52 New rules (1/2)
The one-month-long program to support rural hospitals ended without much ado. It was almost New Year's, so it would be inappropriate to have the doctors continue to stay in such rural areas far away from their homes. Also, there was very little snowfall this year, so the mountain paths weren't sealed off by snow like last year.
It was a weekend when Zhang Fan's team returned to Chasu City. They were also given a day off from work at Chasu City Hospital. After he finished Li Xiao's massage treatment for the day, he also returned the borrowed car's keys to her assistant.
Right as Zhang Fan was walking out of the district Li Xiao lived in, her assistant caught up to him while panting heavily. ”President Li scolded me so much! There's no need to be in a rush to return the car. Feel free to keep driving it.” She then handed the key back to Zhang Fan.
Zhang Fan didn't take the key. ”I'm already back at work in Chasu City, so I don't need a car anymore. Just take it back.”
Li Xiao's assistant became quite anxious. ”Please take the car! Otherwise, my boss will be so angry at me!” Li Xiao also phoned Zhang Fan right at this time. ”Doctor Zhang, please don't mind that my assistant doesn't know what she's doing. Feel free to continue driving that car. Otherwise, it'll simply gather dust in the garage. No need to be so polite with me. Not only is one car no problem, if you completely cure my back, even ten cars will be no problem.” Since Li Xiao was saying so much, Zhang Fan would be slapping her face if he didn't continue driving her car. After the phone call was finished, he said to the assistant, ”Go back and thank Sister Li for me, then. I'm sorry that you had to run all this way to catch up to me.”
On Monday, Chasu City Hospital held a gigantic meeting involving every single staff member. This was because Superintendent Huang Yun had retired. With government officials and the director of the Chasu City Bureau of Public Health as the witnesses, Ouyang Hong was formally promoted to become the new superintendent. The government officials praised the now retired Huang Yun's accomplishments and successes at the hospital while stating their expectations of Ouyang Hong. Once Huang Yun and the government officials left this meeting, Ouyang Hong told everyone about her first policy: changing medical specialties of unlicensed doctors to further their development. In other words, the new doctors had to rotate and experience work in all the different departments!
The newer doctors all cried when they heard this! Under Ouyang Hong's new policy, doctors without a medical license weren't allowed to choose their own departments, and any doctor who was unable to obtain a medical license within two years would be fired. Before, the low-ranked medical specialist doctors were new doctors who could choose their own medical field of study. A new doctor who was interested in internal medicine would be rotated throughout the various internal medicine departments. It would also be the same for a new doctor interested in surgery.
But now, the new doctors would be rotated not only according to their selected specialty, but rather through all the different departments and specialties regardless of what they were interested in, all for the sake of developing their general knowledge.
”We are a Class A hospital, yet many doctors here haven't finished professional training before starting to work here. Some doctors here don't even know how to treat a cold, so how can they possibly call themselves doctors? Hurriedly choosing one's own field will make you nothing more than an incompetent doctor. The development of a hospital relies on having many young doctors that have abundant knowledge and skills. Just because you know how to perform a few appendectomies, it doesn't make you a good doctor,” Ouyang Hong announced.
This was terrible news for the new doctors in surgery. Some of the new doctors who had just been recognized as official doctors paled. Forced reassignment to other departments for the sake of learning different skills would mean that they would no longer have any bonuses or other income apart from the low base salary. If they met with nice teachers, perhaps the teacher would share some money with you. But if the doctors performed poorly in different departments, or if the teacher was miserly, then the doctors wouldn't receive anything at all.
”All doctors who don't have medical licenses, report to the administrative department by this afternoon. You will be assigned to new departments to further your training.”
Zhang Fan also panicked after Ouyang Hong finished the meeting. He didn't really care that his income would be decreased, as he could live on the base salary. The issue was that only the general surgery and orthopedic surgery categories were currently available for him to study in his System. If he was forced to transfer to internal medicine, he would be forced to waste so much time being unable to progress anything in his System! Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Zhang Fan hurriedly gave Li Xiao a call. When she heard about this, she said that it would be quite easy for her to deal with. She was very familiar with Ouyang Hong, and could have this taken care of easily with a single phone call.
Since Li Xiao had mentioned Zhang Fan to Superintendent Ouyang Hong, Zhang Fan was transferred to general surgery. Ouyang Hong was younger than Huang Yun by about seven or eight years old. Since Huang Yun had been a surgeon, he didn't value internal medicine very much, so the internal medicine department had only received average development. Now that Ouyang Hong, the director of internal medicine, had become superintendent, she started greatly supporting internal medicine development. This wasn't because she wanted to go against Huang Yun's policies or anything like that. They simply had differing beliefs.