Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 2: Become Stronger! ~
Zhou Yanqing felt a warm current seeping into his hands and wanted to go to the training room to confirm it.

However, professional master's students can also be included in the regular training sequence, and resident doctors are required to take on departmental duty after obtaining their medical qualification certificate.

Absence during duty is strictly prohibited. At the very least, you will be criticized. At the worst, you will be considered to have a bad character and be ordered to withdraw from the regular training sequence. Even if Zhou Yanqing was curious, he could only endure it.

……

The next day.

After handing over the shift, making rounds and completing the patient management task, Zhou Yanqing couldn't wait to leave the department and rush to the practice room.

The practice room is located in the functional science experimental building. The practice room is the common name, and the skill laboratory is the abbreviation. The full name is the functional science skill laboratory!

Most of the training rooms were bright as day, and from inside came the sound of people fighting while operating the instruments. It was obvious that quite a few young doctors were struggling to practice inside.

Functional Laboratory 304 is a low-level training room for hand surgery. The cool wind from the floor-standing air conditioner in the corner opposite the back door blows the air panels and makes a slight creaking sound, dispelling the remaining heat from the night.

In the skills laboratory, there are nine one-meter-square height-adjustable stainless steel skills training tables arranged in three rows and three columns.

Zhou Yanqing saw that many classmates and junior students had already started their own practice. The familiar sound of thread cutting invaded his ears, and the familiar smell of orange peel and dried tofu pulp filled his nose. Everything had familiar smells.

The growth curve for surgeons is smooth and time-consuming. Hand surgery has extremely demanding requirements. Most young doctors have practiced a lot in the training room before going on the operating table.

"Senior brother. This way." Zhou Yanqing had just arrived at the door of the training room when his junior fellow student Fan Ziwei extended his hand to greet him.

Zhou Yanqing stepped in, passed through the gap between the operating tables, and came to his junior brother's side.

"Ziwei, how come you came earlier than me?" Zhou Yanqing saw Fan Ziwei suturing the broken orange peel on the operating table. He had obviously practiced two rounds of thirty stitches.

But among the thirty stitches, at least fourteen stitches either cut the orange peel or sew through the orange peel.

Fan Ziwei is Zhou Yanqing's direct junior. His first academic year is about to end and he will soon enter the second year of his master's degree. His basic skills in hand surgery sutures have progressed beyond plasticine sutures and he is now working on full-thickness sutures of orange peels.

If he can get through the full-thickness suture of the orange peel, he can expect his instructor to sew a neat surgical incision for him in the operating room!

I was on duty yesterday and had time to write the medical records of the patients in my charge in advance. Today I only need to write medical orders and change dressings. I didn't expect that my junior could be faster than me.

Although he was puzzled by the speed at which his junior fellow disciple Fan Ziwei arrived at the training room, Zhou Yanqing still gave him some pointers: "Suturing is divided into four steps: inserting the needle, passing the needle, removing the needle, and tying the knot. The full-thickness suture of orange peels requires three steps of force control: inserting the needle, removing the needle, and tying the knot. The force must be controlled to an appropriate level in these three steps."

"Thank you for your advice, Senior Brother. Actually, I am good at controlling the needle insertion, but when I take the needle out and tie the knot, it tends to slip..."

Fan Ziwei was thin and had fair skin that made women jealous. He thanked her first and then explained, "Brother, the beds I'm in charge of are all post-operative patients. I stopped the medical orders before handing over the shift. I came here after changing the medicine. There were no surgeries on the beds I'm in charge of."

The attending physician needs to complete detailed ward management tasks, such as writing medical records, issuing medical orders, changing medicines, and sorting out discharge records, etc. This is the most basic and most important task.

Secondly, things like medical training, learning surgery, writing articles, doing experiments, etc. should all be allocated by yourself in the free time after completing the most basic tasks.

For example, Zhou Yanqing has a bed under his charge that will be used for surgery tomorrow. Zhou Yanqing can only come to the practice room to practice the operation after completing the preoperative medical instructions and signing the conversation. Even if Zhou Yanqing can't wait to come to the practice room, he has to endure it.

"Well, now you can suture half of the thirty stitches with acceptable quality. I believe you will be able to complete the full-layer suture of the orange peel soon and you can go on stage and start sewing the skin. Come on." Zhou Yanqing patted Fan Ziwei on the shoulder to encourage him.

Suturing is the most important and core skill in hand surgery. Therefore, in the hand surgery training room, the training materials for suturing are the most comprehensive and detailed.

