novel for you Chapter 722: Embarrassed Mo Taihong
Chapter 722: Embarrassed Mo Taihong
The most embarrassing thing for a doctor is to have his or her mistakes discussed face to face by colleagues.
For Mo Taihong, he wished he could find a hole to crawl into at this moment, as Chen Yang and Xun Jiahong were commenting on him right in front of him.
But Mo Taihong couldn't say anything.
First of all, Mo Taihong knew that he was wrong. After Xun Jiahong's analysis, Mo Taihong realized that he had made a mistake of preconceived ideas. Based on the patient's strong pulse and slightly red tongue, he ignored the symptoms and started from the tongue and pulse, one-sidedly thinking that the patient's headache was caused by hyperactivity of liver yang, which led to misdiagnosis and mistreatment.
For doctors, making mistakes in clinical practice is not uncommon. As the saying goes, newcomers make old mistakes and old people make new mistakes. As long as you are doing things, there is no possibility that you will not make mistakes.
No matter how good a doctor is, there will be times when he or she makes misdiagnoses or incorrect treatments, unless you are dying.
Logically speaking, with Mo Taihong's level, he should not be unable to identify the patient's condition. The reason why Mo Taihong made a mistake was mainly due to two factors. The first factor was what Xun Jiahong said, that the breadth was not enough.
For Chinese medicine doctors, breadth is actually very important, because Chinese medicine belongs to holistic medicine. The symptoms of any part of the body must be judged in combination with the whole. Taking them out separately is actually not in line with Chinese medicine dialectics.
The division of departments in new-style Chinese medicine is actually borrowing the treatment model of modern medicine, and then adding the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine on some diseases and in-depth research. To put it bluntly, it is actually the department of combining Chinese and Western medicine.
With big data and the process of modernization, in the era of data statistics, the therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine on some diseases are indeed easy to count and classify.
For example, a certain prescription has a high probability of treating a certain disease, it does have a significant therapeutic effect on a certain disease, a certain Chinese herbal medicine does have a relatively good blood pressure lowering effect, and so on.
After all, modern medicine emerged relatively late. Before the rise of modern medicine, Chinese medicine did not know about blood pressure and blood sugar, and no one did the statistics.
Secondly, transportation was inconvenient in the past, information transmission was slow, statistics were difficult, and summarizing and classification were difficult.
Therefore, with the acceleration of the modernization process, various data statistics of traditional Chinese medicine have indeed facilitated some clinical applications of traditional Chinese medicine.
But to be frank, it is still Chinese medicine used in Western medicine.
For example, a certain Chinese herbal medicine has a certain blood pressure lowering effect, and another Chinese herbal medicine has a certain blood coagulation function. These are manifestations of the Western use of Chinese medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine uses traditional Chinese medicine, and it uses the bias of traditional Chinese medicine. The two are different.
The second mistake Mo Taihong made was to underestimate the enemy.
As the chief physician of Lingnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, when he returned to a small place like Jiping Town, he subconsciously thought that the condition of the villagers in Murakami should be a minor problem. He did not think deeply about it and simply judged based on the pulse and tongue coating that the patient had hyperactivity of liver yang and hastily prescribed medicine.
But now it was pointed out by Xun Jiahong and Chen Yang in person, which made Mo Taihong feel a little embarrassed.
The most important thing is that Chen Yang and Xun Jiahong don’t know he is in front of them.
"what's the situation?"
After Li Haofei finished taking care of the patient in front of him, he hurried over. When Li Haofei came over, the patient had already taken the prescription to get the medicine.
Xun Jiahong explained the situation to Li Haofei: "That is the prescription given by the previous doctor. Let's ask Doctor Chen to take a look."
In fact, Xun Jiahong was sure of it just now, and he went to Chen Yang just to confirm it again.
"Well, we did ignore the patient's symptoms. The headache worsened when encountering cold, which is a characteristic." Li Haofei nodded.
“So, Chinese medicine practitioners must be broad-minded. In clinical practice, only a broader knowledge base can help us make fewer mistakes when treating patients.”
Chen Yang said: "Many misdiagnoses in clinical practice are caused by negligence on the one hand, and lack of contact and consideration on the other hand."
"Traditional Chinese medicine is like a dialectical problem. Only by mastering more knowledge and more theorems can we get every point right when treating patients, thus reducing mistakes."
Li Haofei happened to come, so Chen Yang said a few more words.
"Yeah." Li Haofei nodded repeatedly.
Xun Jiahong also nodded and said, "Doctor Chen is right."
Mo Taihong: "......"
Although Chen Yang was teaching his apprentice, Mo Taihong and Mo Xinzhi did not know that Li Haofei was Chen Yang's apprentice. But after hearing Chen Yang say this to his face, Mo Taihong always felt that Chen Yang was teaching him.
He was the chief physician of Lingnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, but he was lectured to his face by a young man. It would be extremely embarrassing if the news got out.
Mo Xinzhi glanced at his son, walked to the side, and Mo Taihong hurriedly followed.
"I didn't expect you to make such a mistake."
Mo Xinzhi said slowly.
When Mo Taihong was treating the woman, Mo Xinzhi did not pay any attention. In Mo Xinzhi's opinion, his son should be able to easily cure such a minor illness, but he did not expect that he made such a mistake.
"Yes."
Mo Taihong lowered his head: "I was careless."
In the face of mistakes, Mo Taihong dared not say anything, as facts speak louder than words.
"What do you think about what they said just now?" Mo Xinzhi asked.
Mo Taihong pondered for a moment and said, "I think it makes some sense."
"At present, many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are conducting research in one direction. Overall, the number of doctors has expanded a lot compared to the past, and they have also achieved many results."
Mo Xin knew: "However, in some areas, it is always a little insufficient. I was a little confused before, but after listening to what they said just now, I started to think about it."
"Father, everyone has his strengths and weaknesses. Nothing in this world is perfect."
Mo Taihong said: "Over the years, the medical team has indeed achieved a lot of results, and many of the students you taught have become experts in the industry."
"What about you?"
Mo Xinzhi looked at his son: "You are the chief physician of Lingnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. You are already 47 years old this year. None of the doctors here is older than you, but..."
Mo Taihong: "......"
Mo Taihong had made mistakes before, but this time it was a mistake that really made him feel ashamed.
Whether it was due to carelessness or some other reason, Mo Taihong was speechless when his mistakes were discovered by a group of juniors who were much younger than him and he was lectured by them.
Now that his father brought it up again, what else could Mo Taihong say except to bow his head.
"There are some things worth thinking about here." Mo Taihong said.
"Father, I was indeed careless." Mo Taihong said.
"That's not what I'm talking about."
Mo Xin knew: "There are so many outstanding young talents in one place. This is something worth thinking about."
The appearance of one might be a coincidence, and the appearance of two could be said to be luck, but now there are more than one or two. Not to mention Xun Jiahong's level, they haven't figured out Chen Yang's level yet.