top student at medical school

Chen Guangbai's eyebrows furrowed in surprise: "So, Ziye, what do you mean...?"

Fang Ziye replied, "Medicine is an empirical medicine, whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or modern medicine, it has always been so."

"I once heard a teacher say that we cannot use modern medical methods to forcibly restructure traditional Chinese medicine."

"However, based on my own experience, I'd like to boldly but cautiously add a concluding statement to this sentence—"

"Although we cannot use modern medical methods to forcibly restructure traditional Chinese medicine, we can use mathematical, scientific, and statistical thinking to continue the development of traditional Chinese medicine."

"My idea is actually very simple."

"For example, in acute and unpredictable events like myocardial infarction, according to statistics from modern medicine, patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes have a higher probability of experiencing myocardial infarction than the average person."

"This is big data, based on statistical analysis of real-world data."

"So, if we follow my thinking, if Uncle Chen and I, all of us really want to predict these unknown events, then we must do mass sampling."

"For example, we analyze the pulse and physical signs of all patients who have been examined by a recognized skilled TCM doctor, and then we continuously follow up with them."

"We tracked the patient until their death and traced the cause of death. Based on the cause of death, we deduced the specific details of the pulse at the time of the pulse diagnosis."

"If we can deduce a certain pulse pattern from the different causes of death of patients, even if this pulse pattern does not appear in the classics of traditional Chinese medicine, we should still learn to define it ourselves."

"In other words, we might need to create some original 'pseudo-death pulses'..."

Seeing that Chen Guangbai was anxious and his eyes were darting around, Fang Ziye quickly reassured him, "Uncle Chen, this is not something that can be done in a day or two."

"Our original pulse diagnosis method is based on respect for the classics. We first try to summarize and analyze sudden events using classic pulse diagnosis methods, according to classic medical texts..."

"To date, modern medicine does not have any direct results in the analysis of precursors to certain events, and can only conduct retrospective analysis after a sudden event."

"Traditional Chinese medicine cannot be forcibly restructured using the theories of modern medicine, but it can certainly be deconstructed and even reshaped using basic statistical methods."

"Because traditional Chinese medicine itself originates from statistics."

Chen Guangbai did not refute Fang Ziye's words, but said in a detached tone: "Ziye, just from your description, this is an enormous workload."

"Will I be able to see the outcome while I'm still alive?"

Fang Ziye said confidently, "We might not be able to see it."

"Uncle Chen, that's the truth. Everyone has unfinished business in their life. Looking back, many schools of thought and theories are simply the result of disciples organizing and refining their teachers' words and deeds..."

"Many philosophical concepts and medical classics were not already systematic during the lifetime of those great doctors."

"If you want to do it, if you want to do it, starting to do it is more important than the result."

"I don't understand traditional Chinese medicine, but I know that behind every successful team in modern medicine, there are countless other teams and medical scholars who have worked tirelessly for their entire lives..."

"They may have been a step too late, or they may never have been able to put their dreams into practice, and no one was willing to carry on their ideas, so these ideas only went halfway..."

A glint flashed in Chen Guangbai's eyes, and he asked suspiciously, "Ziye, you are so young, how do you have such profound insights?"

"My personal experience!" Fang Ziye did not hide anything, but sat down with Chen Guangbai on a four-cornered bench.

Chen Xixian personally served Fang Ziye and Chen Guangbai two cups of tea. Although Chen Xixian was spoiled, she still had basic manners and upbringing.

After putting down her teacup, she didn't linger but continued walking towards Luo Tingzhu to chat next door.

"Your personal experience?" Chen Guangbai was quite skeptical.

Fang Ziye nodded and narrowed his eyes: "Uncle Chen, I'm young, and while I've succeeded in many things, that's just my personal experience."

"But my experience isn't limited to just one person. You might not know this, but I had a secretary who went to Yishi after retiring, and later..."

Fang Ziye then explained the research ideas that Professor Dong Yaohui had left him.

