At two in the afternoon, Cheng Xingguang walked into Lin Jie's office with an issue of the English journal "The Lancet," smiling as he said, "Expert Lin, this article of yours published in 'The Lancet' can earn you a bonus of 300,000."
"You must treat us to a al, then."
Lin Jie took the journal, placed it aside, and modestly said, "It's just a communication style article, not a formal paper, so there shouldn't be any bonus, right?"
He had already read the article online.
Ariel Skeller, the editor of "The Lancet" journal, had simplified and edited Lin Jie's lecture at Heidelberg University Hospital.
The article also included a biography of Lin Jie and an introduction to his research achievents, forming a communication-style article.
"There is a bonus."
Cheng Xingguang lightly tapped on the "The Lancet" journal with his finger and said, "In this article, the rapid localization of clot positions via cerebral angiography and the answers to several questions are all part of your original research, holding significant reference, inspiration, and practical value."
"Moreover, this article summarizes your dical achievents over the past year, allowing peers worldwide to gain a deeper understanding of you."
Cheng Xingguang, in a sowhat envious tone, exclaid, "This kind of treatnt is usually reserved only for internationally recognized dical experts; it's clear that 'The Lancet' values and acknowledges you highly."
"One could say, this communication article draws more attention from the dical community than would a paper."
The analysis by Cheng Xingguang made Lin Jie very happy, and he promised, "Dean Cheng, if there really is a bonus, I'll be sure to treat everyone to a hearty al."
"Then we shall await it."
After saying this, Cheng Xingguang hesitated for a mont and slowly said, "Last night, Cheng Zhe was a bit reckless, and I apologize on his behalf!"
Last night, Lin Jie's outright refusal did not spare Cheng Xingguang's feelings.
Now bringing it up, he felt it necessary to give an explanation.
"Dean Cheng, my refusal last night wasn't directed at Cheng Zhe; hiring part-ti experts is sothing Anlin Hospital strives to avoid."
Lin Jie asked, "Dean Cheng, can you tell how many specially appointed part-ti experts the Affiliated Hospital has?"
Cheng Xingguang pondered for a mont and said, "Like you, Expert Lin, there are eleven specially appointed dical experts receiving stipends. As for those who just hold a title as part-ti doctors, there are more, probably around fifty or sixty; I can't rember the exact number."
Lin Jie further asked, "How many patients do they see and how many surgeries do they perform each year?"
With a sowhat awkward expression, Cheng Xingguang said, "Those who receive stipends occasionally co to the hospital for consultations."
"The other titled doctors, the hospital doesn't really use them either..."
He sighed and said, "Expert Lin, I understand your point."
"Those stipend-receiving dical experts have reached top dostic levels in so dical fields, and our hospital needs to latch onto their fa, which is why we try hard to win them over."
"And those who are rely na-only part-ti doctors need to use our hospital's fa as a facade."
"Overall, the benefits these part-ti experts bring to the hospital are scarce, and so even have a negative impact."
Sowhat helplessly, Cheng Xingguang said, "With a hospital this large, there are many things that even I, as the dean, cannot control."
"I envy Anlin Hospital for having a top expert like you, making no one dare to object."
In a hospital with thousands of staff, especially a public hospital, coupled with complex interpersonal relationships, Lin Jie can imagine the managent challenges involved.
Lin Jie jokingly said, "Dean Cheng, as the saying goes, 'hearts do not move as actions do.' If you're willing to settle, Anlin Hospital would certainly welco you warmly."
Cheng Xingguang laughed heartily and said, "I have only a few years left until retirent. By then, if you still want , I'll commit these old bones to you."
Lin Jie earnestly said, "Alright, we've made a gentleman's agreent. By then, Dean Cheng, don't back out by telling you're enjoying family ti and a peaceful retirent to pacify !"
Moved, Cheng Xingguang extended his hand and high-fived Lin Jie, lightly laughing, "Alright, it's a gentleman's agreent. If my health allows and you still need then, I won't decline."
He then cautiously asked, "Director Xing Yue of the Anesthesiology Departnt privately revealed to he plans to resign and move to Anlin Hospital. Expert Lin, you're not secretly poaching from our Affiliated Hospital, are you?"
"Absolutely not!"
Lin Jie explained, "Dean Cheng, I'm soone who values relationships and would never do sothing so dishonorable. Dr. Xing Yue reached out to us for certain reasons, and it was not a case of us deliberately poaching."
Cheng Xingguang nodded and said, "Director Xing also told the reason for his move."
"To be honest, Expert Lin, I'm really a little worried about the personnel turbulence this sumr."
"Anlin Hospital, Phoenix Mountain Hospital, Limin Hospital West Branch, and Tongren Hospital West Branch are all opening one after the other, and I wonder how many key staff the hospital will lose then."
Lin Jie clicked his tongue and said, "Dean Cheng, stop worrying needlessly."
"As the leading hospital of Binhai City and a nationally renowned top-tier hospital, it's a place countless doctors look up to. No matter how many people are lost, you'll be able to find replacents in a short tifra."
"Appropriate staff turnover is actually a good thing for a large hospital like the Affiliated Hospital, as it can invigorate the team."
