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

Chapter 241 There's no such thing as being low-key in the emergency department!
"Professor Xie, you've come all this way, why don't you rest for a few more days? If you have time, it would be nice to take a trip to the ancient city of Feng County." Chen Song took the initiative to lead the team to escort Xie Xiao to the high-speed rail station.

Xie Xiao actually had to rush back overnight.

Xie Xiao replied, "I also wish I had a day off, but today is only Monday, and it's rare to get a day off like this."

"Professor Chen, you all go ahead and do your work. My son is just a little rascal. I can't really hit him, but feel free to scold him. If anything goes wrong because of his scolding, I'll take responsibility."

Xie Yuan'an's gaze turned to astonishment: "Dad? Am I your biological son?"

"I'm teaching you how to control your temper in public!" Xie Xiao knew her daughter.

"She hasn't really left her family's protective circle for over thirty years, so her speech and actions are hardly refined."

"She's far from being as skilled as any of you, but this is also a chance for her to gain experience."

Chen Song smiled and said, "Researcher Xie is actually quite nice. Perhaps you are overthinking it, Professor Xie."

"Look, even Professor Chen said I'm doing quite well," Xie Yuan'an repeated somewhat guiltily.

"When others say the same thing and you feel the same way, it's mostly because others are supporting you and not taking your wrong words or wrong actions to heart."

"You should also calm down. You're not a customer now. Think carefully about what this means." After saying that, Xie Xiao turned around and went straight into the high-speed rail station.

His journey from Jishi back to Hanshi was quite a hassle, requiring him to transfer in Shashi to reach Hanshi, but it was only a matter of time.

They drove two cars, with Chen Song driving one ahead of the others. His wife was on leave in Jilin City, and their child was still in school and hadn't started winter break.

Chen Song is only forty, and no one will disturb their time together.

As Xie Yuan'an stepped out of the high-speed rail station, she was still somewhat unconvinced, but her voice was noticeably softer: "Little Mu Mu, tell me, do I really not understand social etiquette?"

Mu Nanshu gestured towards Lu Cheng with her lip: "You're asking me this question?"

Xie Xiao's educational words are universal, although they did not come from Mu Leng's mouth, Mu Nanshu has also reflected on them.

She had absolutely no social skills; she relied entirely on her stubbornness to fight back.

Lu Cheng, on the other hand, usually seems a bit slippery in his speech and actions.

Xie Yuan'an then looked at Lu Cheng: "Lu Cheng? What do you think?"

Lu Cheng, the driver, was focused on the traffic jam and replied rather cryptically, "It's alright. Girls rarely experience this unless they've undergone special training."

"Being able to be generous without being pretentious is what makes a normal person."

"It would be better if the little fairy didn't have too many thoughts."

Lu Cheng's lack of a direct answer can be taken as an admission.

"Am I really that exaggerated?" Xie Yuan'an was slightly unconvinced.

Lu Cheng then said, "No, Teacher Xie, you are exceptionally intelligent. Your quick wit and inspiration are just right. Your naturalness is truly exceptional."

Xie Yuan'an quickly said, "It's not that exaggerated. I just think I did a pretty good job myself."

However, Xie Yuan'an quickly realized the irony in Lu Cheng's words; Lu Cheng was mocking her. Xie Yuan'an gritted her teeth: "Is hypocrisy the only way to navigate social interactions?"

Lu Cheng shook his head: "There are too many tricks to this. Sincerity is the ultimate weapon, and hypocrisy is a necessary component."

"Mu Nanshu thinks I'm slippery, and others think I'm treacherous and cunning. There's no right answer."

"I can't quite figure out whether to be honest with a gentleman or cunning with a petty person."

"If I had a choice, I would prefer to prove my path through force, which is a matter for other people's personal relationships."

Lu Cheng originally thought he was decent at interpersonal relationships, but after encountering a cunning old fox like Du Qiang, who even he couldn't tell the difference between truth and falsehood, Lu Cheng realized that his cultivation was still very shallow.

All I can say is that they're not good at offending people.

Xie Yuan'an had no answer either, so she changed the subject: "Lu Cheng, does that mean you agreed to my dad's invitation?"

"From now on, we'll be in the same research group, right?" Xie Yuan'an's phoenix eyes narrowed into slits, and her arched eyebrows were even flattened with joy.

Mu Nanshu, sitting in the passenger seat, saw Xie Yuanan's expression through the overhead rearview mirror. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he could only sigh inwardly.

