My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 908: Chapter 361: Steady as a Mountain—The Difference Between Having and Not Having a Knife

No one was forced to give these three red envelopes. Even if my cousin didn’t give the extra ones, the three wouldn’t have said much.

But that’s how interactions between people work. Once you’ve tasted the sweetness and gained benefits, others will want to continue associating with you. If you’re too stingy and don’t understand how to be a person, next time people will avoid you.

My cousin, who has climbed to the position of deputy section chief, naturally understands these simple truths.

Money that needs to be spent should never be saved.

Over fifty minutes later, Zhou Can arrived at Tuya Hospital. The Emergency Department is like his home ground; here, most doctors and nurses know him well and greeted him warmly.

“Ah Can!”

The cousin, waiting outside the emergency room, was very touched to see him personally come over so late.

“How’s Uncle?”

Zhou Can was very concerned about Uncle’s safety.

“Shortly after you made the call, the hospital admitted my dad into the emergency room. However, Cardiovascular Internal Medicine currently has no available beds; we can only wait until tomorrow to see.”

The cousin was already very satisfied with this outcome.

If it weren’t for Zhou Can’s help today, his father might still not have received care.

For patients transferred from other hospitals, any hospital would be extra cautious when receiving them.

Especially for critically ill patients.

It’s easy for things to go wrong once they are in your hands.

It’s common to see patients transferred from other hospitals in the emergency or outpatient departments who are unable to receive treatment for a long time. Because hospitals cannot openly reject patients, they often resort to some soft handling methods.

Nurses act as mediators to persuade the family and patients, saying that your illness is too severe, our hospital isn’t specialized in treating this, another hospital excels more in this area, suggesting they seek treatment there instead.

Some families, after hearing this, would leave with the patients.

Some, for various reasons, would insist on not leaving.

At this point, nurses would deliberately let the patients stay there aimlessly, hoping family members would retreat knowing how difficult it is.

Another common excuse is that we have tight bed availability, and there really are no beds. Patients transferring tend to have very severe conditions, so time can’t be wasted, and no one dares to gamble.

If they hang around for a day without receiving any treatment, they might not get a bed either.

Of course, no one dares to gamble, so they obediently leave.

When Uncle was first sent over, the doctors in the Emergency Department surely understood the situation. Finding it tricky, they didn’t want to accept him.

They just didn’t expect the patient to be Zhou Can’s uncle. After Director Lou made a call, they had to admit him.

Some family members naively believe that health authorities have regulations that hospitals cannot deny care, so they transfer patients without verifying beforehand. Only to find out with great dismay that the world is so dark.

My cousin, being part of this big system, understands these intricacies quite well. This is why he is very pleased with the current outcome.

“After working hours tomorrow, I’ll visit Cardiovascular Internal Medicine to try and get Uncle a bed. However, beds at Tuya Hospital are indeed scarce, so I can’t promise anything.”

Zhou Can also didn’t want to make any absolute promises.

In Cardiothoracic Surgery, getting a bed is just a matter of saying the word. But in Cardiovascular Internal Medicine, since he’s not very familiar with them, he might have to ask Director Tan for help.

Using up so many personal favors for one matter was indeed something Zhou Can had not expected.

“I don’t have many acquaintances at Tuya Hospital, so I can only rely on you,” my cousin said a bit bitterly.

After his father fell sick, he realized that as a deputy section chief, he was nothing and not able to exert much influence.

“No need for formalities between us brothers! How many days leave can you take? Uncle will need someone to accompany him during his hospital stay, and I reckon it will be quite a long stay, so you need to be mentally prepared.”

Zhou Can gave his cousin a heads-up in advance.

Hospitalization requires someone to accompany the patient. Having doctors and nurses attend to the patient’s daily needs is unrealistic. Either family members accompany or hire a caregiver.

Therefore, having more children means that when you fall sick in old age, there will be more people to share the burden.

If there’s only one child, the entire burden falls on them, and that pressure will be immense.

“I’ll see how things go! If it doesn’t work out, I’ll have my mom come over to take care of him for a while, or I’ll hire a caregiver.”

My cousin already had plans for this.

Uncle’s treatment this time will definitely cost a lot of money, and my cousin’s family is just moderately well-off. He will save wherever he can, and it’s very likely he’ll call Aunt over to accompany Uncle.

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By the time Zhou Can returned to the dorm apartment, it was already close to ten o’clock.

Opening the dorm door, he was surprised to find Jin Mingxi practicing his knife skills—not by directly slicing carrots but by using a scalpel to carve on them.

“Zhou Can, you finally came back! Did you handle things at home?”

Jin Mingxi looked very happy to see him return.

“Yeah, it’s been taken care of.”

Zhou Can walked behind him and picked up a carved carrot to take a look.

“Are you planning to change careers and become an artist?”

“Haha, you don’t get it! Director Hu taught me to enhance my surgical skills this way. He said my cutting skills were barely adequate, but my knife techniques and flexibility are lacking. Carving can make me more dexterous.”

Having received guidance from Hu Kan, Jin Mingxi was now filled with enthusiasm from the inside out.

This passionate, motivated, and determined attitude is truly commendable.

Zhou Can had experienced it before.

Especially during the year he was preparing for the Medical Practitioner Certificate, he felt like a clock completely wound up, always full of energy and strength endlessly ticking forward.