My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

"Director Liu, you take a break and sit over here, just help us keep an eye on things, and give some guidance at critical moments."

Zhou Can also spoke from the side.

"Okay, okay! It seems I'm truly getting old, it is time to retire! My only regret is not being able to earn the title of Full Professor. This department reform was supposed to be an opportunity for me, but my health has started to decline again. Such is life, such is fate!"

Deputy Director Liu had never before spoken such disheartening words in front of his subordinate doctors.

At this moment, seeing the doctors he had worked hard to train betray him felt like lords competing for supremacy. His trusted lieutenants had defected to the enemy camp, strengthening the opposition while his own side became desolate.

Moreover, as he got older and faced these stimuli, his health began to deteriorate.

Thus, he couldn't help but feel pessimistic.

"Don't lose heart, the competition between the groups has only just begun, and it's still too early to determine the winners and losers. Trees shed their leaves in the fall, gather strength silently in winter, and come spring, their beauty remains. You are not fighting alone; you have so many of us here to battle alongside you."

Zhou Can felt a pang in his heart seeing old Liu suffer such a heavy blow.

He secretly resolved to stand with old Liu and fight this battle.

In the Emergency Department, Zhou Can had once managed to perform over a thousand surgeries a month on his own.

What does this mean?

The annual surgical volume of Tuya Hospital is just over one hundred thousand.

If he performed over a thousand each month, he would be able to complete thirteen to fourteen thousand surgeries in a year.

That's a truly terrifying number.

Of course, the surgeries he performed were all Level 1, relatively simple procedures.

Many complex Level 3 and Level 4 surgeries often require a team or multiple medical teams to collaborate, lasting seven to eight hours, or even more than thirty hours.

The longest a complex surgery has lasted at Tuya Hospital is thirty-seven hours.

It is a tremendous test for both the doctors and the patients.

"Dr. Zhou is right, we have so many people here fighting with you, we can't give up easily. I'm also looking forward to seizing this opportunity to aim for the title of associate professor!"

Hee Hansheng chimed in.

This department reform was both a crisis and an opportunity.

"It's my level that has fallen behind! You two younger fellows are doing even better than me!"

Deputy Director Liu took a seat, his expression complex.

Surgery continued, to be completed by two of his capable subordinates.

The lead surgeon or chief physician does not always need to operate personally. Their role in supervising the surgery and guiding the rest of the medical team is also critical.

The lead surgeon is like the head chef in a restaurant; his responsibility is simply to ensure the safety and quality of the surgery. That is sufficient.

Otherwise, even for someone like Deputy Director Liu, who is still only a deputy chief physician, doing up to more than a dozen surgeries a day. If he were to perform every surgery himself, he would likely collapse on the operating table before even finishing the procedures on the patients.

"Dr. Zhou, how about you perform the abdominal incision?"

Hee Hansheng proactively offered Zhou Can some surgical practice.

"Thank you, Dr. Hee, for giving me this opportunity! I will be very careful."

Zhou Can stood at the lead surgeon's position, took the surgical knife, and focused on performing the abdominal incision for the patient.

The entire process was fast and stable, exuding an air of confidence usually found in a chief physician.

"Very good! Are you confident with freeing the esophagus?"

"I can give it a try!"

Zhou Can's Separation Skill was currently at the level of a lower-grade attending physician, just over four hundred Experience Points away from advancing to a middle-grade attending physician.

He cautiously began to free the esophagus while others held their breath and watched anxiously.

The trachea is brittle, and the esophagus relatively delicate.

Freeing the esophagus is a high-risk and high-difficulty surgical task.

[Separation Skill Experience Points +1.]

[Congratulations on successfully freeing the esophagus for the first time, awarding +100 Separation Experience Points.]

Zhou Can successfully freed the esophagus and received a generous reward.

The feeling of Experience Points jumping up by more than a hundred was extremely exhilarating.

Now only a few hundred points away from advancing to a middle-grade attending level.

At this rate, he might not even need to wait until the end of the month to reach or exceed a middle-grade attending level.

Because the volume of surgeries in General Surgery was quite plentiful.

With the trial department reform, all groups would surely be competing fiercely for surgical patients.

Zhou Can was renowned for his rapid surgery speed.

Heh, when the time comes, he would show the other groups what a fast surgeon's apprentice can do.

He had heard that Dr. Xu's once-distinguished reputation in surgery made many surgeons merely worship him without harboring any thoughts of competition.

Had it not been for Dr. Xu's overly rapid knife leading to a medical incident, whether it be the steady hand Dr. Hu Kan or the peak surgeon Wu Baihe, none could have competed.

"Very good! After freeing the esophagus, you must cut the triangular ligament of the liver. Watch carefully, this is how you cut it."

Hee Hansheng did not dare let Zhou Can perform this task and instead took over himself.

While cutting, he taught Zhou Can and other doctors the specific details and precautions.

Zhou Can quietly memorized the technique and steps, knowing that the next time he encountered a need to cut the triangular ligament, he would be able to try it.

"Next, flip the liver upwards to the right, then cut the peritoneal reflection of the esophageal cardia."

Hee Hansheng also handled this step personally, not allowing Zhou Can to perform it.

A highly experienced senior attending physician's skill was indeed strong.

"Pause for a moment, I will explain the next steps of the surgery to you. This is a very difficult and critical step to operate." Deputy Director Liu stood up and began to explain the procedure in detail to the several junior doctors.