Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic

Chapter 336 - 179: Bone Setting Grand Slam, the Director’s Favoritism

Only when people lose their health do they realize just how precious it is.

"Don’t move, don’t move at all!"

Li Jingsheng hurried to stop the female patient from turning her head.

"You might need to wear a neck brace for a month, and your head movement mustn’t be too large or too quick. Also, uh... don’t do any risky actions while sleeping. Especially during this period, you must take good care of yourself. After your cervical spine dislocated, you only felt nauseous, dizzy, and had a bit of difficulty breathing, which is already very lucky. Some people with such severe injuries end up dead on the spot."

He wasn’t trying to scare this young couple; a cervical spine injury can lead to high-level paralysis in mild cases or instant death in severe ones.

In TV dramas, assassins often twist the enemy’s neck, and they lose consciousness immediately, dead on the spot.

Even though it’s acting, in reality, the result is pretty much the same.

"Thank you, doctor, thank you. I’ll be more careful in the future."

The man’s attitude towards Li Jingsheng underwent a huge transformation.

From initial dissatisfaction to respect and gratitude at this moment.

After treating this patient, he actually earned a total of 112 health points, which was incredible.

He gained +10 patient goodwill, +1 for successful bone setting, and +1 for skilled bone diagnosis. The remaining 100 points were likely from the first successful, high-difficulty, high-risk cervical spine realignment done independently.

With these 112 health points, his health point balance already reached 407.

Gritting his teeth, he decisively added 390 proficiency points to Massage.

Directly elevating it from proficiency to Minor Achievement.

It must be mentioned that just now, successfully performing Massage for that female patient increased his skill proficiency by 10 points.

Improving medical skills in a big hospital was much faster than in a small clinic.

Now with the Minor Achievement level of Massage, it’s not just adding wings to a tiger; it’s like embodying a medical god. Performing bone setting for other patients will surely enhance efficiency significantly.

More challenging cases can also be tackled.

Unfortunately, health points are not enough, otherwise, he’d elevate all other bone-setting skills to the Minor Achievement level.

Currently, his Bone Touching Skill, Top Bending Rotation Skill, and Massage are all at Minor Achievement.

Ordinary Osteopathic Skill also reached 327/500 proficiency.

By the latest tomorrow, it should also reach the Minor Achievement level.

It’s the foundation of all bone-setting skills, quite important.

When manually realigning a patient, he could clearly feel the Ordinary Osteopathic Skill dragging behind due to inadequate proficiency.

However, with limited health points, he had to prioritize upgrading the most important bone-setting skills.

Ordinary Osteopathic Skill being a bit lacking at most resulted in lower efficiency and success rate during bone-setting. But Massage determines whether high-difficulty bone realignment can be performed.

Without upgrading it, some cases can’t be handled.

So it must be prioritized to Minor Achievement, ensuring the ability to manage challenging cases.

Because if Li Jingsheng can’t handle it, most likely Doctor Xu would have to personally intervene.

Seeing his mentor’s current physical health, he naturally wanted to take on as much responsibility as possible to prevent the mentor from having to do it themselves.

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The morning passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Jingsheng encountered two more high-difficulty bone-setting cases. Under Doctor Xu’s guidance, he successfully realigned them all.

Without weaknesses, his manual realignment ability improved significantly, practically ascending to a higher level.

Especially the Minor Achievement level of Massage, it was extraordinarily effective.

It played a very beneficial role in most bone realignments. The feeling was like having a super helper. It used to be incredibly difficult pushing the car uphill with every step, but now there was someone helping from behind, making it easier and more effortless.

"Xiaoli, you did well this morning! Never seen you work so proactively before. I’ll treat you to lunch today, come with me to the cafeteria."

Doctor Xu complimented him with a smile.

While getting food, how could Li Jingsheng let Doctor Xu pay? He rushed to cover the bill.

Doctor Xu glared, "Don’t be like an old woman, no need for so many formalities with me. Just pick what you like, go for the pricey ones. As long as you don’t waste it."

Since his mentor got angry, Li Jingsheng dared not say anything further.

He picked two expensive dishes and one vegetarian dish.

To avoid further anger, lest the mentor think he couldn’t afford a meal.

Thinking about it, despite Doctor Xu’s short stature, his house was very large with luxurious decoration. Plus, he married a very beautiful wife.

More impressive, Doctor Xu held a high status at home.

It’s unclear how much the Second Hospital pays Doctor Xu monthly, but probably not less than fifty thousand.

Honestly, the benefits brought to orthopedics by Doctor Xu’s manual realignment outpatient service are well beyond fifty thousand.

Casually pulling in a severe orthopedic injury patient for surgery could charge tens of thousands, even more.

Orthopedic pins and plates are expensive, that’s true.

The profits are surprisingly high, also true.

"Teacher, I heard you were coughing up blood yesterday. If you’re not well, maybe take a leave and recuperate until you’re ready to return?"

Li Jingsheng suggested.

"Was it Li Li, that gossip-loving nurse, who told you? This problem is an old one, won’t kill me."

Doctor Xu said lightly.

Talking about his illness, he seemed somewhat indifferent.

It’s like he was looking down on his ’enemy’.

"What exactly is your illness? I know two doctors from the People’s Hospital who specialize in Pulmonary Medicine, they’re pretty good. How about consulting them?"