Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 160 New Year Salute (Subscription Request)

As the saying goes, it's better to beat a child on a rainy day than to have nothing to do.

In the surgical system, the jokes of superiors on subordinates are also so sudden and unexpected.

Basically, if you want to completely escape from the circle of being laughed at, there are only two ways. One is to work your way up to become an associate professor.

After this level, even professors will consider your face and will not joke with you in public.

The second way is to break the shackles, break the shackles of the strength of the deputy senior rank, and rush up early.

At this time, you will find that everyone around you is well-intentioned.

……

When Zhou Yanqing and Tan Zhongyu were discussing plans for the new year, Tan Zhongyu puffed out smoke and said, "Yanqing, what is your summary of last year? Or do you have any special feelings?"

Before making a plan, it is necessary to summarize.

Zhou Yanqing thought carefully for a full minute before saying, "It broadened my horizons."

Last year, Zhou Yanqing spent the first half of the year working hard to obtain admission for a doctorate. In the second half of the year, his biggest gain was realizing the ceiling of hand surgery.

A person's dream is actually related to his level of cognition.

"What about yourself?" Tan Zhongyu pointed meaningfully.

Zhou Yanqing was silent for another half a minute before he said cautiously, "You will find that the people around you are full of kindness, and you will make more friends than before."

Zhou Yanqing counted those who could be considered friends, including Duan Qilin, elder brother Ning Zhu, senior brother Liu Wanqing, and senior brother Yu Yue.

When he was at Hengda Affiliated High School, Zhou Yanqing actually didn't have many friends.

Tan Zhongyu asked again: "Yanqing, if I tell you that the underlying logic of a person's circle of friends after adulthood actually depends on a person's overall strength, do you agree with this view?"

"Why do others want to be friends with you? Why do others want to interact with you? Why do others want to join your team?"

"Think carefully about the underlying logic. It is a relatively equivalent exchange."

No one asks the poor in the downtown area, and the rich has distant relatives in the mountains.

Can you make friends everywhere just by being good at handling things? Actually, not really.

At least from Zhou Yanqing's perspective, many great experts and professors in surgery are not particularly good at, or have never deliberately indulged in, socializing.

But their social circles are still very wide, and they are even passively included in certain social circles. Why is this?

It is because of the relative irreplaceability of technology.

When your technology creates a demand gap, your social circle will naturally expand.

For example, if you are an associate professor of orthopedics, you will find that many people are willing to add you on WeChat, and they may even be afraid that you will not add them.

When you are just a junior resident, only residents will be willing to add you on WeChat on the principle of having one more contact.

In fact, mentors and students are relatively the same.

Students need mentors to improve their professional and scientific research abilities, and mentors need students to help complete a certain amount of scientific research tasks, and then give him a certain score to allow him to graduate.

Zhou Yanqing nodded.

Tan Zhongyu added: "In fact, Yanqing, you should be very grateful that your current job does not require you to be servile, nor does it require you to drink, give out cigarettes, or treat people to meals in order to form your own social circle."

"this point is very important."

"In surgery, as long as you have good skills, there is really no such thing as a good brand."

"Even if your superiors or the director suppress you, the nurses are not fools, and the other people in the department are not brainless. You are more capable, and you can build your own reputation just by having these people recommend you."

“The same principle also applies if we look beyond the individual to the department level.”

"Therefore, we cannot expect others to fall behind. We need to go one step further and catch up with the most advanced circles first."

“That’s peripheral nerve treatment.”

"With this ability, whether it is the national orthopedic COA or a regional orthopedic academic conference, as long as you show your skills, there will naturally be a circle that will embrace you."

“We will also find ourselves surrounded by friends.”

Tan Zhongyu is a professor with many years of teaching experience. From Zhou Yanqing's personal experience, he explained the importance of the department's move towards peripheral nerve treatment.

Zhou Yanqing continued to nod: "Master, I will work hard, and I have made preparations in all aspects."

"My graduation research papers are all ready. If necessary, I don't have to publish any more SCI papers from now until I graduate."

Zhou Yanqing is very clear about how much it will cost to enter a new field.

Zhou Yanqing also knew that he could improve his panel with practice, and as long as he had perseverance, he would be able to move up.