Mu Nanshu dared not say anything; Lu Cheng's ability to attract people was due to his good charm.

Actually, if we're really talking about who's "attractive," Mu Nanshu's looks are even more attention-grabbing.

You can judge this by its actions and intentions, not just its appearance.

Lu Cheng said, "Professor Xie, is it possible that your father is in our research group, but you're not here?"

Xie Yuan'an immediately retorted, "Why should I?"

"Professor Xie is here, so what difference does it make whether you come or not, Teacher Xie?" Lu Cheng joked.

"Me, me, me." Xie Yuan'an thought about it seriously for a moment. She realized that compared with Xie Xiao, she couldn't compare in any aspect, not even in terms of information flow or gossip efficiency.

Xie Yuan'an lowered her head somewhat withdrawnly.

Mu Nanshu glanced at Lu Cheng for a moment, then said, "Sister Xie, Lu Cheng was just joking with you, you don't need to take it seriously."

Xie Yuan'an nodded: "Thank you all. If my dad hadn't said these things to me today, I wouldn't have fully understood them."

"I'm just an ordinary second-generation rich kid, a disguised little flowerpot."

“Whether I win an award or not, whether I have clinical skills or not, I can’t change this label.” Xie Yuan’an’s voice was somewhat disappointed.

Lu Cheng said, "Isn't being a second-generation rich kid good? I'd like to be a second-generation rich kid without having to work hard."

"But I don't have that chance anymore. I can only try to make my child a second-generation successor."

Mu Nanshu was also quite good at providing emotional value: "Shouldn't it be the third generation?"

"Alright, alright, three generations," Lu Cheng said with a smile. After all, he had mentioned that Mu Nanshu was a wealthy young woman.

……

That evening, Dai Linfang texted Lu Cheng to ask if he wanted to go out for a late-night snack together, saying that even if no one else came, Lu Cheng could go alone.

After Lu Cheng and Mu Nanshu dropped Xie Yuan'an off at her car, they went back first.

They were just about to go upstairs to Mu Nanshu's parents' house.

Lu Chengke still remembered that they had agreed to have dinner together today when he left yesterday.

Standing in the elevator, Lu Cheng typed a message in reply: "Brother Dai, it might be inconvenient today."

"Brother Lu, is it inconvenient for everyone?" Dai Linfang asked.

"Is it convenient for anyone?"

Upon hearing Dai Linfang's question, Lu Cheng suddenly became alert, wondering if he had been tricked by Dai Linfang.

I and Mu Nanshu have things to do, Professor Chen Song has things to do, and Professor Tong Yuan'an has already led a group to Feng County.

If anyone has free time, it would be Professor Chen Song's students, or Xie Yuan'an.

Could it be that Dai Linfang had already found out his identity from Professor Chen Song's students, and was deliberately putting on an act for him today?

“Brother Dai, we’re busy. I don’t dare ask the other teachers either,” Lu Cheng said.

“Okay, I’ll contact them myself then,” Dai Linfang replied.

Lu Cheng: "???"

Dai Linfang said, "Brother Lu, to be honest, although I am younger than you, I started school earlier, so I graduated earlier."

"Everything I told you is true, my current situation, and what I've been through are all real. But there's one more reason I haven't told you."

"But you'll understand soon enough."

Upon hearing Dai Linfang's words, Lu Cheng asked, "Nanshu, when did Xie Yuan'an graduate?"

"The year before last."

“She’s a year ahead of me, from the year before last. What’s wrong?” Mu Nanshu asked definitively.

Lu Cheng had a rough idea.

Dai Linfang once said that he was younger than Lu Cheng, but he had already graduated two years ago, and he was in the same class as Xie Yuan'an.

Although Lu Cheng didn't know why Dai Linfang knew Xie Yuan'an, Dai Linfang must have known about some of the furnishings in his research group before he approached him.

Therefore, many things today seem like I'm acting, but Dai Linfang is also acting.

“There’s going to be a good show,” Lu Cheng replied.

"Stop keeping me in suspense," Mu Nanshu replied.

"This is just speculation at the moment. Didn't I tell you that a PhD student would be joining our research group?"

"If I'm not mistaken, he should know Xie Yuan'an."

“Perhaps we’ve met before,” Lu Cheng said.

Mu Nanshu said, "It can't be such a coincidence, can it?"

"If it's all a coincidence, then it's too much of a coincidence. But if someone is deliberately orchestrating it, then it's not necessarily a coincidence."

