Practicing Medical Skills in a Small Clinic-Chapter 225 - 142: Steadily Improving Skills, This Goofball

Chapter 225: Chapter 142: Steadily Improving Skills, This Goofball

By the time it was close to seven in the evening, the number of pedestrians on the street outside had gradually dwindled. Kuang Shuqin left without informing Li Jingsheng.

"Boss, that person has left!"

Xiaogao reported, leaning over the counter.

"It’s so late, of course, they have to go home! You guys can get off work too!"

Li Jingsheng said to the two employees.

The business situation at Sunshine Clinic had improved today, with medicine sales just over six thousand, while the income from consultations was less than three hundred.

He wasn’t worried at all about the income from consultations.

After all, his medical skills had been continually improving, and compared to the surrounding clinics, he had already gained a significant advantage in medical skills.

And as time goes on, that advantage would continue to grow.

For example, in the area of Bone Setting, he just needed to gather 333 points of vitality and upgrade his Bone Touching Skill to the Minor Achievement level to immediately be able to put up a sign. It was basically a monopoly service segment.

Aside from the Second Hospital, no one could compete with him.

And in the surgical area as well, he would have a similar advantage. Neither Jinkui Clinic nor Quick Recovery Clinic could compete, only salivate.

In Old Street of South City, only the health station could compete with him in surgical services.

The health station’s strength was quite formidable.

After all, it had over a dozen doctors on duty; internal and external medicine could handle basically anything that wasn’t too tricky.

It had distinct advantages as well.

One was that it had a full staff, more comprehensive medicines, a professional operating room, and inpatient wards.

Additionally, it also had advantages in health insurance.

Even though the health station seemed like a small entity compared to the Second Hospital, it was small but complete in every detail.

For Li Jingsheng’s Sunshine Clinic to compete with it, there were still many shortcomings to overcome.

Not to mention anything else, just having inpatient beds was a hard goal to reach.

If the clinic wanted to obtain the qualification to operate inpatient beds, it first needed to have the space, and meet all the standards for fire safety, hygiene, etc. The current space at the clinic was very limited, making it impossible to install inpatient beds.

Moreover, even with inpatient beds, even for just one patient, you’d need doctors and nurses for night shifts.

For doctors to work night shifts, Li Jingsheng could do some self-sacrificing if he had to grit his teeth and stick it out.

But what about nurses?

Hiring one more nurse would cost several thousand more.

Just one inpatient bed was difficult enough, not to mention all the other issues, each being tough to handle.

This is why among so many clinics, less than 1% have developed into hospitals.

Turning a clinic into a hospital faced too many difficulties and challenges.

It’s truly not the case that a famous doctor with some capital can go out and create a big business.

The gap between ideal and reality is often vast.

That said, for his Sunshine Clinic to grow into Sunshine Hospital, all the aforementioned issues had to be addressed.

He pondered silently, thinking if development went well in the near future, within six months, he could leave Quick Recovery Clinic and Jinkui Clinic far behind. By then, Sunshine Clinic would be the ’largest’ clinic in the area.

Then it would be time to face off against the health station.

For now, he could still hang in there a bit longer.

It would give him some time to plan and prepare for development.

"Boss, I’m leaving now!"

Tang Ping’s face was no longer worried, though her usual happy smile had not returned.

After the clinic’s ordeal, even though the crisis had been resolved by the boss, business had not fully recovered.

If it hadn’t happened, business at Sunshine Clinic would surely have been booming these past two days.

Both she and Xiaogao had thought the small clinic could take off, but then it got knocked down abruptly, so naturally, they weren’t too happy.

"Be careful on your way home!"

"Alright!"

She left, carrying her shoulder bag.

Xiaogao sat behind the counter and organized the customer list for the day before finally clocking out.

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The next day, after his advanced training at the Second Hospital, Li Jingsheng earned a total of 57 points of vitality and had some new insights and progress in the fifth high-level Bone Setting technique.

The ability to earn so much vitality was thanks to the newly learned pressing and pinching technique.

After mastering this advanced Bone Setting technique to a master level, it was pretty much as Li Jingsheng expected, and he was already capable of handling most ordinary Bone Setting tasks on his own.

He no longer needed the teacher’s hand-holding instruction or assistance.

Doctor Xu was particularly pleased with his rapid progress and had already started teaching him the sixth advanced Bone Setting technique.

Compared with the previous five, the sixth advanced Bone Setting technique was hellishly difficult.

The hardest part was bone separation.

For now, he was stuck at the theoretical stage and didn’t dare think about actually trying it.

Because bone separation posed significant risks, Doctor Xu also did not want him to try it easily.

Currently, they were mainly focusing on watching and learning various hand techniques.

When Doctor Xu was explaining, Dr. Chen was there ’learning secretly’ as well.

Unfortunately, Dr. Chen lacked the foundational knowledge from the previous Bone Setting techniques and was left bewildered, unable to understand a thing.

In the end, he reluctantly chose to give up.

These advanced Bone Setting secrets are almost useless if a teacher isn’t willing to teach them to you.

Watching a teacher operate and expecting to learn it on your own is simply a fantasy.

Many medical students, after interning and training in hospitals, typically have opportunities to observe surgeries in operating rooms.

Yet, after watching a teacher perform a hundred surgeries, despite studying earnestly, they find they have learned nothing. They don’t even understand which stitches to use for a wound or which instruments are needed—it’s all a blur.