Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Rich Rewards

After dinner, Li Jingsheng reviewed today’s debridement and suture process, summarizing areas that were not done properly and aimed to improve next time.

At this moment, Master Liu finished his IV infusion and hopped out on one foot from the infusion room, supporting himself against the door.

"The wound on that foot has just been stitched, you shouldn’t let it touch the ground or get wet. Hopping around on one foot like this is too dangerous."

Li Jingsheng quickly went over to support him.

"It’s fine, it’s fine, I’ll just be careful."

Master Liu, being thrifty, definitely couldn’t bear spending money on crutches.

"Sister Tang, are the crutches still behind the treatment room door?"

"Let me check!"

Tang Ping searched the treatment room.

"They are still here!"

She had already taken them out.

Both crutches were covered in dust.

These were bought shortly after the clinic opened, prepared for patients in need.

"Master Liu, how about this? You pay a 100 yuan deposit, and these crutches can be lent to you for free, making your mobility easier." Although Li Jingsheng was familiar with Master Liu, he had to collect a deposit before lending things out.

The most unreliable thing nowadays is human nature.

Previously, things were lent out without a deposit out of goodwill, but the patients eventually disappeared.

Actually, the borrowed items aren’t very valuable, just worth one or two hundred yuan. Moreover, when the patient’s condition improves, they no longer need them.

Yet people just wouldn’t return them.

Master Liu paid the 100 yuan deposit, and Li Jingsheng instructed him to come for intravenous infusion and wound check-up every day around 9 AM, along with some precautions.

Vertical mattress sutures must be removed promptly, otherwise the stitches can pressure and tighten the surrounding skin, leading to scarring at best or causing local tissue necrosis at worst.

Especially when postoperative skin edema occurs, the risk of local tissue necrosis increases.

Patients may not understand these things; it’s the doctor’s responsibility to be concerned.

Otherwise, if something goes wrong, patients will just blame the doctor’s poor medical skills and hold the clinic accountable.

Don’t be fooled by the six to seven hundred yuan earned from this business; in reality, it’s all hard-earned money. The clinic bears considerable risk and needs to provide up to three days of intravenous infusion services and subsequent suture removal services.

With Master Liu sent off, the clinic became quiet.

Tang Ping went into the treatment room to clean up.

Li Jingsheng, on the other hand, sat behind the counter excitedly, counting the substantial gains from treating Master Liu.

The 100 yuan deposit and 1100 yuan treatment fee were already locked in the safe.

What he was counting was the gain in medical skills.

Vertical mattress stitching +0.7, drug efficacy +0.1, pharmacokinetics +0.1, superficial debridement advanced to entry level, and gained 0.1 proficiency. Square knot +0.5, ligation for hemostasis +0.1. Health points +12.

The gains were unexpectedly abundant.

The proficiency in various medical skills increased significantly.

Vertical mattress stitching actually increased by 0.7, if practicing this stitch on fabric, an increase of 0.1 proficiency a month would be considered good.

Even if buying pigskin for practice, a month of hard training would at most increase by around 0.2.

The suture duration for Master Liu just now was around 17 minutes, yet the proficiency increased by 0.7, equivalent to three and a half months’ worth of hard practice.

Such a fast growth rate is truly pleasing.

It also made Li Jingsheng realize that directly applying medical skills to treat diseases on patients is the fastest way to improve proficiency.

What’s more exciting is the newly acquired 12 health points.

After treating the previous cold patient, the health points gained from defeating a level 1 cold was 1 point.

This time, surprisingly, so many health points were earned from suturing a wound.

How exactly is this calculated?

It seems there are many areas worth exploring in this attribute panel.

Like playing a game, researching its rules and devising strategies to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Also, after stitching Master Liu’s wound so well and lending him crutches for free, saving him a lot in medical costs, he still didn’t receive a positive review from him.

This left Li Jingsheng feeling a bit gloomy.

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