Cheng Xingguang softly snorted, "Expert Lin, it's easy for you to say."
"Is it easy for us to train a key doctor? It takes at least ten years of effort, and replacents aren't easy to find."
"With you at Anlin Hospital, it's an irresistible temptation for young and middle-aged doctors eager to improve their skills. Those three hospitals, I know, they're waving their checkbooks around to poach people."
"I've already anticipated the turmoil that's going to happen in the hospital in two or three months."
As he said this, Cheng Xingguang added with a bit of schadenfreude, "According to so inside information, the board of Donghua Hospital has given a strict order to the managent. If the loss of dical staff exceeds thirty percent, the entire managent will be dismissed."
Lin Jie chuckled and said, "If they're able to retain even thirty percent, they'll be lucky."
"As far as I know, almost all the truly skilled doctors at Donghua Hospital are planning to leave."
"Did Anlin Hospital take a big bite too?" Cheng Xingguang asked curiously.
Lin Jie admitted frankly, "We only poached so experienced nurses and caregivers. Their information is pretty up-to-date."
They chatted a bit more about rumors involving the four major comprehensive hospitals in the Phoenix Mountain District. Lin Jie changed the topic and asked, "I heard that Dr. Cheng Zhe's orthopedic hospital is already being renovated?"
Cheng Xingguang made a sound of acknowledgnt and said sowhat disappointedly, "The financial strength is severely lacking, so Cheng Zhe just rented a few floors of an office building for renovations. It looks sowhat awkward and mismatched."
"I even suspect that patients, upon seeing the hospital's location and appearance, will think it's a shady, unreliable hospital."
Lin Jie smiled and said, "Dr. Cheng Zhe managed to beco an attending physician at the New York Special Surgery Hospital, the top orthopedic hospital in Arica. His skills must be quite impressive."
"Once the reputation is built, patients will definitely co in droves."
Cheng Xingguang said with so concern, "I'm worried that he might beco too eager for quick success and won't handle things steadily. After all, running a hospital and being a doctor are quite different ventures..."
At around three in the afternoon, on the way to Binhai University, Lin Jie received a call from An Kexin.
"Ah Jie, I'm officially informing you that our 'handso strategy' has been a huge success."
Upon hearing An Kexin's smug voice, Lin Jie asked obligingly, "Oh, how so?"
An Kexin's voice ca through the phone with pride, "Coincidentally, Limin Hospital West Branch also held a special recruitnt event at the dical school today. And there's only one grand auditorium suitable for presentations!"
"We negotiated, and their presentation was held in the morning while we stepped back to the afternoon."
"In the end, only a little over five hundred people attended their presentation. In contrast, at least a thousand attended ours, filling even the corridors outside the auditorium."
"Those guys I pushed out as image representatives and promoters, I asked them, and each had at least forty to fifty young girls asking them for WeChat contact info."
At this, An Kexin humd softly and added, "However, during the free Q&A session, many questions were about you. Especially when playing your promotional video, I heard quite a bit of drooling."
"A promotional video about ?" Lin Jie asked, a bit puzzled.
An Kexin chuckled, "I had soone edit together clips from Miaomiao's, Keng's, and my previous videos of you, including your workout clips, surgery livestreams, and news footage, into a promotional short."
"Needless to say, with your growing fa, striking looks, and exceptional dical skills, it's understandable those young girls see you as a dream man."
She added seductively, "Ah Jie, I can tell you that among these young girls, I've spotted several with the looks to be real heart-stealers."
"Should I recruit all of them in?"
Lin Jie, not easily fooled, responded righteously, "As a surgeon who sees the essence beyond the surface, and can transform a sow's ear into a silk purse, all beautiful won are just skeletons to ."
"To you, am I also a skeleton?"
Recognizing the threatening tone in her voice, Lin Jie quickly said, "How could that be? To , Kexin, you're the embodint of beauty, the pinnacle of existence, my Venus..."
He piled on the flattering words to temporarily appease An Kexin and quickly hung up under the pretense of having sothing to handle.
Arriving at Binhai University dical School, Lin Jie headed straight for the dical research building.
On the fifth floor, as he stepped out of the elevator, he saw Xue Linlin bent over, pushing a grindstone wheel back and forth in the stone mill trough.
Lin Jie recognized the tool; it was a traditional Chinese dicine grinder used to pulverize herbs.
"Xue Linlin!" Lin Jie called out.
Xue Linlin jumped like a startled rabbit, hastily greeting, "Ah, teacher, you're here!"
Lin Jie glanced at the dicine in the grinder, discontentedly asking, "In this day and age, aren't there electric grinding tools? Why use such a traditional, inefficient grinder?"
Xue Linlin whispered, "Dr. Zhou said that electric grinders might introduce trace iron shavings, affecting the quality of the dicine. This traditional grinder is the only way to suitably pulverize the herbs."
Is there such a consideration?
Confused, Lin Jie looked towards the lab, noticing a few people busy inside but no sign of Zhou Ziyan.
"Where's Zhou Ziyan?"
Xue Linlin hesitated before approaching Lin Jie, speaking in a lowered voice, "Dr. Zhou used his own body for an experint, had so adverse reactions, and is now at the campus hospital."
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