Wang Haiyang stretched his waist in a relaxed manner as he sat in the business class seat of the high-speed rail.
Although it was a long journey for doctors to perform freelance surgeries, the other party would bear the cost, and they would be seated in business class or business class, so the journey was not very tiring.
On the contrary, it was a rare spiritual comfort for chief physicians who earned ten thousand RMB a month to be able to sit in business class, which was three times the price of a second-class seat, like a successful person.
It should be said that the entire process of performing freelance surgeries was a rare spiritual comfort.
"When we perform a surgery in the hospital, the chief surgeon gets four to five hundred RMB, but this does not mean that our brains, skills, and experience are worth four to five hundred RMB." Wang Haiyang was outside the hospital, and he was more relaxed than he was in the hospital. Besides, there were only two people in the carriage, so he spoke a little louder. "Take the People's Liberation Army General Hospital for example. They set a ratio of 1: 3, and the department only gets half of the surgery fees from us. The chief surgeon gets more than two hundred RMB for a surgery, but we can't say that the chief physicians of other hospitals are worth more than two hundred RMB for a surgery, right?"
Ling Ran nodded.
"Freelance surgery … Freelance surgery is the real price of a doctor. Why do some people get fifty to one hundred thousand RMB for a freelance surgery, some get ten to twenty thousand RMB, and some get five to eight thousand RMB … "As a" middle-class freelance surgeon "who earned ten thousand RMB for a freelance surgery, Wang Haiyang was a little proud of himself. He could not help but boast," We say that the value of a doctor cannot be quantified, but in fact, the price of a freelance surgery is the evaluation of a doctor by the outside world. "
Ling Ran listened obediently and did not move.
Wang Haiyang continued, "There are some doctors. Tell me who you are familiar with. Qi Zhenhai from the provincial hospital. Do you remember him?"
"Qi Zhenhai?"
"Yes." Wang Haiyang chuckled and said, "He's an authority in the field of burns. He has published a lot of research papers, and he pretends to be amazing every day. But do you know how much he gets for freelance surgery?"
"Can the Burn Department perform freelance surgeries too?"
"He does skin grafts," Wang Haiyang said. He then said, "Qi Zhenhai quoted a price of fifteen thousand RMB to the outside world, and a friendship price of six thousand RMB. Hahahaha …"
Ling Ran looked at Wang Haiyang, baffled. He did not know why Wang Haiyang was laughing.
Wang Haiyang laughed for a while. He could see it too, and he could not help but feel a little gloomy.
At this moment, Wang Haiyang suddenly missed his assistant who could play the supporting role.
In fact, most doctors knew how to act as a supporting character. Doctors who did not know how to act as a supporting character would not be able to survive in the operating theater. The chief surgeon told jokes while cutting the flesh, but the first assistant doctor could not even keep up with the supporting character. What was the use of such a first assistant?
The time a doctor spent in the operating theater, from internship to houseman, from second assistant to first assistant, was the time they spent listening to crosstalk and learning how to act as a supporting character. Once they learned how to act as a supporting character, it was almost time for them to become chief surgeons and act as comedians.
However, Ling Ran did not experience this.
His taciturn personality had not changed, and he was already qualified to be the chief surgeon.
Wang Haiyang looked at Ling Ran and could not help but laugh. "What I mean is that Qi Zhenhai always charges a friendship price for his freelance surgeries. He's not a martial artist, so the price of his freelance surgeries is 6,000 RMB. He's just bragging about it."
Ling Ran nodded.
"There aren't many doctors who can perform freelance surgery for more than ten thousand RMB." Wang Haiyang paused for a moment and said with a smile, "Actually, there are very few doctors who can perform freelance surgeries. Think about it, our travel expenses are paid by the other hospital. If you don't have anything to show, why would they pay for you? Also, the other hospital has to provide assistants and arrange nurses to do all the preoperative checkups and postoperative treatment … In the microsurgery department, the requirements for freelance surgeries are even higher. "
Ling Ran was interested in this, so he cooperated and asked, "Why?"
"If you want to talk about this, I have to say something first. There is a certain level of risk in performing freelance surgeries." Wang Haiyang was like a doctor talking about the risks of surgery. He said, "The biggest risk in performing freelance surgeries is the failure of the surgery. If the patient makes a fuss, he can say that we're practicing medicine illegally. In the end, even if we're in the right, we won't be in the right anymore. Then, the success rate of finger replantation surgeries is very low, and failure is inevitable. What should we do then? "
"Do a preoperative evaluation?" Ling Ran tried his best to think.
Wang Haiyang laughed. "If a preoperative evaluation is useful, there's no need to talk about the success rate. However, a preoperative evaluation must be done, and it's even more so for our profession. Just like the smoking patients you met before, we must not perform freelance surgeries on patients who have a history of smoking. "
"Oh."
"So, the most important thing is that the doctors from the other hospital have to be familiar with the other hospital, and they have to be responsible." Wang Haiyang smiled faintly and said, "To put it bluntly, it's the same principle. The scope of the surgeries basically includes relatives and friends. Those who go beyond their circle of friends will not be treated."
