Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 1089 "He's Nominated for the Nobel Prize" (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

Traditional Chinese medicine emergency care is now open, but it can only accept patients with heart failure. The doctors here are not yet capable of handling other emergency situations.

The main problem is that the team is too weak. In the past, Peking Union Medical College Hospital's Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine had very few decent TCM doctors until 1979. It is only because of the emergence of dialects that Peking Union Medical College Hospital's TCM department has become famous.

But history seems to have changed, yet it also seems not to have changed. Although Fang Yan made Peking Union Medical College Hospital's Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine famous, he was the only one. The other doctors should remain the same as before.

In addition, in order to maintain the scarcity of dialect-based medical services in order to attract foreign investment, the TCM departments here mainly see overseas Chinese businessmen and government officials.

If others want to see a doctor through Fang Yan, they either need to know him personally and seek him out privately, or they can only rely on luck to see if they can run into him on some other occasion.

Dialects are like a wandering legendary NPC in a game; you have a certain chance of encountering them and healing those you meet.

Of course, the reputation of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Peking Union Medical College Hospital has changed somewhat recently due to the addition of students from the elite class.

Because of the support of local dialects, and because these doctors are already highly skilled, they haven't encountered any cases they can't cure since they started practicing.

Now, anyone who asks around knows that there is a group of young university-trained TCM doctors at Peking Union Medical College Hospital who have been seeing patients there for the past month. They can usually treat common illnesses with just one or two doses of medicine, and for slightly more complicated illnesses, they may even trigger the appearance of local dialects. As a result, patients from all over the city are flocking to them.

Even some people who originally didn't believe in traditional Chinese medicine and planned to see a Western doctor ended up in the traditional Chinese medicine department, with a critical attitude, asking the traditional Chinese medicine doctor to treat them.

The fact that I was cured slightly improved my view of traditional Chinese medicine.

However, everyone knows that this situation is time-limited and only occurs during this specific period.

Therefore, it is basically unrealistic to arrange for someone to be on duty 24 hours a day in the emergency department.

Even if arrangements are to be made, it will have to wait until the TCM outpatient clinic and inpatient building are completed. At that time, the hospital will definitely expand its enrollment. Once the staff is in place, Fangyan will then find a way to start making arrangements in this regard.

The patient then went to the toilet and returned to the room, addressing everyone:

"I feel much better now."

"Just now, I managed to pull out everything that I couldn't poop out."

After pausing, he asked in dialect:

"I'm a little thirsty and want to drink some water, but I don't know if it's okay for me to drink."

"Okay." Fang Yan nodded.

Upon hearing the dialect, Xie Chunrong, who was standing nearby, had already picked up the kettle, poured a cup of water into the lid, and handed it to the patient.

"The temperature is just right, it won't burn your mouth," Xie Chunrong said.

After taking the glass of water, the patient tested the temperature with his mouth, then tilted his head back and gulped it down. After finishing, he said to Fang Yan and the others:

"My mouth doesn't feel as bitter now."

The emergency room doctor, noticing her holding the water glass, asked her:
"Your shoulder and chest don't hurt anymore?"

He recalled that the patient had previously experienced such severe pain in his shoulders and chest that he was almost unable to move.

Upon hearing this question, the patient was slightly taken aback; it was only then that she realized:

"Yup!"

She touched her shoulder, then her left chest, and made several gestures before exclaiming in surprise:
"My shoulder and chest don't hurt anymore!"

"Dr. Fang, you're amazing! My pain completely disappeared without me even noticing," she said to Fang Yan.

Fang Yan smiled and said:
"It's alright. You just had acupuncture, and the medicine is starting to work. It's normal that it doesn't hurt. If it still hurts now, that would be abnormal."

There's a saying: "Where there is pain, there is blockage; where there is flow, there is no pain."

The patient asked:
"So, that means it's working properly here now, right?"

Fang Yan nodded and said:

Simply put, that's how it is.

