My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

During the surgical procedure, if the gloves are contaminated, they need to be replaced immediately to avoid causing an infection for the patient.

This is not a waste by the doctor but rather a consideration for surgical safety.

Even the simplest amputation in ancient times could lead to infection and the patient's death. In ancient times, when medicine was undeveloped, the mortality rate for those whose limbs were amputated was extremely high.

Here, we must praise the traditional Chinese medicine of China.

The earliest full-body anesthesia surgery started with Hua Tuo during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Even back then, abdominal surgeries to remove tumors were possible. There are accounts of these in both official and unofficial histories, and there should be no doubt about that.

In fact, some of the surgical hemostasis and infection prevention methods invented by the ancients in China existed even before the Eastern Han.

Qin Shi Huang, known as a tyrant for policies like unifying the currency and building the Great Wall, is nonetheless often praised by historians for his achievements outweighing his faults.

Little do people know, the ancient methods of staving off bleeding and preventing infection were also discovered during this tyrant's reign.

At that time, various severe punishments were routinely meted out to criminals.

For instance, tattooing the face as a form of punishment and even crueler sentences like nose-slitting, castration, foot amputation, and execution.

Initially, most people subjected to such punishments did not live long and would quickly die from blood loss or infection. That was until a jailer named Zhang Shou accidentally discovered that cauterization with a red-hot iron on a prisoner's wounds, though severe, would not bleed.

Later, having received money from the prisoner's family, Zhang Shou watched as several prisoners had three fingers chopped off during interrogation. The prisoners were bleeding profusely and wailing.

Having taken the family's money, Zhang Shou couldn't just watch the prisoner die. So, he struck upon an idea, and cauterized the prisoner's severed fingers with the red-hot iron.

You can bet the prisoner cursed Zhang Shou with every word he knew, wishing him a gruesome death.

In the end, the prisoner fainted from the excruciating pain.

After the incident, eleven prisoners had their fingers cut off, but only the one cauterized by Zhang Shou was lucky enough to survive.

The prisoner later realized that Zhang Shou had secretly saved his life.

After being released from jail, the family once again gave Zhang Shou a sum of money as thanks, which goes without saying.

This incident also presented Zhang Shou, a lowly jailer, with a huge 'business opportunity.' Afterward, he began to extensively research how to use a red-hot iron to stop bleeding and help prisoners survive.

And the benefits he received from the prisoners' families made his pockets heavy.

Later on, Zhang Shou made quite a sum of money, bought fertile fields and a house back in his hometown, took several beautiful wives, and had a bunch of children.

To avoid the battlefield, his sons all entered the prison system under Zhang Shou's arrangements.

By this time, Zhang Shou, with his wealth opening doors, was no longer that obscure little jailer.

He had gained some power and made the acquaintance of several officials.

Using his connections, he got his sons jobs as jailers in various prisons. He also passed down the secret of using a red-hot iron for cauterization to his sons, allowing them to become wealthy too.

His youngest son later greatly advanced this craft, discovering that executing with a red-hot knife increased the prisoners' survival rate even more. The wounds were less susceptible to infection or festering, and there was less bleeding.

In that scientifically backward era, such discoveries were extraordinary.

It's estimated that these findings laid the groundwork for surgical operations during the Eastern Han.

Zhou Can put on sterile gloves, took up the scalpel, and began the surgery for the patient.

The cold and sharp scalpel seemed to come alive in his hands, easily cutting through the skin surface of the lipoma along its natural lines.

He then used curved hemostatic forceps to separate the tumor from its capsule.

Every blood vessel that came into view was clamped and ligated.

The Level 5 Hemostasis Skill was indeed satisfying. Paired with the Level 5 Ligation Skill, ligating the vessels affected by the tumor was skillful, precise, and swift. Not only did he not damage the surrounding tissues during ligation, but the knots were also secure and just right.

A deputy director-level surgeon operates in four words: smooth and silky.

Up till now, Zhou Can's four fundamental surgical skills were all at Level 4 except for Incision Skill.

Currently, his Incision Skill is almost as good as the attending physician level.

There is still a long way to go before advancing to Level 5.

He found that after advancing his medical skills to Level 4, to level up quickly, he couldn't just perform routine surgeries. He needed to continually challenge the more difficult parts of surgeries.

The first time for every surgery is as precious as a girl's first time.

Almost every time, a reward of 100 Experience Points is guaranteed.

If a girl keeps herself pure and reserves her first time for her husband, it benefits marital stability and happiness, as well as her post-marital status.

Zhou Can let out a huge sigh of relief after successfully separating the massive tumor with great caution.

[Separation Experience Points +1.]

[You have successfully separated a massive subcutaneous facial tumor for the first time, awarding Separation Skill Experience Points +100.]

So satisfying.

101 Separation Experience Points successfully credited.

Equivalent to performing over a hundred basic separation minor surgeries.

Earning high Experience Points rewards from the system is a skillful task. The substantial gains from each completed challenge also keep Zhou Can tirelessly enjoying the process.

After separating the lipoma and ligating the blood vessels, the next step was to cut it out.

The difficulty of removing such a massive lipoma was high, but he was confident he could do it well.

"Strange, where is this persistent sense of danger coming from?"