White armor

Chapter 389 Strange Things in the Hospital

The hedgehog on the child's back is so obvious and looks vivid, as if someone had drawn it stroke by stroke.

Especially the hedgehog's spines, which are so densely packed that people with trypophobia can't even look at them.

Feng Zixuan frowned. He said it was a hedgehog, but he didn't expect that it was not just a metaphor, but a real hedgehog.

Hedgehogs have a special status in the ancient legends of Northeast China. After taking a look at them, Feng Zixuan felt a chill on his back.

He has even begun to understand why patients' families burn paper and do things in the hospital.

"At first glance, it's not a myeloma, but a tethered cord." Luo Hao took a look and immediately gave a diagnosis.

“???” Feng Zixuan’s mind was full of question marks.

"This symptom is called lower back midline tufted skin, and it is used to rule out spina bifida occulta and tethered spinal cord.

Most likely it is not the former, because occult spina bifida can be detected by four-dimensional color Doppler ultrasound in general obstetrics. "

"But tethered cords are not usually seen in newborns. Let's check it out with an MRI. It would be painful to do an MRI for such a young child."

Luo Hao sighed.

"Professor Luo, isn't this a hair follicle tumor?" the pediatrician asked in a low voice.

Even if it is not something supernatural, it should be a hair follicle tumor in the eyes of pediatricians.

As for the long words in English spoken by Luo Hao, the pediatrician didn't understand them at all.

English itself is a mountain of shit, full of error codes.

"Diseases always occur at different ages and in different parts of the body, similar to the temporal and spatial specificity of epigenetic gene expression. This is the temporal and spatial specificity of the disease. The probability of developing a hair follicle tumor in this particular part of the body at this time is too small, so it is not considered. The initial diagnosis is tethered cord."

"Write it down."

The pediatrician's face suddenly turned red, like a sweet potato spirit that had taken medicine.

"It's okay, no rush, just take a pen and paper and write while I tell you."

Luo Hao said gently.

After protecting the child again and leaving the ward, Luo Hao repeated what he had just said and also added some differential diagnosis and other things.

It was so detailed that the pediatrician felt he could write it down word for word in the medical record.

"It's not too late to do it when the child is a little older, but not now. Some of the hair on the body surface that is tethered to the spinal cord will fall off on its own, and I don't know if the child can catch up." Luo Hao gave the child his sincere blessings.

"Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

Seeing that the neonatologist had written down everything he said, Luo Hao changed his clothes and left the ward.

Chen Yong and Goat Beard stood at the door. Chen Yong was still scolding the man with a serious face. But Goat Beard was obedient and lowered his posture, without any of the domineering spirit at the beginning.

Seeing Luo Hao coming out, Chen Yong threw his goatee aside and walked forward, "Luo Hao, how is it?"

“It’s considered a tethered cord.”

Seeing that Chen Yong didn't understand, Luo Hao provided additional explanation.

"Tethered cord refers to a series of clinical syndromes caused by a variety of congenital abnormalities of the spinal cord. Tethered cord means that the lower end of the spinal cord is constrained by the end of the spinal canal for various reasons, causing its position to be lower than normal.

Tethered cord can be caused by tight filum terminale, lipomyelomeningocele, spina bifida occulta, myelodysplasia, pilonidal sinus and dermoid cysts, and even cystocele.

"It's not difficult to treat. We can just wait until the child is older and then have surgery to release the pain. Our hospital..."

Luo Hao looked at Feng Zixuan.

Feng Zixuan shook his head slightly.

"Then let him talk to the child's family and tell them to turn the virtual into real. Don't worry. When the child is 2-3 years old, come to me and I will contact the Imperial Capital Children's Hospital."

"The Jishuitan Hospital probably won't accept this patient. Let's go to the Children's Hospital. The Children's Research Institute in the capital is very strong in surgery."

Luo Hao muttered to himself and finally came to a conclusion.

"Did you hear that?"

"It takes so long?!" Goatee was stunned.

"Do you think merit is so easy to get? Tonight you will complete your merit and ascend directly? Do you think Jianmu is growing on your ancestral grave?" Chen Yong ridiculed.

