Twelve hours ago, Boston, America.
Smoke rose from a house in Roxbury.
The wiring in the basement was in disrepair and caused an electrical fire. The lady of the house quickly realized that there was an accident. She immediately cut off the electric switch, and then carried a bucket of water to put out the fire that did not slow down.
It was just that the strong smell of rubber made people feel extremely uncomfortable.
After putting out the fire, she felt exhausted. The high tension just now overwhelmed her body.
The basement was full of smoke. She choked and coughed when she breathed.
She used all her strength to walk out of the basement. In the end, her body was so weak that she almost fainted on the basement steps.
However, her strong desire to survive made her persevere.
She sat at the door and breathed in the fresh air. She felt very happy. Although the basement needed to be cleaned and she seemed to have something to do these days, it was a wonderful thing to be able to walk out alive.
However, sitting at the door, her lower abdomen began to hurt.
The intense pain consumed the last bit of energy in her body. Endless exhaustion surged like a tide, drowning her.
She didn't panic.
Two or three months ago, she had encountered this situation. She had severe abdominal pain. She was sent to Massachusetts General Hospital by ambulance. The doctor said it was abdominal pain caused by cyclic vomiting syndrome.
To hell with cyclic vomiting syndrome, to hell with insurance!
She sat at the door and didn't want to call an ambulance. She was ready to let time heal everything. Each time the ambulance came, it would give her a terrible receipt.
As long as she had strength, she didn't want to go to the hospital in an ambulance. That experience was terrible.
However, after enduring for a night, she didn't get better. She had to contact her previous attending doctor the next day and go to Massachusetts General Hospital.
She didn't make an appointment because Dr. Mark, who diagnosed her cyclic vomiting syndrome, thought the case was very interesting. He told her that if she had any more problems, she could come to him directly.
Soon, Dr. Mark began to regret his decision.
The last time she was hospitalized, he gave the female patient ondansetron, hydromorphone, and intravenous infusion. After the medication, the patient's nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain were relieved. On the second day, the patient was able to eat normally and went home.
Dr. Mark was only interested in cyclic vomiting syndrome. He planned to do a long-term follow-up.
However, when the female patient was hospitalized again, Dr. Mark found that there was something wrong with the patient.
Her mind was clear and she had a direction. But the mood is unstable, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry.
The patient's gaze was intense, and his speech was rapid, urgent, and sometimes unclear. As time went on, she became increasingly agitated. She was seen writhing violently on the bed and pulling at equipment and clothes.
Cyclical vomiting syndrome did not have this kind of problem. As the attending physician, Dr. Mark began to feel awkward.
After consulting with a neurologist, they concluded that it had nothing to do with neurological diseases.
Soon, the patient's condition worsened.
Dr. Mark administered intravenous fluids and ondansetron, pantoprazole, fentanyl, and lorazepam. The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit for a diagnostic examination.
The doctors in the intensive care unit were very unhappy. The sky was just beginning to brighten, but they had received a patient with a strange condition.
That was not the main point. What angered him the most was that he was about to watch the surgery live. There was no history of trauma or surgery, but there was a liver abscess with a foreign body on the liver.
"Damn it!" The ICU doctor nagged. The live broadcast of the surgery was about to begin, and the female patient had also been sent over.
He could only put down his phone regretfully and hope that the surgeon could slow down the surgery this time. He examined the female patient as quickly as possible. After giving her the right treatment, he returned to his room.
As expected, the surgery was already done.
Damn it, he could only watch the recording. However, he felt that watching the recording of the surgery had no soul at all. It was just an ordinary teaching video.
"Jason, I previously diagnosed this patient with cyclical …" Dr. Mark said his judgment but was interrupted by Dr. Jason from the ICU.
"I don't want to know what your diagnosis is. I'm going to watch the recording of the surgery now. It's because of your stupidity that I'm going to watch a wonderful surgery!" Dr. Jason roared.
"Surgery live broadcast? Is it the surgery of the young doctor who just became a tenured professor in our hospital? "Dr. Mark asked.
"Yes!" Jason's face was ashen as he began to watch the 'soulless' surgery recording.
"Liver abscess? What's so good about this kind of surgery? "Dr. Mark leaned over and saw the surgery on Jason's phone.
It was just a liver abscess. Dr. Mark had never watched the live broadcast of the surgery from the other side of the ocean because the live broadcast was mainly interventional surgery and he was not a doctor in the interventional department.
There were some surgeries, but Dr. Mark did not think that interventional surgery would be very exciting.
"Shut your stinky mouth! This is the surgery of a tenured professor. If you don't want to be fired by the board of directors, you'd better watch the surgery with a sincere heart. "Dr. Jason's expression was very interesting. The surgery was performed quite quickly and in line with his expectations.
What he was curious about was why there was a foreign body on the liver without any history of trauma or surgery.
Where did this foreign body come from?
Soon, Dr. Jason saw the flexible grasp of the abscess. Then, after sucking a part of the thick juice, the foreign body was accurately clamped and directly removed.
"Jason, what is that?" Mark asked. "How did it appear there?"
"Who knows! There's no history of surgery or trauma, but a foreign body actually appeared in the body and caused a liver abscess! " Jason stared at the screen intently. After that, the surgeon did not continue the surgery immediately. Instead, he used a hemostatic forceps to remove the pus attached to the foreign body on a piece of gauze.
A toothpick that was already partially corroded appeared on the screen.
"It's actually a toothpick!" Dr. Mark raised his hands and used an exaggerated posture to express his surprise.
Although Jason was also very surprised, he tried his best to say calmly, "Mark, our newly hired tenured professor is actually very capable."
"Him?" Dr. Mark said, "I heard that …"
"Please retain your respect for the tenured professor if you don't want to be fired." Jason focused on the surgery. The surgeon changed into sterile gloves and continued to clean the abscess.
The focus of the surgery was on the removal of the foreign body. Even so, Dr. Jason was still interested in every operation of the surgeon.
After watching the surgery, Dr. Jason felt that it was not enough.
Suddenly, a strange thought appeared in his mind.
Could he let him take a look at the patient's condition with periodic vomiting syndrome through the mail?
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