"This early in the morning?" Huo Mian looked down at her watch; it was not even 8:30 AM .
"Yeah, appointments with chief physicians usually start in the afternoon, but this patient specifically asked for you . Would you like to see her?" Chen Jie asked as she awaited orders from Huo Mian, who nodded . "Why not, we shouldn't keep the patient waiting for nothing . "
Ever since Huo Mian mysteriously disappeared from her office and was kidnapped, Chen Jie basically spent every consult with her, from beginning to end .
Ten minutes later, a tired-looking woman walked into the clinic . She was around 30 years old and had distinctive features, but her face was as pale as a ghost .
"Please sit . " Huo Mian looked up at the woman, then back down at her medical records .
She was shocked to see that she suffered from intermittent psychosis…
Technically, she didn't treat patients with psychosis .
There were a lot of hospitals in the city that treated this illness . Huo Mian, on the other hand, usually dealt with patients with depression, mania, ADHD, or insomnia . She was a doctor who treated patients with mental illnesses, and psychosis wasn't one of them .
Psychosis patients were borderline dangerous…
According to hospital regulations, Huo Mian had the right to deny consult for this patient . However, upon seeing the woman's facial expressions, she felt bad for her and didn't have the heart to send her away .
"You're Ms . Wang, right?"
"I am . " The woman nodded .
"You're suffering from intermittent psychosis? For how long?" Huo Mian asked .
"A little over three years…" The woman sounded completely normal in her replies .
"Do you have a family history of psychosis? Is anyone in your family suffering from the same disease?"
"No . "
"You're the first one?"
"I am . " The woman nodded .
"What are your symptoms? Can you explain them to me? For example… do you remember doing anything radical during your psychotic episodes?"
"I don't . "
"Then… do you know the cause of your psychosis? Did your primary physician ever diagnose you?"
"Yeah, he said it was because of too much mental pressure . "
"Where does your mental pressure come from? From work or from life?" Huo Mian asked in detail while Chen Jie jotted down important points on her notebook .
The woman paused for a second before slowly saying, "Both, I think . Ever since I was diagnosed, I quit my job and have been staying at home this entire time . "
"Are you married? Do you have children?"
"I'm married… but I don't have any children . "
Huo Mian nodded at her reply…
"Your physician diagnosed you with intermittent psychosis, so I suggest that you go to a psychiatric clinic instead . After all, the doctors there are more authoritative . I'm a neurology physician, but I only treat patients with mental illnesses . " Huo Mian tried to persuade the patient into going elsewhere, but the latter shook her head .
"But I don't think that I'm sick, what if I was misdiagnosed? Our neighbor's kid suffered from depression, and I heard it's basically an untreatable disease, yet he's already getting better, shortly after you treated him . That's why I came to you, so you could help me . "
Huo Mian looked at the woman – the way she talked and organized her thoughts seemed perfectly normal…
Huo Mian knew that patients with intermittent psychosis only suffered sudden onsets .
They never knew when it would happen, making this disease intermittent . Having intermittent psychosis was equivalent to living with a time bomb; it was extremely tricky to treat .
Huo Mian looked up at her and said, "I can help you, but… I don't know what you're like during your episodes, and since they're intermittent, I can't just wait around for you to suffer from a sudden onset, right? There must be another way…"
"I don't know what I'm like during my episodes, but my husband does, you can hear it from him . Here's a video of him explaining everything, take a look at it, and you might be able to understand my situation…" the woman said as she took out her phone .
Chen Jie looked at the patient vigilantly, afraid that she would take something dangerous out of her purse .
Chapter end
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