This doctor is already middle-aged, and he's only just started practicing medicine.

Chapter 208 The Genius Girl Xie Yuan'an!
"Brother Lu, a patient with a tendon injury has come in. Professor Tong isn't here today, and I'm still writing the medical record. Brother Zhang wants you to take over." Tian Zhuang knocked on the door of the doctor's lounge.

"Okay!" Lu Cheng stood up: "Have you gone to check it out?"

"Yes, I've seen it, Brother Lu. It's an injury to the B3 region of the extensor tendon of the lower limb, at the junction of the quadriceps tendon and the superior pole of the patella. The best treatment is the braided suture method." Tian Zhuang realized that Lu Cheng might be testing him, so he replied honestly.

“Yes, tendon injuries in this location are relatively rare, so you can learn that last,” Lu Cheng replied.

Tian Zhuang replied cryptically, "Brother Lu, I heard from other brothers that you have a shortcut for tendon suturing?"

Lu Cheng thought for a moment before saying, "Tian Zhuang, I don't think you can control this. It could easily lead to medical disputes."

"You should just learn the classic sewing techniques!"

"If you're not good at communicating with patients, you won't be able to avoid problems once they arise."

Unlike Zhang Tiesheng and Zeng Huanqi, Lu Cheng did not intend to teach Tian Zhuang anything new.

Tian Zhuang asked, "Why?"

Lu Cheng explained, "This is something new, so it's important to explain it clearly to the patient."

"I'll tell you more later, I need to go see the patient now."

Lu Cheng walked out the door.

After leaving the house, Lu Cheng realized that the person who was injured this time was his high school classmate.

This was the first time in the few years that Lu Cheng had worked at Longxian People's Hospital that he had encountered a classmate who was actually a patient.

At other times, it's mostly classmates accompanying their families.

"Zhao Gao, what's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you not to come to my workplace to chat with me?" After recognizing him, Lu Cheng called out his nickname that he often used in high school.

Zhao Gao was not his real name, but Lu Cheng had forgotten his real name and only knew him as 'Zhao Gao'.

"Brother Lu... Oh right, I heard you're here too."

“I’m at the construction site right now, and one of my coworkers stepped off the edge and got scraped… If it’s you, I’m relieved…” Zhao Zhaixing replied, her expression calming down.

Lu Cheng had excellent grades in high school. To most people, if Lu Cheng became a doctor, he would definitely learn more than the average person and be more reliable.

If a classmate got into the county hospital through connections after passing the entrance exams for junior college, second-tier university, or third-tier university, Zhao Zhaixing would find a reason to avoid that classmate.

"Okay, come with me to the operating room first. I'll examine you. Your condition might require you to go into the operating room."

"Does your construction site offer workers' compensation insurance?" Lu Cheng asked in advance.

“There are still some!” Zhao Zhaixing said.

……

About an hour and a half later, Lu Cheng finished the surgery. However, this time Zhao Zhaixing did not leave the operating room alone. Lu Cheng accompanied him throughout the entire process, taking him from the operating room to the ward.

After Zhao Zhaixing was transferred to the ward, Lu Cheng said, "Sister-in-law, there's nothing special about Brother Zhao's current condition. His lower limbs must be in a passive position, and we shouldn't do any aggressive functional exercises in the early stages."

"I will explain the later functional rehabilitation plan in detail later."

"Zhao Zhaixing, you should remember this too."

Zhao Zhaixing's wife is an ordinary-looking woman who is currently a mother. She is of medium height and has an honest personality: "Thank you, Dr. Lu."

Zhao Zhaixing said, "It's more affectionate to call him Brother Lu. Xiao Hua, Brother Lu is in our class, and he used to be one of the top students."

"His skills are exceptionally good. Everyone in the operating room said so when I was in the operating room. I've finally met him. If anyone needs to use connections next time, just ask Lu Cheng."

Lu Cheng laughed and said, "Brother Zhao, didn't we say at our previous gathering that if you wanted to see me, you'd better buy me a drink, not have a party with me here?"

"You're just lying there like that, you might as well buy me a cup of coffee."

Zhao Zhaixing, feeling sarcastic, forced a forced smile: "Actually, I didn't want to either, Brother Lu."

