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“Why should I beg you?” Ling Jiezhou retorted Doctor Xiong as usual, and he said, “Today, I cooked some good dishes, and I just want to treat you to some.”
“Treating me with good dishes is not as good as increasing my salary.” Doctor Xiong snorted before he said, “Do you know how much of my workload has increased recently? There’s only Juan Zi and me around, and we’re so busy that we’re almost dead.”
“Old Miao is still here, right?” Ling Jiezhou felt slightly guilty when he heard about the salary increment.
Old Xiong snorted. “Old Miao is busy with his own business, and now, he always asks Juan Zi to help him out. I must say, Juan Zi is very busy, and she always needs to work here and there. She might be strong like iron, but even her strength is limited. Of course, Juan Zi can do a lot more work, but we shouldn’t add to her workload.”
“You’re right.” Ling Jiezhou felt even more guilty.
Old Xiong did not show any mercy, and he took the opportunity to say, “Old Ling, the recent business in your clinic is quite good. Shouldn’t you hire a nurse?”
“Hire another one? No way.” Ling Jiezhou shook his head again. His Lower Groove Clinic survived by controlling costs. Take hiring Old Xiong for example, although he was old, his salary was the lowest that could be found in the market.
If he hired another person, just how much would that cost him?
“If you can’t, you must tell Old Miao that Juan Zi can’t afford to work for both sides.”
“Sigh… this is… Old Xiong, please take a seat first, alright?” Ling Jiezhou let Old Xiong take his seat, then he turned around, looked at his son, who showed a faint smile, and got angry suddenly. But at the next moment, he came up with a thought. “Old Xiong, look, can’t we ask those pharmaceutical sales representatives for help?”
Old Xiong could not help but gave Ling Jiezhou a sidelong glance. Then he clicked his tongue and said, “I did not expect that you, Old Ling, actually have the potential of a department director despite looking like a chivalrous person.”
Ling Jiezhou showed a simple and honest smile. “We are a medical family.”
Old Xiong said, “In other medical families, it’s usually the father guiding the son.”
Ling Jiezhou immediately had his smile fade away.
Tao Ping smiled and said, “It’s been really busy recently, we should just hire another nurse.”
“We’ll have to pay a lot to hire a nurse,” Ling Jiezhou mumbled and sighed. “Alright, I’ll go get a nurse.”
“As soon as possible,” Old Xiong said. Then, he gave a reminder. “If we can’t handle the customers anymore, the patients who come from afar will not be happy, and you can’t compensate for it.”
“How far can they come from? The furthest is those from Upper Groove.” Ling Jiezhou knew his own business well. No matter how well a community health center was run, it could only attract so many people. Even their current scale of business was also because everyone worked hard.
However, it was also because everyone had worked hard for it that Ling Jiezhou compromised to the situation.
“Sigh, now, I’ll have to spend another two thousand per month.” As Ling Jiezhou spoke, he lost his appetite to eat.
Old Xiong sighed. “In the current economy, you can’t hire anyone with two thousand RMB per month.”
“I know,” Ling Jiezhou mumbled and said nothing else.
Ling Ran sat at the place near the door while he happily had his meal.
The relaxing feeling at home could not be found in the hospital, and it made Ling Ran so excited that he even wanted to perform a few rounds of suturing.
After getting a night of good sleep, the morning of the next day, Ling Ran returned to the hospital, did seven surgeries, and rested again.
When he clocked off work, the day shift of the Emergency Department had not even ended.
Over the next few days, he operated in a similar fashion.
Aside from the lucky members who became the chief surgeon for the surgeries, most of the doctors could clock off work at four or five in the afternoon. At the moment, the doctors from Ling Ran’s treatment group felt a sense of relaxation.
Except for Ren Qi, the in-service training doctor.
Another day arrived. When Ren Qi walked out of the dark underground parking lot at half-past three in the morning, Ren Qi’s tears started streaming down.
People always said men should not shed tears easily, but could it be easy to wake up at three in the early morning every day?
Ren Qi felt that his body was dying.
After working for almost ten years in the county hospital, Ren Qi felt that he was already very hardworking, but when he compared himself with the doctors in Yun Hua Hospital, he found that he might actually be very hardworking. Just a few days of in-service training in the Emergency Medical Center of Yun Hua Hospital was enough to make Ren Qi feel despair.
*Ding*
The lift let out a beep, so Ren Qi quickly wiped the tears off his eyes.
When he entered the operating area, Ren Qi looked like a hardworking doctor getting in-service training again.
“Doctor Lu, you’re already here?” In the dressing room, Ren Qi recognized Lu Wenbin when he saw a nude back.
Ren Qi did not see many surgeons who could train up their bodies until they were built like the Hulk, so Lu Wenbin was considered someone to be incredibly unique, and he was rich.
Lu Wenbin turned his head around gently, saw Ren Qi, and nodded, “Yes.”
“Doctor Lu, you come very early in the morning. What time did you come?”
“After two,” Lu Wenbin calmly answered.
“After two… You just slept for a few hours.”
“I slept directly when I went back home. If I sleep starting from eight to two, that means I’ve slept for six hours.” When Lu Wenbin finished speaking, he spoke naturally again, “I’m alone when I go back, anyway. I have nothing to do if I don’t just sleep.”
Ren Qi understood what he meant, and he shook his head in resignation, “You come to work at dawn, then you go back home and sleep. If you do that, you won’t be able to find someone to sleep with, you know?”
Lu Wenbin’s biceps trembled.
Ren Qi obviously saw Lu Wenbin’s elbows became bigger.
Ren Qi dared not trigger him anymore, so he quickly said, “So, Doctor Lu, according to our current rhythm in performing surgeries, how long will this last?”
“I’m not sure, too. Maybe ten days to two weeks, maybe just a few days more.” Lu Wenbin slowly put on his scrubs, deflated his belly, and started to think about his own troubles.
Ren Qi sighed. “It’s my fault to come at this time. If I came after ten days or two weeks, it’ll be better, right?”
“Do you also like to perform surgery?” Lu Wenbin looked at Ren Qi skeptically.
Ren Qi laughed. “There should be a limit, no matter how much I like it. I don’t like performing surgeries day and night.”
Lu Wenbin understood what he meant slightly, and he could not help but grin. “After ten days to two weeks, you will start feeling nostalgic to the time now.”
“Huh?”
“Because considering the surgery volume we had over the recent months, I dare say that we’ve had the least surgeries to do over these past few days.” Lu Wenbin gave his reply, then he saw Ren Qi’s face changing from surprise to despair.
Then… Ren Qi suddenly walked quickly and looked at the surgical schedule hanging on the door. His finger went down the schedule.
When Ren Qi’s finger stopped, he was pointing at a few big words—Single site laparoscopy.
“Haven’t you performed a single site laparoscopy yet?” Lu Wenbin saw Ren Qi’s choice.
Ren Qi was slightly embarrassed and troubled when he nodded.
Compared to normal laparoscopy that only created three ports on the belly, single-site laparoscopy needed only to pierce through the belly button, and it was more advantageous in terms of difficulty and recovery period.
The only disadvantage was that the difficulty of the surgery for the surgeon would be increased.
While he stared at the words that spelled single-site laparoscopy, Ren Qi found himself a little unsettled. For him, this skill was very practical. When he went back to the county hospital later, he could just buy a few instruments and launch a new surgery method.
Ren Qi took another look at Lu Wenbin, and he could not help but said, “Doctor Lu, how do you keep yourself so energetic?”
Lu Wenbin was stunned when he was asked this question. He thought for a while before he answered, “It’s probably the stimulus from my bank loans.”
