My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points-Chapter 219 - 124: Wasted Effort, Director Shen Arrives Late

Although Du Leng was very annoyed in his heart, his face still wore a smile.

After all, he was a doctor with an overseas PhD, and it would be unseemly to quarrel with Zhou Can over such a trivial and baseless matter.

"Is Doctor Shan bringing a new student?"

Du Leng's gaze seemed to casually fall on Zhou Can's face.

Doctor Shan turned to look at Zhou Can and introduced him with a smile.

"He has just started his residency in orthopedic surgery. It's not yet decided if he'll be under my tutelage!" Zhou Can is so outstanding that even the department head might personally take him on.

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She had only just been promoted to a chief level physician; it might be possible for her to teach average residents.

For a prodigy like Zhou Can, it might not be her turn.

"Oh, I see! I'm acquainted with Dr. Zhou; we applied for the residency recruitment in the same session. To be honest, I really admire him. He risked being late for the exam to save a patient with acute myocardial infarction. The hospital awarded him 10 moral character points, and as a result, he secured the top spot in this year's residency exam."

Du Leng spoke admirably, yet his face showed no sign of genuine respect.

His intentions were particularly malicious.

In reality, he was trying to convey to Doctor Shan that Zhou Can earned the top spot in the residency exam because of moral character points, not through real skill.

"Regardless, for an undergraduate to take the top overall score is truly no easy feat."

Du Leng indeed harbored ill intentions.

After beating around the bush, he implicitly belittled Zhou Can.

After mentioning the moral character points, he specifically highlighted Zhou Can's lower academic qualifications.

"Alas, these days, the growth potential of undergraduates generally seems a bit low! What a pity..." Du Leng shook his head with a sigh, his face showing mock sympathy like a cat crying over a dead mouse.

"Doctor Shan, I have something else to attend to, so I'll be taking my leave."

Through his machinations, Du Leng had only one goal in mind: to somehow lower Zhou Can's impression in Doctor Shan's eyes.

A resident with no potential and no real skill wouldn't have much presence in front of their supervising doctor.

The treatment they receive would be worlds apart from those at the elite level of residency.

When Du Leng walked past Zhou Can, he smiled at him and said,

"Dr. Zhou, you don't need to worry too much. Even if you didn't learn much from other departments during your residency, it won't affect your future work. After all, you're ultimately returning to work in the Emergency Department, where the demands on a doctor are quite low."

Zhou Can's face was expressionless, barely grunting through his nose.

This was already giving Du Leng quite a bit of face.

In his eyes, what did it matter if someone was an overseas-educated PhD? If they had real skill, they could be a worthy opponent.

But if one was only good at scheming and empty at the core, they didn't even qualify to be his opponent.

He'd rather deal with those vulgar brutes who spouted obscenities.

Than waste time with such hypocrites pretending to be virtuous.

Yet Du Leng considered himself clever, leaving with a trace of a smug smile on his face.

He simply underestimated Zhou Can's abilities.

Zhou Can had been in orthopedics for less than two days, but he had already started making his mark. With pure skill, he earned the initial admiration of Doctor Shan and Director Shen.

The chances of being benched were very slim.

...

After the four of them finished their meal, they quickly returned to the operating room to continue the battle.

Du Leng's words didn't affect Zhou Can in the slightest.

Doctor Shan still had Zhou Can assist as first-operator.

In the following surgeries, Zhou Can continuously performed exceptionally well. The other residents realized they couldn't go on like this; if they didn't strive for a chance to show themselves, they feared being eliminated.

So, they all tried to seize some opportunities to perform during surgeries.

At most, Doctor Shan allowed them to stop bleeding or suture skin.

After several rounds, Doctor Shan stopped giving them chances.

The reason was nothing else but that the other five residents were far inferior to Zhou Can. It would be almost crazy to ignore a chief level first-operator and let some rookie-level residents fumble around instead.

Close to five in the afternoon, Doctor Shan, pointing to the examination report on the screen, said to a few residents, "Here we have a patient with necrosis of the femoral head. You can clearly see that it has lost its blood supply, and like withered trees, it will soon dry up and collapse."

Zhou Can listened intently.

He admitted his knowledge of orthopedics was quite superficial.

Three months of orthopedic residency should help him significantly fill this gap.

To familiarize himself with the treatment of most orthopedic diseases, as well as their pathology and mechanisms of disease.

He hoped that by the end of the remaining 33 months of his residency, when he returned to the Emergency Department, he would be capable of helping it rapidly expand.

This was also a promise he made to Director Lou and Dr. Xu.

"Femoral head necrosis, how should it be treated? Does anyone know?"

Doctor Shan asked the six residents.

"Replace the entire hip joint!"

"The bone is necrotic; it should only be replaced. There's no other alternative, right?"

After listening to the residents' answers, she gently shook her head.

"I've read about a method in medical texts. I know the basic principle, but I'm not clear on the specific surgery,"

Zhou Can replied.

"Oh? Tell us, what is the method?"

Doctor Shan was also curious to see if Zhou Can's knowledge was profound enough.

"Replacing the artificial hip joint is a last resort. There's also a less expensive salvaging method called bone grafting. This grafting comes in two types. One, transplanting a bone flap with a vascular pedicle into the necrotic femoral head, which is difficult to perform. Two, if the bone necrosis is not particularly severe, one can drill holes and fill them with bone chips, which reduces the intrabony pressure and can also induce blood supply recovery in the necrotic femoral area."