Chapter 234 - Constantly learning! (1/2)
Superintendent Ouyang was being obviously biased. She was even telling general surgery director Zhao Quanping to send a second-highest level certification doctor over to help the enemy. Zhao Quanping was so angry that even his heart hurt, but what could he do?
There was nothing that he could do. No ordinary surgery would be too difficult for Zhang Fan. Although Zhang Fan hadn’t shown off any major general surgeries yet, the fact that he could perform liver tumor removal surgery at a level where even the general surgery director of Raptor City’s Dee University Affiliated Hospital wanted to come learn from him, it was likely that Zhang Fan would also be skilled at the major and difficult general surgeries.
As Zhao Quanping walked back to his own director’s office, he mulled over the superintendent’s words. He calmed down and felt that she was actually correct. The doctors in the general surgery department were far too complacent. It was about time to make them feel a sense of loss.
All of the doctors and nurses in the proctology department were quite happy with all of their newfound work. Only by having patients would the medical staff have more bonuses. Who wouldn’t want more bonus money? The head nurse seemed like she was on fire every day at work as she said in rapid succession things like: “Who’s in charge of patient #17? He’s smoking in his room! The doctor in charge needs to go scold him. Patient #33 is about to be discharged. Hurry and clean things up. We need to make room for the next patient.” This was all because she was so energized. The head nurse’s energy state would be representative of the other nurses’ motivation and energy. With how things were, everyone in the proctology department would earn significantly increased income.
Although everyone was really fatigued at the end of each day, they were still really happy. Nobody liked to work in a department that the entire hospital looked down on. People would want face.
Zhang Fan’s status was imperceptibly and slowly rising. Before, when most doctors from other departments saw Zhang Fan, the younger doctors would address him as Doctor Zhang, while the older doctors would simply nod. Also, few of the staff in the medical laboratory departments would recognize Zhang Fan.
But now, so many people would address him as Director Zhang. Respect came from power. This saying was absolutely correct! Before, Zhang Fan would always get embarrassed whenever others praised him. Zhang Fan would even explain to the other party that he was unworthy of such praise. Actually, others were simply praising him out of politeness, so Zhang Fan’s explanation was going rather overboard. But now, Zhang Fan was getting older and becoming more experienced in dealing with Chinese society.
He would nod when it was necessary, he would speak when it was necessary, and he would stand and chat with someone when it was necessary. Maybe he was maturing! If you didn’t mature and understand how Chinese society worked, things would only become harder and more uncomfortable for you since everyone here was a part of Chinese society. Maturing and understanding how Chinese society worked would help everyone save time!
Zhang Fan’s parents finally returned from their Beijing vacation. They immediately cooked a meal of barbequed meat the moment that they returned home. They were both starving due to eating mostly only coarse rice over the past week. Zhang Fan’s mother was someone who usually could only eat a small bowl of beef noodles, but she was eating three large bowls of nothing but coarse rice over the past few days!
“I almost starved to death!” Zhang Fan’s father commented to his relatives. Zhang Fan’s uncle had also been preparing to go visit Beijing through the travel agency. Beijing was filled with smog, and locals there looked down on outsiders. However, Chinese people would still have special feelings for Beijing as it was the capital. This was even more so for people of Zhang Fan’s parents’ generation.
A Chinese person could curse Shanghai or Hong Kong or Taiwan, but no Chinese person would be allowed to curse Beijing. Otherwise, older people would likely start an argument with you. Although the older people had all gone through the same generational events, Beijing’s importance had been imprinted on them during their youth.
“It’s not that serious, is it? Could it be that you couldn’t even eat anything?” Zhang Fan’s uncle remarked in astonishment.
“While they did provide us with three meals per day, breakfast was nothing more than porridge with plain buns and pickled vegetables. For lunch, more than 10 of us would be seated at a single table that had only four dishes which were each the size of my hand. How much food do you think those dishes could contain? During the last few days, my wife would eat three large bowls of nothing but rice at each meal. Moreover, it was the coarsest type of rice. You think we starved or not? So, you absolutely mustn’t sign up with this travel agency,” Zhang Fan’s father told him while enjoying a large bite of fatty meat.