Chapter 3: Rapidly Improving Medical Skills

Practicing incision skill on pigskin, each time only increases the experience by 0.1. Why does it double when practicing on mice?

Could it be because it's practiced on a live subject?

After this major discovery, he felt both shocked and excited.

It seems that there is a lot more to explore in this experience system!

Practicing incisions on mice doubles the experience; what about other medical skills?

Once the wound was opened, organs like the intestines, kidneys, and bladder were all exposed.

He didn't rush to touch its viscera.

Instead, he chose to perform cavity ligation.

[Suturing Experience +0.2, Ligation Experience +0.2.]

All double experience, very satisfying.

This feels like usually walking out the door, but now driving a car, experiencing unprecedented speed and passion.

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Unknowingly, Zhou Can had already made fourteen incisions on this mouse.

Each cut avoided vital areas, then followed by cavity suturing.

It's not that he held any grudges against this mouse from a past life, but to ensure it stayed alive. Only in this way could he continuously earn double experience points.

At this moment, the clock had already struck twelve.

In total, it should be about over two hundred stitches.

Suturing on a live subject is slower compared to practicing on pigskin. However, since it earns double experience, it's still very cost-effective.

He checked the experience points for various medical skills.

[Pathological Diagnosis, Level 2, Current Experience Points 89.6/100. Excellent standard training level.]

It was originally 89.5, but because he read medical books this morning, finished a case, and increased by 0.1.

If there was enough time, just reading another 104 cases could upgrade it to Level 3.

Level 3 is the Resident Doctor level.

There are hardly any interns who can reach this level, perhaps only one or two exceptional prodigies might have achieved it.

If Zhou Can could upgrade his pathological diagnosis to Level 3 before the standard training recruitment, the chance of staying would increase by at least fifty percent.

Pathological diagnosis carries a very high weight.

It is the primary and compulsory item during the interview.

This shows how important it is.

He sighed; what a pity that time is too tight.

He has to work during the day, and after work at night, he needs to practice medical skills, leaving no time to read.

Besides, reading 104 cases isn't just about simple reading, but requires deep thinking and making deductions on your own.

Simple cases might take about fifteen to twenty minutes each to read. For difficult ones that require looking up various materials and repeated deliberations, even an hour or two might not be enough.

[Suturing, Level 2, Current Experience Points 87.8/100. Excellent standard training level.]

[Ligation, Level 2, Current Experience Points 89/100. Excellent standard training level.]

These two medical skills are like twins, almost equal in terms of experience progress.

Having gained so much in one night, Zhou Can was very satisfied.

If he had discovered practicing on live subjects doubles experience earlier, maybe these two skills would have already advanced to Level 3.

He'll buy another mouse tomorrow, definitely can upgrade them to Resident Doctor level before the standard training recruitment.

[Incision, Level 2, Current Experience Points 3.6/100. Below average standard training level.]

The promotion of this medical skill is relatively slower.

However, having a standard training level should be sufficient during the recruitment.

[Hemostasis, Level 1, Current Experience Points 4.8/10. Failing practice level for hemostasis.]

This skill has now become Zhou Can's significant weakness.

If he can't upgrade it to Level 2, the day after tomorrow's standard training recruitment will definitely severely hinder him.

He looked towards the mouse.

It was time to practice hemostasis technique on it.

One hand holding a scalpel, the other holding an electrocautery knife.

Continuously making cuts on the mouse, then following up with the electrocautery knife, targeting the bleeding points and cauterizing the severed blood vessels.

The electrocautery knife mainly uses high-frequency electric currents to coagulate small blood vessels, using the heat to make the blood coagulate and carbonize, thus achieving hemostasis.

Due to his novice level, he kept making various mistakes.

Either missing the severed blood vessel or accidentally damaging surrounding tissues.

However, this situation was improving as he continued practicing.

Each successful hemostasis increased his Hemostasis Experience by 0.2. This was very thrilling.

Practicing hemostasis was much faster than suturing or making incisions.

Just making a small cut could produce two or three bleeding points.

With a point of the electrocautery knife, basically 0.2 experience points were gained.

