Chapter 10: How Noob Is Your Classmate’s Medical Skill?

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“Doctor He, what illness do you think the last patient is suffering from?” Zhou Can chased after him and asked.

“Medicine is a rigorous subject. I never make subjective assumptions. Instead, I use the results of the examination and combine them with information about the patient’s symptoms, medical history, age, gender, hobbies, and so on to make a comprehensive argument. However, there might be more than one lesion from the patient’s symptoms.”

With that, Doctor He smiled.

“I have to check on the patients in the ward. You can think about it.”

As an Attending Physician, his status was higher than that of resident doctors and interns. The responsibilities on his shoulders were also more important. He could not just leave it to the inpatient ward doctor in charge.

He had to be even more careful especially for some critical cases.

For example, the patient that Elder Liu performed the surgery on today was a key subject of supervision. Before Elder Liu left, he specially instructed Doctor He to take care of him.

After Zhou Can watched Doctor He leave, he lowered his head in thought.

The patient had more than one illness from Doctor He’s words.

This also explained why he only obtained 0.4 EXP even though his deduction was correct.

This meant that there were other illnesses that had not been diagnosed.

What other illnesses could there be?

Zhou Can racked his brains, but he still had no clue.

“Sigh, I only diagnosed a bile duct stone with the current symptoms. My level is still a little low.” Zhou Can sighed.

Doctor He must have already made a diagnosis, but he was unwilling to say it.

It seemed that the difference between the diagnosis ability of a House Officer and that of an Attending Physician was huge!

He didn’t waste any more time since he couldn’t think of anything.

It was definitely not wise to hang himself on a tree.

His pathology diagnosis EXP was at Level Two, 99/100.

Just one more point of EXP.

He looked at the time. It was 5:52 pm.

If he returned to the dormitory immediately and did nothing but read medical books, he might be able to finish reading 10 cases by tomorrow morning.

It would take him five hours if he could read a case in 30 minutes on average.

In fact, reading takes longer if you encounter a harder case.

Spending all his energy and time on pathology diagnosis improvement just for this last EXP point seemed to be not worth the while no matter how he thought about it.

This was because he could completely use these few hours to improve his hemostasis and incision skills.

He definitely had the confidence to upgrade both medical skills to Level Three.

As for the remaining EXP from the pathology diagnosis, he was prepared to sharpen his spear at the last minute tomorrow.

As long as he found another patient to diagnose in the hospital, there was a high chance that he would be able to advance to Level Three.

At that time, all five medical skills would be at the level of Resident Doctor, so the recruitment of House Officers would naturally be guaranteed.

He did not waste any more time after making his decision.

He quickly rushed to the teaching building to buy white rats for practice.

Practicing incision and hemostasis consumed a lot of materials, especially when it came to incision, it was not just a casual cut on a small animal that could increase EXP. It required dissection.

This requirement was quite high.

A white rat would probably die after about 20 dissections.

Each dissection increased 0.2 EXP.

20 slashes meant four EXP.

He could still practice dissection on its internal organs after it died. However, if he practiced on dead props, his EXP would be halved, only 0.1 EXP per dissection. It was estimated that he could dissect about 25 times, with a total EXP of 2.5.

To be more conservative, he could add six EXP to every white rat.

His current cut EXP was Level Two, 9.7/100.

He still needed 90.3 EXP to level up to Level Three.

He calculated that he needed to buy at least 16 white rats to be safe. 200 yuan each would bring it to a total of 3,200 yuan. Zhou Can’s family was rich, so he did not lack this bit of money.

“Give me 16 white rats. Pick the good ones.”

“Are you sure you want to buy so many?”

The doctor on duty was clearly shocked by this number.

Doctors usually bought one or two white rats to practice with. This young man bought 16 at once. He was really rich.

“I’m sure, I’m sure!”

Zhou Can scanned the QR code and paid without bothering to waste his breath.

The doctor on duty found a larger cage and picked 16 top-notch laboratory rats for him to put in.

After Zhou Can took it, he turned around and was about to leave when three people entered.

They almost bumped into each other.

“Zhou Can!”

The beauty in the lead was tall and slender. Her facial features were beautiful, and her skin was as fair as a baby’s. She had brownish-yellow hair that draped over her shoulders. Coupled with a white coat, tsk tsk, she was amazing.

A woman had to be pretty and filial.

She was as beautiful as an otherworldly fairy.

Her large phoenix eyes revealed surprise and joy when she recognized Zhou Can.

“Class Rep, long time no see.”

Zhou Can never expected to meet the class rep here.

To be more precise, she had two honors, the class belle, and one of the three school belle.

Not only was she good-looking, she was also talented. She was definitely not someone a vase could compare to.

It was not wrong to say that she was the most outstanding girl in class.

The two of them entered Tu Ya Hospital as interns. It was said that her performance during the Gynecology and Obstetrics Internship was extremely outstanding and she had already been favored by Director Zhang Bihua.

