During this period of time, we chatted with some friends who are doing medical science magazines and often talked about how to better enable the general public to better prevent and treat illnesses. Many experts and scholars have provided many practical solutions, but there are still so many patients who cannot get reasonable and relevant treatment in the first place, and even “terminally ill” before they are admitted to hospitals for treatment, when will such a human “tragedy” stop? She is a very amiable old lady in her 80s, with a lot of grace. She is willing to listen to opera in her spare time, and her greatest pleasure is to talk with her grandchildren about the past and the present. It was such a highly cultured old woman with a love for life that when she finally came to my bed for treatment, she was already in the advanced stage of tumor and passed away six months after the surgery, what a life “tragedy”! The matter has to be traced back to a few years ago, Zhang granny has always had the old problem of “urinary tract infection”, every now and then there will be painful urination, urination more often, when serious, there can also be bouts of pain in the lower abdomen, to a number of hospitals, the diagnosis is clear, due to physiological reasons, urinary tract infection is also confused many elderly women one of the persistent problems. Therefore, every time when her stomach hurts, she knows that her old problem has come back, and she will get better after a few days of infusion and antibiotics in the hospital, and she has been hospitalized many times for this reason. This time, she came to see the doctor because she felt a “lump” on her stomach. After careful examination and auxiliary CT and colonoscopy, it was clear that it was advanced ascending colon cancer with intestinal obstruction. After carefully asking the old lady about her medical history, she found that she had more episodes of abdominal pain than before, and her stool was not good, often no stool for several days, and sometimes several times a day, and when she went to the hospital, she never let the doctor touch her stomach, but at most tested her urine. During the surgery, the colon cancer had spread and invaded the right ureter, the mesentery and the pelvis with extensive implantation of cancer nodules. In retrospect, we analyzed the old lady’s condition. The early urinary tract infection may be a simple urinary tract infection, and the urinary tract infection that has been aggravated recently may be caused by colon cancer invading the right ureter, and the abdominal pain is mainly due to colon cancer with intestinal obstruction, which is no longer caused by the earlier urinary tract infection. If she had seen the surgeon earlier instead of hanging anti-inflammatory drugs in the internal medicine department; if she had responded to the surgeon earlier about the abnormal stool; if she had received an abdominal physical examination earlier; if she had received a colonoscopy earlier; if…if…the result might have been completely different and the amiable granny Zhang could have continued to enjoy the happiness of her old age.