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After the patient suicide incident, the hospital started reconstructing the outer walls and installing new glass windows. Luckily for the hospital, the patient's family had no interest in suing the hospital. The hospital also didn't punish Ye Jing with the maximum severity. They punished her on the premise that she had indeed tried her best to treat the patient. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Superintendent Ouyang really hated Ye Jing's carefree attitude, and thus felt that this incident was a perfect opportunity to viciously deal with her. Ye Jing had half a year of her bonuses taken away, while all the doctors and nurses on duty that night had three months of their bonuses taken away.

All of these people were also required to write deep self-reflections. Most of the doctors and nurses worked so hard all for the sake of the little bonus money they got. Still, this was already the best possible result. If the patient's family had wanted a reckoning, the punishment would have been far more severe.

Two weeks passed.

Zhang Fan swiftly improved his internal medicine skills in the cardiovascular department. He was basically capable of being an independent resident doctor of internal medicine now. After Ye Jing finished writing her self-reflections, she applied for the maximum allotted amount of vacation time she had, saying that she would resign if her vacation wasn't approved. Superintendent Ouyang gritted her teeth in extreme anger. She approved the vacation only because she knew how hard it was to successfully raise a capable attending physician cardiologist. Had this been a mere resident physician who dared to ask for vacation time right after causing such an incident, Superintendent Ouyang would have long since isolated that person to force them to resign on their own.

Ye Jing was now on vacation, but she still had several patients who were hospitalized. Director Ren Li was about to give those patients over to other doctors, but when she checked on the patients' situation, she found that all of them were in good condition, and could soon leave the hospital.

Director Ren Li started taking an interest in Zhang Fan. Although there were more female than male doctors in the cardiovascular department, men still had an advantage over women in this field due to better strength and stamina. It was known to everyone that Zhang Fan had already passed his medical license examination. He would truly be allowed to become a completely independent doctor once his medical license arrived in March.

An unexpected test! Director Ren Li suddenly held an unannounced test for the three rotation doctors. She personally came up with all the questions for this internal medical exam. The questions ranged from basic to practical, and from simple to complex. There were 20 questions in total. 10 questions only needed short answers, while the other 10 questions required much lengthier ones.

The three rotation doctors were all completely caught off guard by the unexpected test. They had suddenly been called over to the director's office, and were immediately told to take a test upon arrival.

Zhang Fan had grinded internal medicine textbooks so many times already, including the foundational basics. While he hadn't exactly memorized everything, he was now knowledgeable enough to use what he'd learned.

Director Ren Li had been a doctorate degree graduate student whose major was cardiology, and she had now been the director of the cardiovascular department for a bit more than three years. She was highly skilled with the questions she asked. The first three questions tested the rotation doctors on their basic skills, while the following 17 were all about practical skills using examples of real situations. It would be easy to fall into her traps on the test questions.

Zhang Fan had studied quite solidly over the past two weeks. Despite this, there were still several questions he wasn't 100% confident about. This wasn't because Zhang Fan wasn't hardworking. Ren Li was simply that amazing at cardiology. She knew exactly what weaknesses newer doctors would have in cardiology. This test would be an excellent assessment of how excellent and hardworking a new doctor was.

Ren Li gave the three rotation doctors their grades and assessments immediately after they finished the tests. She at least let them save a little face as she informed each rotation doctor individually. Otherwise, things would have been truly awkward for them.

The two female rotation doctors received their assessments before Zhang Fan did. One did alright, while the other female doctor came out of the director's office while crying.

When Zhang Fan entered the director's office, Ren Li immediately asked, ”What's the biggest difference between internal medicine and surgery?”

Zhang Fan was quite confused to hear this. It was common sense that internal medicine and surgery were really different medical fields. However, what was the biggest difference supposed to be? Zhang Fan thought it over for a while before he replied, ”In internal medicine, most treatments are palliative treatments, while most surgeries treat the foundational cause of the problem.”

Ren Li nodded as she then asked, ”Are you interested in working in internal medicine? Don't be happy yet, as internal medicine might not even recruit you. I'd just like to know your own interests.”

Zhang Fan wasn't happy even in the slightest. He truly had no interest at all in internal medicine. Having to think for so long over a patient's illness and what medicine to use seemed like such a waste of time to him. He far preferred to be direct. Plus, he didn't enjoy the fact that almost all internal medicine patients were elderly.

”I've never considered it before. I've always worked in surgery, and I never worked in internal medicine back when I was an intern,” Zhang Fan answered politely with an indirect refusal here, indicating that he wasn't interested in internal medicine.

Ren Li looked over Zhang Fan, and then said, ”Alright, go and continue your work then. You're temporarily in charge of Doctor Ye's previous patients. Feel free to help them with hospital discharge procedures if their condition improves enough to leave the hospital.”