Chapter 226 - The director changing his wife (1/2)

The most obvious result of China’s development was that the people’s standard of living was improved. Meat and fish were no longer rare like they used to be. Although there were still more extravagant foods out there, most ordinary families wouldn’t feel any pressure from buying a sheep to slaughter for New Year’s.

In northwestern China, the diet was typically rich in fat and calories. Since it was also New Year’s, everyone was eating much more than normal with all the gatherings going on. People weren’t paying attention to how much they ate. This was the main cause of so many stomach problems during New Year’s.

There was one more week until it was New Year’s. Chasu City Hospital currently had far fewer patients than normal. Since there was also major snowfall recently, the humidity was rising, which meant that there were fewer patients who had colds. Some patients who had elective surgeries or chronic illnesses would also return home at this time, so the medical staff could have it slightly easier over New Year’s and get some more rest.

The proctology director shyly took his young and beautiful new wife out on their planned honeymoon vacation. He probably felt really happy as he was on the beach as a middle-aged man in his 40s with a beautiful woman 20 or so years younger, acting all lovey-dovey!

Since he was now on vacation, this meant it was Zhang Fan’s turn to be the acting proctology director. The hospital administration director personally brought Zhang Fan over to the proctology department. With the proctology director getting a new wife, the doctors under him were filled with complaints because the proctology director had gotten a younger and prettier wife, which meant that he needed lots of money. The proctology director had really tried his hardest to come up with more ways to obtain money no matter what!

Originally, the proctology department’s doctors already had relatively low income among the doctors of Chasu City Hospital due to this department using less medical equipment than others. The doctors would need to rely on the number of patients and some medicine to improve their income. However, the director changed the medical equipment fee allocation, even if he didn’t ask for gifts for his wedding. Before, the director would take half of the medical equipment fees for every patient, split with the lower-ranking doctors. This was barely passable as he was the director.

But since he wanted more money for his new marriage, his lower-ranking doctors became truly unfortunate. The director changed the medical equipment fee allocation to 30/70 instead. Of course, the 70% part belonged to the director. The lower-ranking doctors were really angry, but they didn’t dare to complain. None of them were capable of performing the more difficult proctology surgeries. They still needed to stay in this department for a job, so they could only listen to the director.

Due to all this, the doctors in the proctology department weren’t very motivated. They would always pass on any patients that they possibly could. The proctology department usually wouldn’t take a single emergency patient, or any patients at all whenever the director wasn’t present.

To clarify something, in a hospital, there would be a medical portion and a non-medical portion. Everyone’s salary would be calculated according to their official job title and how many years they had worked at the hospital. This difference wouldn’t be very large between doctors.

The biggest difference would be regarding the bonuses. The non-medical portion of the hospital would issue overall bonuses for the entire hospital. The base bonus would be approximately 700-800 yuan. The rotation doctors could also receive the base bonus.

Meanwhile, medical departments’ bonuses would depend on the number of patients and the types of treatment. Although some departments had good overall income according to the hospital’s accounting, those departments might have much less income for the doctors compared to other departments. This was due to the doctors’ illicit income from medicine and medical equipment.

For instance, the proctology department was one such department where the department’s overall income for the hospital was good, but the doctors wouldn’t receive much money. This was because proctology would use up very little medical equipment. The doctors would only be paid 30 yuan per surgery. Right now, the proctology director was also taking as much money as he could, so the lower-ranking doctors began to silently rebel. They felt that even if they did zero work for an entire month, they would still be able to receive the base bonus. Even if they did work, they wouldn’t obtain much money, so why should they obtain work?

Also, private hospitals were rather unique. Allow this author to explain things for everyone. You wouldn’t be able to find this information on baidu, because baidu would be in cahoots with them.

There were three main types of private hospitals. The largest type was the Fujianese private hospitals. They didn’t open up private hospitals that would treat everything. Their private hospitals mainly dealt in andrology, gynecology, infertility, and dermatology. This would have low risk, good income, and patients who were easy to scam.