Chapter 160: A phone call from Kang Hua!
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
Zhang Fan finished his rotation in the neurosurgery departnt. All of the patients he managed had now been discharged, including the previous patient who had been hospitalized after losing a one against three fight. The other three n’s parents paid him 30,000 yuan in compensation before he finally reluctantly left the hospital. Before he left, he even tried to ask for Zhang Fan’s cell phone number. “Bro, take care of next ti I have a problem!”
“Just go properly work at a job and stop trying to cause trouble. This ti, you were really lucky. Things might not go so well next ti!” Zhang Fan tried his best to give the patient honest advice.
Although he hadn’t been friendly with this patient even once, the patient had constantly addressed him as “Bro”, being really respectful to Zhang Fan. Nobody would mind manners. This was why Zhang Fan tried to give him advice when he left the hospital, no matter if it was effective or not. If the patient continued acting in the sa way, he would suffer majorly sooner or later.
Zhang Fan was then rotated to the oncological departnt. This departnt was nicknad the “final” departnt because many patients’ lives would end here. Work pressure wasn’t actually that high in this departnt, because most patients’ family mbers had already signed agreents indicating they understood that the patients had a high chance of dying. Although the oncology departnt had good inco and wasn’t very tiring to work in, it still wasn’t very popular with younger doctors to join.
The oncological departnt would have to deal with death on a daily basis. Even those who weren’t very emotional would still be affected if they saw death every day. This was why very few people voluntarily chose to join the oncology departnt. Zhang Fan looked over his rotation paperwork for quite a while. He also really didn’t want to go to this departnt.
In northwestern China, the oncological departnt was basically a departnt that cared for patients in their final monts. Oncological departnts here almost never received any developnt or invented new treatnts.
Zhang Fan could avoid going to the oncological departnt if he really wanted. He didn’t even need to ask Superintendent Ouyang. He simply had to ask the hospital administration director. However, Zhang Fan hesitated for a long while before finally deciding to go to the oncological departnt for rotation. He felt that he would eventually have to face death again, and that avoiding it would be no solution.
The oncological departnt was on the easternmost side of the hospital, on the first floor. The hospital morgue was also right behind it.
Earlier this spring, a female intern doctor who ca to the oncological departnt had been so scared that she cried for an entire night.
Her teaching doctor was a male doctor, so she slept by herself in a patient room at night for a night shift. It was quite common for intern and rotation doctors to have to catch so sleep in patient rooms.
She wasn’t the brave type at all. Three patients had passed away in the oncological departnt earlier that day. She went to sleep with an anxious heart, and while she was feeling hazy, she suddenly heard what she imagined to be a young child crying right on the windowsill!
The intern doctor was so scared that she covered her head with her doctor’s coat and cried for an entire night! On the next day, her eyes were completely swollen as she quit her intern doctor job!
Actually, what she heard had been a wild cat in heat!
The director of the oncological departnt was a middle-aged woman nad Anar who was in her 40s. She was neither pudgy nor skinny. She spoke rather gently and with the border province’s accent. The doctors in this departnt were also the calm type, unlike other departnts’ doctors who were often hasty and impatient.
Even as Zhang Fan stood outside the oncological departnt, he felt as if an aura of defeat suffused this entire place. The patients and their family mbers in this departnt all had distant expressions of having given up already. They were rely waiting for death, giving the departnt a suffocating atmosphere.
The doctors and nurses in this departnt were quite different from those in other departnts who would all be hurried and strict. Here, the doctors and nurses were all rather calm and quiet. They were similar to the director, speaking softly and unhurriedly.
When Zhang Fan gave his rotation paperwork to Director Anar, she smiled, and told him, “Doctor Zhang, our departnt’s work is mostly on writing dical reports. It’s not that busy in other areas. You may need to learn about certain dications that we use in this departnt for chemotherapy, although we don’t have many chemotherapy patients. Most of the ti, patients who require chemotherapy are taken by other departnts instead. You won’t need a teaching doctor in this departnt. Just get accustod to things for the first week. Since you have a dical license, would it be alright for you to work independently starting next week?”
“Sure, Director Anar.”
“Alright then. Take this first week to get used to our work. The work in our departnt is actually quite simple!”
There were six doctors in this departnt, four n and two won, along with two other rotation doctors. The departnt had plenty of personnel, which ant that there wasn’t even much work for Zhang Fan to do even though he wanted to help out. In the oncological departnt, discussions about patients’ deaths were incredibly simple. There was very little to even discuss.
Compared to other departnts, the most common work in the oncological departnt was actually writing death certificates. The oncological departnt would need to issue one on almost a daily basis.
