Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 67: Breakthrough

Ning Zhu pressed his left hand, and with his right hand he lifted up his mask to observe Zhou Yanqing's mood: "Just a joke, liven up the atmosphere."

"Yanqing, I heard from my brothers in the department that you have applied for Huashan Hospital's doctoral application assessment system, right?" Ning Zhu said, then he straightened up from his lying position, grabbed the mask that he had not worn with his right hand, and threw it into the trash can.

Zhou Yanqing nodded and said, "Brother Zhu, there are not many schools that offer doctoral programs in hand surgery. You must try a few more times."

It is impossible for adults to put all their eggs in one basket. If they are able, getting more than one admission offer can give them more active choices.

Ning Zhu looked up and walked around, blinking, then yawned, and asked, "You won't even sign up for our hospital's doctoral application assessment system, right?"

Zhou Yanqing is not a student of our college, or even of our school.

Now that Zhou Yanqing is at Xiangya Hospital on a commissioned basis, Professor Tan Zhongyu has given him so much authority. If Zhou Yanqing runs away in the end, it is estimated that everyone in the group, starting with Associate Professor Huang Xianming, will have a hard time for a while.

"Brother Zhu, you will definitely not fail to sign up."

"Didn't Mr. Zhang, who recommended me for the voluntary application, say that medicine is a relatively regional profession. You can study where you want to work."

"With the relationships with my teachers and fellow students, I will have various conveniences when I work in the province where I am located in the future. If the province where I studied is different from the province where I work, outsiders will not recognize so many of your relationships," Zhou Yanqing analyzed.

Not to mention those far away, even Brother Li Zhong from Hengda Affiliated Hospital, who has a master's degree in hand surgery from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, does not enjoy many conveniences in the hospital.

Li Zhong’s tutor is naturally very powerful in Guangdong Province, but Hunan Province does not buy into your system. It mainly depends on your own ability.

Ning Zhu stretched out his hands and said, "There is a saying that goes, Teacher Zhang promoted this application technique in the short video, and to a certain extent, he deserves to be honored in the Imperial Ancestral Temple."

"I can't tell you too much. After all, studying for a doctorate is about pursuing your career. The hand surgery department at Huashan Hospital has a deeper foundation than our Xiangya Hospital. This is an indisputable fact."

"So you're going to take a week off in December?"

Ning Zhu has obviously read the doctoral admissions brochure of Huashan Hospital. (Note: The doctoral admissions time in this article does not completely correspond to reality. The specific time of some universities may be advanced due to the needs of the plot. Please be aware of this.)
"It should be, Brother Zhu." Although the time for leave had not yet arrived, Ning Zhu brought it up first, and Zhou Yanqing did not hide it.

Ning Zhu tilted his head and asked, "Yanqing, after you came to our hospital, did no one in the department tell you that the special channel for professional doctoral students can be registered with the Graduate Department before applying for the doctoral examination?"

Zhou Yanqing's brows tightened: "Ah?"

Ning Zhu then led Zhou Yanqing out of the operating room and said, "Professional doctoral students have a special channel. They are special talents, and the department and the graduate school have always paid more attention to them."

"If the graduate students of our hospital and school can get through in advance, they can directly report to the Graduate Department through the Department of Orthopedics. Then we can extract your special quota in advance and report it to the school's Graduate School."

"During the actual assessment process, if we encounter such special talents, we will also go through the same path to apply for special quotas, but the time will be relatively later."

"So, Yanqing, you can also take the initiative."

When Zhou Yanqing came to his senses, Ning Zhu had already walked nearly 20 meters away. Zhou Yanqing quickened his pace and caught up with Ning Zhu and asked, "Brother Zhu, is this still possible?"

"If that's the case, then wouldn't it be possible to know in advance whether or not you can get a doctorate? You don't have to go out and try your luck?"

Ning Zhu nodded as if it was natural: "Of course, unless the number of places in our hospital is really limited, who would want to send the talents trained by our hospital to other places?"

"We are very short of people in the hand surgery department. But we would rather have no one than have someone who is not qualified. We would rather not have someone who does not meet the requirements and standards than fill in the numbers with someone who is not qualified."

"In that case, do you still want to go to Huashan Hospital?" Ning Zhu casually answered the question with a bright smile.

"Go." Zhou Yanqing replied almost without hesitation.

Ning Zhu's already dark complexion appeared even darker.

However, it is Zhou Yanqing's freedom to choose where to study or not.

Even if Zhou Yanqing was employed and passed the civil service examination, it would not be considered a breach of contract if he resigned to continue his studies in China.

Not to mention, Zhou Yanqing and Professor Tan have not even reached a verbal agreement at present.

Zhou Yanqing is an absolutely free man.

……

4:20 in the morning of October 31st.

