Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Chapter 4: The Patient Is Very Satisfied

With this magical attribute panel, Li Jingsheng couldn’t help but ponder. Since any medical skill could be quickly upgraded as long as there were enough life points, he could completely pursue a path of diverse talents in the future.

Whatever the medical skill, as long as you find a way to learn it and reach the Entry Level, it can be quickly improved.

This is simply defying nature.

While others might need five or six years to practice a surgical knot from Entry Level to proficiency, he just needs 10 life points.

The currently identified method to earn life points is treating patients.

Refusing over-medication and treating patients both earn life points.

Whether there are other methods, that requires slow exploration.

Time was ticking away moment by moment; Li Jingsheng glanced at the clock on the wall, nearing eleven in the morning.

It seems that, unexpectedly, he only saw one cold patient this morning.

It’s a bit tragic; he can’t even make the rent.

That one patient almost got turned away by him.

No wonder Tang Ping would mock him as the boss.

With nothing to do, Li Jingsheng simply picked up a piece of cloth filled with stitches, a crochet hook, forceps, and a needle holder to start practicing sutures and knots.

If financially better off, practicing sutures and knots could be done with pigskin, banana peels, raw pig intestines, rubber tubes, and orange peels. But these are advanced tools and not cheap.

The advantage is that the practice effect is relatively good as their feel is similar to the human tissues and skin.

A bit more advanced, you could buy live animals like mice, rabbits, frogs, etc., to practice. These are cultivated in laboratories specifically for medical experiment use. There are strict requirements on their constitution, microbe carrying, viruses, etc.

So their price is quite expensive.

A mouse costs 200 yuan, a rabbit around 65 yuan, which ordinary people simply can’t afford.

Recently, Li Jingsheng has been crazy broke, so he can only use a piece of cloth cut from old clothes to practice sutures and knots. Naturally, the effect of the practice is significantly reduced, and efficiency is low.

To say the best effect, it surely is practicing on human bodies.

It must be mentioned, suturing on an anatomical donor is very different from a patient. Not to mention anything else, the mindset is completely different.

When suturing on a patient, involuntarily, you feel nervous, with significant psychological pressure.

If a stitch isn’t done well, people might directly curse you, or even file a complaint.

Suturing on parts like the eyelids, neck, and pericardium is especially like dancing on the edge of a knife.

If the stitching deviates even slightly, there might be a medical accident.

Almost all teaching instructors and medical seniors believe that if a doctor wants to improve their medical skills, the best way is clinical practice.

Li Jingsheng has formally worked in the hospital for six years, but the opportunities to suture on the operating table can be counted on one hand.

The vast majority of young doctors severely lack practice opportunities, mainly doing odd jobs.

Sending specimens for examination, collecting lab reports, going to the medical office or other departments to sign forms, accompanying patients for checkups, managing beds... these are what Li Jingsheng did most in the past six years.

As long as a practical operation carries even a slight risk, either the superior doctor would do it personally, or let a trustworthy subordinate doctor perform it.

Other doctors having the opportunity to observe is already quite good.

Li Jingsheng now is taking a different path. He can quickly improve his surgical skills without operating on patients.

This is definitely a heaven-defying advantage.

As long as he has enough time, he only needs to stay in this small clinic for ten or eight years. With the golden finger, he can become a surgical expert.

At this moment, holding the piece of cloth, he is considering which kind of suture and knot to practice.

Now having the golden finger, spending a great amount of time painstakingly practicing surgical knots, slip knots, and simple interrupted sutures is evidently not what a wise person would do.

The clinic is about to close down, so there is an urgent need to learn some new medical techniques, then quickly upgrade to above proficiency, earn customer word-of-mouth, and expand the business volume to possibly survive.

To survive first, then plan for development. This is his current position for the clinic.

According to his nine months of experience in running the clinic, the main categories of patients are those with colds and fevers, injuries, fractures, buying contraceptives...

Fracture patients he has no ability to handle, so he can only push them to big hospitals.

In fact, that’s a big cake, but unfortunately, the difficulty in treating orthopedic diseases is high, with a lot of technical content, and very stringent conditions. Li Jingsheng can’t even treat the most common joint dislocations.

Sometimes seeing children who accidentally broke their hands and feet come seeking treatment, despite salivating, Li Jingsheng can only send them away.

It’s heard that even a small clinic now charges starting from 300 yuan to treat a shoulder joint dislocation.

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