Chapter 843: Seeing Through But Not Saying It Out
“Ah…ah…scream…”
"You're almost shouting..."
Around five o'clock in the afternoon, in a soundproof office on the third basement floor of Zhizhen Building, a woman in her twenties with a short ponytail and a dark complexion kept inducing a little boy of four or five years old.
But the little boy kept his lips tightly pursed and was reluctant to speak, which made the ponytailed woman's voice gradually rise.
The expression on her face became more and more irritated.
The little boy who refuses to speak is from Luping Mining Company. His nickname is Taotao. Although he is four years and five months old this year, he still cannot speak clearly.
At around 4:30 in the afternoon, he came to Zhizhen Building with his mother and first underwent a detailed examination by Yu Zhiming on his brain, lungs, trachea, throat, vocal cords, mouth, tongue, nasal cavity and other organs and parts closely related to pronunciation.
The result was that Yu Zhiming did not find any abnormalities worthy of attention.
Next, Yu Zhiming will conduct further articulation disorder examination on Taotao.
Articulation refers to the process by which the air flow exhaled from the lungs passes through the vibration of the vocal cords and then through the friction or blockage of the articulation organs such as the lips, tongue, palate, and pharynx to produce speech.
It is completed by the coordinated efforts of three parts: breathing movement, vocal movement and tuning movement.
When the movement strength, movement coordination, movement direction, etc. of the articulatory organs are abnormal, articulation disorders may occur, leading to unclear pronunciation or even aphasia.
For this examination, Yu Zhiming needs to do a detailed examination while he pronounces the words, so as to determine which part or aspect has a problem that prevents him from speaking normally.
However, I don’t know what was wrong with this little brat. Five or six minutes passed and he just refused to speak.
The child's mother's guiding voice brought out her unconcealable anxiety and irritation.
Yu Zhiming also gradually lost his patience.
There is still a lot of work waiting to be done.
Moreover, Yu Zhiming, who has always been afraid of the evil voice of children, has always lacked patience and kept his distance from them.
"You don't have to shout. Crying is also fine." Yu Zhiming gave a sinister and obvious hint.
These words made Zhou Mo and Duan Yi, who were standing beside them, frown and speechless.
This is too unscrupulous and does not protect children's rights and physical and mental health at all.
The woman with ponytail was very quick and decisive. She reached out and grabbed Taotao, then slapped him twice on the butt.
The sound is very solid and powerful.
Yu Zhiming then saw Taotao's eyes filled with tears and an expression on his face as if he was about to cry.
But he kept his little mouth tight and refused to cry.
Moreover, the angry look in his eyes as he stared at Yu Zhiming clearly showed that he knew who the real culprit was.
The woman with the ponytail raised her hand again. Taotao saw it from the corner of her eye, and she opened her mouth and burst into tears.
At first he was trying to suppress his sobs, but once he let go of the emotion, he could no longer hold it back and soon burst into loud crying.
The noise gave Yu Zhiming a headache.
He could only put on two noise-canceling earplugs to block out the noise and reach out to touch Taotao's neck.
Taotao twisted his body, trying to avoid it.
The woman with the ponytail raised her hands high again with a stern expression.
Taotao didn't dare to hide anymore, but cried even louder...
Yu Zhiming closed his eyes slightly, carefully feeling the air compressed from Taotao's lungs, rushing out of the trachea, stirring the vocal cords to produce sound waves, and then resonating through the nasal cavity and mouth, turning into a deafening cry...
Soon, he felt awkward.
The crying sound is not very coordinated and mellow. To be precise, the organs that control the crying sound and the muscles are not coordinating well.
Our pronunciation requires the mobilization of more than forty muscle groups, which work together in precise coordination to produce the desired sound accurately.
If these muscle groups cannot work in unison and there is confusion in their coordination, it will result in unclear pronunciation or no sound at all.
This situation is mostly caused by damage to the brain's language center, information transmission center, or peripheral neuropathy.
Yu Zhiming began to focus on exploring the nervous system.
He first explored the terminal nerves that control the pronunciation muscles, and then went up to the intervertebral nerves of the cervical spine. Yu Zhiming finally found the problem.
"Has your child ever suffered a cervical spine injury?"
When Yu Zhiming asked, the woman with the ponytail recalled, "No! Since the child was born, he has been very precious and well taken care of. He has never been bumped or burned."
Yu Zhiming said in a deep voice, "There's a dislocation between your child's second and third cervical vertebrae. Although the injury is relatively minor now, I can still detect it."
He considered it carefully for a moment and said, "It must have been at least two years. With a dislocation of this magnitude, the child would have cried for at least three to five days. And you don't have any recollection of it?"
"More than two years ago?"
The woman with the ponytail reminisced for a moment and said, "More than two years ago, my mother had an operation. I went back to take care of her for nearly a month, and then I gave the child to his grandmother to take care of."
