Chapter 274 - Only Learned for Six Months (1/2)
Chapter 274 Only Learned for Six Months
After waiting for about three minutes, the door opened.
Fang Qiu finally got his first patient.
”There are 25 patients. I need to diagnose and get the right medicine and boil the medicine for each patient.”
”It takes an hour to boil the medicine for each person. Although there are 25 pots available, the interval between the two pots is so long. It will take seven or eight hours even if I treat the patient and boil the medicine at the same time.”
”And I also need time for lunch.”
”Then I have to go back to school to change my clothes before going to the practice meeting at 7:00 p. m. There's not enough time.”
Fang Qiu was thinking to himself.
The first patient had come to the diagnostic desk.
”There is no time. I have to feel the pulses with both hands to buy myself some time,” Fang Qiu thought.
With this in mind, he started to diagnose.
He started to ask the patient some questions while feeling the pulses with both hands.
People in the conference room were witnessing what he was doing.
A group of elders who were drinking tea were startled and spat out the tea immediately.
”What is he doing?” an old man asked, pointing at Fang Qiu.
”Does he know how to diagnose?” asked another old man.
”Don't you think this kid is feeling the pulses with both hands?” asked the round-faced old man.
Hearing that, the rest was in a state of shock.
Ordinary people were not able to learn this method. Only a few of the famous doctors could do that.
At first, no one would believe that Fang Qiu knew this method.
But taking a closer look, they found that Fang Qiu was really feeling the patient's pulses with both hands!
”This kid is not ordinary.”
”How did he know this method?”
”Maybe he's just trying. No matter how awesome he is, it is impossible for him to learn to feel the pulses with both hands in such a short time.”
”Did he only study Chinese medicine for half a year?”
While the elders were in shock, Fang Qiu was diagnosing as fast as he could.
This was a female patient in her 50s.
After asking her some questions, Fang Qiu learned that she had suffered from chronic superficial gastritis for five years. About a year ago, she also had dysentery for five months. Since then, she would feel the abdominal pain while moving her bowels.
”Are there any other symptoms besides abdominal pain?” Fang Qiu felt the pulses and asked.
”I always feel out of strength and my heart races fast sometimes. I also suffer from poor sleep at night,” replied the patient.
”Any recent diarrhea or constipation?” he asked.
”No,” the patient shook her head.
”I see.” Fang Qiu nodded.
After observation, he found that she got a pale tongue and weak pulses. Judging from the patient's symptoms, Fang Qiu believed that this woman could use a kind of medicine that could warm meridians.
Fang Qiu started to write a prescription.
”Evodia Rutaecarpa 10g, cinnamon 10g, pinellia ternata 10g, liriope 10g, cortex moutan 10g, codonopsis pilosula 20g, colla corii asini 10g, angelica sinensis 10g, white peony root 15g, glycyrrhiza 6g, ginger 3 pieces.”
After he finished writing the prescription, Fang Qiu went to the medicine cabinet to get the medicine.
There was an electronic scale on the medicine cabinet.
Fang Qiu was fast when he was picking the medicine. He barely made any deviation when he put the medicine on the electronic scale.
Actually, Fang Qiu was confident that he didn't need an electronic scale.
But he was having an examination, and it would cause the dissatisfaction of the judges and patients if he didn't use the scale, so he still weighed the medicine and took it down immediately.
When he was done, he immediately put all the medicine into the pot and added some mineral water to soak the medicine.
Fang Qiu didn't specifically learn how to boil the medicine before. When he was in Puji Clinic in Qimen Town, he needed to help boil the medicine every day, so he had learned something about it. Feng Xuexin also had told him something about boiling. Fang Qiu also had done it when he saw patients by himself before. Therefore, it was not difficult for him to do this.
”All right, please wait outside. When the medicine is ready, I'll call you,” Fang Qiu said to the patient as he came back to the desk.
The patient left while she heard that.
Then the second patient entered the room.
Fang Qiu looked at the door. This time, it was a plump woman with yellowish complexion.
”Good morning, ma'am. Please have a seat.”
When the patient sat down, Fang Qiu smiled and nodded. ”What seems to be the trouble?” he asked.
”I feel dizzy.”
The woman opened her mouth and said, ”I always get dizzy, especially after work.”
”Apart from dizziness, are there any other symptoms, such as nausea, tinnitus or insomnia?” he asked.
”No.” The woman shook her head. ”Just dizziness.”
”Well, please open your mouth and let me have a look.” As he watched the patient's tongue, he began to feel her pulses with both hands.
When he finished, he immediately wrote out the prescription.
”Astragalus membranaceus 60g, cinnamon 10g, red peony root 30g, Ligusticum wallichii 15g, the root of kudzu vine 80g, and date 20g.”
From treating the patient to picking the medicine, Fang Qiu was quite smooth.
In the conference room, several elders couldn't help but nod while looking at his performance.
”I don't know if he's a good doctor or not, but from what I've seen so far, this guy is at least very experienced.”