79 Time to pay what he owes (1/2)

One month of time passed quite easily for Zhang Fan in the gastrointestinal department. The incident where he almost became infected with hepatitis B didn't cause even a tiny ripple in the hospital, as this was far too ordinary.

Such an incident wouldn't be surprising at all in a hospital. Originally, Zhang Fan had thought that maybe he would receive a bonus as consolation for the scare, but when the result came out that he was fine, the infectious diseases department director simply left.

Still, Li Hui did come over to console Zhang Fan. ”Why would you pick a middle-aged married woman to kiss?”

”Get the hell out, and crawl on all fours! I'm really frustrated right now.”

”I just came over to see how you were. If you're so angry, you're probably fine. I'm leaving, then.”

Every day was routine for Zhang Fan as he worked. Chasu City Hospital had many rules which were quite strictly enforced. Back in the much smaller Kuake City Hospital, the superintendent was in charge of all the rules. Although the superintendent was also in charge of all the rules here at Chasu City Hospital, everyone had to obey the rules far more strictly as too many people were watching you to make sure the rules were being followed.

Zhang Fan really missed Kuake City Hospital. He felt that if such an incident had occurred at Kuake City Hospital, the former superintendent Batu definitely would have written him a check, saying, ”Here, have 5000 yuan to spend as you like.” At Chasu City Hospital, Li Hui was the only person who even came to check on him after this incident. Not a single other person had even asked him about it. Zhang Fan was now missing home. With his emotions going through such turmoil recently, he suddenly missed his family.

When Zhang Fan finished his rotation in the gastrointestinal department, nobody could sign off on his paperwork, because the director wasn't around, and all three vice directors had been demoted. Well, Zhang Fan didn't really care either way.

Hu Zengyang invited Zhang Fan to a meal of beef ribs.

”Bro, you're truly suited for surgery. Sigh! Back when Huang Yun was still just a vice superintendent, he didn't approve of me already. He said that I was too slow. Otherwise, I would be a surgeon today as well.”

”Brother Hu, aren't things fine for you in the internal medicine gastrointestinal department? Apart from the absentee director, you're now ranking #1 in the department. You're still not satisfied?” Zhang Fan teased Hu Zengyang as they ate. They had a good relationship with each other, so they both spoke quite casually.

”Sigh! I'm almost 40 years old, but I'm still personally writing my medical reports. Just look at the surgical departments. What veteran attending physician there still has to personally write their medical reports?”

”You probably started taking kickbacks in your very first year as an attending physician. Just try asking any surgeon if they can start taking kickbacks for themselves without working for five or six years first. I bet you came to internal medicine for money. Don't blame everything on former superintendent Huang Yun.” Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

”Haha, you little brat. What you say is indeed true. Still, Huang Yun really didn't approve of me. It's also true that he complained that I was too slow.”

In internal medicine, the beginning of work would be easy, while it would get more difficult near the end. As long as you weren't the director, even if you were scheduled to retire tomorrow, you would still have to take care of your patients and write medical reports, analyzing the patient's condition to the best of your ability. In surgery, the beginning of work would be quite difficult. You would need to cultivate a good relationship with your teaching doctor. Otherwise, it would be far too slow for anyone to learn surgical techniques by themselves. But, after you became an attending physician who could independently perform surgeries later on, you would no longer need to write your own medical reports. Plenty of resident doctors would be willing to write the medical reports for the surgeon attending physicians.

Zhang Fan had been saving his money for two months now. With his salary plus the money from working for other hospitals, he had a decent amount saved up. Zhang Fan visited some hardware stores, and checked the prices of building materials, simultaneously inquiring into what it would cost to hire someone for home renovation services. He was now prepared to finish renovation of his unfinished house.

While normal people would typically finish renovating the home in one go, Zhang Fan had no such intention. He would do things slowly, one step at a time, just like how ants would move home for winter. Two months' worth of income would be enough to renovate the bathrooms in the house. He would renovate some this month, some more next month, and so on. He would also directly go to hire individuals rather than go to a renovation company. That would save him some money.

Although the hospital hadn't praised or rewarded Zhang Fan for finishing his rotation in the gastrointestinal department, he was the only rotation doctor who was given three full days of vacation. However, when Zhang Fan received his next rotation assignment, he almost wanted to cry! He was assigned to orthopedic surgery department #2, his previous orthopedic surgery department #1's biggest competitor! Zhang Fan had antagonized the entire orthopedic department #2 with how overboard he'd gone in staying in the emergency department and taking every emergency patient he could. What went around would come around.

It was now time for him to pay what he owed to orthopedic department #2. He had taken as many patients as he possibly could back then in order to maximize the number of surgeries he could grind. He'd never expected that he would one day be transferred to orthopedic department #2.

At the time, the doctors in orthopedic department #2 really hated Zhang Fan. This was only natural since he was reducing their income by taking so many patients for himself. However, he had no choice but to go there. Zhang Fan felt conflicted for quite a while, but then decided to stop thinking about it. He would finish his three-day vacation first.

He just happened to talk to the director of general surgery at Kuake City Hospital. They had received several commissions for gall bladder surgeries, so they were going to go together to finish them all in one day. Then, Zhang Fan would go and visit Kuake City. He hadn't seen Chen Qifa and Li Liang in quite a while, so he wanted to visit them. Kuake City Hospital had been performing very few surgeries recently, so Zhang Fan wanted to see how things were. Kuake City was now basically Zhang Fan's backup base.

The third round of massage treatments for Li Xiao was intermittent rather than on a daily basis, so Zhang Fan didn't need to inform her this time that he was going to Kuake City. Zhang Fan simply drove his car to Chark City to perform the gall bladder surgeries there.

He stayed in Chark City for the night because that city was too far away from Kuake City, and he didn't want to drive late at night unless it was absolutely necessary.