kingnovel Chapter 487 Tong'an Medical Clinic Changnan Prefecture Branch
Chapter 487 Tong'an Medical Clinic Changnan Prefecture Branch
"What happened to Lord Shen?" Li Shiyuan spoke of Shen Zheng with pride. "If it weren't for Lord Shen, I don't know where I'd still be wandering. If it weren't for Lord Shen, do you think the epidemic in Jimu Village would have been cured so quickly?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Doctor Zhang nodded repeatedly in agreement.
He had heard in the past few days that Li Shiyuan came to Jimu Village to prevent and control the epidemic because of the order of Lord Shen. Even Li Shiyuan's superb medical skills seemed to be closely related to the Lord Shen he mentioned.
Even the food consumed in the village today is transported from Lord Shen’s county.
I have to admit that Lord Shen is a good official, but...
The imperial court ordered an official to open a clinic?
Unheard of!
"Let's go. I'll explain it to you in detail when we get there, and you can consider whether you're willing or not."
Li Shiyuan was the first to walk towards the makeshift pharmacy. Before he got close, he could smell the aroma of medicine lingering in the air, and wisps of white mist were visible to the naked eye.
"Doctor Li, Doctor Zhang, you're back!"
A girl in her twenties, holding a palm-leaf fan in one hand and her clothes in the other, came up to us with a smile on her face.
She walked up to the two of them and pointed at the steaming medicine pot with a palm leaf fan, "You two elders came back early today, and the medicine is not ready yet."
Li Shiyuan placed the medicine box on the wooden board, went to the pot and smelled it, then nodded and said, "There are only a dozen patients left in the shed now, so it won't take much time to see them. Starting tomorrow, they won't need acupuncture anymore, they can just drink the decoction."
The girl's eyes lit up when she heard that, and she asked in surprise, "They're only drinking the medicine from now on? Doesn't that mean they will all be cured in a few days?"
She has learned a lot of basic knowledge in the pharmacy in the past few days and knows the general diagnosis and treatment process for those patients.
Mild and severe cases are diagnosed and treated separately, first with acupuncture and then with medicine.
If a patient starts to drink only decoctions, it means that he is close to recovery.
Li Shiyuan took the palm-leaf fan from her hand and waved it towards the stove. "That's probably the case. If the prevention outside the shed is good and there are no more repeated outbreaks, maybe this shed..."
He looked at the sick sheds one by one, and said with a hint of smile: "This shed area is completely useless now."
"It's best if they're useless!" The girl clapped her hands and pouted, "Although these tent cloths look good, it would be a pity to leave them unused, but eradicating the disease is the most important thing!"
"Xiao Xiu, you..." Li Shiyuan shook his head and looked at her and said, "You can clearly tell right from wrong, but why don't you want to go out? Your brother has already recovered and left the shed. If you continue to stay here and get infected with the disease, you will suffer in vain."
Xiao Xiu lowered her head and whispered, "It's enough for me to know that my brother is fine. I promised the young general before that I would come in to take care of the patient. Although I am a woman, I can't break my promise."
That promise may not be a promise at all, because the other party did not agree with it.
But now that she had said it, she would do it.
"That's all." Li Shiyuan added a medicine to the pot and handed the palm leaf fan back to her. "It'll only be a few days. Remember to take the medicine every day to prevent it."
"Eh!"
Xiaoxiu held a palm-leaf fan in her hand and fanned herself up and down busily.
She was so afraid that Li Shiyuan would chase her away that she didn't even dare to raise her head.
Li Shiyuan and Doctor Zhang talked about things without avoiding her. They each took a small stool and sat down on the spot.
The bench was very low, almost reaching the ground. The two men bent their knees and looked at each other, feeling a little awkward.
"Master..." Doctor Zhang spoke first.
"Just call me Doctor Li." Li Shiyuan corrected him again.
Doctor Zhang was rejected by him again. He choked and was unwilling to speak again.
Li Shiyuan got straight to the point and asked him, "Do you have your own clinic in Liuyang Prefecture, or do you work in someone else's clinic?"
"I am in Jiang'an County in the prefecture. I have a small clinic that was passed down from my family."
Doctor Zhang thought that although his medical skills were not as good as his, he would not fall to the point of sitting in someone else's clinic. But when the clinic was passed to him, it gradually became inferior to the previous one.
It's not that his medical skills are so bad, but in the past ten years or so, several clinics of all sizes have opened in the county, and I heard that the same owner is behind all of them.
What is infuriating is that those clinics are willing to use strong drugs when treating people, and they do not consider the side effects of the drugs at all when using them, and they just want to eliminate the current symptoms.
The common people had no idea of the reasons behind this, they just thought that the doctors in those clinics were really skilled. As a result, the common people not only gave those doctors the title of "master doctors", but also their small clinics became worse and worse.
It's not like he didn't tell the truth.
He reminded people to pay more attention to physical changes after taking medicines, and to seek medical attention in time if they feel unwell, so as to avoid the accumulation of drug toxicity over the years.
However, the accumulation of drug poisoning cannot be seen in a short period of time, and even ordinary people find it difficult to perceive it themselves.
After a few years, ten years, or even more than ten years, when their health deteriorates day by day, they will just think that it is because they are getting older and it is normal that their health is not as good as before.
No one was willing to believe him. They just thought that he was asking for an exorbitant price in the first place and couldn't make any money for the time being, so he was desperate and came up with the idea of "poison" to slander the other party.
But no one knows that he has to consider the properties, efficacy and side effects of the medicinal materials, so the price of the medicine prescribed by him will be higher than that of other clinics.
But he did not hate the people in the county.
The people were already living a hard life, and they were willing to spend money on medical treatment, which was already the limit, so the result was obvious when comparing the two sides.
He briefly described the situation of his own clinic. After a moment of silence, Li Shiyuan casually asked a question that stunned him.
"Are you willing to change the name of the clinic to Tong'an Clinic?"
Change its name to Tongan Medical Clinic?
Doctor Zhang's eyes widened and he trembled, "Isn't this destroying our own reputation? My father will beat me to death!"
Li Shiyuan was stunned and asked uncertainly: "Didn't you say...your father has already passed away?"
How can a dead person hit someone?
Doctor Zhang swallowed his saliva and blinked, saying, "You were so angry that you climbed up to hit me. How can you change the name of a century-old family business? Master, you can't let me be unfilial!"
"I didn't ask you to be unfilial!" Li Shiyuan felt unwell when he thought of that scene.
He gritted his teeth and said, "You can write a small line below to indicate that the clinic is still the Zhang's clinic. But it is true that after you join my Tong'an clinic, you must follow the rules and regulations of my Tong'an clinic to see patients and charge fees. Similarly, I will share my life's learning with you, and we can learn from each other. And..."
He took out a piece of paper from his pocket and waved it in front of Doctor Zhang.