The young man's eyes lost focus when he heard Zheng Ren's words. His face was pale and his body was filled with sadness.
Zheng Ren did not know what to say.
Paraquat, as the name suggested, was a herbicide.
It was extremely toxic to the human body and had a high mortality rate. There were no specific drugs to treat it.
When a certain amount of paraquat was taken orally, the patient would show symptoms of poisoning.
Among the symptoms of systemic poisoning, lung damage was the most prominent. Its histopathological changes were similar to oxygen poisoning.
If the patient took a large amount of paraquat orally, there was a high probability that he would develop acute respiratory distress syndrome within one to two days. Then, delayed pulmonary fibrosis and progressive dyspnea would occur, leading to respiratory failure and death.
Most other pesticides could be treated by a series of methods such as gastric lavage.
However, oral paraquat could not be treated.
The worst thing was that after oral paraquat, the patient basically had no symptoms of discomfort. His face was flushed and he looked healthier than before.
A small number of patients would have acute symptoms, but most patients would develop pulmonary fibrosis within three days to three months.
The specific time was related to the oral dosage.
Pulmonary fibrosis was irreversible and after oral paraquat, the patient's lung tissue fibrosis would continue to progress until the patient died.
This was a poison that was incurable, but it would not take effect immediately.
The young man was stunned for nearly a minute, his eyes empty.
Zheng Ren felt uncomfortable looking at him. He wanted to persuade the young man but did not know where to start.
After nearly a minute of silence, the young man suddenly put his canvas bag in front of him and began to take out money from it.
"Doctor, this is the money my parents left me after they passed away." As he spoke, he shed tears. His tears fell on the brand new banknotes, splashing a few drops. "My uncle had a hard life. My cousin ran away with hundreds of thousands of yuan in debt. My aunt divorced him a few months ago and he was found to have liver cancer. I have money here, all the money I have. Doctor, I beg you to save him. My uncle raised me. It wasn't easy, it really wasn't easy. "
The money was not much, only tens of thousands, but it was all the young man's savings, his college tuition, and his future livelihood.
Now, he took it all out and placed it in front of Zheng Ren.
The bright red was so dazzling.
"Doctor, I've checked the information. I also know that people can't be saved after one sip." The young man looked at Zheng Ren with tears in his eyes and said in a choked voice, "But that information was from a few years ago. Is there medicine to treat it now?"
Looking at the young man's expectant eyes, Zheng Ren knew that this was the self-suggestion of a person who had reached the extreme of despair.
What should he say?
There was no way to say it.
Zheng Ren's eyes dimmed as he shook his head gently.
The glimmer of hope that had just risen in the young man's heart was extinguished as expected.
"I knew it … I knew it …" the young man murmured with his head lowered.
"There are still a few days left. You should accompany your grandfather well," Zheng Ren said softly.
The young man was silent, his eyes fixed on the yellowish wall.
"Young man, you are still young. For some things, one could only do their best and leave the rest to fate. You've tried your best, but there's nothing you can do. "Zheng Ren could only do his best to calm the young man's emotions.
There were a few patients outside. They wanted to come in, but when they saw the young man standing in the consultation room like a walking corpse and the stacks of red banknotes on the table, they knew that something must have happened. Under the persuasion of Fan Tianshui and the others, they either sat outside and waited or went to the surgical consultation room to see a doctor first.
Zheng Ren patted the young man's shoulder. After listening to his words and persuading him for a long time, the young man finally recovered.
With a "wah", he cried.
Only then did Zheng Ren feel relieved.
The fact that he could cry proved that he was fine. He was afraid that he would not be able to cry, just like the family of the patient who had been stabbed in the heart that night.
Zheng Ren let out a long sigh. Although he was a little disappointed, he had seen too much and was more or less indifferent.
He put the stacks of money on the table back into the young man's canvas bag and zipped it up.
Indifference was also a form of self-protection.
In the hospital, every bed had a patient die. If they were not more indifferent, they would probably all be hospitalized before long.
After sending the young man out, Su Yun had already finished washing the patient's stomach.
The patient sat quietly on the chair. There was no joy, anger, sorrow, or fear. He had long been indifferent to everything.
