My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1301: Chapter 513: The Second Realm of Pathology, A Traitor Calls (2)

Zhou Can nodded and agreed.

He didn’t take it too seriously, purely treating it as a courtesy.

Family members often extend such invitations to him, more frequently asking him out for a meal directly. However, Zhou Can usually declines politely.

If he can’t decline, if the other person is too enthusiastic, then he has no choice but to go.

At these gatherings, the two parties would further close their relationship and become acquaintances.

One could also call this ’friends.’

But this type of ’friends,’ Zhou Can typically doesn’t take very seriously. Unless it’s someone like Mr. Cui and his wife, or Li Lao and his wife, who can be considered true friends.

When there’s something going on, Zhou Can would also outright ask them for help.

This type of ordinary connection, Zhou Can just considers it as forming a good relationship, nothing more.

"This is my home address and contact information. If it’s convenient for Dr. Zhou, you could leave me a private number, so I can save it."

She took out a notepad from her bag, wrote down her address, phone number, and name, and handed it to Zhou Can.

At this moment, Zhou Can could genuinely feel Ms. Yang Wen’s sincerity.

He took it with both hands and put it in his pocket.

He left her his personal cell number.

Actually, for someone like Yang Wen, who likely holds a significant position, willing to reveal her home address to Zhou Can and invite him to her home is already an extremely high level of sincerity.

Almost all higher-ranking officials wouldn’t easily reveal their home addresses to others.

Why?

Because too many people come to them for favors.

Revealing their home address implies giving others the opportunity to bring gifts to their doorstep.

Even corrupt officials, unless they’re completely foolish, generally wouldn’t let people bring gifts to their door. Blatantly accepting gifts is basically asking for trouble.

Therefore, Ms. Yang Wen willing to write down her home address for Zhou Can shows a genuine desire to deepen their connection.

To visit often in the future.

"Come, let me examine you."

Zhou Can conducted some examinations on Yang Zhongzhi, including listening to heart and lung sounds, measuring pulse strength, and testing Chen Zhongzhi’s leg movement functions, among others. The results satisfied him; the patient was completely normal.

He only needed to wait for further recovery before he could be discharged and sent home to recuperate.

Even after he left, Ms. Yang Wen remained enthusiastic and kind towards him. She didn’t have any airs.

This undoubtedly increased Zhou Can’s fondness for this family member.

However, the Yang Zhongzhi family seemed quite unusual; he not only took his mother’s surname, but his parents seemed to have a strained relationship as well. Under normal circumstances, no matter how busy with work, parents would come together to visit their son after such a major surgery.

But Chen Zhongzhi’s parents came separately.

Zhou Can never meddles in others’ family affairs.

After examining the ward, there’s still a pile of difficult cases and surgical plans awaiting his consultation.

Now with the pathology diagnosis advancing to Level 6, diagnosing many difficult cases has become noticeably easier.

There are difficult cases even Director Xue Yan’s joint consultations can’t determine the cause.

After Zhou Can looked over them, he could quickly deduce the specific pathological mechanism.

Ultimately, he pinpointed the lesion.

But he also experienced a previously unknown sensation of ’loneliness at the top.’ In theory, taking a big step in pathology diagnosis is a good thing.

During diagnoses, however, he found his medical knowledge seemed woefully insufficient.

Even in his proficiency area, cardiothoracic surgery, he could distinctly feel that medical knowledge was inadequate in many subfields.

For example, regarding cardiac surgery, he considered there were rarely any surgeries he couldn’t perform.

But now, during diagnoses, he found aspects like the mitral valve, tricuspid valve, diaphragm, chordae tendineae, neural signals, etc., becoming increasingly profound. Too many areas were left unexplored.

He had performed many tricuspid valve surgeries; he was familiar with the medical principles involved.

But in actual diagnostics yesterday, he found the patient’s incomplete tricuspid valve closure to be only superficial. There was another underlying reason for the true pathology. Furthermore, he was confident he could cure this patient through surgery, yet he couldn’t identify the deeper pathology.

In other words, he could cure the patient through surgery, but he didn’t know the true cause of the patient’s illness.

