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

Chapter 248 The protagonist didn't appear?
"Brother Deng, who did you say was looking for me?" Lu Cheng asked, his tone slightly puzzled.

The caller was Deng Duanmou, who was on the day shift in the ward today. He called to say that a colleague from the hospital had come to the emergency department looking for Lu Cheng.

"Han Pingxiao, a colleague from the joint surgery department, came to the emergency department for a consultation. He saw your photo and name and said he knew you."

“Look, it’s right next to me.” Deng Duanmou moved the phone away a little.

"Brother Lu, do you remember me? I'm Han Yongshan's son and Han Rong's brother."

Upon hearing this, Lu Cheng realized that this was the son of one of his former tendon injury patients.

Speaking of Han Yongshan, Lu Cheng had a deep memory of him. Han Yongshan was the one Lu Cheng picked up in Long County, who had been transferred from Jishi to Long County to have surgery with him.

"Hello, Brother Han, I remember now." Lu Cheng immediately realized.

"Brother Lu, you really don't treat me like a human being. I told you a long time ago that I would come to Long County to have a drink with you, but you've been in Ji City for more than a month and haven't even sent me a message."

"Are you afraid I can't afford to treat everyone?" Han Pingxiao asked preemptively.

Lu Cheng immediately replied, "No, no, Brother Han, you've completely misunderstood. I just thought you were too busy!"

"I forgot, I can't remember at all!"

"Tell me, is it the truth?" Han Pingxiao pierced through the facade.

Lu Cheng stopped pretending: "Yes, Brother Han, it was my fault. I'll come and apologize to you right away, okay?"

Why would Lu Cheng even think of meeting with the patient's family? Or having a meal together?
Even your own colleagues don't act like this these days, do they?

"Then you can come..." Han Pingxiao said without any hesitation.

"It's a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better. We're really brothers in arms now."

……

Han Pingxiao's appearance is quite distinctive, with a diamond-shaped face and prominent forehead, which are difficult to replicate in a crowd.

"Brother Han, Brother Deng!" When Lu Cheng arrived at the department, Deng Duanmou and Han Pingxiao were chatting together, each holding a coffee.

Deng Duanmou's mouthpiece was also quite distinctive, with thick eyebrows and high ridges. Upon seeing Lu Cheng, he stood up and said, "Brother Han, Lu Cheng was called here by you."

“Lu Cheng, if I hadn’t met Han Pingxiao today, I really wouldn’t have known you were so capable in the emergency department in Long County,” Deng Duanmou said with a smile.

Lu Cheng then learned that Deng Duanmou and Han Pingxiao had entered the hospital at the same time and were both currently attending physicians.

"Hey, Brother Deng, it's all Brother Han's way of flattering me."

"You have no idea how much psychological pressure I felt when I found out that Uncle Han had specifically transferred from Jilin City."

"I'm so worried." Lu Cheng took the coffee that Han Pingxiao handed him.

As she opened the door, she said, "Brother Han, I just arrived this month and haven't settled in yet. I really didn't expect to visit you, so please don't take it to heart."

"I'll treat you to dinner tomorrow night as an apology."

Han Pingxiao laughed and said, "If the joke goes to the extent you described, Brother Lu, then it's gone too far. I'm quite surprised."

"It's also because I haven't paid enough attention to you, Brother Lu. Otherwise, I should have asked you out for a meal a long time ago."

"If I hadn't been on duty today and rushed to an emergency consultation, and had deliberately stopped for a moment, I wouldn't have known you were here too."

Deng Duanmou said, "The cover on the outside was just changed yesterday. Han Pingxiao, if Lu Cheng hadn't been on duty when you came last time, you wouldn't have seen it."

The doctors' profiles in the department are not updated in real time. If a new employee joins, the profiles may not be updated if Lu Cheng's professional title is not high enough.

However, Lu Cheng is a senior attending physician, and he plans to be granted the authority to follow up in the operating room by the hospital.

It wouldn't make sense if Lu Cheng's resume wasn't displayed in the department, so the emergency department updated the contact information.

Han Pingxiao discovered this.

As they were talking, a nurse ran in from outside: "Who is the joint surgery consultant? Dr. Liu from the surgery clinic is about to get angry."

Han Pingxiao's shoulders trembled slightly, and he immediately stood up and ran off in a hurry: "I'm going to the consultation!"

Those who can work shifts in the surgical clinic are all close to being promoted to associate senior level, and have more seniority.

After requesting a consultation, Han Pingxiao still chatted with Deng Duanmou; he'll really get what's coming to him.

"Brother Lu, Brother Deng, please sit for a while. I'll go check on the situation and be right back." Han Pingxiao walked away.

……

Deng Duanmou looked Lu Cheng up and down and asked seriously, "Lu, is your tendon suturing really better than the ones done by the people in our hospital's hand surgery department?"

"real or fake?"

