Chapter 3083 Comparison
Although Dr. Wei was very skeptical about the shopkeeper's words, his son just liked it, so Dr. Wei finally paid for it for him.
Doctor Tian and Doctor Shao also picked out their favorite cloth bags, checked out and left together.
After leaving the bookstore, the three doctors glanced at each other and exchanged insincere greetings: "It's getting late."
"Yeah, it seems like it's time for dinner."
"Haha, yes, my wife must have prepared dinner. How about you two doctors come home with me for dinner?"
Doctor Wei was the first to refuse. "The hospital has already prepared food for us father and son. We shouldn't waste it. I appreciate Doctor Tian's kindness."
Doctor Shao said that his wife was waiting for him to come home for dinner, so he also refused.
Everyone dispersed in front of the bookstore and went back to their respective places.
The shopkeeper watched them leave with his hands in his pockets and shook his head.
Wei Shizhong couldn't help but look at his father along the way.
Doctor Wei: "What are you looking at?"
"Father, you and Doctors Tian and Shao are both apprentices in the medical department, so you should be considered brothers, right? Why do you..." He paused and continued, "Why do you look so hypocritical?"
Doctor Wei: "...What do kids know? We're both of our age now, and we have completely different masters. Although we're both apprentices in the same medical department, after a year, I'll be returning to my own pharmacy, and they'll be returning to their respective masters, too. We'll go our separate ways."
"If we don't share the same ideals, why should we be so close?"
Wei Shizhong asked with a troubled look on his face, "Then should Hu Xiaomei and I also distance ourselves from each other?"
Doctor Wei patted his head and said, "Fool, can you be the same as us? How old are we? How old are you?"
He said, "You and Hu Xiaomei are both young. Even if your father returns home after a year, you will have to stay and be an apprentice. You are apprentices who have been learning from the very beginning, so your friendship is naturally not as strong as that between me and Doctor Tian and the others, so you should get along well with others."
He added, "If you can learn even a little bit of Lord Zhou's medical skills, even if you can't make a difference in the medical department, it will be enough for you to go home and inherit your own clinic."
Since Doctor Wei brought his son into the medical department, he naturally had some ambitions.
He thought that if his son studied under Zhou Man and achieved success in a few years, he would be able to follow Zhou Man's path or pass the examination to study at the Imperial Medical Bureau.
That way he would be an official. Even if they were doctors, they wanted to be officials to bring honor to their family.
If he is really not good enough and cannot enter the Imperial Medical Bureau, but as long as he learns some medical skills from Zhou Man and needs them, he can stay in the medical bureau and slowly climb up the ladder;
In Doctor Wei's opinion, as long as his son can become an official of the lower rank, even if it is the ninth rank, it will be enough.
As for the third option, it is to go back and inherit the family business when the first two options fail.
Doctor Wei patted his son's shoulder and said, "Your talent is already the best among your brothers. If you can't learn it, it will be even harder for your brothers to succeed."
"So you must learn from Master Zhou. Don't be fooled by the fact that our pharmacy welcomes and sends off so many patients every day. In fact, our situation is not good. If we don't have good medical skills and a good background to support us in the future, we will definitely decline."
Wei Shizhong quickly said, "Don't worry, Dad. I will study hard."
Doctor Wei sighed and nodded.
There are five apprentices in the medical department now. The two younger ones are okay because they have limited knowledge. Now every day they learn how to handle medicinal materials, memorize the names and properties of medicinal materials, and do some odd jobs. They get along well with each other and are friendly and helpful.
Zhou Man was quite satisfied with them, but not so satisfied with the three apprentices.
This afternoon, Zhou Man received a trauma patient. The patient had gone up the mountain to collect firewood when he slipped and fell down the hillside. He accidentally got scratched by a felled tree stump and then fell on a rock...
He was brought in promptly and a simple bandage slowed down the bleeding, so he was fine when he was brought in.
After examining him, Zhou Man said, "It's a fracture. It needs to be set and sutured. There are some wood chips and debris in the wound. It needs to be cleaned. Make him a bowl of Ma Fei San."
Zhou Man didn't prescribe a prescription because she thought the three doctors must have the recipe for Ma Fei San. But when she saw that none of them took any action, she frowned slightly and called Xi Bing to help. "Go get the medicine for Ma Fei San. Let Xiao Kou boil it. You come and help."
Xibing had followed Zhou Man to the battlefield and had memorized some recipes for decoctions commonly used on the battlefield. Ma Fei San was naturally one of them, so she turned around and went down to get the medicine.
Zhou Man turned to the three of them and said, "Doctor Tian, cut off his pants. Doctor Shao, go prepare some hemostatic medicine. Use two grams of raw Arisaema and three grams of raw rhubarb..."
Zhou Man read the prescription directly, and after Doctor Shao wrote it down, he said to Doctor Wei, "Go prepare the things for the surgery."
The three of them responded and took action.
Zhou Man just stood there and watched.
Xibing came back quickly and said to Zhou Man, "The medicine is ready."
Zhou Man nodded slightly and asked her to prepare hot water and clean towels.
Doctor Tian and Xibing had cut his clothes to expose the wound. Seeing that it was still bleeding, Zhou Man gave him an injection to stop the bleeding.
After everything was ready and the patient had drunk the Ma Fei San, Zhou Man casually took a thick needle and used it to prick an acupuncture point. Seeing that the patient did not react much, he knew that the Ma Fei San was working.
She cleaned her hands and prepared herself, then said to the three people standing beside her, "Today you can watch how I suture bones. I'll use hemostatics, painkillers, and the appropriate acupuncture techniques..."
Zhou Man explained while doing it, Xibing assisted him, and the three of them took small notebooks and wrote furiously.
But Zhou Man occasionally spoke, and occasionally focused on the injuries of her subordinates. Needless to say, her technique was better than theirs. The amount of bleeding when reconnecting broken bones was very small, and she was quick and light when cleaning debris from the wound. Several times, they didn't even see clearly, and she just picked up, flipped, or clamped things out, causing very little damage to the skin.
Doctor Tian and the others stared at it in amazement. It must have taken countless surgeries to learn this technique.
Zhou Man cleaned the wound and said, "Now it's time to sew it up. There are many types of sew-ups... Xibing, bring me some thread."
Xibing threaded the needle for her and handed it to her with a clip. Zhou Man took it and sewed it up skillfully without a trace of hesitation.
Doctor Tian and the others opened their mouths wide. Among the three, only Doctor Shao had sutured wounds. Doctor Tian and Doctor Wei had only heard of it but had never seen it happen.
Now watching Zhou Man suture the wound, both of them were stunned. They saw that the originally large wound was slowly being sutured. Not only did the amount of bleeding decrease significantly, but the whole leg did not look so miserable anymore.
Zhou Man finished stitching it up, then stood aside and said to Xi Bing, "Apply the medicine to him and bandage him up. His leg must not move around. It still needs to be fixed after applying the medicine."
Xibing agreed.
Doctor Tian wanted to do it himself, so he volunteered, "Sir, let me do it."
"No need," Zhou Man said as he washed his hands, "Come out, I'll take a look at your notes."
The three of them looked down at the scribbles they had written in their haste, the cryptic symbols that only they could understand: ...
See you at 7pm
(End of this chapter)
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