Chapter 770 - Wake Up the Vegetable (1/2)

Zhuo Bufan looked through all the examination reports. The more he read, the more serious he became. After he finished reading, Shen Tiejun asked, “Doctor Zhuo, is it possible to cure my father’s disease?”

Zhuo Bufan put down the materials and said, “The patient is seriously ill now. If it was just an ordinary nerve rupture, we could treat him through surgery, but the patient’s nerves are damaged inside the cerebral cortex.”

“The brain is one of the most complicated organs in the human body. If another organ is touched during the operation, the patient is likely to be brain dead or permanently paralyzed, so the operation cannot be performed in this case.”

Shao Weimin frowned. He had invited Zhuo Bufan here with great hope.

“Doctor Zhuo, what kind of treatment plan do you think should be adopted in this case?”

“Given the patient’s overall condition, the best choice is conservative treatment,” Zhuo Bufan said.

Qin Haodong couldn’t help but say, “What do you mean by conservative treatment? Are you going to let the patient sleep like this?”

Zhuo Bufan glanced at him and said, “For now, that’s the only way.”

Qin Haodong sneered, “Is this the plan given by an expert like you? What difference have you made?”

“Of course I’ve made a difference. I’m an expert in neurology,” he said proudly. “I have recently developed a new drug that can extend a patient’s life by at least three to five years.”

“Three to five years?” Qin Haodong sneered, “Do you mean to keep the patient in bed like this for another three to five years?”

Zhuo Bufan said, “I’m sure this is the best treatment in the world. Life is precious, but it’s better to be in a vegetative state than dead.”

“You’re wrong. This is the best treatment that your Western medicine can provide, but our traditional Chinese medicine is different.”

Zhuo Bufan said coldly, “What do you mean? Do you have a better treatment plan?”

Qin Haodong said indifferently, “If you hadn’t made trouble just now, the old man would have stood up now.”

“What a great joke!” Zhuo Bufan said with disdain, “I have long heard that traditional Chinese medicine is a trick to deceive people, and I have learned that today.”

“I’m afraid not even God can wake up a vegetable that has been sleeping for five years, but you claim you can. It’s obvious you’re lying.”

Seeing that the two people were quarreling again, Shao Weimin quickly stepped forward and said, “Doctor Zhuo, Doctor Qin has excellent medical skills and is known as the Medical Sage in Huaxia.”

At this time, he was very regretful. If he had known that Qin Haodong was here, he would not have brought Zhuo Bufan over. Both of them were excellent doctors, but Western and Chinese medicine had completely different ideas.

Zhuo Bufan said with a sneer, “Medical Sage? Western medicine is so developed, but no one dares to call himself a Medical Sage. Only Chinese medicine practitioner dares to do so to win the favor of people and deceive ignorant patients.”

Qin Haodong didn’t want to argue with this kind of person. He turned to Shen Tiejun and said, “Uncle Shen, if you believe in traditional Chinese medicine, I’ll treat the old master. If you don’t believe me, then I’ll leave now.”

Mu Baisen cried out, “Of course I believe you! How could we not believe you! It was Little Qin who saved me. I believe he can do the same for my old leader.”

“I don’t agree with the unscientific treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, which can only aggravate the patient’s condition or even lead to his death,” Zhuo Bufan said. “The best choice is conservative treatment.”

Qin Haodong pointed at him and said, “Your so-called conservative treatment is to let this old general, who has been galloping across the battlefield, lie in bed forever. It isn’t therapy for him at all. It is torture.”

“What’s the point of your so-called therapy, which only prolongs the suffering for another 3–5 years?”

After that, he turned to Shen Tiejun for a reply without waiting for Zhuo Bufan to refute. After all, he was the patient’s family, and the final treatment was up to him.

Zhuo Bufan said, “Mr. Shen, I hope you will consider it carefully. This irresponsible treatment can only worsen the patient’s condition.”

Faced with this dilemma, Shen Tiejun hesitated for a long time before finally looking up and saying, “I know my father’s personality. He doesn’t want to live just for the sake of remaining alive. Lying in bed like this was really torture for him. I accept the treatment of Doctor Qin.”

After that, he turned around and gave Qin Haodong a standard military salute. “Doctor Qin, please save my father.”

“Nonsense! It’s nonsense!” Zhuo Bufan turned around in annoyance and said to Shao Weimin, “Minister Shao, I think you should stand out and stop this farce.”

Shao Weimin was also dissatisfied with Zhuo Bufan’s arrogance and stubbornness. He said, “Doctor Zhuo, this is not a farce. Traditional Chinese medicine can also cure diseases.”

“What…”

Although Zhuo Bufan was arrogant, he didn’t dare to offend Shao Weimin’s authority. After thinking for a while, he turned to Qin Haodong and said, “Since you have decided to treat him, how about making a bet?”

Qin Haodong said, “Okay, but on what?”

“If you fail to treat him this time, you must apologize to all the Huaxia people in public, revoke your title of Medical Sage, and admit that traditional Chinese medicine is a trick.”

Qin Haodong looked at Zhuo Bufan with gleaming eyes and said coldly, “Doctor Zhuo, I think you should be clear about one thing. Traditional Chinese medicine has been passed down for thousands of years. It’s a treasure of our nation. It’s definitely not a trick.

“Even your ancestors survived with traditional Chinese medicine. It can be said that without Chinese medicine, neither of us would have been born.

“Even if I can’t cure Mr. Shen’s illness, it only proves that I don’t know enough about traditional Chinese medicine. It has nothing to do with TCM itself.”