After listening, Chen Guangbai clicked his tongue in amazement: "So, the AI ​​prosthetic limb is actually Professor Dong's idea, not entirely your original creation. Did you inherit Professor Dong's research ideas and put them into reality?"

"That's pretty much it."

"My mentor also left behind some other ingenious ideas, some of which were indeed impractical, but the original idea for this topic was proposed by my mentor."

"So, when I published the paper, I added his name as well. It's a way of commemorating him."

Whether something can be accomplished depends not only on whether an individual can complete it, but also on whether someone can continue to carry on this idea.

"This must be one aspect of heritage and foundation..."

The more Fang Ziye learned, the more he understood the sentiments of some ancient people in classical literature.

Like a mayfly in the vastness of heaven and earth, a mere grain of millet in the boundless ocean. I lament the brevity of my life, and envy the endless flow of the Yangtze River. I wish I could ride the immortals and roam freely, embracing the bright moon for eternity. Knowing this cannot be achieved in an instant, I entrust my lingering thoughts to the mournful wind…

If you look back at your junior and senior high school textbooks without the purpose of taking exams, you'll find that those seemingly dry and boring Chinese textbooks are actually a condensation of the essence of Chinese culture.

Each piece is worth savoring, and at some point in your life, it may even become a boomerang, striking you right between the eyebrows.

Perhaps you and the author are not from the same era or place, but at a certain moment, you can resonate with each other in a small way, transcending time and space...

Fang Ziye didn't know what Dean Chen Song truly thought, and even if he did, he wouldn't be able to carry on the legacy.

However, Fang Ziye inherited Professor Dong Yaohui's notebook. If Fang Ziye hadn't visited Yishi, the notebook would have remained sealed there, and Fang Ziye would never have been able to get his hands on it.

If Fang Ziye hadn't obtained the notebook, carefully read its contents, and applied them in reality, this AI prosthetic limb might have been developed by someone else by chance.

The three characters "Dong Yaohui" can no longer be carved on it.

No one even knew that a man named Dong Yaohui had thought of such a thing.

The matter that Fang Ziye told Chen Guangbai was of great importance and extremely difficult to implement, but it still needed to be done by someone.

If no one does it, Fang Ziye's ideas are useless.

"So Ziye, you've always said your talent is average, but in reality, your talent is anything but." "Some people can only gain profound insights through experience, but you, Ziye, can gain your own understanding just by observing people's experiences."

"This is something not just anyone can do," Chen Guangbai said, carefully examining Fang Ziye.

Fang Ziye replied, "Uncle Chen, my talent is just so-so. It's not particularly good, but it's definitely not bad either."

"Now is not the time to discuss these things, I..."

Fang Ziye looked in the direction of Chen Song, and the familiar yet gradually fading face of the old dean Chen Song was etched into his mind.

"I have ultimately failed Dean Chen. It is a pity that we did not meet sooner. His kindness to me is something I will never be able to repay in this lifetime."

"This is a matter of fate and circumstance."

Chen Song tried to persuade Fang Ziye to abandon modern medicine and switch to traditional Chinese medicine more than once, more than ten times. He even expressed this wish very earnestly. If Fang Ziye agreed, he was even willing to become sworn brothers with Fang Ziye and then teach him everything he knew.

But fate is a mysterious thing. If Fang Ziye hadn't obtained the panel, even if he had met Dean Chen Song, he would have just been an insignificant nobody watching Dean Chen Song show off from afar.

Chen Guangbai said, "My father said before that Ziye, you have transcended the scope of simple medical lineages and have a bit of the flavor of the common origin of the Great Dao."

"At first I didn't believe it, and I felt that what he said sounded like he was talking about someone else's child."

"But actually, maybe my dad wasn't wrong."

Chen Guangbai did not mention my father again.

In Enshi, "爹" means father, and people are more accustomed to using "爹" in everyday life...

Fang Ziye said, "Uncle Chen, although I don't understand traditional Chinese medicine, I have learned about it. In any case, every sentence in those classic theories was originally put together by people."

"To put it even more cruelly, it was made up of human lives."