Seeing the young man come out, the patient stood up and smiled at him. Then, he bowed to Su Yun and Zheng Ren and pulled the young man out of the hospital.
"Let's go." Su Yun saw Zheng Ren's blank expression and pulled him to the side door.
At this time, he needed a cigarette to sober up.
Su Yun rarely smoked, but this time, he made an exception and took out Zi Yun's box from Zheng Ren's pocket. The muscles on his face twitched as if he wanted to spit at Zheng Ren, but in the end, he held it in.
He lit a cigarette and handed it to Zheng Ren.
"There's no other way," Su Yun said.
"Okay." Zheng Ren took a deep puff of the cigarette. The smoke circled in his lungs. After he exhaled, he felt that the world in the smoke was a little more lively.
This was not the first patient Zheng Ren had encountered who drank paraquat, nor was it the most tragic case.
Many years ago, when Zheng Ren was doing his internship during college, he encountered a case of paraquat drinking in the emergency department.
The young couple had just gotten married and began to quarrel over a trivial matter. In order to scare people, the woman took the paraquat and pretended to take a small sip.
The man did not know how powerful paraquat was. He snatched it and said that the two of them would die together. Holding the bottle of paraquat, he took a big gulp.
Then, the two people who drank the pesticide together were moved by themselves or each other and reconciled.
What should he do after drinking the pesticide? It was not a big deal to go to the hospital to have his stomach pumped.
After arriving at the hospital, after the gastric lavage, Zheng Ren's teacher explained the patient's condition to the patient's mother. He said that after drinking paraquat, he would definitely die.
If the family was rich, they could go to the ICU to use a ventilator to assist in breathing. They might be able to extend his life by about three months. However, that was a huge expense, so whether or not to continue the treatment depended on the family's conditions.
The patient's mother cried at that time. After the patient came to ask about the situation, he scolded Zheng Ren's teacher.
Everything was spent on gastric lavage, and they still had to spend more money. Hospitals and doctors nowadays were really black-hearted.
Zheng Ren could not remember many of such words.
Then, the couple who drank the pesticide left the hospital.
When they left, the two of them were very loving, but the medical staff present knew that their days were numbered.
Half a month later, the two of them were sent over again.
Because the man drank more paraquat than the woman, his condition was particularly poor. He had already shown signs of respiratory failure. Although the woman's condition was slightly better, it was not much better.
In the emergency resuscitation room, a blue curtain was drawn. The two of them were lying on their respective beds and receiving resuscitation.
It was still Zheng Ren's teacher and the patient's mother who explained the patient's condition. From the beginning, their final fate was doomed. The doctor was particularly helpless.
In the end, Zheng Ren's teacher's advice to the family was not to resuscitate them.
Fate was predetermined. No matter what they did, it was meaningless.
At this time, the young couple also seemed to realize their fate.
At the last moment of his life, the man used all his strength to reach out to the woman. However, the simplest action seemed extremely difficult at this moment.
In the end, he could not hold the woman's hand.
Halfway through, he swallowed his last breath.
Although the woman's condition was slightly better, it was not by much.
At this moment, she had also reached the last moment of her life.
She used the last of her strength to want to hold the man's hand.
Her fingers passed through the blue curtain and touched his fingers. She had reached the end of her life.
Zheng Ren remembered this scene very clearly.
Life was filled with all kinds of helplessness.
However, the last pair of fingers that were placed together was still fresh in Zheng Ren's memory.
He sighed and sorted out his emotions.
People still had to look forward.
After putting out the cigarette, Zheng Ren glanced at Su Yun and asked, "The professor and Gao …"
"Gao Shaojie." Su Yun looked at Zheng Ren disdainfully. "They're all sitting in the office. Let me tell you, hurry up and chase Chief Gao away. Chang Yue has already given her opinion. "
"Huh? What opinion? "
"There are too many people in the office. She can't stand it."
F * ck … That could be considered a reason.
"The main reason is that Professor Gao has been using WiFi to contact the relevant video information. It's taking up the network speed. I was disconnected when I was playing games in the afternoon."
"…"
However, Zheng Ren immediately remembered the third stage of the mission, the 100 TIPS surgeries.
Sea City had a small population, and the radiation range was even smaller.
It seemed that in the end, it would fall to Chief Gao.
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