Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic

Tang Ping, Meng Luo, Han Siying, aren’t they all top beauties?

Li Jingsheng ignored Gao Yang and asked Li Li to call in the next patient.

"The five of you, write a detailed summary of the treatment for the patient just now. Include the key points of the manipulation technique and the principles of repositioning. If you have any personal suggestions, that would be even better."

Li Jingsheng assigned a task to the five of them.

"But we don’t have pens right now!"

"You can write in the orthopedic doctors’ office. Do not look at others’ work; if any plagiarism or borrowing is found, you’ll be immediately dismissed."

This time, Li Jingsheng spoke rather sternly.

It’s pretty much like a collective punishment system.

You can’t copy from others, nor can you be copied by others.

It’s a matter of personal integrity.

The five medical students had just followed along to learn the treatment of one patient and were directly sent back to write summaries in the office. It was then they realized, from the moment Li Jingsheng took them to the manipulation repositioning clinic, they were already being evaluated.

However, the five of them thought Li Jingsheng was planning to teach them the Bone Setting technique, and they never considered there would be a selection process.

To learn Li Jingsheng’s true skills, how could it be that easy?

In the past, when Li Jingsheng apprenticed under Doctor Xu, he too underwent multiple evaluations before being taught the Bone Touching Skill.

Then he was taught other advanced Bone Setting techniques little by little.

When training apprentices, he looks for both talent and integrity.

Among the five, Gao Yang was eliminated outright.

Among the remaining four, Ye Hui’s talent was quite to his liking. However, he still needed to check on his integrity.

He was never worried about not being able to recruit students, so the selection process was destined to be very strict.

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Busy until the end of the day, Li Jingsheng hurriedly headed to the doctors’ office.

The five new trainees hadn’t left.

Each held a written summary, waiting for Li Jingsheng to check.

"Have you all written your names on the summary?"

Li Jingsheng asked the five of them.

"We’ve written it."

"Alright, hand them over. You four may leave for the day. Ye Hui, stay behind."

After collecting the summaries, Li Jingsheng began to carefully review them.

Yang Luqing’s summary was spot on.

He described it like this: During the manual repositioning, one hand pushes the spinous process to the left, and one hand pulls the patient’s left shoulder. At this moment, the force on the right side of the patient’s lumbar spine increases, widening the gap on the left side, allowing the nucleus pulposus to be forced back in under equal force.

Although the summary only outlined a part of the key principles of manual repositioning, it already made Li Jingsheng quite satisfied.

Yang Luli is not only tall but also meticulous and has a knack for understanding and expressing theory.

Very impressive.

He also read through the summaries of the other four; Ye Hui’s summary was around seventy percent, but it didn’t particularly stand out.

No one is perfect; finding a student good at both theory and practice is extremely difficult.

Currently, he intended to keep two people.

Yang Luli and Ye Hui.

The remaining three were all unqualified.

It wasn’t that he was heartless, but selecting apprentices for the Bone Setting technique has always had high requirements.

Without any talent, like Dr. Chen, it would just be a waste of time.

He needed to quickly train a batch of apprentices who could share the treatment workload, so he definitely needed to choose some talented students.

"Do you know why I kept you?"

Li Jingsheng asked Ye Hui.

"It should be because I answered the question correctly, and you are planning to give me an additional reward."

She naturally didn’t think Li Jingsheng was interested in her looks.

Only someone with a dark inner world like Gao Yang would think in that direction.

"You’re very smart, and you have some talent in manual Bone Setting. I hope you will go home today and brush up on orthopedic medical knowledge. If you perform well, I will consider increasing the intensity of your training."

Li Jingsheng said to her.

"Okay, thank you, Teacher Li!"

She seemed very happy but also a little disappointed.

It turned out the additional reward was just to tell her to go home and read more, to brush up on orthopedic medical knowledge!

"You can leave now!"

Li Jingsheng nodded to her.

"Dr. Ou, should we leave too?"

Li Jingsheng looked at Ou Qinglan.

"There’s still one more surgery today! But I’m okay with going to the canteen with you for dinner."

She said with a slight grievance.

She knew that Li Jingsheng’s clinic affairs were busy, so she didn’t ask him to work overtime this time.

"Then let’s go!"

Li Jingsheng headed to the canteen together with her.

"Hey, you looked pretty competent being the teacher for those five medical students; how does it feel?"

"It’s okay! It’s just that talented students are too hard to find. I’m planning to take on several at once. After we finish eating, I need to talk with Director Hua."

Only taking two students at a time seemed too few.

Furthermore, these two had just passed his initial evaluation; if they showed character issues later, he would undoubtedly let them go.

So, recruiting a few more is safer.

The ideal number would be about five.

At least four would be needed to meet the current workload demands of the manipulation repositioning clinic.

After dinner, on the way back to the clinic, Li Jingsheng called Director Hua to discuss recruiting apprentices.

"Xiaoli, is it possible you just got off work at this hour?"

Director Hua asked kindly.

"I’ve been off work for a while and just had a meal at the hospital canteen with Dr. Ou. Is it convenient to talk now?"

"Very convenient! Say whatever’s on your mind."

Director Hua was definitely very busy.

Especially recently, the orthopedic department needed to seize the opportunity to step up a level.

As the department head, the pressure was immense, mentally and physically.

"I made a preliminary assessment of the five medical students assigned to me today. Only two are suitable for learning manual Bone Setting."

"Having two suitable for learning manual Bone Setting out of five students is actually pretty good! Better than I expected."

Director Hua responded calmly after listening.

"I’d like to train several manual Bone Setting doctors at once; can more be recruited for me to select from? This request might be a bit much, but I have no choice. Because manual Bone Setting is very talent-dependent."

Li Jingsheng explained to Director Hua.

"No problem, I’ll address this tomorrow. Of the five, which two did you keep?"

Director Hua agreed readily.

He was almost accommodating to Li Jingsheng’s requests.

He knew that Li Jingsheng was a very reliable person.

He approached things steadily and also cared about the strength of the orthopedic department.

"Ye Hui and Yang Luqing—both have a bit of talent. I’m planning to keep them for a while and see how it goes."

Li Jingsheng was careful not to speak too definitively.