When the young man heard Zheng Ren's words, his eyes suddenly disappeared. His face was pale, and his whole body was filled with sadness.
Zheng Ren didn't know what to say.
Paraquat, as the name suggests, is a herbicide.
It is extremely toxic to the human body, has a high mortality rate, and has no specific treatment.
When a certain dose of paraquat is taken orally, patients will develop symptoms of poisoning.
Among the symptoms of systemic poisoning, lung damage is the most prominent, and its pathological and histological changes are similar to those of oxygen poisoning.
If a patient takes a large amount of paraquat orally, there is a high probability that he will develop acute respiratory distress syndrome within 1-2 days, and then develop delayed pulmonary fibrosis and progressive dyspnea, leading to respiratory failure and death.
Most other pesticides can be taken orally, and a series of methods such as gastric lavage can be used for treatment.
But taking paraquat orally, there is no method.
The most damning thing is that after taking paraquat orally, the patient has almost no symptoms of discomfort, his face is red, and he looks healthier than before.
A small number of patients will develop acute symptoms, but most patients will develop pulmonary fibrosis within 3 days to 3 months.
The specific time is related to the oral dosage.
Pulmonary fibrosis is irreversible, and pulmonary fibrosis continues to progress in patients after oral administration of paraquat until the patient dies.
This is a kind of poison that has no cure, but does not strike immediately.
The young man was stunned for nearly a minute, his eyes empty.
Zheng Ren felt uncomfortable looking at it and wanted to persuade this young man, but he didn't know where to start.
After nearly a minute of silence, the young man suddenly put the canvas bag in front of him and began to take out money from inside.
"Doctor, this is the money my parents left me after they passed away." He shed tears as he said it, and the tears fell on the brand-new RMB, making a few splashes of water. "My uncle has a hard life, and my cousin gambles. He owed hundreds of thousands and ran away. My aunt divorced him a few months ago, and he was diagnosed with liver cancer. I have money here, all my money, doctor, please save him. My uncle pushed me to grow up, It’s not easy, it’s really not easy.”
The money is not much, only tens of thousands, but it is all the young man's savings, which is his college tuition and the support for his future life.
Now, take them all out and put them in front of Zheng Ren.
Bright red, so dazzling.
"Doctor, I have checked the information, and I also know that after one sip, a person is hopeless." The young man looked at Zheng Ren with tears in his eyes, his voice choked with sobs, "But that was information from a few years ago. Are there any drugs that can treat it now?" ?”
Looking at the young man's expectant eyes, Zheng Ren knew that this was a self-hint from someone who was extremely desperate.
What to say
There is no way to tell.
Zheng Ren's eyes dimmed and he shook his head slightly.
The glimmer of hope that had just risen in the young man's heart was extinguished without any surprise.
"I knew it... I knew it..." The young man lowered his head and murmured.
"There are still a few days left, so you can spend time with your uncle." 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, you have to do your best and let fate. You have tried your best, but there is no good way." Zheng Ren could only do his best to comfort the young man's emotions.
There were several patients outside who wanted to come in, but when they saw the young man in the clinic standing blankly like a zombie, and when he saw a stack of red bills on the table, he knew something must be wrong. With the persuasion of Fan Tianshui and others, Next, either sit outside and wait, or go to the surgical clinic to see a doctor first.
Zheng Ren patted the young man on the shoulder. After hearing the words and persuading him for a long time, the young man regained his composure.
"Wow", he cried.
Only then did Zheng Ren feel relieved.
Being able to cry shows that he is okay. I'm afraid that I won't be able to cry, just like the family members of the patients who were stabbed in the heart that night.
Zheng Ren let out a sigh of relief. Although he felt a little disappointed, he had seen a lot and was somewhat indifferent.
He put the piles of money on the table back into the young man's canvas bag and zipped it up.
Indifference is also a kind of self-protection.
Patients have died in every hospital bed. If we were not a little indifferent, we might not be able to work for long, and all the doctors would be hospitalized.
After sending the young man out, Su Yun had already washed the patient's stomach.
The patient sat quietly in the chair. He had no joy, anger or sorrow, and had already taken everything lightly.
