This Doctor Is Too Wealthy

After a brief pause, he continued, ”Alright, you help with the connection.”

Director Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, nodded in agreement, and left the office.

Checking the time, Du Heng also felt hungry. He picked up his phone to call Wei Kaida, but then felt it was inappropriate and put it down. He went to grab some food by himself before diving back into his dull and boring work in the afternoon.

However, what he didn’t know was that the video of him treating a baby with cerebral hypoxia had resurfaced. Not only did netizens idly scrolling through videos stumble upon it again, but a doctor at the Provincial Women and Children’s Hospital also came across it during his lunch break.

”Director, do you think traditional Chinese medicine can really cure Cerebral Hypoxia Complications?” In the neonatal intensive care unit of the Provincial Women and Children’s Hospital, Mei Dong, the Neonatology Department Director who had just finished his meeting and was about to leave, was stopped by a young doctor behind him.

Hearing the young doctor’s question, Mei Dong casually asked, ”What made you suddenly think of asking this question?”

”I’m just curious to know if traditional Chinese medicine can really solve this problem.”

”Is it because you couldn’t bear to see that child just now that you have this question?” Mei Dong shook his head calmly. ”It’s an established fact that this child has cerebral palsy, and we also want to cure him. But the reality of the situation is what it is. What we can do is remediate to the best of our ability. As for a complete cure, that’s impossible.”

Mei Dong’s response obviously couldn’t satisfy the young doctor, as it didn’t address his question at all. So he persisted, ”Director, I just want to know if traditional Chinese medicine can cure it?”

Hearing the question again, Mei Dong paused, turned his head, and looked seriously at the young doctor. ”It can, and yet it can’t. Let me put it this way: traditional Chinese medicine particularly tests an individual practitioner’s skill and experience. An experienced TCM doctor who has deeply researched this area might indeed offer a cure. But there is a significant limitation to traditional Chinese medicine: it’s impossible to form a standardized, universally applicable method for specific diseases. Treatment must be adapted to the specific circumstances to be effective.”

Mei Dong sighed slightly. ”When our hospital was first established, there was such an expert. According to records, many pediatric patients he treated suffered from what we now call Cerebral Hypoxia Complications. Of course, this old predecessor left behind his diagnostic notes and treatment methods. But as you’ve seen, to this day, neither the specialized TCM doctors in our hospital nor the doctors who practice an integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine have been able to replicate that old predecessor’s methods.

To put it simply, the treatment process involves only a few steps. However, when it comes to medication—knowing which medicine to add or remove at which stage—many have tried, but no one has truly grasped it. The differences in dosage for children of various ages, such as those a few years old versus those only a few months old, also remain unclear.”

The young doctor looked somewhat stunned. After Mei Dong had said all this, the young doctor got the answer he was seeking: traditional Chinese medicine *could* treat Cerebral Hypoxia Complications.

The content in the video was actually true!

Licking his dry lips, the young doctor continued, ”Didn’t that old predecessor have any disciples? Others might not understand, but his disciple should have grasped his treatment philosophy, right?”

Mei Dong sighed. ”These things are actually recorded in the Hospital History, but you young people don’t read it anymore. That old predecessor indeed had a disciple, one who, as the saying goes, surpassed his master. He had great achievements not only in pediatrics but also in the Gynecology Department and Obstetrics Department. However, precisely because of these two specialties, in that era, he was framed for misconduct and locked in a cowshed. Ultimately, he died of illness beneath a cow trough.”

Upon hearing this outcome, the young doctor found it difficult to accept. A doctor who healed the sick and saved lives, dying of illness, and beneath a cow trough at that—it sounded utterly preposterous.

Mei Dong sighed faintly. ”Such things were not rare in that era. Many lineages of traditional Chinese medicine were severed during that period. Enough about this. Don’t ask about it anymore. If the pediatric patients’ families hear about this, they’ll start seeking out folk remedies again and get scammed by those unscrupulous charlatans.”

Although Mei Dong was a practitioner of modern medicine, he harbored no resistance towards traditional Chinese medicine. Within the entire Provincial Women and Children’s Hospital, those in the know were very clear about whether traditional Chinese medicine could treat illnesses. Especially the current director of Traditional Chinese Medicine Gynecology—his TCM methods for treating gynecological diseases are genuinely more effective than those of Western medicine gynecology. This is an indisputable fact throughout the hospital.

However, by the same token, there truly wasn’t a TCM doctor available now who could treat children with cerebral palsy. Mei Dong felt somewhat dejected.

The Hospital History is a valuable resource. It can reveal many things unknown to outsiders, showing that some accounts are neither fabrications nor boasts. It readily fosters a sense of belonging and honor toward the institution and deep admiration for one’s predecessors. Yet, at the same time, the existence of the Hospital History can also easily evoke a sense of negativity. He himself might be relatively unaffected, but the practitioners of TCM don’t feel very good about it. This is especially true when they discover that modern medicine advances constantly. In contrast, traditional Chinese medicine not only fails to progress but has even regressed compared to its predecessors. That kind of psychological gap can easily make them feel lost and disheartened.

Although Mei Dong didn’t experience the same depth of feeling as the TCM doctors, his emotions were stirred. He said no more and turned to leave.

However, just as he turned, he was immediately stopped by the young doctor. ”Director, please wait a moment.”

Mei Dong frowned slightly. He had many things to deal with and was already a little impatient. ”What is it now?”

The young man also noticed Mei Dong’s impatience and quickly said, ”Director, please wait a moment, let me show you something.”

”What is it?”

Instead of answering Mei Dong’s question, the young doctor quickly ran to his locker and took out his mobile phone. ”Director, look at this video, is it real?” The young doctor hurriedly found the video and held it up in front of Mei Dong.

Mei Dong glanced at the young doctor with displeasure, wondering why on earth he was being shown a video so abruptly. But seeing the young doctor’s anxious look and hearing the sound coming from the phone, he stopped and focused his attention on the screen.

As the saying goes, outsiders watch for the spectacle, while insiders look for the technique. Most people might find a video claiming to treat a child with cerebral palsy laughable. But to his expert eyes, it revealed a truth.

Ordinary people wouldn’t know, and even general doctors might only harbor suspicions. But he could, with his expertise, directly diagnose the conditions indicated by these symptoms. The baby’s eyes and lips were tightly shut, its complexion was cyanotic, and its limbs exhibited clear abnormal muscle tone and reflexes. Listening to the diagnostic assessment in the video, he knew the doctor’s diagnosis was correct.

As the video progressed, minute by minute, he forgot about his own pressing work, his entire attention riveted on the screen. When he saw the change in the child in the video, his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

He had seen countless infants—if not ten thousand, then at least eight thousand. He could generally identify the unique characteristics of each at a glance. And he was confident that the baby in the video had not been switched; it was the same child from the beginning.

When the video ended, he immediately asked the young doctor, ”Where is this video from, and who is the doctor in it?”

The young doctor, seeing Mei Dong’s expression, grinned happily but still asked, ”Director, is the treatment in the video real?”

”Based on the child’s before-and-after comparison in the video, I can confirm that it is real.” Mei Dong nodded directly. ”I never expected that traditional Chinese medicine would finally produce another great expert in pediatrics. It’s not just the usual crowd of experts flocking to the Department of Andrology and the Gynecology Department anymore. Quickly, tell me, where is the doctor in the video from? Listening to his accent, he sounds like he’s from our Jinzhou.”