Chapter 566 - 289: Insatiable Desires

[Surgical Basic Skills: X-ray Film Reading Skill (Expert 0/200) (Skill Points -20), CT Film Reading Skill (Specialization 20/20), Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reading Skill (Specialization 20/20), Surgical Instrument Operation Experience (Specialization 20/20) (Skill Points -20), Laparoscopic Instrument Operation Experience (Specialization 20/20) (Skill Points -45), Physical Examination (Specialization 20/20), Auxiliary Examination Reading Skills (Specialization 20/20)]

[Surgical Basic Operations: Incision Skill (Specialization 20/20), Wound Cleaning Skill (Specialization 20/20), Suturing Skill (Expert 22/200) (+1), Knotting Skill (Specialization 20/20) (Skill Points -30), Puncture Skill (Specialization 20/20), Hemostasis Technique (Expert Level 3/200) (+1)]

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[Current Skill Points Balance: 12.3]

Natural progress is too slow, by comparison, using skill points is far too effective, but there's never enough skill points balance.

Improving surgical basic operations to the expert level would lead to a series of operations being enhanced, whereas the X-ray Film Reading Skill doesn't have any downstream subsidiary skills.

This time, the 20 skill points were used inefficiently.

Lu Cheng muttered, "Trial and error is fine, let's just consider it as saving some money for the patients within my ability."

Dai Linfang walked over from afar. Although he was operating in the operating room, he saw Lu Cheng take the nurse into the neighboring operating room and then come out again: "I still can't beat you in terms of speed."

"A sturdy person can't speed up," Dai Linfang propped his chin, slightly shifting the conversation to a playful tone.

Lu Cheng shivered: "Brother Dai, I heard people say that the more one lacks something, the more they emphasize it."

"For instance, for Ke Jie, a Go player at Dan Nine, if you say he's bad at Go, he will smile indifferently, but if you say he's bad at gaming, then he'd get angry..."

"Hey, where are you going?" Lu Cheng saw Dai Linfang turn around and leave.

Confronted with the truth, Dai Linfang's voice stiffened: "Just taking a break."

Dai Linfang tilted his head: "To clarify, I've never tried it, so I can't refute you."

Lu Cheng was amused, noticing Liu Nongqiu's dumbfounded expression: "Who asked you to explain this to me?"

"I've been waiting for you to call me over to take a look, but you never did." Lu Cheng's tone was formal, subtly implying Dai Linfang's limitations in 'blood vessel suturing' techniques.

Dai Linfang paused, turned around, and lightly tapped his head: "I got a bit carried away just now, but the basic quality is guaranteed, and the blood supply to the far end is normal."

"There shouldn't be any problems."

Facing Lu Cheng, Dai Linfang dared not boast about his blood vessel suturing: "The patient is over there, why don't you go and check again?"

"Then I'll go, don't overthink." Lu Cheng was cautious with his words.

Lu Cheng wanted to go, and he could tell that Dai Linfang wasn't a reckless person like Peng Kun. However, with the trauma center newly established and patient volume still low, being cautious was a good thing.

In essence, Dai Linfang might only feel the sting of having his techniques belittled, but it wouldn't cause him any real loss.

"I'll go with you..." Dai Linfang followed along.

A few minutes later, Dai Linfang returned with a look of excitement: "Brother Lu, does this mean I can routinely attempt fine blood vessel suturing in the future?"

Dai Linfang only occasionally reported his learning progress to Lu Cheng, not recording every detail on video or displaying his skills in a meticulous breakdown.

Lu Cheng was certainly pleased to see Dai Linfang improving in blood vessel suturing techniques: "The clinical application of vascular suturing differs somewhat from that on animals, Brother Dai, you'll need to supplement your theory!"

Dai Linfang put his hands behind his back: "How do you know I haven't already done so?"

The privilege of geniuses is arrogance mixed with photographic memory; those with such skills can quickly absorb theoretical knowledge.

Seeing Dai Linfang's initiative, Lu Cheng replied: "Then there's no problem. Future blood vessel suturing, it's all up to you."

Dai Linfang might not be aware, but the recent vessel suturing he did brought a 0.2 skill point boost to Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng was not afraid of Dai Linfang hogging the procedures. Instead, he wished he could become a workhorse, performing one operation per minute so that Lu Cheng could earn twelve skill points in an hour and two hundred sixty-eight in a day...

"Liu Nongqiu, the same goes for you. The sooner you learn these techniques, the sooner you can do standalone surgeries." Lu Cheng turned to tempt Liu Nongqiu.

Dai Linfang nodded: "To tell you honestly, these techniques we've mastered—if you wanted your teaching adjunct at your training institution to learn them—they'd have to pay for it."

"Teaching it to you for free now is like you've earned several ten thousand dollars."

Liu Nongqiu had no doubt about this. The training institute he's at is not much better than State People's Hospital.

Lu Cheng and Dai Linfang being entrusted to manage the trauma center at such a young age definitely meant they were technically gifted.

No hospital would deliberately set up two young individuals for failure by entrusting them with managing an entire department.

"Thank you, Director Lu, thank you, Teacher Dai." Liu Nongqiu hurriedly expressed his gratitude.

Dai Linfang immediately added a sting: "But your basic suturing skills are still too weak, not even meeting the learning threshold. If you don't believe this, you can try it yourself later."

"You can't even execute the basic suturing routines properly because your hand control isn't sufficiently detailed, which means you can't complete an entire routine."

The light in Liu Nongqiu's eyes slowly faded, leaving only a dazed look after being PUA'd...

It seems that Dai Linfang's "teaching" method has something going for it.

...

In the afternoon, at five forty, Lu Cheng, Dai Linfang, and Liu Nongqiu gathered in the rest area for a quick boxed meal.

Lu Cheng said: "After we finish eating, if you have some free time, just take a nap."