July, Long County, night.
The old-fashioned air conditioner blows cold air against the deflector, making a slight clattering noise.
"You want to transfer from orthopedics to ergency?"
In the Gaojia Slope District not far from Linyuelu Avenue County People's Hospital, Uncle Lu Nanyong slapped the table, glaring: "What do you think you are? What exactly are you?"
"Modu Huashan Hospital didn't want you as an undergraduate for graduate studies; did it affect its status?"
"Han City University Zhongnan Hospital doesn't care about your desire not to study as a master's intern there; did it affect its normal operations?"
"State People's Hospital's orthopedics departnt looks down on your academic background; did it collapse?"
"You've just settled down for a few years? And now you're starting to act up again?"
"You haven't had enough of society's harsh beatings? Still acting recklessly..."
"You're just the attending, there's a long future ahead, your opportunity will co."
Lu Nanyong pushed his glasses with his left hand, pointing at Lu Cheng's nose with his right, spitting furiously: "Don't think you can do whatever you want just because your parents are uneducated and let you be!!"
"Stay honestly in orthopedics, and after a while, I'll find an opportunity to have a drink with your departnt director... and think of a solution for you..."
Lu Cheng sat opposite, his expression and tone calm: "Uncle, it's useless."
"Staying in orthopedics leads nowhere; there's no opportunity for to perform surgeries."
"Not to ntion, besides Director Peng, there are five other deputy chief physicians fighting to do surgeries; last June, Director Peng's son returned from graduating master's at Xiangya Second Hospital."
"You're well aware of the status of the other deputy chief physicians."
"There's no chance even for stitching up wounds, let alone proper surgeries."
"Uncle, I'm a surgeon; I need to accumulate surgeries to practice my skills."
"Skills can't be improved by just reading books and writing dical records." Lu Cheng calmly analyzed.
Lu Nanyong is also a doctor, but a Traditional Chinese dicine doctor at County Traditional Chinese dicine Hospital, the most 'prestigious' relative in the family, capable of guiding Lu Cheng's path.
Lu Cheng is an orthopedic doctor at Long County People's Hospital, officially employed.
"What surgery volu can you accumulate in the ergency? What skills can you learn?"
"What surgeries can your hospital's ergency departnt perform?" Lu Nanyong didn't refute Lu Cheng but questioned harshly!
Lu Cheng replied: "Uncle, maybe not before, but now it's possible."
"Our hospital is affiliated with Xiangya Second Hospital's dical alliance, and Professor Chen Song from Xiangya Second Hospital's ergency surgery departnt happened to co for support and is stationed in the ergency departnt."
"According to the hospital's intentions, in principle, any surgery not possible in specialized departnts can be perford by Professor Chen Song!"
It's difficult for doctors to advance titles; it requires academic qualifications, articles, and further studies or rural support.
"What if Professor Chen leaves? Don't you understand the nature of the rural support?"
"How many rural support doctors sincerely stay in the hospital for surgeries? It's comndable to perform surgeries for one day a week."
"Even if you've checked beforehand, this Professor Chen is different from others, but he's bound to leave."
"Once he leaves, won't the ergency departnt return to its original state?"
"At most six months, even just three months; what can you learn?"
Lu Cheng squinted his eyes and looked at the panel only he could see:
[Great Doctor System: Comprehensive Level (Inpatient Doctor)]
[Corrected postoperative dication through dical orders, reducing chances of patient gastric ulcers, gaining 0.1 Skill Points.]
[Avoided postoperative infections through dressing changes, gaining 0.2 Skill Points.]
[Through...]
[Completed one instance of wound cleaning skill, gaining 0.6 Skill Points.]
[Remaining Skill Points: 13 points.]
Lu Cheng discovered he awakened this system half a month ago.
But the patient volu in the county hospital is inherently small, with minimal surgeries in orthopedics. Lu Cheng's only increase in single-digit Skill Points was during his shift, handling an ergency small wound cleaning alone one night.
In orthopedics, several deputy chief physicians compete for surgeries due to performance trics and future ward chief positions, fighting fiercely, each with extensive connections.
Lu Cheng's uncle, although a doctor in Traditional Chinese dicine, is sowhat connected but ultimately powerless.
