Chapter 530 The More Ordinary, the More Troublesome
It was nearly ten o'clock in the evening when Zhou Mo returned to the villa. He saw Yu Zhiming and Qing Ning, who were wearing couple's cotton pajamas, snuggling on the sofa and watching TV together.
"I'm a little surprised to see you two being so civilized watching TV in the living room."
Zhou Mo joked again, "According to common sense, if you're not in the bed carriage, you should be in the bedroom upstairs."
Yu Zhiming gave this guy a sidelong glance.
Gu Qingning chuckled and said, "It's not that we don't want to, it's just that my body won't allow it, you know, hehe."
She stood up to take the several takeout boxes from Zhou Mo and asked, "What's delicious?"
"Two servings of fruit, one serving of braised chicken wings, one serving of braised duck tongue, and two servings of Yangzhou fried rice."
While Zhou Mo was introducing, he and Qing Ning placed the food they brought on the coffee table.
Zhou Mo came to his senses and asked with concern: "This braised duck tongue is a bit spicy, can you eat it with lime?"
Gu Qingning responded with action and directly took a duck tongue and put it into his mouth.
Zhou Mo said excitedly again: "Doctor Yu, Qing Ning, the restaurant chef told me that most of the nursing staff in the sanatorium have gone to the mountains to look for people."
"It's said that a couple, still high school students, were so upset that they ran to the mountains to commit suicide. Their parents offered a large reward to search the mountains for them."
"Even the waiters and kitchen helpers in the restaurant have gone there, so now the chef is the only one on duty."
Gu Qingning nodded and said, "We know about this matter. We'll give 10,000 yuan per person, and 100,000 yuan if we find the person."
She picked up another duck tongue and said with satisfaction, "It tastes pretty good."
Zhou Mo sighed softly and said, "I often see news online about students who are desperate and committing suicide."
"Is it that today's children have too weak psychological endurance?"
Yu Zhiming said softly, "It's because information is so developed nowadays that you can find everything online, big or small."
"In the past, there were many children and adults who committed suicide."
"In the ten or so years since I was a kid, I know of three people in our village who committed suicide for various reasons. In the past ten years, I haven't heard of anyone in our village who has committed suicide."
Yu Zhiming took a bite of a braised chicken wing, then pointed at two servings of steaming fried rice.
"You brought them all for me?"
"Can you eat it?" Zhou Mo asked back.
Yu Zhiming weighed his stomach and said frankly, "I can eat, but I'm about to rest, so I don't want to eat so much."
Zhou Mo rolled his eyes, imitating Yu Zhiming's previous behavior, and said, "It's right that you don't want to eat so much."
"One is for you, and one is for me and Qing Ning."
"Lime, let's divide it..."
While Zhou Mo was distributing fried rice, he said, "Doctor Yu, the Chinese American has arrived in Binhai and is staying at the Youyou Hotel."
"He also asked if he could send me all the medical records since he became ill so that you could study them first?"
Yu Zhiming shook his head and said, "No need."
"Medical experts at home and abroad have not found any problems in his various physical examination data."
"While I don't underestimate myself, I won't be arrogant enough to think I can see anything unusual in the medical data."
He looked at his hands and said, "I hope I can find something with these hands during tomorrow's examination."
Gu Qingning went to the water dispenser in the living room, got three cups of hot water, and brought them over.
"Zhiming, what exactly is that person's condition? He couldn't be cured in the United States, and even after returning home for treatment, it didn't work."
Zhou Mo responded first: "There is only one symptom, fever."
"The fever can't even be cured?"
Zhou Mo was full of disbelief and questioned, "No way? Are the doctors that person found all good-for-nothings?"
Yu Zhiming took a sip of water and washed down the fried rice in his mouth, explaining, "A fever with a known cause is quite easy to treat, but a fever with an unknown cause is more difficult to deal with."
This Chinese American has been experiencing unexplained fevers of up to 38 degrees Celsius, or even over 39 degrees Celsius, for the past six months.
He underwent several full-body examinations in the United States, but the cause of the fever was not found.
Now we can only rely on antipyretics to force down the temperature.
Because the cause of the disease has not been found, targeted treatment cannot be given to eradicate it. In the past few months, he can only cycle between sudden fever and taking antipyretics.
"Qingning, let me tell you something. Although fever is a common symptom among patients, it is a very headache for us doctors if the fever remains undiagnosed."
Yu Zhiming slowly explained, "Fever awaiting investigation refers to fever of unknown cause that requires further examination."
"It's a headache for us doctors. It's difficult to diagnose because there are so many things that can cause a fever."
Yu Zhiming took a sip of water and further explained, "Let's put it this way. Various headaches, brain fever, and internal heat can all cause fever. From minor colds to major tumors, they can all cause fever."
"There are also some more complex autoimmune diseases that can cause fevers that aren't responding to anti-inflammatory injections."
