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

Chapter 94: The Director's Reaction!
September 11, Friday, sunny.

After Lu Cheng lifted the corner of the blanket, the warm sunlight outside the window, gentle and not harsh, slanted in along the edge...

This proves that the designer of this residential complex had some issues; it's not a standard north-south orientation.

Lu Cheng got up and sent a belated voice message to Director Lin Qianlong: "Director Lin, Professor Chen said he needs to take the day off. He will have lunch here and then go back to Shashi."

“I’m on duty today, so I can’t make it. Could you help me find a place to arrange lunch for Professor Chen Song…”

It wasn't until September 10th was almost over that Lu Cheng realized that the Teachers' Day dinner on September 10th couldn't be taken lightly.

There are specific rules about who you can and cannot eat with.

Teachers' Day dinners are usually hosted by the boss, with subordinates, colleagues, and students invited. Few people bring their families to the dinner.

If family members can't even be brought along, what kind of talk can Chen Song and Lin Qianlong have when they eat together?

If Chen Song were to return and Lin Qianlong made a request, and he were to hesitate, he might not be able to refuse openly enough.

Of course, the reason why Tong Yuan'an and Chen Song asked for leave to go back today is because it's Teacher's Day, and they also need to go to their masters to 'report'!
If Teacher's Day falls on a weekday, the gathering will usually be postponed to a non-working day on the weekend.

"Lu Cheng, what were you thinking yesterday?" Lin Qianlong replied with a smile. He had been thinking for a long time but still couldn't figure out why Chen Song and Tong Yuan'an were both taken down by Lu Cheng alone.

And he was genuinely drunk to the point of being "by some strange twist of fate".

Lu Cheng explained, "Director Lin, it's like this: yesterday, Professor Chen and Professor Tong got into a fight, and I stayed with them the whole time."

"Four bottles of wine, four jin (2 catties), a little over one jin (0.5 kg) per person... I'll have to go get the rest later..."

Lu Cheng hesitated for a moment before saying, "Director Lin, the two professors are enjoying their drinks. If I try to persuade them to stop, they'll say I'm being stingy with my alcohol!"

Lu Cheng was actually a little heartbroken. Just to let Chen Song and Tong Yuan'an get away with the dinner in a legitimate way, Lu Cheng had spent more than 10,000 silver dollars.

My parents are very frugal; I estimate their living expenses for half a year wouldn't even reach 10,000 yuan.

"That won't do!" Lin Qianlong didn't blame Lu Cheng, but said, "It's just that you're quite good at persuading people to drink, Lu. You actually managed to get both professors drunk."

"Their strength and ability are both excellent, which deserves recognition!"

Lin Qianlong then began to praise it.

How should I put it? A man like Chen Song wouldn't get drunk in front of ordinary people, let alone someone from afar who is considered to be of a certain status.
……

As soon as Lu Cheng rode his electric scooter into the emergency department, he heard Professor Chen Song's indignant voice: "That kid Lu is really bad. Yesterday he stirred up trouble between me and Tong Yuan'an."

"We kept going and got a little tipsy, one drink after another, and before we knew it, we'd downed more than a pound of liquor."

Chen Song's muddled words are nine parts truth and one part falsehood.

Lu Cheng did stir things up, and he really stirred things up a lot; the two almost got into a fight, but it wasn't because he was pressuring them to drink!
To outsiders, a story that is nine parts truth and one part falsehood sounds perfectly true.

Director Lin Qianlong and Zhang Tiesheng said with forced smiles, "Professor Chen, that's because you're too biased. You've raised a tapeworm yourself."

"Now that this backlash has occurred, is it something you've been willing to accept?"

Zhang Tiesheng was very clever. He spotted Lu Cheng as they were talking and quickly waved him over: "Lu Cheng, come here! Professor Chen has a lot of complaints about you and has gone to Director Lin to tell him!"

Lu Cheng immediately ran up to Chen Song and said, "I'm sorry, Teacher Chen. I drank quite a bit yesterday, so I might have been a little careless with my words."

