On the day Hayato Ueda arrived, Yun Hua Hospital put up the advertisement that they had prepared beforehand — Specialist Consultation from Japan's Keio University.
Due to the famous Keio University's reputation, the next day's Pan-Hwa Joint Outpatient Clinic was sold out within ten minutes, and the number was only 30. Because of this, they had no choice but to postpone the appointment until the afternoon. Then, the scalpers who came one after another increased the price to 500 yen, and another 30 numbers were sold.
If it were any more expensive, the patients would have to go to Beijing or Shanghai for treatment.
Department Associate Director Pan was inexplicably happy about this change.
In the eyes of many doctors, the specialist consultation fee of eleven RMB per person was more like a disrespect to their own labor. If there was an unreasonable person or a person who made a fuss on the day of the consultation, then the consultation fee of eleven RMB would be even more like an insult.
The price of five hundred RMB given to Department Associate Director Pan by the scalpers could not help but raise their heads.
Department Associate Director Pan felt that the consultation fee of fifteen thousand RMB for one afternoon was a reward that was worthy of him for delaying lunch and skipping dinner. Of course, the consultation fee he received was still three RMB and thirty cents per patient, and he had to split it equally with Hayato Ueda. However, the feeling of being respected was different.
None of the patients who were willing to pay five hundred RMB for treatment were unreasonable. There were even very few patients with mild illnesses. Most of them were patients who could use Pan Hua's twenty years of experience …
Because of this, Pan Hua was very meticulous in his observation.
In fact, he could not solve every patient's problem. There were many patients who could only point him in the direction of reconsultation, which meant that he could not give any useful diagnosis and treatment results. This made Pan Hua, who had never seen a consultation fee of five hundred RMB, a little nervous.
However, the patients who only received the consultation plan still left with great gratitude. None of them asked for a refund.
"There's something good about the scalper tickets," Pan Hua said to Hayato Ueda in Japanese, "At least they can't ask me for a refund."
Hayato Ueda did not understand Pan Hua's point. He only said, "Why do they want a refund?"
Pan Hua was stunned and said, "Maybe … they think that doctors must provide useful solutions to be qualified to receive consultation fees, especially since the scalper tickets are so expensive."
"Doctors are not gods. The person who prays can't ask for the tribute back just because his wish isn't fulfilled. "Hayato Ueda quickly apologized." I'm sorry, I said something very selfish. "
"It doesn't matter. Dr. Ueda is a very easy-going person." Pan Hua praised Ueda as if he was in Japan and continued to examine the patient.
The scope of their diagnosis was not only limited to flexor tendon injuries, but also included all aspects of hand and foot surgery.
When accepting patients in the Outpatient Department, he could not only consider himself, but also the condition of the department and treatment group. Whether the patient could be treated or not was the most basic of all. This was most commonly seen in basic hospitals. If the patient could not be treated, they would ask the patient to go to a bigger hospital for treatment, or they would accept the patient and then transfer the patient to another hospital. Secondly, it depended on whether the patient was the main surgical method of the department. For example, when Pan Hua was not around, the M-Tang technique was not the main surgical method of Yun Hua Hospital. Patients who needed this method to be able to be diagnosed and treated, or patients who could achieve better results would usually not be accepted into the Department of Surgery.
In the end, it naturally depended on the department's capacity. This was the most obvious in top-notch hospitals. Ordinary patients could only be admitted to top-notch hospitals relatively easily if they had a disease that local hospitals found troublesome. Otherwise, the decision to accept them or not would mainly depend on the hospital's operation.
Pan Hua had gone for in-service training for a few months, and the treatment group he was in almost starved to death. At this time, it was only natural for them to accept patients without restraint.
Hayato Ueda felt a little guilty. He looked at more than twenty numbers, and after he accepted twelve people into the hospital, he could not help but whisper to Pan Hua in Japanese, "There are too many patients. We won't be able to handle them, right?"
"If we really can't handle them, we can transfer them to other groups. Just treat it as a form of networking," Pan Hua said in a way that Hayato Ueda could understand.
"Oh," Hayato Ueda said in a very understanding manner. He said, "So, in Chinese hospitals, patients can be given as gifts?"
"Your ability to understand …" Pan Hua shook his head and said, "Let's go back to the topic just now. If we accept more patients today, we will have more surgeries to perform later. This is the same in China and Japan, right?"
