Chapter 322 Invitation to Surgeon, First Outpatient Clinic
After get off work, Zhou Can returned to his apartment to practice the quick sword technique that he had neglected for many days.
At this time, the cell phone rang.
It turned out to be Chief Tang from Xinxiang Maternity and Child Health Hospital who called.
"Hello, Chief Tang!"
As Zhou Can's strength and status continued to rise, he no longer had to be as humble as he was during his internship when talking to people of Section Chief Tang's level. He appeared calm, confident, and free.
"Oh, Dr. Zhou even saved my phone number! This really surprises me!" Section Chief Tang is a diplomat. He has a sweet mouth and many of the things he says can only make you happy by listening to them.
Don't take it too seriously.
"You wrote me your number last time and I saved it. You are a very busy man, so you must have something to tell me." Zhou Can didn't want to beat around the bush with him.
"Hehe! Doctor Zhou is indeed a master of foresight! I really need your help with something!"
Chief Tang, is there anything you need his help with?
"Please go ahead!"
Zhou Can narrowed his eyes slightly and his expression became more serious.
If they wanted to recruit him to Xinxiang Maternity and Child Health Hospital, I would definitely refuse without hesitation.
"I heard that you came to our hospital today and performed surgery on the child with the deformed hair dryer hand together with Director Zhang! Director Zhang praised your surgical skills highly, and the other medical staff involved also admired you very much. They all praised your excellent surgery."
It's not surprising that Section Chief Tang knew about this.
"Haha, they are just flattering me, don't take it seriously!"
Zhou Can felt very happy to be praised.
His outstanding surgical skills have always been his strength that he is proud of.
"I happen to be familiar with a doctor in your Tuya Hospital, so I asked about you. I heard that you are not only good at traditional surgery, but also amazing at endoscopic surgery."
Chief Tang did not say which doctor at Tuya Hospital he was familiar with, which was a protection for that doctor.
Although the two hospitals have started a cooperation, they are still in a competitive relationship.
There are some things that definitely need to be avoided.
"The lung cancer patient we admitted last time has not yet been scheduled for surgery. The patient and his family are very anxious, but Director Meng Chun of our hospital has not returned from his overseas training. Senior talents in endoscopic surgery are also scarce, and our hospital cannot find a suitable surgeon for the time being."
It turned out that Section Chief Tang asked Zhou Can for help with this matter.
"Doctor Zhou, if you are confident that you can complete this operation, why don't you take some time to come and help me? I know the rules, and I would never dare to ask you to work in vain. If the operation is successful, in addition to the medical bonus, you will also receive a commission from the operation. If the operation fails, you will not be held responsible, and we will handle it ourselves. However, there is one thing I need to explain, because your current rank is resident physician, according to the surgical level safety access system, you cannot preside over this kind of high-level operation."
"So we need to use Director Hu Wanjun's name here. In other words, she will be the lead surgeon in name only, but you will actually be the one performing the endoscopy."
Before Chief Tang invited him, he had already taken every aspect into consideration.
The temptation for Zhou Can was too great to actually preside over a lung cancer resection surgery, and an endoscopic surgery at that.
Almost everyone knew that if the operation was successfully completed, at least 100 medical experience points would be awarded. In fact, it was likely to be more than that.
His various medical skills have now been advanced to level five. To advance further, he needs 100,000 experience points.
For him, any opportunity to earn 100 experience points as a reward is extremely precious.
Even if the operation fails, he will not be held responsible.
As for the fact that the honor after the successful operation did not belong to him, he really did not care. As long as he had the ability, fame was nothing.
By the time he is promoted to the level of associate chief physician, his surgical skills will probably be even more amazing.
By then, you can become famous by performing a few difficult operations.
"Your hospital trusts me and entrusts me with such an important operation. I have no reason to refuse. I carefully examined the lung cancer patient's condition that day. I can't say anything big, but I am 60% to 70% sure of the success."
Zhou Can's answer was basically equivalent to agreeing.
Section Chief Tang was extremely happy.
"Okay, great! I knew I had the right person. A 60 to 70 percent chance of success is already very high. When is it convenient for Dr. Zhou to come over for surgery? We can prepare in advance."
It was impossible to dig Zhou Can out, but asking him to perform the surgery went surprisingly smoothly.
