Chapter 138 - Silly child, why wont you cry! (1/2)

Zhang Fan's work in gynecology and obstetrics helped him to understand how difficult it was for women to give birth. In modern day China, very few people would actually experience life-and-death situations. Yet, every woman who was a mother would have experienced such a life-and-death situation already. Only mothers would truly understand the difficulties involved!

Renovation was now completed on Zhang Fan's new apartment home. However, the apartment still wasn't ready for living in yet, because the smell of fresh paint was still too strong. The windows were being left open all day, every day to help dissipate the scent. Zhang Fan intended on having Shao Hua's parents move in, as their apartment was rather old and small.

They were all parents, and there was no need to separate parents into yours or mine. Zhang Fan had previously told Shao Hua, ”Your parents are just like my parents!” He was the type who would do what he said!

Still, he would need to first discuss this matter with Shao Hua, and then talk about it with Shao Hua's mother, before finally telling Shao Hua's father. Although Shao Hua's mother was usually in charge of everything in the family, something major like this would still require Shao Hua's father's approval.

Ma Wentao had already begun renovations on his new hospital. He hired three retired department directors from the border province's provincial capital. These three doctors had been the directors of endocrinology, Chinese medicine, and respiratory departments. Ma Wentao had also made arrangements already with the gastrointestinal department director of Chasu City Hospital to come work for him after retiring from Chasu City Hospital.

Ma Wentao just lacked a surgeon. Since Ma Wentao was just starting his hospital, he didn't plan on having a complete set of all hospital departments. For surgery, he felt it would be fine to simply have a hand and foot surgery department. His goal was to recruit Zhang Fan. He figured that it would be quite simple to hire Zhang Fan, as it would only be a matter of money and giving him some stock option ownership in the hospital. He felt that a regular doctor like Zhang Fan could at most make only 10,000 yuan per month at a public hospital.

Ma Wentao's main expenditures were on the hospital's renovations and purchasing medical equipment. The doctors and nurses' salaries would be paid once per month, and all their salaries combined wasn't much to Ma Wentao, just a bit over 100,000 yuan per month. He felt that the hospital shouldn't be renovated to look extravagant. Many private hospitals would have incredibly extravagant renovations, but actually, the great majority of patients at any hospital would be ordinary people. An extravagant hospital would mean that ordinary commoners wouldn't even think about coming there to get treated. Ma Wentao thus felt that the hospital simply had to look professional. For this, he even asked the superintendent of the next door Chasu City Women and Children's Hospital to help him design the hospital blueprints. Of course, he gave her a good consultant's fee, as Ma Wentao was quite skilled at keeping others happy with him!

Zhang Fan really hated working in obstetrics. He had to listen to pregnant women screaming every day. He always felt as if he was the one giving birth! But, he had no choice since he was the one who chose to remain as a rotation doctor! He could only bear things and continue working!

Later that night, Shao Hong brought some dinner for Zhang Fan. The dinner was Naren horsemeat, which meant horsemeat, noodles, onions, green peppers, and so on all mixed together. The taste was quite good.

”Have some extra. There's several women who are about to give birth soon. We'll probably be up all night again,” Shao Hong told Zhang Fan as she ate.

”Okay, thanks!”

”A few days ago, were you the primary surgeon who saved a teenaged girl who had major bleeding from ectopic pregnancy?”

”Yeah, after my previous night shift, I was about to leave the department, but then I was dragged to help out in the operating rooms that day!”

”Vice Director Rouziguli is praising you to the heavens. She's even telling Director Cheng to request that you be permanently assigned to gynecology and obstetrics! Director Cheng told me about this yesterday, and wanted to ask for your opinion! We in gynecology and obstetrics really lack male doctors like you. Our department also has a really good income. Just look, our patient rooms are completely full every single day!”

”Oh! Doctor Shao, I'm sorry. I truly don't think I'm fit for gynecology and obstetrics. I feel like I've been completely exhausted from the past month working here. I think I would get depression if I really was permanently assigned to gynecology!” In other departments, Zhang Fan had given vague refusals out of politeness, but he didn't dare to be vague with gynecology, as he truly didn't want to work here permanently.

”Oh! Director Cheng and I both guessed that you wouldn't be willing to join our gynecology department. That's why the director didn't personally ask you, and had me ask instead. It's very rare for men to willingly come to gynecology. Not to mention, you're quite an excellent doctor. Actually, this department is quite nice. There's quite a sense of accomplishment from seeing new lives being born every day.” Shao Hong continued to try and convince Zhang Fan to join this department.

Zhang Fan made up his mind that he absolutely wouldn't come to the gynecology and obstetrics department, no matter how much he was praised.

Well, there wasn't anything that Shao Hong could do since Zhang Fan was unwilling to join the gynecology department. Zhang Fan was quite excellent, and there would surely be many departments wanting to recruit him. In such a situation, it wouldn't be up to the department. It would depend on Zhang Fan's own intentions. This was a two-way street, as the departments could choose recruits, and recruits could also choose their own departments!

It was now 11 p.m., and the unborn babies in the pregnant patients' bellies all started rebelling, wanting to come out at the same time. There weren't enough nurse midwives to deal with all the pending childbirths, so Shao Hong also went over to deliver a child.

Just as Shao Hong's patient was going through cervical dilation and was about to giver birth, a nurse midwife assisting in another childbirth shouted, ”Doctor Shao, hurry over! There's something wrong with this child!” However, Shao Hong had no free time to go over at all, as her patient's child was already coming through the birth canal. ”Zhang Fan! Hurry and go check things out!”