"Who’s this?"
"A doctor hired by Dean Lu. I heard his skills are top-notch!"
"Really? I see he was assigned to the Bone Setting Departnt, so he must be good at bone setting."
"Not just that, according to the Director, this guy isn’t just good at bone setting; he also has a secret redy with plasters. But how effective it is, that’s hard to say."
"I noticed there was soone new in the dean’s clinic today. Another hired doctor?"
"Yeah, but they’re all quite old."
"What is that person good at?"
"I’m not sure..."
The hospital had two new doctors, and everyone was aware of it as soon as they arrived.
However, both of them ca without any titles and seed very nervous.
It was as if they had never worked in a hospital before.
They knew almost nothing about computers, but their handwriting was exceptionally beautiful.
Though, most of it was in traditional Chinese characters!
To accommodate Wang Tong, the Bone Setting Departnt specifically assigned a young doctor to help him with so trivial tasks and learn from him.
Initially, the doctors in the Bone Setting Departnt didn’t think much of it. Of course, they didn’t look down on the elderly gentleman either; they maintained basic courtesy and respect without thinking he was particularly skilled.
But when patients really started coming in, Wang Tong’s series of bone-setting techniques left everyone in awe.
His techniques were even more proficient than Director Xie’s.
This was not even the most startling part.
A child ca in with a fractured leg. An X-ray showed multiple bone fragnts. When the parents heard surgery would take a year or two to recover, they imdiately brought the child to Lu Jiu TCM Hospital.
The child was at the age for high school entrance exams, with physical tests imminent.
Though he could take dical leave for the injury, usually scoring thirty, scoring twenty with the injury was manageable; yet, with his school’s test scores, getting full marks was not an issue.
The ten-mark difference could potentially prevent him from getting into a good high school, which would greatly impact his future.
Naturally, the parents wished for their child to recover as quickly as possible.
In such a case, even with bone setting assisted by traditional dicine, it would generally take at least two to three months just to enable him to get out of bed, and six months to participate in exams.
However, after Wang Tong took over, not only did he reset the bone that day, he also applied a plaster he brought from ho. The result was amazing—the child could move around in just three days.
This rapid recovery left everyone in the Bone Setting Departnt astounded.
The speed of the bone’s recovery was simply unbelievable.
A broken bone!
In three days, not only was the pain gone, but the patient could also bear weight and move.
This plaster was practically miraculous.
The doctors in the Bone Setting Departnt finally understood that this elderly gentleman hired by Lu Jiu, even without titles or a dical license, had dical skills not inferior to several directors.
Initially, they thought he would never share his craft.
But Wang Tong not only revealed the plaster’s formula, he personally instructed the Bone Setting Departnt doctors on how to pair it with patients’ conditions and explained the production process.
The plasters’ effectiveness was due not only to the correct pairing but, most importantly, the dicinal herbs.
He used herbs he collected himself from his village or nearby mountains, all wild-grown.
Wang Tong knew hospital herbs were all artificially cultivated. Even if many knew how to grow these herbs in environnts mimicking the wild, their efficacy couldn’t compare to the wild ones.
Especially with such a large number of patients in a hospital, wild herbs could never et the demand.
As a result, they had to retry the efficacy of the cultivated herbs.
Based on this, Wang Tong continuously experinted by adding supporting herbs to his original plaster formula, increasing the quantity where herb potency was insufficient.
He shared this entire experintation process with the Bone Setting Departnt’s doctors, including Director Xie.
After witnessing Wang Tong’s dical skills, Director Xie was completely captivated by this elderly gentleman.
Especially upon hearing that Wang Tong never had a dical license and had been discreetly treating patients in his village all his life, Director Xie insisted on informing the dean, hoping to quickly arrange for Wang Tong to take the qualification exam for expertise in traditional Chinese dicine.
This exam allows candidates to obtain a dical license if they can prove their ability to heal patients and have a recomndation from a physician.
With Wang Tong’s addition, the Bone Setting Departnt’s reputation began to spread, especially after the student who nearly fully recovered within a month returned to school, astonishing both students and teachers. His parents praised the Lu Jiu TCM Hospital’s Bone Setting Departnt doctors on the parent group chat.
Initially, Lu Jiu TCM Hospital was already quite well-known in Jianghan City. Now, in many minds, this newly built hospital had surpassed the Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine.
For dical treatnt, the People’s Hospital was the choice for Western dicine, and without a doubt, Lu Jiu TCM Hospital was the choice for traditional dicine.
This situation made Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine awkward.
Carrying the na of a traditional Chinese dicine hospital, it was filled with Western dicine, and its only Chinese dicine departnt didn’t have dical resources comparable to a single departnt in Lu Jiu TCM Hospital. In terms of Western dicine resources, it couldn’t match the People’s Hospital’s financial resources and dical equipnt.
The strong rise of Lu Jiu TCM Hospital had undoubtedly caused a decrease in the number of patients attending Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese dicine.
This gave Dean Qi quite a headache.
He had ambitious plans to support traditional Chinese dicine, and yet, after establishing the Chinese dicine departnt, not even a splash was seen.
When Lu Jiu TCM Hospital was built, he foresaw this outco.
Comparing their resources with their own hospital, they couldn’t compete in traditional Chinese dicine.
But both had the traditional Chinese dicine hospital title; over ti, the public would eventually discern the better one.
If they didn’t carry the traditional Chinese dicine hospital na, it might not matter much, but now, they could only accept fate.
"Dean, you called for ?" Ji Yuanning entered the dean’s office.
Qi Jing smiled, "Have a seat, what tea would you like?"
Ji Yuanning replied, "Pu’er, please."
Qi Jing then took out a bag of tea leaves from the drawer and began brewing, "You must have heard our recent business status at the eting."
Ji Yuanning frowned, "Indeed, it doesn’t look too good. I didn’t expect our hospital’s decline to be this severe."
Qi Jing smiled, "It’s not surprising. We didn’t have such strong competitors before. Tis have changed, and the phase of profiting from marketing Western dicine under the guise of Chinese dicine has passed. If we don’t change, we can only wait for the downfall!"
Ji Yuanning was surprised, "Dean, isn’t that a bit much? Even with the strong rise of Lu Jiu TCM Hospital, we’re still a public hospital, and we can still..."
Saying this much, Ji Yuanning looked at Qi Jing and imdiately showed a look of horror.
Qi Jing smiled, "The hospital will certainly have no issues, but if it’s poorly managed and incurs losses, the dean will be subject to disciplinary talks. If we can’t turn a profit in two years, it’ll be packing up and rolling out. I may not be a full-ti dean, but I’m also in business managent, hehe."
Ji Yuanning shook his head, "No matter how good they are, they can’t possibly drive our hospital to losses, right?"
Qi Jing smiled, "It’s only been over three months, and our daily patient visits have dropped from seven or eight thousand to just over five thousand. Do you know what that ans? A reduction in numbers is secondary; crucial is the hospital’s decline in public ranking, leading to certain downfall."
"Once the Jianghan locals form a habit of going to the People’s Hospital for Western dicine and Lu Jiu TCM Hospital for traditional dicine, do you think our hospital can survive? It’s impossible; staffing and benefits might decrease, and in the end, everyone will suffer. It’s just a matter of ti."
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