Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 8: Advanced incision and intensive training course (please save and read)
Sunday, 6pm.

When Zhou Yanqing was completing the incision practice carefully, suddenly a prompt jumped in front of his eyes.

[Complete 1000 incisions, the medal (Hammer and Temper) effect is activated, incision experience points +1.]

[Incision (Proficient 1/3) upgraded to Incision (Proficient 2/3)]

The skill proficiency levels on the panel are divided into entry-level, skilled, and specialized.

"Hmm?" Zhou Yanqing's pretty face twisted slightly, and then quickly relaxed. After the thumb and index finger of his right hand gently jumped a few times, he turned his head to look at his junior brother Fan Ziwei.

"Ziwei, please buy me two more pieces of plasticine that are 20 centimeters long, wide and 1 centimeter thick."

Upon hearing this, Fan Ziwei did not doubt it. He immediately nodded and went to the material supply department to buy it.

Zhou Yanqing thought carefully...

Unlike suturing, where the first material used in the training room is plasticine, the first material used in incision is tofu, the second material is plasticine, and then the third material will be tofu.

The requirements for incision in the hand surgery training room are that, at the first stage, a straight line incision of an absolute depth such as 2cm, 1cm, or 0.5cm is completed on the tofu. After strictly controlling the incision depth, the procedure is concluded.

Then it’s time for the second step, where you make a large S-shaped smooth arc about 5mm deep on the plasticine to practice controlling the knife.

Because hand surgery also places special emphasis on incision, Zhou Yanqing practiced this step frequently and reached it in March of this year, which corresponds to surgical skin incision.

However, the third level requires players to use a scalpel to carve various preset shapes on plasticine, such as triangles, squares, regular hexagons and irregular shapes, which is quite difficult.

A scalpel is not a pen. If you want to use it like a pen tip, you need to have absolute control over it.

However, the skin defects encountered in hand surgery are inherently irregular. The third stage of incision in hand surgery corresponds to the flap design and skin incision, which naturally has extremely high requirements.

Before, Zhou Yanqing had not completed this stage, so the only operations he could perform on the operating table were common minor diseases, such as simple skin incision after tendon contracture.

However, if Zhou Yanqing wanted to complete the circumferential incision of the "flap design" pattern, or just make the incision, his superiors did not dare to let him do it.

But now, Zhou Yanqing seemed to feel that he had broken through that barrier.

……

Soon, the junior brother bought back the reshaped plasticine tablets, and bought three of them, each costing one dollar and fifty cents.

In other words, plasticine can be recycled, otherwise, the price would make workers cry.

"I'll treat you to dinner later." Zhou Yanqing said this while calculating the money his junior brother would spend on buying materials for him.

Just as Fan Ziwei was about to speak, Zhou Yanqing put on the airs of a senior brother: "I am the senior brother now, and even if a junior fellow student comes, I am still the senior brother, and you have to listen to me."

Fan Ziwei retreated without saying anything. After putting away the materials, he stood opposite Zhou Yanqing with a stern look in his eyes: "Brother, have you made progress again?"

"Finish the operation first!" Upon hearing this, Zhou Yanqing took a special glance at the other figures in the training room. Finding that only his fellow apprentices were there, he felt relieved.

No matter how shocked the fellow students were, they did not dare to interrupt his operation. This was the rule.

Soon, Fan Ziwei saw his handsome senior brother holding the scissor handle in a pen-like manner and cutting out relatively regular patterns on the plasticine.

Triangle, square...

This made Fan Zi's eyes almost pop out of his head with envy for this young master who couldn't even cut a smooth hyperbola in the shape of an "s".

He swallowed his saliva repeatedly, but did not dare to make a sound to disturb his senior brother. Especially at this time, when he made his first breakthrough. About eight minutes later, Zhou Yanqing failed on the regular five-pointed star pattern and stopped.

But Fan Ziwei still praised in a low voice: "Brother, special patterns such as the regular five-pointed star and the double ellipse are all requirements for the next level. This corresponds to the authority to perform super-complex skin flap incisions."

Zhou Yanqing smiled when he heard this: "It's just a bit of anticipation. If we fail, we'll just be a piece of rubber clay."

"Huh, I feel pretty good today!~"

"Here are the remaining two pieces of clay for you to play with. They are enough for you to play with S-curves for a few days." Zhou Yanqing said generously.

"Put it away and go eat."

The material supply department of the training room is only responsible for selling materials, regardless of whether they are really suitable for you or not. If you have the money to make it, you can buy advanced materials in advance to practice, which is up to you.

Fan Ziwei didn't hesitate to listen and put away the two rubber clay boards: "Brother, that's great."

Zhou Yanqing didn't practice a few more times. It was already past dinner time. Zhou Yanqing was hungry, and he probably thought his junior brother Fan Ziwei, who was waiting to have dinner with him, was also hungry.

Secondly, there is no particularly obvious difference between breaking through this level today and breaking through it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

……

After leaving the training room, Zhou Yanqing took Fan Ziwei to the alley opposite the hospital to have a bite to eat. As they walked, he asked, "Ziwei, what do you want to eat today? Shall we go have some barbecue?"

Fan Ziwei was thin, so Zhou Yanqing wanted to take him to work on his weight.

"I'm fine with anything. I'll listen to you, senior brother." Fan Ziwei was very easy-going. In such situations, it was basically his senior brother who made the decision, unless Fan Ziwei had a recommendation for a particular type of food he particularly wanted to eat.

Fan Ziwei then asked: "Brother Zhou, did something happen in the department?"

"Both Senior Brothers Guo Congyu and Liu Dongyang have asked for leave. I heard that Senior Brother Guo has signed up for a private training course in hand surgery at Huashan Hospital, while Senior Brother Liu Dongyang has gone to do an internship at a hospital where his distant relative works."

"What's going on?"

The fact that the superstar came to Hengda Affiliated High School to perform affected not only Zhou Yanqing, but also his two classmates, who have now also started to make efforts.

Nowadays, the chance to stay in the hospital is harder than to study for a Ph.D. If you want a better future, you have to work hard!
Zhou Yanqing repeated what his teacher had told him, and then concluded: "The current situation is that this super god has come to us, and we can only run away!"

"It's not worth it to fight with him. If you don't fight with him, you will miss the best time."

"It's almost my third year now. The doctoral application examination system of Union Hospital and Kyoto University has already started registration. Doctoral examinations of other universities will also begin one after another."

Fan Ziwei smacked his lips when he heard this.

A master's degree from the First Affiliated Hospital of Hengda University sounds quite impressive. It is more than enough for a county hospital or a not-so-good prefecture-level city hospital. But compared with the top master's degree expert who broke into the Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Jiaotong University in Shanghai, is it really that impressive?
"Then what are you going to do, senior brother?" Fan Ziwei became worried.

The other two senior brothers each thought of a solution, but his direct senior brother was still in the practice room in the hospital.

"Be yourself, do your duty, work hard, and strive! ~"

"Do your best and leave the rest to fate." Zhou Yanqing's mentality and emotions are very stable.

He had digested this matter for a long time.

(End of this chapter)