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”Blunt separation via the gap between the extensor carpi radialis and the extensor hallucis longus… tendon stripping from beneath the periosteum… nothing wrong here…” Zuo Cidian muttered each step. After he was done, he laughed happily as he looked at his handiwork.

The houseman looked at Zuo Cidian like he was looking at an idiot. 'The surgery has just begun, and only 10% of the work is done. What is he so happy about? Has his brain gone haywire because of his old age? Well, it wouldn't be a surprise that the brain of a forty-something-year-old resident doctor has gone haywire.'

Zuo Cidian turned to look at the houseman. ”Are you finding it very strange that I'm laughing?”

The houseman panicked. ”How did you know this?”

”The three housemen who were here before you felt the same.” Zuo Cidian flashed an all-knowing expression.

The houseman panicked even more. ”Where had the three housemen before me gone?”

”They probably left because they couldn't find a job in this hospital.” Zuo Cidian smiled.

The houseman flashed an alarmed expression. He only said slowly after a while, ”Didn't they say that there's a high chance that a houseman will get hired by the hospital if he learns from Doctor Ling's treatment group?”

”There's such a legend? But even if it's true, you should at least make Doctor Ling aware of who you are, don't you think so?” Zuo Cidian flashed an extremely bright smile. ”How is Doctor Ling going to help you when it comes to finding a job when he doesn't even know your name?”

The houseman widened his eyes so much that he looked like a goldfish. ”Don't they say that you get to learn new techniques while in his team?”

Zuo Cidian lowered his head to look at his patient with Colles' fracture. He then chuckled and asked, ”Then, have you managed to do that?”

'Have I? Have I? Have I?'

What Zuo Cidian just said echoed in the houseman's mind, so much so that his entire body trembled.

Zuo Cidian chuckled again and carried on with his task.

He cleared the blood clot on the site of the fracture before he performed a reduction. He then said, ”Time to use a C-arm. There'll be some radiation.”

The houseman started setting up the C-arm X-ray machine in a dumbfounded manner. He was busy all the way through setting up the machine.

Zuo Cidian, too, busied himself. This was how things were like when they could not perform manual reduction on patients with Colles' fracture. The workload was a lot higher. Besides, when internal fixation was performed, doctors had to pay extra attention so that there was no infection.

The only way orthopedists could one-up general surgeons who looked down on them was by talking about the prevention of infection.

Compared to the General Surgery Department, the Orthopedics Department was excellent when it came to the prevention of infection. All their operating theaters were high-end ones like laminar flow operating theaters. Zuo Cidian only got his application for the operating theater approved after notifying Ling Ran about it.

The Orthopedics Department of Yun Hua Hospital paid no attention to this matter. Yun Hua Hospital was extremely large, and when compared to other tertiary Grade A hospitals like the Second Yun Hua Hospital, Yun Hua Hospital had more patients, and the workload of the doctors there was higher. The doctors there were also more willing to… carry out freelance surgery.

The doctors at the Orthopedics Department had so many hip replacement surgeries lined up that they could not even finish them. Since the doctors in the Emergency Medical Center were willing to take over operating on patients with Colles' fracture, which was a minor surgery, the doctors in the Orthopedics Department merely treated this as them finding someone who was willing to help them out with miscellaneous tasks. They neither welcomed them nor stopped them from doing so.

Of course, this was also because Yun Hua Emergency Medical Center was pretty highly-ranked. If the Orthopedics Department were more powerful than them, they might not have taken this lying down.

Zuo Cidian knew the politics that came into play in such matters better than Ling Ran. This was why he treasured the opportunity to operate on patients very much. He earnestly completed each step and savored the process.

Orthopedics surgeries were not difficult, to begin with. They were easy to learn and easy to master.

Zuo Cidian had put in considerable time and effort. Coupled with the fact that he was getting the right opportunities, the feeling of becoming great also grew increasingly prominent.

Throughout the whole surgery, Zuo Cidian only faced slight difficulties while trying to bend the surgical steel panel.

All the surgical steel panels provided by pharmaceutical sales companies were industrial products. However, the bones of every single human grew in a different manner. This was why orthopedists needed to bend the surgical steel panels to suit the arc of the patients' bones.

Orthopedists were not called carpenters for no reason. Young orthopedists might be doing nothing but lifting patients' thighs all day. Even experienced orthopedists could not escape the fate of bending surgical steel panels themselves. Well, it could be considered an arm workout.

The forty-three-year-old Zuo Cidian was still capable of this. After all, even fifty-year-old chief physicians had to bend surgical steel panels by themselves when the time came.