The Surgeon Who Picks Up Fragments

According to The Lancet, it takes an average of fifteen years for a surgeon to rise from residency to chief physician—during which they must lead over three thousand operations and review tens of thousands of medical records. Lin Shu was fully prepared to endure that same grueling climb. That changed one early morning in the emergency resuscitation room, when he began to see glimmers invisible to everyone else. Floating before him were fragments: white sutures, green endotracheal tubes, blue emergency diagnostic shards. Most remarkably, when he picked up fragments dropped by other practitioners, the system automatically refined them—rendering each piece more precise than the original. A deep venous catheterization technique that others spent twenty years mastering? Lin Shu acquired it after collecting just a few shards. The coronary artery bypass skills that cardiac surgery experts guarded as their crowning achievement? He replicated them in only three months.