Chapter 130
“I’ve got an appointment, see you later, Dr. Lu!”
Qiao Yu didn’t want to entangle with Dr. Lu anymore and waved goodbye, leaving behind a charming silhouette as she walked away.
“Ah…” Dr. Lu shook his head helplessly and sighed.
Seems like even if he bought a car, winning over Qiao Yu would still be hard!
“What are you looking at?”
Jin Mingxi walked up from behind and asked Zhou Can.
“Look!”
Zhou Can gestured with his mouth toward Dr. Lu ahead.
Jin Mingxi glanced over and laughed, “Looks like Dr. Lu got rejected by Qiao Yu again. The thing between men and women is fate, I think he shouldn’t hang himself on one tree.”
At thirty-four years old, he’s considered quite an old bachelor.
Of course, it’s possible that Dr. Lu was already married and just wanted to be a bit naughty, to flirt with the young girl. Or perhaps he was divorced already.
If they weren’t particularly close colleagues, they generally wouldn’t pry too much into each other’s privacy.
“Didn’t we say we are going to practice knife skills by buying radishes? Shall we go now?”
“Let’s go!”
They both headed toward the vegetable market.
Today, Zhou Can felt his surgical speed was too slow when performing an appendectomy.
He was very quick with simple cleaning and suturing.
But when it came to slightly more difficult surgeries, his inadequacies became obvious.
Dr. Xu said he had a talent for swift surgery; it might be worth a try.
At the very least, he may practice the fundamentals of swift knife skills and speed up his operating pace.
He found that the Experience Points system could help push his medical skills to a certain extent, but aspects like surgical techniques, surgery experience, insights during operations, and mental training, among others, were not things the system could provide.
Its greatest function seemed to be rapidly advancing Zhou Can’s medical skills to a higher level.
This reminded him somewhat of cultivation novels, where a Qi Refinement disciple working as a servant suddenly learned the art of alchemy and doped on elixirs daily. Some would only dare to consume one pill a month, but he ate them like snacks.
His magical prowess skyrocketed with elixirs, reaching Core Formation Stage.
But his actual combat ability was much weaker than those cultivators who reached the Core Formation Stage through countless trials and life-or-death battles. Of course, using magic to bully Qi Refinement cultivators of the same realm was a piece of cake.
Occasionally bullying those at the Foundation Establishment Stage wouldn’t be a problem either.
Gaining magical power was useful, but since other areas didn’t improve along with it, there was a great gap between him and the true masters of the Core Formation Stage.
That was the natural law of development.
Zhou Can’s situation was that his medical skills were upgrading rapidly, but his other abilities couldn’t keep up in time.
Fortunately, he was aware of this issue and was thinking of various ways to address it.
Such as taking on challenging surgeries in the operating room, humbly seeking advice from mentors, buying carrots to practice fundamental knife skills, and so on.
In short, he was much better than doctors without the Experience Points system.
His growth rate was more than ten times faster.
Other residency doctors wanting to try an appendectomy would need to wait years for a slight chance. Resident Doctors need over three years to be considered as senior residents.
And that’s only if they were exceptionally good.
For ordinary Resident Doctors like Dr. Lu and Doctor Lin, even longer wait might not guarantee an opportunity.
Zhou Can could complete in one year what took others several years.
This was his advantage.
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“Why are we taking the back door?” Jin Mingxi asked curiously.
Usually, for work, they would enter through the main front entrance.
But at the moment, Zhou Can was leading him towards the hospital’s back exit.
“Aren’t we going to the market? I remember there’s one not more than two hundred meters away from the back door.” Zhou Can, who had done his undergraduate and internship at Tuya Medical College, was quite familiar with the surroundings.
The parking lot entrance was set at the back door, which from as early as four or five in the morning had private cars lined up waiting to enter the hospital.
Parking spaces at the hospital were very tight, typically when one car left, another could enter from the back.
However, hospital staff had privileges.
One floor of the underground garage was specifically for hospital employees’ parking.
Zhou Can hadn’t been there before and only heard colleagues mention it.
The hospital’s official cars and the majority of the staff’s vehicles for commuting were parked there.
If there was no particular reason, doctors and nurses seldom used the back door.
Because of the numerous vehicles, it was very unsafe.
“Look over there!”
Jin Mingxi pointed to a black sedan not far away, queuing up to exit the hospital.
The front window was down, clearly revealing the driver’s seat inside.
“Damn, isn’t that Dr. Lu?”
Zhou Can’s eyes gleamed.
“Surprising to see Dr. Lu is quite wealthy, driving the latest Volkswagen Passat worth over two hundred thousand.” Jin Mingxi seemed a little surprised.
For some low-income grassroots doctors, buying a car worth over two hundred thousand would take several years.
Especially in Tu Ya’s Emergency Department, where the income-generating ability is quite weak, the income of consultants and chiefs might be decent.
But for an ordinary Resident Doctor like Dr. Lu, the income was far from those of specialists.
Many specialists with strong revenue generation would often make fun of Emergency Department doctors, calling them beggars.
Though harsh, it was an undeniable fact.
Their monthly performance might be at least 8000+, with the pharmaceutical revenue also weighing in. The lesser ones were basically at least 6000+. We won’t even discuss other potential grey incomes.
Just one of these major items was enough to suppress the Emergency Department thoroughly.
This was also a key reason why the Emergency Department couldn’t retain excellent doctors.
With fewer patients to attend to, and poor earning potential from surgeries and medications, naturally, the income of doctors and nurses didn’t go up.