Chapter 764: Director Bai's Gossip

The sky was about to brighten, and the test results came back—a diagnosis of Lupus.

The rest was simple; symptomatic treatment would suffice.

The Second Affiliated Hospital had strong critical care capabilities, so Bai Chuzhang no longer focused on this side. He sat to one side, and after listening to the ICU duty professor finish communicating with the Family Member, he stood up in silence, gestured for Ji Xiang to follow, and walked out of the briefing room.

Liu Zhuren was idly flipping through his phone at the door. Bai Chuzhang asked leisurely, "Dazhi, who was that person talking nonsense?"

"An Expert from the Imperial Capital, familiar with Zhou Jiaoshou, going to Yuanliao to perform a Kidney Transplant."

"Yuanliao, so it was him."

"Hm? You know him?" Liu Zhuren was startled.

Ji Xiang explained the situation with Zhao Zhe's family to Liu Zhuren, and only then did Liu Zhuren understand the full story.

With both sides compared, the entire puzzle was complete, and Ji Xiang felt a bit emotional.

Especially when recalling what the system NPC had said, although the situation in Zhao Zhe's family was rather chaotic, Ji Xiang couldn't help but develop a favorable impression of this Expert.

Bai Chuzhang, however, was unimpressed.

"Performing a Kidney Transplant like that seems a bit wrong." Ji Xiang's perception leaned more toward the system NPC's view.

Bai Chuzhang went outside and glanced at the sky; it was already turning light. He looked back at Ji Xiang and asked, "Xiao Ji, let me tell you some gossip."

Gossip!

Ji Xiang's ears immediately perked up.

He hadn't even realized that he had been unconsciously led astray by Shen Lang, and he had veered off course quite ridiculously.

"My Medical Affairs Department is a 'clean temple' with no money, you know that, right?"

Bai Chuzhang asked with a chuckle.

"I know. The Medical Affairs Department is responsible for all kinds of Clinical affairs and also has to handle Medical Disputes; it's considered the hardest job in the hospital," Ji Xiang said honestly.

"Well, now I ask you: in a broken place, if you don't have money, you can't gather people, and even if people come, they just go through the motions. If it were you, what would you do?" Bai Chuzhang asked a question that had absolutely nothing to do with the Kidney Transplant.

Ji Xiang didn't think at all; he shook his head directly.

One could only use the hospital's name to pressure people, but heaven only knew how the work would actually turn out.

Liu Zhuren laughed, "Lao Bai, don't teach the kid bad things."

Bai Chuzhang also laughed, "Come to my office and I'll tell you."

It was already nearly dawn; at this point, even if one lay down to sleep for a while, it wouldn't relieve the fatigue. Since Bai Chuzhang was in the mood, Ji Xiang accompanied him to the office.

"Many years ago, the deputy director of the Medical Affairs Department at a large Grade A Tertiary Hospital in the Imperial Capital got into trouble."

"The cause of the incident was that the deputy director had someone on the side, and every time they went to get a room, they only went to the hotel across from the hospital, so after a long time, they were discovered."

"Their spouse went to the hospital to make a scene and accidentally let it slip, which was how the problem was exposed."

"Relationships between men and women can be considered a problem; the old masters said, 'Food and sex are human nature,'" Liu Zhuren yawned.

Bai Chuzhang ignored him and continued, "Never mind the large Grade A Tertiary Hospital in the Imperial Capital, our Second Affiliated Hospital copies every day..."

He immediately changed his expression.

"My Second Affiliated Hospital has a total of 51 Clinical departments, 17 medical technology departments, 121 wards, 5,733 current employees, and 1,034 professional staff with a Deputy Senior Professional Title or higher."

"Last year, the outpatient and emergency volume reached 2.887 million visits, 266,000 discharged patients, 124,000 surgical operations, and an average length of stay of 8.23 days."

Bai Chuzhang recited the basic data of the Second Affiliated Hospital by heart, and Ji Xiang was very impressed.

This is professionalism!

