Quite a Tai Chi Move

Medical Center.

After hanging up the phone with Heather, Adam shook his head with a wry smile.

Sheldon is indeed a chosen one.

Even though eight years have passed, the stories of Sheldon's childhood are still being replayed around Adam almost every week, making Adam constantly recall the funny things that happened to Little Sheldon.

Perhaps this is life.

Then.

He began to consider how to appease the sensitive Tatiana.

Before.

Sheldon read Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy overnight, and in his dream, he chatted with René Carl, who was both a mathematician and a philosopher. He had a flash of inspiration and tried to refute Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream with Descartes' classic quote, "I think, therefore I am."

I think, therefore I am.

In other words, if I raise a question, then I have thought about it.

If I have thought about it, then I must exist.

Unfortunately.

When humans think, God laughs.

Even if that human is Sheldon.

The I think, therefore I am cannot refute Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream of a butterfly.

Because one can feel and think even in dreams, there are endless dreams within dreams, and no one can say for sure which one is the true reality.

These complex and profound philosophical questions have been raised by humankind over thousands of years, with countless brilliant minds able only to raise the issues, but not to provide perfect answers.

Even if Adam's wisdom approached that of Sheldon, he could not immediately answer these fundamental questions about the nature of the world.

Then use these answers to explain to Tatiana and comfort her.

But he didn't need to do that at all.

Since we can't solve the problem, nor can we solve the problem of the person who raised it, then we should shift the focus of the problem.

Adam was quite confident about this, and he was just waiting for Heather and the others to arrive that night so he could use his Heaven and Earth Great Shift to Flower-Shifting, Jade-Connecting Star-Shifting, Dipper-Revolving Tai Chi attacks.

Time quickly passed and it was noon.

Self-service restaurant.

"Meredith, you've been spending more time with your stepmother lately."

Cristina said casually.

"She is not my stepmother!"

Meredith was sensitive to this and immediately retorted, "She is just my biological father's current wife, and has nothing to do with me!"

"OK".

Cristina shrugged and said, "You've been getting closer to your biological father's wife lately. You used to avoid her, but now you're not only openly treating her, but also chatting and laughing with her."

"She..."

Meredith paused. "She's completely different from my mother; she's very maternal."

Alice Grey, a legendary female doctor, has always been aloof, both to others and to her only daughter.

The current Mrs. Grey is just an ordinary housewife who thinks about managing her family every day and making her husband and daughters feel the warmth of home.

Nowadays, maternal instincts have even extended to the daughters born to husbands and their ex-wives.

"It's hard to say."

Cristina instinctively retorted, "Maybe she's just bored. I remember her daughter is already married and has a child, and she gave birth in our hospital."

"...right."

Meredith's eyes darkened. "They have two daughters. The elder daughter is married with children and has moved out long ago. The younger daughter is studying at Harvard Medical School. He always gets me and his younger daughter mixed up... Maybe that's how it is."

"Don't listen to Cristina."

Adam glanced at the carefree Cristina and said to Meredith, "When it comes to feelings, as long as you're sure it's genuine, don't worry too much about the initial motives. Otherwise, life just won't work."

Meredith did not speak.

Clearly, she still harbored some expectations for her father's side deep down.

It's just that we're in a stage where we're taking one step forward and three steps back, wanting to get in touch but afraid of getting hurt.

Cristina's words pulled her back a few steps.

"She came to see you for a medical consultation?"

Adam once again caught the lightning bolt with one hand.

"Um."

Meredith didn't want to say anything more, but when Adam brought it up, she remembered the important matter. "She's been hiccuping a lot lately, and it's been affecting her sleep."

She knew I was about to take the Certification Exam for interns (the results of my laboratory internship would determine my specialty in residency).

She wouldn't have contacted me if it weren't too serious.

"Adam, can you take a look at this for me?"

"Certainly."

Adam nodded. "I'll go with you to see him later. How did you make the diagnosis?"

"She has acid reflux."

Meredith explained, "She's had hiccups before, on and off, but they've gotten worse recently. I gave her some Chlorpromazine, and it worked immediately, but the hiccups return once the medication wears off. Now I'm going to recommend that she have Endoscopic Gastric Plication."

Endoscopic Gastric Plication involves inserting a tube into the patient's throat and then suturing the bottom of the esophagus to prevent it from being corroded by stomach acid.

"Why not try non-surgical methods to treat hiccups first?"

Adam frowned. "As surgeons, we naturally focus on surgical procedures, but she is your biological father's wife and is willing to come to you for treatment, which shows that she trusts you. You should pay more attention to her."

Surgical procedures can cure diseases quickly and effectively.

It looks good.

But all doctors know that if it's not necessary to operate, then you should never operate.

Even if the surgery is minor and very advanced.

Because no one can predict what might happen.

Preoperative anesthesia, intraoperative complications, and postoperative complications.

Even just one of these factors can cause what was originally a minor symptom to develop into a critical condition or even death.

"... Then what should I do?"

Meredith was somewhat embarrassed by what was said.

Because she also knew that what Adam said was the attitude a doctor should have towards his own family members.

Safety first.

Instead of just wanting to solve the problem in the fastest and most convenient way.

This means that she did not consider the woman who was trying to give her maternal warmth as a relative.

"Let's try treatment using conventional, non-invasive methods first."

Adam laughed and said, "With so many methods, we should only proceed with riskier surgery after confirming that none of them work."

"Yes."

Cristina interjected, "Deep breathing, the water-drinking bending-over method, the breath-holding method... there are so many methods, surely one will suit her. If none of them work, there's always massage, right? That's incredibly effective!"

"No!"

Meredith instinctively exclaimed, "I don't want a massage!"

Then, looking both embarrassed and annoyed, he glared at Cristina: "What are you thinking?! You actually want me to... give her a massage?!"

"What's wrong?"

Cristina shrugged and said, "Take a cotton swab, put it in the patient's mouth, and use the soft end to massage the center of the front jaw. Usually, massaging for one minute will have a remarkable effect. Any questions?"

"Hehe."

Adam couldn't help but laugh.

Cristina then laughed too.

"Shut up!"

Meredith now knew that she had not wronged Cristina.

The massage she understood to stop hiccups was the miraculous massage method Cristina mentioned, not the regular massage Cristina described.

Emmm.

This is because Adam told them this, which made a particularly deep impression on them.

The mere mention of massage to stop hiccups makes me want to flip my head over.