Lu Cheng's words were very true, but the others simply couldn't understand their meaning!
"Since you know you made a mistake, you should punish yourself next time."

"Oh, right, don't we still have some wine we didn't take with us?" Chen Song suddenly remembered and asked.

Lu Cheng said, "Yes, Professor Chen, but I called this morning and left it at the shop." Lin Qianlong glanced at the time and said, "Lu Cheng, you'll have to take care of your own breakfast today. I've made an appointment with Professor Chen to go upstairs for dumplings."

"Zhang Tiesheng..."

Zhang Tiesheng immediately took out his phone and said, "It's not like you and Teacher Chen have really left yet, so I don't dare to order anything without permission. I'm afraid that if you and Teacher Lin mess things up, I'll have to give you and Teacher Chen priority, right?"

"Director Lin, are you sure you want to eat out?"

"Let's go!" Lin Qianlong and Chen Song had already left.

Zhang Tiesheng was already familiar with Lu Cheng's tastes. He quickly ordered two bowls of noodles and four toppings, then stood up briskly and said, "Come on, Brother Lu, can you take me to check out a bunch of houses?"

Lu Cheng followed behind Zhang Tiesheng: "Brother Zhang, you've been promoted to deputy director... of course you'll mentor me."

Zhang Tiesheng's results for the associate professor exam are out; he has passed and is now waiting for the hospital to hire him.

"What's the use of a deputy director? Didn't you force Director Xiang to sign up for several training courses?"

"I heard that he spent 40,000 yuan to enroll in three short courses, and now he is obediently waiting in the emergency department on even-numbered days for manual reduction of fracture."

Zhang Tiesheng gave Lu Cheng a thumbs up: "You're amazing, Lu Cheng, for giving a new definition to associate chief physician!"

At this point, Zhang Tiesheng leaned close to Lu Cheng's ear and said, "Xiang Kuihua told me privately that before he learned about manual repositioning, he thought you were just messing around."

"After getting to know you, I realized you're a pervert. You even said that Dr. Peng Haibo, the head of your orthopedics department, is inhuman!~"

"To protect his son's position, he actually put you in a state of obscurity, is that true...?"

After listening, Lu Cheng paused and replied, seemingly unrelated to the question, "Brother Zhang, do you know why I don't agree to emergency room patients being transferred to specialists on their own?"

Zhang Tiesheng's expression was slightly unnatural, but he remained enthusiastic: "Xiao Lu, you must have your own reasons."

It's all too common for patients to be transferred from the emergency department to a specialist department.

This is especially true for county hospitals.

“The Zhongnan Hospital where I did my residency training transferred a patient like this, and she died en route. She was the daughter of a provincial leader!”

"The deputy director of the emergency department, the deputy director of the orthopedic trauma surgery department, and the chief resident will be dismissed on the spot and given a major demerit, which will be recorded in their personnel files."

"The on-call doctor in the trauma clinic!"

Lu Cheng glanced at Zhang Tiesheng: "The doctoral dissertation was found to have problems. These were problems that existed all along, but if we hadn't investigated so thoroughly, these problems wouldn't have come up."

"My doctoral degree was temporarily revoked, and my contract was unilaterally terminated by Zhongnan Hospital. I heard this happened two years ago, and I was still preparing for my doctoral dissertation defense and completing supplementary experiments!"

"The chief resident of orthopedics was also found to have committed academic fraud."

If they let you have the opportunity, you can easily pass your doctoral dissertation defense. But if they want to hold you back, especially at the doctoral level… you'd better pray that you have real talent, very solid research output, and can produce highly professional research results.

Otherwise, you might not be able to get out of this trap for most of your life!
Because there are no objective standards for graduation defense.

Zhang Tiesheng's expression was serious: "Hmm, I understand! ~ Xiao Lu, you're quite cautious."

Lu Cheng laughed and said, "Brother Zhang, it's not that I'm cautious enough, it's just that I've just witnessed the consequences of trial and error being very costly!"

"Fortunately, I'm not currently on emergency room duty, otherwise I would have offended even more people."

(End of this chapter)