Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 341: Long-term vision!

After the drinking party ended, Zhou Yanqing followed Ning Zhu with a frown on his face, walking at a slightly slower pace.

In August in Shashi, darkness comes very late, and the sunset and the fiery clouds at seven o'clock are just perfect.

The crowd hurriedly passed by Zhou Yanqing and Ning Zhu.

Zhou Yanqing switched the bag in his right hand to his left hand and asked, "Brother Zhu, do these big guys want us to work for them?"

"How did you get together with them?"

Today's drinking party was not particularly happy. There were a lot of boredom while we were chatting.

Fortunately, Zhou Yanqing has relatively little experience, so he doesn't need to participate in more topics. He just needs to be a good listener and let Ning Zhu debate with the crowd alone.

Each of these associate professors of different specialties has profound experience, sufficient research topics, many published articles, and excellent key surgical techniques.

All in all, the associate senior generation of hand surgery does not seem so outstanding.

However, among the professors of hand surgery, Tan Zhongyu can stand out from all the professors of his peers in all specialties.

However, none of the attending physicians of other specialties and current doctoral students are particularly good at treating lumbar disc herniation.

"How do you know what others are thinking if you don't try?"

"If we want to develop hand surgery, we must confront these people!~"

"The resources allocated to the entire orthopedic department in the hospital are limited, and a major specialty can only have one administrative director."

"Master estimates that he will take over next year after Director Lei Zhong retires as the administrative director of the orthopedics department, but the next candidate has not yet been decided."

"In six or even ten years, there will be a new wave of competition. If we don't prepare in advance, we will have no choice but to give in." Ning Zhu said in a gloomy tone.

“Even if you don’t consider others as your opponents, in the eyes of others, we have already appeared and existed.”

Zhou Yanqing fell silent after hearing this.

Then he asked, "Brother Zhu, what other resource redistribution is there between the different subspecialties of our orthopedics department?"

"The current performance is all handled by the specialist department. It doesn't sound like there is any direct conflict?"

Following the principle of asking when you don't understand, Zhou Yanqing expressed his doubts.

"The allocation of resources is not necessarily just about money, but also about the direction and strength of the hospital's development."

"For example, in recent years, thanks to Master's hard work, our hand surgery department has gained various advantages."

"You've experienced it yourself. Many of your requests have been met in front of Dean Lei Zhong. You don't think you deserve it, do you?"

Zhou Yanqing immediately kept silent. He had never thought about it so deeply. He only thought of asking his master for help. As for how his master did it, Zhou Yanqing really had never thought deeply about it.

"In addition to the individual special project funds, the research funds delegated by the hospital also include some discretionary funds that will be allocated to young people in each specialty."

"In addition to your own efforts to obtain promotion quotas in the college, your entire college must also have a greater advantage in development."

"In other words, this promotion is given to you, and you have to play a relatively greater role."

"Let's not talk about the others for now. Let's just talk about Liu Yufeng, the associate professor of trauma surgery who you joked about today. He has already published two research papers with scores of more than 15 points."

"There are five or six high-scoring articles with scores of seven or eight, and they all have profound attainments in the clinical and basic research fields of trauma surgery."

"Associate Professor Huang Xianming from our group, Associate Professor Chen Lei from Professor Du Zhonghua's group, and Associate Professor Qu Changle from Professor Ding Xiao's group, are simply not comparable to him."

"If their generation becomes the administrative director of our college, we will just have to live in poverty and collect the minimum living allowance."

"Also, you should have discovered that these old guys, seeing that you are somewhat useful, instinctively want you to help them do things instead of cooperating with you in a formal way."

"Why? Because you do your thing and they do theirs. If they can pull you into their research group, then you will become their vassal."

"Of course you won't agree, but they are also expressing their views to you. You, Zhou Yanqing, are still very young..."

"If our hand surgery department loses its relative emphasis on resources, you, Zhou Yanqing, will have to go through a lot of procedures if you want to perform a new procedure!~"

Whether it is a hospital or a specialist department, there will be weights and emphases in the process of development.

It is impossible to give up a specialty, but it is also impossible to eat from the same pot. Everyone has equal opportunities at any time.

If your overall level is not good enough, then other specialties will have better food.

