720 An App Called Doctor’s Here (1/2)
”The number of broadcasts has already hit 250.”
”Two hundred and fifty sharp? That number doesn't sound very good.”[1]
”For the past few days, a few hospitals had requested for us to install our system at their demonstration rooms. After we are done setting up and testing our system in these hospitals, I reckon that the number of broadcasts will hit 270. It might even hit 280. We will definitely hit 300 within the year.”
”Alright then, I'll report to our boss that our High-Definition Live-Streaming Department has hit the target of 250 broadcasts.”
”Hehehehe.”
Everyone sounded cheerful during the meeting of the IT Department of Yunli Medical Company.
Ever since Yunli Medical Company was bought over, an institutional reform had been taking place. Plenty of existing departments had been overhauled, and many new departments had also been formed. They had also hired almost a hundred new employees by putting up job advertisements and headhunting. For this purpose, they had taken a loan of almost a billion RMB from the back. The IT department was one of the beneficiaries of this institutional reform.
It was just that no one had expected that results would come this quickly.
The IT manager could not help but say with a sentimental sigh, ”It's so easy to earn money off hospitals. I reckon that our department's net profit this year will be able to sustain the whole company. It might even be more than enough.”
”But this money is tremendously hard to come by too. We have almost one hundred IT engineers now. Even though they are all temporary staff members who are outsourced, it's pretty troublesome to manage them. I have always thought that programmers were pretty incompetent at life. Little did I know that doctors are the ones who are truly incompetent at life.”
”They don't need to be competent at life.” The IT manager pouted and said enviously, ”There's an incident where a chief physician who woke up at three in the morning and realized that he had run out of toothpaste. He made a call and asked a pharmaceutical sales representative to bring a tube of toothpaste over to him by half-past three in the morning. Have you heard of this?”
”Bringing him a tube of toothpaste at half-past three in the morning? Are you sure that we're talking about real toothpaste here?”
”Shouldn't we focus more on the part where the chief physician woke up at three in the morning?”
”Why does this sound so cool?” The supervisor, who was an 80s kid, chuckled as he said, ”Back when I was in school, the media always talked about how students who score high marks in school are incompetent at life. They made it sound as if people who knew how to fold their blankets were genii or something. Well, look at how things turned out. The ones who scored high marks in school and are incompetent at life ended up as doctors and programmers, while the ones who scored low marks in school and are competent at life work as pharmaceutical sales representatives and other stuff. I think it's pretty fitting.”
”Pharmaceutical sales representatives serve doctors. As for programmers, they probably serve prostitutes who got out of prostitution.”
”Hehehehe…”
”Isn't what you just said a little too sinister? Hey, I'm a programmer too.”
The manager's laughter was the loudest. When he was done laughing, he slapped his head and said, ”Oh, by the way, I just remembered something regarding the mobile phone app Director Tian bought over earlier, Doctor's Here, where patients get to rate doctors. They just pushed out a new version of the app and are asking us to help them promote it. Do tell the marketing department to notify the hospitals about it.”
”Sure.” Even though the staff member in the IT department who was responsible for communications was still fantasizing about being with an ex-prostitute, he answered pretty quickly.
…..
At Yun Hua Hospital, after Ling Ran carried out eight hepatectomies at one go, he rested for half of the day before carrying out another eight hepatectomies. Courtesy of the live streaming platform of Yunli Medical Company, the doctors in Changxi Province became aware of something—the excellent liver surgeon was back in business.
Moreover, he was back after operating on an academician as well as the chief physician of the General Surgery Department of a tertiary Grade A hospital in Beijing.
The first thing this kind of fame brought about were countless invitations for freelance surgeries.