Rebirth of a Doctor Without Regrets

The emergency department is a department that any hospital both loves and hates.

The emergency department is the lifeline, reputation window, and operational necessity of a hospital, but it can also be a resource black hole, a high-risk area, and a heavy cost burden.

Good management can attract more patients, while poor management can drag down the entire hospital.

For doctors, it's not that complicated.

Emergency room work has a low skill ceiling and lacks technical depth, so even senior emergency room doctors don't earn much money.

The most lucrative activity for doctors—surgical knife work—is completely unrelated to emergency room doctors.

Moreover, they also have to face the most critical and urgent patients, which puts them under tremendous psychological burden.

Therefore, it is often the medical students with the worst grades who have no other choice who are assigned to the emergency department.

Even so, doctors in the emergency department often don't stay long.

After gaining some clinical experience, emergency room doctors will not hesitate to take up medical underwriting positions in lower-level hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, or even insurance companies.

The problem of not being able to retain staff in the emergency department has plagued the medical community at the University of Tokyo for decades.

The direct result is that the medical standards in the emergency department are very low.

Chungda No. 2 Hospital also had the same problem. President Chen's solution was to require each department to send people to support the emergency department in shifts.

At the same time, the emergency department also concentrated its resources to retain several core staff members as leaders of emergency internal medicine and surgery.

Gong Shen, the director of the emergency department, saw this issue's list and also heard some rumors circulating in the hospital.

He and Lin Gaoming were old acquaintances; the emergency department had sent many patients to the cardiac surgery department.

He could do whatever he wanted to do in his own department, but he was certainly not happy about Lin Gaoming using his emergency department.

Even a high-ranking official shouldn't be used as a pawn for nothing.

Boom boom boom!

"Enter!"

"Oh, Representative Chu is here too." Director Gong swaggered in.

A young woman wearing black stockings and red high heels was sitting opposite Director Lin.

When Director Gong entered, she turned around, her neatly tailored low-cut satin shirt revealing her delicate collarbone lines, and every move she made exuded a perfectly controlled charm.

"Sit down, Lao Gong. Uh, I mean, Brother Shen, please sit down. Representative Chu just happened to need to speak with me about something."

Gong Shen sat down next to the beautiful woman, straightening his back with a stiff posture.

"Maybe I should step aside for a bit." Chu Youwei smiled faintly, alluring but not seductive.

The two directors were held captive for a second, thinking to themselves that they truly were pharmaceutical representatives who were originally models.

Director Gong quickly said, "Oh, no need, no need, it's nothing serious, just a problem with a resident doctor."

"You mean Wang Xiao?"

"Yeah, Lao Lin, I heard about what happened in the operating room. What you did was really inhumane. He's just a kid. How else could you stop him if you didn't do something drastic? Besides, what he said was right."

Director Lin shook his head, got up, opened the window, and lit a cigarette.

"What? Am I wrong? This kid just made you lose face, and you want to send him to Ningguta? I don't agree. Do whatever you want in your cardiac surgery department, don't use my emergency room to torment people. Unless..."

Upon hearing that Director Gong had come to negotiate terms, Chu Youwei couldn't help but let out a silvery laugh.

"Unless what?" Director Lin asked, turning around.

"Unless you can provide me with another attending physician. I really have no other choice. The deputy director in charge of the surgical team is leaving at the end of this month, and you can't expect an old man like me to fill in."

"Okay, then I'll give you a specialist."

"Great, looks like you have plenty of manpower. In comparison, our emergency department is like a beggar."

Seeing the tense atmosphere, Chu Youwei chimed in, "Director Gong, don't say that. Every hospital's emergency department is like a beggar's den."

"Representative Chu, you...you...you're so beautiful..."

"You really think I sent Wang Xiao to the emergency room to get revenge on him?" Director Lin suddenly became a little angry.

"What else could it be? What other reason could you possibly have? Make one up for me."

"In the operating room, Dr. Wang Xiao's performance was truly amazing. Both her theoretical knowledge and diagnostic skills far surpassed those of a typical resident physician."

What's even more commendable is that he dared to stop me after I... after I had smashed the plate. No normal person would have that kind of courage.

What flaws could such a talented person possibly have?

"Oh? What are the shortcomings?" Chu Youwei had worked with Director Lin for several years, but this was the first time she had heard Director Lin give such a high evaluation of a junior doctor.

"Proud, that's what I've seen. I've seen plenty of geniuses like that," Director Gong quickly replied.

"Yes, that's why I want him to go to your place and get some experience, to let him know that being a doctor isn't such a passionate thing. Besides, he's in the spotlight right now, there's too much talk about him in the department, and I'm afraid he won't be able to handle it."

Gong Shen sighed, "Then wouldn't I have to keep an eye on him for you?"

"You're right, you've helped me keep a close eye on him. I'm not afraid of a genius like him going far, I'm afraid of someone like him going too fast. He'll thank us when he becomes a great doctor."

"Hehehe... Okay, then you can sponsor another residency training for me."

"No, you've really become a beggar."

"Hehe, are you going to give it to me or not?"

"Well then, my colleague Xiao Li is about to rotate through different departments, so I'll have him go to the emergency department first."

"It's a deal. But I must give you a piece of advice: the emergency room is a place where people come and go. If your little genius gets poached by someone else, I won't be responsible." Gong Shen got up to leave.

"You'd better watch out, or you might end up with general surgery where you have to clean up latrines," Director Lin said with a laugh, pushing Director Gong out the door and then closing it behind him.

"I'm really curious about this Dr. Wang Xiao you're talking about. Is there any chance I could meet him?" Chu Youwei asked with a curious expression like a kitten.

Director Lin sat down next to Chu Youwei and said, "There will be an opportunity. This little genius is no pushover. I have a bad feeling."

Chu Youwei silently repeated "Wang Xiao" three times in her mind and memorized the name.

……

On November 1st, Wang Xiao reported to the emergency department on time.

His story has become widely known in the hospital, and the nurses often gather around him to ask him all sorts of questions.

However, he wasn't the only one who came; attending physician Chang Wei and resident physician Li Renzhong also accompanied him.

Li Renzhong was quite excited, as being in the emergency department meant he would have the opportunity to treat patients himself.

Chang Wei, on the other hand, wore a stern expression. Upon seeing Wang Xiao, he secretly cursed in his heart, thinking that he must have been incredibly unlucky to be implicated by this jinx.

Director Gong secretly instructed the head nurse, "Keep a close eye on Wang Xiao and don't let him do anything reckless."