Healing Doctor

Chapter 406 Intermediate Certificate

"Old Bai!" Director Liu looked at Section Chief Bai with a resentful gaze, like a wronged woman.

Director Liu and Section Chief Bai were having a drink.

Due to their busy work schedules, the two of them have less and less time to get together to play games like they did when they were younger, and they only get to eat and chat together three to five times a year.

But this did not affect the relationship between the two. Tonight, it was Director Bai who took the initiative to ask Director Liu out.

"Ambition requires a broad perspective," Director Bai said leisurely, pointing to a green-covered notebook in front of him.

"I've been working on Xiao Ji's exceptional case, but why don't you get him an intermediate urology certificate? What is this?!" Director Liu complained angrily to his old friend, looking at the green certificate.

Director Bai has been processing the procedures for Zhao Zhe and Ji Xiang's promotion through the provincial natural sciences program ever since they passed. They have articles in The Lancet, provincial natural sciences degrees, and professional licenses. The only question is whether someone can handle the promotion.

Director Bai devoted a lot of energy to this, personally going to the Provincial Health Commission to get his face scanned and run various procedures.

Director Liu knew about this matter and originally thought that Director Bai would definitely apply for an intermediate certificate in urology for Ji Xiang, but unexpectedly he received a certificate in interventional medicine.

This is downright betrayal!

"Zhao Xiangming is a complete scoundrel, he's hopeless. What do you need him for?" Director Liu said disdainfully.

"It's precisely because he's such a mess that I'm preparing to strengthen the interventional radiology department," Director Bai said calmly. "Most of the interventional and vascular specialists have left. At least Zhao Xiangming's department still has someone to perform surgeries, but the vascular department... sigh."

Director Liu knew about this. The head of the vascular surgery department resigned and went to the south with his capable subordinates, which directly emptied the vascular surgery team of the Second Affiliated Hospital, turning it into an empty shell.

Even the vascular surgery department can't keep up with the interventional department. At least the interventional department has Zhao Xiangming, while the vascular department can't even perform the most basic surgeries.

The issue of catheter knots after heart transplantation is a prime example.

If the former Director Jianguo were still here, he would have immediately started surgery to solve the problem without saying a word, and wouldn't have given Ji Xiang the opportunity to have surgery.

Despite the solution to the problem, Lao Bai remained worried, despite the new director's numerous concerns.

Working in the medical affairs department for a long time can easily lead to obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Ji Xiang is Director Bai's antidote.

"Ji Xiang's provincial natural science department is in our urology department!" Although Director Liu knew Lao Bai well, he still pressed him relentlessly.

"Don't be so stingy. Let me tell you, our Second Affiliated Hospital is too small to keep such a big shot. At most, three years, or even just one year," Director Bai said calmly.

Director Liu's heart skipped a beat.

"We'll use it for as long as it lasts, and solve as many problems as we can," Director Bai said. "I hesitated for a long time when I applied, but in the end, I decided on the interventional radiology department."

"Tch." Director Liu scoffed.

"You can't just have one intermediate certificate. Our hospital has 102 doctors with two or more intermediate certificates," Director Bai said calmly. "Everyone is leaving themselves a way out, including Zhao Zhe, a doctor from Liaoning, who also has intermediate certificates in orthopedics and urology."

"I only have one copy," Director Liu began to argue.

"Don't be stingy. We still need to apply for your intermediate urology certificate for Xiao Ji. You never seem to get the point right," Director Bai said disdainfully.

"I know the interventional radiology department isn't our enemy; the orthopedics department is," Director Liu said. "But I just can't accept it."

"Let's drink." Director Bai poured wine into Director Liu's glass, raised his glass and clinked it against Director Liu's glass. "When I applied, I asked them about it, and they felt that we shouldn't make too many exceptions, so the second intermediate certificate will have to wait a while."

"Old Bai, your alcohol tolerance has improved." Director Liu knew that the die was cast and that Director Bai was in a difficult position. He had already expressed his dissatisfaction, and he was sure that Old Bai would make it up to him in the future, so he changed the subject.

"Sigh, only I know how much I've suffered. Drinking culture, what the hell can you call culture?" Director Bai rarely complained or grumbled like this.

"Hahaha."

"Once I was invited to dinner, and guess what the two big bosses did first after they met?" Director Bai asked jokingly.

"emmmm."

"Take off your clothes and inject insulin." Director Bai didn't keep you in suspense and said directly, "Your blood sugar is already above 15, and you're still drinking? You're really drinking yourself to death."

"Awesome!"

"Two middle-aged men, taking off their clothes to inject insulin, with the heart of a noble death, that drinking session was so tragically heroic." As Director Bai spoke, he laughed out of anger.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Director Liu was filled with vivid images.

Two pale, fat men took off their clothes and faced each other while the first one injected insulin. Was this a kind of "first come, first served" gesture?

"I still can't not go; the medical office is a fucking inhuman place."

"You'll have enough time by next March. Can you take another step?" Director Liu asked.

"Yes." In front of his old friend, Director Bai gave a definite answer without hesitation, "Being a vice dean also means being in charge of clinical affairs."

"But he's only the vice president. President Sun still has a few years until retirement. Are you confident you can compete with Zhao Jixiang for the position of president then?"

"I don't want to think about that for now. The problem is that I'll also be responsible for all the messy things that come with taking charge of clinical work," Director Bai said. "So I'm focusing on addressing the hospital's weaknesses first. Interventional surgery—it doesn't make money and they even take a cut of the sutures, it's really damn bad."

"By the way, Lao Bai, I heard that the procurement team at the First Affiliated Hospital is selling very quickly?"

Director Bai nodded. "It's hard to get rid of the centralized procurement framework. The operation time will be extended by at least half an hour, and there's no profit. It's been stagnant. Our hospital is better off. Several directors in the cardiology department give me face."

"What happened at the First Affiliated Hospital? I don't know the details."

"50% of the surgery fee will go directly to the surgeon, who will then distribute it as they see fit," Director Bai said. "I've already applied to the hospital for this. From now on, when Xiao Ji has surgery, especially interventional procedures, 50% of the surgery fee will go to him."

"!!!"

Director Liu was stunned.

The 50% of the surgery fee is negligible for general surgery, but the fees for interventional and catheter-related surgeries are still very high, ranging from about 4000 to 8000 yuan per surgery.

With Ji Xiang's speed and surgical skill, he can perform ten surgeries a day...

Director Liu wasn't envious. As the head of the Department of Urology at the Second Affiliated Hospital, he wouldn't envy Ji Xiang over such a small amount of money.

But Director Liu was very worried; he felt that Ji Xiang was drifting further and further away from him. Just like Colonel Wang, who was the first to discover Ji Xiang, he had now faded from view.

"I……"

Whenever I've been sad, or drenched in rain, flowers bloom even in the mud...

Director Bai's phone rang.

Director Liu laughed, "Every time I hear your phone ring, I think about how you always end up taking the blame. No wonder you're the head of the medical affairs department, you're awesome!"

(End of this chapter)