65 Cardiovascular departmen (1/2)
Zhang Fan finished his temporary rotation in the general surgery department. Although he had been able to perform some surgeries, the number wasn't anywhere close to meeting Zhang Fan's requirements. He truly regretted that he hadn't returned home, thinking that he could grind more surgeries instead. He wasn't able to grind like he wanted, and missed out on seeing his family. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Zhang Fan was transferred to the cardiovascular department of internal medicine. He had originally wanted to go to another surgical department, but the hospital's administrative department arranged for him to go to internal medicine, so he couldn't do anything about it. He felt that it would be meaningless for him to talk to Superintendent Ouyang for something so small.
Ouyang Hong definitely wouldn't mention Zhang Fan to the administrative department for being a special exception. Her position as superintendent would be quite worthless if she did.
The internal medicine departments were all in a completely different building from the surgical departments. The cardiovascular department had two floors, and was the largest internal medicine department. Ouyang Hong was also originally from the cardiovascular department. The cardiovascular department was also in charge of interventional radiology, so it had an extremely high number of patients.
In northwestern China, people ate foods with higher fat content than average. Thus, there were more people than average with high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and so on. The cardiovascular department also had more than 20 doctors—well above the average for a department. The current director of the cardiovascular department was Ouyang Hong's disciple.
That director was Ren Li, a woman in her forties. She was the only doctorate degree graduate student in all of Chasu City Hospital. It was said that she'd previously worked for a major hospital in the provincial hospital. However, the nepotism there was really severe, and she wasn't favored, so she didn't enjoy working there. Ouyang Hong had ended up headhunting Ren Li to Chasu City Hospital.
Ren Li was a highly skilled doctor. She was also beautiful. The only issue was that she was slightly lacking in emotional intelligence. She didn't know how to say pretty words, for instance. Still, the cardiovascular department developed at a really fast rate after she became the department director once Ouyang Hong was promoted.
The cardiovascular department sent more doctors than any other department out to study and learn. The new technologies and theories here were more cutting-edge than any other internal medicine department. The lower-ranking doctors all really respected Director Ren. She wasn't the dictator type, and her skills truly spoke for herself. Her personal income was all because of her medical skills. She was one of the fairer department directors.
The cardiovascular department was one of the most powerful departments in Chasu City Hospital now. This was because Superintendent Ouyang Hong greatly supported her former department and the disciple who became department director. Back when the surgeon Huang Yun was the superintendent, all the internal medicine departments barely received any development at all.
Previously, Ouyang Hong had constantly debated former Superintendent Huang Yun for the sake of obtaining more resources for internal medicine. The successful establishment of the interventional radiology center under the cardiovascular department had been due to Ouyang Hong's efforts.
Back at the time, Chasu City had given Chasu City Hospital a grant. Huang Yun wanted to use this money to establish an orthopedic disease research center. Ouyang Hong strongly opposed this, recommending the establishment of an interventional radiology center instead.
Huang Yun and Ouyang Hong even filed lawsuits against each other, overseen by the Chasu City Communist Party Committee. After half a year of legal debating, Ouyang Hong finally won in the end. The grant money was used to create an interventional radiology center under the cardiovascular department. However, Huang Yun had always resented her for this. Although the interventional radiology center was established successfully, while he was the superintendent, he never assigned it sufficient resources or personnel.
Ouyang Hong was quite stubborn and forceful. She singlehandedly developed Ren Li, the cardiovascular department, and the interventional radiology center even without any support from the superintendent. The interventional radiology center successfully increased the cardiovascular department's overall income by a tremendous amount with Ouyang Hong's development. Many young doctors were thus highly interested in joining the cardiovascular department.
Ren Li established a recruitment exam that all doctors would have to take if they wanted to enter the cardiovascular department. If you failed the exam, you wouldn't be accepted into the department no matter what. Nobody could do anything about this, because she had the new Superintendent Ouyang's support. In a workplace like a hospital, medical skills reigned supreme. No excuses could be found if the boss said that your medical skills were insufficient. Even connections wouldn't help.
Zhang Fan felt quite uncomfortable in the cardiovascular department. Back in the surgical departments, the patients would be varied and of all ages. However, the cardiovascular department had almost exclusively elderly patients. They typically relied on walking staffs and wheelchairs, or supported each other while walking unsteadily. Just watching them made Zhang Fan feel like they were in danger.
The surgical departments and the internal medicine departments of Chasu City Hospital were almost completely separate. Although they were all part of the same hospital, apart from occasional consultation, the departments rarely interacted with each other. Zhang Fan spent every day in the surgical departments' operating rooms, so he didn't know any of the internal medicine doctors.
Zhang Fan's reputation was quite incredible by now in the surgical departments. However, almost nobody in internal medicine knew about his surgical accomplishments. Here, he was nothing more than a new low-ranking doctor—just another resident doctor. He no longer had the special privileges he'd had back in the surgical departments. Naturally, this also meant that nobody here respected him.
Internal medicine courses were still unavailable to Zhang Fan in his System, so he could only study and learn by himself. Two female doctors had also been rotated to the cardiovascular department together with him. One just finished a rotation in pediatrics, while the other had just finished a rotation in gynecology. Both of them had already been chosen to join internal medicine after the rotations.
Zhang Fan was assigned to a female doctor named Ye Jing. She was an attending physician in her mid-thirties. Ye Jing was an ordinary doctor with no special standing in the cardiovascular department.
There could only be so many elites in any department. Anyone who didn't compete or work hard wouldn't have a chance.
Ye Jing's husband was a government official with a very good salary. Thus, Ye Jing was completely unmotivated in her work. She felt that it was simply a job, and focused mainly on her family. She believed that it was more important for her to take good care of her child and support her husband at home.
Well, there was no helping it. This would be the common way of thinking for ordinary people. However, in a workplace like a hospital, where skills were the most important, you would be relegated to unimportance if you didn't work hard. Director Ren already knew that Zhang Fan was a doctor who would be chosen by a surgical department, and that he wouldn't be able to contribute much to internal medicine. That was why she assigned Zhang Fan to Ye Jing.