My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Capítulo 802: Chapter 322: Inviting the Lead Surgeon, First Clinic Visit (Part 2)

The teaching teachers are resting, but you still have to stay on duty and work overtime.

Even more excessive, sometimes it’s a continuous 24-hour shift.

“Although there are fewer surgeries at night, it doesn’t mean there aren’t any. I will discuss with Director Hu, and then she can work an extra shift. So, it’s happily decided, does that work for you?”

Director Tang seemed quite worried that he might back out or flake.

Director Hu was one of their internal doctors, and it was easier to negotiate with her. As long as Zhou Can was sorted out, everything would go smoothly.

“Alright! Once you have set a time, let me know beforehand. Sometimes I am with the teaching teacher doing surgery or rescuing patients, so I might not be able to finish work on time. But most of the time, the end times are quite punctual.”

Zhou Can and Director Tang completed a verbal agreement.

He was looking forward to this lung cancer surgery.

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The next day, Zhou Can rushed to the Digestive Internal Medicine early in the morning to hand over his patients and then hurried to the Pediatric outpatient department to start his shift.

As his status and capabilities improved, he became increasingly busy.

Today, it would be his first time sitting for a consultation at this hospital.

It could even be said to be his first formal independent consultation.

At Xinxiang Women and Children’s Hospital, leveraging Director Zhang Bihua’s and other experts’ reputation, plus the hospital’s aggressive advertising campaigns, they managed to attract a large number of patients.

During consultations there, if Zhou Can encountered cases he couldn’t handle, he could directly refer them to other experts.

This time was different.

Firstly, he was supported by the Tu Ya tree, fighting on home turf. The outpatient volume at Tuya Hospital was much larger than at Xinxiang Women and Children’s Hospital.

Secondly, Zhou Can didn’t have any expert team names to rely on this time; he had to attract patients by himself.

Whether he would face lukewarm reception was uncertain.

At this moment, it wasn’t yet clinic hours. He first opened the hospital clinic app on his phone to see if his outpatient number was available.

He clicked on the department navigation and chose Pediatrics.

Then five sub-departments appeared, but there was no Pediatric Orthopedics.

There was only Pediatric Hematology, Respiratory, Neurology, Neonatology, and Intensive Care.

Director Tang Fei just informed him to sit in consultation room 17 in Pediatrics but didn’t specify which medical field to see! Read complete versıon only at NoveI~Fire.net

Zhou Can tried clicking the first Pediatric Hematology, and the first five doctors listed were either directors or deputy directors, which made him feel quite pressured.

The registration fees for the top five doctors ranged from a minimum of 50 yuan to a maximum of 600 yuan. The lowest were expert numbers, and the fee of 600 belonged to a special expert number.

Zhou Can couldn’t help but feel envious; how wonderful it would be if he could become a special expert one day.

Not to mention anything else, just the consultation fee for seeing a patient would be 600 yuan each.

Scrolling further, there were seven ordinary consultation-number doctors in total.

Zhou Can’s name was prominently listed among them, at the very end.

Randomly clicking on an ordinary doctor’s number displayed the available consultation times for that doctor, but did not show how many appointment numbers were left. It only indicated that a number could be registered, shown by a small green dot.

The Ministry of Health had long stipulated clearly that the daily outpatient volume for clinic doctors should remain within 36 patients.

This meant a doctor could consult a maximum of 36 patients in one day.

This regulation was made to ensure doctors aren’t overly exhausted, thus serving each patient to the highest possible standard, achieving high-quality healthcare services.

Unfortunately, the hospital can’t operate this way.

There are always too many patients each day at the clinic. If the number was really limited, more than half of the patients wouldn’t be able to see a doctor.

Zhou Can, during his General Surgery training, had heard some attending physicians complain about having to consult over 110 patients a day. Sometimes after getting home, they didn’t even want to speak.

It wasn’t that they were indifferent to their families, but they had spoken to so many patients all day.

Getting home, all they wanted was to rest a bit because they might have to continue fighting the next day.

Isn’t this phenomenon quite intriguing?