Seeing the young man coming out, the patient stood up, smiled at him, bowed to Su Yun and Zheng Ren each, and pulled the young man out of the hospital.
"Let's go." Seeing Zheng Ren's dull expression, Su Yun dragged him to the side door again.
At this time, I need a cigarette to wake up.
Su Yun rarely smoked, but this time, he made an exception and took out Ziyun's box from Zheng Ren's pocket. The muscles on his face twitched, as if he wanted to spray Zheng Ren, but he held back in the end.
Light a cigarette and hand it to Zheng Ren.
"Life or death, there is no way." Su Yun said.
"Yeah." Zheng Ren took a deep breath from the cigarette, and the smoke swirled around in his lungs. After he exhaled it, he felt that the world in the smoke was a little more vivid.
This is not the first patient Zheng Ren has encountered who drank paraquat, nor is it the most tragic case.
Many years ago, when Zheng Ren was interning as an intern at the University, he encountered a case of drinking paraquat in the emergency department.
The young couple had just gotten married and started quarreling over trivial matters. In order to scare people, the woman took paraquat and pretended to take a sip.
The man didn’t know the power of paraquat, so he grabbed it and said, “We two will die together.” I took the bottle of paraquat and took a big sip.
Then, the two people who drank pesticide together were moved by themselves or each other and reconciled.
What should I do if I drink pesticides? Go to the hospital for gastric lavage, it's not a big deal.
After arriving at the hospital, Zheng Ren's teacher explained the condition to the patient's mother after gastric lavage. He said that if you drink paraquat, you will definitely die.
If your family has money, go to the ICU and use a ventilator to assist breathing, which may extend your life by about 3 months. But that is a huge expense, so whether to continue treatment depends on family conditions.
The patient's mother cried at that time. After the patient came to ask about the situation, she scolded Zheng Ren's teacher.
We have already spent money on gastric lavage, and we have to spend even more money. Today’s hospitals and doctors are really evil.
Zheng Ren couldn't remember many words like this.
Then, the young couple who drank the pesticide left the hospital.
When they left, the two were loving each other, but the medical staff present knew that their days were numbered.
Half a month later, two people were sent over again.
Because the man drank more paraquat than the woman, he was in particularly bad condition and had developed respiratory failure. Although women are in better condition, they are not much better.
In the emergency room, a blue curtain was drawn, and the two of them lay on the hospital bed to receive rescue.
It was still Zheng Ren's teacher who explained the condition to the patient's mother. The final fate was already doomed from the beginning, and the doctor was particularly helpless.
In the end, Zheng Ren’s teacher gave the family advice not to resuscitate him.
Destiny is doomed, no matter what you do, it is meaningless.
At this time, the young couple 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 actions in normal times seemed extremely difficult at this moment.
In the end, he failed to hold the woman's hand.
When he reached halfway, he took his last breath.
Although the woman's condition is slightly milder, it is not much milder.
At this moment, she also reached the last moment of her life.
She used her last strength to hold the man's hand.
Between her fingers, she passed through the blue curtain and touched her fingers, and she reached the end of her life.
Zheng Ren remembers this scene very clearly.
Life is full of all kinds of helplessness.
It was just the pair of fingers that finally came together that left Zheng Ren fresh in his memory.
He sighed and collected his emotions.
People still have to look forward.
After putting out the cigarette, Zheng Ren glanced at Su Yun and asked, "Professor and Gao..."
"Gao Shaojie." Su Yun glanced at Zheng Ren with disdain, "They are all sitting in the office. Let me tell you, Director Gao of the Affiliated Hospital, you should seize the time to drive him away. Chang Yue even gave his opinion."
"Huh? What's your opinion?"
"She can't stand the crowd in the office."
Sweat... This is also a reason.
"The main reason is that Professor Gao has been using wifi to contact related imaging data, which consumes the network speed. I even got disconnected while playing games in the afternoon."
“…”
But Zheng Ren immediately remembered the third phase of the mission, 100 tip surgeries.
Haicheng has a small population and a smaller radiation range.
It seems that the final decision will fall on Director Gao.