Including this lung cancer surgery, this is our second collaboration.
"I basically have to go to work every day. Do you think it can be done at night?" Zhou Can was just a poor little resident, although he was much better than other resident doctors.
He was almost never required to work the night shift.
Be it the chief resident or the doctors in charge of the accompanying patients, they all had a tacit understanding and almost never arranged night shifts or overtime for Zhou Can.
Generally, if overtime is needed, it is Zhou Can’s teaching teacher who will directly supervise him. If there is a difficult operation, he will work overtime with him.
"Your hospital is really exploiting low-level doctors. You don't even get any vacations. You should at least get two or three days of rest a month!" Section Chief Tang stood up for him.
Resident doctors and interns have no human rights.
In theory, when the instructor takes a break, the trainees can also take a break. However, in practice, it is common to see genuine trainees taking a break.
Even if the teacher is taking a break, you will still be on duty or work overtime.
What’s even worse is that sometimes the shifts are 24 hours a day.
"Although there are fewer surgeries at night, there are still some. I'll talk to Director Hu and ask her to work overtime. Then this is a happy decision. Do you think it's okay?"
Director Tang seemed to be worried that he would change his mind and back out.
Director Hu is one of their in-house doctors, so we can discuss things together. As long as Zhou Can is dealt with, everything will be easy.
"Okay! Once you have set the time, please let me know in advance. Sometimes, I may not be able to leave work at a normal time because I am performing surgery or rescuing patients with my instructor. But most of the time, I leave work on time."
Zhou Can and Section Chief Tang have reached a verbal agreement.
He is quite looking forward to this lung cancer surgery.
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The next day, Zhou Can rushed to the Department of Gastroenterology early in the morning, handed over the patients on hand, and then hurried to the pediatric outpatient clinic to work.
After his status and strength were improved, he became busier and busier.
Today will be his first time to see patients in our hospital.
It can even be called the first formal independent consultation.
Xinxiang Women's and Children's Hospital, with the help of the reputation of Director Zhang Bihua and other experts, coupled with the hospital's crazy advertising campaign, attracted a large number of patients to seek treatment.
When seeing patients, if Zhou Can encountered a problem he couldn't handle, he could just pass it on to other experts.
This time is different.
First of all, he relied on the big tree of Tuya to fight on his home ground. The outpatient volume of Tuya Hospital was much larger than that of Xinxiang Women and Children's Hospital.
Secondly, Zhou Can did not have the name of any expert team to borrow this time and could only rely on himself to attract patients.
It’s hard to say whether it will be coldly received or not.
At this moment, it was not yet the clinic's opening hours. He first opened the hospital's medical APP on his mobile phone to check whether his clinic number had been activated.
Click on the department navigation and select Pediatrics.
Then five sub-departments popped up, but there was no pediatric orthopedics department.
There are only five departments: pediatric hematology, respiratory medicine, neurology, neonatology , and critical care.
Director Tang Fei only informed him to see patients in Pediatric Clinic No. 17, but did not tell him which medical field he would be treating!
Zhou Can tried to click on the first pediatric hematology department. The first five doctors were either directors or deputy directors. This level made him feel quite pressured.
The registration fee for the top five doctors ranged from 50 yuan to 600 yuan. The lowest fee was for specialists, and the one with a consultation fee of 600 yuan was for special needs specialists.
Zhou Can was envious. He thought that if someday he could become a special needs expert, he would be so happy.
Not to mention anything else, the medical fee alone for treating patients is 600 yuan each.
If you flip further back, there are a total of seven doctors with regular consultation numbers.
Zhou Can's name was listed among them, ranking last.
Clicking on a regular doctor's number will show the doctor's available appointment times, but it does not show how many appointments are left. It only shows that the appointment is available, which is a small green dot .
The Ministry of Health has long stipulated that the daily number of outpatient doctors should be kept within 36 patients.
That is to say, a doctor can see a maximum of 36 patients a day.
This regulation is intended to ensure that doctors do not overwork themselves and to provide the best possible service to every patient, thereby achieving high-quality diagnosis and treatment services.
Unfortunately, the hospital simply cannot do this.
There are a lot of patients in the outpatient clinic every day. If we really limit the number of patients, more than half of them will definitely not be able to see a doctor.