Doctors who haven’t attained outpatient qualification rack their brains, lining up to get this qualification. But those who succeeded in getting scheduled for consultations find the work so tiring they aren’t willing to consult so many patients in a day.

People are like this, looking at the greener pastures from where they stand.

With every new step taken, new demands and issues arise.

Employees envy bosses for not having to do physical work, just sitting in offices giving orders, or simply wining and dining with clients. Whereas bosses envy employees for just needing to clock in and out on time, collecting salaries in the middle of each month without much pressure.

The lack of display for remaining outpatient numbers in the hospital actually belongs to an unspoken rule of clandestine operations.

Otherwise, if it showed 120 numbers left and someone took a screenshot and reported it to higher authorities, the hospital might face penalties or be required to reform. Not showing remaining numbers also benefits by reducing patients’ selection anxiety towards regular doctors.

Some famous ordinary doctors have their outpatient numbers snapped up quickly. Other patients follow the crowd, rushing to register under that doctor.

This causes some new doctors or less famous ones to sit on the cold bench.

The rich grow richer while the poor grow poorer, and this doesn’t align with the hospital’s interests.

For the first time, Zhou Can saw his name listed on the hospital’s website, and entering the consultation system made him quite excited inside.

This was an important step forward.

After nearly three years of striving, finally, one could see his name on Tuya Hospital’s website.

He was no longer an obscure unknown.

He clicked on his own name.

Zhou Can, Pediatric Hematology Specialist, Physician. Specialty: Pediatric joint dislocation, lumbar and cervical strain, various emergencies, and difficult cases.

Below was a detailed personal doctor biography.

Zhou Can, Male, Physician. Graduated in 2020 from Tuya Medical University’s Clinical Medicine Department…

Compared to other consulting doctors’ various titles, his credentials were quite humble.

Fortunately, the honors he achieved during his training period were decent, otherwise, he really would have become a ‘blank doctor’.

The road to becoming a renowned doctor is long and arduous, requiring continued effort for improvement!

Outpatient consultation time: Wednesday, all day.

Many other doctors sit for consultations more than three days a week, yet he didn’t have any prominent titles, honors, or achievements, consulting the same amount of time as top-notch experts.

This made Zhou Can feel a bit embarrassed.

He was really afraid of being criticized for not having a prince’s destiny yet suffering from a prince’s ailment.

However, it wasn’t entirely his fault, as his situation was quite special. Once the training period finished, his consultation time should be able to reach more than three days a week.

In the future, it seemed like Wednesdays would be his fixed consultation day.

It showed that appointments for today were available.

And appointments for next Wednesday were open.

Exiting Pediatric Hematology, he tried entering Pediatric Respiratory, and a joyous smile unconsciously appeared on his lips.

The hospital’s support for him was immense.

Apart from Pediatric Intensive Care, he could see his name and have patients register in the other four departments.

Other doctors didn’t receive such treatment.

Generally, resident physicians are divided into two stages. The first stage is the initial three-year training period, mainly focused on comprehensive rotation learning. At this time, almost everything had to be learned without specialization.

The second stage is the later two-year resident physician stage.

During this period, resident doctors start focusing on specialized directions.

So, it is quite rare for other doctors to simultaneously consult in two different departments.

“Hey, Dr. Zhou, you’re here so early!”

Someone greeted Zhou Can from behind.

Turning his head, he found it to be Director Dai of Pediatrics.

“Good morning, Director Dai! Today is my first time consulting, so I had to come early. Honestly, I’m feeling a bit nervous.” Zhou Can greeted her with a smile.

“With your skills, there’s absolutely no need to worry. Let me tell you, back when I first consulted, I secretly hid a Pediatric Clinical Physician Handbook in my coat. Why? Because I was scared of encountering unseen cases and being unable to handle them. Luckily, I’m also here consulting today. If you really encounter a difficult patient, call me.”

Director Dai had become familiar with him during their time at Xinxiang Women and Children’s Hospital.

At this moment, she was quite supportive.

Like an elder sister, offering support to Zhou Can.