Chapter 670: [(670)] Excellent ability to manage patients Chapter 670: [(670)] Excellent ability to manage patients The Hepatobiliary Surgery Department, as Guoxie’s flagship surgical division, boasts a large number of highly talented and competitive personnel, with competition far surpassing that of the two general surgery units.
Among the attending physicians currently on duty, excluding retired professors, there are three with earth-shattering reputations, all amongst the nation’s top Hepatobiliary surgery experts. However, those who have reached the level of attending physician are older. Like Director Tang, an attending physician in his fifties is near retirement and has already stepped back to a secondary role. The main force on the operating table will always be middle-aged physicians, with ranks within the associate director level.
There are a total of eight associate director physicians in Hepatobiliary Surgery, forming a strong reserve force. Half of them are over the age of forty. The youngest associate director is unanimously recognized as the rising star of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhijie Tao.
It is said that a young doctor who achieves fame early on like Cao Yong and Zhijie Tao must have stood out during their medical studies.
Xie Wanying later heard that during his internship, Senior Tao had already become widely acclaimed in the year he graduated. As the physician in charge of a large number of high-ranking officials, his work performance was extraordinary and frequently commended by the leadership.
Such rumors may seem incredible at first. Isn’t being a doctor about skill? The more skilled you are, the more famous you become. The same should apply to medical students.
Wrong, treating a patient is not just about having good medical skills. It often happens that the doctor has planned a surgery well, but the patient, whether before or after the surgery, fails to cooperate sufficiently in the treatment, leading to many unforeseen complications.
How to manage patients has become an indispensable part of the treatment plan for doctors. Only by controlling the variables of the patient during the treatment process can the treatment plan be effectively advanced to achieve perfect results. Therefore, one of the critical internship tasks for medical students stepping into clinical practice is to learn how to manage patients. This advice might sound repetitive, but it genuinely decides the future of many medical students.
Managing patients can be very annoying.
Many patients don’t like listening to doctors and argue back. High-ranking officials are even worse; often on the clinical front, they exhibit the attitude from their own workplaces, not cooperating with the treating physician but trying to direct the doctor instead.
If even formal doctors have difficulty managing patients, what about medical students? Thus, it’s no wonder that someone like Senior Tao, who was able to manage high-ranking officials during his internship, became a star and a big name after becoming a doctor.
Logically, with Senior Tao’s excellence, how could he fail to manage a student like Zhao Zhaowei?
Senior Tao had no chance to manage Zhao Zhaowei. He’s an associate director physician, leader of the departmental group, head of Hepatobiliary Surgery’s research efforts, and right-hand man to the director. As he revealed, he’s often traveling, even abroad for academic exchanges, with a very tight schedule, and it’s not possible for him to manage the daily hospital life of a patient like during his days as a medical student, even if that patient happens to be the grandson of a department professor. He’s usually called in for clinical guidance only when the patient needs urgent rescue.
Ward management has always been the job of interns.
When Zhao Zhaowei was hospitalized, it just so happened that the previous group of interns had finished their rotation and left for different job postings, like Song Xueling. The next group of interns had not yet arrived, marking a transition period between the old and new interns in the clinic. With no interns to manage Zhao Zhaowei and the attending and resident physicians too busy to do so, they assumed that a medical student would be capable of taking care of himself. The eventual outcome shocked everyone.
Consequently, Xie Wanying and her classmates who had started their clinical internships early suddenly became highly sought after by various departments.