Chapter 7 The truth behind being late during the winter vacation

"Shen Jiang, how is your grandma?"

"She's still unconscious. Officer Zhang, what's the matter with you calling me today?"

Shen Jiang's expression was extremely cold. Because of her chilling emotions, her voice was not as gentle as usual. It sounded as refreshing as the sound of a stream.

Shen Jiang knew that the police should have caught the middle-aged man who caused the trouble.

really.

"The suspect who injured your grandmother has been found. He had been hiding in the mountains for the past few days. Yesterday, he finally couldn't help but go out for a walk, and was captured by the surveillance camera." Officer Zhang felt that the other party would be very relieved to know the news, so he notified her as soon as possible.

"Logically, your grandmother's medical expenses should be paid by the other party, but I see that he is very emotional. I guess you have to take legal action..." Police Officer Zhang was a little worried. These bad things were too cruel for a young girl like Shen Jiang, but she had to face it.

After all, apart from the old lady who had the accident, Shen Jiang was the only child left in their family.

Shen Jiang asked tentatively, "Is that man called Shan Guosheng?"

There was no one around at the moment. Shen Jiang's round little deer eyes were no longer calm, and there was a strange madness rolling in his eyes.

Officer Zhang was a little surprised: "How do you know his name?"

Shen Jiang's heart was bleeding. His last hope was shattered, and everything in his dream was reflected in reality.

Shen Jiang didn't answer Officer Zhang's question, but instead asked, "Officer Zhang, did he say why he came to Mingxin Hall to cause trouble?"

"Well, the suspect said his father came to Mingxin Hall for treatment last month. After taking the medicine prescribed by Dr. Shen for a few days, his condition worsened and he developed kidney failure. He consulted other doctors, but they all said that Dr. Shen's medicine was not suitable for him. That's why he came to seek justice. He didn't expect it to cause such a big incident. We will follow up and verify these cases one by one. Don't worry, he injured someone and will face legal punishment no matter what."

In fact, even if what Shan Guosheng said was true, the police and the health bureau should have been called to investigate the doctor. His behavior of fighting and causing trouble privately, and injuring such an elderly woman and sending her to the hospital ICU, constituted a serious criminal offense.

Police Officer Zhang sighed inwardly, thinking that being a doctor is indeed a high-risk profession.

The old lady is already past retirement age but is still seeing patients. She has raised a granddaughter who graduated from Capital University and wants him to see her. There must be some misunderstanding here.

Officer Zhang's rambling voice was a little distorted over the phone, so Shen Jiang got straight to the point: "He said the patient got the disease after taking medicine from our clinic?"

Officer Zhang: "Yes."

He became a little nervous. "If they had called the police instead of looking for personal revenge, things wouldn't have turned out like this. Please don't be impulsive. We will investigate the truth and give you justice."

Shen Jiang's frown was so tight that it could kill a mosquito. She had never seen such a shameless person! His father had never taken the medicine from Mingxin Hall!

In the dream, it took Shen Jiang a long time to find out that the troublemaker was called Shan Guosheng, and his father, the patient, was called Shan Gui.

Shen Jiang always suspected from the bottom of his heart that the medical dispute was fake. It might be that his colleagues were jealous of Mingxintang's good business and deliberately found someone to cause trouble. He didn't expect that the patient really existed, so he was waiting for the results of the police investigation.

Her steadfastness wasn't blindly biased. She'd been with her grandmother since childhood, and the first lesson she'd learned about Chinese medicine was caution. Furthermore, she'd run Mingxintang for over fifty years, never failing. The banners covering the walls and the word-of-mouth praise from her longtime patients were a testament to her skill. Shen Jiang simply couldn't believe her always cautious grandmother would treat someone badly. How could she, with her skill, make such a grievous mistake that could have cost someone's life?

As a result, she missed the best opportunity to clear her grandmother's name.

Rumors need to be refuted quickly and in a timely manner; we must never allow rumors to spread.

Today was already the eleventh day since Grandma's accident, and the opportunity to clarify things to the public had long been missed. The situation in the dream was even worse. It wasn't until a month later that Shen Jiang learned the suspect was Shan Guosheng, and then found information about the patient, Shan Gui, in her own medical records. After much searching, she finally discovered the true cause of the patient's kidney failure.

By then, everything had already been settled and the heat had passed. Even if Shen Jiang tried hard to speak out online, she couldn't make any waves at all.

No one wanted to believe her.

No one cared about the convoluted and complicated explanations of a notorious medical clinic.

All everyone remembers is that a poor family was destroyed because of a quack doctor.

When Su Xingran changed the Mingxintang sign to Qingdetang, Shen Jiang felt bad, but there was nothing she could do. The Mingxintang sign was already tainted, and if she continued to use it, no patients would be willing to come.

At this moment, Shen Jiang's eyes were filled with rage.

"Officer Zhang, I have some information that may be helpful to your case. I'll take a picture of it and send it to you."

Shen Jiang hung up the phone and walked to the vandalized clinic. From among the clutter on the floor, he dug out the ancient medical records book.

This was my grandmother's habit, dating back many years. After each patient visit, she would record the day's medical records in her medical records book. Ever since Shen Jiang learned how to use a computer, he would also regularly save these records for my grandmother's use.

The dream didn't contain many details about the medical dispute, and it was almost glossed over. But she vaguely remembered that the final investigation result was that the patient had not taken the medicine in their clinic at all.

The police also closed the case based on this and convicted Yamaguchi Mori.

But the matter is far from over. Netizens are still fiercely discussing the case, refusing to accept the verdicts of the police and the judge. Shan Guosheng's family has come forward, insisting that while he didn't get the medicine at Mingxintang, he did take the medicine prescribed by Dr. Shen Anlian.