Zhou Yanqing is now enjoying the benefits won by his master, but these benefits are not permanent. Zhou Yanqing and Ning Zhu have to find a way to keep these temporary benefits.

No wonder my master Tan Zhongyu told me that the fastest period for being promoted from attending professor to associate professor is three years.

This is true foresight.

As for the master, his vision all along was not just about Zhou Yanqing, but just about Zhou Yanqing as a person.

"Brother Zhu, I understand." Zhou Yanqing responded cautiously.

Ning Zhu then smiled again: "But Yanqing, do you think the two of us will be afraid of them?"

Ning Zhu's mouth showed a hint of a smile.

Zhou Yanqing shook his head calmly.

"Although I'm not afraid, I can't ignore it!~"

"You can't make suppressing them your goal, but rather make it a matter of convenience. When it's convenient, give them a kick so that they feel the pain and stop thinking about what they were thinking about today. That is, just do it when it's convenient."

"We have only one goal."

"Master hopes that the two of us can bring hand surgery into the top ten or even top five in the country, fulfilling the dreams of our master, his teacher, and our master."

"Improving your overall ranking is only an external manifestation. What's more important is how much you have done and how much you have accomplished."

"To be more objective, it means how many patients can benefit from it, how many patients can be cured that others cannot, and how many diseases can be solved that others cannot solve."

“The only way to be the first in this field is to research and develop, innovate, and take one step at a time with our feet on the ground.”

"The path we take is different from that of the teacher."

Ning Zhu's tone began to freeze, his expression became more serious, and he suddenly asked, "Do you want stinky tofu?"

"I'll go buy it, brother!" Zhou Yanqing immediately went to queue up.

Ning Zhu went to buy a cup of coffee, perhaps wanting to reorganize his words.

After all, Ning Zhu needs to analyze that the routes he and his teacher can take are different, and he cannot analyze randomly.

The two found a seat on the pedestrian street and sat opposite each other, with coffee in one hand and stinky tofu in the other. The food that Zhou Yanqing packed for Chen Yu was also thrown on the table.

At the dinner just now, I can only say that I ate something, but I definitely didn’t feel full.

"Our mission is different from that of the teacher, so our approaches cannot be the same." Ning Zhu emphasized again while wiping his mouth with a tissue after eating four slices of stinky tofu.

"Teacher, all you have to do is catch up!~"

"As long as he can learn some top-notch techniques before other professors in the same group, he can basically take the lead."

"But what we need to do is to go from leading to being a leader."

“Although these two words are similar, they are fundamentally different.”

To be ahead means to follow the other team and be in the front.

The so-called leadership means planting a flag and leading others so that they can be in the leading position. "So our task will be more important than that of the teachers."

"Yanqing, there is another point. It's not just the Magic City and Kyoto that have some particularly difficult patients. So they are forced to transform and are forced to take action on diseases that no one else can treat."

"Such diseases exist in every province, but the teaching hospitals in many provinces have become lax and satisfied, so they are conservative and stick to the status quo! ~"

“Take doing things as your mission and treating patients as your benchmark.”

"This is an alternative way to lie flat!~"

Ning Zhu noticed that Zhou Yanqing's eyes were flickering with some disapproval.

However, he still insisted, "Eating a teacher's salary but not teaching students, eating a researcher's subsidy but not doing research, occupying a position in a scientific research hospital but not doing scientific research, is just a celibate!"

“If you set yourself up as a research hospital, take state subsidies, and don’t do anything related to research, that’s corruption.”

"You might answer that everyone else does it that way."

“It’s the big picture.”

"But that's someone else, not you or me."

"At least for me, I strongly disagree with this kind of thinking."

"If you just want to be a clinician, go there if there is a place for you to go. There are places where you don't need to do scientific research."

"No one is stopping you!~"

"It's like, there are private hospitals that let you make money, and there are high-paying hospitals along the coast. No one will stop you, Zhou Yanqing, from making money..."

"But you didn't choose that, and that's your freedom," Ning Zhu said.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yanqing pressed his hand and signaled Ning Zhu to speak more quietly.

"Brother, scientific research is not that easy to do, whether it is clinical research or basic research, in fact..."

Zhou Yanqing's words were interrupted again.

"But scientific research separated from clinical practice is relatively ineffective! ~"

"Any research, medical-related research, is just a piece of waste paper if it cannot be put into clinical practice."