Now we have completed the step from nothing to something, and the next step is to go from apprentice to expert.

At least until you become an expert, you will dare to use the method on patients.

Because this surgical procedure is not original. If it were original, no one in the world would dare to treat it. It is a merit for you to use the surgical procedure with "apprentice" proficiency to try to treat patients.

And if it is a replica, and you still do this, it actually means you have a problem with your character.

At least the principle that Zhou Yanqing has always adhered to is that he will never perform surgery alone until he has become specialized.

Of course, you must also participate appropriately!
Tan Zhongyu smiled and said, "That doesn't mean you need to make such a big wish or sacrifice so much."

"Actually, there are two best solutions now. One is for me to take you with me and slowly explore and figure it out."

"Another option is to send you to Huashan Hospital for exchange and study, where there is a relatively systematic and more mature theoretical system."

Zhou Yanqing said without hesitation: "Master, I think the first one is better."

"It would be better to wait until you have no direction to learn. Now it is just a process of accumulating proficiency. That's what I personally think."

Of course Zhou Yanqing needs to practice more and do more.

Moreover, Zhou Yanqing himself has his own ideas for advancement.

Basic skills can stretch the growth of professional skills to a certain extent. By analogy, as long as the prerequisite skills for peripheral nerve treatment are brought to the highest level of experts, I believe that you cannot develop a specialization.

If it still can't be deduced, then let's make it all above the experts?
Otherwise, according to his "Thousand Hammers" medal, he would need to participate in a thousand operations to increase his experience points by one point.

It would take more than 500 days to operate two units a day, which is definitely not a scientific panel application method.

Zhou Yanqing then looked at his panel.

Of the three major transposition techniques, Zhou Yanqing has only activated the "Thousand Hammers and Hundred Refinements" medal so far, and he is still some distance away from mastering it.

【神经转位术（熟练2/3）、肌腱转位术（熟练2/3）、神经移植术（熟练2/3）……】

[Daily tasks: Perform 100 standard quality transposition surgeries as assistant or main surgeon. You will receive a generous reward upon completion.]

Seeing this daily task, Zhou Yanqing's heart finally calmed down.

Because daily tasks are not arbitrary, the previous daily task is: [Complete the standard puncture 25 times, and you will receive rich rewards after completion. 】

In order to complete this task, Zhou Yanqing had to go to the outpatient clinic of joint surgery and actively apply for an injection of sodium hyaluronate in the knee joint...and the improvement of puncture technique was of no use to Zhou Yanqing now.

But this is how daily tasks are, and you can’t expect them to change at will.

It takes a very long time to perform 100 transposition surgeries.

And precisely for this reason, Zhou Yanqing has postponed his experimental tasks and progress and devoted himself to learning surgical techniques.

Time is like water!

In a blink of an eye, nearly two months have passed.

It is April now, the earth has already returned to spring and warmed up, and the scenery outside the car window is beautiful.

Master Zhou Yanqing and his apprentice are sitting on the high-speed train.

Master Tan Zhongyu was dozing off in the window seat next to him, while Zhou Yanqing was grinning as he stared at the virtual panel that only he could see.

After the Chinese New Year, it took two months and ten days to finally complete the 100 transposition surgeries.

Finally, Zhou Yanqing's daily tasks were completed!
[Daily tasks: perform 100 standard quality transposition surgeries as assistant or main surgeon. You will receive a generous reward after completing the task.]

[Nerve transfer experience +2, tendon transfer experience +2, blood vessel transfer experience +2, flap transfer experience +2.]

【神经转位术熟练度提升至（专精4/5）、肌腱转位术熟练度提升至（专精3/5）、血管转位术熟练度提升至（专精4/5）、皮瓣转位术熟练度提升至（熟练2/3）】

Skin flap transfer? ?

What is this?
Zhou Yanqing saw something new.

The rewards are indeed quite generous.

Zhou Yanqing is very satisfied with the huge improvement he has made in two months. After all, it is one of the most cutting-edge skills in hand surgery and it is not an entry-level surgical skill.

However, after reaching the level of expertise, the 'skills' related to operations related to peripheral nerve damage have still not been activated.

However, the corresponding theories have already yielded some results.

【Theory of peripheral nerve treatment (skilled 1/3). 】

Don't rush, and there is no need to rush.

