Chapter 537 Unemployed Hospital Scalpers!
In the next few days, the discussion on traditional Chinese dicine was still going on across the country. Whenever the folks talked about it, they were all in high spirits.
anwhile, the number of patients going to Chinese dicine clinics had evidently increased a lot.
For a ti, the Chinese dicine physicians, who were used to taking ti to examine the patients, felt both joyful and worn out when they spotted the long line of patients.
In the station of a city.
A couple in their 40s got off the countryside bus and took the city bus at the stop. Shortly, they arrived at the gate of the Chinese dicine Hospital in the city.
“Oh?”
Just as the couple went off the city bus and had not taken a few steps, a brawny young man with a fat head and big ears imdiately ca up. Sporting a broad smile on his face, he reached out to hold the man’s hand and said, “It’s been a long ti. What brought you here?”
“Uh?”
The couple was dazed. Then, the man asked, “Who are you?”
“I am Doctor Zhang of the county hospital.”
The young man laughed and said, “Have you forgotten that I treated you last ti you ca to the county hospital?”
At his words, the couple frowned at the sa ti.
“Let go of my hand!”
The middle-aged man flung his hand out of the young man’s grip.
“Um?”
The young man was bewildered.
“Humph, I know you’re a hospital scalper! Now you’re trying to fool us?”
The man snorted coldly and continued, “Listen, our village is just 10 kiloters away. The distance to the county is twice as long as the distance between our village to the city. Why would I go to the county to see a doctor?”
“Have you really forgotten?”
The young man did not panic at all. He imdiately said, “You told yourself last ti that it was too expensive to see doctors in the city, so you’d rather take a ride to the county hospital.”
“Are you really...” the woman asked in confusion.
“Right.”
The young man nodded hastily and said, “I am Director Zhang of the county hospital.”
The woman looked at the man and asked, “Is there a director surnad Zhang in the county hospital?”
“This ti you ca to the city still to sort out your old problem, am I right?”
Director Zhang leaned in and remarked while sizing the man up.
“Oh right!” the man replied in shock.
“Why did you co here to solve your old problem? This is the Chinese dicine Hospital. Co on, follow to the county hospital. I’ll call an expert now to give you a thorough check-up.”
Director Zhang offered.
“Do you think I’ll believe you just because you tried cottoning up to ?”
The man rolled his eyes and snapped, “I’m not that stupid. Honey, let’s go.”
As he spoke, he grabbed the woman’s hand and headed off for the hospital.
“Don’t be like this!”
Director Zhang quickly caught up with him and urged, “Why didn’t you listen to ? I am a doctor. I’m doing this for your own good. The traditional Chinese dicine can’t cure your illness.”
“I don’t want to see a Western dicine doctor at all. I just want to let the traditional Chinese dicine cure !”
The man declared at once.
Upon hearing that, Director Zhang was dumbfounded.
“How can you be such a fool?”
Director Zhang seized the man’s arm and maintained his opinion. “How can traditional Chinese dicine cure diseases? In this era dominated by science and technology, even those Chinese dicine doctors are using the dical machines of Western dicine. What’s more, Chinese dicine is pseudoscience. What do you think of Western dicine? Why do you have to see a Chinese dicine doctor?”
“Humph!”
The man rebutted, “We have TVs in our place. Chinese dicine is not like what you said at all. We saw on TV that Chinese dicine has even cured cancer. But can Western dicine cure cancer?”
“Yes, why can’t it?”
Director Zhang said at once, “If you co with , I can guarantee that all your illnesses can be cured!”
“Let go! If you don’t, I’ll call for help.”
The man could not stand it any longer and bellowed.
As Director Zhang saw this, his expression changed. He quickly let go of the man’s hand, then waved at him, and said, “Fine, just go. We are old acquaintances, why need all the yelling?”
After that, he glanced around and saw that many people were staring at him.
Director Zhang could only run away in dejection.
“Damn it. Why are they all going to the Chinese dicine Hospital? They simply don’t give us a chance to make a living!
“Well, it seems that we can’t stay here any longer. I have no alternative but to find another hospital to start my business.”
Obviously, this Director Zhang was actually a hospital scalper.
The scene was not just happening in one city.
It was staged at the gate of the big hospitals in all the big cities across the country.
The clinics, dical centers, and hospitals of Chinese dicine were all packed. Even the drugstores of Chinese dicine were very popular. Even with the help of advanced machines, the process of decocting dicinal herbs was still too ti-consuming.
In Jiangjing City.
In Shide Drugstore.
In the drugstore of Chinese dicine where Fang Qiu worked as a pharmacist for the first ti, the Chinese dicine doctor, also the store owner, who was addressed as Old Li, was looking at the crowd in the store as well as the patients who had lined up waiting for him to take their pulses before the table. He could not help but say with emotion, “It’s really lucky that there is a Fang Qiu in the Chinese dicine circle. When I first saw him, I knew that this boy was a special genius the world could have once in five thousand years. It turns out that I was right about him!”
In the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Jiangjing Chinese dicine.
The orthopedics departnt on the seventh floor was already packed with patients.
All the patients who used to see doctors of Western dicine for rheumatism and arthritis now edged their way here, causing the originally quiet orthopedics departnt to be noisy and crowded. Aside from the long queues at the entrances of doctors’ consulting rooms, all the seats in the waiting area had been taken, and even at the corners on both sides of the corridor sat a load of people.
Shen Chun ca out of the consulting room and rushed to the toilet. Seeing so many patients in the corridor, he smiled bitterly.
