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

Chapter 250 Lu Cheng is a cup of aged tea!
Yao Xin and the other two moved to the director's office.

After everyone was seated, Yao Xin had already released Lu Cheng, but paused slightly and looked at Xiao Zhaoxi: "Director Xiao, didn't you say that Lu Cheng was supposed to be on duty tonight?"

Xiao Zhaoxi was also a little confused: "Lu Cheng, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be on the night shift tonight?"

"Director Xiao, Dean Yao, I was called here in advance!" Lu Cheng then recounted the story of Han Pingxiao from the Department of Joint Surgery.

There's nothing to be embarrassed about or unable to talk about.

Xiao Zhaoxi then looked at Yao Xin and said, "Dean Yao, you see, this was all an accident. I told you we should stop gossiping behind people's backs."

"I thought you wouldn't hear this, Lu Cheng, but you just happened to hear it in the office, so let's get this straight and clear things up."

"Dean Yao is here too. Does he mean you should move to their department for further development?"

Lu Cheng chuckled upon hearing this: "Director Xiao, are you trying to get rid of me too?"

Xiao Zhaoxi said irritably, "What do you mean I want to kick you out? It's Dean Yao who has taken a liking to you. You know what our emergency department is like."

"In my opinion, if both you and Dean Yao are interested, going to the Department of General Surgery would be a really good option for you."

If Xiao Zhaoxi had stayed on as director, he wouldn't have been so generous. But Xiao Zhaoxi didn't know who would take over as director. Therefore, in Xiao Zhaoxi's opinion, Lu Cheng going to the general surgery department was a good choice.

Yao Xin then explained, "Lu Cheng, actually, our department admitted a group of patients before the Lunar New Year."

Yao Xin scratched his head: "It's not something to be ashamed of. These patients are not ones we can handle on our own. In the past, we would admit these patients to our department and then ask professors from Xiangya Hospital to come down and perform the surgery."

"But recently, I don't know what's going on, several professors who used to come to the hospital are unwilling to come down. The patients were supposed to be discharged before the new year, but they are still stuck in the department, and the surgeries haven't even been performed yet."

"It took me quite a bit of effort to figure it out; after all that going around in circles, it ended up with you."

Lu Cheng exclaimed and laughed, "Dean Yao, please don't flatter me like that, I can't accept it."

What does it have to do with me if the patients in your department haven't had surgery?

"Professors Huang Gengwen and Sun Weihua from Xiangya Hospital are not coming."

"Doesn't this put me in a difficult position?"

"Guess what this has to do with you?" Yao Xin hinted rather cryptically.

Hospitals in prefecture-level cities often invite surgeons to perform freelance consultations. This allows patients to receive better surgical quality at the state-level people's hospital, avoiding unnecessary travel and saving money overall.

Surgical consultations are a good way to make up for the relatively low level of local technical expertise, and are also one of the necessary procedures in the process of learning surgery.

The Department of Hepatobiliary, Spleen and Pancreatic Surgery performs many complex and difficult surgeries, and there are many diseases that prefecture-level city hospitals cannot handle.

Lu Cheng only half understood: "Dean Yao, I still can't guess!"

Lu Cheng carefully recalled the resume of Professor Huang Gengwen that he had found: "Dean Yao, if I remember correctly, both Professor Huang Gengwen and Professor Sun Weihua are in the Department of Spleen and Pancreas Surgery."

"What kind of surgery did you ask him to come down for?"

Yao Xin answered naturally: "Spleen-preserving surgery. Of course, not the kind of spleen-preserving surgery related to emergency trauma. It's an elective procedure."

"It's not just the spleen and pancreas surgery department; Professor Wang and Professor Yang from the hepatobiliary surgery department, who had also contacted us for collaboration, all said they didn't want to step down for the time being... This makes me even more confused..."

Lu Cheng had met Professor Huang Gengwen of the Department of Spleen and Pancreas Surgery once, but he had never heard of the Professor Wang or Professor Yang that Yao Xin mentioned.

Lu Cheng felt a bit of pressure: "These teachers said they didn't want to come because of me, Lu Cheng?"

"Dean Yao, you're flattering me too much! I don't even know these teachers, and I probably wouldn't even have the chance to meet them."

Yao Xin pursed his lips and said, "The professors' original replies were all about being afraid of making a fool of themselves."

"That's exactly what I said! I didn't change a single word."

“I’ve had a patient in our department whose surgery I’ve ended up handling, and it’s even related to you, Xiao Lu, which is why I came to Director Xiao to ask what happened.”

"Don't you know what you've done?"

Lu Cheng felt somewhat wronged: "Dean Yao, I really didn't know, and I don't think I would have dared to offend these teachers in any way!"

Xiao Zhaoxi thought for a moment and then continued, "Dean Yao, Lu Cheng is quite honest and has decent interpersonal skills. He couldn't have offended these professors!"

