Time flies and it is Monday, the beginning of a new week.
Yu Zhiming woke up on time at six in the morning. He first checked his mobile phone to see if there were any missed calls or messages, and then read the news about the major earthquake in Türkiye on his mobile phone.
According to reports, the epicenter of this earthquake was located near a large city, causing a large number of houses to collapse, and the predicted death toll is at least tens of thousands.
After the earthquake, countries around the world, including China, announced that they would send rescue teams to participate in the rescue as soon as possible and donated a large amount of disaster relief supplies.
Yu Zhiming searched for a while but found no reports that the Turkish side had specifically requested him to participate in on-site rescue efforts.
Obviously, this message should be blocked...
He got up, washed up, and started exercising. In addition to aerobics, Yu Zhiming also focused on practicing the breathing method of the longevity exercise, as well as the two moves he had already mastered...
At around 8:30 in the morning, Yu Zhiming and Zhou Mo rushed to the third basement floor of Zhizhen Building of Huashan Hospital.
Shen Qi, Zhou Luo and others came forward together.
Duan Yi chattered and reported first: "Doctor Yu, Doctor Yu, we found a very strange case, a suspected case of Susac's syndrome in a man."
"His memory can only last two or three hours."
Susac's syndrome?!
The name of this disease immediately aroused Yu Zhiming's great interest.
This is a rare medical condition with unknown cause and only two to three hundred known cases worldwide.
The patient has a brain lesion and his memory can only last for twenty-four hours at most.
The patients are mainly women between the ages of 20 and 40, and they suffer from symptoms such as headaches and photophobia. Vision, hearing and balance are also affected.
Yu Zhiming first learned about this disease from the film and television work "Fifty First Loves".
However, because this disease is quite rare, most large hospitals' neurology departments may not encounter a single case in several years or even decades.
Yu Zhiming asked to confirm: "Really? False? The memory only lasts for two or three hours before it's overwritten and starts all over again?"
Shen Qi replied softly, "Doctor Yu, the patient's memory can only last for two or three hours. Director Qi's diagnosis is paroxysmal amnesia caused by hippocampal ischemia."
Yu Zhiming instructed with great interest: "Doctor Shen, please tell me the specific situation in detail."
Shen Qi and others followed Yu Zhiming into the soundproof office.
"Doctor Yu, the patient is my friend's father who had been hungry for 24 hours on Friday night."
Shen Qi continued as he watched Yu Zhiming put on his white coat. "After he regained consciousness, he assured us that he had just eaten and hadn't gone a day without eating."
"I initially thought he was suffering from Alzheimer's and had lost his memory, but after further investigation I suddenly realized that his memory only stopped at his nap on Thursday afternoon."
"Also, every two or three hours, his new memories would be overwritten."
"So all day Friday, his memory told him he woke up after a nap after dinner and didn't need to eat."
After a pause, Shen Qi continued, "On Saturday, I asked Director Qi to examine him. The cerebral angiography revealed significant stenosis in the artery supplying blood to the hippocampus."
"Director Qi believes that the persistent ischemia of the hippocampus prevents it from converting short-term memory into long-term memory."
"Not only that, the hippocampus reboots every two to three hours, creating a similar effect to a blackout caused by alcohol."
The hippocampus is located deep within the brain, between the thalamus and the medial temporal lobe, and is part of the limbic system.
It is mainly responsible for the storage, conversion and orientation of short-term memory.
Substances such as alcohol and fusel oil in wine have the effect of stimulating and paralyzing the central nervous system.
Alcohol, if consumed in small amounts, can make people excited; drinking too much can make people uncomfortable.
When people drink too much alcohol, it paralyzes the hippocampus, inhibiting its memory storage and conversion functions, which in turn leads to memory fragmentation after being drunk.
Yu Zhiming recalled some knowledge about the hippocampus, and then Shen Qi continued, "We gave them medications to dilate blood vessels, lower blood lipids, and provide anticoagulants, but the effects were not significant."
"Director Qi said that given the patient's condition, the only options are to slowly nurse him back to health, or to undergo surgery regardless of the risks."
Yu Zhiming saw Shen Qi looking at him and asked, "Do you want to have an interventional surgery?"
Shen Qi asked expectantly, "Doctor Yu, can you?"
Yu Zhiming recalled the information he obtained from the cardiovascular examination he performed on the man on Friday night and said, "His atherosclerosis is quite severe. Interventional surgery can easily cause plaque to break off from the blood vessel wall, leading to vascular obstruction."
He shook his head and said, "The risk is too great."
"It's a safe way to keep your body healthy, control the three highs, and slowly unblock your blood vessels."
Shen Qi also knew that Dr. Yu’s suggestion was the best option for Uncle Qian’s situation.
The next moment, he suddenly heard Yu Zhiming ask, "Doctor Shen, are you interested in that Qian Ya?"
"No, it's meaningless..."
Shen Qi replied in a panic: "Doctor Yu, don't think too much, she and I are just ordinary friends."
