Li Liangjing said, "According to the mission given by the teacher, we have to learn from the attending physician and help manage and treat the patients. Let's begin when we're ready."
"We will listen to Senior's arrangements," Li Yuanyuan raised her hand and said.
Li Liangjing gave everyone a basic task. The specific tasks would be assigned by the corresponding doctor.
For three consecutive days, the students of the traditional Chinese medicine major only did some miscellaneous tasks. At most, they would help the patients change their dressing and help the nurses carry their things. Meanwhile, Huang Ze and the rest had already entered the operating theater to assist the doctors in surgery.
Su Sitian could not help asking Doctor Liang who was leading the team, "Doctor Liang, can we enter the operating theater to help?"
Doctor Liang glanced at her and said, "No, what you've learned is very different from what we do in surgery. You can't help."
"So we can do something further?"
Doctor Liang looked around at the students. "Not yet."
After Doctor Liang left, Liu Kaiyuan said, "Have you taken a western medicine class? Do you know how to use the medical equipment? How can you be qualified to treat patients and save people with just pulse-reading and asking questions?"
Meng Xiuyuan couldn't take it anymore. "Liu Kaiyuan, what you have learned also includes Chinese medicine techniques. Is there a need to belittle our country's traditional techniques?"
"I'm telling the truth. It's precisely because I've learned both of them that I can see the pros and cons of both of them clearly, but in comparison, Western medicine is practically flawless."
"That's because your skills aren't good enough! A good traditional Chinese medicine practitioner completely beats Western medicine!" Meng Xiuyuan said angrily.
"Oh, then tell me. The patient over there is suffering from abdominal pain. How are you going to eliminate the possibility that it's hernia, gastric disease, appendicitis, or foreign substances? Also, if the patient over there doesn't use anti-inflammatory drugs in time, how are you going to prevent his wound from getting infected? That patient doesn't need any equipment to check. How are you going to determine the reason for his coma? If the patient over there doesn't use western techniques to make the medication, are you going to wait until you're done brewing the medicine before feeding him?"
Liu Kaiyuan pointed at the patients and asked Meng Xiuyuan and Su Sitian.
Meng Xiuyuan was speechless.
Liu Kaiyuan then said indifferently, "Oh, the specialization you guys learn isn't completely useless. You usually do acupuncture when you have nothing to do, drink some Chinese medicine to recuperate, and then treat the so-called yin and yang deficiencies. It has quite a comforting effect."
"You!" Meng Xiuyuan was so angry that he wanted to hit him, but Li Liangjing held him back.
His words were the focus of everyone's controversy in recent years. More and more people felt that Chinese medicine was useless. Even students who had learned both would have such thoughts.
Traditional Chinese medicine being useless was a common topic. Even doctors who studied traditional
Chinese medicine became more reliant on western medicine to treat patients. Liu Kaiyuan was not an exception.
Liu Kaiyuan turned around and left while saying to Huang Ze, "Doctor Liang said that the patient in Bed 38 needs to be observed carefully. Record the core data."
During lunch, Meng Xiuyuan held his bowl and looked at the people coming and going in the canteen. He moved his chopsticks, but the food in his bowl was still there.
Picking up food, Li Yuanyuan asked in a low voice, "Is traditional Chinese medicine really useless? My grandfather has been practicing medicine his entire life, and he has treated many people, but now, they have chosen to look for western medicine instead of coming back."
"How is that possible?" Shi Jin said calmly. "Senior Meng is right. Once you are proficient in your studies, Chinese medicine will naturally be able to defeat Western medicine. How can something passed down by our ancestors be useless just like that?"
Li Liangjing added, "So what if you're criticized? What needs to be learned still needs to be learned. Since this specialization still exists, it naturally means that it has its uses. He already looks down on himself, so what is he?"
Only then did Meng Xiuyuan perk up and eat.
In the afternoon, Doctor Liang finally gave everyone a chance.
"Li Liangjing, your group can participate in traditional Chinese medicine's treatment of facial paralysis. Recently, the hospital has taken in more than twenty patients with facial paralysis. Currently, seven of them are severely ill using the current method. However, whether they agree to your participation in the treatment will depend on their family's situation and your own ability," Doctor Liang said.
Now that they could finally come into contact with actual medical cases, everyone's mood was finally lifted. They followed Doctor Liang into the treatment room.
The seven facial paralysis patients were all there. They were considered to be in a more serious situation. They had crooked mouths and slanted eyes. Some of them couldn't even contain their saliva or speak. Forget living normally, they didn't even have their basic dignity.
When Shi Jin followed them in, she realized that Liu Kaiyuan and the others were already there.
Doctor Liang briefly introduced the situation. "Everyone, we currently have two groups of outstanding students from medical schools. One group is from the combined medical specialization of both Western and traditional Chinese medicine, and the other is from the ancient traditional Chinese medicine specialization. They will participate in your treatment. However, since they are interns, whether you agree to their treatment will depend on you."
When the family member heard that interns were arranged to treat patients, even though they were helpless, they did not object.
After all, there were no special medicines for facial paralysis currently, so the pathogenesis and principle were still unclear. If they had not yet recovered from the ordeal even after visiting a few big hospitals, they would not have come to the affiliated hospital.
Doctor Liang said, "Xie Ruilang, Liu Kaiyuan, why don't you give everyone a brief introduction?"
Xie Ruilang was already a fourth-year student with rich experience, so he calmly said, "We specialize in combining Western and Chinese medicine. Although we don't have any special medicine for facial paralysis, we can treat it by investigating the virus in the blood and combining it with the patient's condition. If needed, we can even perform surgery to cut off the facial nerves."
It sounded very scientific.
The treatment for truncating facial nerves especially gave the patient great hope. Immediately, some patients chose them.
Li Liangjing said, "We can use Chinese medicine as a supplement to treat facial paralysis with acupuncture.
There are many ways to treat facial paralysis in ancient traditional Chinese medicine, but as for the specific person, we need to first determine the cause of the illness and then choose the appropriate medicine and acupuncture method."
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