Chapter 229: 【229】The Counselor’s Concern Chapter 229: 【229】The Counselor’s Concern Did the hospital think Xie Wanying wasn’t up to the task? Did they deliberately arrange for her to go to General Surgery Department Two to prove she couldn’t make it?
Could it be that Xie Wanying’s sudden advancement into the internship and the inadequate time for notifying the hospital resulted in a hasty assignment? With this thought, Ren Chongda wondered if he had not done his job well enough.
(No, what Ren Chongda didn’t know was that someone had asked his student what makes a great surgeon, and the student answered “technique,” hence, they assigned her the teacher with the best technical skills to guide her.)
“Was it Teacher Tan who arranged this for you, or someone else?” Ren Chongda asked with attention to detail.
It was heard that Tan Kelin didn’t like to mentor students, so the department head assigned him to oversee instruction, giving him the authority to allocate students to others. Therefore, even if Tan Kelin had superior technical skills, it was useless for students to follow him because they wouldn’t learn anything if the teacher didn’t teach.
“Dr. Sun Yubo from his team asked me. He said I was assigned to their group,” Xie Wanying honestly replied to the teacher.
“Angry?” Xie Wanying only remembered Teacher Tan’s handsome and aloof face being as tranquil as water when he spoke—perhaps Teacher Tan was thinking about patients at the time.
If it wasn’t Tan Kelin’s decision, surely he wouldn’t have simply stated that; rather, his words would have carried a reprimand saying it was someone else’s idea.
Ren Chongda became even more surprised and felt helpless. If Tan Kelin had made the decision himself, how could he approach Tan Kelin and say, “Don’t take my student?” Then his future students might not have any clinical teacher willing to take them on at all.
“Teacher Ren, is there a problem?” Xie Wanying, having noticed the instructor’s odd expressions, asked.
Ren Chongda couldn’t simply tell the student that the teacher was difficult to deal with, so he had to tell her, “Teacher Tan is very skilled, you should learn from him diligently.”
“I know, Teacher Ren,” Xie Wanying intuitively sensed Teacher Tan’s prowess.
Being fairly young to be a deputy chief physician and in charge of instruction, handling the care of two groups of patients, only a capable teacher could take on such responsibilities.
“Here, this is the hospital meal card,” Ren Chongda pulled out a card and gave it to her, unable to help the student with other issues, but as a counselor, he could at least provide ample care for the student’s daily needs.
“Teacher Ren, this—” Xie Wanying hesitated with the meal card that had been handed to her.
“You won’t be able to run to the school’s cafeteria for meals during your clinical internship. It’s more convenient to eat at the hospital. I’ve put some money on the card for you to use.”
“That won’t be necessary, Teacher Ren.”
“It’s deducted from your living allowance, just take it.” After saying this, Ren Chongda walked away, not giving the student a chance to hand it back.
The teacher was truly kind-hearted. Xie Wanying no longer felt alone and helpless.
Returning to the ward to continue completing the clinical tasks assigned by the teacher, Xie Wanying checked on the patients until she arrived at bed number 7 and noticed the patient’s troubled expression. Seeing that something was off in the medical record, she furrowed her brows.
Not having waited for the teacher to return from the operating room to the department at noon, she had lunch alone and found a place to rest.
In the afternoon at the start of the shift, she went back to the department.
Teacher Tan’s group had new members, three clinical doctoral students—two males and a female—who came for a rotation in General Surgery Department Two, arriving about a month earlier than her. Their names were Luo Yanfen, Zhang Zhongqiang, and Li Wenhao, respectively, and they were several years older than her.
Dr. Sun Yubo called out to everyone, “Let’s go to the teaching room for pre-surgical discussions, then we’ll do rounds.”
All moved to the department’s teaching room, and as the students had just sat down,
the door opened, and Tan Kelin entered with another male doctor. The new figure was a sturdy-built man somewhat resembling a fitness enthusiast, sporting a badge indicating he was an attending physician, named Liu Chengran, around thirty years old.