"Yeah, yeah." Instead of getting angry, the man with the goatee became more humble and kept nodding his head.

As they were talking, they had already reached the end of the corridor.

In front of the elevator, a middle-aged man was holding his child and staring at the elevator in a daze. The elevator door was just open, motionless.

Luo Hao frowned.

Normally the elevator door will close automatically 5-10 seconds after it opens.

But the man just stood in front of the elevator holding the child, motionless.

The person didn't move, and the elevator door didn't move either.

There is a chill in the air.

The man with the goatee paused for a moment, and Chen Yong tilted his head with a playful look on his face.

Luo Hao sighed, and his bad mood after waking up finally came out like a tide.

I was woken up in the early morning. Now it's daybreak. I don't have time to catch up on some sleep. Once I get back to the department, I have to start handing over the shift, doing ward rounds, and performing surgery.

The resentment is as deep as desire.

Difficult to fill.

"what happened?"

Luo Hao walked up to the man holding the child and asked.

"I...I...the emergency pediatric department asked me to come to the ward. The doctor prescribed medicine for my child. I was going to get the medicine, but when I came back, I saw that the elevator door was still open."

"This is the elevator I took when I...came here."

The man became more and more frightened as he spoke.

The hospital is a bit eerie, but it’s okay during the day with people coming and going.

In the hospital in the early morning, the sky was slightly dimmed and the surrounding environment became much more eerie.

The temperature seemed to be dropping all the time, frost had fallen all around, and the cold was bone-chilling.

"He's not going. It's not on your way. You go first." Luo Hao looked at the elevator and said loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator door closed and the numbers began to change.

The moment the elevator door closed, the temperature around began to rise.

The man holding the child almost cried. He stared at the changing elevator numbers, not knowing what to say.

"It's okay. There are always many kind people in the hospital. They just want to wait for you." Luo Hao tried to suppress his bad temper and forced a smile. "Just explain it to them."

"Who?"

"I don't know either. It's obvious that someone pressed the elevator button and waited for you to go up. Next time you go to the doctor in the early morning, have more people with you so that the yang energy will be stronger."

Luo Hao raised his hand to call for the elevator.

Normally, Luo Hao rarely takes the elevator and always climbs the stairs.

It takes at least 10 minutes to take an elevator, and Luo Hao doesn't want to waste time. But the elevator in the early morning is like the capital during the Chinese New Year, so it's still possible to take it.

After getting on the elevator, Luo Hao looked at the man who was still in a daze and asked, "Let's go together?"

"Let's go."

The man looked back at the dark fire escape, then hurriedly got into the elevator and went downstairs with Luo Hao and the others.

After leaving the elevator, the man even forgot to say thank you and almost crawled away.

"Xiao Luo, does this kind of circuit failure often happen in Concord?" Feng Zixuan asked.

He specifically called the elevator door's failure to close a circuit failure.

After all, it was early in the morning, and even as the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Feng Zixuan was unwilling to get himself into trouble.

"It happens occasionally, but we are used to it. As the saying goes, it's so practiced that it makes people feel distressed."

"Look, you see it." Chen Yong looked at the man with goatee.

The goatee has been obedient and just wants to be let go.

"Chen Yong."

"Eh."

"Let them make a statement and stay in jail for a week." Luo Hao arranged, "It doesn't have to be too long. This is just one time, it won't happen again. I've never seen such nonsense burning paper in a hospital."

The goatee's beard curled up, but it deflated the next second.

"Okay." Chen Yong and Goatee got off the elevator.

Luo Hao raised his hand and pressed the floor of the Interventional Department, "Director Feng, don't you want to take a rest?"

"Let's chat for a while. It's already daybreak. What's going on? Burning paper in the hospital in the middle of the night. Aren't you afraid that it might actually cause a fire?"

Feng Zixuan sighed.

Luo Hao also felt that he was a little angry. After thinking for a while, he smiled and said, "I encountered an outrageous thing when I was in Union Medical College."

"Oh?"

"There was a young nurse who just came and resigned after working two night shifts."

