Chapter 70 The Nanny's Niece's Counterattack
Lin Wei quickly chose a relatively simple wound to suture. The knowledge she had learned at school and the experience she had gained through self-study came in handy at this time. The stitches were neat and beautiful, as if they had been measured with a ruler.
Moreover, she completed the entire procedure for a wound of about five centimeters in less than two minutes, from unpacking the medical kit to disinfecting. Throughout the entire process, the simulated patient didn't utter a single complaint about her.
However, she also wanted to know the effect of different suturing techniques on wound healing in reality, so she directly accelerated time in the simulation room to witness the wound healing process and the outcome.
When she saw that although she had sewn it up very well, the final scar was uneven and not as beautiful as she had imagined, she couldn't help but frown.
"So ugly."
Considering how long this wound will take to heal, I understand why the book recommends suturing small wounds. And five centimeters is still too long.
At this point, she thought of cosmetic suturing. She had heard that this method of suturing would prevent excessive granulation tissue growth, making the wound more aesthetically pleasing and fading scars.
Because she also wanted to see the difference between regular suturing and cosmetic suturing, Lin Wei performed the procedure again. When she saw the final result, she could understand why some people opt for cosmetic suturing, since the healed wound was incomparable.
The former will likely have visible scars no matter how much makeup they wear, but the latter only needs a little makeup to make the scars invisible.
And if you add a bandage to reduce the amount of pressure applied, the wound will heal much more efficiently.
What surprised her most, however, wasn't this, but rather the simulation room's evaluation of her two actions. She felt she had performed very well; the wound's healing was perfect. Yet, the simulation room only rated her B+. Didn't that mean there were A's, A+'s, or even S's ahead of it? This was absurd.
Lin Wei was shocked and incredulous when she saw it. If her operating skills could be improved, how could she improve them? And what would the effect of the improvement be?
However, the simulation room doesn't react at all. It doesn't seem to teach you how to perform perfect maneuvers, but you can practice. You can practice as much as you want in this simulation room, and it will give you a score every time you practice.
Because of this, Lin Wei was really dissatisfied. She had done so perfectly, how could she only get a B+? But seeing that score, she still couldn't accept it.
Anyone with even a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder would find this rating unacceptable; they'd want something excellent, even an A would be fine.
Because of this, she spent the next few days in the simulation room, constantly trying to get a high score. You wouldn't say she was passionate about medicine, but like playing a video game, she wanted to see a score that satisfied her.
However, she failed repeatedly from beginning to end. Not only that, but at her worst, her score even dropped to the C category. It turned out that her skills were not 100% stable and she could make mistakes. This was a bit hard for Lin Wei to accept.
Not only did she not improve, but she even regressed. Because she wanted to know why, she stopped rushing to improve her score and carefully reviewed her previous actions. She realized that she had been a little impatient and that some of her movements were indeed problematic.
The stitches were crooked at C, the wound wasn't neat at C+, and my hand trembled at B. Although none of the above problems occurred at B+, Lin Wei vaguely felt why. Was it a matter of feel? Perhaps the same technique produced different results for different people, and she clearly hadn't practiced enough. If she had practiced enough, her score wouldn't have dropped.
So for the past two weeks, Lin Wei has been practicing the most basic procedures: wound cleaning, suturing, and acupuncture.
You can't always wait for a nurse to give you an injection, and some intravenous procedures require a doctor to do it, so maintaining a good feel for the procedure is also very important.
Of course, she came to understand this because she had attempted an internal jugular vein catheterization procedure, which failed. She had followed the instructions in the book, finding the puncture point, the direction and angle, and avoiding the carotid artery, yet she still punctured it.
Seeing the simulated patient with a lump on his neck and being yelled at, Lin Wei was almost startled. Fortunately, it was just a simulation; she couldn't imagine what a devastating scene it would be if it were real.
That's why she learned acupuncture, starting with inserting needles into the veins on the back of the hand, then moving on to arteries, and finally, to children, with the difficulty gradually increasing. Of course, the scores varied from person to person. She was successful nine times out of ten when inserting needles into the veins on the back of the hand, even with obese patients whose veins were not visible, or patients with very thin veins, she could generally insert the needle blindly, achieving a score as high as A+.
However, her score was somewhat lower when it came to arterial needle insertion. Because arteries can slip and are sometimes invisible to the naked eye, she couldn't always insert the needle, so she only got a B. It was even more difficult for children, whose veins are pitifully thin, quite different from adults, and she could only get a D.