An attending physician unable to accumulate surgery volu imdiately becos exposed under the panel's strength evaluation, with 'Inpatient Doctor' glaringly engraved in Lu Cheng's brain cortex.
"That's still better than staying in orthopedics! At least I can do wound cleaning and perform small surgeries like appendectomies, better than waiting behind those big guys in orthopedics."
Lu Cheng said, his mouth twitching: "Uncle, surgery requires manual skills, not just flattery for skill improvent."
"I've navigated office politics in the departnt for four years, not just a year or two, but four to five years, useless! I know it's useless!"
"Not to ntion scrambling for surgeries to compete for chief positions; just the surgeon's performance reward for more work, what do these surgeries have to do with ..."
"Sitting at ho reading won't reveal surgical skills, Uncle." Lu Cheng's breathing is rapid and ssy.
Returning to the county hospital, life is indeed comfortable. If you want to lie flat for life, only seeking small money for a comfortable "mix," then nothing is more comfortable.
If you don't want to lead, then everyone's your leader.
But such a doctor is less rewarding than being a nurse giving IVs and injections to patients, rely a high-level worker writing dical records for the departnt, ultimately powerless.
"But once you leave orthopedics, there's no chance of returning, Lu Cheng; do you understand your uncle's aning?"
Lu Nanyong squeezed out a bitter lon expression, saying.
Being a doctor naturally depends on skills nationwide; as long as you're excellent enough, you can flourish anywhere!
Even if your skills are superior, performing surgeries even professors can't do, top professors will treat you courteously.
Yet such a frustrating, 'delusional' contradiction, how to achieve?
If you don't learn dical skills, where do they co from, magically?
If you don't practice dical skills, how do you beco proficient? Is rely reading enough?
Lu Cheng, with so talent, finds it really inadequate, and his luck is poor, unable to support him in facing challenges without fail, but getting crushed by office politics, gasping for breath.
Ultimately, relationship-oriented people aren't terrifying; the scary part is if you don't surpass them significantly! Then all that's left is despair!!
Lu Cheng nodded, his delicate face returning to calm, his voice low: "Uncle, if I say I don't want to beco like you all my life, can you not be angry?"
"Big hospitals currently prioritize academic and research, while small places focus on results."
"I know you an well for , but skill learning requires 'tossing around.'"
"Having suffered over the years, I'm acutely aware of this."
"Academic qualifications didn't improve, not forming 'ntor-student' relationships with teachers; why would anyone teach skills?"
"Without sufficient patient volu and operation volu, how can I practice skills?"
"Ordinary people like us can only go to the hardest, most exhausting places, diligently honing skills and completing comprehensive theory to have a chance at becoming better doctors."
Lu Nanyong listened and glanced at Lu Cheng: "You know these principles?"
"Why did you fail your subsequent graduate entrance examination back then?"
"Why were you unwilling to retake it later?"
Lu Cheng decisively replied: "Uncle, those things are past, discussing them further is aningless; we should focus on the present."
"Right now, what I want is to go to the ergency departnt, see if I can learn so skills from Professor Chen Song, and first grasp so surgeries in my hands."
"No matter how professionalized the hospital becos, it's still a hospital; as long as I perform surgeries others can't complete, I will have my stage."
"Competing for already mature surgeries in the hospital, sitting cold benches would make my bottom frostbite!"
"Uncle, don't talk to my parents about these matters; telling them won't help and would make them uncomfortable." Lu Cheng added.
Don't dwell on the past; dwelling on the past is the most useless thing, you either live in the present or live below the belt.
Lu Nanyong shrugged his high forehead, adamantly saying: "I know... back then?"
Lu Cheng laughed, his tone finally a bit pale: "Uncle, it's already 2023, not 2014 or 2015. I'm thirty, no longer the twenty-three, twenty-four-year-old lad I once was; talking about the past is irrelevant..."
"The current decision to go to the ergency departnt, learn so new skills to break through, is the best choice I, at thirty, can make."
"Moreover, it must be during the period when Professor Chen Song cos for support!"
"Besides this path, there's no right one!~"
"This ti it's not whimsy; I've considered it carefully."
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