My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points Chapter 1440 - 575: The Third Hospital’s Return from the Brink, The First Fire of a New Official

"Boss, you’ve been promoted, surely you won’t be so stingy as to treat us to just one meal, right?" Ma Xiaolan was relatively close to Zhou Can, so she wasn’t afraid of him.

She occasionally dared to joke with Zhou Can during their free time.

"These past couple of days have been a bit hectic. There’s a difficult case in Pediatrics that hasn’t been solved yet, and Cardiothoracic Surgery has major operations every day. Once I’m through these couple of days and have a day after work without overtime, I’ll treat everyone to a big meal to celebrate. I couldn’t have been promoted without your support and hard work."

Zhou Can was very grateful to his two doctors and the three nurses under his charge.

Especially Qiao Yu, who has tirelessly and silently acted as his instrument nurse over the past few years.

If there were to be a ’founding hero’ award, she’d be the first.

Initially, when Zhou Can returned to the Emergency Department, he was practically starting from scratch. He led her and the intern Luo Shishen in doing crazy amounts of surgeries, gradually turning things around.

It’s akin to starting a business from the ground up; once the company grows, there’s actually less to worry about.

The most beautiful memories are often from that early stage of entrepreneurship, when conditions are lacking and you must work particularly hard.

On the third day, Dr. Fu Chachun returned to work.

He was on the night shift.

The Emergency Department operates in three shifts. The day shift is the best and busiest. The evening shift is next, and the night shift isn’t as busy, but the upside-down schedule and disrupted circadian rhythm make everyone particularly resistant to it.

Fu Chachun was quite smart; having just been through such a big scandal, losing face terribly, he took a day off before returning to the Emergency Department and chose to start with a night shift to better observe the situation.

Because the medical staff at night is minimal.

When Zhou Can came to the department, he heard Qiao Yu and the others discussing how Fu Chachun treated all the nurses to milk tea.

This old man Fu Chachun surprisingly still had a trick up his sleeve.

Looks like this bout with societal challenges has taught him many things. He put away his sense of superiority, not daring to play the seniority card anymore.

In any department, old-timers are usually the hardest to manage.

Because they think their seniority gives them an edge, often not listening to directives. Especially when younger leaders try to direct them, it becomes very difficult.

Zhou Can didn’t pay much mind to Fu Chachun treating all the nurses to milk tea to mend their relationship.

His work was too busy; he had endless tasks every day, unlearned knowledge, and surgery skills to practice.

It’s worth noting that he now practiced surgical skills like the Stable Knife Technique and Fast Knife Skill, but no longer at home with other skills. Instead, he continuously improved during surgeries on patients.

Apart from a few Orthopedics skills, all other surgical skills have advanced to Level 6. Practicing suturing on pigskin or vascular anastomosis on lab rats is no longer necessary.

It’s inefficient and does little to enhance his skills.

Real improvement comes from those rare cases and high-difficulty surgeries.

Every major surgery has its complexities.

Even if they’re all tricuspid valve regurgitation repair surgeries, each patient’s situation might be different.

Everyone knows that the main cause of tricuspid valve regurgitation is the enlargement of the right ventricle or a pathological change in the tricuspid valve itself.

The tricuspid valve, located between the right atrium and right ventricle, functions like a door that opens and closes automatically. Normally, blood can only flow in, not out. If the right ventricle enlarges, this door fails to close tightly, causing blood regurgitation.

The pathological mechanism is roughly like this.

However, many factors can cause tricuspid valve regurgitation, such as increased right ventricular systolic pressure. If this persists, the right ventricular myocardium thickens, leading to an enlarged right ventricle.

Or elevated pulmonary artery pressure can also cause right ventricular enlargement.

Thus, even for tricuspid valve regurgitation surgeries, each case may differ.

If you rigidly replace the tricuspid valve for every patient, the handling for each would be identical. The immediate post-operative result might seem fine, but after a while, the tricuspid valve may start regurgitating again.

With every major surgery he performs, Zhou Can gains new insights and improvements.

This is the correct way to quickly elevate one’s medical skills.

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Time passed quickly; in the blink of an eye, more than half a year had gone by.

A lot happened during these six months.

Zhou Can successfully became a teaching assistant at Tuya Medical College—as an undergraduate, becoming a teaching assistant in such a highly competitive environment made him quite the anomaly.

Many young postgraduates are still waiting in line for a teaching assistant position.

Furthermore, his postgraduate entrance exams and interviews went smoothly.

He has now started his graduate studies, focusing on Orthopedics.

Initially, he thought venturing into Orthopedics was slightly off his main career path. But after truly learning under a mentor for a while, he was sold.

In-depth study of Orthopedic knowledge, especially in areas like bone trauma and joint research, benefited him immensely.

Prior to studying, he thought Orthopedics was just what it was.

He even considered Orthopedic surgery merely manual labor—with some technical content, but nowhere near as high as other surgical departments.

Simply casting a plaster, drilling a line of holes in a bone, and attaching a steel plate or so he thought.

Or hammering a couple of nails in a specific part of a bone to fix a fracture.