"Union Medical College, resign?" Feng Zixuan felt that these two words were a bit unfamiliar, and he couldn't understand them at all when put together.

"Well, she said that at night, especially in the second half of the night, she could hear a "pop, pop, pop" sound at the nurses' station, as if someone was spitting at her. She was so scared that she resigned."

"and after?"

Feng Zixuan looked at Luo Hao's expression and guessed that this must be a misunderstanding, and he was particularly interested.

"It happened that Boss Chai was doing his ward rounds that day. When he saw the little nurse crying, he smiled and took her along for the rounds."

"It turned out that the young nurse admitted a patient with irritable bowel syndrome on the night shift. He had already taken Atainin and was fine the next day."

"The boss and the young nurse listened for a long time, and in the end the young nurse laughed. Later she told me that the farts of the patients that day were all fragrant."

"Boss Chai is really good to his subordinates." Feng Zixuan sighed.

"Well, everyone has their own difficulties. The boss paid a lot to help Director Qian get promoted. He is old now, so his temper must be better than when he was young."

Luo Hao's brief words have infinite meanings.

"Actually, many supernatural events are just like approaching science, they are very boring." Luo Hao said, "Especially during the night shift. If it happens like today, the doctors and nurses on duty will be so angry that they don't care who it is!"

"Hahaha." Feng Zixuan laughed.

Indeed, it can be seen that Professor Xiao Luo is also trying hard to suppress his bad temper when waking up, just like himself.

"I've heard my boss talk about this before. He said the atmosphere in the hospital is the most chaotic, and it has nothing to do with the number of people."

"Oh? Boss Chai? What did you say?" "This small piece of heaven and earth gathers all the emotions in the world. Joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. The interweaving and pulling of this positive and negative energy makes the aura in this small piece of heaven and earth chaotic, and it is the kind of chaos that cannot be separated."

“Even in a funeral home, the energy is relatively pure and simple.”

"But hospitals are different. Sensitive people will only feel something different somewhere. Stair corners, elevators, restrooms, and especially the elevator leading to the underground morgue are most likely to have abnormal energy."

Feng Zixuan expressed his approval of Luo Hao's energy.

"Some things are hard for the boss to say. I have seen very little, so I have no idea what's going on."

"I believe it," Feng Zixuan said. "I encountered an incident when I first started working. During an emergency treatment, the patient was already dying, so I intubated him. As soon as the tracheal tube was inserted, the patient stopped breathing. After another 15 minutes of rescue, he was declared clinically dead."

"When I went back to work, I walked into the hospital and felt someone choking me."

"Is it a real pinch or a psychological effect?" Luo Hao asked a very unscientific question.

"I don't know, but my neck feels tight."

"You're wearing your sweater inside out?" Luo Hao threw out a joke.

"How could it be? It's summer, and I'm not stupid." Feng Zixuan scolded, "It's been a few days, and I got sick in the hospital. I just need to leave the hospital. I told the director, and he asked me to contact the patient's family to see if the patient has been buried or is in the funeral home."

"Go burn some paper for him?" Luo Hao asked.

"Yes, burning paper." Feng Zixuan nodded.

The two walked to the door of the interventional doctor's office and saw Meng Liangren working.

Feng Zixuan sighed in his heart. What kind of goblins are there in Luo Hao's medical team? At this time, the chief physician of the medical team is writing medical records. Is there any justice? !

"Old Meng, so early!"

"Huh? Professor Luo, why are you here? Director Feng, hello, is there a medical dispute?" Meng Liangren stood up and wiped his hands on his white coat.

"It has nothing to do with us. It has been resolved." Luo Hao smiled and then snapped his fingers.

Erhei's eyes were green, which made Feng Zixuan a little dazed at this moment.

A rustling sound was heard, and Erhei came to Luo Hao and rubbed his leg with his head affectionately.

"You...hahaha." Feng Zixuan laughed, trying to hide his change of mentality.

In the early morning, a black robot dog rustled towards me. It was different from a horror movie but almost the same.

Feng Zixuan felt his fingers stiff, but he still forced himself to stroke Erhei's head.

"You'll get used to it. Erhei is very useful." Luo Hao sat down and held Erhei's head.

