28 Come be my personal masters degree studen (1/2)
Time kept passing. The temperature constantly increased, and it was now the end of May. Zhang Fan never stepped out of the operating room except for the occasional departmental activities. He had mostly finished leveling up his basic general surgery skills by now, as well as joints and spine under orthopedic surgery. However, Zhang Fan was still lacking quite a bit of experience in microscopic orthopedics. This was because very few doctors were willing to perform microscopic orthopedics surgery at a big hospital.
There were three main reasons for this. First, microscopic orthopedics surgeries were incredibly long. Second, microscopic orthopedics surgeries used up very little medical equipment, so the doctors would receive less in medical equipment commission fees. Third, 90% of microscopic orthopedics surgery patients would come in for emergency treatment, often in the middle of the night, so pre-scheduled microscopic orthopedics surgeries at this public hospital were few. It was far more common for private hospitals to perform most of the microscopic orthopedics surgeries.
”Doctor Zhang, your hair is so long that I could braid it. You should take some time off today and get a haircut. If your hair gets any longer, it will be breaking our standards for keeping a sterile environment.” The operating room's head nurse was a young woman in her early thirties. She was highly efficient and treated Zhang Fan well, but she also had high standards for everyone.
”Sure thing, head nurse. Does this hospital have a barber?”
”Who would get their hair cut at the hospital? The only haircuts we do are complete full-head shaves for brain surgery patients. There's plenty of barber shops behind the hospital.”
Stories about Zhang Fan's accomplishments were now well known within the entirety of BCU Hospital. The newer doctors in the orthopedic surgery department now almost felt like they wanted to kill him as Zhang Fan didn't need to write any medical reports, talk to any of the patients, or have a romantic relationship. He spent every single day in the operating room.
The hospital's higher-ups didn't care about any of this. Since Zhang Fan could do all this, he was held as a role model for all others to learn from. Everyone was forced to be just as hard working as he was!
”Doctor Zhang, do you like watching movies? I heard that Transformers 2 is awesome. I have an extra ticket, so why don't you try watching it?” Ding Lei was unable to take it anymore. He had been stuck every day in the operating room together with Zhang Fan, and now Ding Lei's girlfriend was about to run off with someone else.
”That sounds boring. I'm not interested in seeing it.”
”How about playing video games, or drinking at a bar? What are your hobbies?”
”Hmm~ I think I don't like any of those.”
”My lord, if you keep staying in the operating room, my boss will probably fire me.”
”I'm not trying to steal your position here. I'm not even a graduate student, relax.”
”Heavens! But, the Director's already announced that as long as you're in the operating room, I must stay at the hospital. I really want to die right now! I want to change hospitals!”
”Is there any bigger hospital in Bluebird City?”
”No, why?”
”Then just rest assured and continue going to work. I'm going out for a haircut, I'll be right back afterwards.”
Ding Lei started crying while he stared at his cell phone screen which was a picture of his girlfriend. 'Goodbye, my lover! Why did I have to meet such a maniac? It's been more than four months now, but he's left the operating room less than five times!'
BCU Hospital's superintendent had also personally taught many of Bluebird City University's master degree students. He was also a talent who received special subsidies from the government. Currently, the director of general surgery and all the directors of the various orthopedic surgery departments were in the superintendent's office.
”Everyone, we must prepare for the annual surgeons' conference. This year, several major personages in the surgical field from America, Japan, and several other countries will be participating in this conference. Also, we need to work harder on training our young doctors. Our government's medical reform standards are quite strict. We must keep making progress, otherwise we'll be backtracking. How goes the training of the border province doctors?” There were plenty of border province doctors from cities other than Kuake City that had come to train at BCU Hospital.
”They're all doing fine. Zhang Fan's situation is the only unique one. Right now, I'm personally teaching him for orthopedic surgery. None of our average attending physicians can even compare to him anymore,” Lin Cong stated.
”Yeah, I'm also personally teaching him for general surgery. He's already begun learning how to perform a gastrectomy. He's really talented and especially hard working. He's hardly even left the operating room at all over the past four months,” the director of general surgery exclaimed.
”Ohh, I would have forgotten about him if you hadn't mentioned it. What's Zhang Fan's academic qualifications? How long has he been a doctor? What's his current position?”
”Haha, he just graduated last year from S University's undergraduate medical school. He's been working for less than one year, so he's still probably officially just an intern doctor.”
”Oh? A recent graduate who can already start performing gastrectomy surgery after less than one year of working? What's his skill level in orthopedic surgery?”
”He can already be the primary surgeon for hip replacement surgery!”
”If it wasn't for the fact that we're all at work, I'd think that you guys are drunk and spouting rubbish. He must be quite a genius. What department is he currently at right now?”