Chapter 258: A new year
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
After 15 days, the Spring Festival was now over. People started going back to other provinces, returning to their jobs. They would be gone for one year. No matter how warm their ho was, and how cold working far away from ho was, they would still have to go. The farrs also needed to start fertilizing their fields for spring. Everyone out on the streets started walking far quicker in comparison to the idleness of the holiday.
There were plenty of office workers who had a bun in their mouth, cell phone in hand, and docunt bag in the other hand while chasing after a bus. They still hadn’t fully recovered from the Spring Festival’s atmosphere yet. Students, too, would have to start focusing on school again as the schools would soon start up again.
Shao Hua prepared many things for Jingshu. “You must take this as well as this. If this is too much, we can have it delivered!” Shao Hua had prepared too many things for Jingshu, even to the extent where Jingshu was unable to move the suitcases.
“Sister-in-law, this is far too much! I can buy most of this at my college.”
“I’d never believe you. Once you’re back at college, you’ll return to being unwilling to spend money on yourself. That’s why I must prepare all of this for you. You can just leave all this here as you take your flight to Shanghai. I’ll have all of this shipped over to your college,” Shao Hua said as she busily prepared everything.
“Sister-in-law!” Jingshu acted a little bit spoiled as she embraced Shao Hua!
“Yes, what is it?”
“When are you and my brother going to get married?”
“Hey! You’ll have to ask your brother for that.”
“Has he proposed to you yet?” The two won were in Shao Hua’s room as they organized everything. Since there were so private things, it would be awkward for Zhang Fan to enter. He sat outside in the study, only half focusing on his dical textbooks as he occasionally checked on what was going on inside Shao Hua’s room.
Jingshu took a plane back to Shanghai. At Chasu City’s small airport, Zhang Fan watched the plane completely disappear in the sky before he left together with Shao Hua. Now that the Spring Festival was over, it was ti to return to normal life. There would be many things this year as well.
First up was the matter of Zhang Fan and Shao Hua’s engagent. Zhang Fan, Shao Hua, and both sides’ parents had a discussion and finally set Zhang Fan and Shao Hua’s engagent date to be on October 1st, borrowing the celebratory mood as October 1st was also China’s National Day!
Chasu City Hospital’s new apartnts for its employees had now been completed. All that was left was to assign apartnts to the hospital staff. The apartnt’s neighborhood was rather nice. The price was also very cheap. Zhang Fan would definitely receive an apartnt of his own, although what floor the apartnt was on and other things would be uncertain since he was still young and inexperienced compared to many doctors at the hospital.
Next up was Shao Hua registering for the accounting examination. She intended to pass the accounting examination after just one year of preparation, which would really bring a significant amount of pressure. Although Shao Hua was excellent at her studies, and she also worked really hard, the accounting examination was considered to be one of China’s four most difficult examinations. It really was highly difficult. Even though Zhang Fan kept telling her that there was no rush and that she could take things slowly, Shao Hua wouldn’t listen. She absolutely insisted on being able to pass in her first year.
There was also the matter of Zhang Fan’s hospital, which was no small matter at all. He had run it for a few months now. The hospital was already beginning to make a profit. However, it couldn’t be continuously operated just like this. A hospital was an integrated organization, not so small food stand. There needed to be a professional manager. Right now, Zhang Fan’s hospital had zero competitors in Chasu City for limb replantation surgery, but as long as his hospital continued to remain popular, so other hospital would definitely step up to compete with him.
There were so many things to take care of that there was no ti to rest. Everyone would have to constantly work hard in order to live a better life. Chasu City Hospital’s new ergency center was now in the stage of internal renovations. For this new year, due to the construction of the new ergency center, Chasu City Hospital intended to hire a large number of new doctors. Of course, any new doctors would have to have a master’s degree at minimum.
Over the past year, Chasu City Hospital had developed incredibly swiftly under Superintendent Ouyang’s leadership. Before, Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital, the only other Class A hospital in Chasu City, had been considered an equivalent to Chasu City Hospital. However, ever since Superintendent Ouyang had beco the leader of Chasu City Hospital last year, Chasu City Hospital had begun to completely suppress Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital.
This wasn’t because of traditional Chinese dicine being bad, but rather because the area around Chasu City in the border province didn’t have any good traditional Chinese dicine specialists. Although Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital was supposedly a traditional Chinese dicine hospital, their treatnts were far too simple.
Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital only had an orthopedic surgery departnt and general surgery departnt for surgical departnts. Their orthopedic departnt specialized in the local ethnic minorities’ orthopedic treatnt styles rather than traditional Chinese dicine treatnt. It was similar for the other departnts as well. Although the other departnts were using traditional Chinese dicine treatnts in na, they actually mainly still used western dicine treatnt thods.
