The Ultimate Reborn Heiress (Scarlett) novel Chapter 138

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Then came the afternoon practical assessment.

The practical assessment was naturally much harder than the written exam.

The content of the practical assessment varied each time.

Candidates only learned the specific test content once they arrived at the examination site.

The first part of this practical assessment was to read the pulse of an actual patient.

There was only one patient.

After reading the pulse and completing the full diagnostic examination, candidates could write down the patient’s symptoms, the cause of illness, and a treatment prescription on their answer sheet. They could also include a needle therapy treatment plan if applicable.

In other words, if the candidate determined that needle therapy would benefit the patient, they could add the specific pressure points and techniques needed for the treatment.

After all, needle therapy was an inseparable part of traditional medicine.

It could be said to work hand in hand with herbal remedies.

But not every illness required needle therapy.

The patient was a 65–year–old woman.

The 11 candidates would each take turns reading the patient’s pulse.

Each person had three minutes for the pulse reading.

Including observation and inquiry, each person had five minutes total.

Scarlett was scheduled to go last this time.

After the ten candidates before her had all read the pulse, observed symptoms, and asked their questions, they wrote down their answers.

Only then did Scarlett approach the elderly woman.

First, she placed her fingers on the three pulse pressure points along the woman’s left wrist.

Then she immediately switched to check the three pulse pressure points on the woman’s right wrist.

The pulse readings from the left and right hands corresponded to different organs.

For example, the three positions on the left wrist represented the heart, chest center, liver, gallbladder. kidneys, bladder, and small intestine.

The three positions on the right wrist represented the lungs, thoracic cavity, spleen, stomach, kidneys,

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vital gate, and large intestine.

This was what the traditional medicine textbooks taught.

A skilled practitioner could detect far more about the body’s organs, internal systems, and blood circulation from these six pulse points on both wrists.

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After all, the body’s energy channels were all connected, branching out to every muscle, bone, organ, and blood vessel throughout the entire body.

Everything was interconnected.

A truly skilled healer could diagnose any of a patient’s ailments just from their pulse.

Scarlett’s entire pulse reading took only about ten seconds.

Then she observed the woman’s complexion and overall appearance.

She also asked the elderly woman to stick out her tongue for examination.

Scarlett actually already knew what this assessment was testing for.

The elderly woman had a summer cold.

Yellow nasal discharge, a swollen headache, a red and swollen throat, a flushed complexion, and weakness in her limbs.

This was the main focus of the assessment.

But the elderly woman clearly had more than just these symptoms.

Scarlett had already completed her examination.

She didn’t even bother asking the elderly woman if she had any other symptoms.

She was ready to write down her answers.

Finally, the elderly woman couldn’t hold back. “Miss, why was your pulse reading so fast? Everyone before you took several minutes and asked all sorts of questions. How come you didn’t ask anything?”

The elderly woman’s voice was a bit hoarse.

That was caused by her sore throat from the summer cold.

Scarlett smiled. “Don’t worry, I’ve already read your pulse properly. I know exactly what’s wrong with you.”

The elderly woman was genuinely curious, but she knew she couldn’t ask.

She didn’t want to disturb the other candidates.

Scarlett quickly wrote down the elderly woman’s conditions on her answer sheet.

Besides the ordinary summer cold, the elderly woman also had chronic throat inflammation, insomnia

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caused by nervous system weakness, some cervical spine degeneration, high blood pressure, and a benign uterine fibroid.

Scarlett wrote down all of these conditions.

She even included how to treat each condition, what prescriptions to use, and what needle therapy techniques to apply.

The practical assessment was scored on the spot.

There were three examination proctors in total.

All of them were quite elderly.

They were basically all in their 50s or 60s.

The three proctors had already reviewed and scored the previous candidates‘ answers.

The practical assessment was worth a total of 150 points.

The first part, the patient diagnosis, was worth 100 points.

Basically, scoring 80 points on this patient diagnosis portion meant you passed.

The second part was worth 50 points. If you could get 40 points there, meaning a total score of 120, you would pass the practical assessment.

As long as you could correctly diagnose the patient’s summer cold and write the correct treatment plan, you could get 80 points.

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