Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1949 Raising troops to investigate crimes
Traditional Chinese medicine doctors have a thousand-year-old tradition of treating patients: regardless of the illness, the patient's social status, or their level of education, the first thing doctors must do is assess whether the patient can afford to eat well!
The phrase "whether or not one can get enough to eat" refers to one's nutritional status.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the phrase "food is the first necessity of the people" has special medical significance. From a specific perspective, life is essentially about consuming energy throughout one's life.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes energy, which overlaps with the concept of physics, but its medical meaning is richer. Chinese medicine emphasizes acquired yang energy, which is similar to heat, kinetic energy, and potential energy in physics. Every day, people digest and refine the vegetables, fruits, meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products they eat into yang energy, thereby supplying the various amounts of energy needed throughout their lives.

Children and teenagers are unlikely to be well-versed in the ways of health preservation. In fact, it can be said that even a junior high school graduate doesn't know much about how to eat better. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine believes that when children under the age of twelve or thirteen fall ill, it is mostly because they are not eating properly.

The five-year-old rich kid was the opposite. He was overfed and fed too well, resulting in a severe excess of energy. His parents, both generations, spoiled him rotten. From the moment he was born, his abnormally abundant yang energy could not nourish his body and mind, expel toxins, or balance yin and yang through normal pathways. As a result, he could not achieve the educational goals of strengthening his bones and muscles and cultivating his intelligence.

Over time, the lung qi becomes difficult to circulate and the heart voice becomes blocked. A perfectly good family will inadvertently "bring" their child into a body full of internal evil qi. The child's hearing will gradually decline. The parents just feel that the child is good in every way, except that he is a little introverted, doesn't like to laugh, doesn't cry much, and is a little slow to respond to various external stimuli. In their view, he is just a child! He will gradually get better as he grows up.

As a result, the 5-year-old boy was held back by his family. He was about to start primary school, but he ended up living as a "near-mute" person!
The female celebrity's family had no other choice, and Bian Mu became their last hope. All the medical advice was strictly followed by the whole family. Seeing the child occasionally showing a little surprise, the whole family was extremely happy.

The female celebrity claimed that she had been retired from acting for some time and had a lot of free time. Whenever her beloved son made any noticeable progress, she couldn't help but take a car to "Xin G20" Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic to report her so-called good news to Bian Mu.

At first, Bian Mu understood the anxiety unique to mothers and always comforted them with kind words, explaining the medical principles as clearly as possible. Later, however, the frequency of visits from family members other than the female celebrity became a bit too high, which annoyed Bian Mu.

Bian Mu made it clear that unless the child reacts unusually strongly to the sound of birdsong, any other so-called progress is meaningless. Bian Mu also warned the family members not to go to the clinic unnecessarily.

Later, when the family came to report on the child's condition, Nurse Ye and her colleagues simply turned them away at the door.

In fact, Bian Mu did all this for the good of the child. He was only 5 years old and had a long life ahead of him! If the treatment wasn't thorough this time, the boy might develop a stutter and be shorter than others for the rest of his life.

Inspired by this incident, Bian Mu specifically established a rule for the clinic: family members who are not colleagues of the clinic's on-duty doctors are not allowed to visit at will!
After the news spread, many people said that Bian Mu's skills had improved, and that he was now acting like a diva, just like someone else.

Nurse Ye and the others understood that the boss was doing this for the patients' own good. Once the doctor's orders were given, the family members had to strictly follow them. They couldn't just come over every day with a smile and try to get close to the doctors, saying very polite things but actually trying to interfere with the normal treatment schedules of the doctors on duty.

Every morning, the clinic is packed with people. Bian Mu has always insisted on not adding extra patients without permission, creating a seller's market. Once the rule was established, patients and their families immediately calmed down, and the clinic became more orderly. In turn, the treatment cycle for patients was shortened.

Gradually, other hospitals, clinics, and medical centers followed suit, and people were surprised to find that the medical environment for traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Lijin City was gradually transformed.

In a sense, Bian Mu has already started a new trend in the industry! All of this has been observed by authoritative figures like Professor Mi…

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It was Sunday, and Bian Mu felt that the matter raised by Secretary-General Shi was not insignificant. If he did not handle it in time, it might cause some unexpected trouble in the future. Making a living on the streets is not easy for anyone. In the end, no matter how good his medical skills are or how much wealth he will have in the future, he will still just be an ordinary professional TCM doctor and pharmacist.

In a sense, respecting your colleagues is actually respecting your own future, even if they are just a group of ordinary colleagues with mediocre medical skills. Bian Mu understands this principle much more deeply than the average doctor.

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At the Sangong Lake scenic area, Bian Mu specially chose a relatively upscale coffee shop. At 9:15 a.m., Bian Mu was already sitting there waiting.

The agreed time was 9:30, which was fine, as the other clinic owners arrived a few minutes early.

Wow! Bian Mu secretly counted them and found that there were more than thirty people, of all heights, weights and ages. Most of them were male colleagues, and there were about seven or eight female doctors. At a glance, even the youngest one looked older than Bian Mu.

The Secretary-General Shi looked to be in his early forties, dressed in Chinese casual wear. He was nearly 1.8 meters tall, with bright eyes and a straight back. Compared to men his age, he certainly had the air of someone in charge.

Bian Mu sat in the middle with his back to the table, facing everyone. The group sat at three tables, trying to surround Bian Mu so that everyone could hear him clearly.

After the pleasantries were over, Secretary-General Shi introduced Bian Mu to a few representative colleagues, and the other doctors waved politely to Bian Mu, thus acquainting them.

Bian Mu was about to say a few opening remarks when, unexpectedly, Secretary Shi took out a lot of documents from his backpack. According to the time order, Secretary Shi and his team had already counted and sorted them.

"Master Bian! This is a selection of our daily expense reports. Sigh! We have elderly parents and young children to support, it's tough! Before, things were peaceful, and everyone wasn't under so much pressure. We could get together on weekends to go fishing, dancing, or go on road trips... things like that. But now it's different. The number of patients has plummeted, and if this continues, even making a living will become a problem. Don't misunderstand, you are responsible for your own life. We have no intention of putting pressure on you, absolutely not. We just wanted Master Bian to witness firsthand the hardships faced by some of our colleagues..." As he said this, Secretary-General Shi's face showed a hint of sorrow.

Bian Mu was skilled at physiognomy, and with just a glance, he could tell that this person had a bit of a performative air about him. Moreover, judging from his demeanor, Bian Mu concluded that besides running a small clinic, the man surnamed Shi must have worked in other industries before. In short, this person was a bit pretentious and quite different from the average clinic doctor.

Having trained for so long, Bian Mu has become much more mature. In this situation, where she is in an awkward one-against-many predicament, she absolutely cannot follow Shi's line of thinking. As for reimbursement receipts and such, Bian Mu has long since decided to treat them as if they don't exist at all.