Chapter 794 Cheap is not necessarily a good thing
It is said that hearing is false, seeing is true!
For patients who come here, even if they think the charges at Hua Hospital are a bit expensive, they can see that their health is indeed improving after treatment. This also shows that Xu Zhengdao's medical skills are really not boastful.
What surprised the hospital and the patients was that Xu Zhengdao, who used to practice medicine based on weekdays, unexpectedly practiced medical treatment for one month this year. During the consultation period, Xu Zhengdao did not forget to teach other doctors medical skills.
Those interns who come to internship will naturally not miss such an opportunity. What really makes these interns admire is that they don’t seem to be much different from Xu Zhengdao’s age, but there is a huge difference in medical skills.
Although he was hit hard, the Chinese medicine practitioner who brought them said earnestly: "You are really lucky. You meet a real doctor. It is also your luck and blessing to be able to study medicine with such a doctor.
Don’t feel embarrassed, they are born to be a stake in this bowl of rice. If you really want to compete with him in medical skills, who can compete with Consul Lin in the entire Hua Hospital for the rest of your life and if you encounter some difficult and complicated diseases, you have to ask him for advice and study. What are you not convinced?”
Faced with the advice and warnings of these old Chinese doctors, the interns also knew that traditional Chinese doctors really lived to old age and learned medical skills. Every time they were in class in the hospital, the attitude of old Chinese doctors in learning also made the interns ashamed.
Earlier, they all felt that after studying traditional Chinese medicine for four years, they should be able to prescribe patients for pulses. But when they arrived at the hospital, they realized that they had to learn too much. The little things they learned in school before were just the skin of traditional Chinese medicine.
Just identifying medicinal materials and memorizing some prescriptions from ancient and modern times, these interns are really no different from those who have just learned to walk. In their eyes, Xu Zhengdao is undoubtedly a living medical treasure book.
Even so, when teaching them, Xu Zhengdao said seriously: "The Chinese medicine has been passed down for thousands of years. Many prescriptions prescribed by ancient people have now been completely lost. Therefore, I have to learn a lot.
In recent years, I often go to the mountains to identify some herbs, hoping to learn more about the medicinal properties of herbs. But in ancient times, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, which saved us a lot of trouble. Li Shizhen's Materia Medica wood also introduced us to many medicinal herbs.
As doctors who graduated from Hua Hospital, if you can't even master the medicinal herbs on Materia Medica, then you are unqualified. But how many of you have really seen every herb in the book?
It is said that we can carry on the past and open up the future. Now there are so many experienced old Chinese doctors in the hospital. You must also calm down and study steadily, and truly be ashamed to ask questions. If you miss such an opportunity, you will definitely regret it in the future!"
Currently, most of the students recruited by Hua Hospital are young people from poor families or who prefer traditional Chinese medicine. They do not charge any tuition fees during their school hours, but they must undergo corresponding assessments.
If the assessment fails, or even the homework cannot be completed during school, the school will also do the corresponding treatment. At least Xu Zhengdao hopes that the students trained by the hospital can become real doctors in the future.
The patients who came one after another this year were discharged from the hospital quickly after Xu Zhengdao's personal diagnosis and treatment. This feeling of resurrection made these patients very grateful and convinced to Hua Hospital.
Even during the treatment period, many foreign patients felt like drinking poison when facing the decocted herbs. But now they saw that their health has indeed improved and even recovered completely, they truly understood the magic of Chinese medicine.
Correspondingly, during the period when Xu Zhengdao was in the hospital, the hospital's income naturally soared. It is said that the cost of Western medicine treatment is high, but for many patients who make appointments, they think that treatment in Hua Hospital is also not cheap.
Regarding this issue, many mainland Chinese doctors invited to Chinese hospitals have also asked Xu Zhengdao why they charge such high fees. In their opinion, traditional Chinese medicine has always been cheaper than Western medicine in terms of fees.
Faced with such inquiry, Xu Zhengdao also said directly: "You are all medical seniors who practice medicine for many years. But I would like to ask, now that you are in a domestic hospital, do you think the people believe in you more, or do you believe in Western medicine more?"
A light sentence instantly made these old Chinese doctors not know how to answer. Xu Zhengdao also continued: "If we think that Chinese doctors should charge cheaply, what will the patient think?
Western medicine does have its own unique features in some diseases, and if traditional Chinese medicine wants to truly learn it carefully, I believe that the seniors should have a clear idea. For some domestic patients, they are willing to look for older Chinese medicine.
Because in the eyes of these patients, if they are young Chinese medicine practitioners, they will definitely have no experience. Many times, some patients with difficult and complicated diseases have a try-out mentality and hope that Chinese medicine practitioners can cure their illnesses.
The problem is that we all know that traditional Chinese medicine cannot cure all diseases. Even if you have been practicing medicine for many years, you dare not say that all diseases can be cured. In this way, patients will feel that if you are sick, go to see a Western medicine first, right?"
Hearing such straightforward words, the old Chinese doctors nodded helplessly. As Xu Zhengdao said, the current development of Western medicine in China is rapid, while traditional Chinese medicine is gradually declining. If this continues, how can domestic hospitals still have a place for traditional Chinese medicine?
Moreover, Xu Zhengdao said bluntly that many domestic hospitals also need profits and money. Some diseases can be cured by a few Chinese medicine medications, and patients may be able to cure the disease by spending more than ten yuan.
But if it is Western medicine, the cost of various examinations will be charged, and subsequent prescription of Western medicine will also cost money. Some will even recommend patients to undergo surgery, which is another amount of money. In terms of making money, it must be that Western medicine creates more income for the hospital.
Based on these situations, Xu Zhengdao finally said: "The nursing home has not been built for ordinary people since the day it was built. Maybe the seniors will say that patients should be treated equally. So, do I still have time to study medical skills?
Also, if the hospital has no source of benefits, how to maintain the normal operation of the hospital, how to cultivate new Chinese medicine talents, how to retain and inherit our Chinese medicine? If you have money, these things will become much easier."
After some open and honest conversation, these invited Chinese doctors from the mainland finally recognized Xu Zhengdao's approach. As Xu Zhengdao said, patients who dared to stay in sanatoriums are not the ones who are short of money.
In Xu Zhengdao's own words, he is actually "robbing the rich and helping the poor". For ordinary people who come to the hospital for treatment, the charging standards are also lower than those of Western medicine. Occasionally, whenever there is time, the Chinese Hospital will organize old Chinese medicine doctors to take voluntary consultations.
Chapter completed!