Chapter 2282 Let It Go

"It is said that President Wang came up with the idea of ​​abolishing Chinese medicine when he learned about the abolition of Chinese medicine in Japan when he was a student supervisor in Japan. So today I will tell you why Japan can abolish Chinese medicine!" Shen Long started from Almeida and Sugita Genbaku began to talk about it, and continued to talk about Ogata Koan and Fukuzawa Yukichi.

"...To sum up, after hundreds of years of development, Japan has already had a large number of medical staff who have received Western-style medical education, which can basically meet the needs of society." Of course, this only refers to the needs of the upper class, and those at the bottom Peasants obviously had no chance of receiving the services of doctors, and the upper class didn't care either.

"And what about us? How long has it been since we started learning Western medicine? How many talents have been trained? According to the preliminary statistics of the Chinese Medical Association, there are only a total of more than 1,000 doctors who have received Western-style education in 2,000 counties across the country. Doctors can’t do it, so under such circumstances, if Chinese medicine is completely abolished, what should ordinary people do?”

"Moreover, these doctors are mainly concentrated in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Jinmen. There may be many provincial capital cities in the east and central regions. When it comes to the counties below, except for a few cities on the east coast, few inland counties have Western-style medicines. The existence of a doctor; of course, President Wang doesn't have to worry about finding someone to treat him, if he gets sick, there are so many hospitals in the capital, where can't he find a doctor to see him?" Shen Long said.

But he immediately slammed the table and shouted, "Chairman Wang is sick and healed, but what about so many people in the country? Can they just wait to die when they are sick? Could it be that Wang Daxie's life is fate, and the people's Is life not life?"

The hall became completely silent. Even the students who supported the abolition of Chinese medicine were speechless in front of this issue. After all, they were all studying medicine, and they couldn't say anything to make those ordinary people wait to die.

"Most of you here are from big cities, and your family background is relatively good. You may not know much about the situation in small places." Now where poor families can afford to support college students, Shen Long's tone softened, and then he showed his family in Ding County. According to the survey data, "We can see that in a county with 400,000 people, there are only two sitting doctors!"

"And the medical skills of these two doctors are terrible, but this is already very rare. In places farther west and north, even many counties don't even have a single doctor. If you get sick, you can only rely on folk remedies or even pray to God and Buddha! Under such circumstances, how can Chinese medicine be abolished?"

"And there is another problem. When Japan abolished Chinese medicine, it originally planned to abolish Chinese medicine prescriptions, but soon the Japanese government found that their own chemical production capacity was not enough to produce enough qualified medicines. Western medicine, so we can only continue to use traditional Chinese medicine by default.”

"Even Japan can't produce western medicine. Can we do it in China? Let's assume that the number of western medicine in China has suddenly increased by hundreds or thousands of times, and it is guaranteed that every county will have at least one hospital with many skilled doctors. Western-style doctors come to consult, but how to solve the problems of medicines and medical equipment?"

"Do you produce it yourself? How many Western-style pharmaceutical factories are there in our country? How many medical equipment factories? How many kinds of Western-style medicines and Western-style medical equipment can be produced? How much can the annual output be? Can it meet the needs of the people across the country?" Shen Long's series of rhetorical questions left the students speechless.

Given the weakness of China's industrial capacity, it is undoubtedly a nonsense to produce medicines and medical devices that can be used by ordinary people across the country.

"Let's not talk about the complicated ones. Can we produce thermometers? Can we produce stethoscopes? Can we produce qualified medical alcohol? Can we produce medical gauze?" Shen Long didn't mention those more difficult ones, and only took out a few The most basic medical tools and medicines, but even these Republic of China can't do it.

"Maybe someone will say, these foreign countries can produce, we can't just buy from foreigners? But buying things requires money, do we have so much money to buy them?" And considering the current situation, even if the country If you have money, you will buy guns and cannons to prepare for war, and then you will buy medicine for the common people.

Shen Long sighed, and began to make the final summary, "I remember that in the physics class, there was a saying that often appeared called 'under ideal conditions', that is to say, when describing certain axioms, we must first ignore common problems such as air resistance. However, in practical applications, factors such as air resistance cannot be ignored.”

"This sentence is the same in human society. I also admit that western medicine is indeed more scientific than traditional Chinese medicine, and has greater potential for future development. However, the specific situation in China cannot be ignored. China does not have the basis for abolishing traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine can only cause tragic consequences."

The speech is over. In front of the clear data, even the most die-hard anti-Chinese medicine people have nothing to say. Yes, Western medicine is advanced, but when Chinese medicine is abolished, what will the ordinary people do? It is unrealistic to abolish traditional Chinese medicine until enough doctors are trained and the country can produce enough high-quality medicines and medical equipment.

After Shen Long finished his speech, he sorted out the speech and published it in major newspapers such as "Ta Kung Pao" and "Shen Bao". Let’s get up, there is only so much western medicine in China now, if Chinese medicine is really abolished, what should I do if I get sick?

Many literati have written articles to support Shen Long's statement, criticizing Wang Daxie, saying what is not grounded, that the wine and meat of the rich man's road is frozen to death, and Wang Daxie has been under tremendous pressure.

The government of the Republic of China also gave an official reply, declaring that "the former Ministry of Medicine set up medical courses exclusively to learn Western methods, so that they would not go astray, and doubts would not work, so they put the most urgent first, and took care of the difficulties at the same time. At first, it was not intended to abandon traditional Chinese medicine... …except for the section on determining the curriculum of Chinese medicine schools, which will be postponed for the time being, the rest of the sections should be prepared separately.” At the same time, the establishment of Chinese medicine schools by the private sector is permitted.

On the surface, Chinese medicine seems to be immune to the crisis of being wiped out, but in fact, their stance is still based on the thinking of the education department. While allowing private schools to teach Chinese medicine, they refuse to formulate formal Chinese medicine curriculum standards and allow registration of Chinese medicine. It is like putting the qualifications and status of Chinese medicine in a gray area.

Therefore, the Chinese medicine community continued to fight unrelentingly, demanding that the Ministry of Education include Chinese medicine in the curriculum, but the education department ignored it, and those Western doctors who had returned from studying abroad and some cultural figures strongly opposed it.