"When making a diagnosis, we have to rule out various conditions one by one, from the most common colds, fevers, and pneumonia to the most complex autoimmune or rheumatic diseases."
"Also, fever is a systemic symptom, but it is very likely caused by a small local cause."
"The doctor had to look for them one by one, do a lot of tests, and rule them out one after another."
"Sometimes, we have to go through the entire internal medicine book and exhaustively rule out the cause of his fever, but in the end, it's still difficult to confirm the diagnosis, or we need to do some more complex tests."
"Sometimes, we just give up on finding the cause and treat the symptoms with fever-reducing drugs instead of the root cause."
Gu Qingning let out a long sigh and said, "I understand. The main reason is that there are too many causes of fever, and this is the only symptom. You need to spend a lot of energy to do a test to eliminate them."
Yu Zhiming hummed and said, "We doctors are not afraid of patients showing too many symptoms."
"The more symptoms a patient has, the more clues they provide, making it easier for us to identify the source and confirm the diagnosis."
"The more common a single symptom is, the more troublesome it is."
Yu Zhiming sighed again and said, "Take this single fever as an example. This situation often occurs."
"The patient was admitted to the hospital and underwent a bunch of tests, spending a lot of money, but the doctors still didn't know what caused the fever."
"The patients and their families are also very angry."
"It's just a minor fever, and the hospital has run so many tests, but still has no clue. Are they deliberately trying to rip them off?"
"Sometimes, the cause of the fever is still under investigation, and the patient recovers on his own and no longer has a fever."
"The doctor didn't know why, but the patient recovered and was discharged..."
Gu Qingning chuckled and said, "This kind of situation won't happen to you, Zhiming."
"You can tell what's causing the fever by just checking the patient's body."
Yu Zhiming smiled softly and said, "I'm not omniscient. If the patient's internal organs or tissues don't have some pathological changes, or there are some causes of fever, I can't detect them."
At this point, Yu Zhiming looked at Zhou Mo and asked, "Did the patient bring the chess piece?"
Zhou Mo replied, "He said he asked his family to send an urgent international package, and it has already been delivered to him."
Yu Zhiming uttered a soft "oh" and stopped talking, eating the fried rice in big mouthfuls.
Gu Qingning suddenly chuckled and said, "During dinner, Uncle Yan said that Doctor Tang likes to teach others. Actually, Zhiming, you are the same. You like to give us scientific advice at every turn."
Yu Zhiming explained: "I was afraid you wouldn't understand, so I explained it in more detail."
"If you don't like what I hear, I'll..."
Gu Qingning interrupted hurriedly, "I like it, I like it very much! But no matter what you said, I like it."
"This should be the case of loving someone and loving their dog, right? Hehehe!"
Zhou Mo protested in a feigned dissatisfaction: "Hey, hey, pay attention, I'm still here."
"It's very immoral for you to show off your love like this."
Gu Qingning chuckled and said, "If you can't stand it, go find one quickly."
"Would you like me to introduce you to one?"
Zhou Mo glanced at her and quickly picked up a chicken wing and fed it into her little mouth.
Yu Zhiming continued, "Teacher Qi said that because Qi Zhen is returning to China, his family is organizing a gathering for relatives and friends this Sunday."
"You're invited too, right?"
Zhou Mo nodded, and then said with a depressed look: "Qi Zhen that guy changed his target and started to please my mother."
"He was so attentive and went out of his way to pick up my mom at the New Year's concert on New Year's Day."
She bit her lip and said, "I have a feeling that guy might cause trouble at the party on Sunday."
"Propose to you in public?" Gu Qingning's eyes widened, with a gossipy expression on her face.
Zhou Mo was stunned for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "This possibility, let alone this, cannot be ruled out."
She hesitated and said, "How about I use illness to escape from the party that day?"
Yu Zhiming shook his head and said, "You can't avoid the fifteenth even if you try to avoid it. It's better to face it than to avoid it."
"If he declares his love in public, and you really don't want to accept him, rejecting him publicly might make him give up completely?"
Gu Qingning roared, "Momo, you wouldn't just agree to this romantic advance in a moment of excitement, would you?"
Zhou Mo imagined a romantic scene from a film or TV series where someone proposed to him in public, but then replaced the protagonist with himself...
"Won't!"
"I'm a principled person, not a love-brained person. I won't impulsively agree to something just for the sake of momentary romance or emotion."
After the three of them had their midnight snack and chatted for another ten or twenty minutes, they each took a shower and went to bed.
Yu Zhiming still slept in the bed carriage...
After an unknown amount of time, Yu Zhiming was suddenly awakened by the ringing of the phone.
He picked up the phone and saw that it was Qing Ning calling.
"Tomorrow, Uncle Yan called and said that one of those who went into the mountains to search had an accident, and that the injury was quite serious."
"On the way to the sanatorium."
"Zhiming, what do you think about this?"
Yu Zhiming immediately replied: "I'll get up right away..."
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