It wasn't that Du Heng was being overly anxious and impatient; he truly felt deeply about this issue.
Looking around, good traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are usually nurtured from a young age, with a Master teaching them personally. Even so, those who can truly stand on their own typically only gain some renown after they are over forty and their faces are lined with wrinkles.
Cao Binghe is a talented practitioner, 29 years old and a PhD student under a famous expert. However, when it came to treating patients, he was completely outmatched by Western Medicine Doctors of the same age. During the month he spent with Du Heng, his diagnoses were often inaccurate, or his prescriptions inappropriate. His title of attending Physician had been earned through rote memorization and didn't correlate much with his actual abilities.