"Brother Han, you flatter me. It's just tendon sutures, it's good enough as it is." Lu Cheng chuckled.

Deng Duanmou rolled his eyes, his eyebrows widening slightly: "Bullshit! If it were enough, would Han Pingxiao have asked his father to go to Long County specifically to find you?"

"It will be slightly better." Lu Cheng didn't want to climb to the top by stepping on his peers, but he wasn't too modest either.

Deng Duanmou said, "That's pretty impressive. No wonder Han Pingxiao just said that if you worked in orthopedics, you would be incredibly powerful by now."

"It seems that our department knows you less than he does."

Deng Duanmou looked at Lu Cheng with a rather strange expression.

Lu Cheng said, "Brother Deng, it's not that I'm deliberately hiding or concealing my abilities, but it's pointless. Even if my skills are better, what difference would it make?"

"Hand surgery is not impossible, it's not unusable."

“I used to get tendon sutures done at the county hospital, but they couldn’t do it.”

"Is this an unexpected turn of events, just for the sake of showing off?"

Deng Duanmou said, "That's true. Even if you do it better, you can't be on duty every day, and there will always be people whose operations you don't perform."

"But his ability is undeniable."

"Deng Duanmou said that your current tendon suturing skills are among the best in the province, including the senior professors in hand surgery!"

Han Pingxiao is an orthopedic surgeon. Lu Cheng previously participated in the provincial microsurgery skills competition and won first prize in the tendon suturing track, which is one of the orthopedic tracks.

Therefore, it is reasonable for Han Pingxiao to have heard about Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng and Deng Duanmou chatted for a while longer, then they heard a commotion outside: "Oh, what? If they can't get it back in place, they'll have to transfer us to another hospital or put us in the operating room."

Where were you before?

Han Pingxiao's calm voice came through: "I talked to you and you signed something before. It's all in black and white right here. Didn't I tell you that?"

"Manual reduction may fail to achieve the desired reduction, and it may be necessary to undergo open reduction in the operating room."

"Have you emphasized this?"

The patient retorted, "You only said there's a chance!"

"If there's a chance, then it's possible. And I told you from the beginning that your dislocation is a rather special case."

"I suggested you have surgery to reduce the size, but you refused. We wanted to try manual reduction first."

“I also suggested you go to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, but you didn’t want to go. Is that right?” Han Pingxiao said.

Dr. Liu from the emergency surgery clinic also said, "Brothers, we're all adults. When you were talking and signing the papers, I was with these other patients."

"You're just going to do this, which is still unreasonable."

"We have both witnesses and physical evidence. If it can't be put back in place, it can't be put back in place. Is it really necessary to make such a fuss?"

"If you don't believe in our technology, Dr. Han would have told you long ago to go to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for a checkup."

A woman's voice came out weakly: "We came from over there."

"Shut up!" the man yelled.

Upon hearing this, Han Pingxiao's expression and tone changed: "You're hiding your medical history?"

"This can all be checked online!" Han Pingxiao immediately printed out his medical records: "Take a look for yourself. Is this what you said? You said you came directly to our hospital for treatment and didn't go anywhere else. Why?"

"Did you have manual reduction performed at the Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital?"

"How many times have you done it?"

Hearing the argument, Lu Cheng and Deng Duanmou also came out of the doctor's office and went to the emergency room. They began to direct the crowd, saying, "Stop looking, stop looking. You all go about your business and don't watch the commotion."

Deng Duanmou, a veteran of the emergency room, immediately called the security office and the medical affairs department to report the incident.

The patient concealed their medical and treatment history, and now, dissatisfied with the repositioning, they are causing trouble. This kind of situation must be handled carefully, as it could very likely lead to a medical dispute.

After Lu Cheng had evacuated all the patients at the entrance, he instructed the nurse on duty to continue maintaining order and followed Deng Duanmou into the emergency room.

Han Pingxiao saw Deng Duanmou and the other person and said, "How about this? This is the emergency surgery clinic, and there are other patients here."

"Let's discuss your issues somewhere else."

"Our security office and medical department staff will be here shortly. If you need, we can also access your previous medical records."

"Look, whose responsibility is this?!"

The man cursed at the woman, "Serves you right for being so talkative."

The woman said, "That's how it is. We need to solve the problem. If it can't be put back in place, then we need surgery."

"What else can we do?"

Seeing that he was in the wrong and that people were looking at him strangely, the man said, "Even so, if you failed to reset, it's entirely my responsibility?"

Han Pingxiao said, "Brother, let me explain to you, not all dislocations can be resolved by manual reduction."

"Every hospital is like this, don't be fooled by online marketing accounts, okay?"

"What's described online as 'instant reduction' only applies to the simplest case of radial head subluxation!"

"You have a posterior shoulder dislocation, which is a complex shoulder dislocation. Let me put it this way: if you could find a dislocation of this type that could be reduced in a second!"

