Chapter 3079 Free Labor
After finishing examining the patient, Zhou Man was not in a hurry. She took out the prescriptions written by the three people and looked at them. Only then did she realize that the pulse examinations of the three people were different. Among them, Doctor Wei did not take a pulse at all. He directly wrote the prescription and asked people to get the medicine.
It seems that before teaching them medical skills, she has to teach them how to take pulses in a standardized way first.
Seeing Zhou Man's written pulse record, the three doctors were stunned. Doctor Wei couldn't help but ask, "Why do you have to remember it so clearly?"
Doctors Tian and Shao, both doctors working in large pharmacies, understood why it was necessary to write it down, but they said, "This is such a waste of paper. There's no need to record common symptoms like these."
“Paper is expensive.”
Therefore, paper is very important. Thinking of the paper mill that has been built, but unfortunately there is still no news, she sighed and insisted: "I don't care about other places, but in the medical department, the pulse records must be written in a standardized manner, and these pulse records must be archived."
She turned to look at Doctor Wei and said, "Pulse records are very important. Not only can prescribing doctors look back on their past prescriptions, review their past experiences, learn new things, understand their shortcomings, and find more appropriate prescriptions for the condition, but they can also leave reference materials for future generations."
"Of course, this is from a distance. Preserving pulse records has another most important function, which is to protect doctors and patients."
Doctor Wei was surprised. Doctor Tian beside him nodded and said, "That's right. In folk medicine, mediocre doctors often make patients worse, or even mediocre people themselves harm their health. They will blame the doctor who is treating them. In this case, pulse diagnosis and prescriptions are very important."
"The government can retrieve pulse records and prescriptions during the investigation. As long as there are no errors in these two and the medicine he prescribed is appropriate, it will be difficult to slander the doctor."
Doctor Wei asked, "What if the pulse diagnosis was deliberately fabricated from the beginning?"
Doctor Tian and Doctor Shao: ...
They both turned their heads to look at Zhou Man.
Zhou Man said seriously, "At this time, the county government needs a county magistrate or county lieutenant like Lord Tang. Whatever a person does will leave traces, and they will always be investigated. However, this is the business of the county government, the Ministry of Justice, and the Supreme Court, and has little to do with our medical department. What we can do is teach medical ethics to everyone who wants to become a doctor."
But it depends on the individual to what extent. If the individual does not comply, the state law will punish him.
The three of them didn't expect Zhou Man to explain it so clearly. They were stunned for a while before they reacted, "Then this pulse case..."
"That's enough for today. Starting tomorrow you'll have to follow the standard. Don't worry, there's plenty of paper."
As long as he said it was enough, Zhou Man asked Xibing to buy them more paper, and then took them to do other things.
As apprentices, it should be said that there are a lot of things to do in the medical department. As capable apprentices, they certainly have to do more than just see patients.
Qian Xiaoyang and Hu Dalang brought out a lot of herbs from the pharmacy and placed them in the yard. Zhou Man held his waist and introduced them to the three of them, "These are the herbs for making wound medicine. This is what we are going to make in the next few days."
The three doctors said: "...So many? Are there many trauma patients coming to the hospital for treatment?"
Zhou Man said: "These medicines are not only used by patients who come to the medical department, but are occasionally sold to outsiders, as well as the military. The medical department is poor, so we have to find ways to make some money occasionally."
Doctor Wei was fine. It was difficult for his small pharmacy to grab such a big business. Although his pharmacy was quite famous in Qingzhou, it was still a little inferior to big pharmacies like Baicaotang and Renhetang.
Doctor Tian and Doctor Shao looked at Zhou Man with complicated expressions.
Zhou Man looked back at them calmly, "What are you looking at me for? Before this, you sold raw medicinal herbs to the military. Now you've just changed your trading partner. I also bought most of these herbs from your pharmacists."
Doctor Tian thought about it and found it to be true. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why don't the soldiers make their own wound medicine?"
"Because their current prescriptions are not as good as those in our medical department," Zhou Man said, "and they have limited manpower, so the wound medicine they originally made was not enough."
Zhou Man had been with the army twice and could tell that there was a serious shortage of medicinal materials in the army, and doctors were even more scarce, with almost no ready-made medicines.
When soldiers fall ill, those of higher rank are fine, as they can see a military doctor or go out to see a doctor. Ordinary soldiers have to endure it, and only when they can't endure it anymore can they go to get medicine, and after getting the medicine they still have to rely on their fate.
This is the case when you are sick in normal times, let alone in wartime.
The military doctors did their best to treat the wounded, but there were too few of them, too many wounded, and insufficient medicine, which resulted in the deaths of a large number of wounded soldiers.
Casualty rates and re-engagement rates on the battlefield have always been important factors affecting the outcome of a war. So after Zhou Man and the newly appointed Imperial Physician had exchanged letters a few times, she wrote to the generals she knew, tempting them with the following: "The Imperial Physician can make a variety of ready-made medicines to ensure the supply of medicinal materials during wartime. Do you need them?"
The generals who had been to the battlefield with Zhou Man and had seen the casualty rate in battles involving doctors from the Imperial Medical Bureau placed orders with the Imperial Medical Bureau and local medical bureaus without much hesitation.
Among them, Zhou Man received the most orders because he was in Qingzhou, not far from Liaodong and Liaobei, and he was a living signboard.
In the end, she realized that she couldn't do so much, so she firmly rejected many people and recommended them to place orders with medical offices in Luozhou, Luzhou, and the capital.
Zhou Man said: "These medicines are to be sent to the battlefield, so the quality must be guaranteed. Everyone, let's get started."
Doctor Wei thought of something, and after a moment of hesitation, he couldn't help but ask, "Sir, are you going to give us this prescription?"
"Don't worry, I won't give it to you," Zhou Man said with a grin, "You just need to process the herbs, and Wen Tiandong and I will be responsible for the final preparation."
Three people: ...
Although they were speechless for a moment, the three of them still breathed a sigh of relief.
The medicinal materials used in wound medicine are similar. The reason why the prescriptions are different is that, first, the combination and dosage of the medicines, and second, the preparation methods of some medicinal materials are different.
Zhou Man said that he was preventing them from stealing the prescription, but he didn't seem to be very wary of them. He simply laid out the required herbs and listed a few herbs that needed to be processed separately. He wrote the processing methods on the prescription and asked them to prepare them according to the instructions.
They felt that even if they couldn't figure out the recipe for the golden wound medicine right away, they would be able to figure it out after practicing for a long time.
Alas, I wonder if Lord Zhou is too naive. Should they remind each other?
Zhou Man didn't care what they thought. She was taking notes in her little notebook. In addition to the golden wound medicine, there were also some ready-made medicines that needed to be made. Oh, fortunately there were three more doctors, otherwise it would take an unknown amount of time to complete these orders.
Zhou Man looked at the three people who were nimble and skillful, selecting and processing the herbs as if flowing water, and nodded with satisfaction. He simply called Wei Shizhong and Hu Xiaomei and said, "You learn a little and stay here and listen to my instructions."
Seeing that Hu Dalang, Qian Xiaoyang, and Sun Danniang were just standing there handling medicinal herbs, she thought for a moment and decided to keep them as well. "You should learn more too."
If they could learn a little bit of skills, she would be able to relax a lot more when the three doctors leave in the future.
See you at 7pm
(End of this chapter)
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