Chapter 406: Intermediate Certificate

"Lao Bai!" Liu Zhuren looked at Bai Chuzhang with a resentful gaze, as if he were a disgruntled wife.

Liu Zhuren and Bai Chuzhang were having a drink.

Work was usually busy, and the time the two of them could get together to play games like they did when they were young was becoming increasingly scarce; they didn't even manage to eat together or chat idly more than three or five times a year.

But this did not affect the bond between them; tonight, it was Bai Chuzhang who had taken the initiative to invite Liu Zhuren out.

"Dazhi, you have to have a big-picture perspective," Bai Chuzhang said leisurely, tapping his finger on a green-covered booklet in front of him.

"I've been working on the exception for Xiao Ji all along, but you actually went and got an Intermediate Certificate for the Urology Department—what is this!" Liu Zhuren looked angrily at the green booklet and complained to his old friend.

Ever since Zhao Zhe and Ji Xiang's provincial-level self-funded research project was approved, Bai Chuzhang had been handling the procedures for an exception-based promotion. With articles in *The Lancet* magazine, the provincial research project, and a Practicing Certificate, the matter of an exception-based promotion just depended on whether someone was willing to manage it.

Bai Chuzhang had invested a great deal of energy into this, personally going to the Provincial Health Commission to pull strings and run various procedures.

Liu Zhuren knew about this; he had originally thought that Bai Chuzhang would inevitably apply for an Intermediate Certificate in Urology for Ji Xiang, but he hadn't expected that the certificate he received would be for the Interventional Department.

This was practically a betrayal!

"Zhao Xiangming is just a pile of mud that can't be propped up; why do you want this thing!" Liu Zhuren said with disdain.

"Precisely because he is a pile of mud, I am preparing to strengthen the power of the Interventional Department," Bai Chuzhang said calmly. "The people in Interventional and Vascular have almost all left. At the very least, there is still someone performing surgeries on Zhao Xiangming's side, but the Vascular Surgery Department... sigh."

Liu Zhuren knew about this matter; the director of the Vascular Surgery Department had taken his capable subordinates and resigned together to go to the Nan Fang, directly hollowing out the echelon construction of the Vascular Surgery Department at the Second Affiliated Hospital and turning it into an empty shell.

The Vascular Surgery Department couldn't even keep up with the Interventional Department; at least the Interventional Department still had Zhao Xiangming, while the Vascular Surgery Department couldn't even handle the most basic surgeries.

The incident where the Catheter got knotted after a Heart Transplant was a prime example.

If the former Director Jianguo were still here, he would have opened the patient up to solve the problem without a second word, and wouldn't have even given Ji Xiang the chance to perform the surgery.

But the new director had countless concerns; although the problem was solved, Lao Bai was still filled with worry.

After working in the Medical Affairs Department for a long time, one easily develops Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Ji Xiang was Bai Chuzhang's antidote.

"Ji Xiang's provincial research project belongs to our Urology Department!" Although Liu Zhuren understood Lao Bai, he still pressed him step by step.

"Don't be so petty. Let me tell you, our Second Affiliated Hospital is a small temple that cannot hold this great deity. Three years at most, perhaps even just one year," Bai Chuzhang said lightly.

Liu Zhuren's heart stirred.

"Use him for as long as we can, and solve as many problems as we can," Bai Chuzhang said. "I hesitated for a long time when applying, but in the end, I decided on the Interventional Department."

"Pfft," Liu Zhuren curled his lip.

"It's not like you can only have one Intermediate Certificate. Our hospital has 102 doctors who have two or more Intermediate Certificates," Bai Chuzhang said calmly. "Everyone is leaving themselves a way out, including Zhao Zhe, a doctor who came from Yuanliao; he also has Intermediate Certificates in Orthopedics and Urology."

"I only have one," Liu Zhuren began to argue.

"Don't be petty. I will definitely apply for an Intermediate Certificate in Urology for Xiao Ji later. You are someone who has always failed to grasp the main point," Bai Chuzhang said with disdain.

