52 Inspection (1/2)

”Chief Physician Wang, thank you for taking the trouble to come all the way here.” Huo Congjun greeted Chief Physician Wang Haiyang of the Hand Surgery Department at the elevator doors.

Wang Haiyang was an old man of slight build. His face was gaunt, his arms bony. He weighed about eighty-eight pounds, which was the ideal weight for recent online celebrities.

He was a former orthopaedic surgeon, but he was basically forced in the Hand Surgery Department due to his weight. If a 220 pound plump patient required amputation, he would be helpless, because he could not even lift the patient's leg.

A well-practiced smile appeared on Wang Haiyang's face, which had not gone through any facelift surgeries before. He smiled at Huo Congjun. ”I am not used to this courteous, amicable version of you. Who knew that Rebuker Huo would look so charming when he smiles?”

Several attending physicians came over to Huo Congjun, if only so to make Huo Congjun not look as if he was alone. One by one, they lowered their head, grinning.

Huo Congjun chuckled and said, ”It's because you came here. I'm in a good mood today. Don't rush home when you're done with your shift, we need to sit down and have a drink...”

”Oh please, you're making me feel guilty instead with all your flattery. Alright, forget the conference room, let's just head to the ward.” Wang Haiyang could see that Huo Congjun had really taken the current case to heart.

”Oh boy, what a shame. We invited you over for a consultation, and you didn't even take a sip of water...” Huo Congjun's false pretense could be picked up three meters away.

Wang Haiyang chuckled and said, ”Be more direct when we're in the ward. It'll save everyone time.”

”Okay, let's go.” Huo Congjun was just as unwilling to head to the conference room and have powerpoint slides shine in his eyes. He turned and said, ”Call Ling Ran, tell him to wait for us at the observation room.”

The observation room of the Emergency Department was like the wards of the Inpatient Department. The observation room typically accommodated patients who needed to be under observation for a short period of time, but in practice, it was not so easy. The most common patients were the 'three could nots', the ones who could not be cured, could not get better, and could not return home. Some would stay in the resuscitation room for a long time, sometimes up to two years.

Huo Congjun had always been frustrated by the patients who treated the Emergency Department as a nursing home. This time, he took full advantage of this situation and quietly opened up several resuscitation rooms. On paper, they were used to expand the bed space in the observation room, but in actuality, they were used as additional wards.

The Medical Affairs Department pretended to investigate this matter once, but they collectively turned a blind eye and let him use the resuscitation rooms this way.

As Wang Haiyang entered, he saw four beds in a ward and several simple rehabilitation products that were exactly the same as the Hand Surgery Department, and almost laughed out loud.

”Goodness, are you glad that I came. If Department Jin were to see it, he would probably explode in anger.”

Wang Haiyang made no attempt to water down his mockery of the two directors.

If a chief physician sought no progress in his professional career, you would have a very casual, lackadaisical chief physician in your hands.

In fact, if Wang Haiyang was an associate chief physician, then it would be impossible for him to step into the Emergency Department. For doctors in the Hand Surgery Department, Wang Haiyang would be seen purely as helping the enemy if he were to help the greedy, opportunistic Huo Congjun diagnose his patients.

However, Wang Haiyang could not care less.

His relationship with the department director, Jin Xi, was bad. The department directors and chief physicians of each department were often fighting against each other, although the arguments were unknown to other doctors. Wang Haiyang hoped that he would never step into the shoes of a department director, neither did he hope to get transferred to another department again. Also, he was not very proficient at improving his own skills either. Therefore, Wang Haiyang, who led his own treatment group, lived as free as a bird.

Huo Congjun had stayed in Yun Hua for many years. He knew all too well about the silent quarrel between the doctors. He smiled and said, ”Your Hand Surgery Department still has some patients lying in our resuscitation room. What about it, can't I treat the patients that Jin Xi won't take? You intend to handpick them first? That's unreasonable, right?”

Wang Haiyang chuckled but remained silent.

Selecting patients had been a long-term malady between the Emergency Department and the specialist departments.

According to regulations and regular hospital operating models, the patient would need to be transferred to another department after receiving emergency treatment or basic treatment from the Emergency Department.

Rules were rules, but the execution of those rules was another thing. When better hospitals started experiencing clogs in their patient pipelines, specialist departments would stop taking in all patients from the resuscitation room, and they would start listing various requirements to tell them exactly what sort of patient they looked for.