Chapter 92: Expert-level Suturing!
Lu Cheng drove over, ate, accompanied them for drinks, expressed his gratitude and intentions as well as his ‘thoughts’, and then had a designated driver take the two of them back to the residential area before having the driver take himself home!
Tong Yuan’an and Chen Song were not particularly happy, but they did express a certain degree of respect towards Lu Cheng during the dinner.
Because Lu Cheng speaking like this was still the same Lu Cheng they first met, they would only think Lu Cheng was an idiot.
But Lu Cheng speaking like this was the current Lu Cheng, and Chen Song watched with his own eyes as Lu Cheng’s basic skills, at least his suturing technique, improved from quite excellent to an unrivaled level among his peers.
Three months!
Even if Lu Cheng poured all his time into it, focusing solely on practicing suturing technique with unwavering dedication, such talent would be enough to earn everyone’s respect.
Therefore, even though Lu Cheng rejected their temporary goodwill, Chen Song and Tong Yuan’an didn’t get angry; instead, they treated Lu Cheng as one of their own.
Pride, who hasn’t felt proud before?
…
As he walked from the garage into the elevator lobby, Lu Cheng felt his head was a bit groggy, and his vision was slightly blurred.
Lu Cheng hadn’t held back today; after a jin of alcohol, he was already in a semi-drunken state.
After unlocking the iron gate to the underground garage with his access card, Lu Cheng leaned against the wall, pressed the upward button, and then looked at his panel and the corresponding regulations with a smile on his lips.
【 Suturing Technique （ Expert 0/200 ）（ Skill Points -40 ）, the guidance was effective, and the opportune moment arrived, causing Suturing Technique to leap to Expert level, passively boosting Suturing Specialty Skills. For specific boosting magnitude, please refer to the detailed display 】
【 Suturing Specialty Basic Skills: Tendon Suturing （ Mastery 16/20 ）(+2), Nerve Suturing （ Proficient 3/10 ）(+8), Vascular Suturing （ Proficient 4/10 ）(+9), Bone Suturing （ Proficient 2/10 ）(+7), Membrane Suturing （ Proficient 9/10 ）（+14 ）】
【 Suturing Specialty Skills: Improved Kessler Suturing （ Mastery 0/20 ）（+20 ）, Improved Tang Method Suturing （ Mastery 6/20 ）（+3 ）, Tsuge Suturing （ including sliding type ）（ Mastery 2/20 ）（+12 ）, End-to-End Vascular Suture （ Proficient 2/10 ）（+7 ）, Tendon Unnamed Suturing Technique （ Mastery 15/20 ）（+1 ）, Unnamed Tendon Suturing Technique （ Mastery 8/20 ）（+3 ）, Nerve Epineurium-Perineurium Suturing （ Beginner 5/5 ）（+5 ）… 】
The teaching model in a teaching hospital definitely has a traceable path. Lu Cheng had only just discovered that after basic skills are raised to Expert level, a series of skills can be passively boosted for a leap in improvement.
No wonder in teaching hospitals, whether it’s Professional Master’s or Professional Doctorate candidates, most of them are practicing basic skills.
This means that before they look for jobs at thirty, they don’t learn any specialty surgical procedures, only basic skills.
After starting work, they begin to formally learn specialty surgical procedures. Within five to seven years, they transform from ordinary ‘students’ into ‘attending physicians’, ‘associate chief physicians’, and ‘associate professors’, gaining considerable recognition within the province.
Lu Cheng originally thought it was just talent; in reality, the professors in the teaching hospitals had long ago summarized the optimal shortcut for them!!
Once internal energy is raised, learning specialty surgical procedures is not only fast but also saves a lot of time through ‘passive boosting’.
Of course, Lu Cheng also understood that the reason this ‘model’ couldn’t be widely promoted was that some people might never get past it in their entire lives.
Lu Cheng was so sure of this because of a sentence on the regulations—
【 Suturing Technique （ Expert 0/200 ）（ Skill Points -40 ）, the guidance was effective, and the opportune moment arrived, causing Suturing Technique to leap to Expert level 】
In other words, if the guidance was ineffective or the opportune moment didn’t align, then one couldn’t get past it?
It’s also possible to get past it; on the panel, as long as there are enough skill points, one can force their way through anything without needing guidance or an opportune moment.
【 Hemostasis （ Mastery 15/20 ）（ Skill Points -10 ）】
【 Current Skill Point Balance: 4.3! 】
These fifty skill points were accumulated by Lu Cheng after he added points to the Fracture Manual Reduction technique.
It took six days, from September 4th to the 9th, averaging 9 skill points per day.