“How is it? Is your internship going smoothly?” Yang Chan sized him up and finally stared at the rat cage in his hand.

She was clearly surprised to see him buy so many white rats.

“Heh, so-so. I heard of your glorious deeds in the gynecology and obstetrics department. Not only did you bring glory to our Class 512, but you also brought glory to our alma mater.” In the past, Zhou Can would definitely feel inferior in front of her because she was too outstanding.

Now that he had the EXP system and his medical skills had improved by leaps and bounds in all aspects, he had a trace of confidence in talking to her as an equal.

Of course, having strength did not mean that he had to be proud about it.

He could also be a modest gentleman.

It had always been an outstanding tradition of the Chinese race to keep a low profile and showcase their confidences.

“I’m not as outstanding as you say. I was just lucky. Sigh, did you buy so many white rats to practice dissection or suture?”

“I’m preparing to practice. You know that my medical skills have always been very lousy.”

“Preparing for the House Officer recruitment tomorrow?”

“Can’t I have some dreams?”

“Hehe, I’ve never seen you so talkative when we were studying in the past! Old classmate, good luck! No matter what the outcome is, as long as you work hard, you won’t have any regrets.”

Her words held some hint of comfort.

Clearly, she did not think highly of Zhou Can.

Come to think of it, the competition for House Officer recruitment this year was abnormally intense. The elimination rate was almost 100% if one was not an especially outstanding intern.

In her impression, Zhou Can’s medical knowledge was alright, but his medical skills in all aspects were a little lacking.

Seeing that he had bought so many white rats, she had a preconceived notion that Zhou Can’s medical skills were still at a relatively rudimentary stage.

This level was not competitive.

“The class monitor is so cultured and good at talking. Goodbye.”

Zhou Can understood what she meant, but he didn’t explain further.

‘We’ll see tomorrow.’

He waved at her and left with the rat cage.

“Doctor Yang, how noob is your classmate’s medical skills? He actually needs to buy so many white rats to practice at once.”

“I’m not sure, but he’s been working hard.”

“You should teach him next time. It’s especially wasteful to use white rats for dissection. He’s heading in the wrong direction. A rat-tail anastomosis is the true advanced technology.”

Their conversation entered Zhou Can’s ears.

He only smiled faintly.

With his current Level Three suture and Level Three ligation skills, the success rate of matching the blood vessels in the mouse’s tail should be 100%.

In the entire Tu Ya Hospital, there were only one or two interns who were better at blood vessel anastomosis than him.

The advanced technology that the female Intern doctor mentioned was nothing in front of his EXP system.

Zhou Can brought the white rat back to the dormitory.

Good Lord, they had long practiced it.

It seemed like everyone was preparing for the House Officer recruitment tomorrow.

They were all prepared to fight their way out of the army.

“Wow, Brother Can, are you serious?! Did you buy so many white rats to prepare the barbecue?”

“I will give you the rats for you to barbecue after my practice as long as you don’t find it disgusting!”

Zhou Can smiled evilly.

“Forget it, forget it. I don’t have such a strong taste.”

The roommate was so frightened that he waved his hand repeatedly after hearing about eating rat meat.

“I think Zhou Can is prepared to risk his life to obtain the qualifications to be a House Officer. Brothers, all the best. Whoever is lucky enough to stay will have to protect others in the future. Don’t let down our friendship as roommates for a year.”

His roommates cheered and practiced even harder.

Zhou Can sat in front of his practice bench. In order to save time, he directly gave the cage of white rats mass anesthesia.

After the anesthesia was successful, he grabbed a white rat and fixed it to a wax plate. He began to improve his dissection and hemostasis skills.

[Incision EXP bar +0.2.]

[Hemostasis EXP +0.2, +0.2…]

The easiest way to increase the EXP of the hemostasis was none other than this.

As long as he found the bleeding point, he would immediately obtain 0.2 EXP with the electrocoagulator.

…

Zhou Can had already practiced until 12:31 pm unknowingly.

At this moment, the 16 white rats had been exhausted by him.

Hemostasis and incision had both successfully advanced to Level Three.

He checked his total EXP.

[Zhou Can, Intern.]

[Pathology Diagnosis, Level Two. Current EXP: 99/100. Excellent House Officer Level.]

[Incision, Level Three. Current EXP: 5.7/1,000. Inferior Resident Doctor Level.]

[Suture, Level Three. Current EXP: 21/1,000. Inferior Resident Doctor Level.]

[Ligation, Level Three. Current EXP: 1/1,000. Inferior Resident Doctor Level.]

[Hemostasis, Level Three. Current EXP: 652.4/1,000. Intermediate Resident Doctor Hemostasis ability.]

His best medical skill now was the Hemostasis technique.

It had actually reached a terrifying Intermediate Resident Doctor level.

This level was comparable to a surgical resident doctor who had worked for more than three years.