American drama life begins with Dr. House

Chapter 6 You don't want to ruin your career, do you?

Du Wei was not surprised at all when House suddenly called him.

After he collected his thoughts, he said:

"Pork is indeed a common food.

However, if the pork is not cooked for enough time, the tapeworm larvae that may be present on the pork will enter the digestive system.

They have small hooks on their bodies, which can be adsorbed on the intestinal wall, parasitize, grow, and reproduce..."

Before Du Wei finished speaking, Chase shook his head and interrupted:

"No, boy, you are wrong.

You said yourself that they enter the digestive system.

But Rebecca’s disease appears in the head, not in the intestines. You wouldn’t tell me that a disease in the intestines affects the brain stem, right?”

As soon as these words came out, everyone else looked at Du Wei, wanting to see how he would explain this.

Du Wei smiled and did not feel flustered by Chase's doubts. Instead, he continued to say confidently:

"Because this is not a typical case, tapeworms can lay 20,000 to 30,000 eggs in a day.

Generally speaking, these eggs will leave the body with excretion, but there will always be fish that slip through the net.

Unlike mature larvae, these unhatched eggs can pass through the intestinal wall and reach the bloodstream, where they flow throughout the body.

As long as the eggs are healthy, the human immune system will not reject them, but will recognize them as one of its own.

The larvae that hatch from these eggs can then secrete special substances to evade immune surveillance and control the flow of body fluids.

In this way, tapeworms can survive anywhere in the human body, so there is a small chance that tapeworms will appear in the brain.

Because of this, intracranial pressure can increase due to neurocysticercosis caused by tapeworms.

Later, clinical manifestations such as headache, vomiting, aphasia and epilepsy will also appear one by one."

After listening to Duwei's words, Furman chuckled, glanced at Chase, and said meaningfully:

"You do have something as an intern. Now I believe you can handle an outpatient patient.

But what do you want to do next? Get a veterinarian to kill the tapeworm?"

Du Wei shook his head:

"It doesn't have to be so troublesome. We just need to let her take albendazole (a highly effective and low-toxic broad-spectrum anthelmintic drug) on ​​time before the tapeworm dies."

Cameron, who had been listening, suddenly asked:

"What if the tapeworm is dying?"

Du Wei spread his hands and said:

"That's troublesome. After the tapeworm dies, its body will no longer have the ability to deceive the immune system.

The immune system will reactivate and try to devour the tapeworm corpse in the brain.

The resulting high temperatures will cause fatal damage to the brain."

Bang bang bang!

There was a burst of applause.

It's House.

"That's good, little guy. Your analysis is very good. I will take care of the outpatient care just now for you.

Okay, Cameron, tell Rebecca the results and give her medicine."

Outpatient clinic?

Chase's heart moved. Sure enough, there was something wrong with Du Wei's clinic.

He glanced at Furman with a half-smile, whose expression began to turn from bright to gloomy, as if he had won in the end.

Then he pretended to be casual and asked:

"Did something happen in the clinic? Did Du Wei get into trouble?"

House laughed when he heard the inquiry, his expression was very playful:

"The problem is that there is nothing wrong. He diagnosed it right and even diagnosed a few more things.

He also told the other party that his wife was having an affair, and right now that person is complaining about him in the dean's office."

The smile on Chase's face froze instantly, and with a wry smile he handed the $20 bill to Furman, who was beaming.

He never expected that the outpatient problems House mentioned were not about diagnosis, but about the patient's private life.

It seems that Du Wei did not do well enough, but did too well.

Judging from House's hidden meaning, it would be a pity not to become a private detective with Duwei's talent.

Why hadn't he discovered that this intern had such a talent before?

Otherwise, you won’t lose the bet.

Chase shook his head and thought no more.

At this moment, Cameron, who was responsible for informing Rebecca of the diagnosis, walked out with a solemn expression.

House, who noticed something strange, immediately asked:

"What's wrong?"

Cameron hesitated for a moment and said truthfully:

"She doesn't believe you anymore, is unwilling to take medicine, and would rather wait to die."

House was stunned, and after pacing back and forth a few times, he finally made up his mind.

He said to everyone, "I'm here to persuade her," and then opened the door and entered the ward.

He wanted to use his own experience to persuade Rebecca to respect life and not give up easily.

Furman glanced at House's back and asked Duwei:

"Boy, you have so many methods in your mind. What are you going to do if House's persuasion fails?"

Du Wei glanced at Rebecca in the glass room, his eyes full of pity.

Because he can completely sympathize with Rebecca's current state of mind.

He has experienced situations like Rebecca's more than once.

So he almost expressed his feelings as a former brain cancer patient:

"She doesn't really want to die, she just doesn't trust us anymore, and is afraid that hope will turn into despair again, and that she will be tortured to death again.

The physical and mental pain caused by that would be easier than simply dying.

So what we have to do is actually make her believe that there is a tapeworm in her body."

Furman chuckled, this intern was really good at theory.

But the most critical method cannot be explained.

If House can't do it, he still needs his right-hand man to come up with a solution:

"You are wrong, we don't need her to believe, all we need is an execution order from the court.

As long as we say that she is mentally affected and unable to make her own decisions, the court will support our application.

Then just force her to take medicine."

Cameron's eyes lit up and he also supported:

"Indeed, in this life-threatening situation, all we have to say is that the illness caused her to become insane.

I believe she can understand our painstaking efforts afterwards."

Listening to the increasingly outrageous speeches of the three House assistants in front of him, Du Wei couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Furman keenly noticed this eye roll, and the good impression he had just gained because Duwei won money for him disappeared instantly.

He stared directly at Du Wei:

"What? Do you still want to insist on making her believe that she was seriously ill because of tapeworms?

So what do you have to say? Or how can you prove it?"

Seeing Furman approaching Du Wei again, Cameron frowned slightly and stopped him:

"Furman, he's just an intern. He doesn't know what's normal."

Furman sneered and began to teach Du Wei:

“It’s okay not to know, but it’s wrong to roll your eyes instead of listening to our opinions with an open mind.

Don't think that if you are lucky enough to be right once or twice, you can raise your tail to the sky.

Remember, you are still an intern, not a real doctor yet!

As I once said, Lady Luck will not always be by your side.

You are not House. In this industry, if you make one mistake, you will be blacklisted by the entire industry.

If you want to survive here well, you must learn to listen to the opinions of your predecessors!

You don’t want your career to end right now, right?”

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