When the Doctor Uses A Hack

Chen Cang personally completed the EKG for Old Master Zheng and picked up the result to examine it.

There was some premature ventricular contractions, arrhythmia, and signs of myocardial ischemia, but given his advanced age, it’s quite normal.

Old Mr. Zheng Sanshui looked at Chen Cang with a smile and asked, “Nothing serious, right?”

Chen Cang nodded and answered truthfully, “Yes, there’s some premature contraction, as well as myocardial ischemia and arrhythmia.”

While speaking, Chen Cang passed the EKG result to the old man, who glanced at it and immediately smiled, “Not bad, well seen!”

Hearing Old Master Zheng’s praise, Chen Cang couldn’t help but blush, feeling a bit like he was showing off basic skills to an expert.

Thinking this, Chen Cang smiled awkwardly.

After an EKG, the machine usually provides a result.

However, this result is often not very accurate, so experienced doctors generally read the chart themselves and rarely rely on the machine’s interpretation.

Old Master Zheng gave a slight smile, “Ah, with old age come many problems. Thank you, young Dr. Chen, right? You did really well.”

After saying this, he gave a faint smile with a meaningful look at Chen Cang, then got up and left.

Old Mr. Zheng Sanshui was very complimentary of Chen Cang’s performance today.

Despite being young, only in his twenties, to have such expertise was something Zheng Sanshui truly admired.

Not to mention identifying the pulses and using a sphygmomanometer to measure them; that alone is a skill.

Chen Cang did not see him out because there was another patient waiting for him.

To tell the truth, Chen Cang had not expected to encounter Old Master Zheng in an emergency room session this morning.

Old Master Zheng is now the honorary president of Dongyang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In his seventies, he still holds outpatient clinics twice a week and likely passed by that morning for exercise and just dropped in to get an EKG on his way.

Actually, with a single phone call, his disciples would have brought the EKG machine right to his home.

You should understand that a national medical master represents not just an individual’s prowess but the ability of a group!

To put it plainly, Old Master Zheng is a treasure of Dongyang Province.

Whether in traditional or Western medicine, a doctor who can cure diseases is a good doctor.

Moreover, true medical experts never reject each other, for all paths lead to the same goal, and all theories that can cure diseases are valid approaches.

Just like Old Master Zheng got an EKG that morning, for the same reason.

Furthermore, the fact that Old Master Zheng was able to advise Chen Cang on checking blood pressure shows that his understanding of the extraordinary pulses was not limited to traditional Chinese medicine but also encompassed modern medical theories.

Chen Cang had seen many Western medicine experts study and learn about traditional Chinese medicine in search of verification for the etiology and diagnostic methods for certain diseases.

The appearance of Old Master Zheng gave Chen Cang much to reflect on.

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At this moment, Wu Yushu hesitated for a long time and finally made a decision!

Be admitted to the hospital!

Your health is the capital of revolution; if something really happened to you, then… this family would be ruined. Better to take care of the illness first.

Thinking this, Wu Yushu began to contact his company.

After making phone calls for several minutes and handing over his work, a lot of tasks were settled.

Then he returned to the office and said, “Dr. Chen, I’ll go home to retrieve my health insurance card and medical booklet, then come back to be admitted. When I return… should I still look for you?”

Chen Cang nodded, “Go and get ready, and when you’re back, I’ll help you get in touch with the department of cardiothoracic surgery. You’ll need surgery in the later stage, so it’s more appropriate for you to be hospitalized there.”

Chen Cang did not insist on admitting Wu Yushu to his own department just because he could perform constrictive pericarditis surgery.

The treatment of a disease is not just a simple surgery problem; it includes many other procedures, such as nursing care and the implementation of doctors’ orders, among others.

Constrictive pericarditis surgery is not commonly seen in emergencies, so staying in the emergency department would be somewhat irresponsible to the patient.

Naturally, Chen Cang would not let the patient be admitted to the emergency department just so he could upgrade his own surgical experience.

After nodding in thanks, Wu Yushu got up and left.

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Before long, it was time to change shifts, and Chen Cang found himself unable to resist the urge to stare at Qin Yue, and moreover… he was somewhat distracted.

Chen Cang quickly shook his head and focused his attention.

But… he couldn’t help but sneak another peek at Qin Yue.

Qin Yue’s face turned red from Chen Cang’s gaze, and she couldn’t resist glaring at him, which made him behave.

Primarily because… the way Chen Cang looked at her also made her feel a bit itchy in her heart, unable to resist.

The two of them were like cats that had stolen a taste of something forbidden, sneaky and furtive.

Chen Cang finally understood why office romances were discouraged: they were not conducive to improving work efficiency.

It was time again for the weekly visit from the head nurse, Tian Xianglan, and Chen Cang decided to just open his attribute panel and take a look.

[Chen Cang, Level: 29:1200/11600. (Already Class Changed)

Career 1: Thoracic Surgeon: 12 points.

Career 2: Cardiothoracic Surgeon (Hidden Career): 19 points.]

Chen Cang was slightly stunned; he hadn’t expected that his cardiothoracic surgery career score would surpass thoracic surgery so soon. Thinking about this, Chen Cang was also somewhat surprised.

It seems this period of time was indeed not wasted.

Chen Cang suddenly felt that cardiothoracic surgery was a breakthrough point since, in his skill tree, each skill was a purple-colored master-level skill, and according to the system prompt, purple skills add +4 points.

emmmm…

A mere twenty-five cardiothoracic surgery skills could break through a career score of 100, and then he would be able to smoothly unlock the third career.

However, he was only 31 points away from the level 4 cardiothoracic surgery skill.

This made Chen Cang quite happy.

Given that cardiothoracic surgery is a highly specialized surgical system, most of his surgeries are level 4, which made Chen Cang very embarrassed. To learn level 4 skills, he must have a career score of at least 50 points.

It seems I’ll have to go to Dongyang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s First Hospital to astonish Teacher Meng soon.

When it came to affection ratings, Chen Cang discovered a little trick: grovelling was useless, there’s a limit, and the effectiveness of grovelling disappears once the affection rating increased to 20 points.

But the surprise effect was great; every time you surprised someone, their affection rating increased, and Chen Cang had already planned to astonish Teacher Meng a few more times to make the affection rating surge upwards.

Today he exchanged once for [Heart Auscultation] at the cost of 10 points of affection rating, turning his affection rating for Meng Xi into [Affection Rating: 40(remaining 30)]

Chen Cang understood what that meant—it meant that his relationship with Teacher Meng would always stay at 40, but the actual value was only 30.

But…

Upon seeing this number, Chen Cang fell into thought.

He was worried, what would happen if Teacher Meng’s affection rating for him reached 100?

Thinking this, Chen Cang couldn’t help but look up at Qin Yue.

I really didn’t plan to cheat…

It’s the system’s doing.

Suddenly, Chen Cang forcefully realized a problem: what exactly was his current affection rating with Qin Yue?

Chen Cang discreetly opened the affection rating.

[Qin Yue: Affection Rating (Romantic): 30.]

Chen Cang was startled, what’s with the additional romantic in the affection rating?

[Ding! The Affection Rating System has many types, including: familial, romantic, teacher-student, friendship, and… various feelings.

Increasing the affection rating will only make your particular type of sentiment grow stronger.]

Chen Cang suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

He found that he had overthought things; his relationship with Teacher Meng should belong to teacher-student affection.

After all, seeing that the affection rating with Teacher Chen had surpassed 70, Chen Cang felt very anxious inside.

It seemed that he could unscrupulously increase the affection rating from now on.

And his affection rating with Qin Yue had already transformed into romantic love.