Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic novel Chapter 77

Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Taking the Road Less Traveled

But then again, pharmacies rarely hire doctors, at most they collaborate with a doctor to hold free clinics on weekends to draw in crowds.

The man just now, judging by his demeanor, really didn’t seem like someone from a small clinic or hospital.

Li Jingsheng couldn’t help but wonder, what exactly did this person come for?

To cause trouble? To gather information?

Or perhaps a fellow professional here to "learn" successful experiences?

The Old Street of South City was already a place where the shallow water harbored many turtles and the small temple was filled with demons. With Li Jingsheng and Sunshine Clinic making it to the newspapers, the demon wind in the Old Street of South City blew even stronger.

If he couldn’t figure it out, he decided to leave it be and just watch how things unfolded.

Right now, his main focus had to be on running the clinic and improving his medical skills. He wouldn’t feel at ease until he raised enough for the rent.

Improving medical skills involved both internal and external development.

Internally, the focus was on improving diagnosis for Pulmonary Medicine, internal medicine of the digestive tract, pharmacokinetics, and the doctor’s grade.

Externally, it was currently all about various technical skills.

Then there’s the goal of mastering the bone-setting techniques in Orthopedics.

Mastering orthopedic bone-setting techniques not only could bring additional income to the clinic, but also quickly raise its reputation.

So, he was determined to acquire this skill.

He understood very well that the vast majority of clinics pursued internal medicine development. Many claim to treat everything, while some retired or renowned doctors open their own clinics with specific treatment slogans.

For instance, specializing in treating hemorrhoids, rheumatic arthritis, snake and insect bites, etc.

Li Jingsheng chose to develop surgery because he saw this market was almost blank, and also due to the powerful "attribute panel" he possessed, making it suitable for the "place".

According to the law of natural competition, a niche is either because it’s too difficult or there’s no market for it.

There are multiple reasons why other clinics don’t develop surgery.

Surgery is high risk, prone to incidents.

The construction cost of surgery is high, requiring large investments.

The training period for surgical doctors is long and difficult, but once trained, they can live successfully in hospitals without needing to take such risks to open a clinic for surgeries.

Lastly, there are no patients.

Even though major hospitals have high volumes of surgical outpatient and emergency visits, with plenty of patients, small clinics, and community hospitals barely receive any.

Patients needing surgery, even for a simple external hemorrhoid removal, would choose tertiary hospitals.

Some robust secondary hospitals might get some surgical patients too.

But for small clinics, stitching up three minor injury patients in a month would be sheer luck.

Therefore, the path chosen by Li Jingsheng was destined to be full of thorns and extremely challenging.

However, if he could forge this path, he could stand out and rise above many clinics and grassroots hospitals.

The start of everything is always difficult.

The hardest part is the initial phase.

Making it to the newspapers was an unexpected move that laid a good foundation for him.

Every clinic desires this kind of positive publicity, to establish a decent image.

Unfortunately, such opportunities are rare and hard to come by.

From this perspective, Li Jingsheng should be grateful to that female reporter and photographer.

Such opportunities are hard to come by, even at a cost.

Moreover, they even had the leader from the health administration department speak and summarize, essentially endorsing his small clinic indirectly.

The benefits from this were immense, beyond imagination.

Perhaps even he didn’t fully realize it.

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