Chapter 165 - Compensation (1/2)
Professor Li left. He didn't ask for a consultation fee either, although he did ask for a plane ticket fee. Although he didn't earn any money this time, he was still delighted. Soon, everyone in the medical field around here would learn how Professor Chang had defeatedly left Chasu City. And, as long as he cooperated with Chasu City Hospital for a few times on this type of surgery, he was confident that he could learn such surgical techniques for himself. Right now, only a few hospitals in all of China could perform such highly difficult liver tumor removal surgeries!
Although a hospital's development couldn't be done without especially talented individuals, local hospitals weren't focused on curing difficult diseases or researching top-level medical techniques. Superintendent Ouyang really didn't know what to reward Zhang Fan with. Giving him too little money would be meaningless, and giving him too much might not even be approved by her bosses, not to mention how the other doctors in the hospital would definitely complain about unfairness!
As for giving him authority? What authority could a resident doctor even receive! The hospital was a place where skills reigned supreme. The positions were authority were the leaders such as the department directors. As for other positions like hospital secretary, you would need to have background support for that.
Just as Ouyang Hong was having a headache about this, she received a phone call from Kang Hua. The moment that Kang Hua mentioned Zhang Fan going to Chark City to perform surgeries, Superintendent Ouyang instantly agreed. She felt like she understood why Zhang Fan was so excellent despite being so young and why he was so motivated now.
Although giving him more money would make other doctors complain of unfairness, Superintendent Ouyang could compensate him in other ways. ”Come to my office,” she said in a call to the hospital administration director. When he arrived, she told him, ”From now on, any doctors who go to other hospitals to perform surgery must have my signature and approval. Otherwise, they'll be punished according to hospital regulations. Draw up the documents for this new regulation and send them to my office.”
Not only was the hospital administration director confused by this, the surgical directors were also really confused. Usually, only the directors or vice directors would be hired to go work at other hospitals. Other doctors would at most go perform small jobs at private hospitals. Before, Chasu City Hospital would just ignore such things. Could it be that someone had caused a medical incident while working at another hospital? None of them even imagined that Superintendent Ouyang was intentionally making it more difficult for the other directors to get hired to work at other hospitals. This way, Zhang Fan would receive all the other hospitals' jobs. The directors wouldn't even dare to complain even if they were dissatisfied. Anyone who dared to complain would risk losing their director position!
Zhang Fan learned about this new regulation as well. He was just feeling that things were bad for him when he was summoned to Superintendent Ouyang's office. She first praised him and then started scolding him. ”How old are you? You've only obtained your medical license so recently. Don't you know that licensed doctors are registered at a specific hospital that they must work at? It's technically illegal for you to go work at other hospitals without my permission, understand? It's fine if no medical incident occurs, but if one did occur, would you be able to take responsibility? You have such a great future ahead of you! Don't ruin it at some tiny hospital!”
”I admit my wrongs!” Zhang Fan lowered his head and admitted this. Superintendent Ouyang was giving him face already by not scolding him even more severely.
”It's fine as long as you know your wrongs. Still, the lower-level hospitals do have their difficulties. In the future, if you must take a surgery elsewhere, first report it to the hospital administration department. If there's an emergency surgery, first call the hospital administration director and report it immediately after you return. Understand?”
”Understood! Superintendent!” Zhang Fan raised his head and responded gratefully. He was sincerely addressing her from his heart!
”Okay, it's good that you understand. I was worried that you wouldn't understand! From now on, you don't need to do any work in internal medicine departments.” Superintendent Ouyang had an expression of properness as she nodded towards him!
The hospital administration director then received a call from her regarding Zhang Fan's permission to work at other hospitals. He instantly understood how it was! However, he was a loyal supporter of the superintendent. Even if he understood, he would pretend to not understand! Since he was the director of the all-important hospital administration department, he was highly skilled at office politics. Otherwise, why would he have received such a position? Because his face was white, or because he was single?
Director Anar also received a call from the hospital administration department telling her that Zhang Fan didn't have to do any work in her department. This time, she had accidentally caused Superintendent Ouyang to lose some face by inviting Professor Chang. She had been quite worried that she would lose her position of director! Well, as long as the hospital administration department was firing her as director, she would agree to anything, even letting Zhang Fan skip work for the remainder of his entire rotation!
Originally, Professor Li had wanted to write a thesis about Zhang Fan's surgical techniques for liver tumor removal. But then, he flipped through the medical magazines and saw that Bluebird City University Hospital had already written plenty of theses on this topic! This was the miracle of surgery. No matter how difficult the surgical thesis, experts would be able to memorize the techniques used in the surgical thesis. However, it would still be impossible to perform such surgeries without tremendous experience or an amazing teaching doctor!
Zhang Fan was now completely free to do whatever he wanted in the oncological department. He was more than happy with this. He looked through medical reports, checked up on patients, and flipped through medical textbooks. He would ask the department's doctors about anything that he didn't understand. The oncologists would always teach him everything they knew, because they felt proud about being able to teach someone as skilled as Zhang Fan!
No matter if Zhang Fan had anything to do or not, he would always follow a patient he was interested in to the end of their treatment. The oncologists also witnessed Zhang Fan's style. They were willing to discuss their treatments with him.
Two years ago, Zhang Fan had still been in Kuake City and addressing all the other doctors as ”Teacher” so that he could get extra chances to practice surgical sutures. Now, he was Doctor Zhang! Apart from this being because of his System, it was also due to his unrelenting hard work! It would have been impossible to achieve his current level without hard work, even with the System. Over the past two years, apart from the time when he slightly slacked off due to romancing Shao Hua, he had been grinding surgeries in his System constantly. He would always progress forward. Before, he was progressing by himself, but now he had a girlfriend! He was no longer a lonely warrior!