chapter 17 Fighting Doctor 1

"Fine, then I won't go in to have him treat him." The woman was frightened upon hearing this and dared not enter the Jiang Clinic again. "Sister, you can come to our Chunxin Clinic. I am Doctor Lin. Your child seems to have caught a cold, right? I will write a prescription for you. Get the herbs and brew them. After drinking, I guarantee she will be fever-free by the afternoon." Issac Lin confidently patted his chest, taking the woman and her child to his Chunxin Clinic. "Damn, that old Lin!" Unable to bear it anymore, Noah Jiang shouted, pointing at Issac Lin: "This is the fifth time you've stolen my patients." "Heh, stealing your patients? Tell me, Noah, do you really think you're as good as your grandfather, the renowned Doctor Jiang? You almost killed someone just treating a simple cold. I'm saving them. Maybe you should close down the Jiang Clinic. You're not cut out to be a traditional doctor." Issac Lin sneered at Noah and turned to head back to his clinic. "Old Lin, stop right there!" Noah was furious. This old jerk was intolerable. He had just inherited the knowledge of the Yuanshi Medical Fairy yesterday. He wanted to show off today, but this old guy came and took his patient again. How could Noah stand for it? "Hey, why the long face, kid? Want to hit me? Go ahead, but if you lay a finger on me, I'll call the cops." "I challenge you to a medical duel!" Noah Jiang, with fiery eyes, took a step forward, glaring at Issac Lin and coldly huffed. Issac Lin was taken aback, and even the passing pedestrians were surprised. Then they all laughed, pointing at Noah, as if he were an idiot. "Haha, Noah Jiang, did I hear you right? Say it again. What did you want to do? Challenge me in medicine? With your mediocre skills, what makes you think you're worthy?" Issac Lin burst into laughter, pointing at Noah. It was the funniest thing he had heard all day. "A duel? Noah, I heard you were hit by a car yesterday. Did it knock some screws loose? Challenging Doctor Lin? What were you thinking?" Jadyn Wang, a nurse from Uncle Henry's Clinic, came out eating an apple, standing in the crowd, and sneered at Noah. "Heh, overestimating yourself." Ethan Chen also came out, glanced at Noah, and shouted to Issac Lin: "Doctor Lin, accept his challenge. Better yet, completely crush him. Quacks like him shouldn't be practicing on Traditional Chinese Medicine Street. He should leave." "Exactly, if he stays here, he'll kill someone someday. Better he leaves Traditional Chinese Medicine Street now." Various doctors and assistants from the surrounding clinics, along with bystanders, pointed and mocked Noah. Noah's face darkened. He ignored Ethan and the others, staring intently at Issac Lin: "Old Lin, let's add one more stipulation. Whoever loses leaves Traditional Chinese Medicine Street!" "Brother Noah, don't be impulsive." Ruth Chen tried to restrain Noah, anxiously saying, "If you lose, your grandfather's reputation will be tarnished." "Heh, with his mediocre skills, he's already ruined the reputation of the Jiang Clinic." "Exactly, he should leave Traditional Chinese Medicine Street sooner. Maybe in a place with fewer people, he can uphold his grandfather's reputation." However, at this moment, Noah's expression was calm. Ignoring Ruth's attempts to dissuade him, he said to Issac Lin: "Old Lin, are you scared?" "Scared?" Issac Lin raised an eyebrow, looking at Noah Jiang as if he had heard a big joke, and sneered, "Noah Jiang, I initially just wanted to shatter your confidence in continuing down the medical path, but I didn't expect you to stake your grandfather's reputation too! Fine then, I'll follow the public's sentiment and kick Jiang Clinic right out of Traditional Chinese Medicine Street." "Good, quickly get old Master Zhao over here to be the referee." For a moment, the surrounding doctors shouted excitedly. Clearly, they had long held grudges against Jiang Clinic. Ever since Noah's grandfather, George Jiang, the reputation of Jiang Clinic on Traditional Chinese Medicine Street had been outstanding. Almost everyone who came to the street for treatment flocked to Jiang Clinic, making other doctors on the street green with envy. However, with the sudden passing of George Jiang and Noah taking over the clinic, his mediocre medical skills and incorrect prescriptions had nearly resulted in death. Consequently, Jiang Clinic's reputation had plummeted over the past two years, finally giving the other doctors on the street a sigh of relief. "Brother Noah, you're being too impulsive." Ruth Chen was anxious, grabbing Noah Jiang's arm, angry about his unusual impulsiveness that day. Noah Jiang turned around, smiled at Ruth Chen, and said, "Don't worry, I won't lose!". "Ruth, come back here." Ethan Chen and Jadyn Wang approached, pulled Ruth Chen away, glanced at Noah Jiang, and mocked, "Noah, aren't you a bit too confident? With your level of medical expertise, trying to compare yourself with Doctor Lin from Chunxin Clinic? I'd advise you not even to try and pack up your stuff, and just leave Traditional Chinese Medicine Street right now." "Exactly, such a useless man living off women, just looking at him disgusts me," Jadyn Wang glared at Noah Jiang and joined Ethan Chen in mocking him. Without paying any attention to them, Noah Jiang turned around and went inside the clinic to prepare. He took out a wooden medical box, ancient and heavy, filled with essential medical supplies like a pulse cushion, acupuncture needles, and paper. By the time Noah Jiang came out with his medical box, the neighboring Chunxin Clinic was already packed. Meanwhile, an elderly man in his sixties, named