"Won't I become lame?" Zhao Zhaixing asked the question that was of most concern to her.

"If you exercise well, you definitely won't get stiff joints. If you're afraid of pain and don't move, you're more likely to develop stiff joints."

Lu Cheng said, "Of course, don't overthink it. Just treat it like a minor injury."

"It's already like this, isn't it?"

Zhao Zhaixing sighed, "That's true. Sigh, it's so nice to have brothers like you, Lu. You're in the system, your income is guaranteed no matter what, and your monthly salary is quite high..."

“I used to be very reluctant when my parents asked me to study medicine, but now I regret it a little.”

His wife laughed and said, "Do you think your grades are good enough to get into a good university? If you go to a bad school, there's no place for you here."

"You might go to a small clinic."

Zhao Zhaixing said, "A small clinic is good too. If you run your own clinic, you can earn just as much as, or even more than, a hospital."

I'm not an industry insider, so I can't see the big picture.

Small clinics are certainly convenient, but you have to bear all the responsibilities yourself. If nothing goes wrong, all is well, but if something does happen, the trouble can be considerable.

……

After chatting for a while, Lu Cheng went back to write the medical orders and surgical records.

Just then, Xie Yuan'an sent a message: "Lu Cheng, my results are in. The scoring mechanism for the national competition is different from that of the provincial competition; the maximum score is still 100 points!"

"My score is 99.8, and I'm currently ranked number one."

Xie Yuan'an sent another photo, which showed that the second place score in the solid organ suturing track was only 90.6 points.

The gap between the first and second place is a significant lead.

"Well, congratulations!" Lu Cheng quickly replied in a worldly manner.

Xie Yuan'an: "..."

"Why do I feel like you're being sarcastic or mocking?"

Lu Cheng replied, "I mean it. After all, I'm the current first place in the national competition, so I'm still number one."

Xie Yuan'an thought for a moment before replying, "That's true."

"However, you should know that if it weren't for you, I wouldn't even have qualified for the national competition!!"

"Alright, I'm going to the tendon suture track to wait for the race."

After Xie Yuan'an ended the conversation, she suddenly said, "A colleague of mine sent me a message saying that the results of the competition on the nerve suture track are very strange."

"Now the organizers are in a bit of a dilemma."

Lu Cheng: "Why???"

“One of our hospital’s staff members participated in the first round, and the examiner gave him a score of 99.”

"The maximum score is only 100. Then, in the second round, Hu Yi participated, which made it harder to score. I don't know if he will break the 100-point mark."

After Xie Yuan'an finished explaining, she said, "I really have to go queue up to enter. I can't talk anymore."

Lu Cheng said, "Then go ahead."

Lu Chengxin said, "Did I ask you about the grades? You were the one who wanted to gossip, okay? And after you've heard the gossip, you have to share it, okay?"
It was only 11:20 a.m. when Zhao Zhaixing's wife found Lu Cheng and said that they had already ordered lunch and asked Lu Cheng not to order any more, saying they would eat together later.

Lu Cheng had no choice but to agree, but still explained, "Sister-in-law, this is actually against the rules."

"But since you and Brother Zhao have both ordered, I need to take it back to my office to eat later. Otherwise, if other patients see it and everyone follows suit, it will have a bad influence."

"This is not a good start."

It's like receiving a banner; usually, after receiving one banner, you'll soon receive a second one.

It's like other patients in the same ward seeing you give gifts and feeling embarrassed if they don't, or worrying that you're not treating them well enough, so they follow suit and give gifts too.

The same principle applies to sending fruit or similar items.

"Okay, you guys are in the system, so you need to be careful about the impact. Besides, I heard that your dean has turned himself in." Tian Xiaohua gossiped casually.

The fact that Dean Peng took the initiative to report his problems to the inspection team is no longer a secret; it's a done deal.

No secrets stay hidden forever. In a small county town where there's usually no big news, this is big news.

"We lowly underlings don't understand the leaders' affairs. All we can do is to do our job well," Lu Cheng replied with a smile.

"Brother Lu, you go ahead and do your work. I'll bring you the food later."

"The guy in bed 4 just said, 'Brother Lu, you can perform the surgery on Zhao Zhaixing. He's quite lucky.'"

