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

Chapter 60 is confirmed: No friends!
August 22nd, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Saturday, is auspicious for travel, cleaning, breaking ground, planting, and booking a hotel room.

The sky was overcast, with a light drizzle falling like a curtain. Lu Cheng, tired of reading in the emergency surgery clinic, looked out the window.

The view from the window, nestled in the mountains, was obscured by mist, with only a few crystal-clear droplets clinging to the short pine needles near the window.

Tian Duoduo appeared at the door of the clinic at some point, smiling and calling out, "Dr. Lu, shall we order something to eat together tonight?"

"Tian Duoduo, it's your shift today? That's quite unexpected!" Lu Cheng looked Tian Duoduo up and down, this wild rose, his expression slightly shifty.

The loose-fitting nurse uniform did not conceal Tian Duoduo's figure; on the contrary, it added a touch of other "charm." Tian Duoduo, with her delicate features, has a truly stunning figure.

She didn't go out to celebrate the holiday today, which surprised Lu Cheng.

"Today was supposed to be Yali's shift, but she went to celebrate the holiday, so it's just Zhouzhou and me staying in the office for the time being."

"Oh, and Dr. Lu, and Dr. Du too. Dr. Du said he'd finish get off work at 5:30 and then have dinner, so he must have made plans in advance."

"I don't plan to call Zhuang Ge. He'll probably come to work after lunch anyway," Tian Duoduo said calmly.

On Qixi Festival, not only did everyone else try to avoid being on duty on odd-numbered days, but even Professor Chen Song rushed back to Shashi yesterday afternoon.

There aren't many people available to work in the emergency department these days.

Han Xiaoping, who is single, just finished her shift yesterday, while Du Daihua will go back after her day shift in the clinic, and then the single Da Wu Ge will sit for the whole night.

"What would you like to eat? It's on me," Lu Cheng said with a smile.

"Dr. Lu, we'll definitely split the bill. What would you like to eat?"

Tian Duoduo calmly blinked her fox-like eyes twice: "Zhouzhou means that we can order a clay pot rice or a spicy hot pot."

“I’m fine with either, I bring my own lunch, and I don’t mind the spiciness. You two can choose,” Lu Cheng replied immediately.

He thought about it carefully and realized that in the nearly two months he had been in the emergency department, Tian Duoduo was the only one in the nursing department who almost never treated him to food or drinks.

Others, including the head nurse, generally don't refuse if someone offers them milk tea.

"Then let's have spicy hot pot! I'll order a set meal online and have the owner deliver it directly to me. It'll be a little cheaper than ordering online," Tian Duoduo said with a smile.

"That's great, it saves a lot of money."

"Tian Duoduo, do you guys want milk tea or coffee?" Lu Cheng asked casually.

Maintaining a good relationship with the nurses is very helpful because Lu Cheng may frequently change medical orders, and they won't find it annoying.

Tian Duoduo said, "If you want to drink coffee, I can have a cup of black coffee without sugar."

"Deng Zhouzhou only drinks milk tea, let her go to 'Sharpshooter' by herself..."

After Tian Duoduo finished speaking, she quickly typed out her conversation with her boss, then put away her phone and asked, "Dr. Lu, what was the meaning of what Professor Chen said yesterday that was being talked about in the department?"

"Why did Professor Chen say that Dr. Lu would have no friends if she acted like this? And then he ran away. Could it be that, as Yali analyzed, you offended Professor Chen Song somewhere?"

Lu Cheng's expression turned smug, his eyes instantly contorting into a wide grin: "Yali was on duty in the department yesterday? Oh no..."

With Xiang Yali's gossipy mouth, this message has been spread to who knows where, and the rumors have changed into something else.

With her hands behind her back and her red lips pursed, Tian Duoduo hesitated for a moment before saying, "Dr. Lu, if there really is some misunderstanding between you and Professor Chen, it would be better if you made a phone call to explain."

Lu Cheng composed himself and said, "Tian Duoduo, thank you for your concern. There's no misunderstanding between Professor Chen and me. What Professor Chen said was just a joke." Lu Cheng didn't want to show off in front of Tian Duoduo and openly say that Professor Chen Song was probably questioning his life after being so shocked by his "learning efficiency."
Professor Tong Yuan'an returned to the orthopedics department with some tendon sutures. After focusing solely on teaching hand surgery, Lu Cheng devoted most of his time to spleen-preserving and gallbladder-preserving surgeries.

