Sleepless Doctor

Latest URL: The machine buzzes, and a 3D pattern appears on the screen.

The pattern rotates slowly at a fixed speed, and the afterimage is like a faint cloud in the sky, swaying.

Unlike the 10-second animated picture sent to Jack Jones before, the 3D picture in front of you is not beautiful and thrilling. It is like a dead branch in winter, a bit "dead" in the mess.

The image is not beautiful, it can even be said to be a bit boring and ugly.

"Wu, is this the brain map in a vegetative state?" Jack Jones asked with some confusion.

"Yeah." Wu Mian nodded.

"I thought it would be nothingness."

"No, according to the awake accounts of existing vegetatives, their brains are active when they become vegetatives. They even have memories and know what happened." Wu Mian said, "Similar to the myth that the soul is imprisoned, um, You can understand it this way."

"Wu, are you sure you are not joking?"

"There are many cases that can illustrate this point. I'm not kidding." Wu Mian narrowed his eyes into a nice arc, staring at the slowly rotating image on the screen, and said, "Jack, I'm sorry I don't know why. You always think I'm joking."

"No, Wu, I think you got it wrong. I was too surprised, rather than questioning what you said. It's incredible, you know." Jack Jones explained quickly.

"Jack, there is a memory record about the awakening of vegetative people. The most recent one was Jan Glebski, a Polish vegetative. He woke up after 19 years in a coma. After waking up, Yang said that his brain has been working, can hear, see, He can think, think, and remember, but he can't move his body. He has always been anxious about this."

"..." Jack Jones was startled.

"In our folk terms, this kind of situation is called ghost press. But under normal circumstances, ghost press has a normal medical explanation, and it has nothing to do with vegetative people. And ghost press... Forget it, the difference is too much, my example Not appropriate." Wu Mian said.

"Gosh, the brain is really working all the time?!"

"Yang said, he knew what was happening around him at that time, but he couldn't move, couldn't talk, he could only lie down every day, very anxious.

When he sees his wife taking care of him by himself, when he sees his children dangling by his side home from school, when he hears the roar of his children getting married next door, when he sees his grandchildren With a cute appearance, he was anxious because he couldn't express it. "

Wu Mian said, "These are all the narratives after Yang Suxing. He even knew about the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and got some news from the sound of TV."

"Amazing."

"Unfortunately, Yang is just a lucky man." Wu Mian said, "The awakening essence of vegetative people is the restoration of higher cerebral cortex function, but it is by no means like waking up from sleep or coma as many people imagine.

In fact, most of them still have serious functional and cognitive regression. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are not much better than the so-called intellectually disabled people, just different from the vegetative state. "

"That..." Jack Jones did not continue, but looked at the 3D image spinning on the screen of the nuclear magnetic machine.

"The concept of a vegetative man is different from brain death, just like the name. The patient is in a vegetative state. Now, you see that the patient’s brainstem structure is complete. If he is a small tree, his roots are good and can Absorb enough nutrients."

Jack Jones looked at Wu Mian with innocent eyes.

"To put it simply, because of the integrity of the brainstem structure, the child can grow and develop normally. However, the gray and white matter structures of his cerebral hemispheres have been damaged to a certain extent, so they lose high-level cognitive functions."

"The image materials of awakened and memorized vegetatives are kept secret, I can't find it." Wu Mian said, looking at the image on the screen, "The research on the brain is always a very high level of confidentiality no matter what country it is in. ,what a pity."

"Then what are the results of your research?"

"Coma—vegetative state—minimum state of consciousness—wake up. I think it can be divided into four stages." Wu Mian stretched out his finger and pointed to a light spot on the screen. “The child’s luck is good, and there is a minimum state of consciousness. . In other words, he is now conscious and perceptive, but only in a minimal state, and he doesn’t know how to express it."

"All we have to do is to help him sober."

"Wu, if you can do it, it can be a miracle." Jack Jones said with a shrug.

"A miracle? Not at all." Wu Mian smiled, "I'm just a doctor, and I always treat diseases and save people."

"Wu, I think you know what I care about." Jack Jones said unabashedly.

"Of course, I like you who are so straightforward." Wu Mian said, "vegetables can wake up. Do you have any questions about Alzheimer's patients who are lighter than vegetation?"

"But is it commercially valuable?"

"I leave it to you to apply for a patent. I can't always let me find my friends. Jack, I hope you know that I am giving you a piece of cake, and it is quite delicious."

Jack Jones didn't continue Wu Mian's words, he still had a lot of doubts in his heart.

"Are you thinking why I don't cooperate with GE Healthcare?" Wu Mian asked.

"Yeah." Jack Jones nodded.

"A long time ago, GE Healthcare ignored my fiancee's request. They hid the second-generation brain pacemaker and caused a lot of trouble for us and our patients. Jack, you know, I am a stingy person."

"..."

Jack Jones really has no way to connect this almost epoch-making technology with some personal grievances~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If personal grievances are mentioned, the confrontation on the mitral valve clamp can completely allow Lanco to deal with it. Wu Mian was black for ten thousand years.

But that's all business, even if it's all philosophical.

Nothing is more important than making money. If the vegetative in front of you can be awakened like Wu said, even an ordinary person knows what commercial value it has.

"Patents, I want patents." Wu Mian emphasized, "Whether it can be put into clinical practice first depends on the speed of Orchid's patent application and the speed of research on new brain pacemakers."

"Wu, you can apply for a patent at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in just one week. This time..."

"Jack, please believe that you will regret letting me apply for a patent." Wu Mian said with a smile, "I will study the surgical approach. If there is no problem, I will have the operation the day after tomorrow."

As he said, his hands were rarely pressed on the table, his voice was low and his eyes were focused on the rotating, haggard image, "That will be the moment to witness the miracle."