"This Dr. Dai claims to have quite a few connections. He's just been unlucky."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore." Just then, the elevator doors opened, and Lu Cheng and Mu Nanshu knocked on the door after getting out of the elevator.

After Mu Leng opened the door, Lu Cheng said, "Uncle and Aunt, I'm sorry, we have a special guest who suddenly arrived today. He is Xie Yuan'an's father."

"So we had to temporarily change our plans and eat out."

Mu Leng said, "Xie Yuan'an's father is a professor at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. If you don't go to receive him when he comes, that would be impolite."

"Has your accommodation been arranged?" Lu Cheng asked. "Professor Xie has returned to Wuhan."

"You're going back already? Then you must have come here for something important."

"Are you full? If not, we can reheat the food. We also have two small pots..."

……

Lu Cheng was not in a good mood because just as he was about to get down to business, the phone rang, and the caller was none other than Xiao Zhaoxi.

Mu Nanshu quickly and secretly crawled into bed, only showing her eyes and covering her nose, afraid that the caller ID was a video call.

After Lu Cheng answered the call, he said politely, "Director Xiao, you're still up?"

Xiao Zhaoxi's voice was urgent: "I just received a call from the leaders of the Health Commission. They said that when they were collecting data, they found that the mortality rate in our hospital's emergency department fluctuated a bit too much."

"They're coming to inspect. And they'll be here tomorrow, so we all need to produce a research report."

"I immediately started sorting things out with the people on duty in the department."

"The corresponding factors are what you created."

Lu Cheng's lips twitched slightly: "..."

"Director Xiao, I'm coming right away!"

Although Xiao Zhaoxi did not explicitly state it, he had already mentioned himself, and the meaning was self-evident.

Fluctuations in the average mortality rate of a hospital's emergency department are no small matter.

The mortality rate has little to do with the number of patients treated; it's a matter of ratios.

Moreover, the base number of mortality rates is very small, so even a small change can cause a significant amount of fluctuation.

“You’re right. We did a subgroup analysis of internal medicine and surgery data in the department and found that the mortality rate was significantly lower when you were on duty.”

"This needs to be explained."

"Of course, this is definitely a good thing."

A butterfly flapping its wings may not cause a tornado, but it may cause wind.

Lu Cheng has arrived. He has such hemostatic ability, and hemostasis is recognized as the most powerful tool in the emergency department. It is one of the two most basic skills.

If it were useless, our predecessors would have been bored out of their minds to use it as the cornerstone of emergency surgery.

After Lu Cheng hung up the phone, Mu Nanshu shyly covered her neck with the blanket, her eyelashes fluttering: "Are you going to work overtime?"

"Hmm!" Lu Cheng said as he pulled off the tools he was using to commit the crime, while putting on his bathrobe and looking for clothes.

In the 21st century, this is probably the most painful thing.

Today's clothes have been put in the washing machine after showering.

"Then you go by yourself, I won't help you look." Mu Nanshu was also slowly figuring it out...

Lu Cheng drove out at 11:10 p.m.

Lu Cheng really wanted to light a cigarette, but he still had to drive, and he didn't smoke, so he refrained from doing so.

When I arrived at the department, it was already 11:28!
In the department, both internal medicine and surgery staff are working overtime, especially the internal medicine staff, who are almost all out working on medical records.

After all, it's internal medicine that gets driven crazy by the archives.

Compared to the busy work of organizing medical records in internal medicine, the surgical department is even more of a pain, not because the medical records need to be perfect.

Instead, Xiao Zhaoxi found it extremely frustrating after seeing the daily duty roster, the daily death toll/daily number of patients, and the statistics on the time of death.

There's a saying that goes, "It's not scarcity that's worrisome, but inequality."

During Lu Cheng's shift, the mortality rate was nearly half that of others!
“Our emergency department has seen about 260 patients a day in the past year, and the mortality rate has been 4.3%.”

"The data shows that the number of patients visiting the internal medicine department is about 190, and the number visiting the surgery department is 70. However, the mortality rate of internal medicine is only 3.5%. Our surgical mortality rate is as high as 5%."

“This month happens to be the beginning of the year! So, this data is obviously wrong,” Xiao Zhaoxi said.

Both mortality and non-mortality data must be reported truthfully.

When Tian Zhiliang saw Lu Cheng, his tone remained calm: "Director Xiao, but we in the surgery department haven't done much, so this is all we can do."

"Isn't a low mortality rate a good thing?"

Xiao Zhaoxi said, "Of course it's good."

