Chapter 416: Chapter 205: Only by Independence Can One Grow Stronger – A Scaphoid Fracture That Hasn’t Healed in a Year (Part 3)

The orthopedic doctors all warmly greeted Li Jingsheng.

Including the attending physician, Ruan Xiaoqin.

Dr. Qin, on the other hand, pulled a long face, stood up, and walked out.

That was making room voluntarily.

Otherwise, Director Hua would come over and push him aside again.

"Qinglan!"

Li Jingsheng walked over, and she looked at him with a smile like a blooming flower.

The feelings were mutual.

"Come over, I’ve set up the water bag for you."

She had already laid out the newspaper, with the water bag placed on top.

Truly attentive service.

Not only that, she also pulled the chair closer to her side.

Such a gesture made the other male doctors quite envious.

"Let’s take a look at the complex case you mentioned!"

"Look, it’s this patient, quite young, just twenty-seven. He fell while riding a shared bike, injuring the wrist bone of his left wrist. Had surgery at the First Hospital, even had a bone graft, but now almost a year has passed, and it still hasn’t healed."

Some bone injuries are indeed very difficult to heal.

"So it’s a patient who has already had surgery at the First Hospital!"

Li Jingsheng’s expression showed a slight trace of peculiarity.

In the past, when he worked at the First Hospital, he was just an inconspicuous low-level doctor.

He even struggled to get promoted to an attending physician.

Now his medical skills have improved by leaps and bounds, not only making a name for himself quickly at the Second Hospital, but also gradually gaining a foothold at the top-tier hospital in the city, the People’s Hospital.

Seeing information from the First Hospital again, his mindset had changed somewhat.

What once seemed unreachable departments and doctors, he no longer needed to look up to.

This wasn’t the first time he encountered cases that the First Hospital failed to treat.

"The dean himself made the call, asking our department to go all out to try to cure this patient. The patient no longer trusts the First Hospital and has come to the Second Hospital because of the reputation of your manual repositioning clinic, hoping to give it a try."

Ou Qinglan explained the inside story.

It’s somewhat akin to the idea of keeping family affairs within the family.

The top hospitals have close connections, and the higher-ups surely know each other.

If this patient could be cured at the Second Hospital, it would avoid embarrassing the First Hospital.

At least within the family, siblings generally wouldn’t mock you.

If the patient went to another hospital for treatment, the situation might be different.

The top hospitals have been struggling in recent years, declining steadily. The First Hospital is the top of the top hospitals, a monument, so to speak.

If this monument fell, the consequences would be dire.

"Let me see the preoperative and postoperative images, as well as the current ones."

Li Jingsheng needed to first understand the patient’s injury, surgical plan, and current condition.

"Hmm, there’s something odd about the fracture he initially sustained!"

After reviewing, Li Jingsheng focused intently on the patient’s X-ray taken when he first got injured a year ago at the First Hospital.

The issue wasn’t major, it was just a fracture of the left scaphoid bone.

Such injuries, Li Jingsheng sometimes treats several in a day.

Simply reset the bone and then cast it or apply an external fixator, and the patient can leave.

Sometimes, to prevent inflammation, patients might be asked to take medication or receive an IV.

In short, a scaphoid fracture of the wrist is a minor issue for Li Jingsheng now.

"Which bed is that patient in?"

"Just in bed 27! Dr. Ruan, it’s under your care, right?"

Ou Qinglan looked across at Dr. Ruan.

"Sigh, that’s right! It’s a hot potato!"

Ruan Xiaoqin looked troubled.

The superior had handed off this task to him, and inside, he felt turmoil and disdain.

But there was no choice, he had to accept it.

In essence, the hospital and department leaders also considered the case tricky, and in case it couldn’t be treated, it wouldn’t damage the reputation of a chief physician.

As for attending physicians, they’re not the department’s flagship, and it’s common to use them as scapegoats when necessary.

Doctors taking the fall for the department often receive certain benefits afterward.

"I’ll go check on the patient!"

Li Jingsheng decided to first examine the patient’s condition through touch.

There must be a reason for such difficulty in treatment.

The orthopedic level of the First Hospital isn’t bad; having surgery and a bone graft yet still not healing is not simple at all.

It’s rare for bone injuries to not heal after more than a year.

"I’ll take you there!"

Ruan Xiaoqin didn’t dawdle. Now that Li Jingsheng was willing to tackle this tough case, he was more than willing and very happy inside.

But given the difficulty of the case, he didn’t dare put too much hope in Li Jingsheng.