Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic

It seems what’s inside should not be cash, but possibly a bank card.

"The total cost is conservatively estimated to be around three thousand! Once the surgery is completed, a pathology test will be needed. If it’s a benign tumor, there won’t be any issues. If it’s malignant or has the potential for malignancy, you will have to take the child to a big hospital for radiation and chemotherapy. There might even be a need to expand the scope of surgery."

The treatment fee quoted by Li Jingsheng isn’t very high.

He treats poor patients, sometimes even just breaking even.

Though in the majority of cases, he will make a slight profit. The clinic has to survive, so it must make money.

"If three thousand yuan can fix it, we’re willing to pay."

The child’s father gritted his teeth and agreed to the price.

No matter how low the couple’s income is, since they are both very young, as long as they save a little, they can fully gather the three thousand yuan.

"I can only estimate this price, can’t guarantee it absolutely. Has the child ever experienced abnormal conditions like nosebleeds or bleeding gums in typical situations?"

"No! Besides the birthmark on his back, everything’s normal."

"Alright, we’ll arrange the surgery for you here. Since there’s a need for skin grafting, we’ll have to do skin expansion first. The little one will be quite uncomfortable, can he handle it?"

"Uncle, I’m not afraid."

The little boy looked around quietly but was unexpectedly quite sensible.

"Meng Luo, register them and collect the three thousand yuan in advance, then find a suitable spot on the thigh for disinfection. Once that’s done, I’ll come over to do the skin expansion."

Skin expansion is actually a commonly used surgical technique.

Selected at suitable locations on the patient’s body, using expansion balloons typically made of silicone, similar to the principle of a balloon.

Then saline is injected inside, causing the skin to stretch out into a large lump, achieving the purpose of skin expansion.

This can be used to treat scars or for other skin grafting needs.

Since it’s an autograft, survival rate is high, rejection reactions are almost nonexistent, and there are many benefits.

Therefore, it’s commonly used in surgery.

Speaking of this technology, it was actually invented by medical beauty institutions and gradually refined before being widely applied in the field of surgical procedures.

Medical beauty, due to its many pitfalls, is often criticized.

But legitimate medical beauty has nonetheless made significant contributions to human medicine.

For example, the most common scar treatments and post-incident treatments for burn patients are all medical beauty treatments.

Sometimes a scar on the neck, arm, face, or head can bring great distress to a patient.

Not only does it cause itchiness, but it also seriously impacts appearance.

Imagine if a person had a lump on their face or neck resembling a tumor, wouldn’t it be frightening?

The patient would undoubtedly feel inferior, affecting their life, work, and romance.

Then spend a few thousand yuan successfully treated at a medical beauty institution.

The patient can live and work confidently thereafter, no more worrying about receiving strange looks from passersby, colleagues, friends, or relatives.

From this perspective, doesn’t medical beauty benefit humanity?

As for some, particularly beauty-loving women, spending money on cosmetic surgery to enhance their breasts, nose, and eyelids, or even grinding bones, that’s their own choice.

No one has the right to interfere.

The only thing that needs to be done is to eliminate those black industries.

Some unqualified medical beauty institutions often cause accidents resulting in deaths, or disfigurements like pus-flowing noses, collapsing, crooked mouths, stiff faces... or even death during cosmetic surgeries.

These are the real sources of the problem.

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Busily working until close to 12:40 PM, Li Jingsheng finally processed all the patients at hand.

As for the remaining ones, there’s no choice. He’ll have to eat and continue in the afternoon.

Today, the number he personally issued has reached sixty-seven.

He handled twenty-five in the morning.

This is already his limit.

Buying mobile numbers, new phones, making business cards took up quite a bit of time.

Compared to misdiagnosing or missing a diagnosis, he’d rather be a bit slower.

While eating, he consulted General Surgery’s Director Bi at the Second Hospital about the treatment of plexiform neurofibromas.

The Second Hospital has a dermatology department, but it only treats infectious diseases.

Especially adults, if they lead impure lives, are prone to various infections.

Dermatological surgical treatments, including handling superficial tumors, are all completed by General Surgery.

Previously, Li Jingsheng couldn’t connect with Director Bi.

But after returning from the skills competition, this situation changed.

On the third day after returning, Li Jingsheng was having lunch in the cafeteria. Ou Qinglan was on night duty, not present during the day.

So he was eating alone in the cafeteria.

He went in quite late, resulting in a poorer selection of dishes.

At this time, Director Bi also came in for lunch, saw him, finished serving food, and proactively sat next to him with his tray.

The doctors under Director Bi were a bit surprised.

At that time, after sitting next to him, the first thing Director Bi said was, "Today’s luck isn’t bad, being able to sit and eat with our department’s most outstanding young doctor."

Li Jingsheng responded with, "If you add ’one of’ after the most outstanding young doctor, I’ll shamelessly accept."

Making Director Bi burst into laughter.

The two of them slowly started chatting.

