Chapter 715: Gravity Allergy?

"Lu Zhuren, what's wrong?" Zhao Zhe asked, "Please don't get angry. At our age, maintaining health is the most important thing. Getting angry hurts the liver. I've seen patients with liver disease who all look terrible, and every single one of them has a wicked temper."

"Managing patients with liver disease is many times more difficult than patients with other illnesses; I didn't notice that at the very beginning either."

The more Zhao Zhe spoke, the more unhappy Lu Gang became, but he successfully shifted Lu Gang's attention onto Zhao Zhe.

He also noticed this point, and the volume of his voice grew quieter and quieter.

"Lu Zhuren, have some water." Ji Xiang drew a cup of water in a disposable paper cup and handed it to Lu Zhuren.

Lu Gang glared fiercely at Zhao Zhe, then drank the water in one gulp.

"Lu Zhuren, this is..."

"Going for a consultation. I'm still examining the case here, but the result is that they say they're finding a master to solve it and won't trouble the hospital. If they had done this earlier, how much better it would be not to be hospitalized!" Lu Gang said indignantly.

"A master? What kind of master?" Ji Xiang asked.

Lu Gang wanted to curse, but stopped himself.

It was very obvious that Lu Gang harbored fear toward this master.

He could curse the patient's family members, but he absolutely dared not harbor any secret resentment toward this master.

Ji Xiang found it interesting and asked, "Lu Zhuren, can we go take a look?"

"There's nothing to look at. The patient is being pretentious, saying they get dizzy as soon as they stand up. The CT and MRI scans show nothing wrong... It's just damn annoying!"

"Oh? Dizzy as soon as they stand up?" Lin Jiuze heard Lu Gang say this and suddenly became interested, asking.

Lu Gang suddenly heard a voice ring out by his ear and instinctively jumped up from his chair; the lock of hair on his head flopped down, clearly startled.

"Lu Zhuren, be careful." Ji Xiang hurriedly steadied Lu Gang.

Lu Gang glared at Lin Jiuze, but after just one look, he felt dizzy and his pupils involuntarily looked elsewhere.

"What is the patient's condition?" Lin Jiuze asked.

He was only polite when speaking with Ji Xiang; when speaking with others, although he carried his own invisibility skill, that air of a superior doctor was very obvious.

"The patient is 19 years old. They say that 3 years ago, symptoms of discomfort appeared after getting out of bed. It has developed to the point where, once they stand for more than 3 minutes, they feel nauseous, their heart rate increases, and then they faint. After lying down, the symptoms improve significantly."

"You tell me, what kind of damn illness is this!" Lu Gang said huffily.

Ji Xiang focused his mind and entered the System Operating Room.

"Lu Zhuren, isn't this just the 'lazy disease'?" Zhao Zhe said, "Is it that the child doesn't want to go to class and has a fear of the college entrance exam, so they are pretending to be uncomfortable as soon as they stand up? Or maybe it's puberty and they are rebellious? But being able to lie at home for 3 years, that's pretty impressive."

Stand up, and feel uncomfortable—the things people say.

Zhao Zhe said half of it and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The child's parents are indeed too indulgent; otherwise, such an obvious excuse for skipping class wouldn't have lasted for 3 years.

Simply put, this child just needs a beating; a thrashing with a belt would fix it.

"When I was a kid, I had a classmate who said he got dizzy when he got out of bed. Later, his dad hung him on the pull-up bar at the door and gave him a thrashing," General Manager Wu said. "He was fine after the thrashing!"

General Manager Wu and Zhao Zhe had the same idea.

Lin Jiuze looked at the two with disdain. Before he could speak, he heard Ji Xiang say, "Was the Tilt Table Test done?"

"!!!"

"The Tilt Table Test, there's actually no point in doing that thing." Lu Gang grumbled first, then said, "It was done. No fainting occurred; it's just that as soon as the patient was tilted up, they said they were uncomfortable and wanted to lie down."

"No other problems?" Ji Xiang asked.

"The values changed slightly, but they were within an acceptable range. So I consider the patient to be just lazy, not wanting to go to school, and having fabricated a reason."

When Lu Gang said this, he was very angry, but he didn't dare to curse and swallowed all those fragrant words back down.

Ji Xiang nodded and asked, "Lu Zhuren, do you know of a disease?"

"What disease?"

"Gravity Allergy."

"!!!"

"!!!"

"!!!"

Countless exclamation marks appeared above the heads of Lu Gang, Zhao Zhe, and Lin Jiuze.

Lu Gang looked at Ji Xiang with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot; Zhao Zhe felt a bit awkward, rubbing his feet on the ground, looking like he wanted to dig a hole to hide in.

But Lin Jiuze looked at Ji Xiang with a face full of surprise and confusion.

"Doctor Ji Xiang, don't mess around. It's already absurd enough that the patient's family is looking for a master to treat the illness, and now you've come up with some 'Gravity Allergy.' This of yours is even more excessive than those who believe in such things. You've been to school too; what is gravity? If one were allergic to it, could a person survive until now?" Lu Gang scolded.

He was still polite with his words toward Ji Xiang; if it had been Zhao Zhe, Lu Gang would have kicked him long ago.

Some people are allergic to milk, and there are also allergies to seafood, pollen, and some are allergic to other strange things, such as blood pressure medication they've taken for a lifetime.

But an allergy to gravity...

Lu Gang had never heard of it, and he didn't believe it.

"Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States once treated a similar patient, the singer and songwriter Jin Mu."

"Since fainting for the first time at age 13, Jin Mu suffered for more than 20 years: sitting up caused dizziness, standing up caused palpitations, and standing for a few more minutes could lead to fainting. She said herself that she was particularly prone to fatigue and often had headaches and nausea. Only by lying flat could she feel a bit better."

"This severely affected the patient's work and life."

"She didn't dare to drive, fearing dizziness would cause an accident; she didn't dare to go on business trips; she didn't dare to get pregnant or have children, worrying she would faint and accidentally hurt the fetus."

"Jin Mu saw at least 50 doctors; she wanted to find out the cause, find the root of the disease, and get proper treatment."

"Things went contrary to her wishes. The vast majority of doctors comforted her, saying there was no problem and no special treatment was needed. These symptoms all stemmed from the patient's own imagination, anxiety, stress, depression..."

Lu Gang and Zhao Zhe were stunned.

"The patient sought treatment at multiple hospitals in the United States, but the opinions given by the doctors leaned toward anxiety, tension, and depression. The condition became increasingly severe, so the patient announced her retirement in May 2018."

"!!!"

"!!!"

"A few years later, it seems the Patient was seen at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the doctor there gave a diagnosis—Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Doctor Lin, you know about this, right?"

Ji Xiang said, turning his head to look at Lin Jiuze.

In Ji Xiang's eyes, Lin Jiuze was never invisible.

Lin Jiuze nodded, "When I performed the examination on the Patient at the time, I handled the imaging aspects. During the consultation, Doctor Chen Pengsheng also invited me to participate in the diagnosis."

Holy crap!

Lu Gang's eyeballs nearly fell out.

Ji Xiang's "made-up story" actually had a source, and the consulting doctor from that time was standing right there!

"Simply put, the Patient suffers from a type of Orthostatic Intolerance accompanied by clinical manifestations of orthostatic tachycardia; in layman's terms, it is 'Orthostatic Intolerance'."

(End of chapter)