My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 971: Chapter 384: An Invitation to Go Abroad Together, Level 5 Wound Cleaning Skill

"Hehe, thank you! I can’t eat two on my own, why don’t you share one?"

She picked one up and placed it on the plate, then handed the other to Zhou Can.

"I really can’t eat today, you go ahead! Eat more, you’ll need the strength for surgery. Partnering with me is definitely exhausting because my surgery volume is at least twice that of a regular surgeon."

Zhou Can’s mentor had passed away, and he truly couldn’t eat.

If a person is mired in grief, their digestive system slows down significantly, and their body’s absorption capacity will also deteriorate. Therefore, grief is a harmful emotion that can damage the body.

Ancient Chinese medicine believes that grief can easily damage the heart and lungs. The lungs govern the qi and control breathing, making them responsible for dispersing and descending. The heart governs the blood and manages the circulation of the body’s vitality. The lungs oversee the hundreds of vessels and regulate them, closely related to the heart’s function, with the heart’s blood circulation depending on the lung qi.

Therefore, excessive grief can lead to breathing difficulties, coughing, and even vomiting blood.

Zhou Can just felt a bit blocked in his heart, and thinking of Director Hu’s passing, he couldn’t help but feel pain and sadness. Luckily, he focused most of his energy on work, greatly distracting him from his inner sorrow.

When someone is extremely sad, diverting attention by doing other things or going out for a walk can be a good way to alleviate it.

The worst is being alone in a confined space, continuously immersed in grief.

Having a few genuine friends is not such a bad thing sometimes.

At least when there’s something on your mind, you have someone to talk to.

Confiding often involves privacy, so choosing the right person is crucial. With true friends, there are generally no issues. However, if they’re just drinking buddies and you mistakenly treat them as true friends, then spill your private matters, that’s rather unfortunate.

It’s easy to be taken advantage of by the other person, and even if what you revealed is passed on to a third person, it becomes a secondary harm to you.

Therefore, making friends requires caution.

It’s not about having many friends; first, they should be of good character, and secondly, they should know you well.

There’s a problem here. Adults prioritize interests. It’s pretty hard to make genuine friends when you’re an adult. Friends bound by interests may have strong relationships, but you can’t confide in them.

In simple terms, everyone is just using each other.

As a result, being able to keep one’s inner secrets often becomes an essential course for adults.

Adults who can keep their inner secrets tend to be strong inside and have careers that are reasonably good. With a career, their economic conditions won’t be poor either. Thus, their family life is usually particularly stable.

As long as life is bearable, wives generally won’t easily cheat.

With stable economic conditions, their children’s education usually doesn’t fall short either.

It’s a pity that many adults, even after a lifetime, can’t keep their mouths shut, nor their inner secrets. In fact, they keep looking for people to complain to about even the slightest trouble.

In the end, such people often live miserably and are mostly at the bottom of society.

Many of them even struggle to get enough to eat.

"You’re sitting here!"

Luo Shishen had finished his meal and joined them.

This young man is just a rookie among workplace rookies.

Why can’t he just eat his meal and not awkwardly insert himself between Zhou Can and Qiao Yu?

If he had just found a place to eat and then quickly returned to the operating room, he could have left a good impression on his superiors.

The senior doctor and the nurse were chatting warmly; anyone with a bit of emotional intelligence wouldn’t go over to disturb them.

"Hurry up and sit down to eat! Once you’re done, we should head to the operating room."

Zhou Can said.

Qiao Yu, however, gave Luo Shishen an annoyed glance without saying anything. She quietly ate with graceful movements, appearing very serene.

With Luo Shishen’s arrival, the atmosphere cooled down.

Zhou Can also focused on eating.

"Oh... did Beauty Qiao buy two drumsticks?" Luo Shishen offered her a drumstick but was rejected. Then he immediately noticed a drumstick on her plate, with another still in the paper bag.

So he blurted out a comment.

"Uh-huh!"

She barely responded.

"Is the other one for Dr. Zhou?" Luo Shishen swallowed, looking at the golden-brown drumstick. "If Dr. Zhou isn’t in the mood for it, don’t waste it, can you sell it to me?"

