The Farm Girl's Charismatic Fortune-Chapter 291 - 287 Must Investigate

The next event was the pulse diagnosis and prescription writing competition.

This truly tested a doctor’s medical expertise, assessing the strength of their capabilities.

Four patients were brought onto the stage, one of whom was a woman in her early thirties, radiant and lively. Another was a boy around five years old with blue veins on his nose bridge and slightly pale lips. A sixty-year-old elderly woman and a septuagenarian old man were the other two patients.

The Referee first invited four doctors to come up and diagnose and prescribe for them.

Each had to be seen, and then a prescription written: accurately diagnosing a patient’s condition earned one point, producing the correct prescription earned one point, and devising a better prescription than another doctor earned an additional point, and so on, with increasing points for outperforming more doctors. With a total of thirteen participants, anyone whose prescription was better than all the others could gain twelve points.

Prescribing the wrong medication resulted in a five-point deduction.

Ruo Shan had registered at the last minute, which meant his number was last, and he had to wait for everyone else to go first.

Diagnosis required observing, smelling, questioning, and feeling the pulse, which took more time than quick answers.

Especially since so many doctors took their turn one by one.

Ruo Xuan, finding it too boring to just sit and wait, dozed off unconsciously, her head tilting and eventually resting on Xuanyuan Que’s slender shoulder.

Xuanyuan Que, still sitting up straight without moving, was in fact taking the opportunity to cultivate his Spiritual Power.

The Shopkeeper, upon seeing Ruo Xuan fall asleep, took a cloak and laid it over her.

After an hour had passed, it was finally Ruo Shan’s turn.

Xuanyuan Que gently nudged her, "It’s your Uncle Wu’s turn."

Ruo Xuan immediately opened her eyes, sat up straight, and rubbed her eyes, "Is it his turn already? Did my Uncle Wu get the first place?"

Xuanyuan Que: "..."

He did not respond to her. His whole arm was numb, and he channeled a surge of Spiritual Power into it to relieve the sensation as if thousands of ants were biting him.

Ruo Shan went on stage to take the pulse of the first woman. This woman’s pulse was very normal, very healthy. As this was a competition, it wasn’t the patient who said what was uncomfortable. Rather, it was the responsibility of the doctor to actively discover the patient’s discomfort.

The dozen or so doctors before him had asked her various questions, all of which Ruo Shan heard clearly, and none revealed any problems. The conclusion for now was that she was very healthy, as her pulse indeed was very normal. freewebnoveℓ.com

He then asked one question: "Has it been a long time since you’ve had your menstrual cycle?"

All doctors: "...."

A doctor could not help but say, "How could it be possible for someone so young to have not had their menstrual cycle for a long time? We all asked her if there were any changes or delays in her monthly cycle recently, and she said no!"

The woman blushed, "Yes."

All doctors: "..."

"How long has it been?"

"It’s been about three years since I last had it."

Three years ago, she was thirty-one now, which meant she stopped having a cycle at twenty-eight.

How is this possible?

All doctors: "..."

Being the first patient, all the doctors had written their prescriptions and handed them to the Referee. Now, everyone wanted to take back their prescriptions and rewrite them.

Having asked his question, Ruo Shan started writing a prescription, then continued to diagnose the next patient.

The remaining patient, the child, had a severe deficiency of the spleen and was frail, requiring careful conditioning. The elderly woman suffered from chronic leg pain, something even divine healers couldn’t cure completely, and the old man had urinary calculi. These were common but also difficult to treat conditions.

Ruo Shan handed over his prescription to the Referee each time he finished one, and by the time he wrote the last one, the Referees below had given out the scores for everyone.

After evaluating Ruo Shan’s last prescription, the chief Referee on the stage announced the rankings: "In this competition, Young Master Ruo Shan accurately diagnosed the woman’s condition earning one point and provided a prescription that was superior to the other doctors, earning twelve points. He diagnosed the boy accurately for one point and his prescription was slightly better than other doctors’, earning another twelve points.....totaling fifty-two points. Doctor Fang Boshan misdiagnosed the woman’s condition, losing five points, diagnosed the boy correctly earning one point, and his prescription was better than the other ten people, earning ten points....totaling twenty-eight points. Doctor Zhu Huai’en has twenty-five points, Doctor He Guangren....."

"This competition’s first place goes to Young Master Ruo Shan, second place to Doctor Fang Boshan..."

After all the rankings were announced and the Referee declared the next prefectural level competition would be in five days, the crowd was dismissed.

At this moment, a member of the Fang Family jumped onto the stage, "I accuse Ruo Shan of cheating! It’s impossible for him to have taken first place! He was only an attendant at Fang’s Medical Clinic for many years and never once diagnosed or treated patients. How could he possibly understand medicine? And if the other doctors couldn’t discern the woman’s ailment, how could an attendant? It’s impossible! He must have cheated! He must have had access to the questions beforehand, and that’s how he could take first place!"

The surrounding commoners thought this seemed very reasonable.

"It’s not surprising that an attendant knows herbs, but for an attendant to know more about treating illnesses than the doctors – that truly seems strange."

"After so many years at the clinic, it’s not strange for him to learn a bit of medicine! And he did notice the wrong prescription that Doctor Fang made before."

"Learning a little is not surprising, but now he seems to know more than other doctors! Even his master, Doctor Fang, isn’t as skilled as him. So, who exactly did he learn his medical skills from?"

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The Fang Family member, hearing everyone agree, became even more triumphant and shouted louder, "I have evidence that Ruo Shan left our clinic a month ago, at which time he did not qualify to register for the competition, so our clinic did not sign him up. Moreover, the Pharmacist Association had already stopped accepting registrations when he left! So how could he still register? Just look at his number and you’ll know he was the last to sign up, don’t tell me he registered long ago! At that time, he was dispensing medicine every day at the clinic and had no time to go out and register."

"Everyone, doesn’t this need to be thoroughly investigated? Could there be favoritism and cheating within the Pharmacist Association? The competition is among doctors, who are supposed to heal and save lives. The doctor who wins the Pharmacist Association’s competition gains high prestige, and many people go to them for treatment. If someone cheated and won, their medical expertise would be false! Isn’t that endangering lives?"

Upon hearing this, people’s faces changed, and someone loudly echoed, "The lady is right, this must be thoroughly investigated! We absolutely cannot allow cheating in such a competition!"

"A wrong diagnosis and wrong medication can kill people! The Lord County Magistrate is here, we humbly request the Lord County Magistrate investigate carefully!"

"We humbly request the Lord County Magistrate to examine the matter closely, and not let those without real skill and learning harm others!"

"With such accusations, we plead with the Lord County Magistrate to investigate if there was any unfairness, to give Young Master Ruo Shan justice, and to satisfy the hearts of us common folk!"

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