The most basic quality of a Director of Medical Affairs!!

"About 20% of discharged Patients need to copy their Medical Record."

Copying Medical Records?

Ji Xiang was startled.

"Over fifty thousand Medical Records; not counting weekends, that's an average of 220 copies per day, only more, never less."

"Each Medical Record averages 20 pages."

"The cost to copy each page is one yuan, which means an income of over four thousand a day. This income can be said to have no costs. Every year, a million in pure profit."

A million a year, that doesn't seem like much, Ji Xiang thought to himself.

He still hadn't figured out what Bai Chuzhang was trying to say.

"Just report ten or twenty copies; the people below can split the rest, it can be considered adding a little fat for everyone."

Bai Chuzhang spoke indifferently, and Liu Zhuren smiled without a word.

Ji Xiang listened, completely confused.

"By the way, Lao Bai, what happened to that deputy director later?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"As for relationships between men and women, if you say it's an issue, it's a huge issue; if you say it's nothing, it really isn't an issue. But the Medical Affairs Department isn't exactly a good place, you know what I mean."

"That's true."

Liu Zhuren was not surprised by Bai Chuzhang's tongue-twister-like words; he understood instantly.

"Later, there was no punishment, and that money from copying Medical Records couldn't be brought into the light. If you make the Medical Affairs Department do so much dirty work without giving them money, if you really pull the rug out from under them, who will do the work in the future?"

"So that person was fine?"

"During the pandemic, they led a team to support Tian He, which was called 'atoning for crimes with meritorious service,' but in the end, wasn't it just because the situation was serious at the time and no one dared to go, and the hospital leadership took a fancy to their professional ability?" Bai Chuzhang said, "Later on, it seems they were promoted to a full director."

"Oh, that makes sense."

Ji Xiang listened, his head full of confusion.

They were just talking about a Kidney Transplant, so why did Bai Chuzhang start talking about copying Medical Records?

It seemed there was a connection, but it was too far-fetched.

However, Bai Chuzhang was different from the system NPC; he was unwilling to explain much, and many things ended right there once he finished speaking, with no intention of instilling values.

After Bai Chuzhang finished speaking, he leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath.

"Damn it!"

Bai Chuzhang let out a string of profanities.

Liu Zhuren laughed, "Lao Bai, you must have been stunned when I called you."

"Stunned isn't the word, I only had one thought at the time—cursing internally, wondering which bastard was causing me trouble again." Bai Chuzhang closed his eyes, looking somewhat weary, "To make a mistake with blood type during a Blood Transfusion, regardless of which ward or which director it is, there will be a total reorganization."

"The Nursing Department will also have to go through a bloodbath; even our ward won't be able to have any peace." Liu Zhuren felt a sense of shared trepidation.

"However, I don't think it's very likely. After all, the Blood Transfusion Department has to go through eight checks for blood matching, and doctors and nurses with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder will even look at it repeatedly. I thought of a few issues while I was driving here."

"First, could it be that something went wrong with the blood-typing test reagents?"

"Right!" Liu Zhuren slapped his thigh, "Indeed!"

"Can something go wrong with that too?" Ji Xiang was taken aback.

"Of course, there has been a similar incident in the past," said Bai Chuzhang, "but the probability is extremely low. In all these years, as far as I know, there's only been that one case. Second, I thought that was the most likely possibility at the time."

Ji Xiang pricked up his ears.

He wanted to know how a veteran Clinical expert like Bai Chuzhang made such judgments.

"The Ghost Bed?" Liu Zhuren asked.

"Mm."

Ji Xiang's brain buzzed, and his jaw nearly hit the floor.

What the hell, what exactly is going on in Bai Chuzhang's head!

If Shen Lang had said this, Ji Xiang wouldn't be surprised at all, but the person saying it was actually Bai Chuzhang—what was he thinking?!

In Ji Xiang's mind, Bai Chuzhang was a very reliable person, but he never expected that Bai Chuzhang could also have such wild, unconstrained thoughts.