53 Good at Double Rise (1/2)

Director Zhao Jun of the hepatobiliary department was the type who would almost never personally participate in ordinary minor surgeries. As for major surgeries, he had no reason to ask a lowly resident doctor if he knew how to do them. Thus, Zhang Fan was incredibly bored from being teamed up with the director. All that Zhang Fan ever got to do was hold the surgical retractors. Several of the medical specialist doctors would vigorously fight over getting to do the surgical sutures, so Zhang Fan didn't join in. There were some medical specialist doctors who had previously been forced into the internal medicine department. Under Ouyang Hong's new policy of rotating departments for new doctors, they now saw more hope for their future, so these new doctors were all highly motivated.

It also so happened that there were very few emergency department patients that required hepatobiliary surgery, so staying in the emergency department wouldn't help Zhang Fan get the chance to perform more surgeries. He had nothing to do every day. Everyone else in the hepatobiliary department was very busy, but Zhang Fan was the only one with nothing to do. He couldn't even go help patients change the medicine, because the medical specialist doctors here were quite hardworking. They would finish their work as quickly as possible since they were afraid of losing this opportunity.

Every day, Zhang Fan either studied his medical textbooks or performed outpatient services. He would go massage Li Xiao after his work shift, and then he would literally have nothing to do. Zhang Fan was really regretting not having purchased airplane tickets to go back and visit his family for New Year's. By now, there were no longer any tickets available even if he wanted to buy some.

Today, right when Zhang Fan finished outpatient services, he received a phone call from the boxing teacher Wu Yanchao. ”Doctor Zhang, do you still remember me? I'm Guli's teacher, Wu Yanchao. Are you able to come to our school when you have some free time?”

This was perfect—Zhang Fan was incredibly bored. Only now did he remember that he had agreed to go visit the sports school on occasion, but he hadn't gone even once yet. He hurriedly responded, ”Hello, Teacher Wu. Of course I remember you. I was in Kuake City for the past month for the government program supporting rural hospitals, and just came back a few days ago. I happen to be free this afternoon, would it be alright if I come today?”

”That sounds great. I'll wait for you at the school entrance, then. Approximately at what time will you be coming over today?”

Zhang Fan said a time, and then hastily went over to the hospital cafeteria to eat some lunch.

This afternoon, Director Zhao Jun was working at another hospital as a guest doctor, so he wouldn't be in the hepatobiliary department. Thus, Zhang Fan directly drove his car to the sports school.

This Chasu City sports school wasn't that large. In China, going through the education system and getting into a good college was considered the proper way of doing things. Practicing sports, especially for the sake of becoming a professional athlete in the future, was rarely supported by Chinese parents. They considered sports too cruel on the body, with too many uncertainties.

Wu Yanchao showed Zhang Fan where he could park his car. As they walked towards the training room, Wu Yanchao introduced some aspects of the sports school. ”The children here are mostly 11 or 12 years old. The oldest ones here are only 15 years old at most. Those who are talented and have accomplishments will be chosen to go to the provincial sports school by the time that they're older. Those who can't make any accomplishments will also start thinking of other future paths aside from sports.”

This sports school had several different sports options to learn that students could choose from. The sports were all sports that could be practiced here. For instance, swimming wasn't an available option here, because swimming pools were too expensive for the school to afford. Wu Yanchao had some boxing students, and he also taught basketball as well as football. Since the sports school didn't have very many teachers, all of the teachers taught multiple different sports.

Guli was still resting at home. She still hadn't recovered 100% yet, so she was unable to join the training. Zhang Fan watched the children train. To be honest, he felt that it was very difficult. Those children had to be quite persistent, being able to go through all this.

”Hey everyone, come over here. Let me introduce Doctor Zhang from Chasu City Hospital to all of you. He's an orthopedic surgeon who performed the surgery for Guli. Doctor Zhang will be visiting us regularly in the future. Now, let us all give him a warm welcome.” Wu Yanchao gathered all the students and introduced Zhang Fan.

”Hello.” Zhang Fan had no idea what he should say to all these children, so he greeted them very simply.

The children were quite passionate, and almost simultaneously shouted, ”Nice to meet you, Doctor Zhang!” Those who practiced sports almost always had extroverted personalities. Perhaps this was a benefit of strengthening the body. Have you ever heard of an athlete who had depression~?

After introducing Zhang Fan, Wu Yanchao had the children form a line to receive a checkup from Zhang Fan one by one. Although these children were still young, all of them already had evident muscles. Zhang Fan mostly checked for signs of joint damage, previous damage from pulled muscles, and so on. It took Zhang Fan 90 minutes to finish giving a checkup to every child.

The situation didn't seem good. Just about all the children had previously been lightly or seriously injured before, and some of them even had obvious injuries that would affect their future development.

”Very few of our children are able to become professional athletes in the future. Most of them will go test for China's second-level athlete certification in the future, and it's likely that their scores will be slightly lower than average. The great majority of them will probably find work as physical education teachers when they're adults,” Wu Yanchao explained to Zhang Fan. He then showed Zhang Fan the sports school's infirmary. ”Previously, we hired a nurse to staff this infirmary, but she's currently taking time off because she's pregnant, so now the infirmary is empty. We do have a few children here who are especially talented, which is why I wanted Doctor Zhang to come over and help us with professional advice and care.”

”Sure, that's not a problem.”