Chapter 290: 0284 Exchange Study (4/4 Uniform Subscription 1000 Bonus Chapter)

Zheng Ren and Su Yun quickly closed the abdominal cavity; the surgery was clean and neat.

After the anesthetic wore off, the patient went straight back to General Surgery Ward 2, with no need to even make a round in the ICU.

"Zheng Ren, your skill is not bad." Director Xiao modestly gave Zheng Ren a word of praise.

Zheng Ren smiled.

"Zheng, you finally have time." Professor Rudolf Wagner sent the video to his friends in Berlin, then said excitedly.

"You can speak Chinese, that's really good." Zheng Ren expressed praise for Professor Rudolf Wagner's ability to speak Chinese.

"Come down, we're all tired, let's go eat." The office director behind Director Xiao said with a beaming smile.

Such dinner gatherings are very familiar to Director Pan and Director Kong.

After waiting for Zheng Ren for so long, it would be abnormal not to eat. Anything can be said over the dinner table.

Professor Rudolf Wagner didn't understand the situation, but as long as Zheng Ren was there, it was fine. For the distant Nobel Prize in Medicine, he was willing to pay any price.

The patient was about to be sent back to the ward when Director Xiao answered a call, and the office director began bustling about, moving the patient to a special-needs ward.

Zheng Ren didn't notice any of this; it had nothing essential to do with him. He was just a doctor, and curing people was enough.

After a dozen or so minutes, everyone changed clothes and headed straight to the small kitchen cafeteria.

Six or seven years ago, the hospital's small kitchen cafeteria could rival Hai Cheng's most luxurious hotel. But now things are different, and the cafeteria's standards have only gotten lower.

Although standards and scale were reduced, the small kitchen cafeteria still had to be kept to receive professors of Flying Knife from all over the country.

While the office director was busy running back and forth, the phone rang, adding to the chaos.

He answered the phone impatiently.

But after a dozen or so seconds, he froze.

His subordinate staff had already clarified the situation, saying that the city TV station had been airing a documentary these past few days. Although it was about City First Hospital, the protagonist was not the director, not a certain department head, but the inpatient chief of the Emergency Department—Zheng Ren.

This…

The office director was bewildered, not knowing what to do.

Normally, the media are very influential. Getting them to promote the hospital comes at a cost that is far from ordinary.

But this time, it wasn't the hospital's intention. The city TV station and Hai Cheng Urban Daily joined forces to create a documentary, actually to promote a mere 'little' inpatient chief?

Is there still any regard for leadership in their eyes?

Is there still any regard for law and discipline in their eyes?

It's utterly chaotic!

But this habitual, high-and-mighty anger was extinguished in an instant; the office director repeatedly weighed the matter, feeling it was definitely not something he could touch.

Nobody is a fool; everyone knows clearly what can be touched and what cannot.

He had his staff send the video over immediately, then found a private moment to briefly report this to Director Xiao.

Director Xiao also froze for a moment; the matter seemed strange, and he couldn't grasp its meaning.

In that case, better to treat it as nothing out of the ordinary and pretend not to know.

Besides that, the office director quickly found the resumes and materials of Director Kong and Professor Rudolf Wagner, so that Director Xiao wouldn't be too passive at the dinner table.

After looking at their materials, Director Xiao became even more astonished.

One is a senior department head at a top-tier national Grade-A hospital.

What does that mean? Going to the capital, just seeing the person is one thing; even if you meet, you'd only see their nostrils.

And Professor Rudolf Wagner is a top-tier global professor in interventional medicine; I hardly even have a chance to see his nostrils.

The stature of these two people left Director Xiao dazed for a moment.

Looks like we're going to drink heavily today; Director Xiao gave a wry smile.

Zheng Ren also gave a wry smile at the same time.

Today, there was one major emergency rescue, one minor surgery, saving a single case. Saying whether it's tiring or not… if I could go back to the Emergency Ward to read, I definitely wouldn't be tired.

But if I sit at the dinner table listening to Director Xiao boast and chat lively, that would be a tiring affair.

However, not going is definitely out of the question; Director Kong and Professor Rudolf Wagner came for my sake, so having a meal is necessary.

Arriving at the small kitchen cafeteria, Director Kong sat next to Zheng Ren, refusing Director Xiao's request. Professor Rudolf Wagner pretended not to understand Director Xiao's words, didn't take the seat beside the host, and plopped down directly on Zheng Ren's other side.

Director Xiao's heart felt swollen.

As a big director, I still can't compare to an inpatient chief?

The facts tell him that it's truly impossible to compare.

But these are trivial matters; the office director, adept at smoothing things over, arranged everyone's seats, resolving the embarrassment with both appeasement and deflection.

Zheng Lao Ban…

"Director Kong, please stop nitpicking me; call me Xiao Zheng, Xiao Zheng." Zheng Ren hastily declined.

Director Kong chuckled, dropped the formalities, and said: "The research matter is settled thus. On my end, I estimate needing to find you once a month, each time doing ten to twenty surgeries, split over two days—what do you think?"

"No problem on my end; just give me advance notice, and I'll ask Director Pan for leave." Zheng Ren said.

Director Kong glanced at Professor Rudolf Wagner, seeing him listening to his and Zheng Ren's conversation, then said: "Professor Rudolf, Zheng Ren is busy; if you have anything to say, just tell him directly."

Professor Rudolf Wagner immediately said: "Zheng, I've seen your surgery; it's especially perfect."

"Professor, you're overpraising me." Zheng Ren laughed.

"Not at all; trust my eyes—it's absolutely the hand of God!" Professor Rudolf Wagner made an exaggerated expression.

Zheng Ren kept an unchanging smile on his face, waiting for the professor's next words.

"I'd like to invite you to Germany for an exchange; if possible, I plan to set up a lab in our joint names to research prostate interventional embolization—what do you think?" Professor Rudolf Wagner said.

Director Xiao's ears were perked up like a rabbit's, constantly listening to what these two big figures were saying to his subordinate inpatient chief.

Going to the capital for Flying Knife…

An invitation from the Germany exchange…

Dean Xiao's eyes were all red.

Normally, the professors from Di Du and Modu would go to Flying Knife; if they met someone with a good temper, it was still okay to talk. But if they met someone with a bad temper and poor skill, it really made one want to flip the table.

In the blink of an eye, Zheng Ren actually had to go to Di Du to do Flying Knife, and it was a research‑type Flying Knife…… If someone else told Dean Xiao that, he wouldn't believe it at all.

And Professor Rudolf Wagner's invitation was even more outrageous.

Dean Xiao had also gone abroad for exchanges, study, and inspections. But those were all funded by multinational equipment manufacturers, who used the pretext of inspection to have them go out and play.

Study, exchange? Who the hell exchanges with themselves? People talk about academics, but I can only talk about officialdom—this is bullshit.

Not to mention myself, even those chiefs of surgery who dominate Hai Cheng are all the same.

Dean Xiao could see longing in Professor Rudolf Wagner's eyes; such an invitation is probably something even the professors and directors of Di Du couldn't get.

Eyes blood‑red, not only were the ears perked up like a rabbit's, but the red eyes were also like a rabbit's.