When the Doctor Uses A Hack

The emergency department couldn’t possibly take a full holiday, so the number of staff on duty needed to be ensured. After arranging the first and second lines, Chen Cang had two days of first-line and two days of second-line shifts.

First-line meant he was scheduled for regular work, while second-line meant he could rest at home but had to be on call and ready to arrive at a moment’s notice.

After Chen Cang walked into the hospital today, he received a task notification.

[Ding! Daily task: Complete rounds for 10 patients, reward: Clinical experience +30, RMB +30.]

Upon seeing the task, Chen Cang knew that the good days were over.

However, Chen Cang also discovered a pattern: special tasks may only trigger once a month, but how long they last is unpredictable.

The last Tendon Suture Surgery task persisted for an entire month, forcefully elevating Chen Cang’s tendon suturing level to perfection.

The gap between perfection and master level in any skill is simply too vast!

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The news about Xing Yu had spread through the department yesterday, sparking heated discussions. It even climbed to the top ten hot search on Weibo. Being a celebrity really involves too much controversy—even farting might be collected and auctioned on Taobao at an exorbitant price!

Chen Cang felt that he really couldn’t adapt to that kind of life.

Sigh…

Hopelessly immersed in surgery.

In the hospital, daily tasks consisted of surgeries, case studies, and rounds.

Tedious, yet never dull.

Each cure brought immense satisfaction to Chen Cang.

This sense of achievement might be the biggest satisfaction a doctor could have in life.

Patients could be discharged on the third day after tendon surgery; the emergency department didn’t have many vacancies for them to occupy, and of course, the most important thing was the lack of rehabilitation facilities in the emergency department.

Recovery from tendon surgery isn’t achieved by simply completing the operation and then sitting back to await victory.

It requires a period of recovery exercise, also known as rehabilitation.

Unfortunately, both the Department of Hand Surgery and the rehabilitation room were nonexistent in this second-tier provincial hospital.

Upon opening the attributes panel and looking at the 500 Tendon Suture Surgery task, Chen Cang had nearly completed 450 surgeries in almost a month, with just over 50 left to fulfill the task.

Considering the current pace, it seemed unlikely to finish by National Day.

He had initially thought that stitching tendons, these low-level tasks, would allow him to level up and score valuable equipment.

After carrying out a surgery with Qin Yue, Chen Cang looked at the system’s prompt tone, feeling somewhat helpless.

[Ding! Defeated a lv.20 tendon monster, gained experience +1, RMB +10, Tendon Suture Surgery experience +0;]

The tendon monsters no longer provided Chen Cang with experience, and even the money was a mere ten yuan.

Chen Cang sighed deeply. He had thought that he might gain seven or eight levels from the 500 Tendon Suture Surgeries, but now it seemed he wouldn’t even achieve one or two levels.

If it weren’t for his commitment to complete the task of 500 surgeries, Chen Cang would have wanted to give up long ago.

It seemed that he needed to find new goals.

After returning to the office, Chen Cang found Director An sitting there, seemingly lost in thought.

Chen Cang couldn’t help but ask, “Dr. An? No patients today?”

An Yanjun furrowed his brows and replied, “That’s what I’m saying. It’s odd… why are there no patients today?”

Qin Yue cracked a smile. “Isn’t it good to have no patients? It means peace and prosperity for the country and the people, and we can also take a break.”

These days, Qin Yue was truly exhausted…

An Yanjun smiled and turned to Chen Cang, “Xiao Chen, I was really inspired after watching your surgery the other day. I think your understanding of Tendon Suture Surgery is above mine. How about I assist you during the surgery later?”

[Ding! Task triggered, help An Yanjun to break through the Tendon Suture Surgery skill level. Task Note: An Yanjun has been stuck at an advanced level for a long time and is unable to break through. Help him to make the breakthrough. Task completion reward: Skill points +3.]

After hearing the system prompt, Chen Cang chose to accept.

The Tendon Suture Surgery was taught to me by Director An when I first came to the hospital, and for Director An’s kind and soft-spoken manner, I still feel grateful.

Even without any tasks, I would know to be thankful.

Chen Cang nodded with a smile, “No problem, Teacher An!”

But waiting like that for so long, to be missing a patient, left An Yanjun dumbfounded…

Chen Cang was speechless as well; was heaven really so unwilling to let Director An make a breakthrough?

Last month, there was a mountain of patients, since every hospital had to send some over here, but today it was bizarrely quiet—what in the world was going on?

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Inside the Department of Hand Surgery at the Provincial People’s Hospital, following the morning shift change, Tan Zhonglin asked all the doctors to stay and began to play the video of Chen Cang performing surgery on Xing Yu yesterday on the big screen.

Tan Zhonglin had stayed up all night, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

He continually replayed Chen Cang’s surgery on Xing Yu in his mind, remembering that Chen Cang wasn’t this skilled with Tendon Suture Surgery before, so why had he improved so much recently?

Tan Zhonglin kept pondering the reasons until a phone call from Li Baoshan made things clear to him!

Oh! You, Li Black-coal!

So that was it!

Tan Zhonglin suddenly remembered that a month ago, Li Baoshan had asked him to send patients requiring Tendon Suture Surgery to the emergency department of the Second Provincial Hospital.

No wonder!

So, Chen Cang’s remarkable ability in Tendon Suture Surgery was honed through the steady stream of patients he had sent over.

At this thought, Tan Zhonglin was filled with regret.

Even during the shift change, he looked at each doctor with a hint of disappointment, as if to say, you all scorned this skill, now do you see the gap?

The group of hand surgeons watching the surgery video were dumbstruck and speechless!

How could there be such advanced Tendon Suture techniques?

Or should it be said, Chen Cang, you’ve actually managed to transform Tendon Suture into an art form?!

After the video ended, Tan Zhonglin looked around at everyone:

“Now that you’ve seen it, what are your thoughts?”

Everyone fell silent. What thoughts could they have? How could we, the mere gold tier players, do anything but heap praise on King-level plays?

Seeing no response from the crowd, Tan Zhonglin spoke passionately, “I’ll tell you what I think.”

“Tendon Suture is a skill that every doctor in hand surgery must firmly grasp—it’s our most fundamental skill. But what about now? It’s the skill that we’ve all been neglecting!”

“Now you see the gap, right? Someone has taken a Tendon Suture to such an extraordinary level; it’s not just talent at play here, but hard work!”

“I know you all are proud and look down on Tendon Suture, but what I’m telling you is, Tendon Suture is the soul of hand surgery!”

“I have an announcement to make today: starting from today, not a single patient needing Tendon Suture is to be let go. Each doctor must complete at least 20 Tendon Suture surgeries a month, and at the end of the month, I will organize an assessment. Those who fail to meet the standards will have their bonuses deducted!”

Tan Zhonglin looked down at the group of doctors and then back at the pair of hands in the surgical footage.

He muttered to himself, “Brother Baoshan, it’s not that I’m being unloyal; blame Chen Cang for being too fierce!”

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The same realization struck Dongda First Hospital, Dongda Second Hospital, the City People’s Hospital, Dongyang Province Bethune Hospital…

The heads of hand surgery at all hospitals had an epiphany overnight and issued a crucial order to their doctors: not one patient needing Tendon Suture Surgery was to be missed! Even those trying to leave had to be dragged back for the surgery before they could go!

As more than an hour passed without a single Tendon Suture patient, An Yanjun felt unbearably embarrassed!

Chen Cang was also unbearably awkward; this was just too much of a coincidence.