Chapter 250: Chapter 251: Special Suturing
It must be said that the two-day weekend publicity campaign was very effective!
Several patients with tendon injuries were brought in on Sunday.
Director An didn’t even have the chance to rest over the weekend before diving straight into work. Fortunately, with Wang Qian’s help, he was still able to manage.
On Monday morning, Chen Cang arrived at the hospital just after seven o’clock as usual, adeptly taking on the daily tasks, but suddenly discovered that the difficulty of the tasks was sowhat higher than usual.
[Ding! Daily task: Complete 10 Tendon Suture Surgeries. Task reward: Special training in Bunnell Suture Technique.]
Chen Cang was slightly taken aback, as the Bunnell Suture Technique is a commonly used thod in Tendon Suture Surgery, which he also knew how to perform. This was sothing Director An had taught him when he first arrived at the ergency departnt.
This really highlighted how Director An, who usually seed serious and stern, never one to joke around, was actually warm-hearted. Chen Cang had learned many useful skills without “shearing the wool” off Director An.
After all, when you’re working in ergency care, what can’t you do a bit of?
The saying “jack of all trades, master of none” fits the ergency departnt best; otherwise, you’d never know what type of patients could co in while you’re on duty.
You can’t just say when a patient arrives,
for minor issues, call for a consultation,
for major ones, transfer them out.
Avoid responsibilities altogether.
Then what use are you?
Apart from wasting the patient’s critical rescue ti and missing the golden window, there’s no point at all.
Seeing today’s daily task, Chen Cang seed to sll sothing special in the air.
It could be a special task!
After all, completing 10 cases of Tendon Suture Surgery is not sothing simple, not to ntion whether there would even be enough patients to fulfill the task.
But the task reward, special training in Bunnell Suture Technique… seed sowhat trivial?
However, following the usual system pattern of luring with lesser rewards, there could be more advanced suturing techniques to co. With this in mind, Chen Cang couldn’t help but laugh.
During the morning handover, Li Baoshan emphasized, “Our ergency departnt will probably be busier and more tiring in the coming period, but this is the most crucial ti. The new hand surgery section has just been established and needs everyone’s effort to build its reputation and strive to improve diagnostic and treatnt efficiency, satisfying the general public.”
“Yesterday, I communicated with several other hospitals’ hand surgery departnts in case there’s an influx of patients, so we can tily distribute patients and allow them to receive early and proper treatnt.”
Tendon injuries are acute, penetrating wounds that require early dical attention and treatnt, as missing the optimal treatnt ti is not conducive to recovery.
“Director An will be very busy these next few days, Chen Cang, you should strive to coordinate with Director An’s work and help build up the hand surgery departnt as quickly as possible.”
Li Baoshan himself hadn’t rested these past two days either, going back and forth communicating and connecting with the hand surgery departnts of other hospitals. After all, the hand surgery sector is a new section recently set up in ergency care that needs to quickly increase its influence and treat more patients.
But a hospital is not a marketplace or supermarket where you can freely advertise.
And the best form of hospital advertisent is word-of-mouth!
Only through the recomndation of one patient to another can we truly improve treatnt effectiveness.
Hand surgery and orthopedics are similar in so aspects but differ in many others. In the current environnt of orthopedics, everything revolves around taking photos, surgeries, and if you have any issues, odds are you’re going under the knife.
But hand surgery is different; many small surgeries in hand surgery won’t get scheduled in the operating room!
Why? Because those conditions don’t bring profit to the operating room. The surgical departnt also has limited resources, with only so many operating rooms available. If you occupy one, how can others operate?
Plain and simple, minor surgeries like Tendon Suture Surgery earn their keep through manual labor, with departntal profits relying on a cut from the surgeon’s fees. However, the ergency departnt of Provincial Hospital No. 2 just established a new hand surgery sector that welcos all patients, big or small.
For example, if you perform an orthopedic surgery that costs 30,000 yuan, the main expenses are 20,000 for equipnt, 5,000 for dication, 2,000 for surgery, and miscellaneous costs add up to 3,000. However, what the hospital can take includes a portion of the surgery fees, a commission on dication, and a mark-up on equipnt. Similarly for the surgeons, where’s the bulk of money? In the equipnt.
