Chapter 82: Pitfalls! Pitfalls! Pitfalls!
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
It was now Zhang Fan and Wang Yanan’s turn to receive a patient from Vice Director Chen Qi. An old retired governnt employee was suffering from a deford right knee joint. Chen Qi had spent much ti on finally succeeding in convincing him to get a knee replacent surgery.
At the current ti in China, knee replacent surgery was one level higher in difficulty than hip replacent surgery. Although Chen Qi was the vice director of orthopedic departnt #2, Director Wang Dehua had yet to allow Chen Qi to be the primary surgeon for any knee replacent surgery, hip replacent surgery, or lumbar surgery.
Wang Dehua and Chen Qi had a good relationship with each other. However, it was typical for directors to reserve certain types of difficult and well-paying surgeries for themselves without letting anyone else do them. Chen Qi was about the sa age as Wang Dehua, and similarly skilled. He was looking for an opportunity to make a breakthrough. Chen Qi saw such an opportunity in Zhang Fan’s arrival at the departnt.
According to departntal legends, Zhang Fan had succeeded in being the primary surgeon for a hip replacent surgery in orthopedic departnt #1, scaring the two attending physicians there so much that they didn’t dare to join the joints team with Zhang Fan. In that case, if Zhang Fan was able to successfully perform a knee replacent surgery, then Wang Dehua would no longer have any excuse to object to Chen Qi’s performing similar surgeries. Chen Qi didn’t want to sour his good relationship with Wang Dehua; however, there was far too much potential money to be made on these major surgeries, which made him really itching to try sothing.
Gao Shijun had Li Qiong as his personal dical equipnt supplier. Wang Dehua’s personal dical equipnt supplier was nad Niu Hailing. Both these rchants were capable of supplying provincial quality dical equipnt. anwhile, despite Chen Qi having rely an extra “vice” in his title, the dical equipnt suppliers he could access were far lower in level. Previously, when Chen Qi’s son went on a vacation overseas, his dical equipnt supplier had been quite unwilling to pay for the plane tickets. This was all because he didn’t bring enough benefits to the rchant.
This patient was an elderly man from before Mao Zedong’s generation. He was already more than 90 years old. Less than 30 people in Chasu City were his age. He was still quite spirited despite his age. However, his knee joints had started deteriorating over the past two years, and he was no longer able to walk. Only then did his physical condition start to gradually worsen. His family ended up agreeing to the knee replacent surgery to help him live a few years longer.
The old patient had three sons and three daughters. His wife had passed away long ago. His three sons-in-law and daughters-in-law all stayed at ho full-ti to take care of him. Why were they so filial? There was only one reason. The old man’s inco was too high.
He received more than 10,000 yuan per month as a pension after retirent. Not only that—as such an old governnt employee, the governnt would pay for all of his dical expenses. Not only did his sons-in-laws and daughters-in-laws suck up to him, even his next-door neighbors needed to kiss his ass. It would be no problem for him to write off more than 100,000 yuan in dical expenses each month.
The old man’s son brought his dical information to orthopedic departnt #2. “May I ask who is Doctor Zhang Fan?”
“Oh, that’s .” Zhang Fan took the dical information. Whoa! The old man had directly requested a VIP patient room. Zhang Fan would need to go to the VIP section to treat the old man.
“My father’s age is quite advanced. It’s inconvenient for him to stay in the regular patient rooms. We’ll be troubling Dr. Zhang to go over there.” The patient’s son spoke quite politely.
“Okay, I’ll go over right now to give him a checkup and prepare him for the surgery. How about you go to see him first? I’ll be right over.”
“Sure.”
Zhang Fan knew that he had received a knee replacent surgery patient. He was really itching to perform surgery as he hadn’t gotten to properly do so in several months. “Wang Yanan, co with . We’re going over to the VIP section for our new patient.”
“What patient?”
“A surgery patient.”
“Won’t it be troubleso if the patient is in the VIP section? We’re going to have to go over there every day.”
“Let’s go already. Is there any use in saying such things?” Zhang Fan and Wang Yanan walked over from the surgical departnt to the VIP patients’ section.
When Zhang Fan arrived, he saw a spirited old man sitting in a wheelchair in the largest room of the VIP section. Several won were cleaning his bed for him. ‘Such an extravagant VIP room still needs cleaning? He really knows how to enjoy his life,’ Zhang Fan thought to himself.
“Oh, the doctor’s here. Please co in. Vice Director Chen hasn’t arrived yet?” one woman asked; she saw that Zhang Fan and Wang Yanan were rather young.
“We—” Wang Yanan was about to say sothing when Zhang Fan instantly interrupted her. He knew that anyone capable of staying in this best VIP room would be either rich or powerful. He didn’t want to stir up any trouble for himself.
