My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 914: Chapter 363: This Is Talent—A Single Bloom Does Not Make Spring

And those with talent are truly in the minority.

If Cardiothoracic Surgery had one or two people with Zhou Can’s kind of talent, it wouldn’t find itself in the awkward situation of being short on successors and lacking a leading figure.

Talent is something difficult to articulate, yet it undeniably exists.

Take Jin Mingxi and Zhou Can for example; Jin Mingxi has been training since childhood, practicing the basics of the Stable Knife Technique for the past two years with solid foundations. But that’s all there is to it.

Zhou Can hasn’t practiced the Stable Knife Technique for long, yet he’s managed to grasp a near true essence of it—stable as a mountain—which is his insight and talent.

This is something Jin Mingxi and other chief physicians envy but can’t attain.

Following this, it essentially becomes Zhou Can’s solo performance: fast as the wind, each cut steady and increasingly stable, with high efficiency.

"Dr. Zhou’s surgical ability seems to have improved quite a lot!"

Director Xue Yan seems to have spotted something unusual.

She mumbles softly.

"Where has it improved?"

Director Hu Kan’s eyes brighten, holding more expectations for his apprentice who has already risen to chief physician.

Xue Yan’s medical knowledge is among the most profound in the department, extremely extensive, and she can apply it flexibly. In diagnosing complex and rare diseases, she often provides crucial reference suggestions, and even delivers precise diagnoses.

The only shortfall is that her surgical skill hasn’t reached top level.

Her ability at this moment to perceive Zhou Can’s significant improvement in knife skills may also hint at potential breakthroughs.

Through observation and reference, realizations could occur, which are paths to progress.

"Can’t say specifically, just feel like his knife cuts today are steadier than before, not as nimble, the speed slightly reduced. Just like a rash young man learning restraint and becoming stable."

She can’t see the invisible mountain on Zhou Can’s knife.

All she can see is Zhou Can’s knife technique becoming much steadier.

"Your observation is quite keen, keep watching! Xiao Zhou, this child, has truly impeccable insight."

Director Hu Kan nods slightly.

He instructs Director Xue Yan to continue observing and learning.

In routine surgeries, because Director Hu Kan’s skill level is so high, the chief physicians and attending physicians beneath him are essentially unaware of the true essence of his knife technique.

Right now, Zhou Can has just grasped a small portion of the true essence of the Stable Knife Technique, a period when others are most likely to gain realizations by watching.

If they wait until Zhou Can further masters the essence of "stable as a mountain," integrating it deeply into his knife technique, it will be difficult for these chief and attending physicians to discern anything.

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Over an hour later, a foreign object was removed from the patient’s lung.

The surface was somewhat darkened, appearing like a pendant from an earring or necklace. It’s unclear how the patient obtained it, ingested it, causing it to accidentally enter the bronchus via choking, eventually reaching the lung.

"This pendant seems to be made of platinum, not stainless steel or silver." Director Le said after closely inspecting the removed object with tweezers.

"Return it to the family! Sigh, having such an impaired son, this family is truly unfortunate."

Director Hu Kan sighed.

Doctors often encounter various distressed families, which for various reasons are filled with misfortunes, evoking sympathy.

Under normal circumstances, raising a son until twenty-eight would mean entering society to work, earn money, and repay the parents.

However, this patient’s mental disability makes it impossible to join the workforce, rendering him unable to care for himself at home, requiring parental supervision at all times. It’s likely his parents are not only exhausted but economically strained.

"Xiao Zhou, not bad! It seems your five-day leave didn’t waste your practice of the Stable Knife Technique."

While performing surgery earlier, Director Hu Kan didn’t interrupt Zhou Can.

Now with the first surgery completed, he couldn’t resist offering some praise.

"I just had a small insight while practicing the Stable Knife Technique. Today, trying to apply it during surgery, it brings considerable benefits. The surgical risks clearly reduced significantly."

After testing the practical effects of the Stable Knife Technique, Zhou Can felt quite satisfied.

To be precise, he combined the Stable Knife Technique with the Fast Knife Skill rather than solely using the Stable Knife Technique.

"Stay humble, continue practicing in this direction, and I believe you’ll make greater progress." Director Hu Kan nods slightly.

"Did any of you gain anything from observing Xiao Zhou’s surgery?"

Director Hu looks across the other doctors.

The crowd remains silent.

Xue Yan’s expression is slightly furrowed, her eyes focused and unwavering, evidently reflecting and contemplating Zhou Can’s knife skills during the surgery.

After a brief clean-up of the operating room and a short rest for everyone, the second patient is brought in.

This patient has cancer, having undergone lung cancer removal surgery a year ago. This time, examinations revealed a tumor growing in the patient’s mediastinum, currently causing interference with noticeable symptoms.

Whether this tumor is malignant is not yet entirely certain.

Its unclear borders and blood signal all suggest a high possibility of malignancy.

It’s necessary to perform a mediastinal tumor removal surgery for the patient.

This is a Level 3 major surgery.

Zhou Can, again serving as the chief surgeon for this procedure, has been specially given this case by the Cardiothoracic Surgery chief physicians for practice and learning.

There’s no shortcut to surgical progress for surgeons.