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

Chapter 12: The First Step Towards Destruction and Reconstruction!
Tendon suturing is very difficult and the operation time is not short at all.

After a full hour and a half, Lu Cheng felt that the suturing was nearing completion. He then turned to the circulating nurse who was sitting and playing on her phone and said, "Sister Xiaomin, could you please use my phone to call Professor Chen and ask him to come to operating room 3 to help me assess and review the quality of the surgery?"

The circulating nurse was named Wang Limin, 26 years old, four years younger than Lu Cheng.

Wang Limin has a classic oval face, a long neck, and a voluptuous figure. Her voice is cheerful as she asks, "Dr. Lu, if you tell me your phone password, aren't you afraid I'll see the messages your girlfriend sends?"

"Sister Xiaomin, where do you pick up the girlfriend you mentioned? Does the government still issue these?" Lu Cheng replied casually while performing passive tendon gliding on the patient.

As can be seen, the sutured tendon ends are tight, and the multiple ends of the suture are parallel and symmetrical, perfectly restoring the original anatomical structure without producing too many stepped twists.

"Professor Chen? What Professor Chen?" The patient, who was only under nerve block anesthesia and was fully conscious, immediately retorted sharply.

"Professor Chen Song from Xiangya No. 2 Hospital is a professor who came to our hospital to provide assistance in rural areas. He is very skilled," Zhang Tiesheng explained with a smile.

"No... Professor Chen is here... why don't you let Professor Chen perform the surgery on me?"

"You two have gone a bit too far with this joke, haven't you?" The young man burst out laughing in anger.

Lu Cheng chuckled and explained, "Brother, Professor Chen is a professor at Xiangya No. 2 Hospital. He's here to provide support in the countryside, not to work at our hospital."

"You think you can just have him perform the surgery on you? Why don't you have an academician of hand surgery perform the tendon suture?"

"Professor Chen looks down on such minor surgeries and is too lazy to perform them."

"He is currently mainly responsible for major surgeries that involve life-threatening situations."

Lu Cheng's words were simple and easy to understand, and the reasoning behind them was also easy to grasp.

After hearing this, the young man muttered to himself, "Going to the countryside but not doing any work, what the hell is this countryside?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Cheng took a deep breath and patiently explained, "Professor Chen is always on standby in the department for life-threatening emergencies. For example, this morning we had a patient with a ruptured liver, and the day before yesterday we encountered an aortic dissection and a ruptured heart!"

"If he takes on every minor emergency, what if he wastes his energy and can't perform other surgeries properly? What if he wastes time and can't treat more urgent patients immediately, leading to death?"

"Professor Chen is a pillar of strength... unlike us junior doctors."

"Our time and energy are relatively worthless."

The young man thought about it seriously for a moment, then sighed and said sarcastically, "The technology at our county hospital is still too poor."

Zhang Tiesheng rolled his eyes and replied without any politeness, "Brother, this is just a county hospital, what more do you want?"

"If you have the opportunity to earn a million yuan a month in Shashi, would you rather stay in Longxian and earn a meager five thousand yuan a month?"

The patient fell completely silent...

Just five minutes after Wang Limin finished her phone call quietly, Chen Song arrived in the operating room.

He stood on the footstool on the upper floor with his hands behind his back, his voice steady: "I have a fairly good grasp of the modified Kessler suture technique. This technique is the best for dealing with tendon injuries in Zone IV."

"It's better than the Tang method and the Tsushita suture technique."

"The tendon slides smoothly passively, the sutures are tight, and it is temporarily immobilized with plaster today. The plaster can be removed tomorrow for functional rehabilitation."

"Finish the stitching, and leave a few pieces of glove as drainage pads..." Chen Song then gave specific instructions on the subsequent details.

Upon hearing Chen Song's voice, the young man immediately smiled: "Professor Chen, your skills are so good, they didn't even bother to inform you."

"If you were to perform the surgery on me, you would definitely do a better job."

Chen Song stepped off the footstool, his tone calm and composed, and shook his head: "I won't do this surgery."

"I haven't done this at the Second Affiliated Hospital for four or five years. I only do it occasionally for junior staff and chief residents."

"Isn't the quality of your surgeries better?" the young man pressed.

"Hey…"

"So, if I need tendon repairs in the future, how about you take my place and do other surgeries?" Chen Song was so angry that he laughed out loud, then turned around and left the operating room without lingering for even a second longer.

There was a full minute of silence in the operating room before the patient said, "Professor Chen, is your tone really that high? I was just giving you a suggestion."