Lu Cheng and Xiao Zhaoxi both felt that the old professors' fear of making a fool of themselves was ironic, and that Lu Cheng might have offended them in some unknown way.

Yao Xin shook his head: "At first, I also thought that Lu Cheng had really offended these teachers. After all, they are from our hospital, so we wanted to clear up any misunderstandings. So I asked them a few more questions carefully."

"It's really not about offending anyone. According to an associate professor who works with Professor Huang Gengwen, it's about the surgical case that Lu Cheng performed in our department some time ago. It was anonymously presented as a typical case at a top academic conference, where the operation was discussed and reviewed."

"Naturally, all the key information has been concealed."

“People from other provinces may not know where the surgery originated and have to ask around, but our professors in Hunan Province know it.”

"After learning that the surgery was performed at our hospital!"

Yao Xin clapped his hands: "I was caught in the middle!"

"Sigh... Director Xiao, I'm having a hard time too."

What Yao Xin did was done behind Lu Cheng's back, but it was also an established fact.

Good technology is immediately apparent to professionals.

Xiao Zhaoxi glanced at Lu Cheng discreetly. He himself was not a surgeon, and although he had some understanding of surgical procedures, it was not as profound as Yao Xin's.

The voice was low but somewhat shocked: "Dean Yao, did Xiao Lu have such skills in that surgery he performed before?"

"It was discussed at a national academic conference?"

"Lu Cheng, the chief surgeon, didn't go?"

Yao Xin said, "The surgeon listed at the time was not Lu Cheng. Professor Chen Song, who was working with Lu Cheng, seems to also know this technique, so he had his own insights when he chaired the discussion."

Xiao Zhaoxi said, "Director Yao, that's easy. Why don't you just invite Professor Chen Song to perform the consultation and surgery?"

Xiao Zhaoxi didn't know who Professor Chen Song was, but anyone who could become a professor must have some level of expertise.

Professors without competence dare not wander around outside, much less run around consulting or performing surgeries. They can handle losing face at home internally, but losing face in public is their own business.

Yao Xin gestured towards Lu Cheng with his lip: "A few points. First, Professor Chen Song is currently very busy and doesn't have time to conduct consultations or surgeries."

"Secondly, Professor Chen said the real culprit is right here in our hospital, so there's no need to look far!"

"That's why I came to Director Xiao to discuss this. I need to borrow some of your people after the New Year to help me out of a few predicaments."

"Xiao Lu's skills are not limited to just one area; his liver-related techniques are also top-notch."

Hearing Yao Xin's words, Xiao Zhaoxi's eyes flashed: "Dean Yao, you've really gone to great lengths to recruit Lu Cheng." "Lu Cheng, what are your thoughts?"

"If Dean Yao didn't really like you, he wouldn't have done all this research. The hepatobiliary surgery department is quite good."

"Dean Yao is capable of doing many things that I wouldn't dare authorize you to do."

Lu Cheng thought about it carefully before politely declining, saying, "Dean Yao, thank you very much for your invitation, but I am currently best suited to work in the emergency department, as it is more conducive to my personal development."

"What about helping out?" Yao Xin understood Lu Cheng. Lu Cheng also had research projects on his mind, all of which were related to trauma and spanned many fields.

Only the emergency department has the opportunity to deal with so many different types of diseases at the same time. If you go to a specialist department, it will actually be much more restrictive.

“As long as Dean Yao and Director Xiao agree, I can make time for it,” Lu Cheng replied.

Xiao Zhaoxi said, "Dean Yao, if you personally go through the procedures, there will definitely be no problem. It's a blessing for Xiao Lu to be able to help."

"Okay, it's settled then."

Yao Xin smiled broadly, yet there was a deeper meaning to his words: "Director Xiao, your department's Xiao Lu is quite the seasoned veteran. Are you sure you're willing to let him go?"

"This tea gets better the more you taste it."

Yao Xin is not only the director of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, but also the vice president. In his opinion, Xiao Zhaoxi is indeed a talented person. If he himself does not want to move, the hospital is unwilling to easily replace the director of the emergency department.

Xiao Zhaoxi's intention was clear: "Dean Yao, I'm unlucky, I really don't have that blessing."

"No matter how good the tea is, you have to have the time to enjoy it."

"However, Lu is truly remarkable. I hope Dean Yao will have the opportunity to mentor him." Xiao Zhaoxi was speaking highly of Lu Cheng.

Yao Xin said, "We've already been given a helping hand, so we can't ask for anything more for now. Asking for more would be a mistake."

Lu Cheng immediately said, "Thank you, Dean Yao!"

All the surgical privileges I have at the state hospital were obtained through Yao Xin's efforts. While part of the reason was the state health commission's 'data monitoring,' Yao Xin was also a driving force behind it.

Lu Cheng entered the state people's hospital through a selection exam. In less than a month, he obtained the hospital's routine Level 3 surgical authorization for new surgical procedures, making him the fastest surgical authorization in the state people's hospital.

