117: Chapter 117 The beautiful patient specifically requested Lu Chen to perform sutures.
The ward was quiet for a moment.
After Lu Chen confirmed that all the vital signs of the patient in Bed 5 were normal, he gave a few more instructions before continuing to the next bed.
In the corridor outside the ward, Shen Xiaoning followed behind him and whispered.
"Dr. Lu, when that auntie knelt down just now, I almost couldn't hold back."
Lu Chen walked in front without looking back.
"Working in the Red Zone, you will encounter scenes like this in the future, so don't cry at the drop of a hat."
Shen Xiaoning pouted.
"I know, but it's still moving."
"Being moved is fine, but don't let it affect your work."
Shen Xiaoning sniffled.
"It didn't affect it at all."
Lu Chen didn't say anything else and continued his rounds.
[System Prompt: The patient's family's sincere gratitude has been recorded.]
[Obtained gratitude points: +150]
Returning to the Red Zone Nurse Station, Sun Ji was resting his chin on his hand, looking at his phone.
"Brother Lu, that post of yours now has 500,000 views."
"Stop looking at it, we're at work."
"There's someone in the comment section claiming to be a student of Associate Chief Physician Chen Minghao, defending their mentor, but they ended up getting roasted by a bunch of people and deleted their comment and ran off."
"It has nothing to do with me."
"Someone also dug up that video of you blocking the thugs earlier. With both things linked together, they're saying you're the number one boy band member in the Jiangcheng medical circle."
Lu Chen finally looked up at him.
"What on earth?"
"A boy band member, meaning someone who can fight and is good-looking—it's a term coined by netizens."
Zhao Yaqin passed by from behind and glanced at the phone in Sun Ji's hand.
"Sun Ji, if you keep scrolling, I'm going to confiscate it."
Sun Ji shoved his phone into his lab coat pocket with lightning speed.
"Sister Zhao, I'm looking up literature."
"Looking up literature on a short video platform?"
"Modern medicine emphasizes multi-channel information intake."
Zhao Yaqin couldn't be bothered to argue with him and looked at Lu Chen.
"Lu Chen, don't worry about the stuff online, but be careful. You're famous now, and the people coming to see you might not all be ordinary patients. Some are coming specifically for you, so be discerning."
Lu Chen nodded.
"I know."
He didn't feel much about this kind of thing.
Seeing a patient is just seeing a patient. No matter who comes, you treat them as you should; there's nothing to be discerning about.
But Zhao Yaqin's reminder came just in time.
Because less than two hours later, she was proven right.
...
After 2:00 PM, the Red Zone became busy for a while.
A middle-aged man with sudden angina, a delivery rider hit by an electric scooter, and a child who accidentally ingested dish soap.
Lu Chen treated them one by one, finished writing the records, and had just leaned back in his chair to take a sip of water.
Meng Yan walked over from the Nurse Station.
"Dr. Lu, there's a patient transferred over from the Green Zone for Suturing."
"That's fine, I'll take it."
Meng Yan's expression was a bit subtle.
"No, this one is a bit special. They specifically asked for you to do the Suturing."
Lu Chen looked up.
"Specifically asked?"
"Yes, they said they came specifically for you. The Nurse in the Green Zone said that after she registered, she directly asked if there was a doctor named Lu, saying she heard your Suturing skills were good and would rather wait than have anyone else do it."
Lu Chen put down his water cup.
"Alright, where is she?"
"Treatment Room 2."
Lu Chen followed her over.
The moment he pushed open the door to the treatment room, he saw the patient sitting on the treatment bed.
A young woman of twenty-five or twenty-six, with long hair draped over her shoulders and delicate features.
Her makeup wasn't heavy, but it was clearly applied with care.
She was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, with her right shoulder temporarily covered by gauze, which had already seeped through with a circle of blood.
Standing next to her was a man in his early fifties, dressed elegantly; his belt and watch were not cheap.
