Author: Leaf Orange
来源：Vista看天下（ID：vistaweek）
Young people (including me) who usually talk about "breath out of nodules" have been sweating a little bit in the past two days.
From time to time, there are hot searches on the news related to nodules, and people are starting to feel weak.
Some time ago, a 25-year-old girl who was found to have lung nodules in a physical examination was recommended by the doctor to be surgically removed, and the postoperative pathological results showed that it was lung adenocarcinoma.
Because the lesion was detected early and removed in time, there was no major problem.
This girl is an accountant by profession, usually does not stay up late, does not smoke, does not drink, and often climbs and runs with friends on weekends, and her life and rest look very healthy, not like a cause of nodules.
Many people in the comment area guessed - could it be that the accountant was angry?
Followed by a man who was found to have 557 ground-glass nodules in both lungs during a physical examination, doctors were shocked to see this number.
The netizens who passed by counted one by one, and they were all frightened.
Usually, everyone talks about "getting nodules out of the nodules again", and they don't take the nodules too seriously.
Only occasionally when I catch a glimpse of these news on the hot search, I chuckle in my heart, and "I don't know if the nodules on my body have grown up".
In a sense, nodules are like the mood sickness of our generation.
When you complain about nodules, you may not be really afraid of death, but you must be annoyed by the person who makes you so angry that you feel "another nodule grows".
On the internet today, people who don't have nodules are rare.
Because everyone has either been diagnosed with nodules in a physical examination, or they believe that they are already on the way to having nodules-
Thinking that this bad life will sooner or later make you angry out of the nodules.
via @溪流
Although modern medicine believes that the etiology of nodular lesions is not clear, it is generally believed to be related to the long-term effects of various factors such as environment, hormones, immunity, genetics, and psychology.
But that doesn't prevent the big guys from attributing the culprit of the nodules to -
Job.
as well as graduate school, Ph.D., falling in love, and so on...... In short, everything will make you angry, and you can't spread it yet.
The knot rate is considered to be a more accurate indicator than the KPI completion and a measure of whether the worker is tired or not.
A few years ago, the three-piece part-time job set that was complained about was DingTalk, Feishu, and WeChat, and the three software recorded how many times people replied "received" and "okay" every day.
But since last year, the latest "three-piece set" nominated on the Internet has become thyroid nodules, pulmonary nodules, and breast nodules.
Three common nodules that witness every breath of resentment that young people swallow.
According to statistics, there are more than 200 million thyroid nodules in China, and the total number of lung nodules in China is about 120 million.
The "2023 China Women's Health Pink Report" shows that the detection rate of female breast nodules in China is 33.94%, and there is a one-third probability, one in three people.
The above is just a statistic of common nodules, which can occur anywhere in the body as a generic term for "tiny lumps" in ultrasound diagnosis.
Some people have "one branch" on their bodies, while others call themselves "grape essences", and the nodules on their bodies have become strings.
Every industry considers nodules to be an occupational disease exclusive to their own pediatric industry, including doctors themselves.
When it comes to "whose job is the most infuriating", no one thinks that their job is not worthy of being the first.
Teachers complained that they were caught between the school, parents, and children.
There are endless activity impressions and lesson plan checks, and there are unclear "teachers beat me" and "he hit me first".
When I got home and picked up my mobile phone, my parents sent a long paragraph on WeChat, and I already wanted to faint just by looking at the beginning of "Teacher, how did my Zihan ......".
For white-collar workers in office buildings, it is no longer worth complaining about being stepped on countless feet on the subway in the morning rush hour.
In contrast, those who can't understand people's words and have to reply "can't you understand people's words" in the feedback are more worthy of anger.
The year-end bonus will be reduced, and if there is no, there will be no one, and a bag of melon seeds and a bag of peanuts will be issued for holiday benefits.
That's it, after receiving the notification, you have to reply in the work group: "Okay, thank you." ”
Not only companies, but also colleges and universities have been nominated by young people as a place with a high incidence of nodules.
When a student encounters an unlucky tutor, he is so angry that he rolls his eyes secretly when he is called and overthrown by the tutor at will; when he encounters a teacher who is an unlucky student, he is so angry that he shakes his feet silently because the student does not participate in the group meeting and the paper is a mess.
The close relationship between college students and tutors forms a conjugate nodule, and you grow and I grow.
Compared with serious discussions on medical topics, the word "nodule" in the past two years is actually more like a mental state on the Internet.
It symbolizes unspeakable anger, unspeakable disgust, and indescribable speechlessness.
Sometimes used as a noun to refer to its own meaning, such as the common "air nodule".
Sometimes used as an adjective, a bad drama that makes the audience so angry and disgusted that they can't eat is called a "nodule drama".
Correspondingly, the drama in which the plot is cool and the wicked person is slapped in the face is called "Tong Nodule Drama".
The meaning is as its name suggests, after watching the play, the chief breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that all the nodules all over his body were cleared.
In the past two years, even the local short dramas on the Internet have kept pace with the times, rubbing the popularity of "nodules".
