Zheng Ren and Su Yun changed their clothes in the changing room. Zheng Ren remained silent.
"What are you thinking about?" Su Yun asked.
"The children's illness."
"Do you have any shame?" Su Yun asked disdainfully. "You just graduated a few years ago and you're already calling them children. Is that something you can call them?"
"I've been a chief resident for a year and I feel a lot older," Zheng Ren said.
"It's only been a few months. It's not even half a year." Su Yun corrected Zheng Ren's words.
"Stop fooling around. You said there's nothing wrong but you feel nauseous and vomiting. Have you seen similar cases?" Zheng Ren asked.
"I've seen it alone. You've seen it too. Isn't it just hysteria?" Su Yun obviously thought about it a lot.
When chatting with Zheng Ren, he could say all kinds of wild thoughts. If these words were said in front of anyone else, even if it was Zhou Litao … or even Chief Physician Pan, he would not say it.
Hysteria was also known as dissociative conversion disorder.
It was a mental disorder caused by mental factors, such as life events, inner conflicts, suggestions, or self-suggestions, acting on susceptible individuals.
The main manifestations of hysteria were dissociative symptoms and conversion symptoms. The symptoms were functional, so psychological treatment played an important role.
In the emergency department, patients with hysteria were often encountered. The girl who imagined that she was pregnant in Sea City was one of them.
However, it was fine if two or three people acted up at the same time, let alone hundreds of students from Imperial Medical University.
After Su Yun said that, he took out a cigarette and threw it to Zheng Ren.
"Don't think about it. Let's just wait and see," Su Yun said.
However, Zheng Ren did not catch the cigarette he threw. It landed on his body, fell to the ground, and rolled to the side.
"What are you thinking about? Why are you always distracted? "Su Yun frowned.
"Hysteria? Do you have any research on group hysteria? "Zheng Ren suddenly asked.
"…" Su Yun was stunned for a moment before shaking his head.
"Don't move. Let me think about it." Zheng Ren entered the state of searching for cases again. His entire person looked like a stone sculpture.
"Idiot." Su Yun despised him. "Don't f * cking think about it. Do you think group hysteria is a ghost pressing down on the bed? Or the collective kind? "
"It's not that," Zheng Ren said. "Historical records show that in the summer of 1518, it broke out in Strasburg of the Holy Roman Empire. Do you have any impression?"
"A woman suddenly danced in the street. After dancing for four consecutive days, the number of people participating in the dance had reached 34, and the streets began to become crowded. Within a month, there were already more than 400 people swaying happily in the entire city. It was so crowded that not even a drop of water could trickle through. "Su Yun frowned." Are you talking about this? "
"Okay." Zheng Ren bent down and picked up the cigarette that had fallen to the ground. He seemed to have an idea in mind.
"I think there's a problem with the historical data. This kind of sensationalism was most likely compiled by the bards of the time to deceive people." Su Yun was dismissive. "It's like a nun learning to meow. These things are all the same."
In the Middle Ages, the most frightening scene was that of a group of Parisian nuns learning to meow.
All of this started with a meow from one of the nuns. Then, as if infected, the nuns around her began to mimic meowing one after another.
All the nuns would meow at the same time for a few hours every day.
According to analysis, mass hysteria mostly occurred in schools, factories, monasteries, military camps, and other places with strict discipline and high environmental pressure.
Zheng Ren knew that Su Yun was talking about this matter. He had also thought of it. Faced with Su Yun's disdain, Zheng Ren smiled. "Have you seen Forrest Gump?"
"Of course. It's a perfect film. It's a pity that Shawshank's Redemption met Forrest Gump, "Su Yun said as the topic changed to another unknown direction.
"Forrest Gump ran, crossed the United States three times.
Figueroa is one of its prototypes. Well, let's not talk about this. There are many people running with Forrest Gump. Don't you think it's strange? "Zheng Ren asked.
"Boss, that's a literary atmosphere."
"No, I don't think so," Zheng Ren said firmly. Zheng Ren said firmly, "Sometimes, a powerful psychological suggestion coupled with certain images will produce a strange result."
"For example?"
"You're right. The medieval cases are more entertaining. Let's talk about a case from recent decades," Zheng Ren said. "Have you seen Pokémon?"
"Your words have exposed your age," Su Yun said disdainfully.
"I haven't seen it either." Zheng Ren lit his cigarette and took a puff. The smoke was straight and did not curve at all.
"Boss, don't you think it's a waste to use the subtle control of turbulence on smoking?" Su Yun asked.
"When I think about a problem, I subconsciously do this. It's like performing surgery. It's high-level enough this time, right? "Zheng Ren smiled.
"Let's get down to business. What happened to Pokémon?" Su Yun asked.
"At 18: 30 on December 16, 1997, Japanese viewers were watching the 38th episode of the popular anime Pokémon — Computer Warrior 3D Dragon," Zheng Ren said.
Su Yun was serious this time.
What happened in 1997 was not too far away.
Moreover, there was a time. It was detailed to the day and even to the minute.
But why did he not have any impression of this?
"However, at about 18: 50, a large number of highlighted and flashing special effects appeared. Then, children began to show symptoms one after another, ranging from shortness of breath, nausea to convulsions, hallucinations, and so on.
"Within half an hour, more than 600 teenagers were sent to the hospital for treatment. Among them, 208 were unconscious and 3 were severely unconscious. Most of them were primary and secondary school students.
"At that time, these children were diagnosed with 'photosensitive epilepsy'. The cause was the light and shadow effects in the anime," Zheng Ren said very slowly, as if he was thinking as he spoke.
Su Yun immediately caught the loophole in Zheng Ren's words and interrupted him. "Wait a minute! There are a few problems with what you said. "
"I know. Listen to me first. This diagnosis is not very convincing, "Zheng Ren said with a smile. "The incidence of photosensitive epilepsy is about 0.02%. The possibility of a group of hundreds of people getting sick together is even smaller than a meteor hitting the Earth now.
"Secondly, similar flashing scenes have been common in animations in the past 20 years. This is an animation method called paka-paka. Simply put, it's to let different colors of light alternate and repeat to create a sense of tension in the plot.
"Is that what you want to say?" Zheng Ren asked.
Su Yun nodded. Although he did not care about Zheng Ren's words, he felt that this gossip was too interesting.
However, he had already said what he wanted to say to this guy. Could it be that he had thought it through?
Impossible. It was definitely not some damned mass hysteria.
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