His expression was anxious, but his demeanor was restrained.
At a glance, he was clearly a person of status.
He was likely her father.
When the young woman saw Lu Chen enter, her eyes visibly brightened.
"Are you Dr. Lu?"
"I am Lu Chen."
He walked to the side of the treatment bed.
"How did you get injured?"
The young woman said.
"I was helping a friend move things this afternoon and got cut by the corner of a glass shelf. I went to a nearby community Hospital, and after they looked at it, they said the wound was quite deep and suggested I come to a large Hospital for Suturing."
She paused and smiled, a bit embarrassed.
"Then I looked it up online and saw many people saying there was a doctor in your Emergency Department with exceptional Suturing skills, so I just took a taxi here."
The father next to her added.
"Dr. Lu, my daughter's wound is on her shoulder, a rather conspicuous spot. We are worried about scarring. We saw online that everyone says your Suturing technique is the best, so we came specifically to find you."
Lu Chen nodded.
"Let me take a look at the wound first."
He put on gloves and gently uncovered the gauze.
The wound was about two centimeters below the right clavicle, about six centimeters long. The depth had reached the full thickness of the dermis. The edges were relatively neat, and the bleeding had basically stopped, but the surrounding skin was somewhat red and swollen.
In this location, it could be exposed when wearing almost any clothing in the summer.
With ordinary Suturing, such as interrupted eversion Suturing, a row of needle-track scars would inevitably be left after removing the stitches.
[Eye of Truth automatically activated.]
[Eye of Truth scan complete.]
[Patient information: female, 25 years old.]
[Chief complaint: glass cut on the right shoulder, injury occurred about 2 hours ago.]
[Eye of Truth diagnosis: laceration of skin and subcutaneous tissue on the right shoulder, wound length 6.2 cm, depth reaching the full thickness of the dermis, no involvement of muscle layers or important blood vessels and nerves, no foreign body residue in the wound.]
[Risk level: Grade D (low risk).]
[Current symptoms: persistent minor oozing from the wound, mild redness and swelling of the surrounding skin.]
[Recommendation: perform Debridement and Suturing after local anesthesia. It is recommended to use absorbable cosmetic sutures for Subcuticular Continuous Suturing to minimize scar formation.]
Grade D low risk, the wound is clean, and no deep structures are involved.
Medically speaking, this is a very simple Suturing procedure.
But from a cosmetic perspective, achieving an almost traceless result in this area near the clavicle increases the difficulty.
To get the best cosmetic results, one must use ultra-fine absorbable cosmetic sutures for Subcuticular Continuous Suturing.
This method of Suturing has extremely high requirements for the precision of the technique and the control of suture tension; many doctors in the Plastic Surgery Department may not be able to do it beautifully.
But for Lu Chen, who possesses the Perfect-level Suturing Technique, this is not a problem at all.
"The wound is not deep; it hasn't damaged the muscles or nerves. After Debridement, we can just proceed with the Suturing."
The young woman breathed a sigh of relief.
"Will it leave a scar?"
Lu Chen looked at her.
"I will use cosmetic sutures to perform Subcuticular Continuous Suturing for you. If you take good care of it afterward, the scar will be very faint. A normal person won't be able to tell unless they get close and look carefully."
The young woman's eyes brightened even more.
"Can it really be done to that extent?"
"Yes."
The father next to her also breathed a sigh of relief and patted his daughter's hand.
"Dr. Lu, then I'll leave it to you."
"No problem."
Lu Chen turned his head and looked toward the door.
Shen Xiaoning didn't know when she had arrived there, holding a nursing record she had organized earlier.
"Xiao Ning, help me prepare a Suturing kit and get a box of 5-0 absorbable cosmetic sutures."
Shen Xiaoning's gaze lingered on the female patient's face for about a second and a half.
Then she withdrew it.
"Okay, right away."
Her voice was just a little bit colder than usual.
Lu Chen didn't notice.