276 Generous (1/2)

The Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center.

The flowers bloomed in brilliant colors, and the perfectly positioned trees gave the place a pleasant shade.

The words [Warmly Celebrating the Successful Launch of the International Orthopedics Research Conference] were displayed in red on the electronic screen in front of the hospital door. Besides Mandarin, those same words were also displayed in English, German, French, and Japanese. The expensive electronic screen showed its full value right then.

Wang Haiyang showered praises as he walked.

”It's so impressive that you guys occupy such a big piece of land even though the land in Shanghai is so expensive.

”The structure is really well-built. Not only does it look good, but its interior design is also practical. The height of the ceiling really makes the place comfortable. I like places with high ceilings.

”It's so spacious... You guys only have around thirty doctors, right? What's all this space for? Oh, you guys have medical interns too. That's good… Medical interns nowadays are really excellent…”

When Wang Haiyang mentioned medical interns, he could not help but glance at Ling Ran.

Ling Ran was clad in a large white coat with his hands in his pockets. He exhibited the kind of relaxed aura one gave off when visiting a place one was familiar with. His back was straight, and his steps were leisurely. He made others feel refreshed the moment they saw him.

Even though all doctors wore large white coats of the same design, some looked like they were wearing rags, and some looked like they were wearing an apron, while others looked like they were wearing a trendy fashion item. When Ling Ran wore a large white coat… he still looked as radiantly handsome as he usually did.

The 220-pound resident doctor could not help but straighten his body and suck in his belly. With a bottle of mineral water in his hand, he tried to ignore Ling Ran's brilliant aura and tried his best to introduce the place to Wang Haiyang in a professional tone. ”There are also a lot of doctors who come to our research center for in-service training and knowledge exchange. They usually stay for an average of three months, and get to participate in surgeries, join our programmes, and write research papers. Every year, many of the papers published by our center are written by doctors who've been here for in-service training or knowledge exchange.”

”Academician Zhu is really quite generous.” Wang Haiyang chuckled.

There were pros and cons in letting doctors from another hospital perform in-service training and knowledge exchange in your hospital. There were also pros and cons in letting those doctors perform surgeries in their hospital. The upside was that they got to utilize outside manpower and strengthen their relationship with other medical institutions, but there were also plenty of downsides. The loss of patients and the eventual departure of those doctors were the main drawbacks.

From the hospital's perspective, surgeries were actually part of its resources too. That was especially true when it came to patients with rare symptoms. If it were not for the fact that there were regulations against it, hospitals would be willing to pay patients with such symptoms to be admitted into their hospital.

In contrast, hospitals did not really care about the hospitalization fees and treatment fees from patients. Even though hospitals cared a lot about their overall profit, they did not care at all about the money they received from individual patients.

Hospitals needed a large number of patients so that their doctors could train their skills.

If they had to allocate surgeries for doctors who were there for in-service training and knowledge exchange, it meant that their own doctors would have less training opportunities. The case was even truer when it came to their own projects because they put in funds to run them. Hospitals would not easily let doctors from the outside to participate in their projects.

The fact that Zhu Tongyi could run the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center in such a fashion was indeed something that he could be proud of. Not only had he achieved his personal ideals, he also did it pretty well.

However, from another perspective, it may have contributed to the fact why the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center could never expand its operations.

The 220-pound resident doctor had still not gotten the chance to become the chief surgeon of an operation to this date, but he was not really affected by it. At that moment, he continued to sing praises of the center as if he was doing a promotion. ”So, even though our center only has a small number of doctors, our total surgical volume is pretty large. Besides, every now and then, we would organize special sessions for certain doctors. If you're interested, you can put in your application, too.”

”Huh? How does that work?” Wang Haiyang was a little interested.

”We'll carry out publicity events for you and contact some patients whose indications fit your surgical methods. You can also contact some patients on your own. You can then carry out surgeries in our center and analyze the cases together with us. We will also get to learn…”

”It's like a major freelance surgery.”

”Now that you mention it, it's kind of like that.”

”Will the doctors get paid?”

The 220-pound resident doctor froze for a moment and said, ”Not much, just some allowance.”

Wang Haiyang immediately lost interest and hummed in acknowledgement.

He only carried out freelance surgeries when it came with pay, and the pay had to be more than 10,000 RMB. He did not mind if the hospital that hired him did not give him much transport or accommodation allowances. But Wang Haiyang would definitely not carry out freelance surgery if the fee for surgery was less than 10,000 RMB.

So, since the research center was hiring doctors for ”major freelance surgeries”, it made no sense that the surgical fee was even lower than that of ordinary freelance surgeries. After all, the word ”major” was in it. Would that not be a disruption of the market?

As a middle-tier freelance surgeon, Wang Haiyang would not be a part of it.

The 220-pound resident doctor was a little disappointed when he heard that. He opened the cap of his water bottle and drank a large mouthful from it. 'Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer ambitious doctors. What's the point of being a doctor if everything's about money?'

Due to that thought, the resident doctor did not really feel like introducing the place to Wang Haiyang anymore. He slowed down until he was a few steps behind Wang Haiyang and continued to drink water.

Right then, they could hear the sound of women chatting and laughing in front of them. One of the nurses was wearing a red nursing cap, and the other was wearing a gray nursing cap. They looked very eye-catching.

The eyes of the 220.7-pound resident doctor immediately brightened. He could not avert his gaze from the young nurse with the gray cap which had bunnies on it. He could not help but flash a silly smile.

The young nurse with the gray bunny cap also flashed a smile.

The 220.7-pound resident doctor was immediately delighted. 'Is she smiling as a response to me?' However, his smile only lasted for a few seconds before he immediately turned extremely anxious.