Chapter 242: Young she is Chapter 242: Young she is As for the small notes that Xie Wanying had clipped to each medical record, they had been taken away by Liu Chengran on orders from a superior and carried in his pocket to the operating room for review.
Waiting for the teacher to come back to guide her in changing dressings, Xie Wanying, during this time, started to review the dressing change procedure. As she was preparing the items possibly needed for changing dressings, the head nurse came over and greeted her: “Dr. Xie, is it?”
“Yes, Teacher,” Xie Wanying said.
Seeing her being so polite and courteous, the head nurse’s expression relaxed, and she said softly to her, “If there’s anything you need help with from us nurses, just speak up, I’ve already talked to them about it.”
Xie Wanying understood that the head nurse wanted to establish a good relationship with her, and she too wanted to be on good terms with the nurse sisters here, so she said, “I always called the nurse sisters ‘sister’ when I was in emergency.”
Hearing her say this, the head nurse became even happier, nodding vigorously: “I see you are very young, probably just over twenty years old. It’s fine to call us ‘sister.’ How old are you this year?”
“Twenty-one years old.”
Luo Yanfen, who was passing by the nurse station, heard this conversation and hastened her step. The two male doctoral students following behind her seemed to understand why she was so anxious today, more anxious than both of them.
A twenty-one-year-old undergraduate intern?
The three entered an office, where someone revealed information to them: “I heard she is from an eight-year program and is doing her internship early, she will graduate with a doctorate in two years.”
Not an undergraduate, but a doctoral student. Luo Yanfen and the others felt as if thunder had struck them.
“I’m twenty-eight—” Luo Yanfen mumbled absentmindedly as she sat down in the chair.
At the age of twenty-eight, she was only in her second year as a doctoral student. There, a twenty-one-year-old doctoral student was already doing her clinical internship. The gap was simply crushing her.
If Xie Wanying was just beginning her internship but not performing well, she wouldn’t have cared so much. But today, in less than half an hour, the other party had completely outdone her.
The three teachers looked at them as if they were a bunch of fools.
Previously, without Xie Wanying as a strong contrast, the teachers’ view of them was: they were okay.
Luo Yanfen felt somewhat dejected and asked the other two male doctoral students, “Why didn’t the two of you say anything at the beginning? When she was talking, we should have clarified what she was aiming for. Look, now that she has finished talking, what do the teachers think of us? Don’t you think she clearly wanted to draw the teachers’ attention?”
The two male doctoral students put their hands on their hips, at a loss for what to do.
It was already difficult to get into a doctorate program at Guoxie, the most competitive in the country. Most of those who managed to get in were older, like them. Being surpassed by younger students in clinical practice was even more detrimental to their future careers.
Luo Yanfen felt more pressure than they did, as being a female medical student made her more likely to be compared by the teachers. Thinking this over, the two male doctoral students held their tongues.
Sensing the two men’s silence, Luo Yanfen snorted in contempt: she knew what kind of calculations these two were making.
After all, female medical students were never as popular as males in clinical practice—wasn’t it because they lacked the physical strength to do the actual hard work?
“Why don’t you apply to switch groups?” In the absence of teachers in the office, someone kindly offered them a piece of sincere advice, “Being compared with her is inevitable. Have you learned anything from him?”
Everyone knew Teacher Tan was not fond of teaching students, and whether it was good or bad luck for the three of them to enter this group was unclear. Regardless, as long as they stayed in this group, it was possible to secretly learn Teacher Tan’s special surgical techniques. Therefore, they tried every means to follow to the operating room. With just over a month of rotations, how could they not sneak into the operating room to learn?