It reminds me of what I have learnt in class about the reluctant of Chinese to receive WM cure during Plague outbreak in Hong Kong. Since TCM was the mainstream disease curing method in Hong Kong for long, Chinese in the old times were reluctant to try out WM as a new way of cure. Besides, medical education to the public was not carried out before Plague outbreak, and took a few decades to popularize within the society. Although advertisements were used to promote health knowledge after plague, they were brief and contained limited information. People had to learn from school to have a complete understanding in health concepts and WM as a new way of curing method. The fact that compulsory education was not implemented until the second half of 20th century underlies that the elderly nowadays, who were born in the first half of 20th century, did not receive enough education on cure other than TCM. That could be a reason why most of the patients I saw in the Chinese medical clinic are the old ages. People born since 1970s are generally well educated and they have appropriate concepts on WM, and they may turn to WM because they prefer effective and pathogen-based approach to cure disease rapidly to save time in today's Hong kong which is deemed as having a fast living pace. The nourishing of life and patient-oriented curing approach may become less preferred and the younger generations may not go for a Chinese doctor. I do believe that these values from TCM are important and it should worth a part in our medical education too, in spite of the overwhelming efforts made to promote WM.
Also, Dr. Wong maintained a close doctor-patient relationship and made him trustable to the patients. As elaborated before, Dr. Wong made use of random conversations to draw him closer to the patients. During his diagnosis on my disease, he also had some casual chats with me, like asking for my updates and talking about how I have grown up from my primary age.