Zhou Yanqing and Ning Zhu finally got their fried rice takeout, along with some barbecue.

The two men gathered around the table in the hand surgery department's main resident office and began to eat voraciously.

After eating for a minute, they felt a little full and slowly slowed down their eating speed.

Ning Zhu chewed the rice slowly with his mouth full of it, squinting his eyes in enjoyment: "Although it's not the first time I think fried rice is so delicious, but when I'm hungry, this unhealthy fried rice is a delicacy."

"Really, Yanqing."

Zhou Yanqing looked at Ning Zhu, chewing a little slower than Ning Zhu, with a slightly wandering look in his eyes.

For a moment, I didn't know whether to feel that Ning Zhu was pitiful or cute.

The taste of the fried rice is really just average. When you have a choice, it is not as good as ordinary rice, but when you are hungry, it is indeed delicious!
But Ning Zhu was in the mood, so Zhou Yanqing didn't want to spoil his mood. He said with a grin, "Brother Zhu, fried rice is really delicious."

Ning Zhu could hear the hidden meaning behind Zhou Yanqing's words: "Let's make do for now. It's not easy to have something to fill your stomach at this time. Go to bed quickly after eating. I have to make rounds at 8 o'clock."

"Next month, which is tomorrow, you will have to participate in the resident rotation. Your tasks will be much heavier than they are now."

"But don't worry, even if you want to take care of the bed, Brother Zhu will still 'favor' you more."

"Thank you, Brother Zhu." Zhou Yanqing is currently in a learning period where his skills are growing rapidly, and the more opportunities he has to operate, the better.

With Ning Zhu's words, Zhou Yanqing's subsequent daily tasks were settled.

The next daily task is relatively simple, [complete 20 high-quality incisions in clinical practice. ]

……

"Brother Zhou, get up, it's almost time for rounds. It's seven fifty."

When Zhou Yanqing woke up in a daze, he heard the sound of his junior fellow apprentice Guo Dongyao slapping the bed.

Zhou Yanqing, who had forgotten to set the alarm, stood up quickly from the upper bunk, climbed down from the upper bunk, jumped, and landed steadily on his shoes. He quickly thanked him, "Thank you, Dong Yao, I forgot to set the alarm."

Then I picked up my phone and looked at it. It was 7:51. There were still nine minutes before the shift change. That was enough time!
I went into the bathroom, "run the water", brushed my teeth, scrubbed my face, and dried it with a tissue. It only took four minutes in total.

It took Zhou Yanqing half a minute to put on the white coat and shave his beard at the same time, but he still arrived at the doctor's office at 7:57. The office was already crowded with people, and senior doctors such as Professor Tan Zhongyu had arrived one after another.

After looking around at everyone in the office, Zhou Yanqing saw all the superiors in the group, except Brother Ning Zhu.

Zhou Yanqing immediately ran out of the office again and knocked on the door of the resident's office. After taking Ning Zhu out, Ning Zhu and Zhou Yanqing, who had not washed up, squeezed into the doctor's office at 8:59. Tan Zhongyu saw Zhou Yanqing and Ning Zhu, but because the nature of Ning Zhu's work was quite special, he quickly passed by.

During the entire hospitalization period, just don't be late.

Even if you are on stage, you can ask for leave or make up for the leave.

……

After the handover, Tan Zhongyu led a large group of people to prepare for the ward inspection. As if on impulse, he turned back and looked at Zhou Yanqing, and asked, "Yanqing, when do you plan to take the test in the training room?"

Tan Zhongyu's words instantly made Zhou Yanqing the focus of the crowd.

Tian Chao and Guo Dongyao were extremely envious, while Lin Hua, who was in the same class as Zhou Yanqing, was surprised but then felt that it was reasonable.

Dong Jiaguo sneaked behind his junior brother Tian Chao and hid himself.

Not to mention getting into the special channel for professional doctoral students, it would be hard for him to even stay to study for a doctorate. If he were caught by Tan Zhongyu and compared with Zhou Yanqing, Dong Jiaguo would have a hard time smiling anymore. He might as well hide away...

"Teacher Tan, I just found out that I can take the assessment in advance. After carefully reading the special assessment standards for professional channels, I think it should be ready this Saturday." Zhou Yanqing responded cautiously.

Today is Tuesday, and there are only four days until Saturday.

The special channel for professional doctorates does not only test suturing skills. If one could pass it simply by relying on suturing skills, Zhou Yanqing would have taken the opportunity long ago.

The requirements that my teacher Gong Yi told me at the beginning were that suturing is to sew the stretched compression band, and incision is to carve simplified Chinese characters on the surface of tofu.

Debridement is to carve tofu into three-dimensional simplified Chinese characters.

Hemostasis requires accurate bleeding 60 times per minute.
Tendon suturing requires the completion of three different tendon suturing techniques.

