Chapter 10 How Incompetent is Your Classmate's Medical Skill?

"Dr. Hee, what illness did the last patient you diagnosed have?" Zhou Can quickened his steps to catch up and asked.

"Medicine is a rigorous discipline. I never make subjective guesses, but rather, make comprehensive judgments based on examination results, combined with the patient's symptoms, medical history, age, gender, and habits, among other information. However, from the patient's symptoms, it is very likely that there is more than one affected area."

Having said that, Dr. Hee smiled.

"I still have to do rounds; you can take your time to think about it."

As a chief doctor, with a higher status than resident doctors and interns, the responsibility carried on their shoulders is even greater.

Although there are specialized doctors in charge of the wards, chief doctors cannot treat their responsibilities lightly.

Especially with some critical patients, extra caution is needed.

For instance, the patient Old Liu operated on today is considered a key patient in need of close monitoring. Old Liu specifically reminded Dr. Hee to pay attention before he left.

After watching Dr. Hee walk away, Zhou Can bowed his head in deep thought.

From Dr. Hee's words, it seems the patient has more than one illness.

This would explain why even with a correct deduction, he only received 0.4 Experience Points.

It indicates that there are other diseases that have not been diagnosed.

What other illnesses could there be?

Zhou Can racked his brains, but after much thought, he still had no idea.

"Sigh, without examination data and relying only on a few symptoms, I could only diagnose gallbladder stones. My skills are still lacking after all."

Zhou Can sighed.

Dr. Hee must have some diagnoses in mind but simply wasn't willing to share.

It seems that the gap between the diagnosing abilities of a trainee and that of a chief doctor is vast!

Since he couldn't figure it out, he decided not to waste time.

Clinging to one possibility is not wise.

Currently, his pathology diagnosis Experience Points are Level 2, 99/100.

Almost there, just one Experience Point short.

He glanced at the time; it was 5:52 PM.

If he went back to the dormitory and didn't do anything else but read medical case studies, perhaps he could finish ten cases before tomorrow morning.

On average, it takes 30 minutes to finish reading a case, so he would need 5 hours.

In reality, if he encounters more challenging cases, the reading could take even longer.

Focusing all his energy and time on improving his pathology diagnosis skills just for this final Experience Point would be a loss.

Because he could use these few hours to improve both his Hemostasis Skill and cutting technique.

He was absolutely confident that he could upgrade both medical skills to Level 3.

As for the last 1 Experience Point in pathology diagnosis, he planned to cram at the last minute.

Just find one more patient to diagnose at the hospital tomorrow, and there's a high probability of making the final push to Level 3.

By then, his proficiency in all five medical skills would be at the level of a resident doctor, securing a spot in the residency recruitment for sure.

Having made up his mind, he no longer wasted time.

He quickly headed to the educational building to buy white mice for practice.

Taking into account that practicing cutting and hemostasis consumes a lot of instruments.

Especially cutting - it's not about simply making an incision on a small animal; it requires dissection.

This requirement is quite high.

A single white mouse could probably endure being dissected about twenty times before dying.

Each dissection adds 0.2 Experience Points.

Twenty cuts would amount to 4 Experience Points.

After death, it's also possible to practice dissection on its organs, but practicing on a dead specimen halves the Experience Points, yielding only 0.1 Experience Point per attempt. It is estimated to be doable about 25 times, totalling an Experience of 2.5.

To be cautious, he calculated each white mouse would contribute 6 Experience Points.

His current Cutting Experience is Level 2, 9.7/100.

He needs 90.3 more Experience Points to advance to Level 3.

He did the math; he would need to buy at least 16 white mice to be sure.

200 yuan per mouse, adding up to 3200 yuan.

Zhou Can comes from a wealthy family, so this amount wasn't an issue for him.

"I'll take 16 white mice. Pick the good ones."

"Are you sure you want to buy so many?"

The on-duty doctor was obviously startled by the quantity.

Doctors usually buy one or two white mice at most for practice. This young man asking for 16 at once was extravagant.

"I'm sure, absolutely!"

Zhou Can directly paid by scanning a QR code, not bothering with chitchat.

The on-duty doctor found a larger cage and picked out sixteen top-quality experimental white mice to put inside.

Taking the cage from the doctor, Zhou Can turned to leave and was about to exit when three people came in.

Almost bumped into them face to face.

"Zhou Can!"

The woman leading the group was tall with beautiful features, skin so fair and soft as if she was a baby. With brown hair cascading over her shoulders and a white coat on, she was truly something.

Beauty is an asset, especially with proper attire.

She was as beautiful as a fairy not of this world.

Her large, phoenix-like eyes showed surprise and joy upon recognizing Zhou Can.

"Class leader, long time no see."

Zhou Can hadn't expected to run into the class leader here.

To be more precise, she held two other titles: class beauty and one of the top three campus belles.

She's not only the face of beauty in the group, but also possesses real talent and knowledge, far from being just a pretty vase.

Calling her the most outstanding girl in the class isn't an exaggeration in the slightest.