His intention was to help Qiao Yu save some money.

The cafeteria’s drumsticks cost four yuan each, and once bought, they can’t be returned.

"You’re so talkative, just eat your meal!"

Of course, Qiao Yu wouldn’t give the drumstick to him. She was even less willing to deepen her involvement with Luo Shishen.

She directly picked up the other drumstick and placed it on her plate, then lowered her head and continued eating.

This meal was doomed to be rather dull.

Zhou Can finished first.

"I’m done, you two take your time!"

He stood up with his plate, emptied the leftovers into the trash, then rinsed the plate clean and placed it in the designated plate collection corner.

Later, the restaurant staff would take the plates for another wash and high-temperature disinfection.

As Zhou Can left, Luo Shishen started making conversation again.

"Beauty Qiao, how long have you been a nurse? Ever since I started at the Emergency Department, I’ve always been working in the operating room, so I haven’t seen you around!"

"I just transferred from the ICU to the operating room. I’m going to see if there’s any soup, today’s rice is a bit tough."

After speaking, she picked up her plate and walked straight to the window.

She didn’t even bother to ask if there was soup, just found another table and continued eating.

Clearly, she wasn’t interested in chatting with Luo Shishen.

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In the operating room, Zhou Can finished his meal, used the restroom, stretched a bit, and returned to work in the operating room.

Since Qiao Yu and Luo Shishen hadn’t returned yet, he started watching Dr. Xu’s surgery and assisting him.

At present, the number of interns in the Emergency Department’s operating room was unclear.

Dr. Xu assigned one to Zhou Can, and still had one left, indicating at least two interns were in the Emergency Department’s operating room. From this, one could see that the Emergency Department’s status had risen a bit.

Or perhaps the status of the operating room had risen significantly.

This is a good sign.

In the past, there were just a few in the Emergency Department’s operating room, with no interns at all.

Mainly because the other departments in the Emergency Department were also understaffed, leaving no resources for the operating room.

Now, being able to assign two interns to the operating room means at least four to the Emergency Department, which gives them the confidence to allocate two interns to the operating room.

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Not long after, Luo Shishen came back from his meal, looking a bit displeased.

He probably felt ’rejected’ by Qiao Yu, who was unwilling to continue eating with him, hence his displeasure.

About ten minutes later, Qiao Yu returned as well.

"Teacher, my team is ready, I’ll go in for surgery now!"

Zhou Can was waiting for Qiao Yu to return.

"Go ahead!"

Dr. Xu couldn’t wait for Zhou Can to perform more surgeries.

Director Lou had high hopes for Zhou Can’s surgical team.

In the afternoon, Zhou Can went all out, performing surgeries frantically. His Experience Points kept rising along the way.

It had been a long time since he felt this refreshed.

[You successfully completed a wound cleaning! Wound Cleaning Skill Experience Points +1. Congratulations on advancing your Wound Cleaning Skill to Level 5, current Experience Points 1/100000, reaching the entry-level of an Associate Chief Physician. Capable of performing complex thoracic, abdominal, and cranial cavity debridement, and high-purity cleaning of abscesses, inflammations, and contaminated wounds...]

When any medical skill reaches the level of an Associate Chief Physician, it achieves a very high standard.

Complex thoracic and abdominal debridement does not refer to simply cleaning up effusions or blood or restoring the wound neatly for easy suturing.

It refers to complex situations, such as leakage of intestinal contents polluting the abdominal cavity.

Such debridement is highly difficult and complex.

Similarly, cancer patients with severe tissue necrosis and adhesions present challenges of the highest order.

The successful advancement of the Wound Cleaning Skill to associate chief physician level is a definite boon for Zhou Can. Many emergency surgeries require wound cleaning.

Now he can not only perform better, making the wounds neater for suturing, shortening postoperative healing time, and reducing the likelihood of infection or suppuration. Also, the entire surgery time will be shortened, becoming more efficient.

Improvement in any surgical skill brings great benefits.

Even an inconspicuous skill like Wound Cleaning can provide certain conveniences in some Level 3 major surgeries, reducing postoperative complications.