60 Causing trouble (1/2)

Zhang Fan left before anyone else right after dinner. He was quite bored as he didn't understand any of the dinner topics, nor was he able to contribute to the conversation.

So, he simply left after informing the hosts. Wang Qian led Zhang Fan to the front door, and told him, ”My husband's been the cautious type for his entire life. Don't mind him. Come visit me and have dinner at my place any time that you're free.”

After the New Year's, Zhang Fan was transferred to another department: the general surgery department. At Chasu City Hospital, the only sub-departments of general surgery were the hepatobiliary along with thyroid and mammary gland departments. All other general surgeries were under general surgery department #1.

Zhang Fan looked through his System. He hadn't made much progress with general surgeries, and still needed many more to level up.

The general surgery department of Chasu City Hospital was one of the largest departments, with many teams of doctors. With so many people, things were rather messy, and the people in this department didn't get along with each other.

Back when Huang Yun was still the superintendent, he was basically in charge of everything in the general surgery department as he was formerly a surgeon. The director of the general surgery department didn't have enough authority.

Now that Huang Yun had retired, the three vice directors of general surgery had all become skilled enough to be independent, and the current director found it even more difficult to manage or control them.

When Zhang Fan entered this department, he found that this large department with almost 20 doctors was completely silent, with not a single person even chatting.

Not only did the director of general surgery have a poor relationship with his vice directors, the vice directors also had a very poor relationship with each other.

This made things hard on the lower-ranking doctors. They simply buried themselves with the department's work, and didn't want to talk unless it was necessary.

Three medical specialist doctors were transferred to the general surgery department, including Zhang Fan and Wang Zipeng. The latter once again stared remorsefully at him, detesting being put together with such a ridiculously skilled doctor who was only one year older than him.

The third doctor was a young woman. Apparently, she had already been chosen by the pediatrics department. She was only here in the general surgery department due to Ouyang Hong's mandatory new rotation policy, so she wouldn't know even the slightest bit about general surgery.

On the very first day that she arrived, she even brought unfinished medical reports from her previous department and worked on them. It was quite obvious that she was only here because of the forced rotations, and that she would be going through the motions.

The director of general surgery instantly realized that she had already been chosen by another department, and that she wouldn't care too much about what he wrote in her assessment.

The director couldn't do anything about it. Since he didn't need to find a doctor to teach her, he simply arranged for her to only work with the patients' paperwork.

He then added Zhang Fan and Wang Zipeng to his own team. Others' objections would be useless as he was the director.

There were four teams in the general surgery department: one led by the director and one each for the three vice directors. The three vice directors all had the second-highest level certification. Back when Huang Yun had been the superintendent, his policy had been to equally develop all the best doctors. Although this policy had succeeded in a way as the three vice directors all became highly skilled doctors, equal in ability to the director, this landed the director of general surgery in an awkward position. The vice directors basically wouldn't listen to him.

The vice directors each had their own personal clinics, and they mostly obtained their patients there. Basically, everyone had their own different source of patients. Zhang Fan felt that if it weren't for the fact that the director cared about his face, he would have split up the department into different departments long ago.

The three vice directors all wanted to split off into different departments in order to become truly independent. Naturally, that would feel much better than having a director over them.

The director of general surgery was named Zhao Quanping. He was in his forties, the prime of his life. The three vice directors had all joined the hospital within one or two years of him. All four of them had almost equal medical skills, and were successful and skilled doctors.

Previously, when Huang Yun had been the superintendent, he managed surgery with a more hands-on approach as he was a former surgeon. That had suppressed the vice directors as the superintendent was much higher-ranking than them. However, the new superintendent, Ouyang Hong of internal medicine, couldn't care less about directly managing the surgical departments, so now Zhao Quanping was completely unable to get the vice directors to listen to anything he said. He could only feel aggrieved inside.

Zhao Quanping had three attending physicians under him. They would all be given their own patients, and would work together as a team for the surgeries.

No matter what, Zhao Quanping was still a director, so the attending physicians led comfortable lives. Many patients would come to Chasu City Hospital rather than a private clinic because they wanted to be treated by a department director. The position was helpful for attracting patients.

Zhao Quanping didn't mention any specifics about who Zhang Fan and Wang Zipeng would be assigned to. Basically, they were just going to be in this team.

At the general surgery department's morning meeting, there was almost no discussion whatsoever. Only a few greetings were spoken. The three vice directors were all quite sly, and would only discuss the difficult surgeries that they lacked a guarantee for, trying to shift the responsibility onto others. If there were no difficult surgeries to discuss, morning meetings in the general surgery department would be dead silent.

The atmosphere in this department was quite unfriendly. Wang Zipeng was constantly afraid as he feared antagonizing any of the veteran doctors.

Zhang Fan didn't care. He was here to work, not act like a coward in order to keep the peace. He would do whatever he needed to without hesitation.

Originally, Zhang Fan had wanted to grind as many surgeries as possible in the general surgery department, but now that he saw the atmosphere here, his dream was no more.

The three attending physicians in Zhao Quanping's team had a total of almost 30 patients. Just changing the medicine for all the patients would take quite a long time. The three attending physicians also knew of Zhang Fan's reputation, so they gave the job of changing the medicine to Wang Zipeng.

Zhang Fan felt rather awkward about not helping, so he assisted Wang Zipeng in changing the medicine for a few patients. However, Wang Zipeng then refused to allow Zhang Fan to help anymore. He whispered to Zhang Fan, ”I'd like to show them how hardworking I can be.”

Zhang Fan understood, so he simply watched Wang Zipeng change the rest of the medicine. Three appendectomies were scheduled in the morning today for the general surgery department. The director wouldn't personally perform these surgeries, as an appendectomy would be quite basic, so the attending physicians were given these surgeries.