"The essence of medicine is statistics, mathematics, probability, and biased probability."

"This prescription cured eighty people, but was ineffective for twenty. With this combination, it cured eighty-two people, but was ineffective for eighteen."

"Some prescriptions killed ninety-five people, and the remaining five may have recovered on their own. This is the cruel reality, and it is what our predecessors, who were hailed as saints, did..."

"Medical classics are not written with human lives for every sentence; rather, every word is written with several, or even dozens, of human lives."

Since the concept of medicine was first established, how many people have been involved in it?
It's definitely more than tens or hundreds of billions.

Medical classics, when summarized, are at most a few hundred million words long.

This is the essence of medicine; it is a discipline that constantly oscillates between life and death, between pain and joy.

After thinking about it carefully, Chen Guangbai asked, "Ziye, does your modern medicine really not have a specific indicator that can be linked to emergency events?"

Fang Ziye shook his head and laughed: "Uncle Chen, if that were the case, then the ICU would become a forbidden zone for the Black and White Impermanence, not the place with the highest mortality rate in the hospital."

"Anyway, what I know is that the predictive nature of the death pulse is very shocking to me. Personally, I think that if we really want to find a specific indicator related to sudden events, it may not be about finding specific indicators."

"We must rely on the holistic theory of traditional Chinese medicine."

"Of course, if it is indeed found, whether it can be reversed is perhaps a topic for the next generation."

“Uncle Chen, sometimes we really are just human beings, not gods. We can’t just explain the probabilities and risks to patients and expect them to understand.”

"After all, they are not medical professionals, and they don't even have basic medical knowledge. The very small margin of error cannot be made to empathize with them with just a few words."

"So, whether or not to do this is ultimately up to you, Uncle Chen."

"The most likely outcome is that the result we obtained after spending a lot of manpower and resources is just a fact that leaves us doctors, patients, and their families feeling hopeless."

"At that point, it will be like knowing someone might die, but being powerless to stop it, and only being able to watch them die..."

This is the significance of the existence of medical ethics.

If we know nothing about it, we can categorize heart attacks and similar events as sudden, unexpected events. If they are foreseeable but cannot be dealt with, then they are 'attributed' events.

You have lifted a veil of pretense, exposing the truth to the world, leaving it untouched and unmasked.

This is what modern medicine is doing.

For example, ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) can be diagnosed but not cured. Patients know they are going to die and are slowly moving closer to it, and no one can do anything about it...

For example, mental illnesses.

Chen Guangbai took a deep breath and said, "My dad said that the most important thing about being a doctor is what you want to do."

"If you just want to be a doctor who heals illnesses, that's still great, at least you've brought real therapeutic effects to your patients."

"If you want to be a less ignorant doctor, you'll eventually finish reading all the medical books. If you want to be even less ignorant, you can only start thinking."

"Think about how to fill the gaps in your understanding, think about why some patients' treatments are ineffective and how to correct them, and whether these corrective ideas can be organized into a system and summarized for future learners."

"If you want to be a doctor who can treat more people, then you not only need to know how to treat illnesses yourself, but you also need to teach others how to treat illnesses. Otherwise, no matter how strong your personal abilities are, that's all you'll achieve."

“My dad also said that if there were a place where one could focus on researching difficult and complicated diseases that no one else dared to touch, and concentrate on academic work without any other burdens, that would be the best place to do academic research.”

"Thus, this sanatorium came into being. Its initial form may have seemed somewhat mercenary, but in essence, it was designed to provide a platform for those who most wanted to pursue scholarship..."

"This is something he only considered changing later."

Fang Ziye's gaze became serious: "Dean Chen Song understands medicine, not only doctors and medical theories, but also medicine as a discipline and a field of study."

Chen Guangbai added, "Ziye, my father also said that he hopes you can inherit and carry forward this concept."

"In his mind, medical research is for practical application."

"Regardless of the discipline, anything that can alleviate patients' pain and suffering is medicine, and it is also traditional Chinese medicine." (End of Chapter)