They both started their internship at Tuya Hospital together. I heard she performed exceptionally well during her obstetrics internship and has already won the favor of Director Zhang Bihua from obstetrics.

"How's it going? Is your internship going smoothly?" Yang Chan looked Zhou Can up and down, her gaze finally resting on the mouse cage in his hands.

Seeing that he had bought so many white mice, she was clearly surprised.

"Heh, so-so. But I've heard about your glorious achievements in obstetrics, not only bringing honor to our Class 512 but also adding prestige to our alma mater." Zhou Can would have felt inferior in front of her in the past,

Because she was just that excellent.

Now with the Experience Points system, his medical skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and he's got a bit of confidence for an equal conversation.

Of course, having strength doesn't mean you have to be cocky.

You can still be a modest gentleman.

Demonstrating confidence while keeping a low profile has always been a commendable tradition of the Chinese nation.

"I'm not as outstanding as you said, just got lucky, that's all. Hey, did you buy so many mice to practice dissection or suturing?"

"Planning to practice both. You know, my medical skills have always been weak."

"Are you preparing for tomorrow's resident doctor recruitment?"

"And I'm not allowed to have dreams?"

"Hehe, never saw you talk so much back in school! Old classmate, go for it! No matter the result, as long as you've tried your best, you'll have no regrets."

Her words carried a comforting meaning.

Obviously, she wasn't very optimistic about Zhou Can.

Understandably so, this year's resident doctor recruitment is extremely competitive, and the elimination rate for interns who are not exceptionally outstanding is nearly one hundred percent.

In her impression, Zhou Can's basic medical knowledge was passable, but his overall medical skills left much to be desired.

Seeing him buy so many white mice, she jumped to the conclusion that Zhou Can's medical skills were still at a rather elementary level.

Such a level is not competitive.

"You still have a way with words as class president. See you."

Zhou Can picked up on the subtext in her words, but didn't elaborate.

Tomorrow will reveal all.

Waving at her, he left with the mouse cage.

"Doctor Yang, how poor are your classmate's medical skills that he needs to buy so many mice for practice?"

"I'm not sure, but he has always been hardworking."

"Next time you should teach him that using mice for anatomical practice is a huge waste, and he's got the wrong approach. Vasculature anastomosis on a mouse's tail is the actual high-precision technique."

Their conversation reached Zhou Can's ears.

He just smiled lightly.

With his current Level 3 suturing and ligation skills, the success rate of performing vascular anastomosis on the tails of mice should be a hundred percent.

Looking at the entire intern group at Tuya Hospital, there are perhaps only one or two who can surpass him in vascular anastomosis.

The high-precision technique that female intern spoke of is nothing much in the face of his Experience Points system.

Zhou Can took the mice back to his dormitory.

Goodness, everyone's already practicing hard.

Looks like everyone is preparing for tomorrow's resident doctor recruitment.

All fired up, ready to stand out from the crowd.

"Wow, Brother Can, are you serious?! You bought so many mice; are you planning a barbecue?"

"As long as you guys don't mind, I can let you have them for barbecue after my practice!"

Zhou Can said with a mischievous smile.

"Forget it, my tastes aren't that heavy."

The idea of eating mouse meat scared his roommate into hastily declining.

"I say Zhou Can is risking everything to qualify for resident training. Brothers, let's work hard. Anyone lucky enough to stay must look after the others. Let's honor our year-long friendship as roommates."

The roommates cheered and practiced even harder.

Zhou Can sat at his practice bench, and to save time, immediately administered anesthesia to the whole cage of mice.

After they were anesthetized, he picked out one mouse, secured it on the wax tray, and began to enhance both his dissection and Hemostasis Skills.

[Cutting Experience +0.2.]

[Hemostasis Experience +0.2, +0.2…]

The easiest Experience to gain was Hemostasis Skill; nothing else came close.

As soon as you find a bleeding point and touch it with an electrocautery pen, instantly, 0.2 Experience Points are in your hands.

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Unknowingly, Zhou Can had practiced until 12:31 AM.

By this time, all sixteen mice had been thoroughly used up.

Both Hemostasis Skill and Cutting Experience successfully advanced to Level 3.

He checked his Medical Technique Experience Points.

[Zhou Can, Intern]

[Pathological Diagnosis, Level 2, current Experience Points 99/100. Resident Doctor Level, above average.]

[Cutting, Level 3, current Experience Points 5.7/1000. Resident Doctor lower Level.]

[Suturing, Level 3, current Experience Points 21/1000. Resident Doctor lower Level.]

[Ligation, Level 3, current Experience Points 1/1000. Resident Doctor lower Level.]

[Hemostasis, Level 3, current Experience Points 652.4/1000. Hemostasis ability at Resident Doctor medium Level.]

Among all the Medical Techniques, the Hemostasis Skill is now the strongest.

It has reached an astonishing Resident Doctor medium Level.

This Level is comparable to a surgeon resident with over three years of work experience.