Chapter 291: New Official Takes Office (Seeking Subscriptions)

When Fang Ziye arrived in Han City, no one came to pick him up.

Perhaps the timing was truly inconvenient; Fang Ziye's arrival coincided exactly with the time Luo Tingzhu was still busy non-stop in the laboratory, so Fang Ziye could only make his own way back.

The high-speed rail from Ba County to Han City does not only stop at the high-speed rail station; it also stops at the train station.

The subway can go directly to Zhongnan Hospital Station!

After Fang Ziye exited the station and rushed to the old-style community rental house, Luo Tingzhu happened to be hurrying back, jogging all the way.

Seeing this, Fang Ziye, who had already entered the stairwell, retreated two steps back.

After Luo Tingzhu saw Fang Ziye, she stopped jogging; from far away, she took off her mask with her cotton-gloved hand and smiled at Fang Ziye.

Only then did the two go upstairs together, and they started chatting away.

After a round of daily mutual inquiries, the two immediately decided to go out to find food.

The chosen location was a Western restaurant near Han Street, planning to have steak again.

After all, when they were abroad, the two often ate steak.

Soon they arrived at a restaurant; Fang Ziye ordered a Beef Wellington, and after Luo Tingzhu ordered an 8oz Wagyu Beef, she also ordered a Pork Roll and a Fruit Salad.

Immediately followed a long waiting time.

"Master won't be removed from the Group Leader Professor position, right?" Although Fang Ziye already had an answer in his heart, he still hoped Luo Tingzhu had inquired about better news recently.

Luo Tingzhu drank a sip of water first: "Teacher won't give up the Group Leader Professor position."

"In our big team, the teacher truly suited for research is Teacher Yuan Weihong, not Teacher Deng Yong; Professor Deng is very clear on this point."

"To get the Distinguished Youth award and even further become a Changjiang Scholar, one must be personally skilled, not just the team; otherwise, when giving a report later, one might expose oneself, and lose even more face at that time."

"It's just that Professor Deng wants to create this kind of posture, making the whole team, making the hospital believe the whole big team has this trend; this is more beneficial for Teacher Yuan Weihong's future advancement."

"The clinical core is still undertaken by Professor Deng Yong."

When Luo Tingzhu spoke here, she still looked around, and only then said: "Furthermore, among the current senior professional titles in the department, Old Professor Dong Yaohui is already old in age; he is not suitable for high-intensity labor."

"Professor Han Yuanxiao's promotion to Chief Physician hasn't been long; his understanding of many new surgical techniques is also not yet transparent and deep enough; he occasionally still needs Teacher's guidance."

"Unless the hospital wants to give up Trauma Surgery, this foundational discipline in Orthopedics, otherwise Teacher simply cannot be pushed down."

Luo Tingzhu had indeed inquired about more objective circumstances, some circumstances that ordinary people would not consider in detail.

Fang Ziye listened and smiled honestly: "I thought Professor Han's many surgeries were also done as well as Professor Deng Yong's."

Han Yuanxiao is a Chief Physician, a Professor, a Chief Physician. Fang Ziye fundamentally never doubted a Chief Physician's strength.

Let alone Chief Physicians, even Deputy Chief Physicians and senior attending physicians, Fang Ziye wouldn't dare doubt they don't know something. He could only guess.

Hearing this, Luo Tingzhu immediately understood Fang Ziye's meaning, and then gossiped: "Senior Brother, you really shouldn't say that; currently, it seems as long as someone promotes to Chief Physician, it's as if they're invincible."

"What exactly they know, don't know, are skilled at and not skilled at, there is no relatively objective standard anymore; it seems to be tacitly accepted that a Senior Professional Title, say Chief Physician and Professor, should know everything, be omnipotent."

"However, in reality, it should be that each person has their own specialties."

"Currently there are also experts who have noticed this matter, trying to find ways to solve it; it's just that this matter's influence is far-reaching, not good to execute directly."

"For example, during professional title evaluation, if professional ability is good, being able to provide video materials of some high-difficulty surgical techniques to the National Surgical Quality Review Platform can be comparable to high-quality papers."

After Luo Tingzhu finished speaking, she drank another sip of water, as if made of water; after drinking, she even cutely licked around her lips with her tongue.

Seeing the waiter not nearby, Fang Ziye proactively refilled Luo Tingzhu's glass and asked further: "How to find a way to solve this?"

"Some people just rely on their title to muddle along, hanging their name."

