The person who came was his college classmate, a classmate from the same major, which is very rare.
After all, when he was in college, he barely attended any classes before his master took him on as a disciple.
After reporting to the medical school, he rarely went back to class; in fact, he almost never went back. His master gave him private lessons. Moreover, after his master accepted him as a disciple, he even stopped teaching at the school.
I wish I could teach him for 24 hours a day.
Looking back now, I realize that his master must have known that his days were numbered and he didn't want to take his medical skills to his grave.
After all, his master was already over eighty years old at that time. Although he looked healthy, he couldn't avoid many of the symptoms that elderly people have, no matter how skilled he was.
After completing his theoretical studies, he and his master began practicing medicine outside for many years, only returning home once a year for exams.
What a doctor needs most, whether it's traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, is experience.
Only by seeing enough patients and encountering enough special situations can you accumulate rich experience.
Li Chu's long hours practicing medicine away from home meant that he barely knew any of his dozen or so classmates.
The student who came today took him a long time to remember his name, and that was because this student was their class monitor back then.
"Song Tangyuan, if I remember correctly, class monitor, what brings you here today?" Li Chu stood up, shook hands with the classmate who had come with him, and then poured him a glass of water and asked him to sit down.
Song Tangyuan smiled and said, "It's kind of you to still remember my name. We haven't seen each other since graduation."
He paused for a moment and then shook his head: "To be precise, we didn't see each other many times when we were in school. We were even in the same dormitory, but I never saw you in the dormitory."
Li Chu also said with a smile, "I didn't expect that I would be chosen by my master right after the start of the semester, and the medical school even agreed to my master's request to teach me alone at that time."
"Yes, who would have thought that Professor Yang would take a liking to you? You weren't the best student in our class back then, and we were all so envious. After graduation, our class even organized a reunion, but we couldn't find you anywhere, and we didn't know where you were assigned."
Li Chu said with a smile, "I didn't use the assigned quota. I didn't start working after graduation. It wasn't until six months later that my master arranged for me to work in the hospital. I wasn't even in Beijing at that time, so where would you find me?"
"Squad leader, what unit are you working for now?"
"Most of the students in our class were assigned to the place where they lived. I was assigned to the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica at the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine to work on drug research and development."
Upon hearing Song Tangyuan mention his workplace, Li Chu was slightly surprised. Wow, his classmate works at the same company as that genius!
The two chatted for a while before Song Tangyuan revealed the purpose of his visit.
"Li Chu, in just a few years, your name has spread throughout the medical institutions of Beijing. If it weren't for that, I probably wouldn't have been able to find you. I've come here today to seek your advice."
"Class monitor, saying 'asking for advice' is too much. I'm just a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. You can ask me any questions you have."
Song Tangyuan nodded: "Okay, then I won't stand on ceremony. Our institute also saw the research report on kidney disease that you submitted some time ago. Our group just happened to have a research project that we want to see if we can turn traditional Chinese medicine into finished products like Western medicine, so that it will be more convenient for patients to take it."
Li Chu asked with some doubt, "Shouldn't you be approaching pharmaceutical companies, like Tongrentang, for your research? I'm just a doctor, so I probably can't offer much help."
Song Tangyuan explained, "The main issue is the number of cases. We don't have enough cases to cooperate with pharmaceutical companies; we still need to find hospitals. Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions are all individualized, and without a large number of cases to support them, we simply can't find the right place."
After hearing his words, Li Chu suddenly realized: "I understand what you mean. You want to find a balance among a large number of cases."
"Yes, so in this way, we can only choose some milder drugs, and we dare not experiment with drugs that are too irritating."
Li Chu nodded knowingly. Some medicines should not be given to people casually, especially some highly toxic or irritating ones. Those must be prescribed by one person for one person. Taking them casually can indeed cause unpredictable consequences.
"I came to see you this time because I wanted to start with kidney disease. After all, kidney medications are generally mild, combining tonification and purgation to balance yin and yang. This way, even if we conduct experiments, we don't have to worry about any serious consequences," Song Tangyuan explained to him.
"Squad leader, I understand what you mean, but I've already submitted this research. The follow-up research is now being conducted by the internal medicine department of our hospital, and I only go over occasionally to check on things and help them out."
Song Tangyuan looked at Li Chu in astonishment. He couldn't understand why Li Chu could so easily relinquish control of such a good research topic.
Could it be an order from the hospital leadership?
Li Chu looked at Song Tangyuan calmly. He could guess what Song Tangyuan was thinking. He smiled slightly and said, "Class monitor, it's not what you think. I handed it over voluntarily. The patient data needed for the subsequent research is too large to be collected by me alone."
"Moreover, this is, after all, a study dominated by Western medicine. I can do the preliminary work, but as the research progresses, the little Western medical knowledge I, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, have acquired through self-study is simply not enough to support the subsequent work."
"I never knew you had such a magnanimous personality, Li Chu."
"What do you mean by magnanimity, squad leader? You think too highly of me. I had no choice but to do this. There is so much to learn in Western medicine, and I am too slow at self-studying. If there were no other way, who would be willing to give up the initiative so easily?"
"Honestly, Li Chu, I truly admire you. Before, I just thought you were lucky to be taken in as Professor Yang's last disciple right after entering university, and to have such a large project after only a few years of working. Now I realize that your success is no accident. With your personality and your drive to learn, your success was inevitable," Song Tangyuan said with deep emotion.
"That's an exaggeration, class monitor. Let's not talk about that." Li Chu smiled and waved his hand. "Regarding what you're talking about, I can introduce you to Director Chen of the internal medicine department at our hospital. You two can work together on your research project. I believe he would be very welcoming to you."
Chapter 174 Classmates
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