My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1020: Chapter 403: Perception Determines Achievement, Clues to Wild Medicinal Herbs

Fish and bear paws might be attainable together, but there are things that only allow a choice between two.

For example, we often notice some people around us who love to take petty advantages; their careers rarely prosper. They get pushed further aside as time goes on.

It’s not that they aren’t smart, or that their abilities are lacking, but they’ve developed a habit of taking petty advantages. After others interact with them once or twice and suffer losses, they’ll avoid dealing with such people next time or be on guard against them.

Imagine this: there is a cooperation opportunity. The other party thinks this person loves to take petty advantages, cooperating will surely involve all sorts of scheming. They decide it’s better to find someone else.

During company dinners or team exercises, people tend to keep their distance from such individuals.

Dining with such people not only might make you pick up the tab but also see them pocket a pack of cigarettes or beverages, which is extremely disgusting.

Gradually, this person who loves petty advantages will squander all their goodwill. Thus, they regress as they live, destined to work at the bottom rung of society all their life.

If doctors focus solely on money, consumed with thoughts of making a fortune, their energy and time will be spent on devising ways to exploit patients.

The pursuit of medical skills will naturally deteriorate.

Eventually, they tread a crooked path, and not ending up in jail would already be a stroke of luck.

To become a truly great doctor goes entirely against such tendencies; it would never be possible in a lifetime.

Dr. Zhou Can’s medical skills continue to improve, not only because of his exceptional system support and innate talent but also because of his focused dedication and love for medical skills. He doesn’t worry about money; his sole concern is how to treat patients effectively, reduce recovery time, and provide the best treatment plans.

Unlike some unscrupulous doctors who, despite knowing the patient has a tumor, deliberately prescribe many medications for the patient to take. Then, after a while, upon examination, they find the tumor has grown to nearly ten centimeters, only then telling the patient that surgery is required to resolve it.

Worse still, a certain cancer hospital, fully aware the patient is beyond saving, tells the patient that there’s little hope at their hospital but hears that a certain hospital is skilled in treating malignant tumors at advanced stages, possibly relieving suffering and extending survival.

In this moment of despair, the patient, desperate like a drowning person clutching at a straw, naturally heads to the recommended hospital for treatment.

Little do they know, the chief physician of the oncology department at this new hospital was formerly from the previous cancer hospital.

At the original hospital, he was merely at the bottom rung.

As there were too many capable chief physicians.

Upon moving to this new hospital, his status skyrocketed, becoming the head of the oncology department.

Thus, most late-stage patients who couldn’t be treated at the former hospital are persuaded to undergo treatment here. Various expensive imported drugs and treatment methods are used until the patients and their families are drained of all savings. The patients won’t be easily allowed to die.

In the end, as the patients near death, they even feel grateful to this unscrupulous chief physician.

"Thank you truly; your benevolence and medical prowess kept me alive this long."

Since the patient was sentenced to death without hope at the previous hospital, their expectations for treatment aren’t high; even with such a result here, they feel it’s good.

Conversely, those true good doctors, upon realizing the patient cannot be saved, try to dissuade the family from continuing treatment to prevent them from losing both lives and money and to lessen the patient’s suffering. But they are labeled as cold-hearted animals by the family and patients.

That’s why the world is inverted between right and wrong.

Usually, Dr. Zhou Can wouldn’t talk to Luo Shishen about these philosophical life lessons.

Perhaps Luo Shishen calling him "mentor" earlier sparked a sense of responsibility as a teacher.

He hoped at least to guide Luo Shishen onto the right path, avoiding deviant ones.

"If being a doctor isn’t for money, then why would anyone be one?" Luo Shishen’s comprehension clearly doesn’t reach the heights of Dr. Zhou Can; he fundamentally can’t understand.

"Exactly, exactly. If not for the wage, why would anyone endure such hardship being a doctor or nurse? Besides being berated and exploited by patients and families, some disgusting male doctors find various excuses to bully and take advantage of us."

Ma Xiaolan chimed in from the side.

It’s very common for women to face harassment in the workplace.

The hospital seems sacred, but in reality, it’s a disaster zone.

A deputy chief physician in his fifties with children nearing thirty finds excuses to call a twenty-something intern nurse to his office. Eventually, the young nurse rushes out in tears and calls the police.

There’s no need to elaborate on what followed; the deputy chief physician stubbornly denies the incident.

After being taken away by the police, he quickly returned.

He continues working well in the hospital, without any impact on his position. On the contrary, the bullied young nurse resigned and left. This happened truly.

Many in the department, especially female nurses and doctors, privately curse the deputy chief, questioning how he could stoop so low given his age, practically old enough to be their father.

"Dr. Zhou Can meant not to say we shouldn’t draw a salary. Who wouldn’t be delighted about a pay raise? It’s also one of everyone’s motivations for work. However, if we work solely for money, our professional skills will be limited. If money is the measure for everything, in the end, we lose the original purpose and goal of being doctors and nurses. Is that correct?"