Chapter 256: It's dark under the lamp

Tang Min's day began with a lot of inspections.

Tests that need to be done today include brain MRI, carotid ultrasound, optic nerve potential induction, and so on. Tang Min had done these tests before. And doing the same test again is naturally more "disappointed" than hopeful for Tang Min and Tang Min's parents.

Previous hospitals have done these tests, but nothing has been found. After arriving at the Fourth Hospital, the group of doctors prescribed the same examination - anyway, from the perspective of Tang Min's parents, this behavior is basically equivalent to the direct declaration of the doctors of the Fourth Hospital, "I don't have any good ideas, so I have to go through the detours taken by other doctors again".

Although they were a little suspicious, Tang Min's parents still took their children to start the day's examination very cooperatively. And Sun Lien was busy calling people in the office.

Young doctors who have just entered the industry have this advantage - if they are replaced by other bigwigs who have already made some achievements in the industry, they probably will not take "calling for help" as their first choice when they encounter cases that they don't understand. But it's a different story – even in the third year, they don't have a lot of cases to understand.

Sun Lien is not just calling for help, in fact, he is brainstorming while talking on the phone.

Tang Min's case is very complex, and the symptoms are not hallmark enough. Before there is enough value for the inspection report, Sun Lien needs all the opinions. Even if it's the kind that doesn't sound very reliable—it's relatively easy for him to discern opinions with the status bar backing it up anyway.

In addition to calling for help from industry leaders he knows, Sun Lien also fully carried forward his "sensitive and studious" characteristics. He simply called Wu Youqian.

"It takes 60 hours for an old thing to give advice?" What attracted Wu Youqian was first of all the special performance of the old thing in this case. After all, the system was designed to give prompts to front-line clinicians. It is often only one or two hours for an ordinary patient with mild symptoms to arrive at the outpatient clinic to complete the examination and get the medication.

According to the plan of the project team, the time from getting the test results to giving diagnostic recommendations should be less than 30 minutes before it can be considered to be of practical use. To be successfully put into clinical use, this diagnostic time should be reduced to less than 15 minutes.

Sixty hours is too long for an inpatient. Although Dean Wu doesn't know enough about computer technology, he still has a very specific understanding of the ability of old things after following the group for so long. When the old thing was just starting to learn the neural network, an ordinary stomach cramp would take the old thing about fifteen days to calculate. And now, it only takes about 30 seconds to judge a patient with stomach cramps.

Even with this progress, the old thing still counts for more than sixty hours before it can give a suggestion. Wu Youqian felt incredulous at first, and then began to ponder.

"Sixty hours of calculation time may indeed say something. Wu Youqian was silent on the phone for almost thirty seconds. Sun Lien had been waiting anxiously for Wu Youqian to speak for the past thirty seconds—he was particularly worried about whether there was something wrong with him when he actually used the old thing, which led to this unbelievably long calculation time. "This disease can be more troublesome. ”

"However, since it can be calculated by the old thing, it at least means that this disease has indeed been entered into the old thing database, right?" Sun Lien is a young man after all, and he still has some basic knowledge of computer-related things. "After all, the old thing is also a computer, and it can't diagnose a disease that doesn't exist out of thin air, right?"

"Of course, it's a computer, and it's not a clinical expert with twenty or thirty years of experience. Wu Youqian partially affirmed Sun Lien's inference, "However, if you encounter a disease that is not in the database, the old thing can still give a vague inference based on its own database." It doesn't know which new virus is infecting the patient, but it should still be able to tell the difference between an autoimmune disease and an infection. ”

Sun Lien thought about it, and felt that the role played by the old thing seemed to be not much different from his own, "That's okay......" He paused and asked, "Dean Wu, aren't you interested in the case I have at hand?"

"You can count the cases of the old thing for sixty hours, do you think I'm not interested?" Dean Wu coughed on the other end of the phone for a while, and then continued, "You fax me a copy of the case. ”

"Faxing can be difficult. Sun Lien smiled bitterly and looked at the thick case in his hand that seemed to be a practical internal medicine case - Yuan Ping'an's work was indeed fruitful, he compiled all Tang Min's case records into a thick book of cases according to the time clue - and then said helplessly, "The case book in my hand is four or five hundred pages to say the least, and it takes too much work to open and scan the fax." Are you in Ningyuan now? No, I'll send you the case later. ”

The reason why Sun Lien chose to turn to Wu Youqian for help is actually very simple. After all, Comrade Wu has worked hard in the industry for decades, and the students he has taught are probably dozens of times more than the doctors Sun Lien has seen. In their respective careers, these doctors will also meet many other experts and scholars. You know, for these "experts and scholars", there are probably few things in the world that can compare with this "rare disease that many other experts don't know about" except for their own research projects and project applications.

Asking Wu Youqian for help can be regarded as throwing stones to ask for directions. And looking for Song Wen and Liu Tangchun, that can be regarded as the established channel of the Fourth Academy itself.

Liu Tangchun is now the vice president in charge of the emergency and diagnostic center, and it is reasonable for the junior doctors to ask the vice president Liu to come up with an idea. And Dean Song...... Sun Lien's call for help has been called to Wu Youqian, so it is reasonable to notify Dean Song.

Liu Tangchun and Song Wen were actually a little surprised after receiving Sun Lien's call for help. Neither of them expected that the Fourth Hospital would still be able to receive patients that Sun Lien couldn't handle. Liu Tangchun was the most fierce about this, "You can't handle the patient, where do you ask me to find someone to deal with?"

"Teacher Liu, I really don't have any other good ways now...... Sun Lien said helplessly, "Genetic testing is already being carried out, and after the examination of cerebrospinal fluid, we have to see if there is any way to start from the patient's drainage tube...... All I have left is to take the patient to the hospital to do PET......"

"PET: I can figure it out for you. Liu Tangchun snatched the simplest job directly from Sun Lien, "You have to consult with experts from other hospitals, either go to Dean Song, or ask Chen Tianyang and Liu Pingchuan if they have a suitable one." Lao Liu: It's inconvenient for me to call the experts in the outer court. ”

Sun Lien pondered for a while before he reacted, why did Liu Tangchun say that it was inconvenient for him to call--the emotional old Comrade Liu was also afraid that others would misunderstand?

Compared with Liu Tangchun, Song Wen is much more reliable, "Take a copy of the case, and I'll ask the experts at Xihua Hospital if they have any ideas." Also, this patient, have you asked Dr. Pascal for his opinion?"