"Relatives and friends of the doctors from the other hospital? Then, there shouldn't be many people. "Ling Ran was a little stunned. Finger replantation surgeries were basically accidents, and they might not be performed locally.
Wang Haiyang sighed. "That's why we don't have many chances to perform freelance surgeries. You'll understand when you get to know more doctors in the future. The more doctors you know, the more chances you'll have to perform freelance surgeries … "
For Wang Haiyang, who was in his fifties, he knew all the doctors from the standard hospitals in the province. It was even more so for the Hand Surgery Department. In the early years, when the Hand Surgery Department had just flourished, there were not many people in the field. It was not an exaggeration for Wang Haiyang to say that he knew all of them.
From Wang Haiyang's perspective, this was the threshold for him to become a freelance surgeon.
In the face of the young Ling Ran, Chief Physician Wang Haiyang subconsciously wanted to build a little psychological advantage.
Ling Ran did not notice this.
He did not care about the income from freelance surgeries, nor did he care about the risks.
An income of 5,000 RMB was a lot for a normal doctor, but for Ling Ran, who had more than 100,000 RMB in his bank account that he could not spend, it was not attractive at all.
The risk of freelance surgeries was only a probability. There were hundreds and thousands of doctors flying around in the sky of China to perform freelance surgeries at any moment. Doctors who were qualified to perform freelance surgeries were the backbone of each hospital. Many of them had to pay the hospital millions of RMB in compensation when they changed jobs. If any hospital fired a person in the name of freelance surgery, it would be the same as burning money.
Chief Physician Wang Haiyang had the same thought.
Yun Hua Hospital gave him a salary of 10,000 RMB, a bonus of 10,000 RMB, and other income. He could barely make 40,000 to 50,000 RMB a month. It was not a small amount, but Wang Haiyang was not willing to give up on freelance surgeries that cost 10,000 RMB a month.
Furthermore, the hospital policies were made by high-ranking doctors like him. Forget about Yun Hua Hospital, no one in Changxi Province had ever heard of a high-ranking doctor being punished for freelance surgery.
Sometimes, Wang Haiyang even thought that even if his license was revoked, he could retake it two years later. He could even say that he might as well join various medical groups to do other things.
Wang Haiyang, who was only a few years away from retirement, now cherished the opportunity of being invited to a business seat even more.
…..
Yiyuan County Hospital.
Chief Physician Kong Xiangming of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery carefully prepared the operating theater. He especially checked the newly bought microsurgery equipment and reminded the young doctors about the surgery time again. Then, he went to meet the patient's family to reconfirm the fees and other issues.
The transportation fee for Chief Physician Wang Haiyang to Yiyuan County Hospital was paid by the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, but Wang Haiyang's "specialist fee" was paid by the patient.
From a doctor's point of view, this was a very cost-effective fee. The patient did not need to travel to Yun Hua Hospital, which was located a few hours away, for treatment. He also did not need to worry about falling into the hands of some unknown attending physician. Instead, he could receive treatment from Chief Physician Wang Haiyang, who was one of the best in the Hand Surgery Department in Changxi Province. Besides, the patient could stay in Yiyuan County Hospital for forty to fifty days, and the family could save a lot of money on accommodation expenses.
In fact, in the current medical industry, if a family member was seriously ill, their first choice was to hire a well-known doctor to perform freelance surgery. There were two ways to find freelance surgeons. One was to find a recommendation from a colleague, and the other was to look up books. They would look for a textbook on related diseases and look up the names of the editors. Every single one of them was an expert, and a scalper's ticket would cost a few hundred to a thousand RMB. However, the fees for freelance surgeries usually did not exceed fifty thousand RMB, and most of them did not even reach this figure.
However, the opinions of professionals usually did not represent the opinions of the general public.
This was why Kong Xiangming had to confirm the fees with the patient's family several times. He had seen too many desperate patients. They were anxious when they were sick, and their hearts ached when they recovered. It was easy for them to cause trouble.
Once he discovered such a problem, Kong Xiangming would rather stop performing freelance surgeries and transfer the patient to another hospital than offend the specialist he specially invited.
Kong Xiangming had been actively inviting specialists this year because he wanted to carry out microsurgeries, especially finger replantation surgeries.
In the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of Yiyuan County Hospital, Kong Xiangming was already fifty-two years old. The attending physicians and associate chief physicians who had some skills were in their thirties or forties. If they went to places like the Hand Surgery Department of Yun Hua Hospital for in-service training at this age, they would not be able to adapt to the subservient life.
It was better to invite someone to go to the countryside than to ask for the real thing.
This was the experience of hospitals of all levels in recent years.
The Department of Orthopedic Surgery agreed with Kong Xiangming's way of doing things. They did not schedule any surgeries today and waited for the specialist to arrive.
Only the nurses were a little more lazy, until …
They saw Ling Ran get out of the car.
"Is this the specialist from Yun Hua Hospital?"
"He must be a young doctor who follows the specialist."
"It's impossible. How can a doctor look so good when he stays up late every day?"
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