The Old Chinese Doctor in the Siheyuan

Knowing full well that he was a teenager without a medical license (as he described in the text), he would always rush to help when something happened, even though he had two hands and was eager to do so. I encountered an elderly person with a foot injury in the wild.

The transmission of traditional Chinese medicine is incredibly difficult. Precisely because of this difficulty, I don't have much faith in modern TCM practitioners, especially in diagnosis, pulse diagnosis, and prescription selection. Even something as simple as a Chinese herbal medicine is challenging. How many of today's herbs contain pesticide residues? Or are they grown using chemical fertilizers? And if I were to use the original prescription, it might be completely ineffective.

Let me share my personal experience. In 2013, I was working in a factory when I fell from a height of 14 meters and broke my lumbar spine. At the hospital in Shanghai, they recommended surgery to insert steel nails and plates, but I didn't want to go. So, my grandfather used his connections to find a traditional Chinese medicine bone injury specialist who could manually reset my spine. Now my lumbar spine is much better, although I had to stay in bed for a long time after the reset.

Everyone in the comments section says the book is good... But why is it that after reading over thirty chapters, the protagonist is still a useless character? 😥

The first dozen or so chapters of this book clearly showed promise, but then it started with a debate between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, followed by a story about saving a girl whose trouser leg couldn't be cut. This abrupt change made me drop my rating from 95 to 55. The deliberate creation of conflict and contradiction felt too contrived.

The story flows smoothly overall, but a few glaring flaws are quite noticeable. First, it tries too hard to fit the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) genre, which, frankly, makes me a bit nauseous. If I didn't enjoy stories about TCM, I wouldn't have even bothered reading this book. Second, it raises the issue of TCM lineage.

It's not recommended to study Traditional Chinese Medicine if you don't have an IQ of 168. If your talent is not as great as an immortal's, do not study medicine; if your virtue is not as great as a Buddha's, do not practice medicine.

(1) He was 17 years old in 1965, and had younger siblings. He was unemployed, had a job, was not an only child, and didn't seem to be thinking about finding a job quickly. Was he planning to go to the countryside? (2) A doctor shouldn't be shy about treating patients. Why insist on treating others when you're only an orthopedic specialist?

The protagonist is a complete loser. He's almost starving at the start, and a "good guy system" appears, but he's too afraid to activate it. Is he a reincarnated person? He's so cowardly! Even at the big meeting, the system issues a task to clarify that He Yuzhu wasn't the chicken thief, while the protagonist knows who stole it but is too afraid to say anything. He's so afraid of this and that; it's incredibly pathetic.

Why does the protagonist keep trying to seduce high-ranking officials like Sister Feng in the compound? If he accidentally gets involved with her daughter, a mere note from the compound can get him executed.