"If you weren't on duty, we wouldn't have been able to get you here, would we?"

"Is your director so annoying and targeting you?" Tian Xiaohua asked again.

This is the label that Du Qiang created in the hospital. Not only do his colleagues know that he is targeting Lu Cheng, but even the patients know that Lu Cheng and Du Qiang don't get along.

"It's the leader's arrangement!" Lu Cheng didn't criticize Du Qiang for anything; he was well aware of Du Qiang's scheme.

……

Sichuan Province, Chengdu!
The National Microsurgery Skills Competition is proceeding smoothly, with various tracks being very popular.

This is the first national microsurgical skills competition, so it's very popular, with representatives from all walks of life participating.

This includes, but is not limited to, recommendations from top hospitals and top performers in different tracks of the provincial competition.

At first, both the onlookers and the participants thought the competition was proceeding normally.

But as the race progressed, people gradually noticed something amiss. The results on different tracks were all incredibly strange!

Tendon suture track:

[First place, 034, average score: 99.7]

[Second place: 062, average score: 95.2]

[Third place: 088, average score: 94.9]

[Fourth place: 014, average score: 94.7]

……

Solid organ suturing track:
[First Place: 025, Average Score: 99.8]

[Second place: 042, average score: 96.8]

[Third place: 078, average score: 96.2]

[Fourth place: 111, average score: 96.0]

Nerve suture track:

[First Place: 037, Average Score: 99.8]

Second place: 074, average score: 99.7

[Third place: 102, average score: 99.7]

[Fourth place: 026, average score: 99.0]

Vascular suture track:
[First Place: 024, Average Score: 99.9]

[Second place: 035, average score: 99.8]

[Third place: 156, average score: 99.8]

[Fourth place: 085, average score: 98.1]

This is a national microsurgery competition. If someone achieves a near-perfect score in a particular track, it could be explained by the emergence of a prodigy or by a teaching hospital pioneering a new suturing technique that is kept secret.

After all, many top teaching hospitals have this capability.

But now, in all four tracks, the first place score is close to perfect.

There are only so many slots available for each province, so Xie Yuan'an and the others' identities were quickly identified.

Xie Yuan'an won first place in both the tendon suturing and solid organ suturing tracks, with suturing results far surpassing those of other participants.

Han Yunshen, Hu Yi, and several others from Xiangya Hospital were among the top three in both the nerve suturing and vascular suturing categories, achieving scores that were incredibly close to 100!

Isn't that weird?

If we say that Xiangya Hospital's success in achieving top-three rankings in two tracks due to its original techniques can be attributed to internal integration, then...

Xie Yuan'an's dominance in both tracks makes people think a lot.

Since this is a great technique pioneered by your Union Hospital, why is it that only one person brought it to the competition?
What is your Peking Union Medical College Hospital trying to do?
Putting those issues aside, what is the significance of this national competition? Is it just a one-man show by the two hospitals?

There's no such thing as a second place in a competition; everyone only remembers the first place.

Unless it's a race like the one involving vascular and nerve sutures, where they're almost tied for first place, it won't be remembered!

After Xie Yuan'an finished the competition and saw her results, she didn't stay at the venue. Instead, she went straight to find her "friends" to go out and have fun.

The award ceremony was on Sunday. Although the national competition was also a salon-style event where everyone could practice and rack up points, Xie Yuan'an didn't want to rack up any more points.

After Xie Yuan'an went missing, the other participants from Peking Union Medical College Hospital were in an awkward situation.

It wasn't just the hand surgeons who were embarrassed; the general surgeons and microsurgeons were also in an awkward position.

"Is this how things are done at Peking Union Medical College Hospital? Don't you even involve your own hospital staff?"

"Isn't Xie Yuan'an from your Peking Union Medical College Hospital? How did she suture it? You don't know? Why wouldn't you know?"

"You're all in the same unit, why don't you share your original sewing techniques? Is there something going on behind the scenes?"

"..."

After being asked a few questions, Zhong Junyun, who had originally planned to go and check out the competition venue, went straight into the meeting room and refused to come out again.

Skills competitions are only for young doctors; for established professors like them, academic conferences are their main stage.

