My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points-Chapter 1254 - 494: Standing on the Scalpel, A Doctor’s Duty Is More Than Healing
Zhou Can eagerly checked the medical attributes.
[Stable Knife Technique, Current Experience Points: Proficient Level 1/100000, As stable as a mountain, as nimble as a swallow, using the knife and feet as pivots, resembling the three-legged stance of a tripod. Can be integrated into all surgical skills involving knives.]
With diligent effort, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle.
His Stable Knife Technique, through accumulated practice day after day, finally advanced to the second realm—Proficient Level.
During surgery, the knife becomes a pivot of the body, forming a tripod stance with one’s feet.
According to the laws of physics, a triangle can form the most stable physical structure.
The wisdom of the ancients was remarkably ahead of its time; as early as the era of Yu the Great, they forged three-legged giant tripods to quell floods and beasts.
The renowned Nine Provinces Tripod, with a total of nine tripods, all three-legged.
Zhou Can didn’t expect the second realm of the Stable Knife Technique to be using the knife as a leg, forming a tripod stance with his feet. Such a high-level knife technique comprehension is beyond what the brain can imagine.
One can only keep practicing repeatedly. Through practice, the skills naturally reveal the techniques of wielding the knife.
This also represents an advanced comprehension of the application of power.
Who knows if Hu Kan’s Stable Knife Technique in the second realm also forms the tripod stance?
Hu Kan has passed away, so it’s impossible to verify.
Stable Knife Technique and Fast Knife Skill are both highly valued knife techniques by Zhou Can, each has its own merits.
Now that the Stable Knife Technique has advanced to the Proficient Level, and the Fast Knife Skill is at the Proficient Level as well, would it cause an imbalance in the forces between the two, affecting his unique knife technique that blends Fast and Stable Knife Skills?
Upon testing, he found no such influence.
Instead, the success in upgrading the Stable Knife Technique made his self-created knife technique more stable and nimble.
After cutting away the diseased intestinal segment and enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes, Zhou Can performed debridement on the surrounding tissue and cleared any suspected secondary lesions.
It’s not only cancer that can spread.
If ulcers are not treated timely, they can lead to bacteria spreading swiftly.
For example, the most common gastric ulcer usually has a self-limiting nature. But if the patient’s constitution is poor or not treated correctly in time, it may lead to an increase in the ulcerated area.
The segment of the patient’s ileum that was removed had a completely rotten inner intestinal wall.
Though not cancer, its severity is in no way less than cancer.
If it hadn’t been for hospital admission due to blood loss and shock, had the patient delayed any longer, the intestine might have ruptured directly.
At that point, just an intestinal perforation would be enough to claim his life.
After an intestinal perforation, intestinal contents enter the abdominal cavity, and peritonitis is inevitably going to occur.
Zhou Can performing surgery absolutely saved the patient’s life.
During the debridement process, the newly advanced Stable Knife Technique naturally needed to be applied well in practice to indulge his hand’s craving.
The greatest feeling was that the debridement became easier, faster, while also safer and more perfect.
Previously, even when his Wound Cleaning Skill had advanced to Level 6, he would never dare use the word ’perfect’ to describe his debridement for a patient.
At most, he would grade it as ’adequate’, or ’excellent’ rehabilitation.
But now, for the first time, he used the term ’perfect’.
Even if it’s just cleaning a regular surgical wound now, if used to clear dense lymph node tumor clusters, he believes he would be up to the task as well.
This is just one benefit from upgrading the Stable Knife Technique. He believes whether it’s dissecting high-difficulty body parts, or excising extremely difficult lesions, or separating highly challenging adhesive tissues, the Stable Knife Technique can help elevate his surgical ability to a new level.
By the time Zhou Can finished the surgery and the cavity closure was done, the patient’s vital signs had stabilized. Only then did Dr. Xu curiously fix his gaze on Zhou Can and say, "Xiao Zhou, while watching your debridement just now, I noticed your surgical abilities have clearly leveled up. Your knife is not only nimble as a tongue but also as stable as a mountain. It seems you haven’t skimped on hard work these past two years!"
"Hehe, the teacher’s eyes are sharp as ever; nothing escapes you. The level of knife technique indeed had a breakthrough during surgery."
Zhou Can’s strength had gone up another level, putting him in a great mood.
Completing the resection of the segment of ileum and mesenteric lymph nodes isn’t considered much. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
At least many deputy senior surgeons and director-level physicians have the capability for this surgery.
But identifying the cause of the patient’s illness accurately and promptly completing the surgery to successfully save the patient’s life, taken together, that’s quite amazing.
"Is it Old Hu’s Stable Knife Technique that you’ve broken through? You must give as much effort in the Fast Knife Skill I taught you!"
Dr. Xu’s tone had a hint of jealousy.
Seeing his beloved student achieve a great breakthrough in Stable Knife Technique, yet his Fast Knife Skill remained lukewarm, clearly made him a bit envious.
"I haven’t neglected the Fast Knife Skill, it’s still being practiced! It requires not just hard practice, but timing is equally important for breakthroughs. You never know when it’ll happen; then you’ll surely be pleased."
Zhou Can’s Fast Knife Skill had long advanced to the Proficient Level, wanting to advance to the next level requires experience points to increase tenfold, which is not that easy.
"By the way, were the excised intestinal segments sent for examination?"
Zhou Can inquired to Dr. Pu.
Currently, handling mundane tasks like sending samples can only be done by him running errands.
"They’ve already been sent for pathological examination. It might be a bit later before we get the report."
Dr. Pu replied.
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By the afternoon, close to the end of duty, the patient’s pathology report came out.
The intestinal wall of the excised segment thickened, upon incision appeared soft, fish flesh-like, with necrosis. Microscopically, lymph tissue showed massive proliferation of reticuloendothelial cells, forming macrophages; cytoplasm contained engulfed lymphocytes, erythrocytes, nuclear fragments, some intestinal wall ulceration and necrosis.
