Chapter 171
Because Dr. Gao of the Neurology Department, the most promising young doctor, when he saw this resident of the Emergency Department, his expression showed not only pleasant surprise but also respect.
The hospital is also a small society, if you have a future or strength, others will respect you.
Otherwise, you’d be like dust in the corner.
Tuya Hospital has several thousand employees, the vast majority of whom are just ordinary people.
“I must tell you, Dr. Zhou is the most promising doctor in the Emergency Department. Having a good relationship with him is all benefits, no drawbacks,” said Gao Jian to the nurse, then once more he looked at Zhou Can.
“Dr. Zhou wouldn’t have come to see me, would he? Haha! I’m a bit narcissistic haha!”
Although Gao Jian and Zhou Can were competitors, when they met, he was very enthusiastic.
That nurse was surprised again as she looked over Zhou Can.
No scorn remained in her eyes.
Her face, however, held a somewhat ingratiating smile.
Unfortunately, Zhou Can did not look at her again.
“I’m here to ask Director Yin some questions, do you know where he is?”
“Director Yin is my teacher, wouldn’t I know where he is? Come on, I’ll take you to him. Teacher just mentioned you two days ago. You’re in luck today, Teacher just happens to be doing overtime. Normally, on weekends, Director Yin doesn’t come in. Recently, there are quite a few patients seeking consultation; the teacher is worried his specialist slots might get snapped up by scalpers, that’s why he chose to work overtime.”
By the time one reaches Director Yin’s level, a lot of basic work no longer needs to be undertaken.
Main responsibilities include mentoring students, holding appointments, attending meetings, etc.
If it were a surgical department director, aside from holding appointments, they would also need to perform surgeries.
From this perspective, internal medicine doctors naturally have an advantage in academia.
For surgeons at the chief level or above, it’s basically half a day of appointments, half a day of surgery. They also need to make rounds, mentor students, lead groups, manage projects… there’s genuinely not much time left for learning.
Many people think that surgeons earn more than internal physicians.
That’s very one-sided.
While surgeons certainly earn from performing surgeries and overtime fees, internists also get a good share from pharmaceutical commissions.
When it comes to hospital admissions, internal medicine can outperform surgery.
An ICU that costs ten to twenty thousand per day is like a gold-swallowing behemoth.
Even so, many hospital administrators often complain that the ICU is a loss-making department.
Under Gao Jian’s lead, Zhou Can walked straight to the outpatient clinic of the Neurology Department.
There were still quite a few patients sitting in the hallway outside.
Tuya Hospital actually has many specialist outpatient clinics.
The cheapest specialist slot costs 50 yuan, with the most expensive ones for specialized specialist outpatient services costing over 1000.
In this strange world, the cheaper specialist appointments seemed unwanted, while those costing several hundred or over a thousand get sold out in seconds.
Nowadays it’s a bit better, as registration requires a personal ID.
Scalpers have much less room to maneuver.
Before the advent of self-service registration machines, when it was all manually operated, the better specialist appointments were all monopolized by scalpers.
If you wanted to see a doctor, you had to buy from them.
If you didn’t buy, no problem, there are plenty of patients willing to pay extra.
Because patients simply can’t afford to wait.
“Liu Yan, how many more patients does Director Yin still have left to see?”
Gao Jian asked the guide nurse.
These nurses’ role is to guide patients to queue up, maintain order, and call out numbers.
Patients just need to hand over their medical history book and registration slip to her, and she will call out the numbers one by one according to the sequence.
This can prevent people from jumping the queue.
Patients and their families just need to sit on the benches in the hallway and wait.
“There are still three patients left.”
“Alright!”
Gao Jian nodded and looked at Zhou Can.
“There are three more patients; you might have to wait about half an hour. I need to go to the inpatient department to work, so I can’t stay with you.”
Residents of specialty training programs are all quite miserable.
Managing patients, writing medical records, working night shifts, doing various miscellaneous tasks… they can be so tired each day that they fall asleep as soon as they hit the pillow.
“Go ahead and do your work! Thanks!”
Zhou Can waved his hand at him.
Luckily, he encountered Gao Jian today; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been easy to find Director Yin.
After watching Gao Jian leave, Zhou Can found an empty seat and sat down.
He noticed that many patients came with various test reports done at other hospitals, seeking a consultation. They couldn’t find out their conditions or had ineffective treatments at local hospitals, which is why they came to Tuya Hospital looking for a specialist diagnosis.
Zhou Can casually glanced over, and most of those outpatient rooms were specialist clinics.
The room for Director Yin Hua had a sign marked “Specialist Outpatient Service No. 1”.
Such specialist outpatient clinics usually have six or seven rooms.
Those able to hold the title “specialist” generally have made significant achievements in a specific sub-discipline.
After rigorous review, they were qualified to add “special” to their title.
Tuya’s strength really was strong.
After all, just a sub-discipline of neurology already had so many top experts.
Adding up all the departments of key importance in Tuya, the number of top experts probably exceeded a hundred.
Many doctors dream their whole lives of becoming top experts.
In reality, if three or four out of a hundred doctors can become top experts, it’s quite remarkable.
As long as Zhou Can keeps striving like this, someday he will also sit in a specialist outpatient clinic as a top expert, diagnosing patients.
While waiting here, he took out his phone again to look through Qiu Jie’s test reports.
One by one, he scrutinized carefully.
Some reports, he even reviewed more than ten times.
But he still couldn’t find anything significant.