After seeing 100 emergency rooms in one night, Liu Guolin was so tired that his chest pressed against his back. As soon as he returned to the dormitory and finished cleaning up, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep quickly.
His cell phone has been set to vibrate. He has a girlfriend who is a nurse and works at this hospital. She is on duty now, so there is nothing wrong with her.
As expected, Liu Guolin fell asleep until he didn't know when, until the door was banged and someone shouted louder and louder: "Old Liu, Old Liu!"
Who...when? The soul is screaming in the middle of the night...
Liu Guolin reluctantly opened his eyes and took a look at the mobile phone on the bedside table. He saw that it was already six o'clock in the morning and there were 15 missed calls... He was shocked. When he opened it, he saw that not all of them were calls from his girlfriend.
Most of the calls were from Director Li, within just over half an hour.
With this excitement, he also heard clearly that the person calling the door was Zhang Wenjun, a female colleague from the department. Wasn't this guy going to take over the day shift...
Something happened? Liu Guolin was shocked. Looking at these missed calls, what happened...
"Here it comes, here it comes." He quickly stood up, put on a pair of trousers, pulled over a shirt and put it on, and hurried to open the door.
She saw Zhang Wenjun standing anxiously outside the door. As soon as she saw him, she immediately complained: "Why didn't you answer the phone? I thought you were missing. Go to sleep. You are sleeping so deeply... The Secret Bureau is coming.
There are people here, hurry up and clean up, the director is very anxious, the dean and the others are all here, oh, hurry up!"
Liu Guolin was really confused. What...? Someone from the Secret Bureau came?
He then thought of the little girl in the last few clinics he saw last night, blinking her eyes and making weird noises... Is this really related to supernatural powers?
How could it be possible? The patient clearly seems to be fine with nothing, and his vital signs are all normal... What kind of disease is it? Is it contagious? It shouldn't be, otherwise the people knocking on the door now should be disease control personnel wearing protective clothing...
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In the midst of chaotic thoughts, Liu Guolin hurriedly went to the bathroom to wash up, put on a white coat, and followed Zhang Wenjun to the outpatient building.
Although the Third People's Hospital of Nanxiang City is a top-level hospital, it has never been considered a big hospital even in the city. However, early that morning, with a call from the Tianji Bureau of nearby Dongzhou City, the hospital quickly
Blocked by the police and disease control, this place has a different scene.
The director, deputy director and other senior officials rushed over. Director of the emergency department Zhang Dongliang, director of pediatrics Zhou Guihong and others rushed to the lobby of the isolation ward area. By the time Liu Guolin arrived and put on light protective clothing, the place was already full of people.
Among the group of big shots, he, a little doctor, was the one who arrived very late.
"Xiao Liu, you really are!" When Director Zhang saw Liu Guolin, he was so anxious that he almost cursed, "You have set a big trap."
"Director, I..." Liu Guolin hesitated, but in the end he said nothing and silently took the blame.
The dean and the others who were not far away also looked at him, which was a bit harsh. While Liu Guolin was taking the blame, he felt really uneasy and felt that he was going to be unlucky.
"Don't be convinced, go and see for yourself." Director Zhang sighed, "The three patients have the same symptoms and the same epidemiological characteristics."
Liu Guolin was startled, walked a few steps into the corridor, and looked into the three isolation wards. There was a child in each, anxiously accompanied by his parents. The three patients were all between 5 and 7 years old.
Girls, Guo Qinying who he saw last night was one of them.
"What's going on..." Liu Guolin gently asked Zhang Wenjun next to him, why is this like an infectious disease...
Such obvious group characteristics are consistent with an epidemiological outbreak.
"I don't know yet." Zhang Wenjun also whispered, with a very confused look behind his round glasses, "Director Zhang, Director Zhou and others have conventional judgments. It is very similar to Tourette's syndrome, but the onset of Tourette's syndrome in preschool children
The rate is about 1%. One patient is nothing, but we have three patients in one night. This is not normal..."
Tourette's disease? Liu Guolin was startled, but he woke up the man in his dream with a word, yes, why didn't he think of this rare disease last night...
At this time, Zhang Wenjun handed him a stack of information and said, "Look quickly, people from Dongzhou Tianji Bureau are here."
Liu Guolin took the information and immediately looked through it. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead as he read it. It was terrible, it was really terrible.
Tourette's syndrome, also known as Tourette syndrome in children.
Its cause and pathology are not clear yet. It mostly occurs in children, usually starting between the ages of 5 and 8. It consists of two main symptoms, tics and Tourette's syndrome.
Tics refer to twitching in movements. The patient will feel an unwanted but uncontrollable impulse in the muscles. It usually starts from blinking the eyes, then coughing, clearing the throat, facial wrinkles, etc. It is often mistaken by others as being.
Making faces, if severe, will spread throughout the body, and symptoms similar to epilepsy will appear during tics.
Tourette's speech is a vocal convulsion. The patient suddenly makes strange sounds, which sounds like cursing, barking like a dog, and other weird sounds. However, the symptom of Tourette's speech only appears in a small number of patients with tics. One night
Three patients all had two symptoms, which is certainly not normal...
Normal Tourette's syndrome is not contagious and will not adversely affect the patient's intelligence and life expectancy. Some celebrities have suffered from this disease, and some historians suspect that Mozart suffered from Tourette syndrome.
In most cases, tics and Tourette's syndrome do not require treatment, and there are currently no good drug treatments.
What patients need is psychological treatment and behavioral management, and learn how to participate in the world of normal people in this abnormal manner. However, patients will have a higher incidence of comorbidities, such as Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism.
, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc., it is often these comorbidities that require treatment.
The problem is that just like Director Zhang and the others are confused...
The incidence of Tourette's syndrome is not that high, and after the onset of the disease, patients do not twitch and make strange noises all the time, but intermittently, several times a day, or several times over several days, and some even throughout the year.
There will be no attacks at all for a month or two, but then they will happen again.
Moreover, when most children with the disease reach adolescence, the severity of their symptoms will decrease, and many patients will have their symptoms disappear completely as adults. Therefore, patients with this disease are not easy to be correctly identified, and many patients with mild symptoms do not even know that they have it throughout their lives.
The disease is just that parents, teachers, friends, etc. think that this guy has been naughty, weird, restless, rude, and makes faces and curses for no reason since he was a child.
Especially in China, this knowledge is not popular yet. The older generation of parents basically don’t pay attention to it, and young parents don’t know much about it.
Therefore, their doctors were unable to diagnose a single patient with Tourette's syndrome for a long time, and now there are three...
What's going on? Liu Guolin looked at the three patients in different isolation wards with some confusion.
This disease is more common in men, and the incidence rate is 3-4 times that of women. This has also led some parents to be misled by culture, thinking that it is normal for boys to be a bit naughty.
But now...they are all little girls...
Before Liu Guolin had finished reading all the information in his hand, people from the Dongzhou Secret Bureau arrived just at 6:30 in the morning.
One team was a doctor, a middle-aged man with a few young people, and another team, all wearing protective clothing. Seeing their arrival, the dean, deputy dean, Director Zhang and others hurriedly greeted them