Plague Doctor

After watching 100 emergencies a night, Liu Guolin was already tired of the front chest patch on his back. As soon as he returned to the dorm to clean up, he went to bed and quickly went to sleep in confusion.

His cell phone has been vibrated. He has a nurse girlfriend, who is also from this hospital. He is on duty now. There is nothing wrong with that.

As it turns out, Liu Guolin slept until he didn't know when, until the door was banged, and the louder someone screamed: “Old Liu, old Liu! ”

Who... when, in the middle of the night...

Liu Guolin opened his eyes reluctantly, took the phone of the bedside table and looked at it, but it was already 6: 00 in the morning, 15 missed calls... He suddenly shocked and opened it. Not all of them were from his girlfriend. Most of them were from Director Li, just over half an hour ago.

Spiritual spirit, he also heard clearly that the female colleague outside called the door is Zhang Wenjun, this guy is going to take over the day shift...

Something wrong? Liu Guolin was in shock, watching these missed calls, what happened...

“Coming, coming.” He hurried up, put on a pair of pants, pulled a shirt over and opened the door.

Zhang Wenjun stood outside the door anxiously. When she saw him, she complained at once: “Why didn't you answer the phone? I thought you were missing. Ah, go to sleep, you can sleep very well... The Sky Machinery Bureau is about to come and clean up. The director's side is in a hurry. The directors are all here. Ouch, you! ”

Liu Guolin is really overheard, what...? Is there someone from the station?

He then remembered the little girl from the last few clinics he saw last night, blinking her eyes, making strange noises... is this really about supernatural forces?

How can it be, the patient clearly sees nothing, vital signs are normal... what is that disease, is it contagious, it shouldn't be, otherwise it should be the disease control person in protective clothing who knocks on the door now...

In the confused thought, Liu Guolin rushed to the bathroom to wash up, put on a white coat, and followed Zhang Wenjun to the outpatient building.

Although Nanxiang Third People's Hospital is Sanjia Hospital, it was never a major hospital even in the city, but this morning, with a telephone call from the nearby Dongzhou City Sky Machinery Bureau, the hospital was soon blockaded by the police and disease control, and there was another sight.

The director, vice president and other senior officials rushed in. Emergency department directors Zhang Dongliang, pediatric director Zhou Guihong and others poured into the quarantine ward lobby. By the time Liu Guolin arrived and changed into lightweight protective clothes, there was already a large group of people here. His little doctor came late.

“Liu, you really are!” Director Zhang was almost abusive when he saw Liu Guolin, "you stabbed a big basket. ”

“Director, I...” Liu Guolin stopped wanting to talk and finally didn't say anything, silently carried this pot.

The dean not far away from them also looked at it. It was a little harsh. Liu Guolin's backing pot was really a little sluggish at the same time. It felt like bad luck.

“Don't get upset, go see for yourself.” Director Zhang sighed, "the three patients had the same symptoms and the same epidemiological characteristics. ”

Liu Guolin, a few steps towards the corridor, looked at the three quarantine wards, each with a child inside, all accompanied by his parents anxiously, all three patients are 5-7 years old, all girls, last night he saw Guo Qinying was one of them.

“What's the matter...” Liu Guolin asked Zhang Wenjun next door softly, how is this like an infectious disease...

Such obvious demographic characteristics are already in line with epidemiological outbreaks.

“Not yet.” Zhang Wenjun also whispered that the eyes behind the round glasses were confusing, “Director Zhang and Director Zhou have regular judgment, very much like Tourette's disease, but the incidence of Tourette's disease in preschool children is about 1%, one patient is nothing, one night our three patients, this is not normal...”

Tourette's disease? Liu Guolin was shocked, but he woke up the person in his dream. Yes, why didn't he think of this rare disease last night...

At this time, Zhang Wenjun handed him a stack of information, “Look, the people from Dongzhou Sky Machinery Bureau are coming. ”

Liu Guolin picked up the information and immediately looked over. He saw a cold sweat coming from his forehead. Bad, really bad.

Tourette's syndrome, also known as childhood apraxia syndrome.

Its etiology and pathology are unclear and good for children, usually from the age of 5 to 8 years, and consist of two main symptoms, asphyxia and obscenity.

Puffing refers to movement twitching. Patients will feel an unwanted but intolerable urge in their muscles, usually starting with blinking eyes, to coughing, clearing their throats, wrinkling their face, etc., and will often be mistaken for ghosts. If severe, they will spread all over the body. Symptoms similar to epilepsy occur during a puffing attack.

Obscene language is a twitch in the voice, and the patient makes a sudden strange sound, sounding like it's cursing people, learning dog barking and all sorts of weird sounds. However, obscene language symptoms occur only in a small number of patients with motility disorders. Three patients a night, all with two symptoms, which is of course not normal...

Normal Tourette's disease is not infectious and does not adversely affect the patient's intelligence and life expectancy. Some celebrities have suffered from this disease, and some historians suspect that Mozart suffers from obscenity.

In most cases, bradycardia and obscenities do not require treatment, and there are currently no good drug treatments.

Patients need psychotherapy and behavioural management to learn how to participate in the normal human world in this unusual manner. However, patients have more frequent comorbidities, such as Asperger's syndrome, high-functioning autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which are often treated instead.

The problem is just like Director Zhang and their doubts...

The incidence of Tourette's disease is not so high, and after the onset, the patient does not flutter and make strange noises at all times, but intermittently, how many times a day, how many times a few days a day, some even a month or two a year, but then again.

And when most children reach puberty, the severity of the symptoms decreases, and many of them disappear completely when they reach adulthood. So patients with the disease are not easily identified correctly. Many patients with mild conditions don't even know they have the disease for the rest of their lives, but parents, teachers, friends, etc. think this guy has been naughty since childhood, weird, moving, rude, unprovoked, making ghosts and cursing people.

Especially since this knowledge is not yet widely available in the country, older parents are largely unaware of it, and young parents do not know much about it.

Therefore, their doctor has not been able to diagnose a Torrey's disease patient for a long time, and now three at once...

What the hell is going on? Liu Guolin looked at the three patients in different quarantine wards with some confusion.

The fact that the disease is more prevalent than men and three to four times more prevalent than women also misleads some parents into thinking that it is normal for a boy bear to bear.

But now... it's all little girls...

Before Liu Guolin finished reading all the information in his hand, it was just 6: 30 in the morning and the people from Dongzhou Sky Machinery Bureau arrived.

One team is a doctor, a middle-aged man with several young men, and the other team, all dressed in protective clothing. When they arrived, the Dean, Vice Dean, Director Zhang and others rushed to greet them, and Liu Guolin and Zhang Wenjun followed.