"Unless one can find a way to standardize many people's abilities or something, otherwise it's impossible to find a way to solve this problem well."

Fang Ziye felt Luo Tingzhu's mentioned way to solve it was a very unreliable matter.

Currently, the division of professors' specialized professional fields is based on their sub-specialty division.

For example, a Trauma Surgery professor is more proficient in Trauma Surgery operations; a Joint Surgery doctor is more skilled in Joint Surgery operations.

But as for Trauma Surgery Professor A and Professor B, who is superior in Pelvic Reconstruction, who has more advantage in Mangled Extremity treatment, there is no specific evaluation model.

It seems to be tacitly accepted that a Trauma Surgery professor is necessarily very skilled in all Trauma Surgery surgical techniques, unless he actively says he can't do such a technique well, then recommends you to go elsewhere.

In that case, besides himself, others can't say much either; even peers can't say much; if they're colleagues, because of face, it's even more unspeakable.

"But?"

"I heard Teacher say, our hospital seems to be about to take the path of micro-reform."

"Our Orthopedics Department currently has five departments, three rooms, two centers."

"The Specialty's Administrative Director, the Laboratory's Director, and the Research Center's Person in Charge cannot hold concurrent posts anymore; a separation system of Clinical Principal Investigator and Research Principal Investigator is to be implemented."

"The five sub-specialties are certainly easy to understand; three rooms two centers means three laboratories, one Bone Tumor Research Center, one Bone Material Research Center."

"First, Professor Du Xinzhan will serve as a model, first giving up the Bone Material Research Center Overall Person in Charge position, becoming the number two, giving the Research Director position to young people."

"Then, the Bone Tumor sub-specialty's Professor Du will also actively step down from the sub-specialty Chief position, then wholeheartedly go to the Bone Tumor Research Center, become the Research Center Director, no longer manage clinical overall, and only lead a group in clinical."

"The Bone Tumor Chief will be taken over by Associate Professor Ceng Duoqin." Luo Tingzhu paused slightly here.

Fang Ziye listened, quite stunned: "Professor Ceng, he's a Deputy Chief Physician, taking over the Bone Tumor Chief position; does Professor Hu have no opinion?"

The Bone Tumor specialty is actually similar to Trauma Surgery's group setup; it's also three groups.

Administrative Director Professor Du, Former Director Professor Xiao, another Chief Physician Professor Hu.

And Fang Ziye also knew that in the current Administrative Director Professor Du's group, there is also a Chief Physician following Professor Du.

Equivalent to the Bone Tumor specialty having four Chief Physicians.

However, now it's good; these Chief Physicians are no longer Administrative Directors; an Associate Professor becomes the department's Administrative Director?

This damn thing, shouldn't we check if there's anyone surnamed Ceng in the Dean or Provincial Party Committee?

Moreover, this kind of thing didn't not happen back then; this Professor Du, before, was because he failed competing for Administrative Director, went to Provincial Tumor Hospital, causing the current Hubei Provincial Tumor Hospital's Bone Tumor specialty to develop very well, ranking seventh in the whole province.

"This is temporarily unknown for now."

"Anyway, the currently leaked news is just this: Associate Professor Ceng Duoqin is about to take over the Bone Tumor sub-specialty Administrative Director position."

"Senior Brother, actually you should also notice, Associate Professor Ceng Duoqin's age is only thirty-seven. And he's already been in the Deputy Chief Physician position for over four years, soon it'll be the fifth year; expected at thirty-eight, he can promote to Professor title."

Fang Ziye's expression stiffened at those words; being promoted to Deputy Chief Physician at thirty-three was itself out of the ordinary.

The Bone Tumor specialty's research output was relatively easier than other specialties, so being able to reach Chief Physician at thirty-eight showed that Professor Ceng's talent and ability were exceptionally out of the ordinary.

Of course, thinking along those lines, Professor Liu Huanglong was truly fucking awesome.

He came from Hand Surgery, where research output is the hardest, was only one year older than Yuan Weihong, currently just thirty-six, yet already held a Senior Professional Title, and had secured the Outstanding Youth Fund hat early on; he's probably now preparing to charge for the Outstanding Youth hat.

"So Professor Hu and Professor Ning voluntarily stepped aside?"

"This magnanimity is truly broad~" Fang Ziye sighed inwardly upon hearing this.

Leaving other things aside, if Professor Ceng was highly capable, and Professor Hu and Professor Ning were willing not to compete, yielding the position to someone more suitable.