The academic conference aims to facilitate communication among hospitals about their recent activities and does not focus on the results of the competition.

In the professors' view, the young physicians' skills competition was just a small-scale event, intended to give everyone a glimpse into the capabilities of the young physicians in each hospital...

Of course, Professor Zhong Junyun would occasionally receive a few more questions and congratulations from his friends at the conference.

Regardless, Xie Yuan'an represented the Hand Surgery Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital in the competition and won an award.

To outsiders, Xie Yuan'an is Professor Zhong Junyun's secret weapon.

A truly unique weapon, the kind that isn't shared.

Everyone can understand: why should you disclose techniques you've developed yourself? If you're so capable, why don't you develop them yourself?
As a renowned professor, shouldn't Zhong Junyun be allowed to use his own innovative techniques to help younger generations who want to become famous?
Of course you can.

“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes…” Zhong Junyun acquiesced to everything.

At this point, the more you explain, the more you're just covering it up.

At his age, he wouldn't do something so foolish as to invite trouble for himself.

Of course, Zhong Junyun knew the inside story.

Because the current competition results are exactly as Lu Cheng described!
Xiangya Hospital secured the top three spots in two tracks, sweeping the first prize, while Xie Yuan'an achieved first place in both tracks, far ahead of the others.

Although there will be two more first prizes, everyone knows that the difference between the first prize and the second prize is quite large!

This was all planned by Lu Cheng.

Zhong Junyun glanced at Xie Xiao, who had been sitting in the room the whole time, listening attentively to her colleague's "conference sharing," as if she had never heard such a wonderful report in her entire life, in her forties.

And he was even taking notes!
Zhong Junyun couldn't find anything to complain about Xie Xiao. Xie Xiao had never kicked someone when they were down. All of this was definitely not something Xie Xiao did to embarrass Xiehe Hospital or put him in a difficult position.

Xie Xiao is not that kind of person.

It's Lu Cheng!
The reason Lu Cheng appointed Xie Yuan'an was because Xie Xiao and Xie Yuan'an had recommended him.

Originally, Peking Union Medical College Hospital could have perfectly accepted all these honors, but due to some misunderstandings, things went wrong.

Moreover, Zhong Junyun knew that the old guys in the general surgery department of his hospital wouldn't hold a grudge against Lu Cheng for this.

Instead, they'll look at themselves as if they're laughing at themselves, because they've loosened their ties with Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng has now decided not to stay in hand surgery, but instead to discuss cooperation with general surgery and to talk to the head of the emergency department about joining the company.

A talented person who has already found a place is certainly a talented person. But the best talent is the one who is not yet settled.

This is the operational strategy of top-tier organizations.

We can compete fairly, but the most fundamental principle remains: if I don't die, I'll die; if I don't die, I'll die.

This National Microsurgery Skills Competition was hosted by the Sichuan Provincial Medical Association and spearheaded by West China Hospital.

In response to some questions, the organizers' referees gave the most official reply:

"Verified by an expert group composed of vice chairmen and standing committee members of the National Microsurgery Society."

"All race results of all participants are genuine and valid, and there is no behind-the-scenes manipulation."

"The scores given by the judging panel are reasonable and based on actual results!"

As a result, Xie Yuan'an's results stood out as rather unique when the first day's results were finally announced.

No ties!

The first place in both tracks is even more dazzling than the relative ties for first place in the other two tracks!
Similarly, a rumor slowly began to circulate among the young doctors during the competition.

That is, there is a genius girl in hand surgery at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, who is said to be the beloved daughter of Professor Xie Xiao.

Of course, there are also rumors that Xiangya Hospital had been plotting for a long time, accumulating knowledge and experience, and finally created the original vascular and nerve suturing technique a year ago, taking advantage of this competition to launch a surprise attack.

This caught other units off guard.

A first prize in a young physician competition is nothing to a dog in the real field of hand surgery.

But the real game-changer is the energy behind a near-perfect score.

This time, Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Xiangya Hospital won big.

"Originality is the key to success."

"The key is to use dimensional reduction tactics!"

"Huh? The fourth place result in the neural stitching track has been corrected."

"It was originally 99, but it was lowered to 98.2! Was there any point in lowering it?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)