Chapter 213: [213] Everyone is afraid of being outdone by her Chapter 213: [213] Everyone is afraid of being outdone by her Student Zhao Zhaowei and Feng Yicong, along with Li Qi’an, were chatting in a group. In a place farther away, the nine male students who, like her, were focused on surgery, were surrounding the class leader Yue Wentong and talking.
This situation had actually persisted for over three years, starting from when classes began.
She seemed to get along better with a few students studying internal medicine but was more distant from those studying surgery. The only breakthrough was that this time, during the internship, she had exchanged words with the class leader.
The classroom door opened, and Ren Chongda walked in, quieting the class down.
“People start work on the eighth day of the lunar month, you start school, and I start work too,” Ren Chongda said.
A group of male students below began to laugh.
“Have you found the few days in the hospital thrilling?” Ren Chongda asked the class how they felt, whether they had tasted the excitement of being a doctor.
“We have, Teacher Ren.”
The students responded in succession, not one daring to say they hadn’t.
“I know, some of you have already written reflective essays,” Ren Chongda said.
Thus, Zhao Zhaowei and Xie Wanying glanced at each other. The surrounding laughter left them no room for face-saving.
“Your upcoming courses will be even more stimulating. You need to continue reading clinical textbooks in school, and also continue with clinical practice in the hospital. Let’s see if the teacher can find opportunities for you to practice procedures in the clinic in advance. Some of you might already have had this chance,” Ren Chongda said.
All eyes instantly turned to Zhao Zhaowei and Xie Wanying.
“This clinical practice will be different; our class will split into groups for the clinical internships,” Ren Chongda said. “So, you guys should try forming groups on your own first.”
“I want to be in a group with her,” the four students from Zhao Zhaowei’s dormitory said in unison, grabbing Xie Wanying’s clothes as they spoke.
Seeing this, other students remarked about the four of them, “Hey, you’re studying internal medicine; she’s studying surgery!”
“Teacher Ren didn’t say we had to divide into internal and surgical groups,” the four of them said.
“If we really need to form groups in the future, it would probably be in small groups, within our larger class,” Teacher Ren finally said. “And ideally in the same specialty direction.”
Someone whistled, almost everyone’s gaze turned to the nine male students on Yue Wentong’s side: which of you plans to group with her?
The nine male students stayed silent.
Teacher Ren waited a moment and, seeing that no one spoke up, said, “I’ll give you a week to think about it.”
After saying that, he adjourned the meeting.
Xie Wanying grabbed her backpack and went to the library to study.
After she had left, Li Qi’an said, “I can understand those nine surgery guys, after all, they are in direct competition with her, unlike us. The last time I paired up with her, she said giving injections was like injecting a rabbit; I don’t have her guts. If those nine had to compete directly with her, they would surely be at the bottom.”
“Plain and simple, she’s just formidable,” Feng Yicong said, raising his eyebrows.
“Who can team up with her? Anyone who teams up with her is bound to be overtaken by her,” that was almost the unanimous thought in the class. At that moment, no one cared about being a male or female student.
Hospitals hire people; even if it’s a female student, as long as she’s incredibly capable, she’s still recruited. Female students are looked down upon simply because, physically and in other respects, they really can’t compete with males. But once they overcome these disadvantages, they can easily crush the males. This was especially prominent in Xie Wanying’s case.
Teacher Ren returned to the teachers’ office and fell into ponderous difficulty.
Having spoken, the result was that no one in the class dared to be in the same group as her. Never mind the issue of male or female students; even if there were female students in the class, they certainly wouldn’t dare to be in a group with her.