said slowly: "It is a bit exaggerated."
"However, from the physical examination I performed on him this morning, his internal organs have indeed suffered considerable damage due to obesity."
"If you continue to be obese like this, the probability of developing serious illness in your forties is really high."
Zhou Mo uttered an "oh" and said, "If you put it that way, Doctor Yu, you're not exaggerating."
“It also gives patients more motivation to lose weight.”
Zhou Mo poured a glass of water for Yu Zhiming from the water dispenser and placed it on his desk.
"Doctor Yu, how many of the physical illnesses you predicted have come true?"
Yu Zhiming thought for a moment and said, "I only know of two cases: the advertising director who had kidney failure, and a member of the Gu family who had an acute pancreatitis attack."
Zhou Mo added, "Doesn't it count if the person who made the director realize your true abilities suffers a cardiac arrest?"
Yu Zhiming shook his head and said, "It's not a prediction, but I discovered that there is indeed a problem with his heart."
“The prediction is not to make changes or remedies, there is a possibility that problems will occur, it is just a probability.”
Zhou Mo laughed and said, "It sounds like a half-immortal who can predict things with absolute certainty."
Yu Zhiming laughed and said, "It does look a bit like that, but I can't guarantee it will happen..."
Lu Qiu, the embroiderer introduced by Zhou Mo, arrived at the central building around three o'clock in the afternoon.
This is a 46-year-old slim lady with an elegant look.
Unlike the rough and thick calluses that Yu Zhiming had imagined, Lu Qiu's fingers were slender, soft and shiny, and well-maintained, no different from those of a young woman.
Lu Qiu told Yu Zhiming that she made a living with these two hands and she usually took good care of them.
Apart from embroidery, she never does heavy work, and even household chores like washing clothes and cooking are rarely done.
Lu Qiu also told Yu Zhiming that for the past ten days, her hands could not embroider as she wished.
The pattern I managed to embroider had crooked stitches and was not tight enough, which was just the level of a beginner.
Although the strokes of words written with a brush are not crooked, they have lost their style and charm and are much worse than before.
Yu Zhiming judged from Lu Qiu's words that her hands were just not as sensitive as before, and could not be controlled precisely, so she could not do the delicate work she used to do.
It hasn't reached the level of hand shaking that Zhou Mo mentioned.
Yu Zhiming carefully examined Lu Qiu's hands and found nothing wrong with them, so he took her to the examination room for a further full-body examination.
For people like Lu Qiu, the fine control of his hands is not as good as before, and there are many reasons why.
For example, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease can cause finger tremors or increased muscle tension in the hands, leading to finger inflexibility and even hand tremors.
Another example is tenosynovitis, which is caused by long-term strain due to colds, resulting in stiffness and inflexibility of finger joints.
This reason had been ruled out by Yu Zhiming when he examined Lu Qiu's hands.
Another example is cervical spondylosis.
If there are symptoms of nerve compression in the cervical spine, pain, numbness and inflexibility in the arms may also occur.
It could also be due to insufficient blood supply to the brain, or a mild cerebral infarction, which can cause limb disorders and lead to inflexible fingers, etc.
Yu Zhiming started by examining Lu Qiu's head, then his cervical spine, heart, and lungs...
When Yu Zhiming's hand moved to Lu Qiu's abdominal cavity, he finally made a rather unexpected discovery.
Pregnant!
Judging from the size of the gestational sac, the pregnancy is about six weeks.
"Ms. Lu, you are pregnant, don't you know?"
"Pregnant?"
Lu Qiu sat up instantly, looking frightened.
"I'm almost fifty, my periods are irregular, and I'm about to go into menopause. Dr. Yu, please don't play such a joke on me."
Yu Zhiming said in a deep voice: "Ms. Lu, I won't joke about this kind of thing."
"You're about six weeks pregnant."
After a pause, he added, "This also explains why your hands can no longer do delicate work."
"Because of pregnancy, your hormones will change significantly, and there is a certain probability that it will affect your fingers, causing them to become stiff and less flexible than before."
Lu Qiu sat on the examination bed, stroking his lower abdomen, still with a look of disbelief on his face.
"I am pregnant."
"At my age, I'm actually pregnant."
Zhou Mo, who was accompanying her, said, "Aunt Lu, women in their fifties can get pregnant. You look like you're in your thirties. It's normal for you to get pregnant again."
"Aunt Lu, congratulations."
Lu Qiu smiled bitterly and said, "Momo, let me tell you something. My daughter is also pregnant. She's just three months old."
"I'm going to be laughed to death by my friends and neighbors."
Yu Zhiming advised: "Ms. Lu, others will only congratulate and envy you, not laugh at you."
"Lie down again. I haven't finished the examination yet."
Lu Qiu lay down again and let Yu Zhiming continue the examination.
After a while, she noticed that Yu Zhiming's expression became solemn.
Lu Qiu couldn't help but feel his heart tighten.
"Doctor Yu, is there something wrong with the pregnancy?"
Yu Zhiming shook his head and said, "It's not pregnancy, it's colon cancer."
"You need surgery and chemotherapy."
"You need to terminate the pregnancy..."
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