The previous common boss short dramas, generally the plots of the male and female protagonists leading to divorce with each other, and finally the male protagonist chasing his wife to the crematorium.
Now there is an outrageous plot where the reason for the divorce is the female protagonist's breast nodules, and she thinks that she is angry with the male protagonist, and then makes up her mind to separate.
The object of anger may be different in all walks of life, but the way everyone deals with it after being angry is the same - they can only hold back.
Teachers can't scold unreasonable parents, and workers can't pick up anger after being tossed crazy by customers.
Doctors have difficulty preventing patients from pulling out their mobile phones and saying, "Baidu says my illness is another," and students and tutors find it difficult to separate each other most of the time, always torturing each other.
The grievances suffered in reality are difficult to vent, and everyone subconsciously feels that the qi held in the stomach should always have a place, and finally chose the nodule.
It is common enough.
It is so common that most people can empathize with the faint sadness and anger of "it's my turn" when the nodule is detected, but not despairing.
It's also realistic enough.
Most nodular lesions are benign, only a small percentage are malignant, and usually small nodules do not require specific treatment, only need to be kept under observation.
However, if a small nodule grows larger and develops, it may become more serious.
Just like the anger you receive every day, each one will not make you angry on the spot, but the accumulation of one by one may become a heavy burden that crushes the spirit.
Nodules are like a small book of vengeance for contemporary people.
The chest X-ray and color ultrasound in the physical examination report are the silent complaints of young people.
Everyone complains about nodules, in fact, just like complaining about hemorrhoids a few years ago, reminding each other of the levator anus.
On the surface, he cares about the body and minor pains and illnesses, but on the inside, he is also silently dissatisfied with a way of life that he is forced to enter.
When people complain about hemorrhoids, they are also complained about work that they have to sit or stand for a long time, heavy oil and salt, cooking packages that take out three meals a day, and "paid toilet" that can only relax for a while by hiding in the bathroom.
These are considered to be possible causes of hemorrhoids in migrant workers.
Although medically, the causes of hemorrhoids are far more complex than that, for the average person, complaining about hemorrhoids is not about seeking an accurate answer, but just to vent.
It's like complaining about nodules, not to incarnate Detective Conan to explore whether breast nodules were caused by the last quarrel.
Just to care and soothe yourself—
Don't be angry, there is no one to replace the nodules.
In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about "rejuvenation of nodules", and it seems that more and more young people are detecting nodules on the Internet.
However, many people in medicine believe that this is not necessarily because there are more young people with nodules, but more likely because of the progress of examination equipment and technology, as well as the rising awareness of young people for physical examination.
Lian Jianhong, director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Shanxi Hospital, Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said that in recent years, the precision of CT, B-ultrasound and other testing instruments has been increasing, and the experience of doctors has also grown, so that smaller nodules can also be detected.
Medical blogger @plastic surgeon fat angel once popularized science in the video, during the physical examination, the doctor will touch the sides of your neck with his hands, and sometimes make you swallow saliva.
But most of the time, this process is just "acting".
Because 90% of thyroid nodules are less than 1 cm in size, it is difficult to diagnose by hand, and more often rely on ultrasound detection.
via @整形医生胖天使
Doctors use the term "detection rate" when discussing nodules because even after chest x-ray and color ultrasound, some nodules that are too small may still not be visible to the naked eye.
Nowadays, some hospitals have introduced AI screening technology for pulmonary nodules, using AI to screen chest X-rays to facilitate the observation of small nodules that may be missed by the human eye.
This will also lead to an increase in the detection rate of nodules.
Strictly speaking, nodules are not a disease, but a symptom.
It may be a lump caused by inflammation in a sick or long-term sub-health state, or tissue proliferation stimulated by endocrine hormone imbalance;
It could be dust sucked into the lungs, a benign tumor, or a malignant tumour caused by a genetic replication error.
People leave traces when they are alive, and nodules are like traces left on the body by every choice we make in life.
From this point of view, the obscuring of nodules as the crystallization of emotions is not rigorous, but it is appropriate.
Not only nodules, but more and more somatic manifestations of emotions, such as stomach pain, are being discussed in the spotlight.
The gastrointestinal tract is known as the "second brain", and depressed emotions such as sadness and depression often lead to low motivation and loss of appetite.
Anger, anger, nervousness and other excitable emotions may lead to high motility of the gastrointestinal tract, increased gastric acid secretion, leading to gastroesophageal reflux, gastritis and so on.
In fact, the best way to solve emotional problems is that sentence-
"Instead of internal friction growing nodules, it is better to vent external friction", so that spiritual problems can be solved at the spiritual level.
But obviously, it is difficult for most ordinary people to have the ability or opportunity to vent to the outside world.
Public opinion advocates emotional stability, the job market advocates screws, introverted society advocates anti-hypocrisy, and adults should not collapse in public.
Everyone endured and held back, silently aggrieved, angry and irritable, until the first nodule appeared on the physical examination list.
With the medical checklist in hand, it seems that adults have a legitimate opportunity to question the world.
Emotionally charged once:
"Look what you've forced me to be!"