My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1059: Chapter 418: Director Han’s Sorrow—Use It When You Have To

From an outsider’s perspective, leadership seems glamorous, with a high status, getting the lion’s share of departmental benefits, and working leisurely, but the responsibilities on their shoulders are significant. When things happen, they must charge forward without hesitation.

For instance, when a patient needs resuscitation, it’s often the highest-ranked doctor who bears the main responsibility.

This includes directing on-site medical staff to immediately perform life-saving measures on the patient, personally taking action, coordinating with other specialist doctors to assist, and so on. If there are issues during the resuscitation, the first to be held accountable is not the medical staff involved but the department head responsible for leadership.

On a regular day, there are incidents of medical staff in the Emergency Department being hit by family members or patients, but it’s extremely rare for a leader to be beaten to the point of fracture.

However, everyone knows that the Emergency, Intensive Care Medicine Department, and Pediatrics are the three departments most prone to getting hit.

Especially in the Emergency Department, where the number of patients seeking treatment is high, it’s inevitable that some patients might feel unattended.

Meeting reasonable family members is not too bad; at most, they curse a few nasty words and leave with a complaint.

But if you encounter irritable family members or patients, it’s tragic. They lash out without a word, delivering punches directly to the face, hurling whatever they can get their hands on at medical staff.

Deputy Director Han encountered this type of extreme family member this time.

"Those family members are really terrible. No matter what, they shouldn’t resort to hitting people! I think in the future, our Emergency Department should have a dedicated security guard on duty to prevent medical staff from being attacked."

Zhou Can’s remark was not only meant to feel unjust for Deputy Director Han but also had the safety of all the department’s medical staff in mind.

"That’s a good suggestion, but I’m sure the hospital’s security department won’t agree. You saw for yourself today, if it weren’t for your timely intervention, my old bones wouldn’t have just one fracture."

Deputy Director Han shook his head repeatedly and sighed.

From an outsider’s perspective, being a doctor seems like a good profession.

High social status, high income, and a very stable income.

Only after becoming a doctor do you realize how miserable this profession is. The children of doctors, if they’re good at academics, almost never continue in the medical field; they end up working in other industries.

Nowadays, larger hospitals basically require a graduate degree.

years for a bachelor’s, plus 3 years for a master’s, plus 3 years for a doctorate, plus 2 years of residency training, plus 2 to 4 years of specialized training, damn, you’re almost forty by the time you can finally become a junior doctor.

Then you start learning to place retractors, change dressings for patients, and write some slightly challenging medical orders.

After finally advancing to attending level and above, you’re burdened with research tasks, clinical medical tasks, and teaching tasks, like mountains weighing you down.

And there are various exams, almost like a lifelong learning system.

The key thing is that studying medicine is so hard, the returns are so pitifully small, and there’s no personal safety guarantee at all.

You have to be constantly vigilant about possibly being attacked by a family member.

Come across someone holding a folded elongated newspaper, and a doctor will become nervous. Who knows if there’s a watermelon knife wrapped inside?

Zhou Can is very grateful for studying free combat and kickboxing back in the day, and having kept up with training over the years.

Compared to other doctors, at least he’s never been afraid of being beaten by family members.

If anyone dares to make a move, he doesn’t mind using his right to self-defense.

"Is this the X-ray taken for you, Director Han?"

"Yes!"

Deputy Director Han nodded.

Zhou Can picked up the X-ray to take a look. The radius was fractured quite seriously. Additionally, there was some fracture in the ulna, but it wasn’t as severe.

The assaulter was quite ruthless.

"With it being this serious, splints alone might not be enough, right?"

"The Orthopedic Department is currently studying a treatment plan. Considering my older age, it’s hard to decide on a surgical plan."

Hearing this, Zhou Can’s brow slightly furrowed.

For fracture injuries, the sooner surgery is done, the more favorable the outcome.

After surgery, the fracture ends can grow and heal properly. Otherwise, if it heals for a couple of days now and surgery is done later, it’ll be almost as if it grew in vain.

Plus, the pain endured during these two days would have been in vain.

"Did they mention when they’ll come up with a surgical plan?" Zhou Can inquired.

It’s already after work hours, and the surgical plan probably won’t be discussed until tomorrow morning. That’s quick; taking two or three days would be normal.

After all, the Orthopedic Department is genuinely busy.

"Sigh, they haven’t mentioned it yet! Around five o’clock, I was worried Old Han might not withstand it due to his age, so I wanted the attending physician to perform surgery sooner. They told me not to rush; there are still many scheduled surgeries ahead of us."

Deputy Director Han didn’t want to speak out of face, but his wife couldn’t hold back and complained to Zhou Can.

"Speak less; the hospital has its regulations. We’re here, so we can’t expect special treatment either." Deputy Director Han must hold a good status at home; most men wouldn’t dare to scold their wives.

It’s quite lamentable.

He’s a highly senior chief physician and also a deputy director of a large department, considered a leader in the hospital.

Yet, in the Orthopedic Department, he only enjoys the treatment of an average person.

Claiming not to demand special treatment is merely self-deception.

Those with a bit of background or connections, who really follows the rules?

The rules are made by the strong for the weak to follow.

As for themselves, haha, there’s a long-standing unwritten rule: officials can set fires, but commoners aren’t allowed to light a lamp.

When it involves life and death, which strong one doesn’t try every means to use all resources and enjoy the best medical care?