Chapter 717 - 357: The End of Fate

The geographical location of the State People's Hospital is fixed, as is its nature.

As the place where medical resources are most concentrated in Xiangzhou, it is also the hospital with the highest patient volume in Xiangzhou.

Near noon, the sunlight lightly pierces through, scattering on the checkered floor tiles after passing through the glass.

After refraction by the glass, the reflected light is no longer glaring.

Half of Xiang Dahong's leather shoes were under the sunlight, while the other half remained in shadow.

"Director Xiang, Director Lu isn't coming over. You should return home to rest earlier,"

"It's almost noon now," remarked a nurse from the emergency department, carrying a tray and glancing at Xiang Dahong as she spoke.

Xiang Dahong lifted his head, his eyes burning with intensity, his lips dry but his voice not hoarse: "Did Director Lu say he wasn't coming?"

The nurse nodded, "Yes, Director Lu mentioned it."

"Both Dr. Liu and I have mentioned it to Director Lu several times."

"Director Lu has entered the operating room again and it's uncertain when he will come out."

After speaking, the nurse quickly hurried away, as she was just passing on a message.

She wasn't even aware of what transpired between Lu Cheng and Xiang Dahong.

All she knew was that when Xiang Dahong previously came to the trauma center, Lu Cheng was quite courteous.

This time, however, Lu Cheng seemed genuinely a little upset.

Xiang Dahong squinted his eyes, stretched out his hands to pat his knees, and sighed: "Now, indeed, I can't call any shots here."

"Maybe in his eyes, I, Xiang Dahong, am just a passerby."

After speaking, Xiang Dahong stood up and did not linger.

From last night until now, it was Xiang Dahong's own sincerity.

Yesterday, Lu Cheng wasn't on duty, and Xiang Dahong pretended not to know.

Today, Lu Cheng was at the trauma center, and someone conveyed the message; if he continued to persist, it would be shameless.

We are all adults; there's no need to morally coerce others.

Every adult must pay a price for each of their decisions!

In the past, at the trauma center, Xiang Dahong could rely on his position as the chief physician of hand surgery to pull rank.

But that was just in the past!

Xiang Dahong glanced back at the trauma center and then left with complex emotions…

...

In the emergency operating room, Lu Cheng and Dai Linfang were skillfully cooperating.

The two worked together so skillfully that Dai Linfang's ulnar styloid was even knocked.

Lu Cheng's voice was strict: "Keep it proper; today I said I'll be demonstrating, don't act unnecessarily."

Dai Linfang endured the piercing pain in his ulna, speaking resentfully: "Can you be gentler? I just subconsciously snatched the instrument."

Several people, both on and off the stage, chuckled at this scene.

This scene surely wasn't staged.

When Lu Cheng knocked just now, any normal person couldn't help but react.

"You didn't maintain your boundaries, so you're blaming me?"

"Don't let people make a joke of us."

Lu Cheng shifted the topic: "Professor Xie, when our team previously did limb preservation surgery, we were only focused on preserving the limb without considering subsequent functional reconstruction."

"For nearly half a month, we've just started exploring the concurrent operation of damaged limb preservation and functional reconstruction."

"Our approach is like this…" Lu Cheng meticulously explained his thinking while operating.

Opposite Lu Cheng, Xie Ziyuan from Xiangya Hospital was already impressed by Lu Cheng's debridement operation.

With a serious expression, he smiled and said, "Director Lu, if I had your incredible basic skills, I think I too could accomplish limb preservation and functional reconstruction in one phase."

"Director Lu, your operation is excellent, but the surgical routine should be more grounded."

Xie Ziyuan, in the first assistant position, explained specifically: "For instance, regarding this situation of flexor tendon injury, if we were doing the debridement!"

"We would at least remove two-thirds."

"In cases where two-thirds of the tendon body is lost, preparing for later functional reconstruction becomes challenging."

"Furthermore, look here, at the elbow joint. If we were debriding, we would opt to clear out all the cartilage."

"However?"

Xie Ziyuan said this, shaking his head: "To achieve what Director Lu is doing now is really beyond my capability."

Why is basic skill referred to as Inner Strength?

What does it mean to have deep Inner Strength?

People with deep Inner Strength don't need flashy moves; just a simple strike can incapacitate you!

You can't even make contact with them!

For example, you have a century's worth of Inner Strength, but the opponent has a millennium of it, then what chance do you stand?

Having heard such praise many times, Lu Cheng was now accustomed: "We're still exploring this issue too, but it's not something that can be figured out instantly."

"Professor Xie, there is another reason I invited all the hand surgery teachers this time."

"We all know that the basic anatomical structure of the limbs is the foundation for functional reconstruction."

"However, during actual operations, we find that some patients without damage to their basic anatomical structures seem to have unsatisfactory postoperative functional recovery."

This issue was yet to be answered by Xie Ziyuan when You Junze, an associate professor from Union Hospital, interjected from below: "Director Lu, Professor Xie, let me add something!~"

"At our hospital, Professor Zhong has also raised similar issues when performing functional reconstruction."

"Many patients with functional disorders don't actually have anatomical structural compression, yet the function still becomes impaired."