I Can Talk to the Internal Organs

Chapter 351 - 317: Wei Medical Hall

Wei Medical Hall.

The territory of Jinling, almost every inch is worth its weight in gold.

To open a clinic here, besides needing money, one must also have connections.

Wei Zhengxian is not the first-generation inheritor of Wei Medical Hall. It’s said that the Wei Family lineage has been practicing medicine in Jinling since the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Later, they went through wars and wanderings, but eventually, the ancestors of the Wei Family returned to Jinling.

When Lu Jiu stepped into Wei Medical Hall, his first impression was of wealth.

Moreover, the decor was particularly unique, with a Tai Chi Bagua diagram paved on the tiles of the lobby.

On the large screen in view, the content about "great medical skill with sincerity" continuously scrolled.

"Sorry, sorry, your name is Lu Jiu, right? Master Wei asked me to come and greet you."

As Lu Jiu stood in the lobby observing the layout of Wei Medical Hall, a man in his thirties approached him, "We’re really busy here, once the work starts, it’s easy to lose track of time, my apologies."

Lu Jiu smiled, "It’s okay."

The man said, "My name is Shang Yehua, I am currently practicing in the TCM general department."

Lu Jiu knew Wei Medical Hall only had two departments, a general department, and a traumatology department.

The traumatology department was for external injuries, so it was established as a separate department.

The general department meant that the TCM doctors there would see any patient, without the need for patients to go around other departments.

Of course, although it’s a general department, many TCM doctors, after years of practice, tend to focus on certain diseases themselves.

For instance, Shang Yehua himself is very knowledgeable about rheumatism and bone diseases.

He may also be effective in treating other diseases, but compared to rheumatism and bone diseases, the results are generally average.

This is actually the model of many clinics.

Everyone uses the undivided approach of TCM.

Because anyone who understands TCM knows that the theory of TCM is targeted at the internal organs, and once you understand these things, you’ll realize that many diseases are due to internal issues.

Dividing TCM by disease types is actually a very unscientific method.

However, not dividing has a drawback, which is that it is not conducive to training newcomers.

This model of Wei Medical Hall can leverage the advantages of TCM, but once newcomers come in, if they follow a mentor, they usually only follow one, so whatever this teacher is good at, they will definitely teach, but whether the student is good at these things, nobody knows.

The experienced TCM doctors also have no obligation to analyze the strengths of newcomers, after all, just the daily work keeps them too busy to breathe.

Lu Jiu’s restoration of the department system from the Ming Dynasty in TCM is intended to effectively train some newcomers through this TCM-specific division.

He also established a shift system during the hospital’s initial creation, meaning that the hospital’s doctors would move to a different department after diagnosing patients for some time in one department.

Initially, Lu Jiu thought everyone should rotate, but later, considering the stability of the department, he decided that directors would not rotate, but other doctors would.

In this way, the new doctors would have to transfer to other departments to learn.

This model is actually the model used by Western Hospitals.

Many intern doctors, upon entering, have to roam around many departments to familiarize themselves with the business processes of each department in advance.

Then the leadership arranges who goes to which department.

Lu Jiu copied this system, allowing new doctors to choose which department they want to study in after their rotation.

That’s right!

Positioning for new doctors is not decided by management, but by themselves.

Doing so gives newcomers plenty of space to learn on one hand, and on the other, reduces the pressure on chief physicians, as they just need to mentor students without worrying about which students suit what.

On the aspect of training newcomers, Lu Jiu feels that traditional TCM clinics do indeed have some areas to learn from Western Hospitals.

"Look, this is where we diagnose, the consultation room is about thirty square meters, with a total of ten, each consultation room has three chief physicians, and their consultation times are according to the schedule, it generally doesn’t last a whole day. I am the same, this morning I will diagnose for half a day, tomorrow it will be in the afternoon," Shang Yehua took Lu Jiu to their consultation room, each doctor had their own small table inside the room, with groups of patients surrounding them, "Master Wei instructed me to arrange a consultation time for you. If you don’t mind, you can use my consultation time and my workstation to experience it. I won’t interfere, I’ll be at your side to assist you, just let me know if you need anything, how about it?"

Lu Jiu smiled, "Okay, you arrange it."

Shang Yehua smiled, "Then come with me."

The two of them then walked to the seventh consultation room, and after Shang Yehua led Lu Jiu inside, he sat in his workstation.

At this moment, the consultation room already had quite a few patients.

However, it seemed not as many as in the previous consultation rooms.

This consultation room, aside from three chief workstations, had seven regular workstations.

Shang Yehua sat at a regular workstation, but his workstation was quite close to the chief’s workstation.

As others saw Lu Jiu entering, their gaze was fixed on him.

"Is this the young TCM doctor that Master Wei said would temporarily diagnose at our Wei Medical Hall?"

"He doesn’t look quite capable."

"Too young, looks like a student who hasn’t graduated, does he have a postgraduate degree?"

"Maybe it’s family heritage, if he learned medicine from a young age, his foundation should be much stronger than those university students, I can’t believe Master Wei would recommend someone without multiple skills."

"Even if it’s a family heritage of TCM, at this age, it shouldn’t be impressive. Our Wei Medical Hall also has many who learned TCM from a young age, not to mention others, look at Shang Yehua himself, isn’t he from a family heritage?"

"That’s why Shang Yehua could reach the general chief level of our Wei Medical Hall at the age of thirty-two, I guess Master Wei wants him to guide this temporarily diagnosing young man, possibly with the aim of assessing him."

"Assessing?"

"Who can make Master Wei exert effort to assess?"

"No idea, but after yesterday’s intangible cultural heritage conference, I checked the health committee’s new media report, it mentioned a Lu Jiu TCM Hospital from Jianghan, coincidentally, Shang Yehua was receiving someone named Lu Jiu."

"Is he a director?!"

"It’s probably just a small county-level hospital, not even public."

"Still a director!"

"Anyone can get a title, the key is whether he’s competent, but I lean towards him having some skills, otherwise why would he dare to come to our Wei Medical Hall, what if he embarrasses himself?"

"I also think he should have some ability, though at his age, he can’t be that strong."

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