My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

To entice them to come and bid farewell to Zhou Can, it would be foolish to believe that it was purely out of colleague camaraderie. The main reason surely lay in Zhou Can's astonishing potential, which made him valuable to forge connections with.

Of course, friendship also played a part.

After all, human relationships are fundamentally a blend of both friendship and benefit.

Friendship fosters trust, whereas benefits are crucial bonds that maintain interactions and mutual assistance.

Without a foundation of trust, even presenting gifts is impossible.

No leader, no matter how needy, would accept gifts from a stranger. There must be a trusted middleman to bridge and guide the process for the gift to be successfully given.

The doctors from the Intensive Care Medicine Department, like Doctor Hu and Deputy Director Yu, did not have a deep relationship with Zhou Can.

It is presumed they also wished to use this farewell to deepen their ties with Zhou Can.

So they would have a base to ask for favors in the future.

After saying goodbye to them one by one, Zhou Can went home after work.

Dr. Shi caught up to him.

"Dr. Zhou, since you're moving to another department, will we continue to write the paper together?" Dr. Shi asked. "Even if you're not participating, I'll still include your name when I submit it."

He added the comment.

Dr. Shi, a silent and reliable man, could not hide his true feelings.

Although polite in speech, his eyes and expressions clearly showed he did not want Zhou Can to back out of the collaboration.

Alone, he certainly could complete the remainder of the paper.

But it would definitely not be as effective as the collaboration of two.

"Of course, I'll participate. It's a joy to learn and progress with Dr. Shi." Opportunities like these to mix with senior doctors were seldom available to Zhou Can.

Working with Dr. Shi on the paper was immensely beneficial to him.

They had collaborated for nearly three months, and had already formed a high level of tacit understanding during their research.

Searching information, dialectical reasoning, verifying various data, and extending and enriching the paper's insights—both were collaboratively involved.

Initially, Zhou Can, due to his limited experience in writing papers, was mostly learning throughout the process.

His prior experience included only internship summaries and reviews.

College defenses he participated in could hardly count as real paper writing.

Now, the paper under Dr. Shi aimed for a major journal.

Its prestige and grade were incomparably higher than any graduate thesis.

Dr. Shi hoped this paper would cement his credentials for a senior professional title.

Zhou Can had strong learning abilities and a sound knowledge foundation.

His only weaknesses were in rote memory of medical knowledge and poor English.

His shallow foundation stemmed from his laziness during college, reluctant to painstakingly memorize rote knowledge. His poor English was due not only to laziness but also an inherent disdain for foreign languages.

He always felt it unnecessary to devote much time and energy to learning a foreigner's language.

Of course, reality eventually gave him a harsh lesson.

A thin medical foundation and poor English were probably the main reasons for his failure in his postgraduate entrance examination.

In terms of talent, Zhou Can was genuinely gifted, especially in logical knowledge which he remembered through understanding; his thinking was very agile.

Even his teachers had praised him numerous times.

This was why, despite not having an outstanding medical base, his pathological diagnosing was exceptionally strong.

He had a particular interest in diagnosing and treating various cases.

When reading books, his ability to absorb this type of knowledge was extremely strong.

It can be said that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.

Aside from his poor memory-related medical knowledge, his surgical skills were not particularly strong either.

Before gaining the Experience Points system, he might not have even made it into the top 100 in standardized training examinations.

In practicing surgical skills, he was actually very diligent.

Now, with the Experience Points system enhancing various medical skills, his previous weaknesses had been addressed and turned into major strengths.

This was the main reason he continued to become increasingly outstanding.

Working on the paper with Dr. Shi—initially relying on Dr. Shi's guidance—had now reached a point where his contributions even surpassed Dr. Shi.

The growth was indeed visible.

For this reason, because Zhou Can was crucial to completing the paper, Dr. Shi had come to talk to him privately.

With Zhou Can's response, Dr. Shi also quietly relieved.

"Stay in touch!"

Dr. Shi shook his phone he was holding, turned around, and left.

...

The next day, Zhou Can arrived early at the Cardiothoracic Surgery department to register.

To avoid any nit-picking.

Director Xie of General Surgery had never been friendly to him, always harboring intentions to suppress him.

Just like America's unending schemes to suppress China, always acting maliciously and oppressively.

As long as Zhou Can did not align himself with General Surgery, Director Xie would feel uneasy, always fearing that Zhou Can would bring great threats to General Surgery in the future. His suppression of Zhou Can would not cease.

Cardiothoracic Surgery was reputed as one of the strongest four departments in surgery, not without merit.

A single heart bypass surgery could generate revenue of seventy to eighty thousand.

As for various surgeries involving the heart, lungs, and the main arteries, they were essentially all major surgeries involving high costs and technical difficulty.

This was the source of confidence where the doctors from Cardiothoracic Surgery could afford their arrogance.

In technical terms, Cardiothoracic Surgery was one of the few that could challenge neurosurgery within the surgical field.

However, in recent years, with the increasing subdivision in major hospitals,

Cardiac and major vascular surgery gradually began being listed as a separate department.

Effectively dismembering Cardiothoracic Surgery.

This division hit Thoracic Surgery quite hard.

Tu Ya's Cardiothoracic Surgery had not yet split, hence its strong capabilities.

In the doctor's office, Zhou Can noticed including himself, there were only five new standardized trainees in Cardiothoracic Surgery.