Chapter 87: Paying Attention to Traditional Culture
As a large tertiary hospital, the Sixth Hospital has at least hundreds of papers published in the paper publication section every quarter, but they are evenly distributed among dozens of departments. Not only doctors, but also nurses, examiners, anesthesiologists, etc. who want to be promoted also need the support of papers.
Therefore, on average, each department would only have about two or three articles per quarter.
But some departments are small and have few staff.
Often, there may not be even one article published in a quarter.
The traditional Chinese medicine industry usually has an awkward position in comprehensive tertiary hospitals.
They are not as popular as professional Chinese medicine hospitals among the vast number of Chinese medicine enthusiasts. Also, because they are comprehensive hospitals, hospitals will mostly give priority to supporting those Western medicine departments that have good performance and an outstanding reputation both inside and outside the hospital, and they do not receive key support.
Therefore, in comprehensive tertiary hospitals, the number of staff in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine is generally not large, and the number of patients is not as large as that of other departments.
In addition, its professionalism is not as good as that of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals or traditional Chinese medicine departments of hospitals combining Chinese and Western medicine, which makes its position even more embarrassing.
Given this awkward position and relatively few staff, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine only publishes one paper per quarter on average, or no more than two at most.
But this time, the four provincial core clinical papers were all about traditional Chinese medicine, and were published by the same person.
How could it be possible that this did not attract the attention of several famous doctors of traditional Chinese medicine?
There was even a controversy over this.
Even their own doctors in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine have not been able to publish so many papers on Traditional Chinese Medicine at one time. How could Su Tang, a general internist, do it?
"What are you laughing at? Are we wrong?"
"It says here that it's general internal medicine... We can understand if an internal medicine doctor occasionally publishes a paper related to traditional Chinese medicine... After all, students studying Western medicine also have to learn traditional Chinese medicine, such as acupuncture and moxibustion, which are included in university courses. But this person has 4 provincial core papers, all related to traditional Chinese medicine, making him seem more professional than us traditional Chinese medicine doctors. Who is he trying to fool?" The tall and thin attending physician of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, who wore glasses and a white coat, had a very unpleasant expression on his face, and his tone of voice couldn't help but become a little harsh when he spoke.
Nowadays, to put it bluntly, some people like to cheat and find someone to write for them if their paper is not up to standard.
There are even ghostwriting shops like this on certain online platforms. Although they have no evidence, you can get a clear idea by looking at the title of the paper!
How could Su Tang, a junior doctor whom they had never heard of, have such professional knowledge of Chinese medicine?
Several surgeons rolled their eyes and complained: "I laugh at the fact that someone can see the whole thing, but thinks he is right and is very proud of it."
"They can't do it themselves but they just accuse others of cheating. Don't some people know that Dr. Su also has a Chinese medicine license?"
The surgeons seemed to be performing a drama, talking to each other, smiling and joking.
"So what if he has a TCM license?" The TCM doctor's face turned red with anger. It was the first time he heard that this general physician had obtained a TCM license.
But like he said, what good is it if you have a license?
There are many doctors with licensed Chinese medicine practitioners. He and his colleagues all have licenses, but they were unable to publish four papers at once!
The more he thought about it, the more he realized that this was the case. The doctor in charge of the TCM department couldn't help but raise his voice a few notches higher: "Who in the TCM department doesn't have a TCM license? But I've been working for so many years and I've never heard of anyone being able to publish four provincial journals at once! This is not some other messy paper, this is a paper that has been published in the provincial core section!"
Su Tang was just dragged to the bulletin board by Ma Jun and Pan Yuhao to look at the list, but she didn't expect that as soon as she stepped into the bulletin board, she heard several doctors discussing her.
Su Tang blinked, a little confused: "…………"
This time she came to the bulletin board.
She originally wanted to read the core papers published by other big names. In fact, she originally wrote 5 papers this time, 4 of which were submitted to provincial core journals and 1 to a domestic core journal. However, the article in the domestic core journal was directly returned by the magazine publisher.
Before writing, Su Tang was full of confidence and even asked the guest manager for advice many times.
Therefore, after the paper was returned, Su Tang always felt a little discouraged. He wanted to take a look at the contents of the papers published in core domestic journals by the leaders of other departments, and if there was a chance, he would also like to ask for their advice.
Unlike the bulletin board information in hospitals, which details which department and ward the patient belongs to, journal information only indicates which hospital and which department the patient belongs to, but does not specify how many wards the patient belongs to.
For example, general surgery is a department, but it has four wards, which are called general surgery 1, general surgery 2, general surgery 3, and general surgery 4 in our hospital. Each ward occupies a floor. Due to layout issues, those medical magazines naturally cannot write in such detail.
As a hospital's science and education department, they will clearly mark the paper after reviewing it.
