Sports Medicine Master System-Chapter 136 - 92: Person in a Vegetative State (Part 2)
Aaron snorted. "He told me about it, but he said the surgery was too difficult and he couldn’t do it. I thought it sounded like a hassle, so I just didn’t bother. What, you can do it?"
Chen Yu smiled.
’Then you’ve definitely come to the right person.’
For minimally invasive surgery, a surgeon’s technique is certainly important, but the most difficult part is always the field of vision.
Even with a camera, it’s not enough. Many minimally invasive procedures require the assistance of a C-arm machine.
But no C-arm, no matter how good, could compare to Chen Yu’s Eye of All-Seeing.
"Are you sure you can handle it?" Aaron looked Chen Yu over again. ’Isn’t he a little young?’
Steve, the nursing home’s doctor sitting beside them, was two years older than Chen Yu but admired him immensely. He chimed in, "Aaron, Chen is the one who operated on Penny Hardaway. He’s one of the top orthopedic specialists from his country. You tell me if he can handle it."
Aaron had heard of Hardaway. He hesitated for a moment, then nodded. In truth, he had been plagued by back pain for many years.
Chen Yu had Steve make a note of it.
’Just like that, he’d secured a surgery.’
’And a lumbar spine surgery, at that—exactly what I wanted to do.’
Herniated discs are a common ailment for professional athletes. Many who are troubled by back injuries suffer from issues with their intervertebral discs.
’If I could earn a new skill for disc surgery, that would be even more perfect.’
J Kidd and his group left early, but the free clinic continued until evening.
Chen Yu was very satisfied with the results. He had scheduled 24 surgeries.
’If I allocate the experience points well, I might be able to get one or two High-Level Treatment Effects.’
’And this method of gaining experience is completely replicable.’
Phoenix had plenty of similar nursing homes, and Chen Yu could easily conduct free clinics in his own clinic’s name.
No normal clinic would do such a thing.
But for the sake of experience, Chen Yu was willing.
Along the way, Chen Yu also examined many elderly people with mobility issues.
"This is Karen. She’s a quadriplegic. Yesterday, while we were bathing her, she bumped her ankle. Could you see if she needs to be taken to the hospital to have it treated?" the supervisor said, introducing the elderly woman.
She was an old woman with snow-white hair, and she was no longer lucid.
Chen Yu stepped forward to examine her ankle. There was indeed a problem. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
However, Chen Yu glanced at her damaged cervical spine.
’She’s already paralyzed. A small problem like this... treating it or not doesn’t really make much of a difference.’
’She can’t move it, and she can’t feel any pain.’
’But an injury is an injury. It still needs to be treated.’
Just as he was about to speak, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
’Patients like this, who are quadriplegic or in a vegetative state... aren’t they a natural gold mine of experience points for me?’
’Especially for massages.’
’Any paralyzed patient needs massages to maintain their physical condition.’
’In other words, as long as I have the stamina, I can grind experience points on them over and over again.’
’It wouldn’t be excessive treatment, either. It would actually be good for the patient.’
’Most importantly, rehabilitation for a condition like this should provide the highest-difficulty experience points. After all, she’s paralyzed.’
’I have to try it!’
Chen Yu came back to his senses and glanced at Karen’s slender calves.
They weren’t naturally thin; her muscles had atrophied from being bedridden for so long.
"Do you regularly massage these bedridden patients to help them maintain muscle activity?" Chen Yu asked.
The supervisor nodded. "We do. And our nursing home’s Massage Therapists are all professionals, the kind with physical therapy licenses."
Chen Yu said, "How about this? If it’s convenient, please have a few available physical therapists come over. I can give them some guidance on massage techniques, which will improve the effectiveness of your patient care in the future."
"You’d do that?"
The supervisor’s eyes lit up. Although the physical therapists they hired were all licensed professionals, their skills couldn’t compare to the therapists working for NBA teams.
The physical therapists for NBA teams were arguably the best in America, if not the entire world.
Their techniques weren’t something an ordinary person could get access to.
’In the future, they could even advertise that at Badina, you could receive NBA-level physical therapy and rehabilitation.’
A few physical therapists arrived shortly after.
Chen Yu didn’t waste any time. As he gave them hands-on instructions, he silently watched the changes in his system’s experience points.
Chen Yu had figured out the pattern for gaining experience from massages long ago.
For example, massaging one part of the body would grant one experience point.
A full-body massage would grant several points.
But that was too tiring, and Chen Yu couldn’t handle doing it too much. The system wouldn’t recognize it if you just went through the motions; you had to be genuinely effective.
You had to achieve a real therapeutic effect for the system to count it.
At the same time, repeated massages would grant multiple experience bonuses without any cooldown period.
But again, it was exhausting. Chen Yu himself couldn’t take it for long periods.
Grinding for experience was truly a physically demanding task.
Soon, Chen Yu had earned multiple batches of experience points from Karen.
Coincidentally, his experience bar for rehabilitation was nearly full. As he finished the final arm massage, the bar filled up completely.
Chen Yu’s eyes lit up.
’Silver Level Treatment Effect!’
’To get a High-Level Treatment Effect, you either need heaven-defying luck or to have farmed high-quality experience.’
’It seems my idea really works.’
It was already dark when Chen Yu returned from the nursing home, but he still rushed over to Saint Luke Hospital.
Joseph had already gone home for the day, so Chen Yu found the doctor on duty, Murphy, and asked him if the hospital had any quadriplegic or vegetative patients.
Chen Yu knew that the orthopedics department at Saint Luke Hospital had a rehabilitation ward, so there should be patients like that.
"We do. Why?" Murphy nodded.
