Beijing University Sixth Hospital.
Operating theater.
Xu Jinyi smiled like a lucky man who had just recovered from liver cancer and could afford to go abroad for treatment. He extended his hand for a pair of hemostatic forceps, found the right place to clamp the wound, and sighed. "It's great, I can perform surgery again."
"Department director, you can."
"Welcome back, department director."
"Department director, it's good news for our department and the whole hospital that your health has recovered."
The doctors from the General Surgery Department of Beijing University Sixth Hospital used more than ten years of experience in flattering him to praise him in a slightly awkward manner. It was not that their skills were not good, but they had flattered him too many times since yesterday, and they could no longer use flattering words. Hence, they could only return to the basics and use the most basic language to form the most mushy praise.
Xu Jinyi was very happy. As he listened to his subordinates' praise, he chuckled and said, "Our Chinese is still the best. When I was at Anderson Cancer Center, I spoke Mandarin to people every day, and I found an interpreter. I asked if we could speak Mandarin, but the interpreter said no. You hired me to be an interpreter, not to chat with you …"
"What happened after that?" As they listened to their department director's story, the young doctors became a little more energetic.
"After that …" The department director's eyes were filled with memories, and he smiled. "After that, I complained about him, and the other company probably fired him. Then, I got another interpreter, but he turned out to be a second-generation Chinese. I couldn't talk to him, so I couldn't be bothered to talk to him."
The young doctors instantly became dispirited. They were afraid and racked their brains to compliment him.
"As expected of the department director."
"Department director, you're amazing."
"Call the department director."
Xu Jinyi laughed loudly. "You bunch of little flatterers."
The young doctors instantly felt a little awkward. After their department director came back, he suddenly became very straightforward, and it was difficult for them to deal with him.
The assistant lecturer, Zhao Dong, saw this. If the boot-licking went cold, it would stink to death. He immediately put on his most beautiful smile. "Director, you can't forget the old just because you have a new one. At least we, the old ones, know the way."
"In that case, we're old flatterers." The assistant lecturer next to him laughed. As an old flatterer for twenty years, he spoke very fluently.
Xu Jinyi laughed even louder. Whatever, he sighed. "I just can't let go of you old people, or else I would have retired long ago."
The assistant lecturers lowered their heads in unison. They really wanted the director to retire so that they could take over.
Xu Jinyi saw their expressions and knew what they were thinking. He laughed even more happily. Once he was done laughing, Xu Jinyi said, "Old Zhao, you're up for the next surgery."
"Hey, isn't the next surgery going to be performed by an expert from the Anderson Cancer Center?" Zhao Dong was quite surprised.
"Yes, they allowed us to bring along an assistant to learn from them. You're up next. " When Xu Jinyi returned from the Anderson Cancer Center, he invited a surgical team from the Anderson Cancer Center along the way. The team consisted of chief surgeons, first and second assistants, anesthetists, and nurses.
This was also the current standard model for inviting foreign freelance surgeons. It was no longer rare for local doctors to meet foreign specialists alone, especially the doctors in Beijing. The more they met with foreign specialists, the more the halo around them was broken.
Some foreign surgeons performed surgeries more crudely than domestic surgeons, so much so that they attracted all kinds of doubts.
However, foreign surgical teams were always very stable. The performance of the same foreign surgeons was often very different when they came to China to perform surgery alone or with a team.
There was also a need for local hospitals to further learn from foreign surgical teams.
This was especially so when it came to the use of all kinds of high-end equipment. It was usually done by a foreign high-end surgical team working with a pharmaceutical company for a few years. Therefore, when some high-end equipment was just released into the market, some teams already had plenty of experience in using it. If they were invited at this time, their teams would be willing to cooperate, and the results would be good.
Xu Jinyi invited a team from the Anderson Cancer Center in the name of exchanging skills.
The team leader, Lloyd, was an expert in surgery. There was no doubt about Lloyd's ability to work in the world's most famous oncology hospital, and his workload was also huge. However, Lloyd was still moved by Xu Jinyi's sincerity.
It was very difficult for Lloyd to refuse sixty thousand USD for his services in three days.
As an American doctor, Lloyd's income was very high, and he could even be said to be a high-income doctor in the United States. However, his annual salary was eighty thousand USD, and it was still difficult for him to refuse sixty thousand USD.
Moreover, the other members of the team would also get a share of the money.
Xu Jinyi was also satisfied.
This invitation would cost about one hundred thousand USD from Beijing University Sixth Hospital's budget.
However, for a tertiary Grade A hospital, one hundred thousand USD was only around six hundred thousand RMB. Could it even be considered as money?
Of course, if they were to really calculate it, six hundred thousand RMB was also a lot. Therefore, to save as much money as possible, Xu Jinyi also found three suitable patients in advance and charged two hundred thousand RMB from each of them as freelance surgery fees.
Compared to the friendship fee of seventy thousand RMB from the top experts in the country, or the unconditional appearance fee of one hundred thousand RMB from the top experts in the country, it only cost two hundred thousand RMB to hire an entire team of foreign experts. Naturally, rich patients could understand.
Meanwhile, in the General Surgery Department of Beijing University Sixth Hospital, everyone was also quite looking forward to the three surgeries in three days.
Everyone wanted to see the strength of the foreign teams.
Zhao Dong did not expect that the department director would give this opportunity to him. He felt a little strange and worried as he said, "How can I …"
"You can perform one surgery to test the waters first. Besides, the few of you are the ones who perform the most surgeries in the department now. I will definitely perform fewer and fewer surgeries in the future. If there's a good opportunity, I should give it to you first." When Xu Jinyi said this, he was sincere.
Cancer did not only change a person's body, it would also change a person's mind.
Xu Jinyi no longer fantasized about becoming an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Now, he just wanted to be a manager and perform minor surgeries. It would be best if he could survive the most dangerous first five years.
The atmosphere in the operating theater started to become cheerful.
Once they had something to look forward to, the doctors in the General Surgery Department seemed to have become more energetic. After all, doctors lived by having something to look forward to. Otherwise, they would have died of exhaustion and depression a long time ago.
Xu Jinyi inadvertently showed them something to look forward to, and it was a form of motivation for the entire department.
In the afternoon, the workers from the pharmaceutical sales company purposely came to Beijing University Sixth Hospital to adjust the demonstration room of the General Surgery Department to ensure that the broadcast of the following surgeries would be normal.
For this reason, the workers from the pharmaceutical sales company also specially adjusted a live broadcast of the surgery.
Xu Jinyi did not watch it carefully. He only wanted the signal to be good.
Lloyd, who came to China for the first time, was very excited. He first visited the operating theater, then went to the demonstration room. He looked at the huge 100-inch television and watched it seriously.
The three foreign doctors became more and more serious as they watched.
"Can you give me a copy of this surgery?" Lloyd suddenly asked.
When the debugging worker heard the question from the interpreter, he looked up, shook his head, and said, "This is a live broadcast. If you want to test the information, you'll have to wait until they finish broadcasting."
"This is a live broadcast of the surgery? Where is it happening? "Lloyd was shocked.
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