Chapter 165: Walking the Path of Thorns (Alliance Leader Lu Renyi Bonus x6)

"Then how is the old man in your family doing now?"

"He's fine, his spirits are exceptionally high." Zhao Zhe said happily, "After the surgery was finished, I stared at him for 3 days without even daring to blink; until he was discharged, I couldn't believe this was actually real."

"And then? Did patients start coming to you?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"Not at all, but this incident left an impression on our Medical Affairs Department head and the Vice President in charge of Clinical affairs. Later on, I still couldn't get my work off the ground. About a year passed, and there was a patient with postpartum hemorrhage. The family was frantic, with over a hundred people crowding our hospital. It looked like if the person didn't make it, they were going to resort to violence... Everyone's emotions were out of control, and they were likely holding back, ready to smash our hospital to pieces."

Although this kind of thing is not common, it is not rare either; Liu Zhuren had seen it many times.

"Why smash the hospital?" Ji Xiang was puzzled.

"Everyone has moments when they lose control of their emotions. Everyone says 'mother and child are safe,' but you'll understand once it happens to you." Liu Zhuren explained briefly.

Ji Xiang nodded; it was indeed like that.

To put it mildly, a needle prick to the head is the most normal thing in the world to a surgeon, but for the patient, they have to endure heart-wrenching pain.

Although medicine is a science of flaws, it is hard to say when it comes to people dying.

Especially for a joyous occasion like giving birth, if a happy event turns into a funeral, it is normal for the family not to accept it.

"Our place is small, and the documents from the Maternal and Child Health Care Commission only allow for two accidents a year. So at the time, the relevant leaders from the city also came, and our Dean was like... hahaha."

As Zhao Zhe spoke, he laughed out loud, looking very proud of himself.

Although he didn't say it, both Liu Zhuren and Ji Xiang understood: he was like a grandson.

If he had really crossed the line, I'm afraid everything would have vanished into thin air.

"Did they think of you again?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"Yeah." Zhao Zhe nodded, "Calling me to perform the surgery was the only way. At the time, the mother's blood pressure was gone, and the surgery was difficult to perform. If she were sent to the Provincial Hospital, she would certainly die, so it was better to let me try and seek life out of death."

"How long did it take?"

"Thirty minutes? I forgot. But this time I did it very smoothly, I didn't even break a sweat!" Zhao Zhe wiped his forehead with the back of his hand to indicate he hadn't sweated at the time.

"Awesome!" Liu Zhuren praised.

Indeed, for a non-specialized, ordinary doctor to be able to reach this point, it was truly awesome, Ji Xiang thought to himself.

"Maybe it was because I made a great contribution that time, so I could carry out surgeries on the sly and no one bothered me." Zhao Zhe said.

"Contribution? Your little bit of credit was surely claimed by the leaders as their own. Did you have a few big arguments with the hospital, threatening the Medical Affairs Department that if they didn't let you perform surgery, you wouldn't take on such messy cases in the future?" Liu Zhuren asked with a smile.

"Hahaha, Liu Zhuren, your eyes are like torches; my little thoughts really couldn't be hidden from you." Zhao Zhe laughed.

Leaders taking the credit of technical personnel as their own is a common occurrence; if they were to promote Zhao Yisheng just because he saved a few people, that would be the truly strange thing.

Those who know, know; Zhao Zhe was just speaking in vague terms, and was immediately exposed by Liu Zhuren.

"Normal."

"I gradually gained a bit of authority to perform surgeries, but I knew how many eyes were watching me. To tell you the truth, it's really not easy to accomplish something. But once someone does, others start picking at flaws. It doesn't matter, I was already used to it, taking it slow. Fortunately, I have always been cautious and haven't made any major mistakes."

"After that, I intermittently performed embolization first and then surgery for Renal Cancer patients, and the post-operative results were good, so..."

"Wait a moment!" Liu Zhuren stopped Zhao Zhe, "You did them one after another, how many cases did you do?"

"105 cases."

"!!!" Liu Zhuren's glasses fell to the ground, shattered beyond repair.

The countrified doctor in his field of vision blurred rapidly.

105, this number is indeed not high; among the Attending Professors at the Second Affiliated Hospital, the one with the worst skills and the lowest volume could do a hundred cases in a year or two.

But this is an ordinary prefecture-level city, without even DSA equipment for Interventional Surgery, and an unremarkable, greasy middle-aged doctor with all sorts of flaws could actually do so many!

"It's good if one patient a month stays to have it done; most still went to the Provincial Hospital." Zhao Yisheng narrated very calmly, "If they have money, they go to the Provincial Hospital; if they don't have money and trust me, they stay. I'm usually careful..."

"Zhao Yisheng, did you really perform 105 surgeries?" Liu Zhuren asked with a frown.

"Yes!" Zhao Zhe said very seriously, "For every patient, not only did I perform the surgery, but I also have all kinds of data and post-operative follow-up records. This is just because there are few patients; I heard that Peking Union Medical College Hospital and 912 also track patients, and with so many surgeries, they can still..."

"Teacher Zhao, wait a moment."

Zhao Zhe's words triggered Ji Xiang's memory; the NPC told him that the Oilfield Hospital's diabetes project took 30 years and over a hundred thousand people to be called true scientific research.

And Zhao Zhe...

"What's wrong?" Zhao Zhe felt Ji Xiang's tone was a bit urgent and asked curiously.

"For all these years, have you been following up and recording all 105 patients?"

"Yes, at first I was afraid that something would happen to the patients, and that a well-intentioned surgery would end up a disaster. Later..."

As he spoke, the chatterbox-like Zhao Yisheng stopped in embarrassment.

"What happened later?" Liu Zhuren was also becoming more and more interested in this doctor.

"Don't laugh at me when I say this, Liu Zhuren." Although Zhao Zhe said this, he had no fear of being laughed at and continued, "I saw that the articles in the 'Zhong' series journals were just so-so, and I figured my articles could definitely be published. I'm still just an Attending Physician, and I lack articles for promotion."

"You didn't buy one?"

"Sigh, don't even mention it!" Zhao Zhe looked frustrated, "A few years ago, right when I came back from 912, an SCI paper cost 40,000. I didn't understand these things back then; I thought these people must be crazy, asking for 40,000 for nothing."

Liu Zhuren smiled.

"But this price is as firm as the housing prices in the Imperial Capital; now you can't even get one for 100,000." Zhao Yisheng sighed, "Where would I have extra money to buy an SCI? The 'Zhong' series articles are a bit cheaper... Right, they call it a page fee! But promotion also requires scientific research. You tell me, in a tiny place like ours, where are we supposed to find scientific research, and who is going to provide the funding? Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for people?

Let alone in Yuanliao City, even if you go to the Provincial Hospital, the vast majority of doctors don't have any scientific research; it's just the blind leading the blind."

Zhao Zhe's words were a bit disjointed, but both Ji Xiang and Liu Zhuren could understand.

"Forced by the professional title, I also tried to come up with some project myself. But this thing... I couldn't even get the application approved."

Liu Zhuren smiled; people in small places don't understand the rules. Is scientific research something you just 'do'? It's the same logic as the world of martial arts not just being about killing and fighting.

(End of chapter)