Director Bi’s status isn’t low, and him sitting down to chat must have some deeper meaning.

There’s a possibility that Dean Fu or Director Hua privately approached Director Bi, asking him to help out Li Jingsheng.

Director Bi proactively suggested adding Li Jingsheng on WeChat and told him that he will be invited to suitable surgeries in the future.

Although up until now, Li Jingsheng has only been invited to one general surgery, he has somewhat managed to become half-acquainted with Director Bi.

This time, his clinic has accepted a patient with a plexiform neurofibroma, just in time to consult Director Bi.

Li Jingsheng sent the photos of the child’s skin lesion over, and after looking at them, Director Bi only replied, "It should be plexiform neurofibroma."

Then there was no further text.

He must be busy.

Li Jingsheng remembered the hot search event and opened TikTok to check it out. The number of followers had increased by over twenty thousand again.

This is really shocking.

Moreover, not only did his hot search ranking not drop, but it also rose to number eleven.

He had long heard stories of becoming rich overnight after becoming an internet celebrity.

Though he never thought something like that would happen.

He also never thought about becoming an actual internet celebrity, doing things like live streaming.

This time he ended up on the hot search, he became a network celebrity passively.

Just as he was about to check the comments from netizens and select a few to reply to.

Manager Hu from Best Medicine called directly.

"Boss Li, did you see the news? You’re on the hot search!"

"I saw it. I don’t even know who posted those photos of me participating in skill competitions online."

Li Jingsheng couldn’t help but smile wryly.

"This is a huge opportunity! If you can seize it, your life might change completely. You might even achieve financial freedom in a very short time."

Manager Hu said enviously.

"Sigh, I’m not cut out to be an internet celebrity. I’m only suited for the doctor profession. I never thought about getting rich overnight because of this."

Li Jingsheng seemed very rational.

"You can leverage your celebrity effect to increase health product sales. If you agree, you can also try selling drugs online, just don’t sell prescription drugs and it’ll be fine. Taking advantage of this wave of popularity, the sales from your clinic could double, even increase tenfold."

Manager Hu gave him advice.

As a regional manager, he definitely hopes the dealers in his region sell more drugs.

Li Jingsheng’s current sales are quite good, and if he can further expand, Manager Hu is more than willing to provide some support.

"I don’t have enough staff at my clinic, maybe this isn’t easy to implement?"

Li Jingsheng seemed a bit hesitant but also somewhat tempted.

He wants to buy the clinic’s building, which isn’t a small amount of money needed.

This time, having made it to the hot search, if he can seize the opportunity, and initiate Sunshine Clinic’s online drug sales, perhaps he can keep up with the times.

After all, online drug sales nowadays are increasingly popular among the general population.

"Every beginning is difficult, what’s hard about it? Among the private hospitals I’ve signed with, there are already two that have started online drug sales. Although their online business isn’t that good, you’re different; you have a great advantage. Moreover, currently in Jiangli City, only your most unassuming small clinic has created a brand effect. Even our headquarters praises you and is planning to invite you to the company annual meeting to speak on stage and share the secrets of your success!"

Manager Hu said with a smile.

Li Jingsheng’s Sunshine Clinic currently has quite a high reputation and trust in the local health pharmaceutical field.

Many people come specifically to buy health products because when gifting, leaders and elders feel especially reassured seeing it’s from Sunshine Clinic.

This was something Li Jingsheng didn’t anticipate initially.

"Alright then, I’ll give it a try!"

Upon hearing this, Li Jingsheng agreed.

"You just need to use your ID card and clinic’s business license to open a store on the largest three e-commerce platforms. As for stocking and pricing, we have unified data on our side, which you can directly upload. As for shipping, it depends on the method you choose. One way is through headquarters, which would mean you directly receive part of the profit, worry-free and labor-saving.

Some customers might question if you’re merely a reseller since the shipping location isn’t correct.

However, this isn’t a significant issue; headquarters can label the shipment with Sunshine Clinic’s name when shipping.

If you opt for self-shipment, you’ll need to stock the goods and hire packing workers; your venue is quite large, should be sufficient. Then your profit will be greater, and you’ll have tight control over the products."

Manager Hu analyzed it for him in a considerate way.

"I’ll ship them myself! As for product listings, I’ll only list what I have in stock at the moment."

Li Jingsheng definitely wants to firmly hold these core safety aspects.

If it was handed over to someone else to manage, should issues arise, it would ruin Sunshine Clinic’s reputation.

As Manager Hu said, it’s fortunate he has ample space.

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After work, Li Jingsheng quickly ate dinner and started to register an online store.

They say when you hit the wind’s direction, even pigs can fly.

He wants to test if he can fly this time.

Some friends, even relatives and classmates he hasn’t contacted in a long time, saw him on the hot search and flooded him with messages or calls.

He only replies to genuine friends like Director Mu and Lian Tao.

As for those relatives and friends who are unreachable when borrowing money, they can take a hike.