Once the stagnation of Qi in the liver and gallbladder is cleared and the obstruction of Qi and blood is relieved, her symptoms will naturally improve.

Fang Yanyou then gave some instructions and transferred the patient from the emergency department to her traditional Chinese medicine department. The patient was now able to walk on her own, so she and her husband walked there together.

The people outside were all surprised to see that the person who had just been carried in was now able to walk.

These are all patients who lined up here this morning; they witnessed the entire process of patients coming and going.

The use of dialect technology once again gave people a visual shock.

This story will inevitably be passed down among these eyewitnesses for some time to come.

Given the creativity of our people, there will probably be several exaggerated versions by then.

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For the rest of the morning, no one encountered any other complicated cases; they just noticed that there were more people coming in for treatment than usual.

I learned that the newspaper had reported that a group of overseas Chinese businessmen were returning to China today, so everyone thought that Peking Union Medical College Hospital might soon partially close its TCM department and start screening procedures.

That's why so many people came today; they all wanted to get medical treatment before the overseas Chinese businessmen returned.

After learning about the rumor, Fang Yan made a special note about it on the blackboard downstairs.

He wrote a notice for traditional Chinese medicine clinic visits on it, explaining the recent outpatient arrangements.

The outpatient clinic remains open as usual. We are clarifying rumors and preventing patients from crowding in to save time.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly; otherwise, he probably wouldn't have been able to finish seeing patients until 3 or 4 p.m. today.

Of course, they still didn't finish until almost 1 p.m. that day.

Fortunately, the cafeteria had reserved food for them.

Everyone in the cafeteria knows these college student TCM doctors; the dean specifically instructed them to ensure they get enough to eat.

After lunch, Fang Yan and the others didn't rest; it was time to begin the afternoon's summary and learning phase.

Actually, no one here cares about them. They can rest a little longer if they want, or even do nothing in the afternoon and go out shopping. But everyone is very serious now, afraid of being turned away at the interview stage.

Because there were emergency room patients speaking in dialects today, the first person to be introduced to today is speaking in dialects.

Everyone wants to hear what should be done in this kind of emergency. You know, at this time of year, acute pancreatitis is not so easy to get into the hands of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Most cases are sent to Western medicine for emergency treatment. Just like today's case, Western medicine couldn't handle it, so they sent it here for treatment by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.

Therefore, the emergency rescue experience of traditional Chinese medicine is very valuable.

Everyone is waiting for the dialect to share this valuable experience.

Just as the explanation in the local dialect was being given, Director Liao and several overseas Chinese businessmen quietly came to the door of the conference room to listen to the explanation inside.

Surrounding him were several people who had returned from abroad. These people varied in age, with the oldest being in their seventies or eighties with gray hair, and the youngest being only about seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen years old. However, judging from their appearance, they were all of pure Chinese descent and did not have any foreign features.

They listened to the conversation in the conference room, delivered in a local dialect: "Acute illness is a close-quarters battle between the body's resistance and the pathogenic factors. The twisting and turning technique I use when needling the Qimen point is to 'twist' out the stagnant heat... When the patient inhales, the needle is inserted to open the chest and diaphragm with the lung qi. The needle tip is 0.5 inches inward, avoiding the ribs. This is how you puncture the chest and ribs. If you don't puncture the correct meridian, the defensive qi will not be able to manifest, and the pathogenic qi will remain alone..."

Those outside the door listened to his detailed explanation and couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Director Liao asked them:

"So, everyone, isn't our Doctor Fang truly skilled?"

After saying this, the oldest man said:

"Of course he has it. What Americans call the 'Sputnik crisis of Western medicine,' and I heard in September this year that someone in Switzerland even wanted to nominate him for the Nobel Prize..."

P.S.: I've gained another 600 monthly passes. How did I suddenly get so many more...?

So I still owe you 12000 more words. After finishing this chapter, I currently owe you 26000 words.

There will be more this afternoon.

(End of this chapter)