Even while going to the toilet, he squeezed ti to call Fang Qiu.
“Dr. Shen?”
Having received Shen Chun’s call, Fang Qiu was also quite surprised.
“Where are you, boy?” Shen Chun asked.
“I’m in school, preparing for a TV program. I’ll be attending the program in a couple of days, won’t I?” Fang Qiu replied with a chortle.
“I was going to ask you to co to the hospital to do the consultation. Seems that your schedule is already packed.”
Shen Chun gave a hollow laugh.
“To do consultations?”
Fang Qiu was confused.
“Yes.”
Shen Chun nodded and said, “It’s all because of you. Now there are too many patients in our hospital. Especially after hearing that you once worked in our hospital, so people from other places even hurtled here just to see you. I’m so up to my neck that I don’t even have ti to drink water through the day.”
“Hehe.”
Fang Qiu snickered.
Although he was well aware that it was indeed a great burden for the doctors to have so many patients, he still hoped that the more such scenes occurred, the better it would be.
If there were more patients going to doctors of Chinese dicine, it indicated that the more acknowledgnt the doctors of Chinese dicine obtained.
The recognition of the common folks was of the most significance for the developnt of Chinese dicine.
That very night.
The eighth episode of the “Young Chinese dicine Doctor” was broadcast on ti.
Following the seventh episode, the contestants were competing for the top 15 in the country!
After watching the program, the spectators deeply understood how impressive those who made the top 15. Because in the program, everyone could clearly see the process and the results of each of their diagnoses with the four thods, as well as the ti they took.
Except for Fang Qiu, the freaking genius, the other contestants’ scores were fairly close, and the results of their diagnoses through the four thods were almost the sa.
Even the five people who had been eliminated were particularly talented.
This ti, with the live broadcast of Fang Qiu publicizing his treatnt, coupled with the heated discussion about Chinese dicine on the Internet, the audience rate of the Young Chinese dicine Doctor increased by 0.2% again, and the highest rating reached an astonishing 6.7.
This number made all the people in the program team ecstatic.
Even those working on other programs for Central Television were extrely thrilled because of the audience rate. After all, as the Young Chinese dicine Doctor’s ratings were high, it would certainly lead to a surge of popularity for other programs of the sa channel.
On the other hand, the groups working on the rest of the large entertainnt channels were all numb to the news.
Since the broadcast of the Young Chinese dicine Doctor, its audience rate climbed almost every episode. The growth of the ratings in this episode seed to be within everyone’s expectations.
At the sa ti, all kinds of news bandied about.
It was said that the assorted programs on Chinese dicine prepared by all the major TV stations were almost ready to be put on the screen.
So entertainnt shows, which had nothing to do with Chinese dicine, even scrambled to record one episode about Chinese dicine as soon as possible. They planned to let those popular stars experience the Chinese dicine treatnt, especially acupuncture and so on. It would be very fun to see the horrified looks on those top stars.
Director Li Huawen, soone in the circle of entertainnt shows, soon knew about the news about all kinds of shows scraping the heat of Chinese dicine.
After hearing it, Director Li Huawen did not comnt.
In his opinion, no matter what these shows did, they could never overtake the Young Chinese dicine Doctor.
However, it was a pity that the Young Chinese dicine Doctor was going to end in two episodes.
Because from the beginning, this program was arranged to record 10 episodes. Back then, everyone was not optimistic about this program, nor did they value traditional Chinese dicine.
But to everyone’s surprise, the program attracted a genius called Fang Qiu to participate in.
There was no doubt that it was precisely because of Fang Qiu’s presence that the program soared to the top at once!
In fact, the eighth episode was already an extra one.
Due to the fact that the eighth, ninth, and tenth episodes in the original plan seed cumberso, the director team decided to simplify them after a discussion. They cut off one episode and divided the 7th episode into two, so the program still had 10 episodes.
After all, for Central Television, this program had beco a brand-new brand. They could not destroy this brand, which had beco popular after they overca all the challenges, just for the advertising fee. If the 10 episodes were extended to 12, the rhythm of the story would vanish.
Also, amidst the fever of the Young Chinese dicine Doctor, there was even a rumor inside Central Television that if the ratings of the final episode of the Young Chinese dicine Doctor could surpass 8%, there was a high possibility that the task of directing the Spring Festival Gala would be handed over to Director Li Huawen at the end of the year.
When Li Huawen heard the news, he was overjoyed in private for a few days.
He also secretly made up his mind that, no matter what, he must make the ratings of the last two episodes go over 8%.
Yet, if he wanted the ratings to break through 8%, he had to raise a hot topic about his program.
But where could he find such a hot topic?
To eliminate Fang Qiu?
Director Li Huawen suddenly ca up with such a selling point.
If Fang Qiu was really knocked out of the competition, it would absolutely be a selling point. Then, the ratings would probably exceed 10%, let alone 8%.
Nonetheless, this was just a temporary relief which would result in disaster.
What was more, how could Fang Qiu be so easily eliminated?
“This is tricky!”
At the sa ti, a doctor of Western dicine, who just finished his study in the U.S. and returned ho, was also influenced by the heated discussion about the Young Chinese dicine Doctor and watched the show. After that, he also especially had a look at the video of Fang Qiu’s treatnt for cancer.
In the end, after watching the video, he gave a disdainful smile.
“Chinese dicine is simply pseudoscience.
“It seems that the people of my motherland are really as ignorant as I imagined. But since I’m back, everyone should open your eyes and see how can I take off Fang Qiu’s mask!”
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