"Could it be something that happened during that time?"
this……
Yu Zhiming also didn't want to cause conflict between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in their family, so he said, "It's no longer important to investigate the cause."
"I suspect that the dislocation and repositioning of the cervical vertebrae caused damage to the nerves that control pronunciation."
Yu Zhiming thought for a moment and said, "We need to refer him to the neurology department to do a functional test on the vagus nerve, recurrent laryngeal nerve, and superior laryngeal nerve that control speech..."
Having temporarily solved the problem of the aphasic child, Yu Zhiming had no time to rest. He immediately began his cancer screening work as a volunteer for the Very Early Cancer Project...
At 6:20 p.m., Yu Zhiming didn't have time to eat dinner, and conducted physical examinations on the 30 volunteers who participated in the Gancaotang Ye family drug trial.
For these volunteers, Yu Zhiming mainly examined their livers to determine whether their alcoholic liver disease and liver function had improved or worsened compared to last Tuesday, and provided quantitative data as much as possible.
To facilitate quantification and comparison, Yu Zhiming set the volunteers' last alcoholic liver disease level and liver function test baseline at 100 respectively.
After this inspection, he marked each person with a new value of 103, 102, or 99, 98, and so on.
It was not until after seven o'clock in the evening that Yu Zhiming finished his work for the day and set out on his journey home.
After the stretcher drove out of the hospital and onto the main road, Zhou Mo suddenly said, "Qi Zhen called me."
Yu Zhiming, slumped in the back seat, did not respond lazily.
Zhou Mo continued, "He took the initiative to tell me about Liu Yan. In his words, Liu Yan pursued her and was relentless, even offering him money to trade futures."
Yu Zhiming snorted softly and said sarcastically, "He's treating you like a three-year-old child."
Zhou Mo took a deep breath and sighed, "I didn't expect him to become like this. He is completely different from before."
After a pause, she continued, "He called me just to find out the director's attitude."
"I told him bluntly that the director was completely disappointed in him and had given up hope and would no longer help him. I asked him to return the money as soon as possible and properly resolve the issue."
"Otherwise, just wait for the police to come."
The next moment, Zhou Mo said slowly: "After finishing the call with Qi Zhen, I became more worried."
"Doctor Yu, do you think he'll escape too? Like my classmate who fled to northern Myanmar, to the United States?"
Yu Zhiming whispered, "Isn't it just right to escape?"
"After making everyone completely disappointed and giving up on him, he lived a carefree life in the United States that many people envied."
Zhou Mo smiled and said, "He studied there for many years, so adapting and supporting himself shouldn't be a problem. If he finds a local to marry, the naturalization issue will also be solved."
"So, this is a pretty good path?"
She said with a sense of justice, "Hey, Doctor Yu, do you want to remind that Liu Yan?"
"And the Director?"
Yu Zhiming said: "I advise you not to meddle in other people's business. If you can think of this, others can think of it too."
Zhou Mo suddenly realized something and said, "That's right. Maybe the director is really hoping that he will escape. If I reveal this, it will be difficult for him to pretend that he didn't think of it."
"Yeah, this should be seen through but not said out loud."
Zhou Mo praised, "Doctor Yu, you actually understand the ways of the world better than I do this time. That's really rare."
Yu Zhiming snorted softly and ignored her.
Zhou Mo said with interest: "That Shen Yiyi, Doctor Shen said, has decided to take a one and a half month trip across the country."
She added with emotion: "How enviable! I also wish I could take a leisure trip at my leisure."
Yu Zhiming reminded him, “When I take my mandatory vacation, your dream of a leisure trip will come true.”
“We can start planning now.”
Zhou Mo's face lit up immediately, but then his expression drooped again. He said, "What I need first is not traveling, but rest. I'll sleep for three days and three nights first."
Yu Zhiming couldn't help but teasingly said, "From what you said, it seems as if your daily work is more tiring than mine?"
Zhou Mo snorted, "I accompany you to go out early and come back late every day. Although the degree of fatigue from this job is not as high as yours, it is not much different."
"Please don't forget, I'm a girl."
Yu Zhiming rolled his eyes in response...
Around eight o'clock in the evening, Yu Zhiming returned to his home in Junshan Mansion and found that Gu Qingran was also there.
"What's up?"
Gu Qingran chuckled softly and said, "About the main building design of Huashan Second Hospital."
He explained: "When Ning'an Hospital was first built, several design proposals were collected."
"There's one I think is pretty good. I was thinking of using it when Ning'an Hospital expands and builds a branch."
"This Huashan Second Hospital is not much different from the Ning'an Hospital branch. I think it is necessary to contribute this design."
Yu Zhiming took the drawings handed over by Gu Qingran.
This is a schematic diagram of the building's exterior.
Yu Zhiming saw a large building on the blueprint that looked like a Hakka walled house...
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