A doctor who travels through two eras

Lin Sanqi looked at the many seniors present and said seriously:

"So don't talk about ancestors all the time. There are too many ancestors, and we can't recognize them all in our multi-ethnic country. Chinese medicine has been constantly modified, accumulated, and improved for thousands of years. It is not something that can be done standing still by holding on to the tombstone of an ancestor."

A middle-level cadre was dissatisfied and retorted:
"Traditional Chinese medicine has its own rules, and Western medicine has its own methods. Chief Xiaolin, if you want to combine Chinese and Western medicine to treat diseases, you will end up with a method that is neither Chinese nor Western, neither fish nor fowl, neither Western nor Chinese. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Lin Sanqi scratched his head and smiled awkwardly:

"Why is it ridiculous? I think the idea of ​​combining Chinese and Western medicine is a very good one. By bringing out the advantages of both Chinese and Western medicine and combining them, the disease can be attacked from all directions. The combination of Chinese and Western medicine has a better effect."

At this point, Lin Sanqi thought that a certain cold medicine manufacturer should give him an endorsement fee.

Another middle-level cadre was dissatisfied:
"Comrade Xiaolin, you are still young, who do you think you are? Even if we need to reform traditional Chinese medicine, it is not your turn to do it. You will easily embarrass our Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and be scolded by colleagues in the national traditional Chinese medicine community."

In the Twenty-Four Histories, all reformists had bad endings, so this also greatly limited the emergence of reformists. (This shows the greatness and bravery of the second generation of core members of our country)
Lin Sanqi cleared his throat:

"Ahem, I am the direct disciple of 12 masters including Shi Jinmo, Xiao Youlong, Ding Zhongying, Han Bangxu, etc. I think I am one generation older than all of you. Who in the country is higher than me? I have learned from 12 schools, and you still think I am not qualified to represent Chinese medicine?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone at the scene was about to vomit blood.

If you really count it this way, Lin Sanqi is definitely a "master uncle" in the domestic traditional Chinese medicine community.

Because the 12 old national treasures represent the 12 mainstream schools of traditional Chinese medicine, with their disciples spread all over the country. If the old national treasures are the "grandmasters", then Lin Sanqi is the uncle of most traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the country.

Vice President Ji waved his hand:

"Alright, alright, everyone, stop arguing. Our tuberculosis department is currently just a pilot project, and we don't know if it will be successful. If Comrade Lin Sanqi fails to treat the disease, then everything will be over.

If Lin Sanqi can really cure tuberculosis, our Chinese medicine hospital will soar to the sky, and everyone present here will have contributed. At worst, when we announce it to the public, we can say it is a victory for Chinese medicine, and then our Capital Chinese Medicine Hospital will have both reputation and face.”

When everyone heard about the credit, their eyes lit up.

As long as there is merit, as long as there are benefits, as long as it can be promoted in the future official position, then fuck it with Chinese medicine and Western medicine.

I have to say that as a veteran official, Vice President Ji has an accurate grasp of everyone's thoughts. He is full of business about this and that.

"Then, let's try it at our Chinese medicine hospital?"

"Okay, then let's do as Section Chief Kobayashi says, but keep it a secret until the results are out!"

“I agree with the changes in the tuberculosis department.”

Vice President Ji and Lin Sanqi looked at each other and smiled bitterly helplessly.

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The sign "Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Tuberculosis Department" was placed aside.

Mr. Shi Jinmo is carefully writing the second plaque with a brush: Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Center of Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

On another table, there was a red-headed document from a Chinese medicine hospital, which read:

"Comrade Lin Sanqi is hereby appointed as acting director of the Tuberculosis Department, with a probationary period of one year."

Dean Shen smacked his lips and asked in confusion:

"Xiao Qi, we can all understand the name of the Tuberculosis Department, which also reflects the characteristics of our Chinese medicine hospital, but why do you have to hang a sign of the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Center? This is neither fish nor fowl, and there is no official document to recognize it."

Lin Sanqi chuckled at the side, thinking that it was because the higher-ups did not recognize it that he used the title "Chinese Medicine Hospital". Otherwise, according to his ambition, he should have written "National Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Center" so that it would be more impressive when he said it out loud.

