Li Se knew that Tony was deliberately making things difficult for him, but what the other party said was not wrong. Many Chinese medicine hospitals in China now use Western medical equipment. It is undeniable that these instruments can accurately check the cause of illness, and Western medicine also has a set of standard treatment procedures.
This is the system of Western medicine, while traditional Chinese medicine relies on observation, listening, inquiry, and palpation. Without accumulating some experience, it is difficult to diagnose diseases.
Therefore, many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners also use Western medical equipment, which is not a secret.
Tony saying this now was clearly humiliating Li Se and demeaning the entire field of traditional Chinese medicine!
Now that the film was brought, Tony clearly believed that Li Se could not understand it. At such a young age, one couldn't possibly learn both Chinese and Western medicine, right? Kuai Shu Ge
Li Se really couldn't understand this, so he didn't take the film from Tony's hand, but continued to feel the pulse.
"Can't you understand it?" Tony asked with a half-smile.
"If you can't even understand a film, are you still a doctor?"
"So young, I think he's just a fraud."
"Isn't that right..."
A group of doctors from the medical association began to sneer.
Among these doctors were also Chinese doctors, and even they did not support traditional Chinese medicine.
Li Se was not angry. Instead, he looked at Tony and asked, "Do you know about observation, listening, inquiry, and palpation?"
"Why would I know about that?" Tony snorted coldly.
"As a doctor, how can you not even know about observation, listening, inquiry, and palpation?" Li Se retorted.
Tony said angrily, "As a Western doctor, why should I understand traditional Chinese medicine? Besides, Western medicine has better alternatives. Diagnosis with medical equipment is more accurate. For example, this pulse-taking, you're just looking at the heart rate, right? We have a stethoscope, and it's more precise!"
"Pulse-taking is not that simple," Li Se shook his head. "Since you've said that you are a Western doctor and it's normal not to understand traditional Chinese medicine, then as a Chinese medicine practitioner, is it strange that I don't know how to read films?"
Tony was somewhat speechless by Li Se's words, but after a while, he retorted again, "But many of you Chinese medicine practitioners use Western medical equipment. This shows that what you call observation, listening, inquiry, and palpation is useless. If something can be solved with a stethoscope, why make it so complicated?"
"You are too ignorant," Li Se still shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Tony was a little annoyed. He was a member of the medical association and Kevin's attending physician. Being Kevin's attending physician was enough to show that he was an authority in this field, yet he was being called ignorant. He was naturally furious and angry; this was an insult to him!
Li Se slowly said, "Pulse-taking, also known as pulse diagnosis, is a diagnostic method in which a Chinese medicine practitioner places their hand on the patient's artery and understands the internal changes of the disease based on the pulse. The formation of the pulse is directly related to the fluctuations of the heart, the strength of the vital energy, the patency of the pulse channels, and the fullness of qi and blood. Therefore, the heart and pulse are the main organs that form the pulse."
Having said this, Li Se paused slightly, glanced at Tony, and continued, "Thus, it can reflect the comprehensive information of the entire body's internal organs, qi, blood, yin, and yang. When the internal organs or qi and blood are diseased, they will inevitably manifest through the pulse, presenting pathological pulses, which become an important basis for diagnosing diseases."
Li Se spoke a great deal about the simple act of pulse-taking.
Tony's face turned red. Li Se was clearly saying all this deliberately to humiliate him!
"Understand now?" Li Se's voice rang out again.
"What's the use of saying so much? You should be able to cure Mr. Kevin!" Tony snorted coldly.
Hu Hao nodded, "It's just a charade. Mr. Kevin, I think we should be cautious. This kind of disease cannot be cured by Western medicine, so how can traditional Chinese medicine have a solution?"
"Since Western medicine cannot cure it, why not let traditional Chinese medicine try?" Li Se retorted.
Hu Hao was immediately rendered speechless. It seemed to make sense, but he found Li Se very displeasing. He said, "Perhaps traditional Chinese medicine can treat it, but with your age, can you treat it? I think it's better to forget it. You should quickly get out of here..."
"Be quiet!" Kevin shouted, "I want to let traditional Chinese medicine try."
"Mr. Kevin..." Hu Hao wanted to say something more.
Kevin waved his hand, his face showing displeasure, which finally made Hu Hao dare not say anything more.
"May I ask your name?" Kevin asked, looking at Li Se.
"Li Se."
"My dear Li, I believe in you," Kevin said with a smile.
Li Se was stunned. To be honest, he really didn't expect to hear such words from a foreigner. At least, in all his years of treating people, no one had ever said they believed in him before he was cured. Kevin was the first.
The most ironic thing was that some Chinese people didn't believe, but foreigners did.
"Dr. Li, how do you plan to treat it?" Dean Tang asked curiously. How would traditional Chinese medicine treat a disease that Western medicine couldn't cure?
Li Se smiled and said, "Parkinson's disease falls under the category of tremor in traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture can be used to nourish the liver and kidneys, strengthen yin, and calm wind for liver and kidney yin deficiency. For patients with qi and blood deficiency, it can tonify qi and nourish blood, supplemented with wind-calming and collateral-unblocking treatments."
Dean Tang pondered thoughtfully.
"Acupuncture?" Tony frowned. "This is simply nonsense. If acupuncture can cure diseases, that would be a huge joke!"
"Okay, acupuncture!" Kevin agreed readily.
"Mr. Kevin..." Tony became a little anxious.
"If you can't cure it, I'll let traditional Chinese medicine treat it. If you can cure it, then I can give up on traditional Chinese medicine treatment," Kevin said calmly.
Tony dared not speak anymore.
Li Se took out silver needles. What he took out were not the Thirteen Needles of Ghost Gate, but ordinary silver needles. Just as he was about to insert the needles, Hu Hao beside him shouted, "Wait!"
"Is there a problem?" Li Se asked impatiently.
"You're not sterilizing the needles before acupuncture? And not washing your hands?" Hu Hao questioned.
"I have my own method of sterilization," Li Se said with some displeasure.
Hu Hao disagreed, "Sterilization is necessary, otherwise, I won't let you do acupuncture. Who knows how many people you've used these silver needles on? What if there's an infection, what if there's a bloodborne transmission, and something happens to Mr. Kevin? Can you bear the responsibility?"
Li Se suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at Kevin, asking, "Mr. Kevin, do you also think sterilization is necessary?"
Kevin hesitated.
"Mr. Kevin, this must be sterilized, mainly..." Tony explained from the side. He was talking about a whole set of procedures, and in fact, what he said was not wrong. Western medicine requires sterilization for every surgery to prevent cross-infection.
"No need!"
However, after a moment of hesitation, Kevin looked at Li Se and said, "I believe in traditional Chinese medicine, and I believe in Li!"