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

Chapter 84 Care!
Lu Cheng drew back the curtains, and the setting sun slanted in, creating a languid and charming atmosphere.

Looking out the window, the gentle breeze sways the green plants in the community from side to side.

After reading the message while leaning against the window, Lu Cheng smiled and called Professor Chen Song back.

"Teacher Chen, my parents invited you to their home for dinner tonight."

"I bought some matsutake mushrooms, along with some cured pork from home and a few pounds of beef bones. They'll be perfect for drinking with," Lu Cheng invited.

Chen Song said, "I won't be coming today. I already have an appointment with someone."

"Xiao Lu, don't take chances again after what happened yesterday. If your hospital's rules weren't so harsh, you would have been at a disadvantage."

Upon hearing Chen Song recount yesterday's events, Lu Cheng nodded: "Teacher Chen, I didn't take any chances. Didn't you say that?"

"One cannot rely on luck when treating illness. One must have sufficient theoretical knowledge, absolute understanding, and strong technical skills as a backup in order to be able to handle the situation with ease."

“I have memorized all these words, and it is based on these points that I performed manual reduction on the patient.”

“It’s not about recklessly waiting for others to make mistakes or anything like that,” Lu Cheng replied naturally and calmly.

The essence of Lu Cheng's manual reduction technique for patients is that he can do it himself and is confident in his abilities!
We should conduct business only if it saves patients money and achieves the treatment goal.

What's wrong with this?

If there is any mistake, it can only be said that Lu Cheng is ignorant of human relationships and ignores the 'performance' of doctors like Xiang Kuihua who specialize in fracture treatment.

But Lu Cheng felt that if he really understood these "human relationships and social customs," then being a doctor would be meaningless.

I am powerless to do anything and dare not say more.

If you have the ability and everything is in accordance with the rules, you may offend others, but you will not offend your own conscience.

Chen Song reviewed Lu Cheng's character and realized that Lu Cheng was not as honest and simple as he appeared on the surface.

He is a diligent student and a very steady person, but he is also a "carnivore"!
Lu Cheng once asked Chen Song, and Tong Yuan'an said that his tendon repair skills were not as good as Lu Cheng's. Therefore, if the director of orthopedics, Peng Haibo, or Tong Yuan'an wanted to seal Lu Cheng's tendon rupture, Lu Cheng would not agree.

"Yes, with that mindset, I feel relieved."

"Mainly because I don't understand manual reduction techniques for fractures, and the information I find online is of varying quality, so I don't really feel it's reliable."

"That's why I'm reminding you, but I still suggest that you, Lu, find a teacher in this field and learn diligently from them. You should also break down the cases you've handled before and ask them for advice. That's how you can improve." Chen Song was genuinely concerned about Lu Cheng and was giving him specific guidance.

After listening, Lu Cheng smiled and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Teacher Chen. If you're not coming here for lunch today, I'll cook some for the office tomorrow morning, and we can have a treat together."

Chen Song quickly replied, "No need, no need, it's too much trouble to cook breakfast in the morning..."

"It's no trouble at all, Teacher Chen. I'll wash it tonight and put it in the refrigerator. It'll be quick to stir-fry it tomorrow morning..."

Lu Cheng pursed his lips as he hung up the phone.

He understood Chen Song's implication: even if Chen Song went back at the end of the month, Lu Cheng could still ask him for advice on subsequent surgical procedures.

In that case, wouldn't I be considered Professor Chen Song's disciple by name?
"Go practice the hemostasis technique..." After Lu Cheng made up his mind, he went to the training room at home and began to prepare the set of equipment and materials for practicing the hemostasis technique.

Some items need to be purchased online and will take some time to arrive, while others are already available in Lu Cheng's possession.

……

As Lu Cheng was taking notes in the training room while enjoying the air conditioning, his WeChat message beeped.

Lu Cheng thought it was the senior colleague in the department, but he didn't expect it to be Mu Nanshu: "The 17th of this month is a workday. I just arrived here and really can't get time off."

"Can we make it up for National Day?"