Superintendent Ouyang described it as receiving the governnt’s financial assistance while still prescribing cephalosporin to patients! Basically, Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital didn’t have its own specialization at all. With how society was developing these days, no matter if it was a hospital or so other industry, unless you were able to monopolize the industry, it really wouldn’t be easy to survive in the market unless you had so specialty of your own.
Due to Superintendent Ouyang’s absolute domination, Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital no longer had much of a future left in Chasu City. Not only did this hospital lack patients, lacking patients ant lacking resources, and lacking resources ant that its doctors as well as hospital leadership were having a hard ti. After many discussions involving various people, Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital decided to move! This entire hospital would move out of Chasu City and far away to a distant city, renaming itself. Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital’s old location would be transford into an ordinary health care center.
This was all due to Superintendent Ouyang’s might! She managed to successfully lead Chasu City Hospital to the extent of completely beating Chasu City Chinese dicine Hospital, which had still been an equal when Chasu City Hospital was under previous Superintendent Huang’s leadership, into such utter submission that the latter was forced to run away to a faraway city! For any industry, becoming the undisputed leader of the industry in the area would be greatly advantageous for attracting even more resources as well as talented individuals.
Chasu City Hospital’s developnt was going excellently. This caused the neighborhoods close to the hospital to beco more expensive to live in. Business owners and other rich individuals would always want to take good care of their lives. This was even more so for so retired individuals who were still powerful. They would really prefer to live close by to the best hospital in the area.
There were severe regulations for assigning apartnts to hospital personnel. Lots of people from all over were interested in the hospital’s apartnts. These people were willing to pay market value rather than the hospital’s internal prices for the hospital’s apartnts. Superintendent Ouyang originally kept 10 apartnts which she had intended to use as a way to establish connections, but too many people ended up contacting her over these 10 apartnts.
Superintendent Ouyang decided that she might as well sell all of them now. Those with connections would often learn things earlier than others. It was common that a local health expert might actually learn certain things earlier than so governnt officials since these experts would also have their own connections.
By using these 10 apartnts, Superintendent Ouyang established connections with various experts from all over, also establishing connections with the experts’ own teachers, friends, and so on. This would help Superintendent Ouyang to learn even more important information as early as possible. Although such information would often only be rumors, sotis rumors would actually be even more valuable than officially stamped docunts.
Assigning apartnts depended on a points system, where how many years you worked, your official position at the hospital, and academic qualifications all added to the number of points you had. Doctors received 30 more points than nurses for free! After the veteran doctors all received their apartnts, only the younger doctors remained. The younger doctors mostly all had similar points, but there were very few apartnts remaining by this ti.
Most of the young doctors began to try and use whatever connections they could. anwhile, Zhang Fan was completely unworried... even though Shao Hua was also becoming anxious.
“How about you try and ask Sister Wang?” Shao Hua suggested.
“Why be so anxious? Relax! We don’t need to contact anyone.”
“Alright! If we don’t get an apartnt, then we don’t get one. We can still get married and live at my family’s old apartnt. Don’t feel too much pressure. I’m happy as long as I’m together with you.” After Shao Hua saw how Zhang Fan was, she actually beca the one to console him. She even kissed him on the mouth. That tasted really good!
When ti ca for the younger doctors to receive the few apartnts that were left, Superintendent Ouyang suddenly started adding more rules, such as adding extra points for having graduated from a top-class university. Here in the border province, there were very few doctors who had graduated from top-class universities, but Zhang Fan happened to be the only one who had as his dical college had been absorbed into a top-class university, even though his dical college had only been average!
Not only that, Superintendent Ouyang did sothing which favored Zhang Fan even more. She declared that any doctor who didn’t have a dical license yet, no matter how old the doctor was, wouldn’t be receiving an apartnt. Additionally, bonus points would be awarded based on how well each doctor had scored on the dical license exam.
With her new rules, heh! Zhang Fan’s points surpassed all other resident doctors’ points by far! Basically, after all the attending physicians, Zhang Fan would be the very first one who could choose his apartnt. He didn’t need to use connections at all. Superintendent Ouyang had made the rules, and nobody dared to cheat. This was the benefit of working at a place where skills mattered. There were certain hard standards that needed to be reached. Everyone would know everyone’s abilities.
Zhang Fan received an apartnt and started renovating it. Although he currently had a debt of more than 1,000,000 yuan, he wasn’t worried at all, because his hospital was becoming profitable. He was beginning to slowly pay back the money that he owed!
On this day, Zhang Fan saw an old acquaintance and friend that he hadn’t seen for quite a long while!
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