He only knew it was tricuspid valve closure insufficiency, without knowing what causes the closure insufficiency,

also couldn’t figure it out.

This kind of new feeling isn’t just experienced once.

It’s happening more and more.

When he only had Level 5 in pathology diagnosis, his attitude was to be invincible with no difficult cases to defeat.

Now the mindset is, unfamiliar with this, ignorant of that, like a primary school student going to school for the first time.

The sea of medical knowledge is vast and boundless.

He deeply feels that a lifetime isn’t enough to learn it all. It also brings a greater sense of awe for medicine, akin to revering life itself.

Using the Buddhist realm of cultivation to summarize, he is perhaps in the second realm of seeing a mountain as not a mountain, seeing water as not water.

The current level of pathology diagnosis belongs to seeking and tracing the origin of the disease causes.

This phenomenon is undoubtedly a good thing, indicating he is progressing.

But it also causes him considerable trouble and has somewhat impacted his confidence.

If there’s an opportunity, perhaps he can discuss with Dr. Xu, ask them whether they ever experience this feeling too.

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Cardiothoracic Surgery rapidly ascended, and its achievements had long surpassed the peak during Director Hu Kan’s tenure.

Now, Tua Hospital’s Cardiothoracic Surgery Department has become a monument, not just a prestigious sign.

After Zhou Can successfully conducted an innovative surgery on Yang Zhongzhi, he’s started to write papers in this field with Director Xue Yan’s assistance. The hospital is also strengthening his promotion.

Postgraduate exam results are still not out yet, they will likely be released around late February, approaching March.

As long as Zhou Can’s first-round, exam results meet the criteria, he’s almost assured success.

The retest will generally be easier.

Normally, the retest passage rate is about 1:1.5, in some places it’s even higher, reaching around 1:1.2.

That means among three persons, two will typically pass the retest and interview for admission.

For Zhou Can, the interview phase is predetermined.

If the hospital feels there’s a risk he might fail the retest, they might offer him a guaranteed admission. It’s akin to sponsorship but with a more complex operation.

As Zhou Can’s reputation spreads, more external doctors are consulting him.

This troubles Zhou Can greatly.

Because his time is already very tight. Some external experts genuinely come to seek surgical expertise or discuss medical issues with him. Yet others simply come to bask in his reputation for personal gain.

They visit to exchange knowledge with Zhou Can for two to three days, even when they haven’t spoken more than ten sentences in total. They return touting deep learning from a cardiothoracic expert, Dr. Zhou Can, of Tuya Hospital.

They use this as a highlight in their resume, heavily promoting it.

Many uninformed patients are drawn in by such boasting and choose such opportunistic doctors for surgery and treatment.

If the treatment is successful, all is well.

If it fails, patients will just blame Zhou Can for poor skills, tarnishing his reputation.

After discovering two such incidents, Zhou Can became extra cautious when interacting with other doctors. Additionally, the hospital’s legal team actively protects his rights.

That day, as usual, Zhou Can was heading to the Emergency Department to work.

During rounds, his phone rang.

Recently, he’s been bombarded with calls, some he really doesn’t want to answer.

Particularly from unfamiliar numbers.

Glancing at his phone, his expression changed; it was a call from the former Deputy Director Lu of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

This person used to be one of Director Xue Yan’s subordinates, like his right-hand man.

He was later poached by the Third Hospital with a high salary.

Reportedly, the Third Hospital offered a very high package and better benefits, far beyond what they offered to poach Vice Director Hee. And these offers were made directly by the Third Hospital’s Deputy Director Zhang.

Because of this, Vice Director Hee was greatly upset, flatly refusing to join the Third Hospital.

"Hello, Director Lu!"

Zhou Can answered the call.

To be honest, he had a poor opinion of these Tuya Hospital deserters.

These people initially chose to betray Tuya Hospital, teaming with the Third Hospital to intensely target Tuya Hospital’s Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, utterly lacking professional ethics.

A gentleman loves money and obtains it through ethical means.

They wished to earn more money to provide better lives for themselves and their families, that’s not inherently wrong.

But not remembering any favor from their previous employer, stabbing them in the back, such behavior is no different from those of scoundrels and ingrates.

I wonder why Deputy Director Lu suddenly called?