Chapter 308 - Ill pay for all your meals (1/2)

It would be unavoidable for anyone who worked at a hospital to see their relatives and friends ask for treatment. Zhang Fan wasn’t a local from the border province, so this was less common for him, but as his fame increased, people who weren’t acquainted with him started using various acquaintances to contact him.

This was a good thing. This meant that Zhang Fan was receiving recognition from others. It wasn’t like a doctor could be annoyed about this, because the doctor profession was supposed to be about treating patients in the first place.

If an ordinary person had a friend or relative who worked at a Class A hospital, then that person would really take care of maintaining a good relationship with the person who worked at the hospital. For ordinary people, a Class A hospital’s doctor was also a type of resource. Knowing someone like that would be like having an extra insurance. Maybe such insurance would never be needed, but having it would still make one feel more reassured. Maybe this was about having a sense of safety.

Zhang Fan had the weekend off. He had immensely sped up the tempo of all three orthopedic departments right after he was permanently assigned to orthopedic department #1. The three departments’ medical teams were all competing with each other to their utmost. If one team took 30 patients, then the other teams wouldn’t rest, either. The hospital leadership wouldn’t care about such competition as long as things were still under control, as the hospital leadership would be more than happy to see the doctors working hard.

“How is it, have you eaten your full yet? You’ve been eating so much recently. Maybe you should go get a checkup?” Shao Hua asked worriedly as she watched Zhang Fan devouring meat with ravenous gulps.

“Haha, it’s fine. The more tired I am, the more I can eat. Sigh! At this rate, I probably won’t make enough money to cover my food expenses anymore,” Zhang Fan commented as he continued to eat meat.

Zhang Fan had been working far too hard recently. Not only did he work really hard at the department with taking as many patients as possible, he also studied English every day at home, and would always perform several surgeries in his System before going to sleep. This meant his energy consumption was tremendous. If it weren’t for the fact that his System was capable of swiftly transforming food into energy, he probably would have collapsed from fatigue already. Originally, Zhang Fan didn’t even like to eat goat meat, but now he was capable of eating several kilograms of goat meat during a single meal. His food intake was truly scary.

“Haha, it’s fine as long as you’re alright. I’m not afraid of you being a big eater. I’ll pay for all your food!” Shao Hua said with a giggle.

“Yes, you’re the best!” Zhang Fan went along with what she said.

“Slow down a little. Nobody’s fighting over the food with you.” Shao Hua pitied him as she wiped away some soup that had spilled out of his mouth onto his cheek.

Zhang Fan was finally able to rest for an afternoon on Saturday. Chinese doctors wouldn’t possibly receive both days off for the weekend. Saturday morning would still require going to work like normal. The doctor would have to return again on Sunday morning for the daily patient checkups. Unless a doctor had zero patients, it would be impossible for the doctor to get out of doing the daily morning checkups.

Basically, Chinese doctors would only get to rest on the afternoons in the weekend. If the doctor was unlucky and also had a weekend shift, then the doctor would have no time at all to rest for the whole week. No matter if a doctor was from internal medicine or a surgical department, they would all dislike having to work a night shift on Sunday more than anything.

Not only would a doctor likely have to stay up for 24 hours straight in order to deal with any emergency patients who might arrive in the night, the next morning would be Monday morning, which meant the department would organize the major weekly patient checkup. Although the surgical departments’ major weekly patient checkups would take slightly less time, Monday would have more surgeries scheduled than any other day. Doctors would be unable to go to sleep right after finishing the night shift. Nobody would care about your fatigue, because everyone had to go through the same thing. If you truly couldn’t do the work like this, then the answer was quite simple. You would have to quit your job! That was just how cruel things were.

“You should have a nap this afternoon. You haven’t rested well recently at all.” Shao Hua was full after eating just two small pieces of meat. However, Zhang Fan had been devouring meet for almost half an hour already. Shao Hua kept putting more noodles and vegetables on Zhang Fan’s plate so that he could eat more conveniently.

“I’m not going to sleep. Since I have time today, we should hurry and go look at some furniture and settle on what furniture we want for ourselves in the future,” Zhang Fan said while chewing on some bone marrow.