I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 215 - 183: Focusing on Screening and Education, Supplementing with Treatment

"That's right, I've always thought that the direction of traditional Chinese medicine was problematic, always trying to compete with Western medicine over rare and difficult diseases. Although we won't lose in this area, we're not playing to our strengths at all."

"If we focused all our energy on the preventive aspect, reducing the incidence of diseases, I believe traditional Chinese medicine could be invincible. In this area, Western medicine only has the concept of sub-health, and we can completely seize this field."

"Precisely over the past three years, more and more people have come to believe in traditional Chinese medicine. The country has also been conducting a healthcare anti-corruption campaign for over half a year, with policies favoring traditional Chinese medicine. I think aiming for this goal is worth a try."

Integrating modern technology to achieve a big data health examination is a plan he has contemplated for a long time.

Last year, he saw news about robots palpating patients. At the time, he was dismissive, thinking that if traditional Chinese medicine developed into this area, it would just be a mess.

Treating diseases in traditional Chinese medicine relies on the sense of understanding life, it has standards, but no fixed standards. Robots aren't even alive, so how could they possibly replace traditional Chinese medicine, even with big data support?

But on second thought, what if AI robots were used only for the health examination part?

By providing massive amounts of text and images, allowing AI to iterate and learn from hundreds of thousands, even millions of cases, then looking can be done through camera comparison with a database, listening can detect sound fluctuations of patients, questioning can let doctors use traditional differentiation frameworks to design regular scripts, and palpation would naturally just be traditional pulse-taking.

Teaching it to integrate the four diagnostic methods might not be unable to handle the most basic tasks.

One must know that many who study traditional Chinese medicine also use rote memorization and formulaic approaches. As long as you grasp the traditional differentiation frameworks and memorize some prescriptions, a lot of minor ailments can be resolved.

Even if AI robots can't achieve this, they should be able to indicate whether a patient is healthy or symptomatic, right?

Lu Jiu wants this ability to distinguish.

He doesn't need the AI robot to have the ability to treat diseases; that's too difficult and current technology is likely not up to it. Therefore, he only wants the AI robot to determine whether the patient is symptomatic or healthy. After distinguishing, those with symptoms can be referred to doctors for treatment, and those without major issues can go home, thus not occupying medical resources.

In simple terms, it's about utilizing technology to construct a whole new health examination system through big data and the integration of the four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine.

Rather than the traditional system that waits for patients to develop organic disease changes before examining them.

One serves to prevent patients from getting sick, the other serves to treat patients who are already sick. There's a fundamental difference between the two.

The reason Lu Jiu wants to build a free clinic system is firstly to train doctors and increase hospital patient intake, and secondly to collect massive amounts of human body data in a short time.

During free clinics, the attendees will surely be a mix, with young and old, sick and healthy.

After doctors collect this information in a differential diagnosis format, the AI robot can undertake comprehensive learning.

It should learn not only from medical cases but also extensively about the general state of normal people at each age stage.

Just like the opening of the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor mentions, a person's state of life is constantly changing.

But every person's life is also a fixed "mountain peak" shape.

Therefore, only by grasping the general patterns of healthy and non-healthy states can the AI robot better judge human health.

Otherwise, it would be like some current hospitals, where despite aging and insufficient kidney Qi, leading to atrophy of the cerebellum, you go to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor tells you that cerebellar atrophy is a sickness needing medication.

Isn't that nonsense?

Those cerebellar atrophy medications directly damage the kidneys, not only failing to cure but worsening people's conditions.

There's also the matter of children who frequently have nosebleeds and are subjected to treatments like anti-inflammatory medication and intravenous drips when taken to the hospital.

In reality, children who often have nosebleeds are in great health. Such children have strong Yang Qi and won't develop high fevers, which is not an illness and doesn't need treatment. After the age of fifteen, the nosebleeds naturally stop, and treatment only makes things worse.

Current medical equipment seems precise, but in reality, it's crude because it has set a rigid standard for normal human conditions, searching for so-called issues within this standard in each individual.

Anyone who has played detective games should understand, once you pinpoint someone as a suspect, every piece of evidence seems to point to them.

This is the presupposition of guilt.

And current medical devices operate on the presupposition of illness.

Traditional Chinese medicine is different. If using the theories of traditional Chinese medicine for health examinations, one can make presuppositions of non-illness because from the start, traditional Chinese medicine understands the causes of many diseases, as well as how they develop and grow, thus being able to treat them before they occur.

In ancient times, most practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine were scholars, those who could read and write, and this is how traditional Chinese medicine was learned.

As the saying goes, "a scholar learning medicine is like catching a chicken in a cage."

What's the meaning of this?

If you can understand ancient books, learning medicine is really not difficult.

Anyone who has read the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor could sense that the ancestors spoke quite plainly, answering questions directly, in detail, and with utmost clarity, breaking things down completely for understanding.

Today's common people are not that naive. As long as you can explain how illnesses originate and how to resolve them, they can fully grasp your meaning.