My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1048: Chapter 413: The Link Between Thrombectomy and Debridement, Hypochondria Is the Most Frightening (2)

After successfully removing the thrombus for the patient, Zhou Can felt a wave of fear. If he hadn’t discovered the thrombus in time, the wound on the patient’s leg would certainly have continued to worsen. By tomorrow, there’s a high chance they would have to make the heart-wrenching decision to amputate to save his life.

This could be a devastating blow to the family.

The patient would lose the ability to work after amputation, and his wife might not be able to accept the fact that her husband has become disabled due to financial difficulties. Intense family conflicts might arise, leading to divorce in the end.

Her husband might also become despondent.

The ones who suffer in the end are those two poor children.

They’re still so young.

And from what they said, there’s also an older daughter in middle school.

Who will take care of these two minors then?

[Pathological Diagnosis Experience Points +1, Bonus Experience Points +100.]

[Wound Cleaning Skill Experience Points +1, Bonus Experience Points +1000.]

[Special Medical Skill, Compassion Experience Points +1, Bonus Experience Points +100.]

Zhou Can did not expect that merely helping a patient with a thrombus removal would yield such a rewarding amount of medical experience points.

Especially the Compassion medical skill experience points, which are extremely difficult to earn.

Receiving a reward of 100 experience points at once was as thrilling as winning the lottery. This special medical skill has still not been upgraded.

Its role remains a mystery.

Based on Zhou Can’s experience, the more difficult the medical skill is to improve, the more significant its impact tends to be.

Take pathological diagnosis or pharmacological differentiation, for example. If elevated to Level 4, that would represent a legitimate Internal Medicine attending level. At Level 5, it would be at the vice-director level.

Currently, both of these medical skills are at Level 5, ensuring a solid vice-director level.

This is why many times during his later training periods, he was even more impressive than the vice-director of the department. Especially after his training in Digestive Internal Medicine, this advantage became particularly glaring.

Physicians from the department, including attending and even director physicians, would often invite him for consultations.

To put it nicely, it was a joint consultation. Put bluntly, it was just asking for his help.

When pharmacological differentiation reached Level 5, it directly manifested in his ability to issue medical orders.

Whether it was a temporary order, an emergency order, an admission order, or a postoperative order, Zhou Can could earn the trust of senior doctors and had the authority to make decisions first and report them later.

What does that mean?

When he encounters a situation needing a medical order, he can issue the order to save lives first and have the senior doctor sign it later.

"Clearly it was just a thrombus removal; how did Wound Cleaning Skill’s experience points increase as well? And it even gave a rare reward of a thousand points."

Gaining 100 experience points in pathological diagnosis was understandable.

After all, he discovered a highly hidden arterial thrombus based on some tiny hints. Whether it was the initial diagnosing clinic, the Provincial People’s Hospital doctors, or doctors from Tu Ya’s General Surgery and Emergency Department, none of them were able to find this hidden lesion.

Zhou Can’s ability to find it was a major breakthrough in diagnosis and also an accumulation of diagnostic experience.

Wound cleaning and thrombus removal seem unrelated, as if worlds apart!

After pondering for a moment, Zhou Can gained some insight. Although thrombus removal and wound cleaning appear to be unrelated, if the arterial thrombus is not removed, his thorough wound cleaning efforts would be in vain.

This is somewhat like the metaphors often used by entrepreneurs, equating health to the number 1, and all the money earned as the zeros following it.

Without health, no matter how many zeros one earns, it is meaningless.

This arterial thrombus and wound healing have a direct crucial relationship.

Though seemingly unrelated to Wound Cleaning Skill, it determines the outcome of the wound cleaning.

Medical skill advancement to Level 5 no longer translates to merely improved technical operations; it extends to deeper pathology and body mechanisms.

He has a feeling that maybe when he reaches Level 6, even a minor illness might require him to consider it from the perspective of the lesion, taking into account the three major circulations and nine major systems in all aspects.

The human body is indeed an entirety.

A seemingly small lesion can often impact the entire body.

This shift in perspective seems to compel him to adopt a broader view and take in the whole picture, rather than limiting himself to a narrow lesion area or one system affected by the lesion.

Shedding the heavy lead gown, Zhou Can stepped out of the intervention room, a genuine smile spreading across his face.

Nothing made him happier than successfully treating a patient.

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The next morning during rounds, he made a special note to check on that patient.

According to the patient’s own report, the dull pain in the leg had vanished. Furthermore, the patient’s wound showed noticeable signs of improvement. This was an excellent trend.

After finishing the rounds, he made a deliberate trip to the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department.

"Dr. Zhou is here!"

"Good morning, Dr. Zhou!"

Though the medical staff still greeted him warmly as they always did, he could distinctly sense the heavy and oppressive atmosphere in the air.

There seemed to be significantly fewer patients than before.

All signs pointed to the fact that this once top department was waning at an alarming pace.

It was a stark contrast to the thriving and rapidly rising Emergency Department.

Witnessing this, Zhou Can felt a dull ache inside.

His mentor, Director Hu Kan, had poured his life’s work into making the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department a nationwide leader. Yet, due to a lack of successors, the department quickly went into decline.

"Has Director Xue arrived?"

"It seemed she didn’t go home yesterday, appearing quite down. You should check on her! She’s in the office!"