"Then, what's the source of Doctor Ling Ran's patients we mentioned yesterday?" Hayato Ueda was still very concerned about this.
Pan Hua said indifferently, "You don't have to care about him now. Ling Ran only knows how to perform one type of surgical method. Although he has performed some, he is still very young, after all. He can't perform all of them."
"He has performed at least one or two hundred M-Tang technique surgeries, right? That's a very high number even in Japan."
"Two hundred is not a lot." Pan Hua chuckled and said, "I performed more than a hundred M-Tang technique surgeries in the few months I was in Japan. I didn't publicize it. When I was in China, I also performed quite a lot of surgeries. I've performed dozens of surgeries. Moreover, I don't specialize in M-Tang technique surgeries …"
"But when it comes to surgeries for flexor tendon injuries …"
"We will come up with a number that Ling Ran won't be able to do even if he works himself to death. Besides, the more surgeries we perform, the less we can leave for Ling Ran. This is something that we can't do anything about. Sometimes, patients are also resources. " Pan Hua chuckled and said, "If you ask me, we're doing this for Ling Ran's own good. I heard that he knows that I'm coming back, which is why he worked hard to perform surgeries. So, he should understand that when we come back, he will have to stand aside. So, it's just a matter of working hard to accumulate some surgeries. It's not a big deal."
"Is that so?"
Pan Hua smiled faintly and said to Hayato Ueda, "Professor Ueda, your goal in coming to China is to perform surgeries, right? How many surgeries do you want to perform? Two hundred? Three hundred? "
Hayato Ueda's cheeks became rosy. He said slowly, "My goal is to perform six hundred surgeries. My previous record was four hundred. If I can perform another six hundred surgeries, my number of surgeries will become the fifth among active doctors in the Orthopedics Department … "
"Oh, you want to perform six hundred surgeries a year?"
"Huh? How is that possible? "
Pan Hua laughed out loud. "In China, as long as you want to do it, performing six hundred surgeries a year is nothing. You can perform two surgeries a day."
"Ah Nuo …" Hayato Ueda's Japanese was getting messed up. "There are only two hundred working days a year, right?"
"If you calculate it this way …"
"I can't perform surgeries on outpatient days, but I still have consultation days and conference days. If I calculate it this way, the number of days I can perform surgeries is less than one hundred and fifty." Hayato Ueda calculated very carefully. "To perform one hundred and fifty surgeries a day, there will definitely be a lot of overtime."
"If you want to calculate it this way …" Pan Hua laughed again. "On average, four surgeries a day is indeed a little too much."
"Yes, if you perform it every day, two surgeries a day will be a lot." Hayato Ueda forced himself to laugh a few times and said, "I plan to complete this plan in three years' time."
Performing six hundred surgeries in three years meant that he could only perform two hundred surgeries a year.
Pan Hua smiled and explained the patient's condition to the patient sitting in front of him. When he ended the consultation, Pan Hua could not help but recall his career in Japan. He thought, 'The Japanese nowadays are really too lazy.' Although four surgeries a day was a little too much, on average, three surgeries a day was not a problem. What the hell was two hundred surgeries a year?
Another patient sat down and handed over his examination results.
Pan Hua looked at the results and said to Hayato Ueda in Japanese, "We still need to perform more surgeries in the near future. Although Ling Ran performing a few surgeries a day is his last carnival, and he might have already exhausted his energy, you will also feel that it is a waste to give all the surgical opportunities to a young man, right? "
Hayato Ueda knew what Pan Hua meant. In fact, in Japanese hospitals, snatching surgeries was a more common thing.
It was especially so for young doctors like them. In order to get started, they needed to put in a lot of time and energy. Because of this, Hayato Ueda went all the way to Yun Hua just to get a chance to perform surgeries.
In a situation where the number of patients was limited, the more surgeries Pan Hua and Hayato Ueda performed, the fewer surgeries Ling Ran could perform.
Then, no matter how many surgeries Ling Ran could perform every day, it would be meaningless.
Or, the more likely situation was that Ling Ran was already half-dead from exhaustion in order to welcome this day, and he could not wait for them to snatch the surgeries away.
"We can choose the patients first. We can perform whatever surgeries we like, and we can just leave those we don't want to do to Ling Ran. I'm an associate chief physician of the Hand Surgery Department, and no one will choose him first, "Pan Hua added.
Hayato Ueda was even happier when he heard that. When he was in Keio, he did not receive such treatment.
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