Chapter 174 - Young female doctor, youre still inexperienced (1/2)
It was scary how much people could slack off. When Zhang Fan had just graduated, he biked all over the provincial capital of S Province in search of a job. But just two years later, he refused to go anywhere without a car.
Zhang Fan first went to Chasu City Hospital in the morning. At noon, he went to Ma Wentao's hospital to go check how Wang Yongyong was doing. It turned out that Wang Yongyong was recovering quite nicely. The swelling in his knee was already beginning to decrease.
Shao Hua's cousin's food stand began operating. Its business was quite good. The cousin's wife's good cooking skills were put to use. In the morning, she would steam a large number of meat buns to sell during the day. Since her food was clean and she put plenty of meat in her buns, the doctors and nurses all liked to purchase food from her. Both the cousin and his wife's expressions brightened more and more each day. In China, money would make the world go round. Life would be really difficult without enough money.
Normally, the cousin's wife would run the food stand, while the cousin would go work some part-time jobs outside. Both of them were nice people.
Zhang Fan was really busy. Shao Hua was also quite busy herself. It was common for the bank to request her to work overtime. Shao Hua's cousin took over all physical work that needed to be done for the family—he absolutely insisted. This was how it was between relatives. Helping each other out would help everyone become closer and closer to each other.
Meanwhile, Chasu City Hospital's gastrointestinal department wasn't doing well. The previous director had retired and then been recruited by Ma Wentao. The hospital hired a new director from elsewhere, but the new director didn't really care about his work here. The gastrointestinal department was slowly losing patients.
A hospital department's overall abilities could be determined by public opinion. After just a few patient problems, the gastrointestinal department's reputation became rather poor, and this department also received numerous complaints.
Superintendent Ouyang couldn't do anything about this for the time being. There were no doctors in the gastrointestinal department skilled enough yet to become the new director. As for hiring another doctor from outside to replace the new gastrointestinal director who didn't care about his work quality here, either the candidate doctors would feel that the conditions here weren't good enough, or their abilities wouldn't be good enough.
The newly hired gastrointestinal director had recently been in many discussions with Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital because this hospital had already offered to give him the position of vice superintendent as long as he went there instead. Right now, the new gastrointestinal director was using this as a negotiation chip to threaten Superintendent Ouyang. She had to increase his salary or give him a promotion. Otherwise, he would leave.
Even the superintendent of a hospital wouldn't be able to decide by herself who could become the vice superintendent of a hospital, nor was Superintendent Ouyang able to just increase his salary. What was she supposed to tell the other directors? If one director was paid far more than the other directors, that would make all the others start complaining. Since Superintendent Ouyang didn't agree to the new gastrointestinal director's demands, he started stalling and only going through the motions with his work here. He had also agreed upon specific conditions with Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital already.
A rather unique female patient arrived on Tuesday for the gastrointestinal department. She had constantly been vomiting and feeling dizzy for the past three days before she had herself hospitalized.
What made her so unique was that every single checkup performed on her showed that everything should have been perfectly normal. Yet, she still felt really unwell and constantly vomited and felt dizzy. The attending physician who received this patient had no idea how to treat her. He gave a preliminary diagnosis that this might be electrolyte imbalance. The attending physician then reported the patient's condition to the hospital administration department and requested consultation from the entire hospital.
This request was of a larger scale than normal. Usually, departments would consult each other on certain patients, but this entire hospital consultation request meant that experts from all departments were being asked to diagnose and treat the patient. Such a high-level request was something the superintendent would need to personally approve. If the request was approved, the hospital administration department would then need to arrange a time for all the expert doctors of the hospital to gather together for a discussion on the patient's circumstances.
Superintendent Ouyang was an internal medicine expert herself. She felt that this patient's condition really was quite strange after she personally checked the patient's medical information. Every single checkup came back saying that the patient was perfectly normal, yet it was a fact that the patient was constantly vomiting at the hospital.
On Tuesday afternoon, expert doctors from various departments gathered together at the gastrointestinal department for an entire hospital consultation meeting regarding this patient's condition. However, all of the doctors were quite confused by the end of the meeting. None of them were able to discover any abnormalities with the patient. No matter how much they discussed things, they were unable to come up with any good way to treat her.
”How about we invite an expert doctor from Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital? We need to help the patient,” recommended the new gastrointestinal director. He was simply watching the show and didn't care if there was a major incident. Since he already had a good new job lined up, he didn't even view himself as an employee of Chasu City Hospital any longer.
Chasu City Hospital had always suppressed Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital ever since the two hospitals had been constructed. Only the latter hospital would ever invite expert doctors from the former. Superintendent Ouyang would lose too much face if she had to invite a doctor from Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital.
However, there really was no good method to treat this patient at the moment. Superintendent Ouyang had a dark expression. Although lower-level hospitals would also receive patients with difficult or rare illnesses, the overall number of such illnesses would still be low.
The new gastrointestinal director had previously been a gastrointestinal vice director at the provincial hospital. Even he couldn't tell what was wrong with the patient. However, he already had a plan. He intended on taking this patient to Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital where he would contact his former coworker at the provincial hospital to come help diagnose this patient so that he could leave an excellent first impression at Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Superintendent Ouyang didn't want to do this, so the new gastrointestinal director tried to force her into it by using words. ”It's not strange for there to be some mysterious illnesses which are difficult to diagnose. Even the provincial hospital will have some cases which are difficult to determine. However, we can't just shut ourselves off from the world. No matter what, even if only for the sake of the patient's health, we must gather ideas from others as well.”
