Liu Guolin was so tired that his chest was sticking to his back after attending 100 emergency cases in one night. As soon as he returned to the dormitory and cleaned up, he lay down on the bed and soon fell asleep.
His phone was set to vibrate. His girlfriend, a nurse, also worked at this hospital. She was on duty, so there was no need to celebrate the holidays.
Sure enough, Liu Guolin slept until he didn't know how long it was until someone knocked on his door. Someone shouted louder and louder, "Old Liu, Old Liu!"
Who is it … What time is it? Why is someone calling in the middle of the night …
Liu Guolin reluctantly opened his eyes and took his phone from the bedside table. It was already six o 'clock in the morning. There were 15 missed calls … He was shocked. When he opened them, he saw that not all of them were from his girlfriend. Most of them were from Director Li. All of them had been missed within the past half an hour.
With a jolt, he heard it was his female colleague, Zhang Wenjun. Wasn't she supposed to take over the day shift?
Something happened? Liu Guolin's heart skipped a beat as he looked at the missed calls. What happened?
"Coming, coming." He quickly got up, put on a pair of pants, pulled a shirt over himself, and hurried to open the door.
He saw Zhang Wenjun standing at the door anxiously. When she saw him, she grumbled, "Why didn't you answer the phone? I thought you were missing. Ah, go to sleep, you sure are a sound sleeper … The people from Phecda will be here soon. Pack up quickly, the department head is worried sick, even the hospital director is here. Oh, come on!"
Liu Guolin was dumbfounded. What …? Phecda is coming?
He immediately thought of the little girl he had seen last night. She blinked her eyes and made strange noises … Was, was this really related to supernatural forces?
How can this be? The patient looks fine, her vital signs are all normal … What kind of disease is it? Is it contagious? It shouldn't be, or else it would be the disease control officers in protective gear knocking on the door …
Liu Guolin hurried to the bathroom to wash up. He put on a white coat and followed Zhang Wenjun to the outpatient building.
Even though Nan Xiang City's Third People's Hospital was a Class Three Grade A hospital, it was not a big hospital even in the city. But one morning, with a call from Phecda from the neighboring Eastern City, the hospital was quickly cordoned off by the police and disease control center. The scene changed.
The hospital director, vice hospital director, and other higher-ups rushed over. Zhang Dongliang, the director of the Emergency Department, Zhou Guihong, the director of the Pediatrics Department, and the others rushed to the main hall of the isolation ward area. By the time Liu Guolin arrived and changed into the light protective suit, there was already a large group of big shots there, and as a young doctor, he was the one who arrived very late.
"Xiao Liu, you are really …!" When Director Zhang saw Liu Guolin, he was so anxious that he almost cursed, "You've made a big mess."
"Director, I …" Liu Guolin wanted to say something but didn't. In the end, he didn't say anything and silently took the blame.
Not far away from them, the Dean and the others also cast their gazes over. Their gazes were rather stern. While Liu Guolin was the scapegoat, he felt a little uneasy. He felt that he was going to be unlucky.
"Don't be so stubborn. Why don't you go and take a look for yourself?" Director Zhang sighed. "All three patients have the same symptoms and epidemiological characteristics."
Liu Guolin was startled. He walked down the corridor and glanced at the three isolation wards. Each of them had a child inside, and they were all accompanied by their anxious parents. The three patients were about five to seven years old, and they were all girls. Guo Qinying, whom he had seen the night before, was one of them.
"What's going on?" Liu Guolin turned to ask Zhang Wenjun, who was beside him. 'This looks like an infectious disease …'
With such obvious group characteristics, it matched the epidemiological characteristics of an outbreak.
"We still don't know," Zhang Wenjun said softly. Zhang Wenjun added softly. Her eyes behind her round glasses were filled with confusion. "Based on Doctor Zhang and Doctor Zhou's standard diagnosis, it looks like Tourette Syndrome but the incidence of Tourette Syndrome in preschool children is about 1%. One patient is fine but we have 3 patients in one night, this is not normal …"
'Tourette Syndrome?' Liu Guolin was startled. The words had woken him up. 'Yes, why didn't I think of this rare disease last night?'
At that moment, Zhang Wenjun passed him a stack of documents. "Take a look, the people from Eastern State Phecda will be here soon."
Liu Guolin accepted the documents and started to flip through them. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. 'This is bad, this is really bad.'
Tourette Syndrome was also known as Tourette Syndrome.
Its cause and pathology were still unknown. It was more common in children and usually started at five to eight years old. It consisted of two main symptoms, Tourette Syndrome and Tourette Syndrome.
Tourette Syndrome referred to the twitching of the eyes. The patient would feel an uncontrollable urge in their muscles. It usually started from blinking, then it would be followed by coughing, throat clearing, and facial wrinkling. It was often mistaken for a grimace. In serious cases, it would spread to the whole body. During the Tourette Syndrome, symptoms would appear similar to epilepsy.
The obscenities were spasms in the patient's voice. The patient would suddenly make strange noises that sounded like cursing, barking, and other strange noises. However, Tourette Syndrome only appeared in a small number of patients with Tourette Syndrome. Three patients in one night, all with two symptoms, of course, that was not normal …
Normal Tourette Syndrome was not contagious, it would not affect the patient's intelligence or life expectancy. Some famous people had suffered from this disease. Some historians even suspected Mozart to suffer from it.
Most of the time, Tourette Syndrome and Tourette Syndrome did not require treatment, and currently there was no good medication to treat it.
What the patients needed was psychological treatment and behavior management, to learn how to participate in the normal world with this abnormal attitude. However, the patients would suffer from more common complications like Asperger Syndrome, High Functioning Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and so on. It was these complications that needed treatment.
The problem was, just as Doctor Zhang and the rest were wondering …
The incidence of Tourette Syndrome was not that high. Furthermore, the patients would not twitch and make weird noises all the time, they would only act intermittently. Some would not act up at all for one or two months out of the year, but they would act up again after that.
Furthermore, most of the patients' symptoms would decrease by the time they reached puberty. Most of the patients would disappear completely after they reached adulthood. Therefore, it was not easy to identify patients with this disease. Many patients with less severe cases did not even know they had this disease. Their parents, teachers, and friends only saw them as mischievous, eccentric, restless, rude, and prone to making funny faces and cursing for no reason.
This was especially so considering the lack of knowledge in China. The older generation of parents would not pay attention to it, and the younger ones did not know much either.
Therefore, the doctors could not diagnose a single Tourette Syndrome patient for a long time, but now there were three …
'What is going on? ' Liu Guolin looked at the three patients in different isolation rooms in a daze.
The disease was more common in males, its incidence was 3 to 4 times higher than females. This was why some parents were misled into thinking that boys were naughty.
But now … they were all girls …
Before Liu Guolin could finish reading all the information he had, the people from Eastern State Phecda arrived at 6: 30 am.
The first group consisted of doctors, a middle-aged man and a few young people. The other group was dressed in protective gear. Seeing them arrive, the hospital director, vice director, and Doctor Zhang hurried forward to welcome them. Liu Guolin and Zhang Wenjun followed behind them.
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