In my opinion, things are similar in every truth-searching activities. Many have achieved professional status with the passion to search for the truth, yet few are able to tell a story in a vivid and enticing way. Michael Crichton is an exemplar.
You are probably just a few steps away from him. :-)
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Last night, I called home, and it was just a routine call. At the end of conversations, out of curiosity, I mentioned your diabetic pt's case to my mother who is an OB/GYN doctor working at a teaching hospital affricated with a medical school in a major city of China. To my surprise, she enlightened me with an eye-opening story that really shocked me.
Not very long ago one of my mother’s pts developed diabetes during her first trimester of the pregnancy, and she was prescribed insulin to lower her blood sugar level in order to safeguard the health of mother-to-be and the fetus. Unfortunately, one day this young woman found out , by a chance, that her husband was having an affair with a girl secretly behind her back. As the traumatic event unraveled this young women made a suicidal attempt by injecting herself with a large quantity of insulin. Shortly after she did that, her body was starting shivering , and she was on the verge to lose her consciousness, luckily her husband, a young orthodontist, with suffice medical knowledge discovered her in the bathroom and immediately fed her drink with very high contents of sugar in it while calling for the medical help. In the end, my mother’s pt turn out to be ok , and she didn’t die from the tragic event. In fact, six months later she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Interesting enough, her marriage was apparently saved, and her husband stopped seeing the other girl. According to my mother it was true happy ending after all of the exhilarations. She pointed out that there also has a twist in this true story that the young mother who committed suicide with insulin has pharmaceutical background.
In the other end of my phone call my mother “seized” a rare opportunity to lecture me about the evil source of that had happened and usual jazz about responsibility so on so forth, etc. That was kind of boring -:).
Anyhow, my take-away was that on the one hand knowledge is powerful and lifesaving, on the other hand it could be fetal and sinister when used by a wrong person.