When Zhou Can was doing his resident training in general surgery , he heard some attending physicians complain that they had to see more than 110 patients a day. Sometimes when they got home from work, they didn't want to talk at all.
It’s not that they are indifferent to their families, but they see so many patients in a day and talk too much.
When I get home I just want to have a good rest.
Because you may have to continue fighting the next day.
Isn’t this phenomenon amazing?
Doctors who failed to obtain outpatient qualifications are queuing up to get this qualification. Doctors who have successfully obtained outpatient qualifications are unwilling to see so many patients a day because the work is too tiring.
People are like this, standing on one mountain and looking at that mountain and thinking it is higher.
Every time you step up a new level, you will face new demands and problems.
Employees envy their bosses because they don’t have to work and can just sit in the office and issue orders or eat and drink with clients. Bosses envy their employees because only need to go to work on time and get paid on time in the middle of the month without too much pressure.
The hospital does not display how many outpatient numbers are left, which is actually an unspoken rule of its secret operations.
Otherwise, if the number of available appointments is shown as 120, someone could take a screenshot and report it to the higher authorities, and the hospital would be fined and have to make corrections. Not showing the number of available appointments has another benefit: it reduces the number of patients who choose ordinary doctors.
Some famous general doctors have their appointments snapped up quickly, so other patients will follow the crowd and grab appointments with that doctor.
This results in some new and less famous doctors being left out in the cold.
Those who are flooded will die from floods, and those who are drought-stricken will die from drought. This is not in the interest of the hospital.
It was the first time that Zhou Can saw his name listed on the hospital’s website and entered into the outpatient system. He was quite excited.
This is an important step.
After nearly three years of hard work, I can finally see my name on the Tuya Hospital’s website.
He is no longer an unknown nobody.
Click on your name.
Zhou Can, pediatric hematologist, physician. Specialties: pediatric joint dislocation, lumbar and cervical sprains, various emergencies and difficult cases.
Further down is the doctor's personal introduction.
Zhou Can, male, doctor. Graduated from the Department of Clinical Medicine of Tuya Medical University in 2020...
Compared with the various titles of other doctors in attendance, his is really shabby.
Fortunately, he achieved decent honors during his training, otherwise he would have really become a "blank slate doctor".
The road to becoming a famous doctor is long and arduous, and we must continue to work hard to improve!
Outpatient clinic hours: Wednesday, all day.
Many other doctors only see patients for more than three days. He has no titles, honors or achievements to show off, but his consultation hours are on par with those of the top experts.
This made Zhou Can feel ashamed.
I'm really afraid that others will scold him for not being destined to be a prince, and for having prince syndrome.
But we can't blame him entirely, because his situation is very special. When the training is over, he should be able to see patients more than three days a week.
From now on, it seems that Wednesday is his regular appointment date.
It shows that you can register on the same day.
Appointments are available for next Wednesday.
After leaving the pediatric hematology department, he tried to enter the pediatric respiratory department, and a happy smile appeared on the corners of his mouth.
The hospital provided him with great support.
Except for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, his name can be seen in the other four departments and everyone can make an appointment with him.
Other doctors don't have this kind of treatment.
Generally speaking, residency is divided into two stages. The first stage is the first three years of regular training, which mainly focuses on general practice rotation. At this time, you have to learn almost everything and there is no specialization.
The second stage is the last two years of residency.
During this period, residents have begun to be divided into specialties.
Therefore, it is rare for other doctors to see patients in two different departments at the same time.
"Hi, Dr. Zhou is here so early!"
Someone greeted Zhou Can from behind.
He turned around and found that it was Director Dai from the Pediatrics Department.
"Good morning, Director Dai! This is not my first time seeing patients today, so I have to come early. To be honest, I'm a little nervous." Zhou Can greeted her with a smile.
"With your ability, there's no need to be nervous. Let me tell you, when I first started seeing patients, I secretly hid the Pediatric Clinical Physician Handbook inside my clothes. Why? Because I was afraid of encountering a case I had never seen before and wouldn't be able to handle it. I'm also seeing patients in the outpatient clinic today. If you really encounter a patient that's difficult to handle, call me."
Director Dai became familiar with him at Xinxiang Maternity and Child Health Hospital.
That was quite righteous at the moment.
Like an older sister, she provides Zhou Can with support.
