As long as they're not acupuncture needles. Those give me the creeps, and my doc back home is way too fond of them.

[What he wouldn't give for some modern medicine sometimes, but it wouldn't have fit in the setting... Sigh. Shang Qinghua plonked himself down in the chair, arranging his sword to be out of the way.]

I'll be good. I'm used to losing blood.