novelraw Chapter 446 - 185: Remember That Guy From a Few Days Ago? He Was the One Who Saved Everyone Alone
Chapter 446 - 185: Remember That Guy From a Few Days Ago? He Was the One Who Saved Everyone Alone
"Old Zhou from the emergency room?"
Zhou is quite a common surname, and there are quite a few directors with the surname Zhou at City First Hospital. Zheng Xianjue could remember four, but the most famous and the one he was closest to was Zhou Qihua, the head of the emergency department. After all, they were about the same age, held similar administrative positions, and often consulted each other on joint cases between cardiology and emergency, so they communicated quite frequently.
He had a deeper impression of Zhou Qihua.
Besides, it was unlikely to be anyone else that could make these people gather and chat.
"Yes, yes, Director Zheng, you’re amazing; you guessed it right." Several people flattered him.
Zheng Xianjue nodded with satisfaction and then asked, "By the way, where is Director Zhou sitting?"
Looking around, Zheng Xianjue didn’t see Zhou Qihua.
"Over there, in the corner," someone pointed.
Following the direction of the pointing, Zheng Xianjue looked over and indeed saw Zhou Qihua sitting with a young man, chatting and laughing. When his eyes fell on the young man’s familiar face, he was initially stunned, then came to his senses and murmured softly, "It’s him!"
Although Zheng Xianjue spoke quietly, the people around him heard him and curiously asked, "Director Zheng, do you know him?"
"Could it really be a doctor from our hospital?"
"Why haven’t we seen him?"
"Maybe he’s an intern who just started this year, and his parents know Director Zhou, so Director Zhou invited him to the cafeteria for a small dish?"
Their imaginations ran wild.
Hearing this, Zheng Xianjue snapped back to reality, looking at them with a mixture of amusement and exasperation: "He’s not an intern at our hospital; he’s a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor with extraordinary skills."
A Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor?
Extraordinary skills?
They looked at each other in disbelief.
Being a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor was not surprising, but seeing Lu Xuan’s young face, they couldn’t connect him with extraordinary medical skills no matter how hard they tried.
In one’s twenties, not to mention Traditional Chinese Medicine, even simpler Western medicine wouldn’t see one reaching extraordinary medical skills at this age; they might not even have much clinical experience.
A young doctor recently promoted to attending looked back at Zheng Xianjue and said, "Director Zheng, please don’t joke with us like this. Although we didn’t study Chinese medicine, we know it’s much harder to learn than Western medicine. He looks like he’s in his twenties, fresh out of school, and I believe that; connecting him with extraordinary skills seems far-fetched."
"Yes! Dr. Wu makes sense! He looks fresh out of school, so please don’t joke with us like this."
"Exactly, why are you joking with us about such things?"
Zheng Xianjue was known throughout the hospital for joking around with the cardiology department, so when they heard this from Zheng Xianjue, they instinctively thought he was joking.
But Zheng Xianjue suddenly put on a serious face: "I might enjoy joking with everyone, but have you ever seen me joke about such things?"
"This..."
They thought about it and realized he hadn’t.
Zheng Xianjue continued, "I might joke around a lot, but only within the cardiology department. Outside of that, I rarely joke, especially not about something like this."
Just as Zheng Xianjue finished, they heard a cheerful voice behind them: "Old Zheng, you haven’t changed, joking around again?"
"Dean."
Zheng Xianjue recognized Zhang Jiwei’s voice and turned around, grinning, "Dean, don’t listen to these folks talking nonsense here. I wasn’t joking with them."
"Not joking?" Zhang Jiwei asked with a smile.
"No."
Zheng Xianjue replied, half laughing, "Why even you suspect I’m joking."
Zhang Jiwei said good-naturedly, "That just shows your track record of fun; if you didn’t always joke with the cardiology department, would they think this way?"
Zheng Xianjue felt a bit frustrated. This reputation wasn’t good; he figured he’d have to ease up on joking with the cardiology department, or else no one would believe him in the future.
Just as he was thinking this, he heard Zhang Jiwei asking, "By the way, what did you say that they don’t believe?"
