In the beginning of chapter 3, Zhan reveals her experiences with medical miracles in Chinese medicine. In cases where traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have claimed to defy “death-sentences” that biomedicine could not fix, skeptics claim it to be “absurd” and “too anecdotal”.

At home, I often hear stories of Chinese medicine curing something that biomedicine couldn’t find answers to. Although they weren’t “death-sentences”, smaller issues such as incontinence, constipation, insomnia, and other ailments were solved through my mother’s experience in Chinese medicine. Reflecting on these experiences and sharing Zhan’s perspective on these topics, I think that many people fail to recognize the legitimacy of Chinese medicine. TCM relies upon “clinical miracles” as a testament to its efficacy, but what about it’s everyday usage by millions of people? Moreover, “clinical miracles” occur in biomedicine as well. Personally, my perspective is that both forms of medicine deserve a place in healthcare.