ICU: the Trial Ground of Life and Death

Using the American ICU as an incision and the eyes of a Chinese doctor, we unravel the shady system of global organ trafficking and human tissue trading. San Angelo Memorial Hospital, ICU. I, Lu Chen, the attending doctor, am used to seeing life and death. Until the patient named Lin Yuan was sent in. The diagnosis was severe drug eruption, with skin flaking like psoriasis. His "friend" Zhou Cheng, who wore sunglasses throughout the visit, only asked one sentence: "When will he wake up?" Three days later, Lin Yuan briefly regained consciousness. He grabbed my hand and said, "Don't let them in." That night, Lin Yuan's liver enzyme indicators suddenly collapsed. Zhou Cheng handed me a bank card and whispered: "There is a card inside. The password is his birthday. All I ask is you, just watch him go." I checked Lin Yuan's transplant records and found that a perfectly matched liver source had just been de-allocated—the provider's name was Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming died of liver failure three years ago. Zhou Cheng's younger brother. In this ICU, every "brain-dead" patient may be a person whose life has ended prematurely. And who drew that period?