Chapter 881: A Good Place for Cultivation!~

"Tian Luo, have there been any patients or family members causing trouble in the department lately?" In the Trauma Surgery Director's Office, Fang Ziye and Lan Tianluo sat opposite each other, steam rising faintly from the teacups before them.

After all, they were getting on in years; Fang Ziye and Lan Tianluo were no longer young, and they neither dared nor found it suitable to squeeze into the Inpatient General Office with a crowd of master's students and doctors to eat breakfast anymore.

Lan Tianluo smiled back: "Senior Brother, since you stopped coming to the department, everyone has tacitly accepted Professor Xie and Brother Qin and the others as lead surgeons, so there haven't been too many complaints."

"But is Teacher Wang really returning to the main campus? After this, our New Campus doesn't plan to open a Hand Surgery specialty anymore??"

The New Campus opened for treatment in Year 25 and has been operating for over three years. Associate Professor Wang Zongkai also completed his title and technical accumulation here; this year, upon being promoted to Chief Physician, he is to be transferred back by Liu Huanglong to lead a group.

"Professor Wang himself thinks so and has already decided; we can only wish him well."

"Tian Luo, you must also consider Professor Liu Huanglong's arrangements. After all, Wang Zongkai is a Chief Physician homegrown by our own hospital, while a newly poached professor is just newly poached—he has no affection for our department."

"If we let him serve as Ward Director of Hand Surgery, it's hard to say whether personnel authority will cause problems later."

"If Professor Liu Jiadong truly develops affection for our hospital in the future and wants to work here steadily, then the director's position isn't out of the question."

"Professor Liu isn't a young man anymore... he will succeed as Chief of Orthopedics, so he must sort out the Hand Surgery matters," said Fang Ziye.

Wang Zongkai was not Lan Tianluo or Jie Han; what Wang Zongkai expected to find at the New Campus had already arrived. Wang Zongkai had no great research dreams, so naturally he had to respect the opinion of Ward Director Liu Huanglong and return to the main campus to lead a group.

Back when Liu Huanglong toppled several Chief Physicians of Hand Surgery, it didn't "recover" for many years. Now that Professor Liu Huanglong has introduced Professor Liu Jiadong, and with Wang Zongkai promoted to Chief Physician, Hand Surgery has finally regained its vitality.

Wang Zongkai was from Orthopedics, but after all, Hand Surgery was his home department, and he would also think about developing his own subspecialty.

"In the blink of an eye, Professor Deng is almost retiring; time really flies..." Lan Tianluo's tone was filled with sighs.

Fang Ziye is nearly thirty-four this year; he was also twenty-nine, approaching thirty.

Luo Tingzhu is two years younger than Fang Ziye, Lan Tianluo is two years younger than Luo Tingzhu, and since Lan Tianluo came for standardized training, a full eight years have passed...

"When I first came to Zhongnan Hospital, my Master was in his prime; back then he was only forty-seven, with his technique, stamina, and so on all at their peak. Back then, Old Professor Dong Yaohui was the age my Master is now..."

"Back then, my Master was still Chief Resident, younger than I am now," Fang Ziye muttered, gently lifting a teacup.

The roller of time can crush everything, can welcome everything, and can also send everything away.

Lan: "Senior Brother, do you expect Teacher Deng to surpass Professor Duan in professional technical skill before he retires? This has been Teacher Deng's lifelong dream."

Fang Ziye shook his head: "Impossible! ~"

"My Master was indeed fortunate in luck and also very hardworking, but Professor Duan Hong's fundamental aptitude is even stronger. Just half a year after Professor Deng's basic skills took off, Professor Duan's debridement technique also caught up."

"It was just half a year earlier... Although my Master is my Master, I can still only say that before Professor Duan, Professor Deng is merely a junior brother."

"However, Professor Duan is half a year older than my Master; he should be turning sixty next year."

Delayed retirement is gradual; Deng Yong and Professor Duan Hong's generation can retire on time.

Fang Ziye and Lan Tianluo could be said to have seen off a Trauma Surgery director from peak to retirement...

"Professor Duan will definitely accept re-employment; he can't bear to throw away that whole plate of work."