[Congratulations on your Hemostasis Skill reaching Level 2! Current Experience Points 0/100. Below average standard training level.]

After successfully performing hemostasis on the mouse twenty-six times, Zhou Can's Hemostasis Skill successfully advanced to Level 2.

He was thrilled to death.

Finally, he had overcome his weakness in hemostasis.

Seeing how easy it was to level up in hemostasis, he immediately set a new goal, aiming for Level 3 Hemostasis.

He kept making cuts on the rats.

Then he performed electrocoagulation to stop the bleeding.

After reaching Level 2, his efficiency in stopping bleeding improved several times. Now, he could almost hit the target at one go, and the chances of damaging nearby vascular tissue had significantly reduced.

Just when he was getting into the groove.

[Hemostasis Experience Points +0.1.]

He tried again, still only an increase of 0.1.

The rat's heartbeat had stopped.

It had died.

What a pity.

Zhou Can sighed, his current hemostasis experience was 46.4/100.

It looked like he could only wait until tomorrow to level up to Level 3.

Even in death, it still had some value.

He began to dissect its organs with a scalpel.

Once the rat was unrecognizable, his Cutting Experience increased to Level 2, 9.7/100.

That was quite good.

The gains tonight were beyond imagination.

Checking the clock, it was already 2 AM. He quickly cleaned up the practice table, dealt with the trash, took a shower, and went to bed.

That night, he was dreamless.

Because he was just too exhausted.

The next morning, his roommates woke him up.

"Zhou Can, Zhou Can, if you don't get up now, you'll be late!"

Zhou Can opened his eyes and saw it was 7:32 AM.

Scared, he rolled out of bed, hurried to wash up, then sprinted to the hospital.

Interns were required to arrive at least twenty minutes early.

He didn't want to listen to the endless nagging of the resident doctor.

Once at the hospital, he quickly finished breakfast in the cafeteria, then returned to his department to handle a series of routine tasks.

Each intern had heavy responsibilities.

The senior doctors seemed eager to dump all the trivial tasks on the interns. It was supposedly 'training'.

"Xiao Zhou, hurry and inform the patient in bed 27 to prepare for surgery at 10 AM, you're in charge of following up."

The resident doctor always had such a loud voice.

Being only slightly older than Zhou Can, he cheerfully called him Xiao Zhou.

After all, he was a senior.

"Okay!"

Zhou Can glanced at the time and quickly went to the ward to inform the patient and their family.

Pre-surgery preparations were very cumbersome and had to be meticulous.

He dared not be careless.

After arriving at the ward, out of responsibility, he inquired detailed about the patient's condition. Finding no issues, he then informed the patient to change clothes, use the bathroom, and refrain from eating and drinking.

During this time, the senior doctor entered the ward to talk with the family, having them sign the surgical consent form.

Once the surgery was confirmed, the anesthesiologist also arrived.

It was standard procedure to have conversations and get signatures from the family.

These essential processes couldn't be skipped.

In case of medical disputes, they could effectively protect the doctors and the hospital.

Everything arranged, the nurse arrived.

"Dr. Zhou, have you prepped the patient's skin?"

"Not yet!"

Zhou Can was frustrated, weren't these duties supposed to be the nurse's responsibility? How did they become his job?

"Don't just stand there, I've brought in the tools. Prepping the skin and placing the IV belong to you now." The nurse was quite pretty, but her tone was fierce.

What could Zhou Can say?

He just needed to get it done.

After he finished, a smile finally appeared on the nurse's face as she nodded in satisfaction, "Hmm, Dr. Zhou's pre-surgery preparation is getting more skilled. Not bad, not bad. Hurry and get the patient over, otherwise Director Liu is going to scold someone!"

Zhou Can's forehead was lined with frustration as he retorted.

"How could I not get better? You've dumped all your work on us interns."

"Oh, learning to talk back now, huh? Still want to find a girlfriend? Behave and I might introduce you to a girl!"

The nurses looked fierce, but actually got along quite well with him.

Knowing he was no match for these married women, Zhou Can quickly moved the patient along, leaving the nurses giggling behind him.