My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 937: Chapter 371: The Practical Benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Advantages of a Close-Knit Society

For example, taking the pulse corresponds to the whole body.

It’s said that a skilled traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner, by taking a pulse, can provide a comprehensive health check-up.

After witnessing a glimpse of traditional Chinese medicine, Zhou Can couldn’t help but feel more hopeful about today’s consultation.

To be honest, even before coming here this morning, even seeing so many people lining up for a consultation, he was still somewhat skeptical about TCM. He always felt that TCM had some elements of mysticism.

The patients in front were being questioned one by one and prescribed medicine.

Elder Chen would have the patient sit down, ask a few simple questions about discomfort, and then have the patient place their hand on a wrist pillow. He would place his hand on the patient’s wrist.

This is called taking the pulse.

It is said that taking the pulse in TCM is very particular, with the fingers pressing exactly on the points of the cun, guan, and chi.

This can primarily examine a person’s pulse condition.

For most patients, Elder Chen conducts a simple consultation, takes the pulse, and then directly prescribes medicine. Occasionally, for more complex cases, he would ask them to open their mouths and look at their tongue, and even take the pulse on the right hand and then the left.

The fee for each patient is 6 yuan.

Honestly, this fee is not expensive; it is much cheaper than the hospital’s fees.

At a hospital, simply registering starts at 10 yuan in Tu Ya.

If you naively think that 10 yuan covers all the consultation fees, you are sorely mistaken. From registration to obtaining medicine, you have to undergo various examinations, and even a routine blood or urine test costs more than 10 yuan.

Getting an ultrasound could set you back over a hundred yuan.

If you need a special examination like PET-CT for tumors, the examination fee is at least around eight thousand yuan. The highest can be 12,000 yuan per session.

You heard right; a single examination can cost as much as twelve thousand yuan.

And even after doing the tests, there’s still the possibility of a missed diagnosis. This means spending over ten thousand yuan yet potentially not diagnosing anything, or finding out nothing is wrong after the tests.

Some unscrupulous hospitals, if they even suspect a tumor, might insist on a pricey PET-CT, even when a simple CT or ultrasound would suffice.

In hospitals, patients and their families are likely to trust the doctors.

Under normal circumstances, patients wouldn’t agree to spend over ten thousand for a test. But let’s not forget, doctors can be persuasive. By simply telling the patients, if it truly were a malignant tumor, finding it could lead to immediate removal through surgery, nipping cancer in the bud early on. After treatment, you could regain health and avoid cancer worries.

If you don’t test now, the condition might be delayed easily.

By the time it’s found, surgical options might be out of the question, leaving only traditional radiation, chemotherapy, and expensive imported medications to extend life. The cost wouldn’t be in tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands or even millions, but it still wouldn’t save your life. According to our clinical experience, the five-year survival rate for certain cancers at a late stage is less than 5%.

This kind of scare tactic would make most patients obediently pay for the test.

In contrast, look at Elder Chen; for 6 yuan, he can directly identify the illness and prescribe medicine. Patients can take the prescription themselves to get the medicine and use it.

It’s much more cost-effective than hospital treatments.

If Elder Chen’s medical skills are excellent, and his prescription can truly cure the patient’s disease after use.

That would be very cost-effective.

No wonder so many patients come early to line up for a consultation.

At this moment, there was a sound of dispute from behind.

“Little friend, we’ve heard of Elder Chen’s superb skills and extremely low fees, and we’ve specially come from another province. We’ve already stayed in a nearby hotel for three days. Could you think of a way to get Elder Chen to add an appointment for us?”

A middle-aged man in his fifties was pushing his elderly mother with white hair in a wheelchair for a consultation.

He was pleading with the little boy to give him an additional appointment.

Unexpectedly, a hundred appointment numbers were already distributed so quickly.

“Please wait a moment, I’ll go ask Grandpa!”

The little boy ran quickly to ask Elder Chen. After a brief exchange, the boy brought a number tag without numbers, only with a green bamboo leaf pattern, to the middle-aged man.

He was given an extra appointment.

Other patients behind, seeing the middle-aged man getting an extra appointment, also begged for more numbers to be added.

This time, the little boy did not agree to any more.

He kept saying nice things to them, coaxing them to leave.

“Dear, it seems Elder Chen is quite famous! Luckily, we came early this morning,” Su Qianqian said with relief.

“Now you see the benefits of coming early, right? If I hadn’t dragged you out, you’d still be getting ready for ages,” Zhou Can replied with a smile.

For women, it’s inevitable to change clothes and wear makeup to look decent and beautiful before going out.

Especially for a celebrity like Su Qianqian, if she goes out with no makeup and gets caught by paparazzi for gossip, it could easily cause some negative impact.

Look at those stars and heartthrobs caught with bad photos online; they must dream of strangling the paparazzi who took those ugly shots.

“Hmph! And you say that, I wanted to pick suitable clothes to wear, but you didn’t let me, and you only allowed light makeup. You’re too domineering!”