685 Smile (1/2)

One arm.

Two arms.

Three arms…

As Zuo Cidian began to focus on practicing the treatment of Colles' fracture, his mind was full of all kinds of broken arms.

As the department director of the only emergency center in Changxi Province, Huo Congjun could get quite a lot of resources from all over the country, especially from small local hospitals with sub-par standards and would tend to refer their patients to them. These hospitals would usually be more subservient. In addition, Huo Congjun also frequently used the method of reducing medical expenses to easily attract a large number of patients.

For doctors in small hospitals, if they had a place they were certain to accept the surgeries that they themselves could not perform, they would be willing to transfer the patients to that hospital.

After all, when their abilities allowed them to do so, doctors also wanted patients to be treated as well as possible.

Similarly, Yun Hua Hospital had advantages in this respect.

Even for doctors who were from the same field, when the three-level medical treatment system is taken into account, they would still advise people to go to the best local hospitals when they really needed to seek medical advice.

When Department Director Huo searched for patients and expanded his search to the whole territory of Changxi Province, endless patients kept coming in.

Without visiting the hospital, normal people would never be able to imagine that so many people would fracture their arms.

And there will always be people who will visit the hospital because of arm fractures every single day.

Zuo Cidian knew that he should not be happy, but as he constantly treated patients with Colles' fracture, he could not help but have a smile spread across his face.

The feeling of succeeding in whatever he did was understood by people who have experienced it.

For Zuo Cidian, developing his skills in the field of orthopedics was what he longed for the most. However, the old Zuo Cidian did not place his focus on Achilles tendon repair or finger replantation. Microsurgeries sounded incredibly daunting, but it was actually the most basic type of surgery in the surgical system. The reason was very simple. Microsurgery relied on the doctors' hands and eyes, so doctors would be really tired and felt half dead after these surgeries. Furthermore, no consumables were needed under the microscope, so the doctor would not have much additional income.

When a type of surgery continuously increased the labor intensity and reduced the income of doctors, the hospital would naturally lose doctors, and those who joined the medical system later would not be willing to join those surgeries either.

If Lu Wenbin and Ma Yanlin still worked hard while fantasizing about entering sports medicine, Zuo Cidian, who was forty-three years old, did not give it much thought.

If he were placed in the town hospital and could treat Colles' fracture, he would be the best among all the doctors.

In Zuo Cidian's impression, the strongest colleague he met in the past often still struggled to read medical imaging scans. He could still understand X-rays, but he could not understand the MRI scans from other hospitals at all.

Of course, Zuo Cidian could not understand MRI scans now as well, but he had learned how to deal with Colles' fracture.

Zuo Cidian was still very excited, even though Ling Ran mentioned that he was at Novice Level. A broad smile was seen on his face.

The old lady who sat across Zuo Cidian looked at him and suddenly said, ”Older doctors are still the more mature ones. After going for treatment for so many days, you're the only doctor who has a smile on your face.”

Zuo Cidian, who was smiling, was stunned. He soon realized it. He said, ”With a smile on our faces, even if we can't cure the illness, at least we will still have a better mood.”

”Yes, I don't even expect to be cured now. But at least, I'm happier than I should be.” The old lady stretched out her arm and looked calm.

Zuo Cidian's smile finally faded. ”You'll be in an even better mood if you manage to treat your injury, though.”