"I know, the Interventional Department isn't our enemy; the Orthopedics Department is," Liu Zhuren said. "But I just don't accept it."

"Let's drink." Bai Chuzhang poured wine into Liu Zhuren's glass and clinked his glass against Liu Zhuren's. "I asked about it when I applied, and they felt that we shouldn't be too exceptional, so the second Intermediate Certificate will have to wait a while."

"Lao Bai, your tolerance for alcohol has increased," Liu Zhuren knew the matter was settled and also understood Bai Chuzhang's difficulties. Since he had already expressed his dissatisfaction and Lao Bai would surely compensate him in the future, he changed the subject.

"Sigh, you know how much you suffer yourself. Drinking culture—what the hell, that can be called culture?" Bai Chuzhang complained and grumbled, which was rare for him.

"Hahaha."

"One time I was called to a dinner, and after the big bosses of both sides met, guess what they did first?" Bai Chuzhang asked teasingly.

"Emmmm."

"Took off their clothes and injected Insulin," Bai Chuzhang didn't keep him in suspense and said directly. "Their blood sugar was already over 15, and they were still drinking; that was truly drinking until they died."

"Awesome!"

"Two middle-aged men, taking off their clothes to inject Insulin, holding the spirit of generously facing death—that drinking session was truly tragic and heroic," Bai Chuzhang said, laughing at the absurdity of it himself.

"Hahahaha."

Liu Zhuren's mind was filled with the imagery.

Two pale, fat men taking off their clothes to inject Insulin first—does that count as 'drinking first as a sign of respect'?

"And you can't not go. The Medical Affairs Department is truly not a place for humans to stay."

"Next March, your time will be enough; you can take another step up, right?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"I can." In front of his old friend, Bai Chuzhang didn't equivocate and gave a definite answer. "Even as a Vice President, I would still be in charge of Clinical affairs."

"But after all, it's only a Vice President. Dean Sun still has a few years before retirement. When the time comes, you and Zhao Jixiang will compete for the position of Dean; do you have confidence?"

"I'm not thinking about that for now. The problem is that once I'm in charge of Clinical affairs, I'll also be responsible for all those messy things," Bai Chuzhang said. "So I'm fixing the hospital's shortcomings first. Interventional Surgery doesn't make money and consumes supplies; it's really a pain in the ass."

"By the way, Lao Bai, I heard that the Centralized Procurement Stents at the First Hospital are moving very fast?"

Bai Chuzhang nodded. "The centralized procurement stents are hard to place; the surgery time is extended by at least half an hour, and there's no profit, so they've been sluggish. Our hospital is doing okay; several directors in the Circulatory Internal Medicine Department are giving me face."

"How did the First Hospital handle it? I don't know the details."

"50% of the surgical fee is given directly to the surgeon, to be distributed by the surgeon," Bai Chuzhang said. "I have already applied for this with the hospital. In the future, when Xiao Ji performs surgeries—interventional surgeries—50% of the surgical fee will belong to him."

"!!!"

Liu Zhuren was stunned.

50% of the surgical fee—if it were a regular Surgical Operation, it would be almost negligible, but for interventional and catheter-type surgeries, the surgical fees are quite high, around 4,000 to 8,000 yuan per surgery.

With Ji Xiang's hand speed and surgical proficiency, ten surgeries a day...

Liu Zhuren wasn't envious; as the great director of the Urology Department at the Second Affiliated Hospital, he wouldn't be envious of Ji Xiang over this little bit of money.

But Liu Zhuren was very worried; he felt that Ji Xiang was getting further and further away from him. Just like Colonel Wang, who first discovered Ji Xiang, he had already faded from view.

"I..."

【Whenever I have been sad, and have been drenched by a rainstorm, flowers bloom in the mud...】

Bai Chuzhang's phone rang.

Liu Zhuren laughed, "Every time I hear your ringtone, I think of 'whenever you carry the burden'—worthy of being the Director of Medical Affairs, awesome!"

(End of this chapter)