The Value of Medical Records 0083

Even attending a lecture could enhance his mental attributes, making Chen Jue increasingly convinced that his decision to audit classes at Jiang University was the right one.

Still, Zhou Chuan’s earlier discussion about the relationship between the gallbladder and courage only revealed a sliver of the gallbladder’s mysterious function, leaving Chen Jue’s doubts unresolved.

“The gallbladder must be just a small part of his research topic.”

“Besides, the paper was only excerpted, and I read it in snippets; the full content wasn’t shown to the public!” Chen Jue mused silently. He felt it necessary to seek a private conversation with this eccentric scholar.

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Zhou Chuan’s exposition lasted only a few minutes, as other students had questions to ask, and the classroom’s Q&A session was not solely his stage.

After briefly presenting the excerpt of his paper, Zhou Chuan unplugged his USB drive and returned to his seat.

Yet, Zhou Chuan’s forward-thinking and well-supported hypothesis about the gallbladder stood out so much that the subsequent students’ questions and discussions seemed dull in comparison.

Even Xia Xue, the teaching assistant, offered little in the way of rebuttal, causing the students to respect Zhou Chuan—the senior renowned for his academic eccentricity—even more.

When the class bell rang, most male students lingered with undisguised reluctance, watching Xia Xue, her coat fluttering, depart with her bag and textbooks. Only a handful approached Zhou Chuan to discuss and inquire about his novel ideas in class.

Chen Jue was among that select few.

“Zhou Chuan, I’d like to invite you to lunch. Would you do me the honor?” Chen Jue caught up to him, exchanged a few words, and introduced himself briefly.

“Lunch invitation?”

Zhou Chuan paused, sizing up Chen Jue. Suddenly, he recalled that the first person to applaud him at the podium was this older student before him.

Though he didn’t know why Chen Jue was so interested in him, Zhou Chuan couldn’t bring himself to refuse such enthusiastic support.

After a brief chat, the two headed to the nearest student cafeteria together.

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In the cafeteria, Chen Jue ordered a few good dishes and invited Zhou Chuan to sit.

As they ate, Chen Jue voiced many of his doubts.

“Zhou Chuan, it seems your paper omits a lot of crucial data and information.”

“Even in your discussion about the gallbladder and courage, as well as environmental influences, you only covered select sections.”

“Could I see the complete paper? I’m genuinely interested in your research!” Chen Jue asked earnestly, explaining that he was merely auditing and wasn’t seeking the paper for academic purposes.

He simply wanted to understand how the relationship between the gallbladder and courage, along with environmental factors, could be leveraged to treat his own gallstone disease more effectively.

“You have gallstones, Brother Jue?”

“But my paper hasn’t been published yet. Many key data points are still under analysis. You’ll have to wait until it’s featured in a professional journal before seeing the full text.” Zhou Chuan was surprised to learn that the older student pursuing his paper was actually a patient.

Still, mindful of protecting his research, Zhou Chuan gently refused Chen Jue’s request.

Academic frauds are rampant these days, and Zhou Chuan did not want to share his hard-earned findings too easily. If someone plagiarized his ideas, it would be a significant loss.

Despite his eccentric reputation, Zhou Chuan possessed considerable emotional intelligence. He handled social matters deftly; otherwise, he wouldn’t have seamlessly completed his combined bachelor’s-master’s program at Jiang University, nor would he have secured early admission to a doctoral program under a renowned clinical medicine professor.

Chen Jue, though politely rebuffed, was not discouraged. After all, it was his first encounter with this academic maverick. If trust were so easily won, the eccentric reputation would be undeserved.

“How long until your paper is published?” Chen Jue asked curiously.

“Probably not until I finish graduate school.”

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“Because I still need some survey data, and I have to raise funds to purchase information from professional data companies,” Zhou Chuan replied honestly.

During their meal, Zhou Chuan had already examined the electronic medical record Chen Jue showed him on his phone.