Not a lot, but not a little either!
Lu Cheng added points to Suturing Technique on the 7th and then bought a few hamsters to practice on, feeding them after the procedures.
It wasn’t until the 9th that he added points to Hemostasis to （ Mastery 15/20 ）!
“Lack of cognition still leads to big losses! If I had concentrated more skill points on basic skills, I wonder how many skill points I could have saved?” Lu Cheng looked at the skill points consumed by his previous additions.
However, when Lu Cheng carefully read the ‘Skill Point Consumption and Benefit Regulations’, he realized.
If he didn’t add points to specialized skills, only basic skills like Suturing Technique and Incision, how many skill points could he accumulate?!
So, even though improving basic skills is a shortcut, adding points to technical skills to genuinely treat patients and acquire skill points is the right way.
It can be analyzed.
Taking Suturing Technique as an example, Simple Suture can at most yield 0.4 skill points, with some yielding a meager 0.2/0.3!
It takes a hundred or two hundred sutures to gain 40 skill points.
But after adding specialty surgical procedures, with enough effort and minimizing sleep time to the extreme, one can average ten points per day…
Even if one doesn’t try hard enough, with shifts every other day, they can still average 6-7 points.
Calculated this way, there’s no loss.
“One bad thing about getting old is that no matter what you want to do, you have to be like a ‘scoundrel’, finding a grand excuse for yourself…”
“This is what’s called seizing the moral high ground.” Lu Cheng didn’t consider himself particularly noble or great.
He wanted to do certain things, but he couldn’t say it.
Lu Cheng entered the elevator, leaning into the corner, his back muscles feeling compressed and slightly caved in. His eyes were vacant, and he murmured, “Hypocrisy, society teaches it, it’s used for society…”
“Are there any better reasons to politely decline the goodwill of those two teachers?” Lu Cheng muttered, reviewing the situation, still unable to find a better, more suitable reason.
…
“Ugh~~*cough*~~~” After returning home, Lu Cheng experienced regurgitation of food and drink, which made his throat extremely uncomfortable.
It felt like a fiery clamp was being inserted into his throat, unable to go up or down, and his head was dizzy and aching.
Lu Cheng sat on a chair, holding a trash can, leaning to the side as he dry-heaved.
Of course, he leaned to the side to prevent accidental aspiration; Lu Cheng was only slightly disoriented, not completely unconscious.
After about twenty minutes, after vomiting twice, Lu Cheng felt significantly refreshed throughout his body.
Although the buzzing sound of his mobile phone continued to ring, Lu Cheng ignored it.
He had already completed the handover with Director Lin Qianlong and taken leave. Even if there was surgery today, Lu Cheng didn’t have to be present.
Without any matters in clinical practice, other important matters would be handled by his parents calling him…
Waking up from his drunken sleep, Lu Cheng didn’t feel a headache.
That’s the good thing about good alcohol; it doesn’t get to your head!~
When he opened his phone, the time had already reached six thirty-seven in the afternoon.
Lu Cheng immediately opened his phone and saw many unread messages.
The first was a message from Mu Nanshu, with question marks, asking if Lu Cheng was drunk, and then mentioning that Uncle Lu had called her.
Clearly, Mu Nanshu had sent messages, and Lu Cheng hadn’t answered, so Mu Nanshu had called Lu Cheng’s father, Lu Nan.
Next were messages from Lin Qianlong and others.
They were asking what Lu Cheng had done at noon, that Professor Chen Song’s call went unanswered, and if he had taken down both of them by himself…
There was also a message from Peng Kun, asking if Lu Cheng knew where Professor Tong Yuan’an was, as they couldn’t reach him.
After Lu Cheng finished reading, his mind instantly cleared, and he sat up, then went out the door first…
“Dad, Mom, you’re both back?” Lu Cheng saw Lu Nan and his mother, Tian Hui.
Tian Hui immediately got up and walked towards the kitchen, “Yes, dinner is ready. I made a hangover soup for you, have a bowl…”
Lu Cheng said, “Dad, Mom, you eat first. I might have to go out again tonight.”
“Still going out?” Tian Hui turned around, her tone suddenly rising a bit.
Lu Nan gave Tian Hui a look, “He can handle his own affairs, what do you know?”
“He’s not going out for debauchery.”
Tian Hui, with concern, went to the kitchen to get the soup, mumbling, “I don’t understand those big principles.”
“Debauchery, perhaps not, but drinking might be, and alcohol isn’t good…”
Where there are people, there are social graces. Eating and drinking are indeed necessary social engagements, and Tian Hui could understand that, but she also felt pained.