"Anything is fine."

"No one would dare to release a video of this kind of dislocation reduction technique! I'm telling you this."

Radial head subluxation is something that all undergraduate medical students will know about. It is the simplest joint dislocation, and its diagnosis does not require imaging data; a medical history is sufficient.

……

A short while later, the group moved to the doctor's office.

The security office and medical staff on duty also arrived.

Lu Cheng was not on duty, but he was a staff member of the hospital. Once he put on his white coat, he could work in the department.

After a group of people sat down, the staff on duty in the medical department said, "Lin Daomeng, according to the online data we have reviewed, it does show that you have a history of medical treatment at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in our state."

"Come and see, are these documents authentic?"

"According to the information we received from the emergency department of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, they recommended that you undergo surgical reduction if manual reduction failed, but you refused."

"Furthermore, you concealed these medical histories when you sought treatment here..."

Lin Daomeng's eyelids flickered: "I just want the best solution. Is it possible to fix this repositioning without surgery?"

Han Pingxiao said, "If manual reduction fails, then surgery is an indication. What are you still hesitating about?"

“My colleagues at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital and I have tried to give you enough chances. They have tried to reposition it twice, and I have tried to reposition it once. We failed three times.”

"Generally speaking, if four or five attempts to reposition the object fail, surgery should be performed. Otherwise, where else can you get it fixed?"

"Do you want to transfer to a hospital in the province? That's fine too."

“Aren’t there two more times?” Lin Daomeng said.

Han Pingxiao frowned: "This is meaningless. I told you from the beginning that your dislocation is a rare case of repositioning, and it's very difficult to reposition it."

"If it could be reset, it would have been done directly. Why make things difficult for us?"

"You yourself are also suffering and in pain."

The woman next to Lin Daomeng said, "Doctor, actually, my husband injured himself by falling, and we didn't have accident insurance. Our child was sick a few months ago and we spent a lot of money, so we don't have much money now."

My husband just wanted to save some money!

Lin Daomeng lowered his head, his face somewhat gloomy.

Saving money is a very direct reason.

The person from the medical department looked at Han Pingxiao and said, "Dr. Han, you see, the patient and his family do have their own reasons. Although they concealed their medical history, they have now admitted it."

"I just want to solve the problem."

Han Pingxiao scratched his head and said, "Leaders of the Medical Affairs Department, aren't you making things difficult for me? We've already tried to reposition it three times. If we try two more times, I personally think the chances of repositioning it aren't very high."

"If you suffer soft tissue damage due to financial reasons, which may lead to rotator cuff injury, then the surgery will cost even more."

“It’s not worth it!”

"It's better to be in place from the beginning."

Lin Daomeng said, "Doctor, there's no other way. If I weren't in so much pain, I wouldn't want to come here."

"We're really short of money lately."

"The Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital couldn't get it back in place, so I didn't pay them. I don't want to be a scoundrel."

"But here, I paid directly."

"Then let's try again," Han Pingxiao said helplessly.

"But to be clear, you've already failed to reset it three times. Resetting it again might worsen the injury, and the chances of a successful reset aren't very high."

"I also need to find you a helper."

"Distinguished leaders, you can testify for me that the patient strongly requested to continue manual reduction, and I have already given them treatment suggestions and alternative solutions."

After Han Pingxiao finished speaking, the patient and his family nodded.

Both Lu Cheng and Deng Duanmou offered to help, but Han Pingxiao chose Lu Cheng as his assistant because Lu Cheng was a former trauma surgeon and was quite strong.

Shortly after Han Pingxiao and Lu Cheng led Lin Daomeng into the control room, Lu Cheng led Lin Daomeng out.

But Han Pingxiao did not come out.

Lu Cheng instructed Lin Daomeng: "Given your situation, you need to have a follow-up X-ray examination first. You can only leave after you've completely confirmed that the repositioning was successful."

"Although the pain has subsided and you can move around again, it's highly likely that the bone has been repositioned. However, we have insurance-backed follow-up examinations, so we still need to make sure they're done properly. We can't skimp on this expense."

Lin Daomeng's eyes were red as he looked at Lu Cheng: "Thank you, Dr. Lu, thank you, I really had no other choice."

"Thank you so much for saving me." Lin Daomeng's voice was a little hoarse.

Upon hearing this, Lin Daomeng's wife immediately asked, "Was the repositioning successful?"

Lin Daomeng nodded: "Okay, let's go for a follow-up examination first, and listen to Dr. Lu's advice."

"You should thank Dr. Han. I was just helping out," Lu Cheng replied.

The two did not argue, but turned around and went to the examination room to ask the surgeon to help them order a follow-up X-ray of their shoulder joint.

Outside the control room, a group of people were completely silent.

Because Han Pingxiao, the main operator, hasn't come out yet...

Lu Cheng, however, brought the patient out...

(End of this chapter)