The record came from the most specialized gallstone surgery hospital in the country, Eastern Hospital, and its authenticity was obvious.

Learning he’d have to wait a year or two to read the paper, Chen Jue felt an itch of impatience.

For the sake of his health, he couldn’t wait even a day, let alone a year or two.

So Chen Jue shifted his approach, expressing willingness to pay to view only the section on courage and gallstone onset, prevention, and treatment from the “Discussion on the Influence of Regional Environment on Visceral Organ Function,” even if it was abridged.

These days, even reading online content costs money. Paying for a specialist’s research paper seemed reasonable.

When Zhou Chuan heard the paid proposal, he set down his bowl and chopsticks, pondered, and asked, “Brother Jue, how much are you willing to pay for this paper?”

“Well... I can afford tens of thousands,” Chen Jue replied sheepishly, considering his bank balance—after rent and camera equipment, he had just over 130,000 left.

“Not enough! Far from enough!”

“That amount wouldn’t even cover the survey costs for a single section of my paper!” Zhou Chuan shook his head and added meaningfully, “Knowledge is priceless, and healthcare is currently humanity’s most extravagant form of consumption.”

“Brother Jue, do you know what the world’s wealthiest are doing? New energy? Chips? The metaverse? Space exploration? Actually, none of these. Once the top billionaires achieve wealth and freedom, they all pursue health and longevity!”

“Health and longevity?” Chen Jue was stunned. He followed current affairs but never paid attention to the health industry.

Especially the term “longevity”—it stretched his imagination, as if listening to some celestial scripture.

Zhou Chuan smiled, opened a trending news article on his phone, and explained: “Amazon founder Jeff Bezos invested $3 billion to create Altos Labs, a cellular regeneration company. His goal is to replace all hundreds of trillions of human cells, reverting his body to infant state and living anew.”

“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also invested $3 billion to establish the BioHub institute, hoping to discover the secret of immortality. He even consulted Stephen Hawking on how to achieve longevity and cure all diseases!”

“All top billionaires are investing in their health and lifespan, hoping to attain immortality like Sun Wukong.”

“My research is aimed at one day selling to these top billionaires.”

“Without funding, it’s hard to sustain my research,” Zhou Chuan sighed.

This is a harsh reality; whether genius, prodigy, or eccentric, to keep research going and produce results, one must ultimately secure funding.

Chen Jue fell silent, realizing that compared to these billionaires, apart from his unique abilities, he was far behind materially.

“Have any of these billionaires achieved results?” Chen Jue asked.

Zhou Chuan nodded: “Definitely! For example, Silicon Valley’s Bryan Johnson is among the more radical ones. He used his own body as a template to launch a rejuvenation project.”

“He hired 30 doctors to monitor his data in real time, spending $2 million a year to establish a standardized anti-aging protocol. Initially, he tried three-generational blood exchange with his son and father.”

“After the blood exchange failed, he switched to regulated maintenance.”

“Sleeping at 8:30 pm, rising at 5 am, swallowing over a hundred supplements upon waking, exercising for an hour, scientifically portioned diet, applying seven ointments daily, weekly skin acid peels and laser treatments, using antioxidant gels head to toe, rinsing with tea tree oil after meals, maintaining dental hygiene, and more. These are just the publicly disclosed routines—there’s much more we don’t see.”

“To date, the 45-year-old Bryan Johnson possesses a 37-year-old heart, 28-year-old skin, and 18-year-old physical fitness. This is the health outcome forged by combining wealth with top-tier medicine!”

Chen Jue was dumbfounded by this case, amazed that someone could be even more extreme than his own unique methods.

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While Chen Jue was marveling at the efforts made by these billionaires for longevity, Zhou Chuan was gazing thoughtfully at Chen Jue’s medical record. He suddenly changed his tone and proposed, “Brother Jue, I can let you preview the excerpt on the gallbladder and courage—even free of charge. But I have one condition.”