We can't just give Lu Cheng a Level 4 surgery that only senior professionals with advanced titles can routinely perform, can we?
The State People's Hospital and the State Health Commission wouldn't dare to be so radical!
After the agreement was reached, Yao Xin left first. It was almost the end of the year, and his main purpose in coming was to resolve the issues for the patients awaiting surgery in the department, not to chat with Xiao Zhaoxi.

After Yao Xin left, Xiao Zhaoxi checked the time and saw that it was still early, so he stayed a little longer and asked with a smile, "Xiao Lu, although I expected you to be quite capable, isn't this a bit too outrageous?"

"Dean Yao said, 'Can you also perform liver-preserving surgery?'"

Lu Cheng was puzzled and asked, "How did Dean Yao know about this?"

The liver suturing technique was recently developed by Lu Cheng. He had only demonstrated it to Chen Song and others and had not yet formalized it into a technique.

As for liver protection techniques, Lu Cheng had learned them from Professor Chen Song before, but they weren't systematized.

Of course, Lu Cheng has a skill panel, so as long as he has the right approach and enough skill points, he can learn the liver protection technique very quickly.

"This proves that Dean Yao really cares about you..." Xiao Zhaoxi said with a hint of sarcasm.

"I just don't understand why you don't want to go to Dean Yao's office."

Last time, Lu Cheng mentioned to Xiao Zhaoxi that he had a good relationship with Yao Xin and that Lu Cheng was able to obtain confidential information from Yao Xin.

But looking at it today, it seems that Lu Cheng's good relationship with Yao Xin was one-sided. It was Yao Xin who took the initiative to provide Lu Cheng with information, rather than Lu Cheng actively seeking it out.

On the contrary, when Yao Xin asked Lu Cheng to do something, he had to go through some channels; he wasn't directly ordered or driven to do so.

The vice president of the state hospital had to go through connections to get Lu Cheng's help, and Lu Cheng was just an attending physician in the emergency department.

This whole thing sounds ridiculous no matter how you look at it.

But it just so happened to happen right in my field of vision.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that he had to go to the Provincial People's Hospital, Xiao Zhaoxi really wanted to have a good look at Lu Cheng. However, he didn't have that much energy right now. All his energy was focused on contacting the Provincial People's Hospital, handing over his duties, and handling his resignation procedures.

“Director Xiao, this is somewhat related to the research I’m doing,” Lu Cheng replied.

Xiao Zhaoxi smiled casually: "You don't need to be so cautious. I'm leaving anyway, and I won't covet your things."

"On the contrary, what I want to do most now is to sever all ties, so that I won't be dragging my feet when I leave, and that I won't leave cleanly."

Lu Cheng said with a smile, "Director Xiao, you just took some shortcuts."

"At my age, it's hard to keep up with others by learning routine surgical procedures step by step, so I can only think about studying techniques."

Xiao Zhaoxi was taken aback: "There's more than one, isn't there?"

"Four or five kinds!" Lu Cheng answered truthfully.

Xiao Zhaoxi gasped sharply, then lit another cigarette and took a deep breath of hot air: "You've really become like those online jokes."

"A junior college student applied for a provincial key research project in order to upgrade to a bachelor's degree and asked if it would be successful."

Xiao Zhaoxi didn't dare to exaggerate and say he would win a Nobel Prize or anything like that, but the nature of the matter was similar.

Original techniques are something only top teaching teams in top teaching hospitals would dare to think of. Directors of ordinary prefecture-level hospitals and teaching or research teams in ordinary teaching hospitals are just doing half-hearted projects.

The development of surgical techniques is highly practical, directly connected to clinical practice, and success or failure is intertwined; it can be said to be a matter of life and death with extremely high sunk costs.

Every top professor has their own ideas and unique understanding of the disease, or some operational tips, but these tips must be categorized into suturing techniques in order to gain a foothold in the industry.

Lu Cheng, being barefoot and unafraid of those wearing shoes, plunged headfirst into the fray, and surprisingly even gained something from it – his abilities were truly extraordinary.

No wonder they can pull off so many tricks outside his sight.

If something can make even professors hesitant to come down for consultations and surgeries, how bad can it be?

Lu Cheng replied honestly, "Director Xiao, it was just good luck, and there was no other way but to gamble like this."

Xiao Zhaoxi then said, "It seems that Xiao Shu has brought you quite a bit of pressure."

Lu Cheng immediately replied, "No! It has nothing to do with her."

"Alright, alright, I know you two have a good relationship. Keep it going, I'm looking forward to your wedding."

"It makes me happy to see all of you younger generation doing well. It's a good thing that you're doing better than us old guys." Xiao Zhaoxi gave Lu Cheng a thumbs up.

He added, "But don't forget the conventional and the most mainstream."

"Thank you, Director Xiao. I will work hard." Lu Cheng knew that Xiao Zhaoxi was referring to the basic skills.

(End of this chapter)