Chapter 310
Chapter 308: Chapter 154: The Soaring Achievements Beyond the Gods, Must Meet This Genius Personally
“If the use of the Fast Knife Skill must be summarized, it is like the Inner Strength in martial arts.
Mastering it, and using this ‘Inner Strength’ to drive those surgical skills that require a scalpel can double or even tenfold enhance the original strength of the medical skill. For example, the Separation Skill performed in the operation room today, although it is only at a lower Chief Level, successfully separated the tumor residue that even Director Wen couldn’t.
And it only took one cut.
Zhou Can is currently still practicing the Fast Knife Skill with carrots.
However, with his tremendous improvement in the skill, he no longer needs to cut the carrots into four pieces.
Just splitting them in the middle into two halves will do.
The small scalpel in his hand is like coming to life, whether slicing horizontally, picking, slant-cutting, or side-cutting, he can do it flexibly and accurately in one go. The slices of carrot cut out are uniformly sized and consistently thick.
It must be said, his knife technique is now no less superior than that of a star-rated hotel’s head chef.
There are no shortcuts in practicing the Fast Knife Skill.
It is steadily improving with every slice of carrot.
The amount of carrots used should be measured in tons, not bags.
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Days pass by.
He is in the Neurosurgery department, performing surgeries, consultations, and ward rounds under Director Wen. Relying on his rare dual surgical talent, excellent pathological diagnosis ability, unique diagnostic thinking, and a serious and meticulous work ethic, he quickly became Director Wen’s most relied-upon assistant.
Now, whenever Director Wen is about to perform a surgery or consult on a difficult case, the first thing he does is to look up to see if Zhou Can has arrived.
It is somewhat unthinkable that a chief physician would depend on a trainee doctor to this extent.
If one must delve into the reasons, it boils down to two words: benefits.
Director Wen’s surgery volume has obviously been increasing recently.
For some extremely difficult surgeries, where the patient’s physical endurance is very weak, the consultation conclusion would definitely recommend against traditional surgery.
Now with Zhou Can’s help, the consultation often adds an option: traditional surgery is not advised, but endoscopic surgery can be attempted.
If Zhou Can expresses great confidence in the key parts of the endoscopic surgery.
Director Wen will write in the consultation notes “Recommend endoscopic surgery.”
Zhou Can’s several Advanced Medical Skills have all been upgraded to Chief Level, except for Anastomosis which remains at the Resident Doctor Level.
Before, only performing Level 1 surgeries, there was almost no need for Anastomosis.
Now, the surgeries performed with Director Wen are, at the very least, Level 3 surgeries, and many Neurosurgery operations involve complex blood vessels and nerves. The demand for Anastomosis has increased dramatically.
Resident Doctor Level Anastomosis is adequate for anastomosing ordinary blood vessels and nerves.
But in endoscopic operations, it falls short.
Especially for some Anastomosis under the endoscope that are extremely complex, surrounded by numerous important nerves, blood vessels, vertebrae, cranial bones, and brain tissue, the difficulty of Anastomosis multiplies.
Currently, Zhou Can’s six Advanced Medical Skills—Separation, Insertion, Grasping, Debridement—have all been upgraded to Level 4, reaching Chief Level.
Only Anastomosis and Transfer are still at Level 3.
Transfer is close to Level 4 as well, due to practicing more after work, and the Experience Points are almost there.
Just another week of practice or so should bring it to Chief Level.
This is only because the need for Transfer Skill is currently very low, so he is not in a rush to upgrade.
The real worry is Anastomosis, with the current Experience Points at Level 3, 116.8/1000. To level up to Level 4, he still needs nearly 900 points of Experience.
Anastomosing a nerve or blood vessel only adds 1 Experience Point.
Where can he find 900 opportunities to practice Anastomosis?
Practicing on rats is not cost-effective at all.
Counting 20 minutes to anastomose a blood vessel, the acquired Experience Points are 0.2.
He needs to anastomose five blood vessels to earn 1 Experience Point.
That means earning 1 Experience Point from Anastomosis takes at least 100 minutes. In reality, anastomosing five rat tail blood vessels takes at least two hours.
Because there’s also the time-consuming preparatory work in the beginning, like anesthesia, blood vessel sectioning, and separation.
Thus, practicing Anastomosis on animals is utterly uneconomical.
With two hours, he could get a lot more by reading medical books or practicing the Fast Knife Skill.
Earning Anastomosis Experience Points quickly still requires surgeries on patients.
But to earn just 1 Experience Point from anastomosing a blood vessel for a patient, it is still a very slow pace!
Zhou Can is quite clever and soon came up with a solution.
During endoscopic surgery, he found that using a medical skill for the first time with the endoscope, or performing endoscopic surgery for the first time on an organ, can obtain an additional 100 Experience Points as a reward.
Thus, he sprinted on the path of frantically earning Experience Points.
As long as there is an opportunity for Anastomosis during endoscopic surgery, he would do everything possible to seize it.
Unless the difficulty of the Anastomosis is especially high and the likelihood of success is slim, in that case, he can only decisively give up.
Earning Experience Points and high rewards is important.
But safety is even more important.
Don’t be misled into thinking that Director Wen is now willing to hand over extremely risky surgical tasks to him. That’s because he has built a foundation of trust step by step.
So far, he has maintained a record of zero mistakes, zero accidents.
Zhou Can is very clear that just one failure could wipe out the hard-earned trust instantly.
Therefore, one must never lose sight of the bigger picture for the sake of small gains.”