After a night of good dreams, Ding Yun was woken by the noise from the inn downstairs in the morning. It was said that "da jian zhu dian" meant being able to eat and stay, and the buildings at that time were not very soundproof. With many people having breakfast in the lobby downstairs in the early morning, how could there not be some noise?
With the noise outside so loud, she wouldn't be able to fall back asleep. So Ding Yun simply got up.
She went downstairs to ask the waiter to bring up some hot water.
After a quick wash-up, she went downstairs for breakfast.
After breakfast, Ding Yun wasn't idle. She specifically went out to buy some small odds and ends, then returned to her room to make a sign for free medical consultations. She then took the sign out and found a lively spot to sit down.
She began to loudly announce her free medical consultations.
To put it mildly, although everyone looked at Ding Yun and felt she was unreliable, being so young, she didn't look like a skilled doctor. But since it was free, why not take advantage of it? So before long, she was surrounded by people.
Whether they were sick or not, anyone who was free
came over to join the fun.
At this time, Ding Yun didn't really understand what "saving lives and helping people, one point for saving one person" meant. Moreover, she also needed to take more pulses to increase her experience.
Therefore, she accepted everyone.
She said what she saw, directly stating if someone was sick and giving them a prescription. If they were not sick or had no major issues, she would remind them what to pay attention to.
She neither charged money nor sold medicine. She gave out prescriptions, and whether people chose to believe them or not was up to them. She didn't require them to buy medicine from a specific place. If they had medicine at home, they could brew it themselves.
So, many people were half-believing.
But no one caused trouble or overturned her stall.
Some people who had already been to nearby medical clinics even came over out of curiosity. After receiving diagnoses that were not significantly different from those of the clinic doctors, they began to vouch for Ding Yun, saying that the doctors at the clinic had said the same thing.
With this, everyone became even more enthusiastic.
After all, going to a medical clinic for a consultation, even if you didn't buy any medicine, only cost a few coins to have your pulse taken. More expensive ones could cost twenty or thirty coins. Here, not only was it free, but the medical skills were also decent. If they didn't take advantage of this bargain, they would be heartbroken.
In less than two hours that morning.
Ding Yun had diagnosed over three hundred people.
Most of them didn't have any serious illnesses. Either they were a bit malnourished, had some old chronic illnesses, or some chronic diseases that wouldn't kill them but would torment them. Only four people were in serious condition, and if not treated promptly, they would likely be in mortal danger soon.
Ding Yun had told them all very seriously.
She urged them to seek treatment at a medical clinic as soon as possible, or to seek treatment from her. As for free treatment, Ding Yun dared not promise.
Because she was afraid that if she mentioned free treatment, all those who didn't have serious illnesses would shamelessly ask for it.
Then, would she treat them or not?
Even the national healthcare system couldn't cover free medical treatment. How could she, with less than twenty taels of silver in her possession, cover it? She didn't want to get involved in such troublesome matters.
After these two hours, Ding Yun packed up and returned to the inn for a meal. As soon as she returned to her room after eating, she eagerly opened the Wuxia Divine Doctor Plus System.
To her surprise, she found that her efforts that morning had been in vain.
The points hadn't increased at all.
"Sigh, it seems there's no wool to be had. I originally thought I could earn more points through free medical consultations. Now it seems that the 'saving one person' in the task refers to truly saving a life, not just treating people. Do I have to open a medical clinic specifically?
And I have to save people whom others can't save?
What constitutes saving a life? The task doesn't define it. Is it someone who was supposed to die but was saved, or someone who would have died without me? This definition is really hard to determine. It seems the points from the system's additions are not that easy to earn."
Looking at the skill points below the system host page, which were still a shining big zero, Ding Yun sighed with a headache, feeling conflicted and distressed.
She was conflicted about whether to continue with free medical consultations in the afternoon.
She didn't want to waste time on things that were useless.
However, after some deliberation, she felt that it was not good to break her word, so after taking a nap, she went out again with her free medical consultation sign.
Never mind, she would just consider it as accumulating experience.
Then, something happened in the afternoon. She encountered someone who had been rejected by other medical clinics, gored by an ox, and had their intestines pierced and ruptured, while also suffering from excessive blood loss.
To be honest, Ding Yun didn't have much confidence in saving this person.
But after all, this was the first person she had encountered who might earn her a skill point. So after a slight hesitation, Ding Yun agreed to treat him.
She specifically explained to the patient's family.
She couldn't guarantee absolute success.
After obtaining the consent of the patient's family, she quickly began to prepare the necessary instruments for surgery. Of course, she had no preparations in this regard at the moment, so she could only make do. She used flame sterilization and the finest embroidery needles combined with freshly prepared sheep gut thread for suturing.
At the same time, Ding Yun didn't forget to secretly use her mental power to stimulate the patient's hematopoietic stem cells.
It couldn't be helped. He had lost too much blood, and at that time, there were no transfusion techniques or conditions. She could only sacrifice a bit of his future lifespan and stimulate his own hematopoietic function, which would damage his foundation, to give him a chance to live.
This was also the basis for Ding Yun's courage to take on the case.
She found that her mental power could still be used a little in this world, and its effect was particularly good in stimulating people's potential. Although there would be some side effects, affecting the patient's future lifespan, if he couldn't survive now, what was the point of a future?
Moreover, Ding Yun did not hide these things from others.
She had specifically informed the family and explained everything clearly.
She only proceeded after they agreed.
After nearly an hour of such busy work, Ding Yun finally managed to control the patient's condition.
The wound was also completely sutured.
Next, it depended on whether he developed inflammation.
In the absence of anti-inflammatory drugs, Ding Yun could only try her best to maintain cleanliness and hygiene around the patient's wound while searching for herbs with anti-inflammatory and sedative effects in traditional Chinese medicine to prevent wound inflammation.
In order to successfully save him.
Ding Yun worked continuously for several days.
It wasn't until the third day that the man finally woke up, and his wound did not show any signs of inflammation. Ding Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as there were no accidents from now on.
This person would be considered saved.
At the same time, the skill points of Ding Yun's Wuxia Famous Doctor Plus System finally broke through the zero mark, changing from zero to one. It was a pity that nothing else changed. It was clear that one skill point was not enough to upgrade any of the skills she possessed.
But no matter what, this breakthrough of one.
Ultimately gave Ding Yun hope.
So, she continued to take care of the previous patient while also starting to devise ways to customize surgical instruments, so that she wouldn't be flustered and lack tools if she encountered similar patients in the future.
She believed that as this patient recovered.
More and more people would seek her treatment, especially those with severe external injuries. Rather than frantically preparing relevant instruments when the time came, it was better to prepare in advance, which would be more convenient to use directly.
It would also increase her speed of treating patients and gaining points.
While Ding Yun was making these preparations, the news that the man with the ruptured intestines, treated by the volunteer doctor Xiao Hu, could now get out of bed quickly spread throughout the city, causing much discussion and attention.