"Dean, you don't understand. This is called seizing the initiative. Pulmonary tuberculosis is the traditional name of Chinese medicine. If we summarize our experience in the future and want to promote it nationwide and worldwide, we must use the name of pulmonary tuberculosis.

So rather than letting someone else take over the name in the future, we might as well take the name of "Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Center" first. If we were not unqualified, I would have wanted to name it "China Tuberculosis Hospital."

Lin Sanqi's ambition does not stop there. If possible, the tuberculosis specialty can become an independent hospital in the future, and then he can also become the dean, right?
If we go a step further, the tuberculosis hospital can be promoted to "infectious disease hospital", or "thoracic hospital", "pulmonary hospital" and so on.

If the day comes when the hospital is established as an independent hospital, it will be considered a contribution made by Lin Sanqi to the national medical cause, right?

The key is that there is profit. If Lin Sanqi becomes the dean, then what Chinese medicinal materials to import, how many types and how much, he will have the final say. Then, won't he be able to manipulate the situation and get a steady supply of medicinal materials?

When Mr. Shi finished writing the last stroke, Lin Sanqi was already flattering him wildly:

"Well, Master, your calligraphy is wonderful, elegant and beautiful, full of ancient meaning. This unique technique of using pen and ink completely surpasses Dong Qichang's."

Mr. Shi laughed, obviously in a good mood:

"You flatterer, don't be so cautious. We old guys are optimistic about your adoption of Western medicine to serve Chinese medicine, combining Chinese and Western medicine, and integrating Western medical examination methods into the diagnosis and treatment process of Chinese medicine.

There are good things in foreign countries, why don't we use them? We are not so old-fashioned.

Just like writing, a fountain pen is more convenient than a brush as you can write at any time; cars are faster and more convenient than horse-drawn carriages; even the big ship I took when I went to Japan was better than our wooden sailing ships, as it is not the era when Zheng He sailed to the West.

The key is not whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, the key is that we doctors must remember: as a doctor, we must not pursue fame and fortune, but focus on the desire to save lives. "

Lin Sanqi lowered his eyebrows and replied honestly:
"Remember, Master. Don't worry. I, Lin Sanqi, don't love money. Look, I, an ordinary citizen, got a new X-ray machine and a full set of testing equipment for our hospital, but Dean Shen didn't pay me a penny."

Dean Shen didn't blush when he heard this, but snorted and sneered:
"Don't act so noble, you haven't even opened the tuberculosis department yet, but you've already got your future wife into the hospital as a formal employee. And you still say you have no selfish motives? You don't love money, but you love beautiful women!"

After Dean Shen finished speaking, everyone in the room burst into laughter, except Lin Sanqi, whose face turned red.

Pan Ye had just graduated in June and was specially recruited by the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine as a "regular employee". This was not easy in 6 when the main focus was on reducing staff. It was only after President Shen personally went to the Health Bureau that special approval was granted.

On the contrary, the other six newly recruited university graduates of the Tuberculosis Department could only work as "temporary workers". At most, their salaries were based on those of regular workers, and their household registration was temporarily registered in the collective account of the Changping Branch.

This is the best condition that Dean Shen can get.

Otherwise, according to the country's major policies, the vast majority of this year's college and technical school graduates will be assigned to grassroots positions or go to other places, and will not be able to stay in the capital.

In a few years, not to mention college students, even middle school students will start to go to other places to farm in rural areas.

Therefore, no policy is introduced suddenly, there must be signs before it.

For example, it is difficult to find jobs for college students, and the city can no longer accommodate more residents, so they can only move to other places or to the grassroots level.

What should we do if we cannot even find jobs in other places? There is still the vast countryside, which is the origin of the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside" movement.

From a national perspective, sending a large number of students to rural areas to help with rural construction and improve the level of rural talent is beneficial to agricultural production.

But from a personal perspective, it was too tragic. You can refer to the memoirs of educated youth to learn how tragic it was.

At this time, Vice President Ji also walked in from outside and handed a list to Lin Sanqi:
"Xiao Qi, here, these 24 people are all from our Chinese Medicine Hospital. According to your requirements, all of them have a high school education. They will all be your apprentices in the future."

All the old men in the room spit out tea.