Zhang Fan heard one doctor tell a rotation doctor, “Co take the electrocardiogram away from patient #5’s room. He just passed away!”
The other two rotation doctors had teaching doctors, but Zhang Fan didn’t, because he had a dical license already. Besides, he was now quite famous in the hospital. That was why there was no need to give him a teaching doctor. Plus, the oncological departnt figured that he wasn’t destined to stay in their departnt.
Zhang Fan was bored with nothing to do, so he flipped through the oncological departnt’s dical reports. Liver cancer, lung cancer, rectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, bone cancer, and all sorts of cancers in the late stages could be found in the dical reports here. These patients had all been summoned by the god of death. At most, the patients’ family mbers could only try their best to satisfy the patients’ final requests.
The unique trait of this departnt was that there would be an especially high number of patients’ friends and family mbers coming to visit the patients in this departnt. The doctors and nurses here wouldn’t stop such a thing. These would be the final etings between patients and their friends and family. All the patients in this departnt would realize already that their condition was incredibly dire.
People would have all sorts of different attitudes when at death’s door. There were those who were optimistic, while others despaired. It would be really uncomfortable to watch a patient look at you with such a despairing expression. Zhang Fan was unable to read any more after going through just a few dical reports.
Zhang Fan suddenly received a phone call from Kang Hua, whom he hadn’t talked to for quite a long while—not since the incident at Chark City Hospital. Ever since that unpleasant incident there, Zhang Fan had imdiately blocked the phone number of Chark City Hospital’s surgical departnt director.
At most, Zhang Fan would send Kang Hua a text ssage whenever there was a holiday to wish her well. He almost never talked to her otherwise. However, he was still currently living in her apartnt which she loaned to him. Although he had ntioned the idea of moving out to her before, Kang Hua hadn’t agreed. She even called him to ask if there was anything that dissatisfied him about the apartnt. Since she was being so direct, Zhang Fan didn’t say anything else.
Kang Hua was quite a powerful woman. She was a skilled politician who could instantly grab on to even a small opportunity. Tang Jingjing had worked as her secretary for many years. Kang Hua gave her a good job as the vice director of the Economic and Trade Bureau in Chasu City as a reward for her service. Kang Hua’s new secretary was the daughter of a certain governnt official. Thanks to this governnt official’s support, Kang Hua started changing out the Bureau of Health mbers in Chark City since she was now the City Leader there. Kang Hua replaced a large number of people in Chark City Hospital and Chark City’s Bureau of Health, promoting those who were skilled and able. The surgical director that had a conflict with Zhang Fan was fired.
However, Chark City Hospital was in terrible condition to begin with. It had already been in bad decline for several years, so all the highly skilled doctors had already left. Although its internal dicine doctors were still barely passable, there wasn’t even a single capable surgeon left in the entire surgical departnt. All the surgeons were old and waiting for retirent. Not only that, they would also have many complaints.
Kang Hua had hired a vice director of general surgery from another city to beco the new surgical director at Chark City Hospital. She promoted a new superintendent from Chark City Hospital’s original directors. Although the new surgical director she hired was quite capable, he only knew how to perform the easiest surgeries of gall bladder surgeries and appendectomies. He didn’t even know how to perform the slightly more complex thyroid gland surgeries. There was no helping it. Conditions in Chark City were poor. It wouldn’t be possible to attract truly talented doctors here.
Kang Hua changed out the personnel of Chark City Hospital. However, the hospital was still doing poorly. Other governnt officials under her kept constantly complaining. Basically, they said that she was wasting money without anything to show for it. Kang Hua was having difficulty with successfully reviving the hospital. But, she couldn’t retreat from this. That was why she recalled Zhang Fan.
“Doctor Zhang, are you busy lately? If you have the ti, co to Chark City and see ! I bet you’ve almost forgotten about !”
“Oh, hello, Leader Kang! I’m not that busy, but I was worried that you would be busy, which is why I haven’t bothered you.” Zhang Fan was quite perplexed at how warm and friendly Kang Hua suddenly sounded after such a long period of no contact.
“Then co visit in Chark City tomorrow. I’ll treat you to a al. I heard from Sister Wang that you have a girlfriend now. Bring her with you tomorrow and I’ll treat you both.”
“Oh! I’d definitely bring my girlfriend to visit you if it was the weekend, but she needs to go to work tomorrow. Leader Kang, what do you need? Feel free to ask directly.” Zhang Fan knew that Kang Hua definitely had sothing she needed from him. Otherwise, she wouldn’t contact him and be so friendly for no reason.
“Ah! Then I won’t act reserved. Co to Chark City tomorrow. We’ll talk in person.”
The phone call then ended. Zhang Fan had no idea why she insisted that he go visit her in Chark City.
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