His words sounded so wonderful and proper that even Superintendent Ouyang was unable to counter them. It wasn't like she could say, ”No, I won't allow myself to lose so much face!” Nor could she say something that could be construed as looking down on Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital's doctors. Just as she was having difficulty deciding what to do, the hospital administration director received a phone call and exited the meeting. Superintendent Ouyang watched him leave, and then said, ”Let us discuss some more. Maybe there's something we missed.”
”Haha!” The new gastrointestinal director's laughter was filled with dripping sarcasm!
Unlike at other jobs, there was no rule about turning one's cell phone off at a meeting between the higher-ups of the hospital. That was because of the nature of hospitals. It might be that a patient might suddenly have an emergency which would require an expert doctor's immediate attention. That was why no director would ever have their cell phone turned off.
The gastrointestinal director's sarcastic laughter was a direct slap in the face to all of Chasu City Hospital's doctors. Sometimes, certain people really would be so brazen with tangible benefits and money influencing them.
The hospital administration director finished with his phone call, came back in, and smiled while whispering something to Superintendent Ouyang. She turned to look at the hospital administration director, who nodded confidently at her.
Superintendent Ouyang then spoke to the new gastrointestinal director. ”There's no need to invite a doctor from another hospital to diagnose this patient. Chasu City Hospital is already the best hospital in all of Chasu City. The patient has already been accurately diagnosed. As for you, even though you're an expert from the provincial hospital, you're not even trying to diagnose the patient, but rather only think about asking for help from others. I think that you're not suitable for working at our hospital. From now on, your work contract with us is ended!”
Superintendent Ouyang had been unable to vent her anger because nobody had been able to accurately diagnose this patient. Now that this matter was taken care of, Superintendent Ouyang wasn't afraid even if the new gastrointestinal director tried to report her to Chasu City Communist Party Committee. She'd thus spoken in an adamant and forceful tone.
The newly hired gastrointestinal director had been hired under a program to hire talented individuals which other hospitals in Chasu City didn't have. The new gastrointestinal director had been causing trouble because he had wanted Superintendent Ouyang to release him from his work contract so that he could go work at Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital. But now, it was no longer the case of him looking down on Chasu City Hospital. He had suddenly been fired! Even if he went to Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital and received his position as vice superintendent there, he could never hope to be promoted any more than that in the future. That was because a fired expert doctor would no longer be viewed as an expert doctor!
”May I go meet the expert doctor who successfully diagnosed this patient?” The new gastrointestinal director already knew that the expert doctors of Chasu City Hospital had already been gathered here for this consultation meeting. He felt that it was impossible for the expert doctors here not to be able to compare to the lower-ranking doctors! That was why he wasn't worried that this was all just an act put on by Superintendent Ouyang.
”Sure!” Superintendent Ouyang said condescendingly.
A while earlier, what happened was…
Zhang Fan returned to the oncological department and discovered that Director Anar wasn't present. ”Why are things so slow today? Where's the director?” he asked a rotation doctor.
Since Zhang Fan had been working at another hospital earlier this morning, he at least had to notify the director when he came back.
”Boss, Director Anar is currently participating in an entire hospital consultation meeting!” Zhang Fan had a rather special position among the rotation doctors. They viewed him as an abnormal specimen.
”Haha, jokes or not, don't refer to me like that! Which patient in which department has such a serious problem that requires an entire hospital consultation meeting?” Zhang Fan didn't really mind the joke that much. If he minded such things, he would be exhausted to death.
”A patient from the gastrointestinal department! Zhang Fan, since you're usually not busy, how about helping me out?” This rotation doctor was a female doctor who had graduated one year later than Zhang Fan had. However, she had joined Chasu City Hospital in the same year as Zhang Fan. She was rather pretty and was one of the more popular intern doctors.
Today, the other doctors in the oncological department were rather busy. This rotation doctor was the only one who was rather free, which was why Zhang Fan had asked her about the director's whereabouts. However, she then kept trying to get him to do things for her sake. Zhang Fan really regretted speaking to her.
”Oh! I don't really know if I'm good enough to help you out!”
”Look at what a coward you are. I have too many medical reports to write. I was just resting a little. See, even my fingers are getting swollen. Could you help me write a few medical reports?” she said, placing her fingers in front of Zhang Fan's face. Her fingers were slender, white, and had a pleasant faint fragrance. She also had a cute expression and watery big eyes. No wonder there were many male doctors interested in her.
However, Zhang Fan didn't have the time to be writing medical reports for her. If it weren't for the fact that he'd had such a difficult time in college, along with his two years of experience after graduation, maybe he would have been seduced by her, but he had seen far too many people who were far smarter than she was over the past two years. The rotation doctor was still inexperienced.
”Oh! I just remembered that I forgot something!” This was a terrible excuse, but it was also the best excuse that Zhang Fan could think of that would convince this female intern doctor to stop trying to seduce him in the future.
Zhang Fan then went over to the gastrointestinal department since he was curious about the patient who required an entire hospital consultation meeting. Currently, his friend Hu Zengyang was one of the lead doctors in the department as the new gastrointestinal director was even stranger than the previous director. Right now, Hu Zengyang was the lead doctor for all of the major scheduled patient checkups.
Zhang Fan chuckled while asking, ”Brother Hu, isn't there an entire hospital consultation meeting? How come you're not participating?”
He could only joke around like this because he had a friendly relationship with Hu Zengyang. Otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to crack this joke. At the very least, one would have to have the second-highest level certification in order to join the entire hospital consultation meeting. Hu Zengyang was only an attending physician.