Chapter 726: Chapter 297: Pushing the Ducks onto the Perch, Strength Really Makes a Difference
The elderly often say that injuries to muscles and bones take a hundred days to heal.
In truth, bone healing is split into multiple processes; to recover the original strength and mobility after healing, it requires at least half a year.
However, preliminary healing and the growth of a bone callus can usually occur within approximately two weeks.
In reality, the growth at the ends of a bone fracture starts from the moment of the break.
In clinical practice, some patients only need around ten days for the fractured ends to grow a bone callus. Especially for children, the speed of bone fracture recovery is incredibly fast.
This pregnant woman is not very old, classified as young, plus her good physical constitution, her recovery speed is definitely faster than that of the average person.
Four days have passed, the healing and growth at the fractured ends are occurring.
The sooner her fracture ends are put back together and secured, the better it is for her recovery.
If the bone setting is delayed, even if the fractured ends grow only 0.1 millimeters thick, it will result in an inability to rejoin the fractured site seamlessly.
This will cause gaps at the healed fracture site, which is extremely detrimental to the recovery of the fracture.
Zhou Can’s request was approved by Director Zhang, and he also let go of a worry.
If all goes well, the pregnant woman’s bone setting and external fracture fixation technique can be done tomorrow.
"Dr. Zhou, Dr. Pang is looking after the emergency room, there should be no problems. You’re called to the outpatient clinic because of your exceptional diagnostic ability. We want to give you your own consultation desk and let you try running it on your own."
Director Zhang Bihua said to him with a smile.
This really is placing a lot of trust in him.
To set up a special outpatient clinic, giving him a consultation desk, allowing him to see patients on his own. Even the attending physicians don’t receive this treatment.
"This... isn’t that a bit much! I’m only a medical trainee!"
Zhou Can wanted to gain experience, but he also had his reservations.
Mainly, he worried about embarrassing Tuya Hospital.
He has always been practical and never gets carried away by small successes.
Despite his significant contributions in the diagnosis of numerous difficult cases, this actually has a certain degree of one-sidedness. Being on his own means he could encounter any kind of cases. He only offers suggestions when helping other experts consult on cases he is proficient in.
If he’s not good at it, he won’t even speak up.
This has created an illusion that he can handle any difficult case.
But in reality, there are many cases he can’t handle.
He knows his own matters – he still has much to learn.
Currently, he has neither a specialized field of expertise nor the capabilities of a general practitioner. Half-measures are unacceptable in medicine.
How much knowledge one has learned, how many skills and understanding of pathology and pharmacology has been grasped, how much experience has been accumulated – that’s the extent of one’s ability. In the field of surgery, he has rotated through almost all the relevant departments, so he doesn’t really have any weak points.
But in internal medicine, he has only studied at the Digestive Internal Medicine for less than three months, and hasn’t even spent a day in any other internal medicine departments.
Running a clinic especially tests a doctor’s foundation in internal medicine.
No wonder he wants to seize this opportunity to run a clinic, yet is also worried about making a fool of himself. His feelings are quite complex.
"What’s wrong with being a trainee? In Internal Medicine, Director Tan and Director Yin Hua both started running their clinics as trainees. Haven’t you obtained your Medical Practitioner Certificate? Both consulting and prescribing are legal and compliant! The start is always difficult; be bold, thicken your skin and just try it out. If there are cases you can’t handle, the experts present will all help you."
Director Zhang Bihua encouraged him to be bold.
Zhou Can also understood that this was a very good opportunity.
Director Zhang Bihua suddenly letting him run the clinic, probably also wanted to properly develop his ability to stand on his own.
This is a threshold that any famous doctor must cross.
"If you say so, what’s there for me to fear? Let’s give it a try! But let me say the ugly part first: if I end up embarrassing Tuya Hospital and the experts present, please don’t blame me."
Zhou Can readily agreed.
It seems his courage was never small to begin with.
Since Director Zhang and the experts present are there to back him up, he might as well give it his all.
"Dr. Zhou, just be at ease, we all went through this. You are much better than we were when we were younger." Director Jiang from Internal Medicine was the first to show goodwill towards Zhou Can.
Encouraging him not to be overly cautious.
"A sapling that hasn’t experienced wind and rain won’t grow tall, and a doctor who hasn’t been through trials will forever only stay behind the scenes doing auxiliary work. Dr. Zhou, go for it!"
Director Luo from obstetrics was also cheering him on.
"Xiao Zhou, go for it! I believe in you!" Deputy Director Shi also looked at him expectantly.
Du Leng’s face showed no emotion, but his eyes betrayed a hint of anxiety.
Zhou Can was starting to overtake him in all aspects.
If Zhou Can learned to run the clinic, Du Leng, apart from his higher education, would no longer have any advantage.
A doctorate typically takes more than eight years, and Du Leng’s overseas studies not only cost a fortune but also involved overcoming many hurdles to secure an offer from a prestigious university - it took considerable effort.
Now, he was being overtaken by a domestic undergraduate, and one can imagine how he felt.
"Dr. Zhou, I’m really envious of you!" Gao Jian gave him a right fist salute. Enviously, he also cheered Zhou Can on.
Yang Chan looked at him with a somewhat complex gaze.
There were joy and admiration, as well as a trace of proud defiance and unwillingness to concede.