"What's the point of doing scientific research if it doesn't serve clinical practice?"

“But if you don’t engage in scientific research and innovation, you will always be dragged down by the nose.”

"You don't think that the overall influence of our Xiangya Hospital has been decreasing over the years because we don't treat enough patients, right?" Ning Zhu asked in a resounding voice.

Zhou Yanqing shook his head again.

The number of outpatient and emergency patients in Xiangya Hospital is overwhelming every day.

"It's like this. If you do a million tendon sutures, no matter how good you are at it, even if you make a flower, what good will it do?"

"How much better are you than the provincial hospital?"

"You do 100 million appendectomies, but how much more meaningful are you than the appendectomies performed in the county hospital?"

“Filling the gaps is what we have to do.”

“It’s our job to chase the open space that others can’t.”

"You should understand this better than I do."

……

Ning Zhu complained a lot today. His analysis might be a little extreme, but it also made sense.

After parting with Ning Zhu, Zhou Yanqing began to realize that Ning Zhu had actually positioned himself very clearly.

Therefore, he is not as happy as he seems, but rather more stressed.

Part of this pressure was given to him by Tan Zhongyu, and the other part came from his deep inner desire.

What a person can and should do is his own choice.

"Xiao Yu, it's time to eat." After Zhou Yanqing opened the door, he saw Chen Yu applying a facial mask with a vocabulary list in his hand.

Chen Yu pointed at the table, and then at the opened express box.

This is the clothes that Chen Yu bought for Zhou Yanqing online. He motioned Zhou Yanqing to try it on.

Zhou Yanqing didn't hesitate and went into the guest room with his clothes.

After looking in the mirror, Chen Yu expressed that although his face was stern due to applying the facial mask, his brows had relaxed and he was quite satisfied.

Zhou Yanqing also felt that it was okay, so he said: "Xiaoyu, you go to the meeting tomorrow. I plan to go back to the department tomorrow."

"Today my senior brother told me that there are a lot of patients in the department. I plan to perform surgeries on the current inpatients before September."

"Okay!~"

"But today is Tuesday, so your next surgery day should be on the 27th," Chen Yu replied.

"It's okay, just take your time."

"Once a surgery is scheduled, it must be done well, not just to speed it up," Zhou Yanqing replied.

After doing all this, Zhou Yanqing returned to the room and began to reply and process messages.

It mainly came from Duan Qilin and Du Qiao. After they got the funding from Zhou Yanqing, they continued to improve their research.

At present, Duan Qilin’s task in the group is to try his best to apply for some school-level, municipal-level or provincial-level projects in his own name this year.

If the opportunity is right, he will work with Brother Liu Qingshan to see if he can apply for the National Youth Science Fund.

This application is made in the name of Brother Liu Qingshan.

Zhou Yanqing has already borrowed Ning Zhu's name, so he definitely won't have to worry about the National Natural Science Foundation's research projects this year.

However, Zhou Yanqing still has tasks to do. Although his master Tan Zhongyu has passed the age limit for applying for outstanding young scientists' projects, he can still apply for research projects such as the 863 major projects.

Moreover, Tan Zhongyu also wanted to continue developing in this direction. Since the beginning of this month, Tan Zhongyu convened Ning Zhu and others to hold several small meetings and decided on several research directions.

I think Ning Zhu and Tan Zhongyu must have discussed this privately. In the next few years, even if the number of projects applied for is small, they should try to develop in the direction of large projects and high-scoring articles, rather than applying for projects just for the sake of the number of projects.

Don’t publish articles just for the sake of publishing.

When Zhou Yanqing was working in the guest room, Chen Yu walked in from outside in her pajamas, with a faint fragrance on her body.

"You're not sleeping yet because you have a meeting tomorrow?" Zhou Yanqing raised his head.

Chen Yu's eyes smiled gently: "It's just a meeting, not a class. We don't have to arrive at the venue until 9:30 in the morning."

"Aren't you going to take a shower yet?" Chen Yu came closer, resting his cheek with his left hand.

With a beautiful woman by his side, it was such an obvious hint, but it was a bit wrong for Zhou Yanqing not to understand it.

"Let's wash together later." Zhou Yanqing threw his phone away, picked up Chen Yu and started eating...

Traveling and relaxing are human nature.

(End of this chapter)