Bai Xiao nodded. Everyone was satisfied with the stakes.
Dr. Xue seized the moment when Smith was using his glucose meter to test his blood sugar and walked up to Bai Xiao to ask, "Dr. Bai, are you confident?" Since this was about two votes, they had to take it seriously.
Bai Xiao grinned mischievously and said, "Dr. Xue! If I’m not confident about curing it, I’m definitely not worried about failing to cure it either!"
"You! Stop messing around. This is such a serious matter, and you still have the nerve to joke about it." Dr. Xue felt both love and exasperation for Bai Xiao.
The more he looked at this girl, the more he liked her. How great it would be if she could be his last disciple.
She was such a promising talent.
But unfortunately, she just happened to be completely uninterested in surgery. Threats and temptations wouldn’t work on her at all.
How could he have not encountered someone like this earlier?
Why did she go and study Traditional Chinese Medicine instead?
What a waste, what a waste!
Whenever Dr. Xue saw Bai Xiao, his heart ached beyond measure.
In his mind, there were still many significant differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine. The scope of Traditional Chinese Medicine was limited, and the topic of integrating Chinese and Western medicine had yet to find a clear path forward. Everyone was still exploring. Perhaps he should focus on persuading Bai Xiao to study Western medicine. Isn’t integration between Chinese and Western medicine the ultimate goal?
"Dr. Xue, everything is ready now!" Liu Hongmin and Vice Principal Zhao looked slightly worried.
Though Liu Hongmin had witnessed Bai Xiao doing acupuncture detoxification firsthand, diabetes and toxins were not the same thing. Other than Metformin and insulin, Western medicine had yet to find truly effective treatments for diabetes, which couldn’t be treated with surgery.
Liu Hongmin’s original intention was to have Bai Xiao apologize and smooth things over. After all, angering the evaluation committee wouldn’t bode well for their future applications.
If the committee gave them trouble down the road, the consequences would be serious.
Even if they didn’t, if this application failed, it could give ammunition to those with ulterior motives to target their school. That kind of burden was something they definitely couldn’t bear.
But with Dr. Xue here, any such suggestion couldn’t be openly voiced. Dr. Xue’s personality was incredibly tough. If he heard that kind of talk, the academy would likely never be able to invite him to lecture again. They were caught in a tough spot.
Vice Principal Zhao also felt a headache coming on. For the first time, he and Liu Hongmin were united in their stance, but neither dared to act rashly.
Regardless of the current blood sugar reading, Smith would still test it.
No comparison, no pain.
Mike personally stepped forward to test the blood sugar level. "Currently, the blood sugar level is 11.5. Smith ate breakfast on the plane this morning. Based on the timing, it’s been about two hours. We don’t need precision here; let’s use this as the baseline. Dr. Bai, how many acupuncture sessions do you think it’ll take to see results?" Mike was a kind person and wouldn’t corner others completely.
He was giving Bai Xiao some leeway. Ten sessions or eight sessions—by the time this evaluation process ended, they wouldn’t need to treat the issue too seriously. He still wasn’t very confident in acupuncture.
Liu Hongmin immediately smiled and chimed in, "Dr. Bai, acupuncture works slowly—it’ll probably take ten sessions or eight, right?" If someone offers you a way out, you’d be foolish not to take it.
Vice Principal Zhao, sensing the subtext, quickly added, "Traditional Chinese Medicine works gradually and requires more time. It should take a while."
Smith laughed unrestrainedly. "Haha, you guys are really funny. Didn’t Dr. Bai just now say otherwise? Didn’t she claim it’d work immediately with one needle? Now you’re backtracking—doesn’t that seem a bit despicable?"
"I guarantee results with one needle!" Bai Xiao coolly replied. If she couldn’t treat Smith’s diabetes, she’d consider her life utterly wasted.