There are also basic theories of orthopedics that need to be passed from the question bank. Before Zhou Yanqing, he had not mastered enough different surgical procedures for tendon suture.

But after completing the last daily task, Zhou Yanqing finally activated the other two methods of tendon suturing on the panel and had a certain level of proficiency in them.

In this way, Zhou Yanqing would not be afraid even if Professor Tan Zhongyu and others nitpicked about the standards when evaluating him.

"Then it'll be this Saturday, agreed." Professor Tan Zhongyu said casually before leading the team to make rounds.

However, Doctor Yu Yue, who was following behind Professor Tan Zhongyu, quickly said, "Yanqing, are you really planning to take the test in November? There's no need to rush."

After hearing this, Zhou Yanqing waited until everyone else was brought into the ward by Professor Tan Zhongyu before he cautiously asked in a low voice, "Brother, is there any punishment for failure?"

Zhou Yanqing needs to clarify this point.

Zhou Yanqing was very clear that his main mission in coming to Xiangya Hospital was to study, not simply to break into some special channel for a professional doctorate, so most of his energy was spent on studying and improving his professional abilities.

"Not really. If I fail to get through and waste my superiors' time and energy, I'll be criticized."

"Generally speaking, those in our hospital who are capable of taking special professional channels will gradually start asking their superiors for an assessment opportunity before or after the New Year." Yu Yue explained carefully, and then said.

"But Yanqing, if you can complete the assessment requirements in advance, you can rest assured. Now you just need to pass it, and the department will report your results. When you are actually assessed, you only need to go through the formalities in the training room, and you don't even need an interview."

After Yu Yue finished explaining this, he let out another long sigh.

He complained: "Pervert is still pervert, Zhou God is Zhou God, when he is excellent, it is simply unreasonable."

Only then did Zhou Yanqing understand the "strength" in Yu Yue's heart. It turned out that Yu Yue was very sincere in his business boasting on weekdays, but when Zhou Yanqing actually passed the special channel for doctoral students earlier than him, Yu Yue still felt a sense of loss in his heart.

It feels like my anus is being exploded.

That's why he pulled me aside and asked me some serious questions.

Zhou Yanqing has met similar people before. During his five-year period at Hunan Normal University, there were also classmates of Zhou Yanqing. After seeing that Zhou Yanqing's practice scores were so high, they would come specially to do exercises with Zhou Yanqing and then correct each other's papers.

After he personally corrected Zhou Yanqing's test paper and counted the scores that were higher than his, he felt a little disappointed...

During the ward rounds, Professor Tan Zhongyu still adopted a gentle principle towards Zhou Yanqing. He did not ask questions, did not test, and did not teach. Instead, he put more energy and opportunities on his students.

Of course, this does not mean that Tan Zhongyu does not value Zhou Yanqing, but he feels that Zhou Yanqing's focus at the moment should not be on clinical bed management or answering questions during teaching rounds.

After checking the room, Ning Zhu found Zhou Yanqing.

He showed the information on his phone to Zhou Yanqing: "Yanqing, take a look, this is the private work that Professor Tan assigned to me. Do you think I should report him?"

Zhou Yanqing stood on tiptoe and saw a letter from Teacher Tan: "Ning Zhu, before Saturday, you must go through all of Zhou Yanqing's basic operation skills, including theory, at least three times in detail."

“Fill in the gaps!”

After reading it, Zhou Yanqing felt warm inside, but he didn't know how to answer Ning Zhu's words.

Asking Ning Zhu to give him "tutoring" was indeed a task beyond Ning Zhu's professional duties.

Ning Zhu said: "In fact, Teacher Tan cares about you very much, but he has so many students, and you are not his official student yet. If he is too close to you."

"It's unfair to Liu Wanqing, Yu Yue and others."

"He is their teacher. They call him Master. Once a teacher, always a father. He must live up to this title."

"Think about it again. Dong Jiaguo, who is in the same class as you, also wants to study for a doctorate, but Tan Zhongyu has already accepted his classmate, Lin Hua, a student of Associate Professor Huang Xianming."

"If I treat you better, it won't be a big deal if Dong Jiaguo gets upset and reports you or goes to extremes, right?"

Zhou Yanqing lowered his head slightly when he heard this.

To be honest, if his teacher Gong Yue was too nice to people other than himself and his fellow junior students, Zhou Yanqing would be a little jealous.

"Come on, while there's no emergency for now, let's go through the training room a few times."

……

Time is like water!

Zhou Yanqing didn't sleep well the whole night of Friday and tossed and turned in bed, but at 7:40 a.m. on Saturday, Zhou Yanqing felt full of energy.

After checking the time and straightening his collar, Zhou Yanqing left the rental house.

Today will be my home court.

This is also what Zhou Yanqing has been waiting for for many years.

(End of this chapter)