Erhei's head is getting brighter and brighter, the frosted particles have long been smoothed away, and it looks a bit smooth.

"Director Feng, what happened next? Was it useful after burning the paper?" Luo Hao asked.

"It worked. I asked around and found out that the patient's village still practices burial. I went to burn some paper for him, and then went to the hospital and he was fine."

"It was fine after the fever was over. I don't know if it was a psychological effect. But since then, I have developed a sense of awe for clinical practice. Otherwise, why do you think I used so much mental control when the medical department was so chaotic?"

"I don't know what your uncle thinks, but I really believe it. It's good for people to have a little reverence."

A strange expression flashed across Meng Liangren's square face.

"Old Meng, have you seen it too?"

"Are there any supernatural events?" Meng Liangren asked. "I haven't seen them with my own eyes, but when I was doing internship, there was a fish tank in the duty room of the intensive care unit of the Forestry Hospital. Every time a fish died, a patient would die within 24 hours."

"???"

"???"

Luo Hao thought for a moment and asked, "Did the fish die first, and then the patient died?"

"Yes."

This is a bit difficult to explain. If the fish were rescued first and then died, it could be explained that everyone was busy and forgot to put in fish food, change the water, etc.

But even this explanation is very far-fetched. After all, no matter how long the rescue time is, it is only a few hours. Any time longer than a day is not considered a rescue. It is only considered that the patient's condition is too serious and the treatment time is long.

"I've seen him three times, and one of them left a particularly deep impression on me." Meng Liangren's square face was filled with righteousness, and he looked like a standard decent character in a movie.

"One day a fish died. My teacher took me around in circles and found that all the patients' vital signs were stable. No patient was dying."

"But more than an hour later, one of the patient's family members refused to be resuscitated and removed the tube and left."

"My teacher tried to persuade her for a long time, and the patient was an 18-year-old female patient."

As he spoke, Meng Liangren felt a little reluctant.

"Are you conscious?" Luo Hao asked.

"No, he's in a vegetative state." Meng Liangren said this and tucked his head in. "Professor Luo, this is what happened. The patient said he was killing fish with his brother-in-law and asked for a pair of scissors. His brother-in-law threw the scissors at him and stabbed him in the heart. When he arrived at the hospital, he had stopped breathing for more than 20 minutes."

"Later, he was rescued and operated on, and the pericardial tamponade was cured. However, his brain was deprived of oxygen, and he was already in a vegetative state."

Meng Liangren's words were full of regret.

Luo Hao also knew that if the people did not report it, the officials would not investigate it. He probably thought that the patient's parents did not file a complaint because they were afraid that their youngest daughter would die and their eldest daughter would remain a widow.

No wonder Lao Meng feels regretful.

But there are always too many regrets in life, and everyone is like this, especially in the hospital.

Seeing that Meng Liangren was in a bad mood, Luo Hao smiled and was about to comfort him when Feng Zixuan said, "It should be a matter of aura. There is a similar case in our hospital."

"Oh?" Luo Hao perked up and finally talked about what was happening around him.

"Urology, Pei Yingjie, you know Xiao Luo."

Luo Hao nodded and recalled the urology department carefully.

"One year, I was looking at the financial statements and doing the year-end summary. I discovered that something was wrong with the urology department. Eight patients died in that year. There were constant troubles, and it was really annoying."

The importance of having a reliable director of the Medical Department is now fully demonstrated.

You can find the problem just by looking at the year-end summary report.

Feng Zixuan not only discovered it, but also attached great importance to it. Luo Hao understood the reason. Urology is known as one of the easiest surgical fields, with very few major rescues.

The mortality rate is also the lowest in the hospital, which is different from neurosurgery and cardiothoracic surgery.

With so many people dying in a year, something must be wrong.

"I checked all the death records of urology department within one year and found a common point - all the patients died in the same ward."

"!!!"

"!!!"

"Then I went to the on-site office and asked Pei Yingjie to take a look at the ward. The patients in there were all very ill. Picking the prostate gland would cause all kinds of old age diseases to break out. Pei Yingjie was desperately trying to find someone to consult with the whole hospital."