"Is that a bad thing? It's because they plan to use this data to show off, to see if they can compile it into a book and promote it!"

"But can this be repeated?" Xiao Zhaoxi glanced in Lu Cheng's direction.

Xiao Zhaoxi is now afraid that the state people's hospital will not be willing to let him go and will try to hold him back from his contract or something else.

Lu Cheng said, "Director Xiao, I don't know what to do about this either. I will cooperate with all the department's arrangements."

When superiors come to inspect these kinds of matters, Lu Cheng is not a leader; he has always been the one carrying out the specific tasks.

It's fine to have Lu Cheng write medical records, but how do we explain the various variables involved in having him handle receptions?

I'm sorry, I have no experience, so I'll most likely mess it up.

"There are currently two solutions: one is that it's accidental, and the other is that it's due to personal ability."

"But the explanation of chance won't work, because it will continue to be the same in the future, and too many chances will become inevitable."

“But if you emphasize personal ability too much, your superiors won’t be satisfied. What they want to see are non-personal abilities, 'policies' or methods that can be replicated, so they can be promoted.” Xiao Zhaoxi rubbed his face vigorously with his palm.

He has been trying his best to reduce Lu Cheng's presence, for example, by preventing Lu Cheng from performing any surgeries or spleen-preserving procedures in violation of regulations.

Even so, Lu Cheng's natural talent allowed him to come up with such innovative ideas, which was truly remarkable.

As the director, Xiao Zhaoxi certainly had a unique perspective on things. Tian Zhiliang asked, "Director Xiao, what happens if the higher-ups are not satisfied with promoting one's personal abilities?"

"What will happen if I write a report?"

"We will make sure you study hard, and let Lu Cheng give lectures and teach, so that we can make it something that can be replicated."

"If things don't turn out well, that will be Lu Cheng's personal problem."

“But as you know, no one can successfully teach blind hemostasis. Lu Cheng will be in a lot of trouble,” Xiao Zhaoxi said.

Lu Cheng listened attentively, feeling quite happy.

The skills I've acquired are not only beneficial to myself, but also bring about a better experience for each and every patient.

Their quantity, to a certain extent, represents their comprehensive contribution to society, which is why Lu Cheng is so enthusiastic about them.

But Xiao Zhaoxi's words also need to be considered.

But Lu Cheng still didn't know what to do.

Xiao Zhaoxi said, "Lu Cheng, there's no other way. In the end, we'll have to sacrifice you and help you achieve your goals."

"Director Xiao, please speak," Lu Cheng asked.

“Just say that some things are based on your personal feel and you don’t have teaching experience.”

"Stopping bleeding is something that can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words. There are no quantitative indicators. At that time, you were only thinking about treating the disease and saving lives."

“Your previous teachers never taught you this,” Xiao Zhaoxi said.

Lu Cheng replied naturally, "Director Xiao, it's because no one has taught me. I can't learn this kind of thing."

The expressions of Tian Zhiliang and the others changed slightly.

"I told you to listen to me, not to show off," Xiao Zhaoxi emphasized irritably, even sounding a little angry.

Lu Cheng said, "Director Xiao, that's the truth."

Xiao Zhaoxi laughed instead: "That's great. Since you don't even need to pretend, then there's no need to use any acting skills."

"However, you should be prepared that since this data is attributed to your personal talent, your name may become somewhat well-known within the Health and Wellness Commission."

Lu Cheng continued jokingly, "Director Xiao, maybe you already had some reputation before!"

"Go write the medical records!" Xiao Zhaoxi was truly annoyed this time.

Because he knew that Lu Cheng wasn't just showing off; what Lu Cheng said was the truth.

Even if Lu Cheng's reputation isn't widespread, after the incident with the inspection team, there are definitely a few people who have heard of Lu Cheng's name.

But when such naturally pretentious words come from a subordinate and reach one's ears, it always feels a bit off-putting.

This is exactly what Lu Cheng wanted to hear.

As long as there's something to do and a specific task, it's the easiest thing to execute.

I never intended to show off, did I?
"Have you arrived? Is the situation serious?" Mu Nanshu's unread messages were displayed on the chat page.

"We've arrived. The situation isn't serious, but it is indeed quite troublesome."

"You should rest first," Lu Cheng replied.

"I'm not used to it... I can't sleep," Mu Nanshu said.

"Huh?" Lu Cheng was quite surprised, his pupils contracted.

Mu Nanshu immediately understood: "It's not what you think. Never mind, I can't explain it to you."

"..."

(End of this chapter)