After Wu Xiaoliu left, Li Chu went to the inpatient department's payment counter, settled the outstanding fees, and then returned to the internal medicine ward.
He checked on all the patients under his care, and then he was fine.
Just as I was about to go back to the clinic, I saw Nurse Su from Director Liang's office running over, panting.
"Dr. Li, huff... huff... there's a phone call for you. He says his name is Lin Sanshou and he wants you to... to call him back."
"Uncle Lin? There must be something wrong with him calling over," Li Chu thought to himself.
"Okay, I understand, thank you Nurse Su. I'll go ahead now, you can take your time." After saying that, Li Chu said goodbye to the doctor in the internal medicine department and left.
Seeing that Li Chu left without waiting for her, Nurse Su stomped her foot angrily and slowly walked back.
It's not that Nurse Su still has any ulterior motives towards Li Chu; she's already engaged to someone from the Materials Bureau.
Moreover, Li Chu already has a child, and their relationship is clearly very good.
She just felt a little regretful, after all, such a good man was right in front of her, but she failed to seize the opportunity.
Li Chu arrived at Director Liang's office, but Director Liang was not there; he must have gone to teach at the medical school.
He picked up the phone and dialed.
The call was very short, lasting only a few seconds before it ended. Uncle Lin simply told him to come over now, without specifying what it was about.
Li Chu didn't waste any time. Under normal circumstances, Uncle Lin wouldn't call him over on his own initiative, and it certainly wasn't about the health care team. If it were something from the health care team, it should be Deputy Team Leader Yang who contacted him.
I first went to the pharmacy to tell my wife that I might not be able to come back by noon today, and then I went out and took the bus to the main hospital.
Sitting on the bus, Li Chu wondered when he could get a car. It would be so much more convenient to go anywhere with a car.
Then he chuckled self-deprecatingly, thinking he was overthinking things; what kind of people could possibly be matched with a car right now?
Even their dean doesn't have a car, and neither does Uncle Lin.
He arrived at the main hospital quickly and went straight to Uncle Lin's office.
"Xiao Chu, pour your own water."
Li Chu didn't pour water, but sat down in the chair and asked, "Uncle-Master, what did you call me here for?"
Seeing that Li Chu was in such a hurry, Uncle Lin stopped keeping him in suspense: "It's like this, the Ministry's review committee has a senior TCM doctor who has retired due to age, and they need to add another TCM doctor. The Ministry's leaders want to find a younger person for this position. Director Cheng and I have both recommended you. Come with me to the Ministry this afternoon to conduct an assessment of you candidates."
After hearing what Uncle Lin said, Li Chu's heart pounded wildly.
Good heavens, this is a meteoric rise!
If he can get into the ministry's review committee, then in the future, all doctors across the country who want to be promoted to senior technical level will need his approval.
Of course, you can't deliberately make things difficult; there's also the principle of majority rule.
"Uncle-Master, I'm certainly happy to be on the department's review committee, but I'm not even a reviewer for our hospital yet."
Uncle Lin leaned back in his chair and waved his hand: "That's not related. There's no necessary connection between them, and I'm not a reviewer from the main institute."
"Just do your best on the exam this afternoon. You're the youngest of the candidates, but I think you're the best."
"Don't worry, Uncle-Master. I can't speak for other things, but I'm confident that my medical skills are second to none," Li Chu said with confidence and pride.
In that instant, Lin Sanshou felt as confident as when he first met Elder Yang.
Lin Sanshou nodded with a smile: "Good, that's how young people should be. Joining the review committee will be very beneficial for your future."
"I know your level of expertise in traditional Chinese medicine. I've noticed that you've started to study Western medicine on your own. What's going on? Are you planning to leave your master's school?" Uncle Lin said jokingly.
"Uncle-Master, I dare not bear the crime of betraying my master and ancestors," Li Chu said with a smile.
“You must know the current situation of traditional Chinese medicine. You must have also seen the report I submitted before. I have always felt that traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine cannot be separated in isolation. Take kidney failure, which I studied this time, for example. Traditional Chinese medicine does not have this disease. Now that it has appeared, what should we do? Should we not treat it?”
After listening to Li Chu's words, Lin Sanshou pondered for a while before speaking: "What you said makes sense, I can understand it. The problem is that many old Chinese medicine doctors think you have forgotten your roots and want to expel you from your school."
Li Chu scoffed, "Uncle-Master, as far as I know, my master's medical skills are passed down from generation to generation. Because my master never married, he had no descendants. How come I've never heard of my master having a sect?"
"By the way, if I remember correctly, my master's family has been a single-son lineage for several generations."
Lin Sanshou laughed heartily upon hearing Li Chu's words: "You lad, just like Old Yang, so arrogant."
"Don't worry about so much. Just do what you need to do. As long as your intentions are good, people will support you."
"Thank you, Uncle-Master." Li Chu then remembered the books he had copied: "Uncle-Master, do you recognize the seal script from the late Qin and early Han dynasties?"
"Seal script? What do you mean by that?"
Li Chu thought for a moment before saying, "I accidentally obtained a medical book before. It must have been from that period and was badly damaged. I copied it down, but the contents were written in seal script, and I don't recognize a lot of it."
"Did you bring it? Let me see."
"Uh, Uncle-Master, I didn't bring it today. I'll bring it to you another day." He didn't bring his bag today, so it's better not to just pull it out out of nowhere.
“Okay, bring it over later so I can take a look. I don’t know many seal script characters either, but I know someone who studies them.”
"That's great. Sometimes it's so frustrating to look at what I've copied but can't understand it." Finding someone who studies this made Li Chu feel much better.
"What's the content of that book? You can't possibly not recognize a single word, can you?" Lin Sanshou asked casually.
"Uncle-Master, if I'm not mistaken, it should be the Acupuncture Classic."
"The Acupuncture Classic? What kind of book is that?" Lin Sanshou was a little puzzled; he had never heard of this medical book before.
Li Chu replied with a smile, "My master will definitely know its other name."
Lin Sanshou looked at him curiously, but didn't say anything.
“Ling Shu, and it should be the Ling Shu from the early Western Han Dynasty, otherwise it wouldn’t be written in seal script.”
With a thud, Lin Sanshou knocked over his chair because of the sudden movement of standing up.
"What did you say? You're not kidding, are you, Xiao Chu?"
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