519 Outbreak (1/2)

After a while, Jin Xuezhen's father rushed over and toasted everyone.

The hospital director asked, ”Has his condition become stable? How are the family members feeling?”

”They're alright. A few women gathered together, and they cried and laughed. I didn't join them.” Jin Xuezhen's father stopped for a while before he said, ”Xuezhen is in the ICU. We are not allowed to touch him, but can we at least look at him?”

”They need to prevent infections in the ICU. If you go inside, you won't do any good to him, in fact, you might even affect his postoperative recovery. The doctors and nurses in the hospital are professionals. So, as long as they are attentive, they will take better care of him than your family.” The hospital director comforted him while explaining the situation.

”I know… Sigh…” Jin Xuezhen's father sighed before he forced himself to smile and started toasting everyone.

The hospital director in a tertiary Grade A hospital had great authority, but the hospital director did not handle the specific dealings in the hospital. Jin Xuezhen's father toasted the doctors one by one, and all he hoped was that he could obtain something beneficial for his son.

The experts from every department in the room showed great respect to the hospital director's brother in-law.

Similarly, Ling Ran did not reject the toast. He might dislike the act of toasting, and he did not like to drink all the alcohol at once, but he did not dislike drinking alcohol. Madam Tao Ping contributed a lot in this aspect.

If it were another person, everyone would try to convince him to drink, especially in this kind of occasion. The one who was younger and had a lower position would need to be drunk.

However, Ling Ran was protected by Huo Congjun. Meanwhile, everybody in the room knew that Ling Ran was not someone who would listen to anybody just because he respected someone.

If Ling Ran wanted to show someone respect, then he would not need to do anything else anymore.

Even when the hospital director looked at Doctor Ling Ran, he could not help but think, 'Perhaps it's normal if a guy like Ling Ran does not show respect to anyone else.'

The hospital director's brother in-law did not want Ling Ran to drink either. After he toasted the people, he turned around and purposely sat beside Ling Ran. He chatted with Ling Ran by saying, ”Doctor Ling, I have a presumptuous request, but I am not sure if I should mention it.”

Ling Ran was drinking champagne while eating crab from Sri Lanka. His mood was good, so he only stared coldly at the hospital director's brother in-law without saying anything.

Huo Congjun laughed and said, ”Director Jin, you can go on ahead and say whatever it is that you wanted to say. Our Ling Ran is someone who specializes in skills. He doesn't like to talk a lot.”

”I know, I know. There are some people who do construction who are like that as well.” Jin Xuezhen's father laughed in a self-deprecating manner before he said, ”Doctor Ling, is it possible for you to take good care of Jin Xuezhen for the next few days? Don't doctors provide something called medical advice nowadays? Can you…”

”I'll perform frequent ward rounds for the patients whom I operated.” Ling Ran had understood what he was trying to say, and he did not try to avoid the topic. He answered directly, ”I have not mastered the relative nursing knowledge. But if there is a need, I can send another resident doctor over. Medical advice is not something that I am familiar with.”

”Um… Doctor Ling, I have only one son, and I really have no choice. Doctor Ling, can you spend one to two weeks' time taking care of him? As long as you take care of my son, my whole family will remember your kindness forever…” This was the decision Jin Xuezhen's father made after he discussed this with the hospital director.

Although the hospital director did not always appear in front of the doctors, he knew very clearly just who were the newcomers who had began to show how outstanding they were.

Of course, the ”newcomers” who caught his fancy were usually associate chief physicians, or at the very least, senior attending physicians.

Since Yun Hua Hospital was established, while they might not have been able to become any better, it was not easy for them to retain their standards as the best tertiary Grade A hospital in Yun Hua City.

If they were to really compared, this hospital with more than one thousand doctors was about the size of a school.

Most doctors were still in the process of improving their skills.

Those who were talented or lucky enough could reach the level of an associate chief physician within five to eight years time. Based on the standard of the hospitals in America, this level was equivalent to the level of an attending physician who had ended their internship and could practice their craft independently. America did not have chief physicians or associate chief physicians. For those attending physicians who had the qualifications to practice independently, they were considered to have completed their climb on the skill tree.

Then, they needed to continue practicing medicine and accumulating experience. Many people had become normal members within the medical system, but only a small portion of them upgraded themselves continuously, and they used five to ten years to make themselves elite doctors.

As the hospital director in a hospital, he must be concerned about this process and pay attention to the growth of his doctors.

And this year, the person who was worthy of him to pay attention to the most and must pay attention to was naturally Ling Ran.

The aspects in which he paid attention was unlike other doctors. As the hospital director, Wu Zhisheng did not know about Ling Ran's skill level well, but he had seen the prognosis of the Ling Ran's treatment group through the information he gathered from all parties. He had extremely low death rates, few complications, short recovery time, and so on, and these figures were ranked among the top in the hospital. Since some of the doctors would choose their patients, the hospital director had a deeper impression on the prognoses of Ling Ran's patients.

The prognosis indices of Ling Ran's treatment group indicated that the hospital bed turnover rate was lower, and the average hospitalization period of the patients largely surpassed the numbers set by the hospital. However, the Emergency Department did not care about that, and neither did the hospital director.

Meanwhile, if he thought about this from the perspective of the patient's family, it was not a big deal for them to stay for a few more days.

Even the hospital beds in the ICU would only cost the normal patients a daily expense of 2,000 RMB aside from the first three days, where the fees for other necessities would make their stay more expensive. If they stayed for three to five more days and their recovery was better, most of the patients would be willing to stay in the hospital. Besides, much of the cost could be claimed, and it would have a high chance of reducing the patients' expenditure.

Once Jin Xuezhen's father obtained the information from the hospital director, he paid even more attention regarding about Ling Ran's ”uniqueness”.