I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 78: Addressing Two Common Criticisms

Everyone, please stop complaining about the medicine prices. I’ve made it very clear in the book that this is the protagonist’s personal behavior, and it won’t affect others. Given the protagonist’s current situation, earning two hundred thousand a year is no longer an issue.

In a small town, having an annual income of over two hundred thousand is already considerable. Even after removing costs, a hundred thousand a year is on par with the local civil servants’ level.

Without having to pay the high living costs of a first-tier city, this income is already considered a high-income group. Are we taking money too lightly? There are still many families in the country with less than ten thousand income, what, are they not living?

I’ve said, the protagonist doesn’t want to get rich through traditional Chinese medicine. He just hopes to open a small clinic to treat the local people in Jianghan. The medicine price is only slightly above cost price. As long as he’s not losing money, the protagonist can earn back through diagnoses.

Yes, raising the medicine prices could allow the protagonist to earn more and live better. But if I created such a protagonist, why would he come back? Wouldn’t working at a hospital be better? With his skills, he could easily earn hundreds of thousands to millions, treat high officials, gain power and influence, and be respected wherever he goes. How great would that be?

But there are already too many such books, right? We’ve all read countless ones, so why add another from me? I just want the protagonist to treat patients in the countryside, I just want him to charge low fees. So, are you going to read it or not? (｡･ω･｡)

Besides, there are still many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the community who don’t charge. Some only charge ten per person, and some practice a pay-as-you-wish model, where the patient decides the fee based on their satisfaction. They really don’t care about the money.

If I wrote that, wouldn’t I get flamed to death, and then be labeled as hindering the development of traditional Chinese medicine? That would be truly unfair.

I know everyone is afraid that making traditional Chinese medicine too cheap will make it unsustainable, leading to no one learning it, and the tradition being lost.

Everyone, traditional Chinese medicine is not that fragile. As long as you learn it sincerely, even just the basics, you won’t worry about your livelihood. But if you have the expectation that learning traditional Chinese medicine will make you immensely wealthy, then that’s kind of unrealistic.

In today’s society, is it really abnormal not to pursue wealth?

Another complaint against me is that there are too many diagnoses, too much theory, and that the dialogue with the Five Viscera is just filler without necessity.

Anyone complaining about this misses the core of my book. You’re dismissing the most basic parts. Why should I even write, then?

I’ve said it, I am not a professional. My understanding of diseases is accumulated little by little. Sharing these is partly to share and partly to receive criticism. I definitely can’t satisfy everyone, but at least I live up to the subscription everyone has given me.

If you really feel that my writing about how diseases come about, how to deal with them, and how the Five Viscera respond are just filler words, honestly, brother, don’t waste your money. You pay for a subscription to criticize me, and I feel hurt, and you also suffer a loss, right?