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

Chapter 71 'Scumbag' 'King of Rolls'

September 3rd, Thursday, near the beginning of autumn in the lunar calendar.

Longxian County is located at a relatively high altitude. Although it still feels hot and humid like in the city, the mornings and evenings are cool and refreshing.

Lu Cheng wore a coat and rode his electric scooter to work. He only took off his coat and hung it on his wrist after arriving at the hospital.

Lu Cheng went straight into the doctors' lounge to prepare breakfast for Professor Chen Song, but to his surprise, Chen Song arrived even earlier than Lu Cheng.

Chen Song is currently reading the book "Xu's Bone Setting Techniques" that Lu Cheng often reads.

"Xiao Lu, you've been acting all mysterious lately, is it because you've been watching this?" Chen Song asked Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng smiled and nodded, folding his coat into the closet as he did so: "Yes, Teacher Chen. You're here just in time. Are you having hot pot again this morning? With glutinous rice flour?"

Chen Song's arched eyebrows straightened with his muscles: "You're still looking at this? Can you even keep up?"

"Actually, in my opinion, you don't need to fight with orthopedics over fracture cases. You should let it go."

"Your emergency department doesn't have the authority to perform fracture surgery, so why bother?"

Lu Cheng said, "Teacher Chen, it's because you haven't been teaching me anything new lately, so it's still good to take a look when I'm on duty. After all, I can't perform surgery, but I can still do manual reduction."

"As for patients who are eligible for surgery, it seems that the orthopedics department will not refuse to admit them."

Chen Song raised his chin: "Hey, why are you being sarcastic when I say I'm here? How naughty are you?"

"Does that mean I don't want to teach you? You have to give me a chance to teach you."

"You've reached the limit with your current level of spleen-preserving and gallbladder-preserving surgery. If you want to go further, you must combine it with interventional embolization and laparoscopy."

"Your Director Lin can't get a laparoscopic surgery package, so teaching him is useless."

"Regarding gallbladder preservation surgery, there are still absolute contraindications; if I encounter one, I have to run away."

"As for liver protection surgery, it's too complicated. With less than a month left, I won't perform the procedure, so you won't be stuck in this unpleasant situation."

After Chen Song finished manipulating Lu Cheng, he continued, "So, does your hospital's orthopedics department mean that if you want to treat fractures and joint dislocations, they won't take care of you?"

"You decide your own fate?"

Lu Cheng nodded and sighed: "It's mainly because I performed the manual reduction, after all, it affected the main foundation of Director Peng's surgery."

"But I'm not the same person I used to be. As long as I can stand firm, I'll do what I can, and if I can't, I'll just refer others to other hospitals."

"When a patient comes, I can't ignore them."

"I will not hide what I have seen or know," Lu Cheng stated his stance.

Xiang Kuihua, an orthopedic surgeon, was determined to teach him a lesson, and Lu Cheng had no choice but to accept it.

The other party has extremely strong connections, including relationships within the state. Lu Cheng can only deal with things as they come.

Lu Cheng could even foresee that after Professor Chen Song left, the storms he would encounter might be even more "intense," and that there might be no one to help him fill the pitfalls he would face. There was nothing he could do about it.

You can't be forced to resign, can you?

Actually, they weren't forcing them; they were just letting themselves fend for themselves.

Wait for Lu Cheng to make a mistake, then condemn him entirely for this disease!

"So how's your basic training going? Tong Yuan'an hasn't been replying to my messages much lately, what's going on between you two?"

"Did you break up again?" Chen Song asked Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng looked at his basic suturing skills [Suturing (Specialization 20/20)].

[Current skill point balance: 12.1!]

Lu Cheng's current skill point acquisition rate averages 4.5 points per day. After all, surgeries can never be completed, and Lu Cheng also needs to ensure rest in order to guarantee the quality of the surgeries. It is impossible for him to be available for consultation 24 hours a day.

In the past ten days, the acquisition rate has been slightly lower than before.

