Chapter 39 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There was an option to purchase intensive training time for surgery in the Shop but the price… was too expensive—3600 experience points for one hour.

He could buy a set of surgical equipment with the experience points for four hours of intensive training.

Zheng Ren’s heart shattered instantly after calculating how much a set of surgical equipment was worth. Upon further calculation, he realized one second was basically equal to one experience point. d.a.m.n, the System sure knew how to settle its accounts.

After going through his heartbreak, Zheng Ren soon noticed a new change in the Shop—the addition of interventional radiology to the original hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.

Zheng Ren was unfamiliar with interventional radiology.

He only had a superficial understanding of it, such as percutaneous coronary intervention in coronary heart disease and the insertion of a stent to relieve jaundice in biliary obstruction.

Apart from those, Zheng Ren had no clue what it was.

Interventional radiology had been introduced in Sea City General Hospital once. There was no specific department for it, as only a few radiologists in the radiology department were involved in its training.

After treating a few cases of ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma with intraperitoneal hemorrhaging, as well as pelvic fracture with bladder rupture or hemorrhaging, interventional treatment for uterine fibroids had been introduced as well.

However, after a forty-five-year-old radiologist was diagnosed with hematologic malignancy, they gave up on treatment with surgical methods involving radiation exposure such as X-rays.

He was merely forty-five years old, after all, which was arguably the best age for a surgeon but had unfortunately been diagnosed with hematologic malignancy due to excessive radiation exposure. Everyone who listened to this story would be afraid of this kind of surgical technique.

What was the point in learning it anyway? Zheng Ren only wanted to put more effort into mastering cholecystectomy.

Rome was not built in a day and the same applied to surgery as well. After 20.83 days, Zheng Ren had merely become proficient in open cholecystectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy for simple acute cholecyst.i.tis.

Proficient, but far from perfection, like how he was for appendectomies.

Well, that was useless. Zheng Ren had no intention of investing any of his precious training time in interventional radiology.

He felt some regret even though his current standard had reached the level of a deputy chief surgeon in cholecystectomy.

However, he was afraid that the System may suffer a system meltdown again and demand he perform ten perfect cholecystectomies…

When that happened… F*ck…

After careful consideration for some time, Zheng Ren finally gave up the opportunity to purchase training time for interventional radiology.

Every penny had to be broken in half before spending; that was the mindset he had after prolonged poverty. His heart would shatter in a moment if he was asked to use ten thousand experience points to learn non-essential interventional radiology.

More importantly, he did not have enough “money” to learn it even if he wanted to.

That was all for now. Zheng Ren was ready to leave but before that, he wanted to know his current general surgery standard.

There was a huge increase from 1067 to 1360 skill points in his general surgery skill tree, presumably due to an improvement in proficiency after his intensive training in the System, just like what he did with appendectomy last time.

Zheng Ren was glad he had taken a step further to achieve the Expert rank as he still yearned for the superb surgical manipulation he had performed under prime experience. How he wished he could reach the peak one day and command a view of the medical world.

Looking at the skill tree carefully, Zheng Ren noticed a tiny branch spreading out of the skill tree.

The branch originated from the general surgery skill tree and connected with various other skill trees—internal medicine, vascular surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, neurosurgery, and many more—like a deep-seated tree root.

Huh? What was going on?

Zheng Ren was momentarily stunned and quickly took a closer look.

It turned out to be a branch of hepatobiliary interventional radiology… Zheng Ren stomped his foot, annoyed. Interventional radiology again!

However, it actually made sense when he thought about it. After mastering hepatobiliary interventional radiology, he could spend some time learning anatomical structure from other subspecialties and start performing surgery afterward.

The principle was the same.

However, Zheng Ren remained uninterested. His goal was limited. Cholecystectomy was his only priority for the time being.

Before Zheng Ren could summon himself back to reality, the emotionless System appeared unexpectedly, which gave him a shock.

[Free customized lead ap.r.o.n with purchase of intensive training for interventional radiology.]

Er… Was this a buy one, get one free promotion or a clearance sale?

There was no such thing as a free lunch. Zheng Ren dropped the idea of getting free items from his mind almost instantaneously, rolled his eyes at the Great s.h.i.+ning System Deity and left the System.