E is a failing grade; when she pierced through, that was her score of E.
Before this, Lin Wei had never imagined that even the skill of acupuncture could involve so much knowledge. If this had happened in clinical practice, wouldn't she have been asking for trouble? For a moment, she was actually glad that she had created this simulation room.
She wasn't afraid of performing too many procedures, but rather of performing too few. She believed that medical learning is all about continuous practice, and there are no shortcuts.
No wonder people say that older doctors are more sought after.
And so, the first day of school arrived quickly. Although Lin Wei was at school, she was still lost in her own thoughts. Even when she saw people coming and going on campus, she remained completely unmoved.
This is a side effect of the system space. No one can stay in the system space for so many years without any impact. Previously, it was just because the time spent in the system space was relatively short, but now that the time spent in the system space is longer, the side effects are more obvious.
Fortunately, she was mostly absorbed in her own thoughts and didn't develop autism, so her condition was relatively mild.
Of course, this was also because Zhou Ruping and Wang Jiaqing would send her messages from time to time to ask about her thesis; otherwise, the situation would have been even more serious.
However, they have recently noticed that the time it takes for her to reply to messages is getting longer and longer. She used to reply to them almost every day, but now it sometimes takes two or three days. The longest they waited was a week, and they almost thought she was going to give up on them.
"She doesn't even reply with words anymore. At her most concise, she just deletes my message and sends me an 'S' instead of an 'L'. If I hadn't guessed what she was saying, I really wouldn't have known what she meant."
Wang Jiaqing: "I'm pretty much the same. I'm starting to wonder if something happened to her, but I don't dare to ask, for fear that no one will answer."
What's most terrifying is that Lin Wei herself didn't realize this, so everyone who saw her felt that her eyes were particularly cold. This coldness wasn't icy, indifferent, or arrogant; it was more of a disregard that made you feel like you didn't exist.
"She seems to have become obsessed with it." While others were still catching rabbits and shaking needles in the lab class, she had already picked up a syringe, drawn up the anesthetic, and started looking for a vein in the ear to inject it.
I thought she would need several injections to get it in, but it went in with just one shot.
Her teammates were stunned as she completed this series of actions in just a few seconds. What was most frightening was that she didn't say a word the whole time, and her eyes were like those of a dead person.
She'd only been on vacation for a while, how did she become like this? She picked up a scalpel, didn't even blink, and started shaving her abdomen. Her movements were incredibly fluid; if you ignored what she was doing, it was truly an art.
Unfortunately, the scene was a bit gory, and some of the girls didn't dare to do anything for a long time. Even the boys were helpless against the experimental subject, which made her seem a bit scary.
In the student council, a group of people were about to cause trouble. Normally, she might have given them a piece of her mind, but this time she was frightened by just one look. Jian Caiwei had no doubt that she would grab a scalpel and stab someone the next second.
The oppressive atmosphere plunged the student council into an unprecedented silence, and they even wished Fang Yihuai would return as soon as possible.
But Lin Wei herself didn't feel that way. On the contrary, she felt that her thinking was clearer than ever before, and her desire to learn was stronger.
She should be very familiar with this situation, because she was like this in high school, although it wasn't as severe as it is now.
But for those seeing her like this for the first time, she must be crazy! Especially since her reading speed used to be within the realm of human comprehension, but now, in class, a group of people are watching her read like she's flipping through a book, completely baffled as to what she's actually reading.
Actually, she didn't really absorb anything; she just reviewed the knowledge she had already read before and tried to understand some things she couldn't figure out.
It contains knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and so on. This feeling of having your mind filled with knowledge makes you feel very grounded.
However, Lin Wei's detached feeling from the world didn't last long; she recovered in just two weeks.
But some things have changed. For example, she was already quite calm before, but now she is even calmer. Before, she would have panicked if she saw someone faint, but now she is completely calm and unmoved.
Having spent so much time in the system space, sometimes when her actions weren't executed perfectly or other reasons arose, the simulated patients would start yelling and cursing. Now, she could automatically ignore it, and this had also affected some of her behavior in reality. Although she couldn't completely ignore it like in the system space, she could maintain absolute composure, and this was clearly more beneficial than harmful.
If you're studying medicine and you can't stay calm when a patient is in trouble, how can you expect to examine or treat them? But to say there are no downsides would be a lie; perhaps your empathy will be a little weaker.
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