“What condition?” Chen Jue’s eyes lit up. He finally managed to pry open the eccentric’s mouth.

“I want your follow-up gallstone treatment records!”

“Because your gallstone shrank by two millimeters in a very short time, which is extremely rare clinically. If you can continue to provide monthly records, preferably with details of your daily habits and diet, it would greatly benefit my research,” Zhou Chuan explained.

“Tracking medical records?”

Chen Jue frowned, recalling that Xu Ping’an had also made a similar request.

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He hadn’t thought much of it before, since most people don’t pay much attention to their medical records.

But after hearing Zhou Chuan’s stories of the value of medical health, Chen Jue realized the significance of his own records.

“Yes, tracking medical records!”

“This is a common clinical method for monitoring conditions. Valuable rare cases can even be traded openly in the medical world.”

“You provide records, I provide the paper, and we share information. It’s a fair exchange,” Zhou Chuan clarified.

Chen Jue pondered for a while. He considered that Zhou Chuan’s research, being recognized by his abilities and triggering prompts, must be exceptional.

So, after finishing lunch, Chen Jue agreed to Zhou Chuan’s request.

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He added Zhou Chuan on WeChat and sent over his medical records from several checkups.

True to his word, Zhou Chuan sent the excerpt on the gallbladder from his “Discussion on the Influence of Regional Environment on Visceral Organ Function” paper, as an encrypted file.

He even used a self-destructing, single-use document, showing how precious he considered his research.

“Knowledge truly is priceless!” Chen Jue marveled at Zhou Chuan’s caution.

Returning to his apartment, Chen Jue opened the encrypted file on his computer, then photographed it on his phone for backup—a little trick to avoid forgetting after one read.

Once finished, Chen Jue began to carefully read the excerpt on gallbladder function.

Beyond the points Zhou Chuan mentioned in class—decisiveness, courage, ancient humans’ reliance on animal fat for survival—Chen Jue found many more related data on regional diets and differences among ethnic groups.

“No wonder Zhou Chuan dismissed my little money!”

“These data alone must have cost a fortune to collect,” Chen Jue thought.

The excerpt clearly represented a major investment. It included distribution maps of gallstone incidence across China and even foreign data.

Especially striking were the findings on populations living near the Arctic Circle, such as the Laplanders, Aleutians, and Inuit, who retain traditional lifestyles and consume raw seal fat. Their incidence of gallstones was much lower than that of people in warmer regions—only a fraction of a percent.

Moreover, Zhou Chuan specifically listed data on people with high levels of courage—those in hazardous professions like skyscraper window cleaning, high-voltage line maintenance, and signal tower repair. Constant exposure to danger fostered greater courage, significantly reducing their risk of gallstones.

“What we call courage is actually an extension of the concept of ‘gall energy’ in traditional medicine.”

“The five organs correspond to the five elements and five energies; the gallbladder is wood. The more ‘gall energy’ (courage) one has, the stronger the gallbladder’s function becomes, effectively preventing gallbladder diseases.”

Chen Jue quietly recited the excerpt, his eyes brightening as he absorbed the hidden content unseen in class, gradually opening his mind.

Though the paper didn’t specify how to treat gallstones, the detailed comparative data further validated Zhou Chuan’s hypothesis about courage and gallbladder function.

“The greater the courage, the better the prevention and treatment of gallbladder disease.”

“I’m now using attribute points and special medicines to slowly dissolve my gallstones.”

“If I want to accelerate the process, it seems I need to focus on training my courage!”

Closing his laptop, Chen Jue savored Zhou Chuan’s paper, finally settling his attention on the ‘Climbing’ skill in his abilities panel.

First update~

PS: The billionaires mentioned are all real people. For example, Musk—he was almost bald before, but in recent years, thanks to various hi-tech treatments, he’s visibly more youthful (side-eye).

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