From the most basic suture of rubber clay, to the full-thickness suture of orange peel, half-thickness suture, and 1cm-deep suture of tofu, there are also corresponding different operation permissions...

Zhou Yanqing was already able to complete half-layer suture of orange peel, so he had the authority to clean and suture small emergency wounds while on duty.

"Okay, Senior Brother." Fan Ziwei was full of fighting spirit and expectation. Then he said flatteringly, "Senior Brother, I got you a suture kit and three pieces of tender tofu at the next operating table. The total is only four dollars and fifty cents. You don't have to turn to me..."

Zhou Yanqing heard this, looked at Fan Ziwei, and chuckled: "Are you trying to make me commit corruption?"

"Isn't this just following your teachings and actions? Brother Huang has graduated, and Brother Zhou, you are the 'big brother' of our school!" Fan Ziwei had a very smart and studious expression.

Zhou Yanqing is in his second year of master's studies and is about to enter his third year. He is one year older than Fan Ziwei and has been guiding his junior Fan Ziwei for a full year.

Fan Ziwei obviously made full use of the two words he learned from Zhou Yanqing: diligence and understanding.

If you want senior brothers to waste time teaching and guiding you, you must work hard and be diligent. Everyone likes diligent people, and it is not okay if you are ignorant.

Zhou Yanqing has already stitched half of the orange peel, and the next step is to work hard on stitching the tofu.

"Thank you!~" After Zhou Yanqing realized that he was about to replace Senior Brother Fan, his mentality gradually calmed down.

"Come on, senior brother. Complete the tofu suturing stage as soon as possible and try to be better than the two senior brothers in the other groups, and then stay in the hospital."

"When you were on duty yesterday, Brother Guo from Director Dong's group had already broken through the barrier of half-layer suture of orange peel. His current level is comparable to yours, and he can also perform debridement and suture in the department."

"Senior Brother Liu from Director Han's group may be almost done with the tofu stitching." Fan Ziwei secretly reported the performance of his senior brothers to Zhou Yanqing.

Fan Ziwei's Senior Brothers Guo and Liu are both Zhou Yanqing's classmates. If Zhou Yanqing wants to get the chance to stay in the hospital, he must first overcome these two major competitors in the department!

"Okay, I understand. Your senior brother wants to stay in the hospital, and the other two senior brothers naturally want to stay as well. Everyone will unconsciously roll up their sleeves at this time." Zhou Yanqing's answer was still very calm.

"Even though we have won the inner court, there are still great players from the outer court. But we must win the inner court first before we are qualified to compete with the great players from the outer court."

The three people in Zhou Yanqing's group have to withstand such a "dimensionality reduction attack" and must first reach a certain threshold.

"Brother, I bought some chocolate today. If you get hungry while practicing... you don't have to ask other brothers for candy." It was obvious that the junior fellow disciple Fan Ziwei had learned the essence of Zhou Yanqing and was extremely attentive.

At the beginning of this month, Zhou Yanqing almost had hypoglycemia after staying in the practice room. Fortunately, the brothers in the practice room were knowledgeable and experienced. Some of them had encountered similar situations before, and there were always candies in the lockers.

Zhou Yanqing was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and gave Fan Ziwei a thumbs up: "Excellent!~"

"It's all your words and deeds. I have to work harder in the future." Fan Ziwei's face was serious, as if he felt that he had only learned Zhou Yanqing's delicacy, but not Zhou Yanqing's hard work.

After all, I haven’t had hypoglycemia yet!

"I love orange peels, I love eating oranges, and I also love eating oranges without peeling them..." Fan Ziwei recited the spell again before starting the suturing practice.

Zhou Yanqing smiled when he heard this, and left the operating table to put his backpack in the locker.

A few minutes later.

Zhou Yanqing returned to the operating table next to his junior fellow student Fan Ziwei, rolled up his sleeves, put on his examination gloves and changed them into sterile gloves, then picked up the scissor blade and cut the tofu vertically. After making the vertical cut, he picked up the needle holder and clamped the suture needle with thread and began to sew...

Zhou Yanqing felt that today's suturing operation was very smooth, as if it was assisted by God, as if he had practiced it thousands of times, and he was enjoying the operation...

"Brother Qing, you can't be able to sew tofu already, right?" The voice of classmate Guo Congyu came from the side, shocked and a little stunned.

Zhou Yanqing raised his eyelids and glanced at Guo Congyu, and saw the other's flickering expression. He was excited but did not speak.

(End of this chapter)