Lu Cheng replied, "Oh, it's nothing. I haven't made any plans for my birthday. I just happen to be on duty on an odd-numbered day."

"You've been so busy lately, what have you been busy with? Writing notebooks?"

For people like Mu Nanshu who work at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, the competition is more about comprehensive scientific research capabilities.

This kind of research isn't something you can just casually mention, nor is it a virtual research paper like a statistical article; it's real clinical and basic research projects. Applying for provincial or national natural science foundation grants with research proposals and securing funding is quite a challenge.

"I won't tell you yet, I'll tell you when I get back..." Mu Nanshu kept him in suspense.

After reading it, Lu Cheng stared at the sentence carefully for a while, seemingly lost in thought, before scrolling up his chat page with Mu Nanshu—

Mu Nanshu: "You've been a specialist doctor for four years now, haven't you?"

Lu Cheng replied: "Yes, that's right, the fourth year! I passed the intermediate professional title exam in 2019."

Mu Nanshu: "Now that you're getting promoted to associate professor, where do you plan to pursue further studies?"

Lu Cheng: "It's either the Second Affiliated Hospital or the First Affiliated Hospital. Most of us go there for further training, but it could also be the State People's Hospital."

Mu Nanshu: "Can you apply for cross-province further education?"

Lu Cheng: "It's generally very difficult. You need connections or to have already made arrangements."

Mu Nanshu: "Oh, it's just a resume for promotion, it's okay. It's better to have more contact with down-to-earth diseases."

"..."

"Is Mu Nanshu plotting something?" Lu Cheng wondered, tilting his head.

If it weren't for Professor Tong Yuan'an's "spur-of-the-moment" decision to come to Long County, Lu Cheng wouldn't have thought so much.

However, it is not uncommon for doctors in large hospitals to leave the hospital to conduct research projects.

Because some research topics are not suitable for large hospitals like Xiangya Hospital, such as tendon injuries, which Xiangya Hospital typically does not treat.

Therefore, in cases of tendon rupture, ambulances and other emergency services will not send patients to Xiangya Hospital...

"Mu Nanshu, you don't mean to come to our hospital, do you?" Lu Cheng typed directly.

Mu Nanshu remained silent for a while: "How could I possibly come to your county hospital?"

Then, he preemptively asked, "You want me to come?"

"No, our county hospital can't accommodate someone like you with an overseas doctorate. It's quite difficult to graduate with a medical doctorate from abroad."

“Our hospital only admits undergraduates and master’s degree holders; it’s not worth wasting their talents like this.”

"Do you have any progress on the matter I consulted you about last time?" Lu Cheng asked.

"No, Huazhong Union Hospital generally only accepts doctors from county hospitals within the province and prefecture-level city hospitals outside the province for further training, and the number of training places is limited."

"Unless it is a counterpart support unit, county hospitals in other provinces generally do not accept applications for further training from county hospital doctors."

"It's also to ensure the proportion of continuing education slots available to students from within the province," Mu Nanshu explained.

Lu Cheng sighed, "That's a pity, the emergency department at Peking Union Medical College Hospital is quite good..."

The world is still very realistic; if you don't break through during your student years, you'll face layer upon layer of barriers.

At 30, if you go on to pursue a master's or doctoral degree, you might be able to graduate a year early at 35 with some effort. However, 35 is already considered advanced age, and top teaching hospitals won't hire you then.

If you can only go to a prefecture-level city hospital, you might as well just go straight for the professional title route.

Scientific research, publications?!

Lu Cheng looked at the two "unnamed suture techniques" on his panel and began to ponder...

After thinking for a while, Lu Cheng temporarily put aside this thought and began to carefully review the series of study materials sent by Professor Tong Yuan'an.

The materials are very comprehensive, including learning techniques for each stage of suturing basics and common hand surgery procedures from the Department of Hand Surgery at Xiangya Hospital.

The materials even included a table compiled by Professor Tong Yuan'an himself, showing the approximate skill levels of hand surgeons at different levels. This table was the benchmark that Lu Cheng needed to set when he went to participate in the competition...

(End of this chapter)