"I decided to transfer the patient and vacate the ward. I told Pei Yingjie to turn the ward into a warehouse and asked him to apply to the hospital. But the old man was worried about his own bed and refused to do it."

"At that time, I left a message: You don't have to do it. You can handle the whole hospital consultation and death records yourself."

"Take someone to investigate, investigate him thoroughly! It must be the lack of responsibility that caused the high mortality rate! Surgery for elderly patients requires a hospital-wide consultation. Director Tang should take someone to participate in every hospital-wide consultation. If there is anyone who does not participate, hang Director Pei and ask him why."

Luo Hao was very familiar with this set of methods, having used it countless times in Donglian Mine.

"I am going to do this. If Old Pei doesn't respect me, don't blame me for not giving him respect."

Meng Liangren was stunned when he heard this.

Are all the people in the Medical Department so dirty?
"Old Pei was timid and agreed immediately. He applied and reported to the dean. A month later, the ward became a storage room. After that, the urology department became quiet and there has been no spike in mortality since then."

"Director Feng, do you think it matters?" Luo Hao asked.

"Whether it's related or not, since all the deceased patients are in the same ward, we have to close the ward even if it's not related. As for the lack of a few beds, what's the big deal? Old Pei can find them himself."

"After all, the report is there. The patients who died in the same ward may have different reasons, but if they died in one ward, can I still let Pei Yingjie continue to admit them? It's better to just turn it into a storage room."

Luo Hao held Erhei's head and smiled.

Indeed, what is needed at this time is decisiveness in killing.

No matter if it's a problem or not, just close it first. If the death rate still doesn't go down, then just open it again, it won't delay anything.

Luo Hao thought to himself, I'll go to the Urology Department and take a look at that ward when I have time.

He wasn't interested in this kind of urban weirdness, but it wouldn't hurt to take a look at it if he had the chance.

[As the saying goes, a man is a boy until he dies~~~]

As they were chatting, Luo Hao's cell phone rang.

"Hey."

"Professor Luo, I'm Old Lou!" Boss Lou's voice was a little loud and he sounded quite excited.

"Boss Lou, what's wrong?" Luo Hao asked.

"I hope I didn't disturb your sleep."

"Oh, don't mention it. I came to the hospital in the middle of the night to deal with something. Is there any progress on your side?" Luo Hao was smart and understood what Ya Ming meant and asked directly to the point.

"Yes!" Boss Lou's voice rose eight octaves. "Moritz's team has tentatively agreed to set up a research laboratory in the provincial capital!"

“How much did you get it for?”

Boss Lou mentioned a sky-high price.

But the smile on Luo Hao's face remained strong, his bad mood had long disappeared, and he was in high spirits.

Feng Zixuan noticed that Erhei seemed to sense Luo Hao's happiness and his tail started wagging.

"Money is meant to be spent, right? When will Moritz's team leave?"

"At the earliest, in a week."

"Okay!" Luo Hao sighed, "Boss Lou, you have to keep an eye on the whole process. Don't let the fat meat fly away."

"Sure, Professor Luo, don't worry. There are other people here at the Max Planck Institute. I'm trying to contact them."

"!!!" Luo Hao couldn't close his mouth because of laughing.

"What did you eat secretly?" Chen Yong just walked in and asked puzzledly when he saw Luo Hao smiling.

Luo Hao waved his hand, then explained some things to Boss Lou and hung up the phone.

"There's news from the Max Planck Institute. Boss Lou has recruited Moritz's team."

"Is it great?"

"Very impressive, one of the top three teams in the world."

Chen Yong shrugged. Feng Zixuan was confused and had no idea what Luo Hao was talking about.

After Luo Hao and Chen Yong finished their conversation, Feng Zixuan asked, "Xiao Luo, what do you mean by the Max Planck Institute and the Moritz team?"

Luo Hao suppressed his joy, thought for a moment and said, "Director Feng, Northwestern Polytechnical University has recently made a breakthrough in a research project - human brain-controlled drones. Do you know about this project?"

Feng Zixuan was stunned. Is the world so mysterious?
(End of this chapter)