Chapter 1384 - 864: Approaching Fatal Disease

That sudden reminder made some people's eyes light up—that was them being won over by the methods Du Heng had just used. They still wanted to see whether Du Heng had any other rather miraculous abilities.

While some others appeared very indifferent, not showing much interest in the earlier proposal.

But no matter what kind of reaction they had, when it fell into Deputy Director Fan's ears, it was all equally harsh, equally upsetting.

Fortunately, their whispered comments only lasted those few seconds, and as everyone moved into another hospital room, their chatting came to an end.

And those who had rushed to the front in a rush of excitement also turned one by one into dejected figures, heads lowered, no longer as excited as before.

Seeing this, Deputy Director Fan finally felt a bit relieved.

These Young men, they act on impulse, without any regard for the atmosphere on site, nor for the face of people like them.

Luckily, some of them are still sensible, still relatively clear-headed.

Du Heng had no idea about these things happening behind him; he simply followed behind Dean Tian and the others, leisurely listening to their analysis of the conditions and the aspects of Treatment that needed improvement.

During this time, some people also took the initiative to step forward, wanting to ask Du Heng what he thought about a particular Patient's condition, but such requests were either ignored by Du Heng or brushed off with a smile.

Everything has to avoid excess; and what he had done today was already basically at the limit.

If he kept stepping up to the front to talk on and on, that really would start to feel like overshadowing the hosts.

Besides, the Patients they encountered afterwards, while some also had relatively severe conditions, were not as complex as the earlier ones.

And Dean Tian's juniors had already carried out Treatment, so he had even less need to speak up just to show himself off with a few more comments.

After all, at the beginning, the reason he was willing to speak, apart from Dean Tian's direct questioning, was that he couldn't let the person who'd invited him lose face.

Once that initial impulse passed, if he kept aggressively grabbing the spotlight, insisting on measuring himself against the people behind him, that too would be a way of not giving face to Dean Tian.

Most importantly, this was the cardiovascular ward under modern medicine. With the Doctors of this Department having already provided Treatment, if he started saying things based on traditional Chinese medicine methods, how would that make the Patients think?

Either they would ignore him and leave him embarrassed, or it would cause trouble for the Doctors here.

So, in the time that followed, keeping his mouth shut, listening carefully, and Studying earnestly was the best approach.

After they dragged on for roughly another hour, today's ward round finally ended.

Once Everyone dispersed, Dean Tian called over her assistant physician, telling him to hurry and prepare the Medicine Ingredients according to Du Heng's requirements, and instructing him to be sure to carefully observe the Patient's condition.

The Assistant agreed and went off to work, leaving only Du Heng and Dean Tian here.

Looking at Du Heng, Dean Tian smiled slightly and said, "Doctor Du, the Hospital has a Laboratory of mine here—would you be interested in having a look?"

Du Heng immediately showed very keen interest, nodding repeatedly as he said, "That's a stroke of great luck—I'd of course be willing to go and Studying a bit."

Dean Tian was quite satisfied with Du Heng's expression and reaction.

Walking ahead to lead the way, she began introducing to Du Heng the features of this Laboratory of hers, as well as the research Projects currently underway.

After touring the entire Laboratory and listening in detail to how the whole experimental research Project operated, only then did Du Heng gain an understanding of the fundamental differences between modern medicine's research methods and his own traditional Chinese medicine research projects.

Take the current research Project of Dean Tian, for example: ninety percent of the funds are spent entirely on data collection and comparison—that is, on experimental instruments and consumables.

Relatively little money is actually spent on the researchers themselves.

But looking back at his side, because his Project is purely about recombining and matching a traditional Chinese medicine compound prescription, there is simply no way to run it like Dean Tian's experiment, collecting and comparing data before the final product comes out.

So he can only spend large sums on Project personnel and on the Patients participating in the Project, hoping that in real clinical practice, the Project staff will collect and organize the data.

This is what's special about traditional Chinese medicine compound prescriptions—but it also happens to be the biggest difference between the two.

One side has a data model before the medicine is used on the Patient, having already screened for all possible errors.

The other side is vague and general, relying entirely on intuition, with no way to quantify the Treatment.

On this point alone, it has become very hard for new traditional Chinese medicine compounds to emerge.

Even if a new prescription is to be developed, leaving aside whether the efficacy of the new prescription can be guaranteed, just the potential side effects of a new prescription are enough to make most people who aspire to this direction turn back at the door.

This is also why traditional Chinese medicine rarely pushes out new ideas and can only live under the lingering blessings of the ancestors.

So, can Chinese herbal medicine be quantified for research?

Of course it can. For example, Sun Jiaxiang earned his academician's prestige by following this path, and Madam Tu took the same route, her achievements even greater than Sun Jiaxiang's.

But the Medicine developed through this kind of research is no longer a traditional Chinese medicine compound prescription in the conventional sense.

To even call it Chinese herbal medicine is something Du Heng, from the bottom of his Heart, is unwilling to accept.