Navigating through the sea of medicine

This is my first blog entry, and I will start my   " journey in the sea of medicine"   by speaking about my learning encounters with one of my former clinical prescription instructors,   Dr. Zhang Jin . And I will also speak about her teacher,   Prof. Shi Dian-bang. I met Dr. Zhang about eight years ago, in September 2002, during my six-month clinical placement at the Xiyuan Hospital in Beijing. At the time she was working at the  International Ward of the Inpatient Department , where only the rich, the famous and the important could seek treatment.    Back in 2002, she was also working closely with the legendary Shi Dian-bang, former honorary president of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, a well-known expert in TCM spleen and stomach diseases and also liver disease. I followed Prof. Shi throughout 2005 at his specialist clinic, until his passing in December of that year. I remember him always starting his shift very early, at 7am on Tuesd...