Chapter 397 - 362: Nationwide Impact
Jinling, New Era Square.
The live broadcast of the joint treatment continues.
In about two months, many mild cases have shown significant improvement.
A few patients who have recovered best can even get out of bed and walk.
Although still a bit unsteady, compared to when they were carried in, it’s already quite good.
These scenes captured by the camera left many people in awe.
The netizens in the live broadcast room finally understood that traditional Chinese medicine can indeed treat diabetic foot.
In the following days, the number of treated patients began to surge. Four days later, more than a hundred patients from the first group had already walked out of the medical tent on their own.
The next day, over two hundred.
The third day, over five hundred.
Seeing more and more patients able to get out of bed and walk like normal people, many netizens recalled how they looked when they first came in with ulcers on their feet and found it incredible.
With the departure of a large number of patients, the official live broadcast room of Jinling TV station exploded in popularity.
From the initial popularity of over ten million, it directly surged to more than fifty million, and the discussions in the bullet comments were refreshing at a speed faster than the naked eye could see.
"Oh my, another one got better?"
"Cured in just two months, truly miraculous!"
"I saw that person during the previous live stream, a very handsome uncle. His leg was beyond looking at, yet he was cured too."
"Come on haters!!! Those who badmouth traditional Chinese medicine, come forward if you dare!"
"Turns out diabetic foot can really be treated without amputation!"
"If traditional Chinese medicine can cure diabetic foot, wouldn’t diabetes be even easier to treat?"
"I always thought traditional Chinese medicine could only regulate but not cure diseases; I was superficial."
"My dad has diabetes, I’m taking him to see a traditional Chinese doctor tomorrow."
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After the results of the joint treatment emerged, various media started editing videos for online dissemination.
For a time, the topic of traditional Chinese medicine curing diabetic foot quickly made it to the hot searches on major internet platforms.
Despite some people stubbornly claiming that these were surely actors hired by traditional Chinese medicine, or saying that even if it cured them, it doesn’t mean the treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine are scientific. Some went as far as cursing, saying traditional Chinese medicine is just grandstanding, and without clear recovery data, any promotion is deliberately misleading the public.
Undoubtedly, when real results appeared, those who believed in traditional Chinese medicine would be very happy, the confused would become more resolute, and those who never believed in traditional Chinese medicine, who only believed in science, would try every possible way to refute, saying things like, even if the patient’s wounds healed and they could walk, it doesn’t mean they are cured. They only believed in data, not in the efficacy of the treatment.
Such people are like the man of Zheng who bought shoes.
They believe only in measurement, not in their own feet.
As a result, during the joint treatment, once these cured patients were discovered, they were touted as isolated cases of diabetic foot cure, lacking practical significance.
But as the joint treatment produced a massive number of cases, they again used the method of treatment not having gone through scientific experiments to try to label this joint treatment event as unscientific.
However, much to their surprise, before this joint treatment was held, the paper on integrated internal and external treatment had already been published in the Huaxia Medical Journal.
You want to talk about science, don’t you?
Isn’t Huaxia Medical Journal, the top medical journal in the country, scientific enough?
If you agree, then it means you’re wrong; if you disagree, it equates to questioning the authority of Huaxia Medical Journal.
Of course, these people are also smart. They also claimed that the paper in Huaxia Medical Journal is authoritative, but not authoritative enough. If this paper is published in foreign journals, then it would truly be authoritative.
At this point, the online debate was utterly meaningless.
These people seem to think that only when traditional Chinese medicine is recognized by foreigners can they accept it.
But traditional Chinese medicine doesn’t need this kind of recognition.
Nor does it care to possess the label of science.
This joint treatment has already proven that most ordinary people actually don’t care whether medicine is scientific or not.
As long as you can cure my illness, I don’t care if you’re scientific!
With the fermentation of public opinion, all major traditional Chinese medicine hospitals and clinics in Jinling City ushered in a wave of patients seeking treatment.
The number of consultations soared, directly exceeding the capacity of most traditional Chinese medicine institutions.
And as time went by and various videos about the joint treatment were widely disseminated, a trend of visiting traditional Chinese medicine clinics swept across the country.
Various traditional Chinese medicine clinics inexplicably gained a lot of patients.
This left the local traditional Chinese doctors bewildered.
After all, not everyone keeps up with online news every day, and many places are unaware of Jinling’s situation.
But they couldn’t withstand the self-promoted sharing by netizens.
Especially since diabetes is still a very significant chronic disease domestically.
It can be said that one in ten people has diabetes.
The reason why this joint treatment was widely disseminated was not only due to official and self-media promotion but also due to grassroots self-promotion.
Many people actually don’t disbelieve in traditional Chinese medicine, but when they get sick, they go to the hospital first, and the result is long-term medication.
This medication works satisfactorily as long as you keep taking it, but once you stop, problems arise.
People seek convenience, and while taking medication long-term is trouble, each dose is simple to take, unlike traditional Chinese medication that requires decoction and tastes bad.
Moreover, encountering a good traditional Chinese doctor isn’t something everyone can do; some have been deceived by traditional Chinese doctors.
So, once they get diabetes, most people are left with only the choice of lifelong medication.
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Lu Jiu TCM Hospital.
"Whoa, it seems like more and more patients are coming to our hospital for diabetes treatment!" Zuo Quan chuckled.
The intake in the male department has been quite high lately; if there weren’t a dozen or so doctors in the department now, they wouldn’t be able to manage it.
"It’s probably the joint treatment in Jinling having an influence nationwide. The internet spreads quickly," said He Zhongyu.
"Even Jianghan is affected; tsk, it seems Chairman Ying’s decision was very effective this time!" Zuo Quan said.
"Dean Lu’s method of integrated internal and external treatment deserves credit. Without it, the joint treatment wouldn’t have had such good results, and the dissemination wouldn’t be this great. Plus, the formula and treatment methods have already been published, so there’s no worry about lacking enough expertise to treat diabetes," said He Zhongyu.
"Indeed, but not all the influence this time might be positive," Zuo Quan said.
"What do you mean?" asked He Zhongyu.
"Diabetes patients influenced by this wave will definitely seek traditional Chinese medicine. However, given the number of traditional Chinese doctors nationwide capable of treating diabetes, patients might end up with those of lesser skill, and while losing money is trivial, losing lives would be disastrous," Zuo Quan said.
"Are there really such foolish people who value money over life? If someone scams diabetes patients, they’ll go to jail once trouble arises!" He Zhongyu said.
"Hard to say, in the face of profit, no one can always remain rational!" Zuo Quan sighed.
Indeed, this wave can win more public trust for domestic traditional Chinese medicine, but whether this support can be harnessed depends on the abilities of traditional Chinese medicine itself.
Yet, in any group, there sure are imposters. Such people blinded by greed indulge in despicable acts, which is all too common.
Just like the news that broke out at the end of last year about hospitals selling children and birth certificates, similar issues emerged in many private hospitals. Despite knowing it was a death penalty offense, they went ahead with it.
For what?
One word.
Money!
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