Don’t even mention the medication for short bowel syndrome; even the medication for this bronchitis in front of me is challenging.
For ordinary bronchitis patients, Li Jingsheng can handle them with ease.
However, for someone of this age, with a long history of smoking and also suffering from hypertension, the considerations for medication, blood concentration, and the exposure and metabolism time of the drug, as well as the effects on the body post-medication, all need to be taken into account.
This kind of clinical medication with considerable risk really exceeds the capability of a senior resident physician.
At least an attending level of junior experience is required for such a task.
Li Jingsheng checked his life points, balance is 346.
This was thanks to Boss Zhao collapsing at his place a couple of days ago, allowing him to earn an extra 50 life points.
Successfully diagnosing an elderly scavenger with tetanus and investing to send the old man to the hospital for treatment earned him 100 life points.
Otherwise, there is no way he could have accumulated so many.
Though he treats patients daily, and earns some life points while palpating and setting bones at the Second Hospital, the life points gained through routine operations aren’t much. It’s like a salaried job, where your monthly salary is fixed.
A sudden increase by tenfold or twentyfold is impossible.
To earn ’large amounts of life points,’ something more ’exciting’ has to happen.
For example, rescuing a patient or being gifted a pennant.
He also discovered a problem; at the Second Hospital, while assisting in bone setting, patient compliments do not reach him personally but are attributed to the entire bone setting clinic, occasionally to Doctor Xu.
This left him a bit frustrated.
A single compliment can earn 10 life points; even capturing just three or four compliments a day can bring in an extra thirty to forty life points.
He has pondered why, when at the Second Hospital, patient praises didn’t reflect directly on him.
When patient compliments are directed toward the entire clinic’s medical team, it is understandable.
After all, recovering a bone injury isn’t solely Li Jingsheng’s contribution.
However, when it’s evidently Li Jingsheng who set and restored a patient’s bone, leading to the patient’s recovery, and yet the praise is given to Doctor Xu, this reflects the difference between a leader and a subordinate.
It’s like a surgical team successfully completing a highly complex surgery.
The highest honor invariably goes to the head surgeon.
Despite the efforts from surgical nurses, assistants, and anesthesiologists, their contributions are overshadowed by the lead surgeon.
Even if the lead surgeon only completes one-tenth of the procedure, focusing on the hardest critical parts,
the highest honor remains with the lead surgeon.
The hospital’s publicity will also reflect something like this: Leading by Director Whatever, the surgical team successfully completed a highly complex surgery of type Whatever.
When Li Jingsheng set a patient’s bone, firstly, the patients came for Doctor Xu’s reputation.
Secondly, during the bone setting, Doctor Xu guided the whole process.
After the patient’s recovery, their gratitude would, of course, go to Doctor Xu. As for Li Jingsheng, the patient’s thought process might be: Damn, I became a guinea pig for this rookie doctor, luckily Doctor Xu was supervising, so nothing disastrous happened; I was terrified during the bone setting.
Changing this situation requires time.
Once Li Jingsheng learns the bone-setting techniques and can handle cases independently, he will no longer be a ’student’ but a new rising star in the manual reposition clinic room.
The arrival of that day shouldn’t be too far away.
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Li Jingsheng checked the two medical skills under prescriptions.
Drug Efficacy Proficiency 42.5/100, Pharmacodynamics Proficiency 39/100.
The frequency of using these two medical skills is incredibly high, yet the speed of increasing their proficiency is somewhat unsatisfactory.



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