Japanese Herbal Medicine

　　I attended a lecture about Japanese herbal medicine. When I finished at my university,  herbal medicine was not popular. Most students didn't give it the time of day. Herbal medicine used to be disregarded as folk quackery. So, I don't have enough knowledge about it and have to learn it now. In the lecture, two volunteers were kind enough to be the patients for participants' learning. I learned how to pick out the physical findings from them under the instruction of a practitioner of traditional herbal medicine.

　　I think that it is the same in a variety of other fields, and I realize that I have to learn all the time as long as I work as a surgeon.

(Vocabulary)

not give someone the time of day  見向きもしない

【語源】Good afternoon.やGood morning.などの「１日のうちの時(the time of day )」を示す挨拶を人にしないという意味

disregard  …を無視する, 軽視する

quackery  いんちき療法

medicine には the は付かない