He further explained: "She made it clear that she would not choose a boyfriend who was a doctor who was busy with work and had no time for her."
Hearing him say this, Zhou Mo, Zhou Luo, Duan Yi, and Sui Chi all smiled meaningfully.
Zhou Luo chuckled and said, "It turns out it's not that you're not interested in her, it's that she rejected you a long time ago."
Duan Yi said angrily, "What's wrong with being a doctor? It's simply that people don't like you!"
"As long as someone likes you, then occupation, family, age, family opposition, education, wealth, beauty, race, etc., are all irrelevant."
Zhou Mo also echoed: "That's right, that's right!"
"For the simplest example, let's take Dr. Yu's conditions. Which girl would complain that he's busy with work, can't accompany her, or isn't considerate enough?"
Yu Zhiming noticed that Shen Qi looked a little uneasy, so he changed the subject and said, "It's getting late, everyone should get ready."
"Five minutes later, work begins..."
Monday is Yu Zhiming's outpatient day.
Yu Zhiming, along with Dr. Qin Qiushi, Zhou Luo, Shen Qi and others, worked in the soundproof examination room until noon, completing the diagnosis and treatment of a total of 27 registered patients.
He was about to go back to the office for lunch, but as he walked out of the soundproof examination room, he was almost hit in the face by a microphone.
Yu Zhiming took a half step back and saw that it was a beautiful young woman in elegant clothes, holding a microphone in her hand.
Next to him, there was a bearded man with a camera on his shoulder, filming him.
Yu Zhiming frowned as he heard the woman on the microphone in front of him say, "Hello, Doctor Yu! I'm Xie Qing, a reporter for Binhai TV's Social Economics column."
"Can I ask you a few questions?"
"No!" Yu Zhiming replied simply and walked away.
Xie Qing was a little stunned. He didn't expect that Yu Zhiming would be so disrespectful as to directly refuse the interview.
She took two quick steps to catch up with Yu Zhiming and asked loudly, "Doctor Yu, the Turkish government has invited you to participate in the treatment of earthquake victims."
"What do you think? Do you agree to the invitation?"
At this moment, there are still many patients and their families in the corridor waiting for treatment in the afternoon.
Hearing this question, everyone looked curiously at Yu Zhiming who had stopped.
Yu Zhiming pretended to be dumbfounded and asked, "Is there such a thing? How come I don't know about it?"
She said with pride, "Doctor Yu, you may not know this, but you are the only person specifically invited by the Turkish authorities since the earthquake."
"They said that in the disaster area where electricity hadn't been restored and large medical equipment couldn't be used, your skills in detecting and treating injuries, Doctor Yu, could have saved hundreds or even thousands of injured people from death."
After a pause, Xie Qing asked again, "Doctor Yu, based on the doctor's duty to save lives and the spirit of humanitarianism and internationalism, will you accept the invitation and go to the rescue?"
Yu Zhiming glanced at Xie Qing and found that she was full of excitement and anticipation.
Is this guy an enemy spy who has infiltrated our country? Or is he just a fool and naive person who just sits on the wrong side of the fence?
Yu Zhiming said seriously, "First of all, I want to thank Turkey for its trust and respect for me. Also, I express my deepest sympathy for Turkey's devastating earthquake."
"Just about this invitation..."
After a pause, Yu Zhiming said with a heavy face: "I can only say sorry."
"I'm very busy with work, and I'm constantly seeing patients with serious illnesses. Basically, I can screen out five or six cancer patients every day, and there are even more patients with advanced cancer waiting for my treatment."
"I can't leave."
Xie Qing looked shocked and asked, "Doctor Yu, can't you temporarily hand over your work at the hospital to a colleague?"
"There are hundreds and thousands of wounded soldiers in Turkey, waiting for you to rescue them."
Yu Zhiming said in a deep voice, "Thank you, reporter. It seems you didn't get to know me well before you came. No one else can replace me or do my job in the hospital."
Xie Qing added, "Even if I can't replace you or do the job for you, can I just pause for a while?"
She emphasized again, "There are hundreds and thousands of dying people in Turkey waiting for you to save them."
Yu Zhiming frowned and said, "Reporter Xie, please don't exaggerate my role."
"I'm just a young doctor with limited abilities. I can't save or decide the lives of hundreds or thousands of people."
"Also, for many seriously ill patients, time is life. There can be no pause or delay. No one knows if the condition will suddenly flare up or worsen in the next moment..."
Yu Zhiming asked bluntly, "In your opinion, should I abandon them and go to Tuguo to participate in the rescue?"
Xie Qing quickly denied it, "Doctor Yu, please don't misinterpret what I meant."
"I just feel that there are hundreds or thousands of people in Turkey waiting for you to save their lives. How many people in the hospital need your treatment?"
"A dozen people? Or dozens?"
Yu Zhiming said slowly, "Which is more important, the life of one person or the lives of a hundred people? This has always been a controversial issue."
"But, for me, I would choose to save those around me who are within my reach, whether it's one person or a hundred..."
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