“We’re here for a preliminary checkup. The directors will co to personally check on you afterwards,” Zhang Fan casually stated. He then pulled Wang Yanan into the room while pinching her arm.
Wang Yanan glanced at Zhang Fan, but didn’t say anything. She liked to always say what she thought, but she also knew that she couldn’t afford to truly anger Zhang Fan, as that would an she wouldn’t get any chances to actually practice surgery.
The old patient had a sowhat poor hearing due to his advanced age. Zhang Fan perford a basic checkup, and found that the patient’s heart, blood pressure, and other asurents were all alright. However, the patient’s right knee joint was severely distorted to the point of almost being turned inside-out. The patient’s male relatives were all quite polite. However, the female relatives all had rather arrogant and unfriendly attitudes upon seeing how young Zhang Fan and Wang Yanan were.
Zhang Fan imdiately pulled Wang Yanan out of the room after finishing the checkup.
“Could you have so more guts to stand up for yourself? Just listen to those won chattering about us as if we can’t hear them!” Wang Yanan complained.
“So what? Are we supposed to argue with them? Have so patience, okay? We don’t have to lower ourselves to their level. Woman, sotis being foolish is better. If you’re combative on a daily basis, you’ll age really quickly.”
“Hmph!”
When Chen Qi saw Zhang Fan and Wang Yanan return to orthopedic departnt #2, he intentionally spoke up in a loud voice in front of everyone. “Doctor Zhang, how is it, the patient’s in good health for the surgery, right? Since you’re in an independent dical team now, do you think you can guarantee success for this surgery? Pick a doctor you’d like to be your primary surgical assistant. I’ll give you anyone you want. Even if you want Director Wang to be your assistant, I’ll go talk to him about it.” Chen Qi spoke rather vaguely because he wanted to attract the interest of the other doctors in the departnt.
“Haha, the patient’s overall health is alright. Vice Director Chen, how about you assist with the surgery? You can also decide the secondary and tertiary surgical assistants.”
“Oh my, newcors really don’t know fear. Alright, an old guy like will act as your primary surgical assistant this one ti. I’ll also arrange for the other personnel. I’d like to see Doctor Zhang’s skills for myself.” Zhang Fan’s words were exactly what Chen Qi wanted to hear.
Chen Qi really hoped that Zhang Fan could succeed with this surgery. He arranged for himself to be the primary surgical assistant, with Yuan Tao and Luo Jin being the secondary and tertiary surgical assistants, respectively. Chen Qi wasn’t afraid of Wang Dehua’s displeasure, since Director Wang had already told him to test Zhang Fan’s skills. If Zhang Fan truly was able to succeed at performing knee replacent surgery, then all the doctors in the departnt would start rebelling if Director Wang still didn’t allow other doctors to perform such surgeries.
“Hey, look! A resident doctor from orthopedic departnt #1 is already capable of performing knee replacent surgery, yet Director Wang is still monopolizing all such surgeries for himself?” Wang Dehua would no longer be able to maintain a stable position as director unless he allowed other doctors to perform these surgeries. However, even if he did allow other doctors to do so, he would start by only allowing the most experienced doctors. This would of course an Chen Qi, as the vice director was the second most experienced doctor in the departnt after the director.
It was all a well thought out sche by Chen Qi.
During the next day’s morning eting, Wang Dehua didn’t speak for quite a long while as he kept looking at the surgical preparation report for the old patient. Finally, he spoke up in a tone that sounded like he was simply having a normal discussion. “Isn’t this surgery a bit too major for Zhang Fan?”
Chen Qi hid all signs of his sche quite well as he responded with a friendly chuckle. “There should be no problem. I especially went to ask Li Hongtu from orthopedic departnt #1. He says that the young brat is especially skilled at joint replacent surgeries. If you don’t feel assured about his skills, you can observe and take over the surgery at any ti if he’s incompetent, and I’ll be your primary surgical assistant.” Chen Qi was doing his best to make his involvent in this surgery set in stone. “Besides, if Zhang Fan fails at this surgery, Gao Shijun will no longer be able to strut around so proudly and brag to everyone how amazing Zhang Fan is, as if Old Gao is the best person in the world for spotting talent! If his greatest disciple can’t even succeed at a surgery in orthopedic departnt #2, Old Gao will beco nothing more than a joke!”
“Okay! Let’s do it like that, then. I’ll personally observe tomorrow’s surgery, and if he’s incompetent, I’ll kick him off and take over the surgery.” Wang Dehua did feel slightly pained about using his own monopolized surgery type to test a resident doctor’s skills. However, he was still willing to let Zhang Fan try so that Gao Shijun could potentially lose face as Wang Dehua had competed with Gao Shijun for his entire career. Chen Qi had taken advantage of it as he knew quite well how ultra-competitive Wang Dehua was, thus digging a pitfall for the director.
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