Mr. Han Bangxu couldn't believe his ears:

"Who? To be Lin Sanqi's apprentice? My god, he hasn't even learned enough as an apprentice yet, and he's planning to be a master? Xiao Lin, aren't you afraid of misleading his students?"

Lin Sanqi was also a little embarrassed, thinking that he was actually still an "intern" and a graduate student who had obtained his place through a backdoor, so he knew his own limitations.

But there was no way. When the employees in the hospital heard that Lin Sanqi was going to open a new "Tuberculosis Department" and recruit 7 college students, they expressed strong opposition.

One is that Lin Sanqi was going to introduce a set of Western medicine, which some traditional Chinese medicine practitioners did not like. In addition, the Changping branch (Chinese medicine hospital farm) was originally a product of compromise, and did not solve the problem of schooling and employment for employees' children, resulting in the inability of employees' children to find jobs.

In order to take care of them, the Chinese medicine hospital lets these young people farm in exchange for food.

However, after solving the problem of food and clothing, the employees began to feel restless again, feeling that their children were being neglected, and thus clamored for the Chinese medicine hospital to solve their children's employment problems.

It just so happened that Lin Sanqi's tuberculosis department had just opened and needed a group of doctors and nurses.

Lin Sanqi wanted the country to establish a set of standards for the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis to facilitate future nationwide promotion, so he wanted to recruit some college students with higher qualifications.

Now, a hornet's nest has been stirred up. The employees think that Section Chief Lin would rather have outsiders than his own people, and that he is a traitor.

In the end, it was Dean Shen who made the final decision and asked Lin Sanqi to recruit a group of "apprentices" from the children of employees, and then handed over the list of 24 people.

This made Lin Sanqi secretly sigh that it was too difficult to do anything in this country. This society is full of favors...

Seeing Mr. Han's ridicule, Lin Sanqi said:
"Old man, these young men will be my disciples in the future. They are your apprentices, right? You can't be secretive. You have to use all your special skills to help me train my apprentices."

Mr. Han interrupted with a wave of his hand:
"Don't worry. We old men have said that you and Xiao Yezi are our last two disciples. We will never teach anyone else. Do you think our medical skills are cheap? We will accept anyone who comes."

The old man thought, if we didn’t have to rely on you, Lin Sanqi, for a living, we wouldn’t even want to accept a little guy like you who is so uneducated.

Lin Sanqi didn't care after hearing this. Anyway, he was going to teach his disciple Western medicine throughout the whole process.

He had a ready-made textbook in hand, and he took it out and let seven college students and 7 children of traditional Chinese medicine hospital employees study it.

It is difficult to learn medicine in depth, but if you don’t need to master too much theoretical knowledge for the time being, as long as you can “do it”, it is actually not too difficult.

As for empirical medicine, as long as you watch more, listen more, learn more and do more, you will naturally master it.

For details, please refer to the legendary book "Barefoot Doctor's Manual".

This booklet does not teach you any theoretical things. It teaches you all the practical stuff, such as how to diagnose the disease and use medicine to treat it. It is that simple.

Lin Sanqi even suspected that if the editor-in-chief of "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" were asked to write a novel, he would definitely not be like an author like Gaojiao, who would not write a watery novel at all, but would be full of plots and absolutely fast-paced.

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The next day, Lin Sanqi drove a large truck loaded with lime and cement and asked the General Affairs Department to renovate the tuberculosis courtyard. At least the road surface had to be hardened and the walls had to be painted with white lime.

A hospital should always look like a hospital. It would be a joke if it looked like a pigsty.

Lin Sanqi doesn't need to take care of the engineering matters, but he must do the training personally.

In the small conference room of the Changping branch, Pan Ye was distributing a piece of information to the first person present.

The six college students present were Zhang Qingmei, Wang Ling, Geng Fuxing, Zhu Guoping, Zhou Wenliang and Fan Zili.

They are considered an unlucky group. They were all gifted children who were admitted to university, but when they graduated, the country encountered difficulties and the city's population was evacuated, so they had no way to settle down in the capital.

At this time, Dean Shen tempted them with the promise of helping them stay in the capital and recruited six college students majoring in Western medicine clinical medicine.