Although Mingxintang escaped legal sanctions, the stigma surrounding the doctors was reaffirmed. Everyone was convinced that the tragedy was caused by Grandma's poor medical skills. Shen Jiang recalled the online carnival about this farce in his dream, and his brows furrowed.

Shen Jiang quickly found the patient Shan Gui's medical records.

Both the medical records and the computer archives from the time show a crucial piece of evidence: a small, inconspicuous note at the end of the medical record:

"The patient refused to have the medicine prepared at Mingxin Hall and asked to take the prescription home to prepare it himself."

Shen Jiang first took a photo of the medical record, and then sent the file with time records in the computer to Police Officer Zhang.

Then he stared at the case without blinking and began to study it.

Grandma was not mentioned very often in the dream, and was only mentioned briefly when Su Qing appeared. Shen Jiang didn't know what the truth of the matter was. He only knew that there was nothing wrong with the diagnosis of his grandmother that he repeatedly mentioned in the dream.

Now, she needs to re-examine the specific details of the medical case.

This patient clearly presented with lower back and knee pain, mental fatigue, and a general chill. Coupled with a weak floating pulse, many TCM practitioners would subconsciously treat this as a cold syndrome.

But grandma didn't have that. The medical record clearly stated that it was true heat and false cold, and that yang was excessive and suppressing yin.

This is a term in traditional Chinese medicine, which means that the fire is trapped inside and cannot come out, but the symptoms that appear outwardly are all characteristics of cold syndrome.

This condition is a common occurrence, but most doctors treat it as a cold syndrome. It's difficult for inexperienced doctors to diagnose it, as the confusing symptoms are so obvious. Clinically, both cold and heat symptoms can occur simultaneously, but distinguishing between "internal accumulation of fire" and "excessive yin and insufficient yang"—the two extremes of cold and heat—can be difficult during pulse diagnosis, requiring a highly experienced physician.

Once a doctor's medical skills are not up to par and he makes a wrong diagnosis without realizing it, the patient will be the unlucky one to pay the price.

Her grandmother had taught her the key points of taking the pulse and distinguishing the disease, an area in which her grandmother was very proficient.

And let's take the most basic example: if the patient has a thick, greasy yellow tongue coating and a red tongue, this is a syndrome of excess heat. If the patient has yin deficiency, the tongue coating should be loose and floating.

The medical record records that the patient described his urine as reddish and yellow, which is more of a sign of heat syndrome.

It can be seen that grandma’s diagnosis was indeed correct.

Shen Jiang thought back to what Officer Zhang had just said. He said that before Shan Guosheng came to cause trouble, he had consulted many Chinese medicine experts, and those experts all said that there was something wrong with the prescription prescribed by his grandmother.

Was it because of what those quack doctors said that Shan Guosheng thought there was something wrong with the prescription, so he got so angry that he came to cause trouble?

Then why didn't he tell the police the truth and tell them that his father didn't get the medicine from Mingxin Hall?

Shen Jiang looked at the medical records and suddenly remembered some things about his patient Shan Gui.

Last month, her grandmother had mentioned this to her over dinner. A patient felt that the price of medicine at Mingxintang was too high and asked for the prescription. He said that his son sold Chinese herbal medicines and he could go back and ask his son to prepare it for him.

Of course grandma didn't agree, and the patient was stubborn, so he simply snatched the prescription grandma had already written and ran away.

At that time, Shen Jiang also comforted the grandmother, saying that at least the medicine the patient took home was genuine and of good quality, instead of just going out to get some cheap medicine.

Grandma smiled helplessly at the time. Rather than worrying about the patient, she seemed to be more troubled by another thing: high-quality Chinese medicinal materials are becoming increasingly scarce, and medicines will only become more expensive in the future, and there may even be a shortage of them.

"If that happens, Chinese medicine will really be in decline."

The warm and familiar voice was still lingering in my ears, and coupled with the messy and dirty scene before me, it seemed extremely ironic.

Shen Jiang closed his eyes.

Reorganize your thoughts.

The patient got hurt after taking the medicine prescribed by his grandmother.

But in fact, the patient took the medicine prescribed by his grandmother, and the medicine was prepared at his own Chinese medicine store.

A bold and absurd idea couldn't help but pop up in Shen Jiang's mind: Is it possible that the patient's condition worsened because he took fake Chinese medicine?

Shen Jiang was so shocked by her own guess that she didn't come back to her senses for a long time. After a while, she wanted to move the corner of her mouth, but found that the muscle seemed to be out of control and she couldn't make any expression.

Reality wouldn't play such a joke on them.

Between doubting grandma's medical skills and suspecting that there was something wrong with the medicine the patient was taking, Shen Jiang felt that the possibility that the problem lay with the latter was almost 100%.

It was clearly written in her grandmother's medical records, and she could say with certainty that there was nothing wrong with the prescriptions her grandmother wrote, but to be on the safe side, she still called her mentor, Mr. Mei, to verify it.

"Wow, I haven't seen you for a few years and your skills have improved. The prescriptions you prescribe are so powerful now. I guess that patient should come and give you a banner after taking three prescriptions, haha."

After receiving the affirmation and joke from Teacher Mei, Shen Jiang did not feel the slightest bit of joy. He managed to keep his expression from breaking down, and only hung up the phone after sincerely thanking her.

After eliminating all possibilities, there is only one truth, no matter how incredible it is: the problem lies with the medicinal materials in the patient's own store.

Shen Jiang was gasping for breath, having never expected that the truth of the matter would be like this.

She didn't care about the depression in her chest, she just wanted to do one thing.

She must find a way to prove and clarify this matter to the public immediately!