865 Overcome With Worry (1/2)
\”Old Cai, don't head to Huang Village just yet.\” Associate Chief Physician Deng successfully found Cai Qiong in the cafeteria.
Cai Qiong's mouth was full of chewed rice and vegetables. He muttered, \”You aren't even allowing me to go to Huang Village? Send me to exile, then. Forget about it, island vacations are in trend nowadays. I reckon that you guys aren't prepared to be so merciful toward me…\”
\”No one's sending you to exile. Can you please talk like a proper human being?\” Associate Chief Physician Deng's tone became slightly sterner.
\”It's just exile. Since you guys are capable of doing it, why aren't you owning up to it?\” Cai Qiong felt that morality wise, he had already obtained the upper hand in the conversation. Hence, he raised his voice and said, \”I have already gone to Huang Village. Why would I be afraid of anything? But I am curious about whether there's any place that's worse than Huang Village… hahaha…\”
In fact, he was truly not afraid. He was already an authorized doctor anyway, and the worst that could happen to him was to be sent to exile. Just like what he had said, Huang Village was the worst possible place that a doctor could be sent to. Aside from this, Yun Hua Provincial Hospital did not dare to let him stay there for too long, as he might otherwise refuse to go to work and make a scene, causing trouble to the hospital.
Associate Chief Physician Deng knew what kind of person Cai Qiong was, so he did not bother replying. He merely stood beside the table and glared fiercely at Cai Qiong. He had practiced this glare since yesterday.
Cai Qiong was merely a person who had trouble controlling his mouth. He was not an idiot. Now that he had spoken those harsh words and obtained gratification from doing so, he shut up. He then said slowly, \”Tell me, where will I be going?\”
\”This is Chief Physician Li's suggestion. Our position in Bazhaixiang is unstable right now, and we should mainly work on establishing our presence there right now.\” Associate Chief Physician Deng first explained the situation. He then slowly said, \”So, you'll be staying in Cangping District Hospital's Bazhaixiang branch and helping them out. This way, Yun Hua Provincial Hospital will be able to make a name for itself there.\”
Cai Qiong widened his eyes. \”You're asking me to work on public health? I'm a clinician.\”
\”With the situation in Bazhaixiang right now, we would be at an advantage if we were to help them out with public health. We have to do it before Yun Hua Hospital does, and it would do nothing but benefit us if we're able to do it successfully. Don't you agree with me?\” There was a smile on Associate Chief Physician Deng's face. No one would be willing to do this kind of job, so he had no choice but to ask Cai Qiong to do it.
Cai Qiong, though, was extremely reluctant. He muttered again, \”I'm a clinician, you can't just make me work on public health.\”
\”It'll just be for a while. After we sort things out, we'll have somebody take over you.\”
\”What if no one's taking over? I would have fallen into your trap, then.\” Cai Qiong had trouble controlling his mouth, and this was a good time for him to start complaining. \”You really have many tricks up your sleeve. Do you really think that anyone would agree to take over the job of helping out with public health in Bazhaixiang? No one from this hospital is as much of a pushover as I am…\”
Associate Chief Physician Deng scrunched up his eyebrows tightly when he heard this, and his tone became stern once again. \”Doctor Cai, this is an order from your superior, and you're not in a position to talk about it or make any bargains. Do you really want to stay in Huang Village until the end of your career?\”
Can Qiong's neck stiffened. \”I would rather go to Huang Village than to work on public health.\”
\”Are you sure?\” Associate Chief Physician Deng said in a ghastly tone.
\”I… wait, I didn't say that I want to go to Huang Village.\” Cai Qiong looked suspiciously at Associate Chief Physician Deng. 'Don't tell me that this is another trap.'
\”You can choose between Huang Village and working on public health.\”
\”I'm not going to make any choice.\”
\”You were the one who said this…\”
\”Wait a moment… what did I say? I said nothing…\”
…..
In the afternoon, Cai Qiong walked behind Chief Physician Li, and both of them were studying every inch of the Bazhaixiang hospital branch.
\”Hm, based on what I can gather right now, this storeroom in the backyard is very suitable to be used for storing the stuff needed for public health,\” Chief Physician Li said as he nodded.
To junior doctors, public health was an extremely uninteresting task. They were unable to derive any motivation from it or find any meaning in it. However, high-ranking doctors found public health quite interesting, and even though Chief Physician Li had been a clinician for many years, he made a lot of sense when he talked about public health.
Cai Qiong listened glumly. He did not know if he had made the right choice.
\”Another choice would be the corner room on the first floor,\” Chief Physician Li continued. \”Even though the lighting there is a little bad, it's quite a large room. It'll be usable after we remove the sofas and other furniture inside the room and clean the place up. Not only can it be used as an office space, but it can also double up as a storeroom. I reckon that they would prefer to give us this room compared to the storeroom in the courtyard. When that happens, your first task would be to clean up and set up this room.\”
Department Director Li chuckled as he observed Cai Qiong, who had made a name for himself in the hospital for being difficult.
In the environment of the hospital, young people who had the intention to improve themselves made the best subordinates. This also applied to middle-aged doctors who had the intention to improve themselves. They would persist until the end even if they were almost dying from overwork.
Correspondingly, doctors who have lost their desire to improve themselves made the worst subordinates. Take a man like Cai Qiong who had been beaten down many times as an example. There might have been some changes in his mental state.
Since Chief Physician Li was not Cai Qiong's direct superior, he was being quite polite to him. He even kind of treasured Cai Qiong as Cai Qiong was his only subordinate right now. He turned and said with a smile, \”If Bazhaixiang doesn't let us use the storeroom downstairs or the corner room on the first floor, the third choice would be one of the shophouses near the hospital. But that would be a little troublesome.\”
\”If I were to do my job in a shophouse outside the hospital, people would mistake me for a quack.\” Cai Qiong could no longer hold himself back from speaking.