Actually, Lu Cheng put most of his skill points into the basics, only allocating a tiny bit to the Spleen Preservation Technique and Gallbladder Preservation Technique...

This resulted in both skills reaching proficiency (10/10), but neither reaching mastery. This seemingly ordinary rate of progress infuriated Chen Song, who reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. All the way out of the operating room, Chen Song kept emphasizing that Lu Cheng would have no friends and no teachers…

"Really?" Tian Duoduo scratched her bangs at her temples, slightly puzzled.

Lu Cheng nodded: "Of course it's true, otherwise Director Lin and Brother Zeng would have spoken to me privately long ago."

"There's no other misunderstanding. Professor Chen and I have arranged a dinner party for tomorrow night, where we'll have dry pot cured pork stir-fried with pine mushrooms."

As they were talking, Lu Cheng's phone rang with a notification tone.

Lu Cheng quickly pulled out his phone and saw a message from Du Daihua: "Brother Lu, a patient with a ruptured tendon has arrived. Although it's the 22nd, Professor Tong from the orthopedics department is on vacation."

"Okay, I'll be right there." Lu Cheng typed a message while replying to Tian Duoduo: "A tendon suture team has arrived. Dinner will be here soon, so you and Xiao Zhou can eat first."

"I'm going to set up the stage."

Upon hearing this, Tian Duoduo laughed and said, "Who's on standby for surgery today? Aren't you afraid he'll yell at you?"

Lu Cheng turned around, nimbly went to the computer, and began printing the standard informed consent form for tendon suture surgery: "Today is Brother Zhang's surgery standby shift. There's nothing we can do even if we scold him. When a patient comes, the surgery still has to be performed."

Doctors can celebrate Qixi Festival, but doctors on duty can't even have a peaceful Lunar New Year's Eve, let alone Qixi or Baxi.

As expected, Zhang Tiesheng, after receiving Lu Cheng's call, only teased him for a while, but also said he would come over immediately.

Choosing to become a doctor means adhering to basic medical ethics and rules, which has nothing to do with whether you have connections or not.

The signing process went very smoothly. Even though the orthopedics department took over some of the tendon rupture surgeries, tendon rupture remains the most common and numerous surgical procedure in the emergency surgery ward.

All things considered, it probably accounted for nearly 25% of the performance of the emergency surgery department, all of which was developed by Lu Cheng alone.

Even though Zhang Tiesheng felt the situation was unusual, he dared not go.

"Dr. Lu, you don't look very old. Are you really capable of performing this surgery?" The young man's girlfriend asked this question just before he was about to enter the operating room.

They had planned to cook dinner together since Qixi Festival fell on a weekend, using free-range chicken and duck they had brought from home. However, while butchering the chicken, they accidentally cut the tendon, ruining their delicious dinner and the ensuing story.

Zhang Tiesheng arrived at the department just then, not having had time to put on his work clothes yet. After hearing this, he said, "Skill and age are related to some extent, but not absolutely."

"Our department's Dr. Lu is a top student who graduated from Wuhan University. He was handpicked by a professor at Xiangya No. 2 Hospital and is described as an exceptional genius who has no equal!"

“If even Dr. Lu can’t suture a tendon properly in our county, you can go directly to Xiangya Hospital. You don’t even need to go to the state hospital.”

Zhang Tiesheng immediately launched into a tirade of "frank and outspoken" remarks, leaving the young couple completely bewildered, staring blankly at Lu Cheng.

"Dr. Zhang is flattering me. I can do it, and I'm quite skilled, but it's not as exaggerated as Dr. Zhang makes it out to be. I've performed dozens of surgeries in the last two months, and the recovery has been good."

“Of course, if you have extremely high requirements for postoperative recovery, I suggest you transfer to another hospital.” Lu Cheng was not greedy for surgery.

In fact, Zhang Tiesheng was right. The data from animal experiments showed that the Tajima suture method and the 'unnamed tendon suture method' that Lu Cheng has mastered are really effective, especially when combined with the cross-linked and modified Tang method.

It can basically cure most tendon injuries in the upper and lower limbs.

(End of this chapter)