Then, after Lu Cheng mastered the techniques Chen Song taught him, he used all his skill points to reach the Master level, and then put the remaining skill points into Stitching. Lu Cheng was actually quite honest, adding a little bit every day or two, but even at this rate, he still managed to drive Tong Yuan'an crazy.

Lu Chengdu didn't know why Professor Tong Yuan'an liked being autistic so much, as if he had an 'autistic' personality.

"Teacher Tong said he wants some peace and quiet. Your wife's name isn't Jingjing, is it?" Lu Cheng made a fairly common joke.

Chen Song clicked his tongue and said, "Then you must have really hit his most prized point this time, and you've even bent it."

"Otherwise, Tong Yuan'an wouldn't have acted like this."

"Alright, since he won't teach you suturing, I'll start teaching you hemostasis. Hemostasis is a core basic skill in our emergency department and many surgical departments. If you master it, you can even compete..."

"Okay, let's start tomorrow, otherwise you'll keep saying I'm not teaching you anything."

"He who eats another's food is bound to do his bidding; he who takes another's money is bound to do his bidding. What can I do?" Chen Song proudly raised his tail.

He knew why Lu Cheng couldn't finish learning the spleen-preserving and gallbladder-preserving techniques: Lu Cheng's basic skills were insufficient, and he couldn't improve further; he had reached a certain threshold.

If Lu Cheng can still break through these two tracks without improving his basic hemostasis skills, then Chen Song might as well do a handstand while taking a dump...

While Lu Cheng wasn't that unbelievable, Chen Song truly hadn't had enough of the 'afterglow' of being a teacher. So, after agonizing over it for a while, he decided to start a new course.

"Teacher Chen, I have a question for you. What level of skill is needed to win an award in a provincial competition?" Lu Cheng asked Chen Song.

Chen Song said, "Well, to get good results, you probably need to be a little weaker than Tong Yuan'an in suturing, and about the same level as my hemostasis. Actually, your hemostasis skills haven't improved much in a long time, Teacher Chen."

"too difficult……"

Upon hearing this, Lu Cheng's expression froze. That was far too difficult.

But that makes sense, since the provincial young physician skills competition has an age limit of 35.

Chen Song and Tong Yuan'an weren't that old either, both around thirty-eight or thirty-nine years old.

The basic skills improve more and more as you progress. To advance from the next level of specialization, you need at least 40 skill points!
Lu Cheng once calculated that many experts at Xiangya No. 2 Hospital could gain about 1 point of proficiency after 20 hours of practice...

It takes '800 hours' to go from a specialist to a higher level. Even if you practice diligently for eight hours every day and do nothing else, it will still take at least 100 days.

It's impossible to practice with such undivided attention; even finding two hours a day would be an achievement.

That means 400 days of tireless hard work. If there's an occasional delay due to surgery, then it's 600 or 700 days.

Geniuses are faster, but because they are often distracted, it still takes them quite a while.

According to Chen Song, if Lu Cheng wants to compete and win an award...

He had to break through the blockade of those younger than him, the "geniuses"—who were also associate professors and associate chief physicians at Xiangya Hospital…

But as you progress further in your studies, I've heard that progress isn't something you can achieve by simply putting in a lot of time; it's all about talent and a bit of luck.

"Well, how do you think you've learned from this book?" Chen Song changed the subject when Lu Cheng didn't answer.

Lu Cheng smiled and replied, "It'll do alright, but it might be useful if I encounter it!"

Lu Cheng's smile seemed harmless, but it stirred up a storm in Chen Song's mind.

No, how come you learn everything and can master everything?

"What a scumbag!"

"Academic scumbags are more despicable than real-life scumbags; I hate people like you the most!"

"Don't talk to me anymore." Chen Song lowered his proud head and stopped talking to Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng: "..."

Why? Because he has always wanted to be that kind of person, but he hasn't been able to, so he hates that kind of person the most.

Outsiders have several euphemistic names for this kind of person: "King of Currying," "Pervert," "Childless," "Genius," etc.

(End of this chapter)