Originally, this group of college graduates were supposed to go to Western medicine hospitals such as Union Hospital, Railway General Hospital, Digital Hospital, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have not recruited college students over the years, because Chinese medicine emphasizes apprenticeship, that is, recruiting from the children of employees. For example, Lin Gancao and Lin Duzhong are the children of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners who were recruited to work in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals.

In addition to the 6 college students, there are 24 soldiers from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

This group of people made up the majority and filled the small conference room. Among them was Zhu Xiaoxia, who had been bitten by a wolf a few months ago.

This group of "second-generation doctors" are relatively young and have no resistance to their "teacher" Lin Sanqi.

After all, Lin Sanqi is also a member of their second generation of doctors and is one of their own.

Moreover, Lin Sanqi was a mid-level cadre in the hospital and the head of the department, and he controlled their life and death.

After the one-year probation period, if Lin Sanqi nods, he can stay and have the opportunity to become a regular employee.

If Lin Sanqi shook his head and felt that he had no talent for medicine, then this person would be directly dismissed and go back to the farm to farm. His fate would be completely different.

Seeing that all the information had been distributed to everyone, Lin Sanqi clapped his hands and said:
"Okay, everyone has received two documents on tuberculosis. One is more theoretical teaching knowledge, and the other is more practical clinical guidelines. First of all, you need to memorize both documents thoroughly after returning home."

As soon as Lin Sanqi said this, the seven college students, including Pan Ye, had no extra expressions on their faces. Instead, they couldn't wait to look through the information.

However, the second generation of 24 famous doctors all sighed. These 50 pages of information were like a mystery to people who had no clinical knowledge of Western medicine.

"Brother Lin, this is too difficult. There is so much information..."

"Yes, Chief Lin, there are many knowledge points above that we cannot understand..."

Lin Sanqi was not a strict person, so he smiled and said:

"I can't help it. Our tuberculosis department will open in two weeks. Most of you have no basic knowledge at the moment, so I can only use a quick method. You should memorize the content first, and when I teach you later, you will be able to quickly call up the information in your mind.

Today is our first day of class, and I decided to start by teaching you how to correctly read a chest X-ray.

Chest X-rays can detect pulmonary tuberculosis, discover tuberculosis lesions at an early stage, and clearly identify the location of the lesions, the extent of the lesions, the morphology of the lesion tissue, and the density.

In addition, chest X-rays can help determine whether tuberculosis is in an active stage and whether there are cavities in the lungs.

Of course, to diagnose whether it is tuberculosis, the patient may need to undergo further Mycobacterium tuberculosis examination, but chest X-ray is an important basis for diagnosis and is also important reference data that we will need to use when writing papers in the future.

Before reading the abnormal chest X-ray, let’s take a look at what a normal chest X-ray looks like. This is the film I prepared. Please take a close look..."

Lin Sanqi spent three days teaching just chest X-ray.

Lin Sanqi not only taught students how to read chest X-rays, he also invited eight patients with tuberculosis from the hospital of traditional Chinese medicine to become the first batch of experimental subjects. His goal was to link theory with clinical practice, teaching and treating patients at the same time.

(Fortunately, he is not a cadaver teacher)

Lin Sanqi also personally taught the students how to operate the X-ray machine and how to take pictures.

The filming process is actually not complicated. Lin Sanqi does not want students to master imaging theory or learn how to repair machines. They just need to learn how to shoot.

For example, how to hold the chest X-ray stand correctly, how to align it, how to press the switch, how to replace the sensor box, how to develop film, etc.

There was a complaint in 2022 that a patient at a township hospital found out that the person who took the X-ray was not a doctor but a child.

Later we learned that the 14-year-old child was the doctor's child. The doctor had to leave for something urgent and asked the child to help take some X-rays.

From this we can see that pure filming is not difficult.

Learning how to take X-rays is not enough. Lin Sanqi also teaches students how to correctly use semi-automatic biochemical analyzers, as well as sputum smears and cultures, etc.

Finding Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the patient's sputum or lesion site is the gold standard for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis, so this test is very important, and Lin Sanqi requires everyone to learn it.

His target was these 31 people, the first batch of students with tuberculosis at the Whampoa Military Academy.

In the future, it will be impossible to rely on Lin Sanqi to cure tuberculosis in the country. He only needs to teach them all the knowledge, let them become a spark, and then start a prairie fire across the country. (End of this chapter)