This time, Su Tang just wanted to take a closer look, and by the way, pay attention to the movements of these big guys when he goes to the operating room or other places in the future.
But Su Tang had never expected that as soon as she stepped into the bulletin board area, she would hear people discussing whether her thesis was in compliance with the regulations and whether she had really written it.
Su Tang frowned slightly and glanced at several doctors in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department. They said that she was young and had poor abilities.
After all, she had just graduated from school not long ago and was indeed a newcomer in this industry. It was extremely good for an ordinary doctor to be able to become an attending physician at around 30 years old, not to mention a rookie like her who had just graduated not long ago.
But being accused of academic fraud is a serious problem.
Su Tang took two steps forward, glanced at the work badge on the other person's chest, and interrupted: "Is this a great doctor? Why do you think that doctors in other departments can't write four provincial-level papers related to traditional Chinese medicine at the same time? These four articles are basically about neurology and neurosurgery diseases..."
"Chinese medicine has always focused on the holistic concept and has very good therapeutic effects on chronic diseases, elderly diseases, as well as the digestive system, respiratory system, coronary heart disease, and diabetes." Su Tang said sternly, "Chinese medicine is also excellent in the treatment of neurological diseases. Erectile dysfunction, facial paralysis, and sequelae of stroke are all within the scope of Chinese medicine treatment, and the effect is very good. During this period of time, I have cured at least hundreds of patients with impotence and sequelae of stroke."
Su Tang: "So I was able to write several papers. Isn't that normal?"
When Su Tang uttered the last sentence, she spoke it word by word with a heavy and deep voice.
Hearing Su Tang's voice, Dr. Niu turned his head and realized that the person who had just spoken was actually the author of the paper he had dissed.
Now there was no need to target the surgeons. Dr. Niu glanced at the resident doctor written on the name tag on Su Tang's chest, then looked at Su Tang's tender face with a little baby fat, and sneered, "Dr. Su, Chinese medicine is indeed amazing and can treat the diseases you mentioned, but the vast majority of Chinese medicine can only prevent and treat these diseases..."
"Do you know which patients we see most often in our Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine?"
"Facial paralysis, hair loss, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, breast hyperplasia..."①
"Simply put, except for a few diseases, the vast majority of diseases treated are related to endocrine, because Chinese medicine focuses on Qi and blood, meridians, internal organs, and everything that is closely related to the human body!"
Doctor Niu pushed up his glasses and said, "I have read your papers before. The cases in your papers are either sequelae of stroke or patients with post-traffic paralysis. These are not common diseases treated by traditional Chinese medicine at all..."
Doctor Niu: "There must be a Chinese medicine doctor who can cure these diseases in this big world, but he definitely won't be a rookie who just stepped into the hospital!"
When Doctor Niu said this, not only he himself, but also the other doctors of traditional Chinese medicine following him nodded involuntarily.
They have been working for so many years, and many of them have become attending physicians.
But even so, the patients they have been able to see in the outpatient clinic so far, and the patients they are really confident that they can cure, are the ones that Dr. Niu mentioned... patients with endocrine-induced diseases such as hair loss, irregular menstruation, and dysmenorrhea.
Even for diseases like facial paralysis, there are only a few deputy directors and chief doctors in their department who can treat it with acupuncture!
It’s not that they think that Chinese medicine cannot cure the sequelae of stroke, patients with hemiplegia due to stroke, and patients with high paralysis after car accidents.
Rather, they didn't believe that this young-looking, junior doctor who had just graduated from college could do it!
After saying so much, Dr. Niu looked at Su Tang, who hadn't said a word from beginning to end, and raised his lips slightly with pride. He cleared his throat and said, "As for the hundreds of people you mentioned, I don't believe it even more... The minimum requirement for outpatient treatment in a tertiary hospital is to be an attending physician. You are just a resident doctor, and it is impossible for you to sit in the outpatient clinic. How can you treat hundreds of patients with impotence and sequelae of stroke?"
Doctor Niu: "Dr. Su, we should be careful before we brag. We are all colleagues. Isn't it a bit bad to fool colleagues like this?"
Thinking they had the upper hand, Dr. Niu and several other Chinese medicine doctors looked even better than when they had just argued with those surgeons. The excitement and blush of victory even spread from their cheeks to behind their ears.
However, Su Tang, Ma Jun, Pan Yuhao and others suddenly fell silent.
Su Tang: “…………”
Ma Jun, Pan Yuhao: “…………”
Everything else is fine, but what this great doctor said does seem to make some sense.
But when they said the last sentence, the group of internal medicine doctors followed Su Tang and the other two into silence.
Even the internal medicine doctors who were watching the excitement and looked like they wanted to fight, all quieted down in an instant.
The eyes of several doctors in the surgical building looking at Dr. Niu and others seemed to be looking at fools who appeared out of nowhere.