Max Zhao, a highly respected and revered doctor on Traditional Chinese Medicine Street, had arrived. "Here comes the young man." Seeing Noah Jiang entering with his medical box, the crowd at the entrance naturally gave way. Ethan Chen, Jadyn Wang, and others mocked and discussed, while Ruth Chen looked worried. Noah Jiang's expression was indifferent. He walked with steady steps, stepping over the high threshold of Chunxin Clinic. He greeted the three masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine Street seated on the side, Max Zhao, Wang Yulin, and Bruce Hou, with respect, "Greetings, Doctor Zhao, Doctor Wang, and Doctor Hou." "Good, now that everyone's here, may start," Max Zhao nodded at Noah Jiang and then said to Issac Lin on the side. "Alright." Issac Lin nodded and then glanced at Noah Jiang, saying, "Please." With a calm expression, Noah Jiang followed Issac Lin to a prepared table. Both sat down, and Noah Jiang opened his medical box, taking out a pulse cushion, a stack of prescription papers, and a pen. Issac Lin did the same, and shortly after, a worker announced, "Open for consultation." Immediately, a woman, holding her daughter, came forward. Issac Lin asked, "Ma'am, when did your little girl start having a high fever?" "Hmm, she had a fever of 38 degrees last night. I didn't pay much attention and just gave her some cold medicine. But this morning, it rose to 39 degrees, and she was sweating coldly, so I hurriedly brought her here," the woman, holding her daughter who was wearing cotton clothes in summer, said anxiously to both Noah Jiang and Issac Lin. "Stick out your tongue, let me take a look." Issac Lin began to check on the little girl, then nodded slightly, ready to write a prescription with his pen. Unexpectedly, Noah Jiang, sitting on the side, had already taken out a pen and started writing a prescription. Issac Lin snorted coldly, "You didn't even ask anything, just blindly writing a prescription. No wonder you could kill with your treatment." Noah Jiang turned his head, calmly glanced at Issac Lin, and said, "Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to observation, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking. I can diagnose just by looking." "Huh, big talk." Issac Lin gave him a disdainful glance and quickly wrote down the prescription. At the same time, Noah Jiang also finished writing and handed the prescriptions to Max Zhao and the other two masters sitting aside. Bruce Hou looked at the two prescriptions, couldn't help but look at Noah Jiang in surprise, then nodded and said, "Both prescriptions are for the same medications: 15 coins of honeysuckle, 12 coins of forsythia, 9 coins of mint, 12 coins of mulberry leaf, 9 coins of burdock seed, 18 coins of reed root, 9 coins of almond, 12 coins of platycodon, 15 coins of isatis root, 6 coins of licorice, using seven litters of water, boiled down to three, to be taken in one day." "The prescriptions are the same?" The surrounding doctors exclaimed in surprise, not expecting that Noah Jiang and Issac Lin would have the same prescription. "Guessing, right? Let's do it again." Issac Lin glanced at Noah Jiang, disdainfully stopped, and continued to invite other patients to come forward. Then, a thirty-year-old woman came in, coughing as she walked. She sat down and said, "Doctor, this cough of mine is an old problem. It's been several years. I've taken a lot of traditional Chinese medicine, and I've also been to hospitals, but it just doesn't get better. I heard there are many miraculous doctors on Traditional Chinese Medicine Street, so I came to try." "Correct, each of our doctors on Traditional Chinese Medicine Street is skilled in medicine. Of course, except for this guy next to me, a complete quack," Issac Lin said cheerfully to the woman, taking the opportunity to denigrate Noah Jiang, then laughed, "Let me take your pulse." Issac Lin took her pulse first, and finally, it was Noah Jiang's turn. Both had an idea in mind and started writing the prescription. Bruce Hou picked it up, looked at it, frowned slightly, and read, "9 coins of schizonepeta spike, 12 coins of Notopterygium, 12 coins of Angelica, 9 coins of Peucedanum, 12 coins of Chuanxiong, 9 coins of almond, 12 coins of platycodon, 6 coins of licorice. However, Noah Jiang's prescription adds an extra ingredient: 5 coins of burdock seed!" "Burdock seed?" Issac Lin was stunned, turned his head to look at Noah Jiang, and sneered, "The power of burdock seed is strong. Her chronic cough is due to the cold deficiency inside her, damaging her lung lobe, yin deficiency leading to fiery energy, causing her to cough all these years. My prescription is sufficient to remove the fire of her yin deficiency and regulate her cold deficiency. Now you add burdock seed, and if not handled properly, it will aggravate her symptoms, making her cough even worse. You are harming her." "Wow, traditional Chinese medicine is really profound. I didn't expect that adding one herb could make such a big difference." "Isn't it? From what Doctor Lin said, Noah Jiang is harming people by adding one more herb. That's too unscrupulous of him." "Huh, someone is indeed prone to prescribing the wrong prescriptions, pretending to understand and harming people here." Jadyn Wang glanced at Noah Jiang and sneered sarcastically. "This kind of scourge should just get out of Traditional Chinese Medicine Street." Ethan Chen despised, sneered. "Absolutely, keeping him will ruin the reputation of our Traditional Chinese Medicine Street sooner or later." The onlooking doctors and the public blamed Noah Jiang, urging him to leave Traditional Chinese Medicine Street.