Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 46 Getting Worse
Time flies.

Zhou Yanqing took advantage of the National Day holiday to return to his hometown and spend two days with his parents before rushing back to Heng City on October 10.

Zhou Yanqing is a resident doctor and a professional master, and he needs to be on duty in the ward.

Zhou Yanqing was assigned to be on duty on the 6th because he is a senior in the third year of master's degree.

Back in the dormitory, Zhou Yanqing packed his luggage while video chatting with his parents, his face full of joy: "Dad, I'm already in the dormitory. Have you and Mom had lunch?"

Zhou Yanqing has forgotten when he started adding the word "old" before referring to his parents.

It takes about four hours to transfer from the hometown town to the county town, and then transfer to a bus from the county town to Heng City. Zhou Yanqing set out in the morning and it was past lunch time.

"We've eaten. Little Stone, you haven't eaten yet, right? We're glad we're safe. Why don't you go eat quickly?"

"Has your roommate not returned yet?" Dad was standing in the corner of the shelf, with a towel wet with sweat draped over his shoulders. He was lifting a corner of the towel to wipe the sweat off his neck.

"Maybe he's on vacation or he's gone home. I'm the only one here now."

"Okay, Dad, you should also take care of your rest. I'll go to eat after I pack my things." Zhou Yanqing hung up the phone on his own initiative. Then he straightened up, looked at the dormitory where he had stayed for more than two years, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Suturing is a very important basic skill in hand surgery.

Although the flaws do not outweigh the merits, excellent basic skills can still attract the attention of others.

At the end of last month, Zhou Yanqing added Professor Tan’s WeChat and took the initiative to say hello to Professor Tan. Professor Tan gave Zhou Yanqing a relatively positive response.

Not only did he affirm Zhou Yanqing's professional talent, but he also pointed out a potential way for Zhou Yanqing to make up for his shortcomings.

Zhou Yanqing’s current shortcomings are mainly in scientific research, followed by incision surgery.

Zhou Yanqing's incision technique was only one step away from reaching the level of a professional doctorate, but in Professor Tan's opinion, this was not a problem at all.

However, Professor Tan still hopes that Zhou Yanqing can find opportunities to make up for his shortcomings in scientific research.

“If the only place you want to work after you graduate with a PhD is the First Affiliated Hospital of Hengda University, then there is no need for you to get a PhD. But if you want to apply for a job at Xiangya Hospital or the Provincial People’s Hospital, scientific research output is a topic you must face.”

These are the original words that Professor Tan wrote in his reply to Zhou Yanqing, along with a few other suggestions.

Zhou Yanqing read and understood this sentence very carefully, and asked himself where he wanted to work and what kind of work he wanted to do in the future.

If you just want to work in the First Affiliated Hospital of Hengda University, you really don't need to study for a doctorate. It's the same as first entering the department and taking up a position, and then finding an opportunity to get a degree later.

But as Professor Tan Zhongyu said, if you go to a top-level tertiary hospital in a provincial capital city, you will inevitably face unknown diseases.

How to challenge unknown or unfamiliar diseases is a question that top hospitals must answer. Otherwise, it will be difficult to improve the corresponding treatment level of a provincial capital.

To answer such questions, to understand and study the disease, is an inevitable thorn.

Not being able to do scientific research but wanting to study diseases and develop new treatments is undoubtedly like a mirage... "So... I went to work in a better unit. While enjoying better treatment, the tasks I shoulder are also relatively different." After Zhou Yanqing made up his mind, he collected the empty box, pushed it into the cabinet, and muttered to himself.

For example, doctors in town hospitals only need to treat daily diseases, such as colds and fevers, children's high fever convulsions and other common diseases.

For example, doctors in county hospitals only need to maintain and regulate common diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. For surgeons, being able to treat fractures and simple infections is their duty.

For the First Affiliated Hospital of Hengda University, being able to perform some difficult surgeries, such as complex fractures, pelvic fractures, and replantation of severed fingers in hand surgery, is already a great achievement.

But as far as Xiangya Hospital is concerned, the diseases that can be treated in Xiangya Hospital are basically difficult and complicated diseases. For some diagnoses, you even need to look up a lot of literature to know the names...

Scientific research is not bad. Scientific research is a very advanced tool. It is unscientific to only talk about scientific research or not.

"Professor Tan Zhongyu suggested that I take advantage of my free time to continue practicing basic skills such as incision and debridement, while also learning some scientific research tools, such as Python or R language for bioinformatics analysis, and Prisma for image processing."

Zhou Yanqing's mouth turned bitter when he heard this: "Go ahead and learn. I have to catch up on what I missed during my master's degree. To learn these things, I may have to sign up for a class and ask my family for some money..."

Zhou Yanqing checked and found that there were indeed some free and fragmentary materials on the Internet, but they were not systematic enough. He was currently a novice in software processing, and the only reliable shortcut was to find a good training class to make up for this shortcoming.

……

The next day.

"Brother Yang, would you like to have breakfast together?"

Zhou Yanqing arrived at the department early because he had to be on duty and completed the handover with Liu Dongyang, the doctor on duty on the 5th.

Liu Dongyang took half a month longer leave than Guo Congyu. After returning in October, he started working on duty on October 10th.

Liu Dongyang yawned continuously, "Brother Qing, I won't eat in the department. There were several emergency cases yesterday, and I didn't sleep much all night. I will go back to the dormitory to sleep after I finish my rounds..."

Zhou Yanqing nodded: "You were on duty yesterday. Was it busy?"

"Well, it's not bad, it's not like my feet are off the ground!~"

"Brother Qing, Brother Zhu Qin said that you, as a big scooper, are getting worse and worse now?" Liu Dongyang's eyes flickered quickly, his face full of indescribable loneliness and confusion.

After learning that Master Duan was coming to the hospital to perform, both Liu Dongyang and Guo Congyu panicked. Unlike Guo Congyu who went to Huashan Hospital's hand surgery private training class, Liu Dongyang went to the hand surgery department of West China Hospital where his distant relative worked as an apprentice for a month.

He thought he would be able to make some progress and even be able to fight with Duan Qilin, but he didn't expect that after going out for a while, Liu Dongyang became more aware of the gap between himself and a great player like Duan Qilin.

This made Liu Dongyang realize how difficult it is to take the doctoral exam in hand surgery. When Liu Dongyang was at West China Hospital, he kept a calm mind and only studied, not thinking about messy things.

I thought that I would be able to find a job easily, but I didn't expect that after returning, my classmate Zhou Yanqing would make Duan the master panic...

Liu Dongyang's heartstrings were twisted like a knot at this moment.

(End of this chapter)