393 Practical Skills Examination (1/2)
”Have you heard? Ling Ran is also going for the medical licensing exam this year.”
”Yes, we'll be taking the medical licensing exam together with Ling Ran.”
”It'll be interesting if Ling Ran can't pass the exam.”
”Hey. Lower your voice, don't let others hear that.”
Two resident doctors leaned against the door and chatted in low voices. It was a most interesting choice of topic for conversation.
”We can ask Ling Ran in the car later. By the way, he performed almost 1,000 surgeries, right?”
”It should be around that number, I think. Ling Ran's M-Tang technique and Achilles tendon repair can be considered as surgical methods unique to our hospital.”
”I heard that Lu Wenbin started to practice the M-Tang technique as well.”
”Is Lu Wenbin the Doctor Lu who can make really delicious pork trotters?”
”Exactly, you didn't even know his name, did you?”
”He didn't write his name on the pork trotters…”
Both of them chatted as they slowly arrived at the gate of the hospital.
A big bus stopped at the hospital gate.
”Are both of you the doctors here for the medical licensing exam?” A staff from the Medical Affairs Department came down from the bus.
”Yes, we're from the Orthopedics Department.” Both of them told the staff their names, boarded the bus, and looked around.
In the bus were all resident doctors with tired faces.
”You were on shift duty last night, right?” The new resident doctor who had just got into the bus broke the silence.
”You could say I was on shift duty AGAIN.”
”They knew we're having our exams today, yet they still asked us to be on shift duty again.”
The resident doctors on the bus suddenly shared a bitter hatred for their common enemy.
No doctors would want to be on duty, and it was precisely because no one wanted to be on duty that most resident doctors were the ones who had to be on shift.
The doctors hated the suffering caused by working overtime very much. When they scolded their superiors as one, the resident doctors from different departments quickly became friends.
The bus trembled and started gently.
The resident doctors of the Orthopedics Department could not help but stand up. Then, they looked around the inside of the bus and asked, ”Didn't they say Ling Ran is going for the exams today? He must have arrived during predawn, right.”
The doctors on duty from the Orthopedics Department would occasionally go to the Emergency Department to receive the patients they transferred to them. If they paid slight attention to them, they would know Ling Ran's schedule.
The staff from the Medical Affairs Department who led the team could not help but purse his lips and laugh.
The resident doctor from the Orthopedics Department saw that and asked, ”Is Ling Ran not going for the exam?”
”Of course he'll take the exam, why is he not taking it?” The staff from the Medical Affairs Department gestured with his chin and said, ”Department Director Lei sent a separate car to fetch him.”
”Separate…” The resident doctor pursed his lips and threw a sarcastic comment in a monotonous tone, ”He's still having special treatment at this time…”
”Doctor Ling performed four surgeries in the morning, and they are all patients who asked him to be their surgeon. Department Director Lei was worried that he'll be late and will therefore delay your schedule. So, he arranged a separate car to send Ling Ran to the examination hall.” The explanation by the staff from the Medical Affairs Department sounded reasonable.
The resident doctors who had not taken their medical licensing exam were not able to comment on it, but they could only feel envious, jealous ,and hateful, and said nothing about this.
Was it not very normal for surgeons to sacrifice their time for surgeries?
The resident doctors from the Orthopedics Department shook their heads and looked out the window.
A Passat passed by the bus and left. The window was opened half way. When they looked down, Ling Ran's face could be seen.
…..
Ling Ran had really performed four designated surgeries before he headed toward the examination hall.
Nowadays, some hospitals had institutionalized designated surgery. Patients just needed to spend 300 RMB to 800 RMB, and they could just request a specific doctor to operate on them. The doctor could even receive half of the fee for the designated surgery. For a surgeon who had built his reputation, it was a high amount of extra income.
Prior to that, it was slightly difficult for patients to pick a doctor for their surgery. He or she would need to find someone from his connections before he could get the surgery.
Yun Hua Hospital had not applied the strategy in implementing charge for designated surgeries at the moment. Therefore, the designated surgeries that Ling Ran performed were all introduced by his peers.