Lu Cheng explained softly, "You're not giving advice, you're assigning tasks to Professor Chen."

"Hospitals are tiered, and so are diseases and referrals. Tiered medical care is meant to better allocate medical resources. You insist that Professor Chen is better at tendon suturing." "Professor Chen's physique is good enough to do manual labor."

"We dare not interfere with what role Professor Chen should play, what surgeries he should perform, or what position he should hold."

"Of course he was angry."

"By analogy, if someone forced you to sweep the streets, you would also get angry."

The young man then asked, "Dr. Lu, will my tendon cause any problems in the future?"

Lu Chengdao said, "The surgery is progressing very smoothly so far. If you follow the doctor's advice after the surgery and actively recover without overdoing it, the postoperative results are promising."

"Didn't Professor Chen just say that the sutures were done quite well?" Lu Cheng didn't boast or brag, but he also didn't belittle himself.

Although Director Peng of the orthopedics department was more skilled than me, he was terrified of the pitfalls of tendon suturing and completely stopped using that technique, so others were even less willing to do it.

Now that I've just entered this field and Professor Chen Song has confirmed that I can operate it, Lu Cheng wouldn't be so arrogant as to not take action until his skills are at the world's best.

Zhang Tiesheng took a deep breath at the opportune moment and chimed in, "Brother, let me put it this way: right now, the only doctor in our hospital who can and is willing to perform tendon sutures is Dr. Lu."

"If you want to have the surgery, you can only go to him; if you don't want to have it, you can only be referred elsewhere."

"You don't know either?" the young man asked Zhang Tiesheng, clearly quite talkative, even a chatterbox.

"If I knew how, I wouldn't have said that only Dr. Lu could do it. To tell you the truth, suturing a ruptured tendon to the standard quality requires a relatively high level of skill."

"That's why we say Dr. Lu is a top student; he learns quickly and his skills are top-notch."

"Stop overthinking it. Once you've made a choice, don't regret it. Focus on recovery after the surgery! You'll regain good function," Zhang Tiesheng also advised.

Lu Cheng is, after all, a member of this academy.

He wasn't jealous of Lu Cheng's tendon suturing skills; the only thing he felt "jealous" about was that Lu Cheng would "please" Chen Song more.

As for the patient's rambling now, everything was explained to you before the surgery. You signed the consent form yourself, and the surgery is already done. What the hell are you still thinking about?

If there were any problems with the surgery, I could understand you. But now that everything is going smoothly, you're making all sorts of demands. Do you really think the hospital is your backyard or that you're the son of the Party Secretary?

Twenty minutes later, the patient with the lisp was taken out of the operating room.

After taking off his sterile surgical gown and gloves, Zhang Tiesheng looked Lu Cheng up and down and said with a slightly surprised tone, "Little Lu, you really are a hidden talent."

"Professor Chen said you could suture the tendon in about two months, but I didn't expect you to shorten the time to one week."

Chen Song did not tell Lu Cheng about the two-month time limit.

However, Lu Cheng could roughly estimate that tendon suturing and modified Kessler suturing require 20 skill points from beginner to proficient, while basic suturing skills require a little over 20 skill points from proficient to expert.

With over 40 skill points, comparable to a professional doctor at Xiangya No. 2 Hospital, it requires more than 400 hours of dedicated practice and study.

There are only 720 hours in a month. Even if Lu Cheng works hard enough, it would still take about two months, excluding shifts.

Professor Chen Song's deductions are plausible, but Lu Cheng never closed the door, so they cannot be judged according to such common sense.

"At this rate, in a few months I'll have to call you 'brother'," Zhang Tiesheng said jokingly, but his eyes subtly revealed a sense of urgency.

A hospital is a special 'unit'. Personnel relationships can only give you more opportunities, such as getting a job or more surgical opportunities, but they cannot make you stand out from others in terms of skills.

Patients won't talk to you about social niceties, and neither will their medical skills.

Besides Zeng Huanqi, there's another formidable opponent, and Lu Cheng can even overtake them on a curve, making him an even greater threat!

As Lu Cheng walked out, he chuckled, "Brother Zhang, your flattery is a bit too much. What's so special about my skills?"

“Brother Zhang, you’ve always been Brother Zhang.”

Lu Cheng was neither arrogant nor complacent; he simply took the first step forward calmly, a step that marked the beginning of rebuilding from the ashes.

Finally, I successfully completed my 'unique' surgery.

[Single-handedly performed professional tendon suturing, reducing the patient's pain and securing better functional recovery, earning 1.5 skill points...]

(End of this chapter)