Even if their hospital's traditional Chinese medicine department and internal medicine clinic are not in the same building, you cannot fail to know that the general internal medicine department of a hospital is a special existence. You say it is the general internal medicine department of a tertiary hospital, which is correct, but its essence is almost the same as that of a secondary hospital because there are too few doctors.
This is an opportunity that the old professor, Director Ke, specially secured for the Department of General Internal Medicine!
Anyone who has done regular training in general internal medicine knows this!
How come these Chinese medicine doctors don’t know this?
If you attack other people we can still watch the show, but if you attack the problem that only the attending physicians can see patients in the outpatient clinic... then it's meaningless.
The expressions of the group of people are indescribable.
Oh, they forgot...
The TCM doctors in their hospital basically only rotate in a few TCM specialty departments during their training, and will not be assigned to the Internal Medicine Building for rotation. No wonder they don’t even know this…
The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine is so difficult that people who have never been to the Internal Medicine Building don’t even know this.
It’s really too difficult…
We can only blame the fact that the Sixth Hospital is too big, which is why the other party doesn't know anything.
Doctor Niu: “…………”
Doctor Niu: “???”
Doctor Niu had talked a lot before, and his throat was already a little dry. Coupled with the expressions of the people looking at him, he suddenly became weird.
Dr. Niu, who had been extremely excited just now, felt as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on him. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
But the looks from the people around him were so strange that Dr. Niu couldn't get excited anymore.
Doctor Niu: _(:з」∠)_! !
However, in order to save face and to continue to stand on the moral high ground, Dr. Niu tried hard to suppress the discomfort in his heart, straightened his chest and raised his head and said firmly: "These papers are just a little less clinical data, a little weak, and the core strength is not that strong. Otherwise, based on the content and skills of these papers, they can be published in domestic core journals and international core journals... Apart from anything else, an ordinary junior doctor, no matter how talented he is, can't write four such papers at the same time!"
“This is why we felt something was wrong when we first saw these four papers!”
"Whether it's acupuncture treatment of stroke sequelae, traditional Chinese medicine treatment of hemiplegic patients, or acupuncture treatment of language disorders after stroke... these are basically the level that only deputy directors and directors can achieve! Such profound and excellent article content is simply not something that ordinary junior doctors can write!"
Doctor Niu gritted his teeth and used his final trick: "I read these articles three or four times last night. If junior doctors can use acupuncture to cure stroke patients, then we, the attending physicians, will have nothing to do! Why study Chinese medicine? I might as well go home and farm!"
But this time, I'm done...
The people around looked at Dr. Niu with even more strange eyes.
It would be fine if it was people from other departments, but the problem is that right now, surgeons and internal medicine doctors account for almost 60 to 70 percent of the people on the bulletin board.
In particular, among these people were not only surgeons who had seen Su Tang use acupuncture to stop bleeding in the operating room before, but also Dr. Lu Chao from the Department of Geriatrics and Dr. Liu from the Department of Gastroenterology. Not only had they witnessed the power of traditional Chinese medicine, they had even heard praises for Su Tang from their respective department directors.
If it was another doctor, they wouldn’t believe him because he didn’t have this ability!
But Dr. Su cured these people.
Su Tang: “…………”
When Su Tang heard what Doctor Niu said, she was so angry that she almost sent the man away on the spot. She was just preparing to let him see how powerful she was and let him know what she meant by being capable!
But she felt a little embarrassed when the other party praised the quality of her paper so sincerely.
"Oh..." Su Tang sighed and looked away angrily. She always felt that it would be a bit unfair for her to confront Dr. Niu. What if he really went back home to farm?
Forget it, forget it, forget it…
She also wanted Director Xiao of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department to help recommend Pan Yuhao and Ma Jun to take the next Traditional Chinese Medicine licensing examination. It was not appropriate to always criticize the doctors in the other department.
Especially since Director Ke seemed to have a good relationship with Director Xiao. Ma Jun had heard her mention several times before that Director Ke would go to the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine from time to time to look for Director Xiao. If she really had a conflict with him, wouldn't that break the friendship between the director and Director Xiao?
Su Tang's emotions came and went quickly. Just as she was thinking about arguing with Dr. Niu about whether she had the ability to cure patients with stroke paralysis sequelae, she might as well wait and slap the results of her treatment in the other person's face.
Otherwise, even if she gained the upper hand with dialectics at this moment, she would not be able to convince the other party from the bottom of his heart.
After all…
Su Tangzi carefully looked at the great doctor in front of him.
The other person's face is rosy and shiny, and his eyes are bright and lively. He doesn't look like a person with any problems at all. He also seems to be well maintained and has developed a good habit of keeping fit at a young age.
Standing near him, Su Tang could even smell the faint scent of chrysanthemum and licorice on him.
