Chapter 97 - One Should Be Down to Earth in Life (1/2)

[Emergency Mission: Pileup Crash completed. The emergency rescue of two patients was successful.

[Mission Reward: 200 skill points, 30000 experience points, 2 silver chests.

[Mission Duration: 9 hours and 23 minutes, totaling 52620 experience points.]

The cold, unfriendly voice of the System droned on.

The rewards from the emergency missions were uninteresting. Zheng Ren felt that the in-depth missions yielded better rewards.

Of course, the System could simply be a fickle machine that randomly rewarded him.

The two surgeries he did for this mission had been fast-paced but were not high-level procedures—both were third-grade procedures. Zheng Ren looked at the progression bar for the main mission. Nine of ten were done; one more was needed to complete the whole cycle. He would then gain some bonus experience points.

He had been busy the whole day. The time for rewards had come.

Zheng Ren sat down and checked his inventory.

His general surgery skill had gone from 3154 to 3161 points. The gain was due to the recent surgery and the book he read. He still had 1739 unused skill points.

His heart pumped faster as he neared the rank of Master in the general surgery skill tree.

The Expert rank had granted him so many skills that decided the outcome of difficult surgeries. He wondered what a Master rank would give him.

From the Master rank in interventional surgery bestowed upon him by the System, he knew there was a fundamental difference between the ranks.

During the placenta abruption case, Zheng Ren was just at Expert. Using incompatible instruments and materials, he had managed to complete the surgery without incident.

He was a Master when he performed the pelvic fracture arterial embolization surgery. Each superselective embolization of the external iliac arterial branches went smoothly as if the guide wire was a living thing that had found its own way to the damaged vessels.

It felt like the guide wire moved with his will.

Zheng Ren was eager to find out how a being Master rank in general surgery would feel.

General surgery was the start of his career and the first skill that he had invested in. Hence, he had a soft spot for the field.

It was only 100 skill points and one mission away. A smile graced his face.

Looking at his steadily growing skill tree, Zheng Ren thought he could see his future. The vast knowledge that he would gain from the Master rank spurred him forward.

Skill tree… That was weird. The highest skill tree Zheng Ren had was in interventional surgery, an area that had been strongly recommended by the System, followed by the general surgery skill tree.

His skills in other areas were too low to be counted, but there was one small sprout that had broken ground and risen to eye level.

This…

It was the cardiovascular surgery skill tree.

Zheng Ren realized that interventional radiology was applied in neurology, angiology and cardiology throughout the world. Angiology was probably one of the areas that heavily utilized it as iIt was useful in procedures like coronary bypa.s.s and stenting.

The boost in interventional surgery likely brought up his interventional cardiology skill and filled his cardiovascular surgery skill tree.

No; Zheng Ren checked the details again. The System had given him the Master rank and upgraded all the skill branches in the interventional surgery skill tree. He was now a Master in all types of interventional surgery, ranging from neurosurgery, peripheral vascular surgery, cardiovascular surgery and more.

It seemed that an emergency coronary bypa.s.s surgery might fall under the emergency department’s jurisdiction one day.

He chased away the thought.

If a normal surgeon’s stress level while operating was an eight out of ten, then a cardiovascular surgeon’s stress level would be at ten.

He remembered an encounter many years back when he was still a houseman. He was resting with his mentor in the on-call room on a quiet night when they heard a shriek. Zheng Ren’s drowsiness instantly vanished and he saw his mentor run outside without his shoes.

His mentor had managed to rescue the patient but hurt his foot in the process. The floor was smeared with his blood.