35 Teacher Zhang, my wifes cooking is delicious (1/2)

Anyone who knew Zhang Fan and saw the job requirements posted by Chasu City Hospital's orthopedic surgery department would realize that this job had been set aside especially for Zhang Fan. Yang Chengming ground his teeth so hard that they almost shattered. He also liked orthopedic surgery, and he had previously studied for half a year in Chasu City Hospital's orthopedic department. He had been preparing to sign up for their hospital recruitment exam, but when he saw the job requirements, he realized that his dreams had been ruined.

Zou Pingshan was truly unfortunate. Kuake City Hospital had never accepted fresh college graduates before through the government-organized hospital recruitment exams. This was a new policy at the time that was just enacted before Zou Pingshan became hospital superintendent.

The fresh college graduates of this year all signed up for the biggest city hospitals' recruitment exams. The most skilled college graduates would sign up for the best and biggest city hospitals, while the ones who knew they were less skilled signed up for Class B hospitals in the bigger cities. At any rate, nobody wanted to come to a tiny city like Kuake City.

This was truly an unfortunate timing. Right after Zou Pingshan became a superintendent, the previous group of fresh college graduates all left. It was only natural that his superiors would be angry at him. All Zou Pingshan could do was open up recruitment exams and offer more than 20 open job positions. The only requirement was that the candidate had to have graduated from an undergraduate medical school.

Zhang Fan was quite fatigued from all the successive exams. Zou Pingshan reclaimed Zhang Fan's private bedroom in the hospital's rented house ever since Zhang Fan was sent to Sumutai Village. The director of Kuake City Hospital's administrative department helped move Zhang Fan's things back to the hospital dorm.

Zou Pingshan had originally wanted to improve his relationship with Zhang Fan, but then he heard that Zhang Fan had signed up for Chasu City Hospital's recruitment exam. Zou Pingshan thus decided to ignore Zhang Fan for the remaining time that the latter was staying at Kuake City Hospital. Meanwhile, Chen Qifa was far more spirited than before, and even much friendlier. He also treated Li Liang much better since the latter had visited him in Sumutai Village.

Zhang Fan continued grinding as many surgeries as he could. Previously, he was only practicing surgical sutures, but now, he even took as many general surgeries as he could. However, not a single person in the general surgery department or the orthopedic surgery department dared to say anything about it to Zhang Fan. It wasn't because Zhang Fan was arrogant or anything like that. His skills were truly too high for Kuake City Hospital—high to the point where he completely suppressed anyone else.

Kuake City Hospital purchased laparoscopes for the first time. However, nobody apart from Zhang Fan knew how to use them. Appendectomies, gallstone surgery, fenestration and drainage of hepatic cysts, and drainage of hepatic abscess were all surgeries that Zhang Fan performed as long as the patient was willing to be treated at Kuake City Hospital.

Li Liang followed Zhang Fan as closely as possible. When Zhang Fan used laparoscopes, Li Liang would hold the laparoscopes for him. When Zhang Fan needed to perform a surgery, Li Liang would hold the surgical retractors. No matter if Li Liang learned anything else or not, he became Zhang Fan's main surgical assistant at Kuake City Hospital.

Li Liang was quite clear what a large difference there was between him and Zhang Fan. While Li Liang had still been practicing how to tie a surgical knot properly, Zhang Fan had already become the best doctor in the surgical department. Li Liang felt that he would be able to learn many things by following Zhang Fan. Zhang Fan wasn't the selfish type. As long as Li Liang was willing to learn, Zhang Fan was willing to teach.

Surgical department #1, or the general surgery department, had doctors with better work attitudes than surgical department #2 did. The doctors here were younger on average, better motivated, and more willing to learn. Laparoscopic surgeries were a completely new type of surgery for Kuake City Hospital. Not a single attending physician or even the director of general surgery knew how to do them.

Luckily, Zhang Fan was willing to teach everyone. Boring a hole, inflation, ligation, and separation. Zhang Fan explained the entire process in detail step by step, explaining clearly about all the difficult parts and what needed the most attention.

Zhang Fan felt like he would miss things here now that he was almost about to leave. It was Kuake City Hospital which took him in right after graduation when he couldn't find a job. This was his first ever hospital. This was where he obtained his Medical System. This was where he performed his first surgery. This was where he saw his first and only patient so far pass away right in front of him.

Although it was a tiny hospital, his coworkers here were all quite direct. They were all the type that wore their heart on their sleeve, so it was quite easy to tell if they liked or disliked you. However, he would have to leave here now. Zhang Fan felt that this place would forever become a wonderful memory in his mind.

The results of October's hospital recruitment exams came out. Zhang Fan and Li Hui were the only two who passed the hospital recruitment exams at Chasu City Hospital. This made Zou Pingshan even more misfortunate. He had thought that all the fresh college graduates from the last batch would be leaving, yet only Zhang Fan and Li Hui would. Zou Pingshan had opened up more than twenty job positions with far too low requirements, so more than twenty people had passed Kuake City Hospital's recruitment exams. He was so angry that he smashed a cup. Maybe Kuake City was a jinx for him as everything he did went wrong here.

Now that the hospital recruitment exam results were out, Zhang Fan soon received an official notice for him to report to Chasu City Hospital for work at the beginning of November. Everyone in Kuake City Hospital knew that Zhang Fan and Li Hui were leaving. Since Zhang Fan was very well liked, and he was going to the largest and best hospital in the area, it seemed likely that maybe Kuake City Hospital would still need his help in the future. Thus, Zhang Fan was invited every day to many meals.