Hmm! It seems that she is a health expert who likes to drink chrysanthemum, wolfberry and licorice tea on weekdays.
Pan Yuhao and Ma Jun also found it quite boring...
Initially, I felt a little angry when I heard people from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine say this about Su Tang.
After all, even though Su Tang competed with them for patients every day, every time patients came to the clinic and saw Su Tang treating other patients, they would involuntarily start climbing the wall, which made them very depressed.
But it cannot be denied that Su Tang's medical skills were indeed superb.
Otherwise, neither the father of the chairman of Huaning Entertainment Company nor Wei Yan, the richest man, would spend a lot of money to come to the General Internal Medicine Department and ask Su Tang to treat them.
After all, people's money doesn't come from the wind, and they only have one life.
You still have to see the hope of recovery before you choose to trust Su Tang, a rookie doctor who just graduated from school.
Therefore, Pan Yuhao and Ma Jun have seen clearly whether Su Tang has the ability in the past two months!
It's really boring to argue about this matter.
It's even more boring when there are a bunch of people around, all on their side with their eyes and actions.
"Hey, brother, please make way... If you don't want to watch, just stand aside. We still want to see what's on the bulletin board."
Pan Yuhao took two or three steps forward, and with his absolute height advantage of 1.88 meters and sturdy physique, he directly pushed the tall and thin Doctor Niu to the side. He subconsciously patted Doctor Niu on the shoulder and said meaningfully: "Doctor Niu, what you just said is very right... Ordinary junior doctors really can't write such profound content... But Doctor Su in our department is different. If you are interested, you can ask Director Xiao..."
"Before, a rich man donated 20 million to our hospital just so that he could find Doctor Su for treatment. Director Xiao also knows this patient. If you are interested, you can go to ask Director Xiao..." Pan Yuhao's voice was not loud when he said the last sentence. He almost finished the whole sentence while talking to Doctor Niu.
As he spoke, Pan Yuhao smiled, raised his chin, and looked meaningful.
But when Dr. Niu heard it, he just heard a click...
I thought to myself, this is not good!
Director Xiao had been talking about this wealthy man who donated 20 million yuan to the hospital for a long time in the department, but failed to win him over from doctors in other departments.
He originally thought that the person who snatched the rich patient from Director Xiao must be the director of another department.
But according to what this person in front of me said, the person who snatched the patient away from their director was actually this doctor named Su Tang?
Suddenly, Dr. Niu seemed to understand why the people around him were looking at him in such strange ways. He moved his dry throat and wanted to say a few words to save his dignity...
Just at this moment, a series of footsteps accompanied by the sound of a sparse crowd dispersing, and a series of voices greeting the dean, came rapidly from far behind.
There were a group of more than a dozen people, led by a middle-aged woman with short hair wearing a gray and black professional suit. The dean and others followed behind her and whispered something to her. Facing a large group of doctors and nurses who greeted them, the dean and others just nodded and started talking to the middle-aged woman with short hair again.
The dean wiped the sweat from his forehead and cursed in his heart.
Regardless of any unit, any enterprise, or any office, what people hate most are those leaders who come to conduct surprise inspections without any prior notice, especially Director Jiang in front of them, who is the Deputy Director of the Health Bureau who was transferred to Shenzhen from the neighboring Health Bureau this year.
As the saying goes, a new official starts with three things!
The current Director Jiang likes to raid local medical and health institutions, schools, and public places whenever he wants, to observe health prevention and control issues in these places, and to inspect the service quality and technical standards of various medical institutions.
"Huh? Your hospital actually posts all the medical papers published by the medical staff on the bulletin board every quarter?" Director Jiang walked to a place not far from the bulletin board. He saw the big title in black and white on the bulletin board, as well as the simple but clear content of the bulletin board.
Director Jiang nodded, and then he glanced at several papers with words like Chinese medicine, acupuncture, etc., and said, "Recently, the higher-ups have issued a document requiring all localities to pay attention to the traditional culture and Chinese medicine left by our ancestors. Even every community is required to have a Chinese medicine project, otherwise the government will refuse this part of the financial allocation... It's good that you pay attention to it."
The director immediately nodded and said, "Yes, Director Jiang, you are right. Our ancestors' things have been abandoned for so many years. It is time to pick them up. When we recruit people through the unified examination next year, our hospital will definitely recruit more Chinese medicine practitioners and strive to be in line with the documents issued by the higher authorities."
Director Jiang: "But you can't leave other departments of your hospital behind. You have to do a good job. I still have high hopes for you..."
Director Jiang, the dean and others were standing by the bulletin board, chatting as if no one was around, but Su Tang subconsciously looked at Director Jiang's face and frowned slightly.
Hmm~ Why does she feel that Director Jiang's face looks a little strange? But he is wearing makeup, eyeliner, foundation, lipstick, etc... It always makes her feel a little unreal.