After graduating from a medical school, I spent three years as a village doctor. For all three years, people called me a “barefoot doctor.” When Old Man Liu was on the brink of death, the county hospital said he was beyond saving. I stuck him with six needles, and he lived. Uncle Zhang had been paralyzed for six years, and the experts from the provincial capital said he’d never recover. I treated him three times, and he stood up. Someone got scared. The provincial medical association came to investigate me, and the provincial pharmaceutical group tried to buy me off. They didn’t know my eyes could see through everything. This wasn’t medicine. It was high-tech. I don’t want anything. I just want my patients to be able to afford treatment. I’m determined to see this through.