Then that breadth of mind, and the degree of harmony within the specialty, would be enough to let the Bone Tumor subspecialty enter the top three within a few years, stepping one or even several brother units underfoot!!

"There's also a rumor that Professor Liu Huanglong from Peking Union Medical College Hospital's Hand Surgery might be poached to serve as Hand Surgery's Administrative Director."

"Zhongnan Hospital plans to make all subspecialty Administrative Directors younger. Laboratory and Research Center Persons in Charge, even more specialized."

"Because, barring accidents, Teacher Yuan Weihong will also be promoted to a Laboratory Person in Charge, and then Teacher Deng will hold the nominal Deputy Lab Director position, together with Teacher Yuan Weihong, jointly managing the laboratory." Luo Tingzhu told Fang Ziye what she had inquired about!

If the news of Associate Professor Ceng Duoqin becoming Administrative Director counted as a bomb, then the news of Professor Liu Huanglong, who left Zhongnan Hospital, possibly returning to serve again, would be nuclear-bomb level.

"Professor Liu, can he also be poached back?"

"Is this for real or fake?" Fang Ziye's voice and color both changed, his two hands constantly kneading.

"But many people feel that if Associate Professor Ceng Duoqin can become Administrative Director, then Professor Liu can also become Hand Surgery's Administrative Director."

"And this position, among Han City's four major hospitals right now, only Zhongnan Hospital dares have such audacity."

"The others, whether Peking Union, or Tongji, or even Provincial People's Hospital, wouldn't dare take such a risk, treating a crowd of already mature and famous professors as green leaves." Luo Tingzhu analyzed it this way.

Of course, after Luo Tingzhu finished speaking, she added: "These words were all told to me by Senior Brother Wang Yuanqi, not my own analysis and speculation."

"Then?"

"Is it only our Orthopedics Department planned this way, or are all of Zhongnan Hospital's subspecialties arranged like this?" Fang Ziye didn't care who analyzed it.

Fang Ziye just wanted to know who exactly made this proposal to make directors younger.

"Professor Du Xinzhan proposed it, and it seems some Old Professors agreed, and persuaded many professors in the department."

"And Professor Du Xinzhan will also, next year, timely step down from the Chief Director position, but as for who specifically will take over, there's still no suitable conclusion for now."

……

The two were still chatting, eating melon, when the steak finally came up.

With something arriving before them, naturally they stopped eating melon.

Fang Ziye and Luo Tingzhu shared their steaks with each other, and together complained about where exactly this steak restaurant was unauthentic.

How the mouthfeel was bad, and this black pepper crushed sauce wasn't very authentic and such.

In Eastern Han, only Eastern Han cuisine is suitable; most Western food are aliens.

This was a formal conclusion reached by Fang Ziye and Luo Tingzhu.

Holding hands, walking back, Luo Tingzhu asked: "Senior Brother, tomorrow is your day as Chief Resident concurrently acting as Root Chief Resident, will you feel nervous?"

"From tomorrow on, it'll be day and night without rest!"

Fang Ziye heard this and said with a bitter smile: "What solution is there?"

"If you want to stay on a platform equivalent to Zhongnan, Chief Resident is a hurdle you can't get past."

"Tired is fine, at least we still have a large batch of Follow-up Residents to help?"

"For instance, from now on, reading medical records, reviewing medical records — assign it to you, and Xiong Jinhuan, Senior Brother Li, and those few, where would I have any worry?"

Fang Ziye felt his biggest benefit from advancing to Chief Resident early was having very trustworthy acquaintances he could pull in as coolies.

Li Yuanpei and Xiong Jinhuan, those two, were living, breathing classmate coolies, and Follow-up Residents at that?

Not having to handle medical record review, the Chief Resident position would relatively be a bit easier!

Luo Tingzhu smiled upon hearing this, certainly wouldn't refuse to help.

Seeing Fang Ziye's mindset was still decent, she also felt more expectation for the future.

Because regardless of whether she still wanted to stay in Trauma Surgery, Fang Ziye had already voluntarily yielded the position, and did not form a direct-line competitive relationship with her.

Luo Tingzhu felt this was Fang Ziye's thoughtfulness and protection.

The two walked home, and said nothing more.

Soon, time arrived at the fifteenth of the first month, March 1st.

That noon, Fang Ziye, having received the Chief Resident's old mobile phone, lit his first fire as a new official — a hot pot meal.

Didn't invite too many, just gathered all the department's Doctors together, and in the end spent a full two thousand-plus big dollars before sending their stomachs off full...

(Chapter End)