"Dean, perfect timing."
Zheng Xianjue clapped his thigh, looked at the others, and said, "You didn’t believe me, thinking I was joking, but not the Dean. Let him explain."
With that, he pointed towards the corner of the cafeteria, "Dean, look who Old Zhou invited over there."
"Say it?"
"So mysterious."
Curious, Zhang Jiwei turned to look in the direction pointed by Zheng Xianjue. Seeing Lu Xuan sitting across from Zhou Qihua, he, too, was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned to Zheng Xianjue, "How did Old Zhou invite him?"
Zheng Xianjue spread his hands, "I don’t know! I just got here and heard these guys talking. When I looked, I was shocked that Old Zhou invited Dr. Lu and even brought him to the cafeteria."
Although Zhang Jiwei wasn’t sure why Zhou Qihua had brought Lu Xuan to City First Hospital, since he was here, as the Dean, he definitely had to greet him.
This person shouldn’t be treated as just a young man anymore.
With the support of those figures, there’s a chance he could become the Dean of City First Hospital as a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, just like Huang Beishan.
Moreover, Lu Xuan is still young and has already achieved extraordinary expertise in Traditional Chinese Medicine; who knows how far he might go in the future, maybe even getting transferred to Beijing.
And even if you don’t consider all that, just Lu Xuan’s skills and medical expertise require Zhang Jiwei to treat him seriously.
"Come, let’s go say hello."
"Now that he’s here at our hospital, not greeting him would be impolite of us."
"I was planning to do that anyway."
As they were about to go over, the young attending physician curiously asked, "Dean, Director Zheng, please wait. At least tell us what’s going on? Who is that?"
Seeing the Dean’s serious demeanor upon recognizing the young man opposite Director Zhou, they realized the young man there wasn’t simple.
If it had just been Director Zheng, they could have brushed it off, but with the Dean being so serious, claiming the young man was just a regular intern was now unthinkable.
Initially, Zhang Jiwei didn’t intend to disclose Lu Xuan’s details to them, but given what Zheng Xianjue had said, he turned around, "Though I’m not sure what Old Zheng just told you, your expressions suggest you find it unbelievable. But let me confirm, Director Zheng was telling the truth."
"Extraordinary skills?" The attending physician gulped, casting his gaze again at Lu Xuan and shaking his head forcefully, having difficulty associating that term with him.
Never mind being so young, even if he were ten years older, at thirty-something, a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor typically wouldn’t be associated with extraordinary skills!
But hearing it not only from Director Zheng but also from the Dean, he had no choice but to believe.
"Extraordinary skills?"
Zhang Jiwei glanced at Zheng Xianjue, then looked over at Lu Xuan, "Using that term for him is quite appropriate, and his capabilities aren’t limited to just that.
You’ve heard of Elder Huang Beishan and Elder Zhang Jingcai, right?"
"Yes, we’ve heard of them," they nodded repeatedly.
Though they were Western medicine practitioners, those two were legends in Yong City’s Traditional Chinese Medicine circle, known to both Traditional and Western medicine practitioners alike.
But what was the relation between this young man and those two?
Just as they were puzzling over it, they heard Zhang Jiwei saying with a smile, "Even the two Elders acknowledge his superiority in the Traditional Chinese Medicine field, what do you think?"
They almost couldn’t believe their ears.
Standing there, they were stunned, almost driven to madness, as their long-standing values seemed to crumble.
Initially, they thought he was just an intern at City First Hospital, and even if not, he was fresh out of school, with little to no clinical experience.
Yet listening to Zhang Jiwei’s words, they heard something entirely different.
Who could believe it?
They hadn’t gone mad.
But as the Dean of City First Hospital, Zhang Jiwei certainly wouldn’t joke about such matters with them.
They fell into deep self-doubt, only to hear Zhang Jiwei’s voice in their ears again, "Remember that patient from a few days ago? Yes, he saved him alone."
After leaving that comment, Zhang Jiwei headed toward Lu Xuan, leaving the group frozen in place, looking at each other in disbelief.