Learning peripheral nerve treatment is not something that can be done overnight.

There are so many hand surgery professors in the world, and they are not just random people. If the procedure is really a very simple one, it doesn't make sense that only the top experts in those hospitals can perform it, while other professors can't.

"Yanqing, what time is it?" Tan Zhongyu asked in a daze.

Zhou Yanqing immediately said, "Master, it's five o'clock in the afternoon. We still have half an hour to get to Shashi."

"Please take a rest. I have already found a place where we will have dinner later. Do you want to ask your wife to come over?" Zhou Yanqing's voice was gentle and respectful.

Zhou Yanqing didn’t know about other departments, but looking at the entire Department of Orthopedics at Xiangya Hospital, among all the graduate tutors—

Professor Tan Zhongyu is the only one who is so tired.

The other tutors are certainly very good, but Professor Tan Zhongyu is the only one who is as dedicated and hardworking as he is, teaching day and night for one or two months.

What did Tan Zhongyu ask for? Actually, he had nothing to ask for.

Besides, Tan Zhongyu is old and his waist is not in good condition sometimes.

"Your master's wife seldom comes out to eat, so the two of us can just eat something casually." Tan Zhongyu turned in another direction and yawned twice.

"Master, let's go to Suicai Restaurant. It's quiet there and not far from where you live. I think the food is pretty good too." Zhou Yanqing suggested in a low voice.

"I'm fine with anything. Just order some soup and some rice and feel comfortable." Tan Zhongyu said.

In terms of energy, Tan Zhongyu is definitely no match for Zhou Yanqing.

"Okay, Master, I added the store manager's WeChat. We can order food after we get off the high-speed train. We should be able to eat when we arrive by taxi." Zhou Yanqing reported very carefully.

This is not being servile, but being respectful.

returning a Favour many times more.

Zhou Yanqing's recognition of Tan Zhongyu is now no less than Gong Yi's, and even greater.

"Xiao Shitou, are you free today?" After Tan Zhongyu took a rest, Chen Yu sent another message to ask.

For a long time, Zhou Yanqing hadn't spent any weekends with Chen Yu.

Many times, Zhou Yanqing and Tan Zhongyu did not come back until around seven or eight o'clock on Sunday evening.

Today is April 4th, another Sunday. Chen Yu hasn't met Zhou Yanqing for nearly three or four days, so he thought about going out for dinner together.

"Let's go have some crayfish for supper," Zhou Yanqing replied.

"You have to have dinner with my master."

Chen Yu said, "Do you want me to transfer some money to you? Teacher Chen is so kind to you, why don't you treat him to something good later?"

Zhou Yanqing said: "I still have money. I haven't used up the scientific research bonus I received after the New Year."

"My master is very good to me."

Chen Yu said: "If I hadn't known that you were from Hengnan County, I would have even suspected that you were his illegitimate child."

"As a father, even his biological son or the son of his original wife may not be able to do what he did."

"For more than two months, I took you out to teach every weekend, running around day and night, and even took you to perform surgery at night in Shashi."

"Your fellow brothers have no objections, right?"

Zhou Yanqing smiled and replied: "Maybe, but I don't dare to say it."

"After all, I am very popular in the department now."

Zhou Yanqing knew very well why his senior brothers had no objections. It was because, under his guidance, senior brother Liu Wanqing had defeated several senior brothers from other specialties and secured one of the two places to stay in the hospital.

Anyone else dare to object?

As soon as Zhou Yanqing stood in the training room, most of the opinions were suppressed.

This is what strong communication skills mean.

"Yeah, yeah, when others beg you for help, of course you're popular."

"Xiao Shitou, can I ask you for a favor? I have a colleague who is my boss. Her mother-in-law is feeling uncomfortable in her hands. She said she wants to come and see her."

"But I didn't get an appointment with Professor Tan. Didn't you say last time that you could operate the plus sign?"

"Can you do me a favor? I'll treat you to a meal." Chen Yu suddenly asked.

"A plus sign, sure. You have to let her come at noon. Otherwise, it will be bad for the people in front of her if she cuts in line. But at noon, it's considered overtime, so there won't be such a problem." Zhou Yanqing instructed...

(End of this chapter)