"But Tongji Hospital is truly ruthless—Professor Duan Hong hasn't even retired, and Professor Zhong has already been promoted to the National Treasure Doctor list, while Associate Professor Long Yuan's level is also extremely, extremely high..." Lan Tianluo's gaze was reserved.

These days, Lan Tianluo, in all aspects, coveted nothing more than the level of National Treasure Doctor.

The roller of time certainly doesn't just crush Deng Yong; other hospitals are consistently the same.

For example, the Provincial People's Hospital—Professor An Lumming is also nearly sixty, and the department is undergoing renewal and replacement. For example, Professor Duan Hong of Tongji Hospital is still the peak of Trauma Surgery, but Professor Duan Hong's student Zhong Wenyuan, the former associate professor, entered the "National Treasure Doctor level" a full three years earlier than Professor Duan!

If it weren't for Fang Ziye at Zhongnan Hospital, Tongji Hospital would still be suppressing Zhongnan Hospital's Trauma Surgery.

"Professor Zhong, ruthless and sparing with words... good talent, hardworking, with a famous master and a platform... early promotion is to be expected."

"Of course, Tongji Hospital is also luckier. Professor Dong Dongsheng of Peking Union Medical College Hospital is stuck outside the threshold."

"I still remember that year at the competition in Enshi, watching Professor Dong's basic skills, I was also full of admiration," said Fang Ziye emotionally.

"Senior Brother, speaking of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, when Professor Qi passed away, did you contribute money?"

"I only contributed five hundred yuan; is that too little?" Lan Tianluo asked.

Back then, Trauma Surgery in Hubei Province had four peaks: Deng Yong of Zhongnan Hospital, An Lumming of the Provincial People's Hospital, and Duan Hong of Tongji Hospital, among whom Professor Duan Hong was the most formidable, followed by Professor Qi Qiaowen of Tongji Hospital.

But Professor Qi Qiaowen died of a sudden cerebral infarction during surgery in Year 27, at only fifty-five years old!

Among this generation, Professor Qi was the youngest, and originally he also had a chance to be promoted to 'National Treasure Doctor level'...

"Everyone is like this; why bother with contribution money?"

"Teacher Qi... Teacher Qi actually did have the grace of teaching me before, but I took Jiang Daohu not because he is Professor Qi's student, but because Jiang Daohu was already strong enough," Fang Ziye explained to Lan Tianluo.

Lan Tianluo hehe laughed: "Senior Brother, I'm not saying Brother Jiang isn't formidable; I'm thinking that Peking Union Medical College Hospital has a good master's student. I can't take on doctoral students now, so I want to poach him over for you, Senior Brother."

Fang Ziye: "???"

"Tian Luo, be a decent person..."

Lan Tianluo truly loved it, so his tone was blunt: "Taking on students is a willing matter between both parties; I'm not playing any crooked ways."

"Besides, in terms of technique and research, among Professor Dong, Professor Pang, Professor Xing, and Professor Duan Yun at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, who am I inferior to?"

That reasoning was correct; if he were willing to come, Lan Tianluo would also want to take him, and Fang Ziye really needed to step forward to bear some pressure and trouble.

"Fine, let's say this first: no crooked ways."

"Next month, you will follow Professor Tang and Brother Nuo to lead a group out alone; remember to be sharp yourself. If anything happens, you can still call me."

After Wang Zongkai left, a group was vacated, and Hand Surgery did not transfer in any 'manpower' again.

The manpower on the New Campus side is abundant; currently, just Fang Ziye's one group has five or six senior titles—pull any one out and they can lead a group.

Of course, the most legitimate one is still Professor Tang Sai leading a group. Tang Sai has long been a Chief Physician and Professor, followed Fang Ziye for three years, and all his technical skills are nearly perfect.

In spinal cord injury treatment, at the current comprehensive level, besides Fang Ziye, only Lan Tianluo can match him. Besides Fang Ziye and Lan Tianluo, even Liao Ruifeng, who developed the 'Puncture Technique' with Fang Ziye back then, cannot compare with Tang Sai.

Liao Ruifeng was just lucky; his aptitude was not exceptionally top-tier.