My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1336: Chapter 528: An Overcrowded Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Filthy Water Turns to Rivers

As for Deputy Director Lu’s daughter going abroad to study, Zhou Can had no intention of providing financial support.

The annual cost was forty to fifty thousand US dollars; even if she studied abroad for three years, the total would basically not exceed two hundred thousand. Converted, that was about 1.4 million yuan.

That amount of money wasn’t much to Zhou Can.

But one thing had to be made clear: he was not a savior, and he had no obligation whatsoever to help Deputy Director Lu’s daughter study abroad.

There were far too many people in this world who needed help, and he couldn’t possibly help them all.

Saving Deputy Director Lu had been a favor, definitely not some kind of duty.

And those twenty-plus medical staff who chose to jump ship from Tuya Hospital to the Third Hospital were all adults and should be responsible for their own actions. Saying they betrayed Tuya Hospital

might sound a bit harsh, but it was basically the truth.

At a critical moment when Tuya Hospital needed them, they changed jobs to a rival hospital, which was equivalent to stabbing Tuya Hospital in the back and defecting to the enemy.

It was extremely bad behavior.

The miserable end they’d come to now was entirely self-inflicted.

Once the leaders of Tuya Hospital found out, it was already good enough if they didn’t secretly clap their hands in delight.

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The next day, Zhou Can went to the hospital and started work as usual.

Around four in the afternoon, Director Xiang Fei from the Provincial People’s Hospital called him. Unfortunately, he was busy in the operating room and simply couldn’t answer.

To stay focused at work, he now left his phone in the locker in the changing room whenever he entered the OR.

There was no helping it; after he became well-known, far too many people called him.

It really was endlessly annoying.

Now, he basically gave cold treatment to unfamiliar calls.

It wasn’t until after six in the evening, when he came out of the operating room, that he finally had a chance to get his phone and check missed calls and messages.

Director Xue Yan had sent him a message.

"Zhou Can, are you going to visit Director Lu again today? If you are, please take a thousand yuan over for me as a small token of my regard."

Xue Yan was fully aware that Zhou Can had gone to the Provincial People’s Hospital yesterday to visit Deputy Director Lu.

She had later sought out Zhou Can to learn the details of Deputy Director Lu’s condition.

However, because her position was somewhat sensitive—after all, she was the director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department at Tuya Hospital—if she went to the hospital personally to visit Deputy Director Lu, it could easily cause a bad impression.

Leaders were very different from ordinary people.

Sometimes, every word and deed of theirs could be misread by others, leading to a wrong direction.

"If it’s not too late after I get off work, I’ll go over and take a look. I didn’t come to Cardiothoracic Surgery to help yesterday, so I definitely have to come over and help today."

Zhou Can replied to her with a voice message.

Voice was a bit faster than typing.

"You just got off work, right? Hurry over, we’ve got several urgent complex cases and transferred patients piled up, and we simply can’t handle them all." What she said was basically the truth.

For many difficult cases, especially transferred patients, Director Xue Yan, Director Le, and the others really couldn’t "chew" them.

Zhou Can couldn’t handle every single case either, but at least for most he could think of solutions.

Particularly for some higher-difficulty surgeries, with his surgical skills having all risen to Level 6, he now had the ability to tackle many operations he’d never dared to attempt before.

"I’ll be there in about half an hour!"

Zhou Can sent her a message, then went through the important pending messages and missed calls one by one.

He soon found the missed call from Director Xiang Fei, along with a WeChat voice message.

"Dr. Zhou, I figured you were busy and didn’t answer when I called. First, I have good news for you. The patient in Bed 13 woke up at noon today after the surgery. All vital signs are basically stable. Next, we’ll keep him in the ICU for another couple of days; once his condition is stable, we’ll address the fractures one by one. The orthopedic doctors are already actively studying the treatment plan."

After all, Director Xiang Fei and Zhou Can had only met last night.

They couldn’t interact like old friends and jump straight to the point.

Instead, he tried to start with good news as an opener as much as possible.

Hearing that Deputy Director Lu’s vital signs were stable and that he had successfully regained consciousness, Zhou Can was genuinely very pleased.

The few hours of hard work last night had not been in vain.

If things went on like this, there was a high probability that Deputy Director Lu’s life would be saved.

The medical expenses would definitely have to be paid by the Third Hospital.

If the Third Hospital behaved responsibly, so be it. If they didn’t, Zhou Can would certainly help think of a way.

He couldn’t help but feel a twinge of longing for the female reporter, Mu Qin.

Back when she hadn’t gone abroad, whenever something like this happened, he only had to ask and she would almost always agree.

At the time, Zhou Can had simply thought she had a strong sense of justice, so whenever she saw injustice, she would show up as soon as he called. It was only later that he understood she was always willing to help because she liked him.

For the person she loved, anything he asked, she would naturally do her utmost without asking for anything in return.

"Also, about the inter-hospital exchange and study program you suggested yesterday, I’ve already discussed it with our hospital leadership. We basically have no issues on our side. The leadership of the two hospitals can hold a formal talk at any time and then decide on the mode and plan for the exchange."

This was probably the main reason Director Xiang Fei had called him.

He had only mentioned it yesterday, and today it had already received the approval of the leaders at the Provincial People’s Hospital. This showed that Director Xiang Fei’s status at the Provincial People’s Hospital was not low. At the same time, it showed that the Provincial People’s Hospital was very interested in and attached great importance to this exchange between the two hospitals.