Plague Doctor

After seeing 100 emergencies in one night, Liu Guolin was so tired that his chest pressed against his back. As soon as he returned to the dormitory and cleaned up, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep quickly.

His mobile phone has been set to vibrate. He has a girlfriend who is a nurse and works in this hospital. She is on duty now, so there is nothing to celebrate.

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 it was not all 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...

problem occurs? Liu Guolin was shocked, looking at these missed calls, what happened...

"Here it comes, here it comes." He stood up quickly, put on a pair of trousers, pulled a shirt over 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. Oh, go to sleep. You are sleeping so deeply... The Secret Bureau is coming quickly." Everyone is 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 is here?

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... …

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 tertiary 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 dean, deputy dean and other high-level 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. By the time Liu Guolin arrived and put on light protective clothing, there was already a large group of big shots here, and 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 quite stern. Liu Guolin felt a little uneasy while taking the blame, feeling 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, his eyes behind the round glasses were quite puzzled, "Director Zhang and Director Zhou have made 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 fine. We have three patients in one night. This is not normal..."

Tourette syndrome? Liu Guolin was startled, but he woke up the dreamer 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 yet clear. It mostly occurs in children, usually 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, to coughing, clearing the throat, facial wrinkles, etc. It is often mistaken by others for Making faces, in severe cases it will spread throughout the body, and symptoms similar to epilepsy will appear during tics.

Foul speech is a vocal convulsion in which the patient suddenly makes strange sounds that sound like cursing, barking like a dog, and other weird sounds. But Tourette's symptoms only occur in a small number of patients with tics. Three patients in one night, all with 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 medical treatments.

What patients need is psychological treatment and behavioral management, and learn how to participate in the world of normal people in such an abnormal manner. However, patients will have a higher incidence of comorbidities,

For example, Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, etc., it is often these comorbidities that need to be treated.

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 would be no attacks at all for a month or two, but then they would happen again.

In most children, the severity of symptoms decreases as they reach adolescence, and in many patients symptoms disappear completely as adults. Therefore, it is not easy for patients with this disease to be correctly identified. Many patients with mild disease do not even know that they have this disease throughout their lives. They are only considered by parents, teachers, friends, etc. to be naughty, weird, restless, impolite, and unprovoked since childhood. Just making faces and swearing.

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 could not diagnose a single patient with Tourette's syndrome for a long time, and now there are three at once...

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 could finish reading all the information in his hand, people from the Dongzhou Secret Bureau arrived at just 6:30 in the morning.

One team is 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 rushed to greet them, followed by Liu Guolin and Zhang Wenjun.

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