1008 I’m Not Afraid That It Will Be Tiring! (1/2)

At dawn, Ye Sigong took care of his father together with a patient care assistant before he exited his father's ward. He then started to make ward rounds.

Even though he was merely working in a county hospital, the beds in the wards were always full. Most of them were regular patients, but a small part of them were locals who were waiting to be transferred to the city to receive surgery. Overall, their conditions were not considered serious, and the treatments they needed were not complicated either.

Ye Sigong controlled his facial emotions well and tried to be careful in his speech. After he was done making ward rounds, he breathed a soft sigh of relief. As he sat in his office chair, he could not help but feel a little lost.

”Doctor Ye, I have a question. My father's wound is still hurting, and there seems to be some pus…” After knocking on the door, a patient's family member walked straight into the office.

”I was about to write a prescription and give him new medications. We'll see what happens after that. All his other indices are normal…” Ye Sigong smiled, and with difficulty, managed to comfort the patient's family member.

His department director had operated on the patient, but his department director was not that skillful. Aside from that, the patient was not in good health, to begin with, and because the nursing staff lacked skills, his surgical wound had yet to heal even after more than a week. Now that the patient's family member was there to look for him, Ye Sigong had no choice but to come up with an explanation.

He neither had the power nor confidence to make any other decisions.

Truth be told, he was actually the department director's student. But now that all of his department director's students have left the county hospital and moved to larger hospitals, there was nothing honorable about him being the only department director's student who was still here.

”Attending Physician Ye, are you done making ward rounds?” The nurse who had just walked into the office was about Ye Sigong's age, but she came to the hospital eight years earlier than him. She smiled fondly at him and said, ”You've prescribed omeprazole to a patient just now, haven't you? We've run out of that.”

”Again? I'll deal with it later.” Ye Sigong knew very well what was going on, but he did not feel like doing anything about it right now.

”Well, I've informed you about it, so the rest is up to you,” the nurse said and left.

”Alright.” It would not be appropriate for Ye Sigong to be too impolite. He raised his teacup and took a sip. The tea that he had just made felt bitter to the tongue.

”Doctor Ye.”

Another greeting rang out from the doorway, and Ye Sigong had no choice but to put down his teacup.

Ye Sigong turned and saw that it was the pharmaceutical sales representative from Duco Medical Company.

”Hey, Manager Fang,” Ye Sigong gave him an insincere greeting.

Since he was only working in the county hospital, Ye Sigong was not as arrogant as the doctors in tertiary Grade A hospitals. Of course, he still felt a psychological advantage over pharmaceutical sales representatives.

Old Fang smiled and said, ”Doctor Ye, you mentioned that you desire to go for in-service training, right? I've made some inquiries on your behalf.”

”Yeah. Did you manage to get any leads?” Ye Sigong immediately perked up.

”The General Surgery Department of the First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City. What do you think about this? The in-service training will go on for about three months, and you'll be given incentives that are equivalent to the average salary of the doctors there. I don't dare to make any other promises,” Old Fang explained things to Ye Sigong with a smile, but he was actually just putting up a front. The income of an in-service doctor and how he would be treated there depended on the department he went to, and that doctor would only find out about all these upon arrival. But there was always a baseline that these doctors could use as a reference.

Ye Sigong was a little tempted.

The passing down of skills in the county hospital he was working at was basically nonexistent now. This was because his department director was too old, and all his knowledge was outdated. Back in the days, he had learned how to perform open abdominal surgery from his department director, but because of limitations imposed by the hospital, the most they could do was cholecystectomy. The hospital used to carry out intestinal surgeries back when he was younger, but they had been doing less and less of that. Not only was that because fewer and fewer patients were willing to receive intestinal surgery there, but it was also because the department director himself was no longer so fond of doing it.

The advent and development of laparoscopy were supposed to be beneficial for county hospitals due to how easy postsurgical care was and how small the surgical wound was. It made things a lot less stressful for patients and doctors. Hence, the department director had arranged for two of his students to learn how to perform laparoscopy a long time ago.

However, due to the rapid development of laparoscopy, his students picked it up very quickly and were scouted by other hospitals a lot earlier than expected. They left way before they could teach the doctors who came after them how to perform laparoscopy.

This was especially true when it came to doctors who started working there in the nineties. For those whose hometown was not there, the first thing they chose to do after obtaining a skill was to jump ship.

It was much ado about nothing, and at the end of the day, the department was back to being an ordinary department in a county hospital again. Plus, they were basically as powerful and made as much money as a local bank.

Nevertheless, this did make getting a promotion easier for doctors who were around thirty years old like Ye Sigong. They basically just needed to become an attending physician to be able to get hired by other hospitals. It would be pretty enviable for them to be able to end up in a tertiary Grade A hospital.

However, things were not as easy for a doctor who wanted to strive for excellence and obtain new skills.

It was easy to stay here and learn how to perform open abdominal surgery from his department director. But not many patients were willing to receive open abdominal surgery for appendicitis and cholecystitis nowadays.

The department director actually did not bother to teach the doctors in his department anymore. What was the point in producing a few students who knew how to perform open abdominal surgery? Not only would they be reducing the number of surgeries he got to do, which were not many in the first place, but they might also jump ship.

Hence, when Ye Sigong and his other colleagues wanted to obtain new skills nowadays, they almost always had to go for in-service training in larger hospitals.

Truth be told, the First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City was a pretty good choice.

Even though it was a smaller tertiary Grade A hospital, they had a steady stream of patients, which meant that the surgical volume would not be low. Aside from that, people might also be kinder in a tertiary Grade A hospital like the First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City, and if he conducted himself well while he was there, he would definitely end up making some friends. If he were lucky, he might even get to know some chief physicians and associate chief physicians, and this would make life easier for him in the future.

As Ye Sigong thought about this, he looked at the pharmaceutical sales representative before him and said, ”The First People's Hospital of Yun Hua City is quite a good choice. By the way, we were talking about Yun Hua Hospital earlier. Are there no more slots there?”

”Yun Hua Hospital is very hard to enter right now.” Old Fang smiled. He was also having a headache about this.

It was not so easy to find suitable doctors either. He had asked Zuo Cidian about what the latter needed, which meant that Zuo Cidian was expecting a candidate. He could not just leave Zuo Cidian hanging after asking him about what he needed. If he did not give Zuo Cidian enough candidates or did not give him any candidates, the latter might also think that he did not care about the Ling Treatment Group enough and find him an eyesore. Of course, this was not a given, as he did not know what was on Zuo Cidian's mind, and it was the standard example of ”judge how he thinks of you by his heart, not by his actions.”

However, as a pharmaceutical sales representative, he could not afford to offend a doctor like Zuo Cidian.

Ye Sigong did not know what Old Fang was thinking about. He smiled and said, ”Of course it's hard to enter Yun Hua Hospital. But is there no chance for me to go there for two or three months at all? The Emergency Medical Center is definitely experiencing a huge lack of manpower right now, isn't it?”

”You want to enter Doctor Ling's treatment group, and Doctor Ling no longer performs many emergency surgeries nowadays. If you did not mind going to any treatment group as long as it's in the Emergency Medical Center of Yun Hua Hospital, I would have been able to get you in.” Old Fang was only telling a half-truth.

Ye Sigong chuckled. ”We can only go for in-service training for two or three months, and

I can't just waste the entire duration in the Emergency Department. If I had more time, I don't mind spending some energy and putting in some hard work there…”

”It's actually good enough already. Two or three months, I mean.” Old Fang consoled the other party.

”Yeah, that's the good thing about working in a small hospital.” Ye Sigong flashed a smile.