My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 966: Chapter 382: Kindness Should Have an Edge, Tolerance Has Its Limits

"Call the next surgical patient in!"

Zhou Can instructed.

"Alright!"

Qiao Yu was about to get up and bring the patient in.

"Qiao Yu, from now on, just focus on being the instrument nurse. Your hands must remain sterile, running around in the operating room will add a lot of work for you and could easily lead to potential contamination of surgical instruments."

Besides the Level 1 and Level 2 minor surgeries, Zhou Can was now performing some Level 3 major surgeries.

The requirements were significantly higher.

The conditions in the Emergency Department’s operating room were already lousy, and if one isn’t careful, it would be very easy for the patient to get infected during surgery. It drastically increases the risk of post-operative infection.

"Luo Shishen, from now on, the task of escorting the patient after surgery and bringing new surgical patients in will be your responsibility."

Zhou Can made this arrangement for the sake of surgical safety and efficiency.

"Uh... alright!"

Luo Shishen agreed somewhat reluctantly, clearly not very willing.

Many doctors, especially new doctors or interns who just started in the hospital, often have an inexplicable sense of superiority. They feel their status is higher than nurses, and that menial, tiring, trivial tasks should be done by nurses.

He might think that escorting the patients is a nurse’s job, and now assigning him, a doctor, to do it feels somewhat beneath him.

So it’s normal for him to be unwilling.

Seeing that he agreed, Zhou Can didn’t say more.

Ever since he returned to the Emergency Department to prepare for forming a surgical team, he gradually required himself to fit the dual roles of academic leader and surgery team manager.

That means, not only must he be the core leader in medical skills, but he must also be a good ’leader’ in team management.

This is also the new identity he must adapt to.

The patient brought in was a trauma patient with a head wound bleeding, with a noticeable smell of alcohol.

It seemed likely he got hit by someone with a wine bottle in a fight.

"Excuse me, were you injured by someone?"

While examining the patient’s wound, Zhou Can asked about the basic circumstances.

"I did it myself. My girlfriend refused to break up with me, and in anger, I smashed half a bottle of leftover red wine on my head."

This injured person looked to be about twenty-five to six years old.

How much must he hate his girlfriend to take such extreme self-harming actions?

"You may need to shave your hair to facilitate wound cleaning and suturing."

After checking, Zhou Can found a rather long wound still bleeding, definitely needing stitches.

"Shave it!"

The patient was very conscious; after imaging, no potential risks like skull fractures or intracranial hemorrhage were found. The skull should be the hardest bone in the body, enduring a bottle hit with no issues.

Of course, it might also be that this guy knows how to smash a bottle with skill, thus preventing a skull fracture.

"Dr. Luo, don’t just stand there, shave his hair! Be careful, try not to touch the wound."

Shaving tasks are usually done by junior doctors.

Getting the surgeon to shave the patient’s hair is somewhat shocking.

"Oh, okay!"

Luo Shishen basically moves slowly, like driving an old car.

It’s been nearly six months since he started interning, making one wonder what departments he’s been practicing in? Has he not learned what tasks an intern should be doing?

If an upper-level doctor has to urge about everything, then an upper-level doctor should just supervise the interns all day long.

Some highly competent and senior attending physicians and associate attending physicians supervise a dozen interns and basically don’t do any tasks themselves.

After Luo Shishen finished shaving the patient’s hair, seeing his slow progress, Zhou Can took it upon himself to clean the hair fragments and began the preliminary cleaning of the wound, performing the first round of sterilization around the wound.

Next is wound cleaning, mainly to prevent glass shards, hair fragments, and other impurities from being lodged inside the wound.

If not cleaned thoroughly, it can easily lead to infection and suppuration after the wound is stitched.

Those who have studied the human body’s three major circulatory systems know that the risk of infection and suppuration of hair is much higher than that of limbs.

Especially for such a relatively deep head wound.