However, hand surgery’s Tendon Suture Surgery is different. The average cost for one Tendon Suture Surgery in hand surgery is five or six thousand yuan, with diagnostic tests, bed fees totaling over three thousand, a few hundred for surgical materials, dications ranging from a few hundred to a thousand, and around one thousand for the surgery fee. So where can surgeons earn money?
That cos rely from a portion of the surgery fees distributed as labor inco. They might get a bit, but those few hundred yuan for dications and surgical materials — why would the operating room care for such small change!
If you had to na the highest-earning departnt in the entire hospital, the operating room would definitely be one!
The weekly consumables and such expenses are rely a few million at most; your hundred or so yuan in material costs for a surgery are really nothing to them.
So… brothers, if you encounter nurses from the operating room, just give in!
They earn more than the doctors!
That’s why many orthopedic surgeons look down on tendon suture surgery; the operating room dislikes these kinds of small, undefined surgeries even more, favoring large orthopedic surgeries such as finger amputation suture surgery, finger replantation, fractures, and serious injuries that require “technical skills.”
Tendon suture surgery is disdained, orthopedic surgeons find it tiring and don’t want to do it, and the operating room finds it unprofitable and doesn’t want to schedule it, so many simply start doing it in the treatnt room.
So, when Li Baoshan asked other hospitals’ orthopedic departnts to transfer patients, they were happy to do so. After all, you can’t refuse a tendon rupture that cos in. If you accept it, it’s hard to arrange for the operating room, with high risks, low earnings, and doctors not particularly enthusiastic about it.
Tendon suture surgery is just such an awkwardly positioned procedure!
Big hospitals aren’t keen to do it, the operating room doesn’t care for it, small hospitals can’t handle it well, and private hospitals charge too high fees.
But, without a doubt, it matches the current needs of the Provincial Second Hospital!
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Before the ergency departnt handover was over, the duty nurse ran in, “Director, several patients with hand injuries have co.”
Li Baoshan nodded decisively and said, “eting adjourned! Everyone, get busy.”
An Yanjun had already taken the lead towards the outside, with Chen Cang and Wang Qian quickly following behind him.
The arrival of the patients also announced the beginning of a busy and tense day!
After coming out, they learned that the patients had been referred by the ergency departnt and orthopedic surgery of Dongda First Hospital, which was strong in those areas and had many patients, so the referral was understandable.
By then, the patient’s family mbers had completed the necessary procedures. After An Yanjun arranged for the related tests and examinations, he glanced at Chen Cang, then at Wang Qian, thought for a mont, and said, “Little Chen, you stitch up two of them, I’ll do two, and… Little Wang, you help out as an assistant.”
Wang Qian was taken aback when he heard this, sensing an unprecedented strong distrust from An Yanjun!
This was clearly a case of unequal treatnt, and he looked at An Yanjun with resentnt.
Chen Cang smiled faintly, “Qian Brother, if you want to follow , that’s fine too.”
Wang Qian snorted, wishing he could shove Chen Cang in the face, “Humph! Do not underestimate the poor youth!”
An Yanjun paused, pondered, and then spoke to Wang Qian in the treatnt room, “Little Wang.”
Wang Qian looked up, “What’s up, Teacher An?”
An Yanjun asked curiously, “Aren’t you older than Little Chen?”
Wang Qian nodded, “Yeah, I’m 29, he’s 27.”
An Yanjun uttered, “Oh… the phrase ‘Do not underestimate the poor youth’ doesn’t seem to fit here.”
Wang Qian was instantly confused: %￥#@￥
An Yanjun continued, “But it’s good to have goals. As long as you work hard toward them, that’s fine.”
“However… don’t be overly ambitious; be down-to-earth. Moreover… when choosing goals, make sure they align with your reality, don’t be blind.”
An Yanjun gave a heartfelt, sincere piece of advice to Wang Qian.
Of course… it was also a reminder to himself, because so people are simply not ordinary, why compare with them?
Thinking of this, An Yanjun also consoled himself, why compare to Chen Cang!
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ps: There will be only one update at noon; I’m not holding back, I just really didn’t write it out… Actually, I didn’t want to release this chapter either, but seeing that the last chapter was chapter 250, that number feels odd… 251 is at least a bit better than 250, emmm… today will tentatively have five updates.
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