Recently, I met a 65-year-old man who came to the clinic with “tinnitus in the left ear for more than 1 month”. The patient complained that in the past month, he had experienced discomfort from tinnitus in the left ear, buzzing sound, no significant difference between daytime and nighttime tinnitus, tinnitus caused poor sleep, irritability and anxiety during the day, and irritability, and he initially suspected that it was due to kidney deficiency, so he went to an urban Chinese medicine clinic. After the doctor saw the patient, he thought it was tinnitus due to kidney deficiency and prescribed the patient a month of Chinese medicine at a total cost of 5,800 yuan. The total consultation time was 5 minutes, and the patient had no tinnitus attack at the follow-up consultation today. The patient looked at me and said that he had taken 5,800 yuan of traditional Chinese medicine, but he was very grateful that I could solve his problem so quickly and easily, but when he thought of taking traditional Chinese medicine for one month, he felt very uncomfortable and looked depressed. Deng Zehai, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Third People’s Hospital of Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province From this case, we can see that patients should not have preconceived ideas during the consultation process, and any disease should be diagnosed clearly before treating it symptomatically, rather than blindly. It is extremely important to choose a good specialist during the consultation process.