Upon completing the wound cleaning, Zhou Can successfully earned 1 point of Wound Cleaning Skill Experience Points.

[Wound Cleaning Skill, Level 4, Current Experience Points 9998/10000. Excellent level of attending physician.]

He just needs to perform wound cleaning two more times to successfully advance to the associate attending physician level.

Initially, he hoped that after three years of residency training, all his surgical skills could advance to the associate attending level. Eventually, the reality turned quite harsh.

Due to studying Internal Medicine for nearly a year and a half, surgical practice opportunities became rare, ultimately preventing several of his surgical skills from reaching Level 5 as he wished.

Next comes suturing.

"Dr. Zhou, could you let me do the wound suturing?"

Luo Shishen requested.

"The risk of head wounds is rather high, you should learn first. Next time there’s a lower-risk wound suturing chance, I’ll let you do it."

Zhou Can turned down his request.

Just from his haircut, it’s clear he’s still a rookie; his suturing skills are probably not ideal either. Suturing wounds on the head and face demands high technical skill from doctors.

It may seem like just a few simple stitches, but there are numerous considerations, including needle placement, thread size, knotting, tension control, and suturing depth.

It’s not that there’s a guarantee something would go wrong with a new doctor suturing the head, but there’s a considerable potential risk involved.

Zhou Can can’t bear this responsibility.

Nor would he easily gamble with the patient’s safety.

"Alright!"

Luo Shishen agreed, pouting not like an infant about to cry, but it showed he wasn’t pleased.

This situation would certainly be ignored by Zhou Can.

Working with Qiao Yu, they quickly cooperated to stop the patient’s bleeding and suture the wound.

"Dr. Luo, please bandage him up!"

Zhou Can assigned a task to Luo Shishen to somewhat appease him.

"Okay!"

Luo Shishen agreed, smirking, seemingly a bit disdainful of the task.

Zhou Can saw all his actions.

No one is perfect; everyone grows from being a workplace rookie. As long as he can cooperate with the work, even if he complains, with rich inner dialogue, Zhou Can can be tolerant.

Tolerance is also one of the abilities a leader needs to cultivate.

Too pure water has no fish.

Look at the virtuous officials in ancient times to understand. Each one lived pitiful lives, basically all isolated, occasionally lucky to make one or two friends, almost always just the solitary army excluded by most officials.

Crooked officials, when in trouble, have a lot of people stepping in to plead, speak well.

While virtuous officials get into even minor slips, they are subjected to strict scrutiny, sometimes even execution directly.

Why do crooked officials have many friends? Not because they have money, but because they possess strong acceptance. As long as subordinates can get things done, they can be forgiven for occasional small mistakes or shortcomings.

Turning a blind eye just lets it pass.

Conversely, virtuous officials, while strictly disciplining themselves, demand equally high standards from others. Any small mistake and they will be strictly punished.

So it’s no surprise why, when these virtuous officials make mistakes and are punished by superiors, everyone strikingly remains silent.

You reprimand others too often, everyone bears resentment.

Though not spoken, it’s remembered in their hearts.

Now watching you get banished and executed, they might be secretly pleased. Who would risk being prosecuted as an accomplice to step in and speak good for you!

So, despite all of Luo Shishen’s shortcomings, Zhou Can doesn’t have the issue of being intolerant towards him.

At least he can be observed for a while, if he can be collaborated with, he will certainly put some effort into cultivating him.

If he truly proves hopeless, then he’ll just be left to fend for himself.

Once the patient was bandaged, Zhou Can glanced at the wall clock; only three minutes to twelve.

"Dr. Luo, after escorting this patient out, bring another patient in."

Zhou Can possesses a heart of compassion, worrying that the patient might wait too long outside without treatment, so he works fervently, saving as many as possible.

The greatness of doctors lies in consuming themselves, rescuing others.

"We’re at clock already, yet another surgery!" Luo Shishen muttered softly.

Zhou Can pretended not to hear.

Spend more time together, this young man will naturally understand the rules.