This miracle doctor just wants to be fired!

The first formal group meeting after the establishment of Zhou Cheng's research group was scheduled for Monday afternoon.

Unlike previous discussions, this time there was a new whiteboard in the meeting room.

The words "Research Group Management Guidelines" were written at the top of the whiteboard.

The three students were somewhat surprised when they arrived.

Li Mingyuan glanced at the whiteboard, then at Zhou Cheng.

"Teacher, is this going to be the standard procedure for group meetings from now on?"

"I suppose so," Zhou Cheng nodded. "Let's make the rules clear first."

Lin Feng, who was sitting next to him, leaned back in his chair and chuckled.

"You three, listen up. Don't think that Director Zhou only manages surgeries. He's even more serious about managing his students than his patients."

Zhou Cheng ignored his teasing and put the documents in his hand on the table.

"I'll be guiding you in research, and there are a few principles I'll outline beforehand."

The meeting room fell silent.

"First, data modification is not allowed for the sake of results."

Zhou Cheng picked up a pen and wrote the first sentence on the whiteboard.

"If an experiment fails, it can be redesigned. If the statistical results are poor, the reasons can be analyzed. Negative results are also valuable."

"But the original data cannot be modified or deleted."

He said calmly, "In the past, some researchers found that some data did not match expectations, so they thought about removing outliers. This idea is very dangerous."

"So-called abnormal data sometimes represents problems you haven't considered."

Li Mingyuan wrote it down carefully.

He recalled that he had encountered similar problems when designing animal experiments before.

If certain animal models do not meet expectations, his first reaction is to consider how to optimize the model.

But if the results don't match the hypothesis when the research actually begins, can he accept it?

This is also the test that researchers are most likely to encounter.

Zhou Cheng continued:

"Secondly, when there are clinical issues that you don't understand, you should admit that you don't understand and not cover them up with vague words."

The three students were stunned for a moment.

Zhou Cheng looked at Zhao Siyuan.

"For example, if you are building an AI prediction model, and a doctor asks you why this patient's risk has increased, you can't just answer that the model indicates a high risk."

Zhao Siyuan nodded.

"Models can tell us about correlations, but they cannot replace clinical interpretation. If we don't know the reason, we should say we don't know."

Zhou Cheng paused for a moment.

"Admitting you don't know is not shameful. What's truly dangerous is pretending to know when you don't."

The meeting room was silent for a few seconds.

This statement was more important than any technical guidance for the students who had just entered the field of scientific research.

Their previous scientific research training focused more on how to find answers.

However, once they entered clinical practice, they gradually discovered that many questions did not have standard answers.

Patients will not appear according to the conditions described in the paper, and the disease will not develop exactly as the guidelines suggest.

Often, doctors face complex problems that require them to constantly approach the truth rather than forcing a seemingly reasonable explanation.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Cheng wrote down the third point.

Third, respect rest time.

This time, the three students were clearly stunned, and Zhao Siyuan even thought he had misread it.

"teacher?"

Zhou Cheng glanced at him. "What's the problem?"

"Is this... also a rule of the research group?"

"Yes."

Zhao Siyuan glanced down at his notes. "Doesn't scientific research always require time investment?"

"need."

Zhou Cheng nodded, "But it's not about proving your hard work by staying up all night."

He leaned back in his chair.

"If someone posts messages at two or three in the morning every day and their social media is full of lab photos, they may seem very hardworking. But if their experimental design is chaotic and they haven't thought through the problems, they're just wasting time."

"Truly effective scientific research requires focusing on solving problems."

"You need to be well-rested to maintain your judgment the next day."

Upon hearing this, Lin Feng finally couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Director Zhou."

Zhou Cheng turned his head. "What?"

Lin Feng pointed to the whiteboard.

"I think you've finally written a core idea that's been hidden for many years into the document."

Several students looked at him.

Lin Feng laughed and said, "It used to be said in the hospital that Director Zhou's biggest characteristic was that he didn't like working overtime for no reason. While others were still revising articles in the office at 11 p.m., he was probably already home with his family."

"At the time, people found it strange, thinking that top doctors should be in the hospital 24 hours a day."

"Now it's all right."

He pointed to the third one.

"It should be written directly into the research group's management system. In the future, anyone who stays up all night to work overtime with their supervisor may be criticized."

Several people in the meeting room laughed.

Zhou Cheng looked at Lin Feng helplessly, "You make it sound like I created this system just to get off work earlier."

"Isn't that right?" Lin Feng asked deliberately.

Zhou Cheng didn't answer, and Chen Yu, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but laugh.

She hadn't been in the research group for long, but she had already discovered that Zhou Cheng was somewhat different from the top experts she had previously imagined.

Many people's impression of great experts is that they talk about goals, struggles, and sacrifices every day.

Zhou Cheng was more often focused on other things.

Is the data reliable? Does the patient really need it? Have the students thought through the issues?

And whether a young doctor can maintain his passion for medicine in the long term.

……

After the group meeting ended, the three students did not leave immediately.

They began discussing their research plans, and Li Mingyuan reopened his animal experiment protocols.

"I used to think that the more complex the solution, the better."

"Now it seems that's not the case."

Zhao Siyuan also said, "My model was the same; initially, I only thought about improving the accuracy."

"Now I think that if the clinical problem is not clearly defined, the more complex the algorithm, the more troublesome it may become."

Chen Yu did not participate in the discussion; she was organizing Mr. He's follow-up data.

She created a new spreadsheet on the computer.

In addition to age, disease, and number of medications, several variables that were rarely considered in previous studies have been added.

These contents seem very ordinary, and don't even seem like the kind of issues that a high-level study should focus on.

But she remembered the image of Old He sitting by the hospital bed, repeatedly checking the medication while holding several discharge slips.

Those problems do exist.

……

At 7 p.m., Zhou Cheng finished his rounds and prepared to leave the hospital.

Lin Feng had just come out of the catheterization lab. "Why are you leaving so early today?"

Zhou Cheng glanced at the time. "Let's go home for dinner."

Lin Feng laughed, "Now that you have students, you still keep this habit?"

"We'll address any issues tomorrow."

"Won't they think you, as their tutor, aren't rigorous enough?"

Zhou Cheng shook his head. "If a student needs to reply to messages in the early hours of the morning to prove their hard work, it means there's a problem with the training method."

Lin Feng thought for a moment, "Your idea is quite dangerous."

Why?

"It makes others think that you, as a mentor, are too comfortable."

Zhou Cheng laughed, "Then let them think that way."

The two walked to the elevator.

Lin Feng continued, "Others, after becoming department heads, can't wait to prove how busy they are. But you, you achieve world-renowned surgical skills, top-notch research, and then you tell your students not to stay up late. If other department heads heard this, they'd probably think you're not a leader."

The elevator doors opened, and Zhou Cheng stepped in, smiling. "Just do your own thing. What others think is unimportant."

Lin Feng stood outside the door, watching the elevator slowly descend.

He suddenly realized that after following Zhou Cheng for so many years, what he had truly learned might go far beyond surgical techniques.

Even after a doctor has reached a very high position, he is still willing to maintain his original principles.

This is more valuable than performing any number of complex surgeries.

……

Just when things were going well, bad news quietly arrived from another intervention center.

After a primary care hospital used Zhou Cheng's "calcification release technique," the complication rate of patients suddenly increased!

Several cases of vascular perforation and poor stent apposition occurred among the patients.

The center's data shows that this is definitely not an isolated case!

This is the latest chapter.