godfather of surgery

Chapter 1223 Old Classmates

The news of Sisi's cure spread quickly and reached the International Medical Center. Adams was very excited when he heard the news; the K therapy had produced its first cured case.

If there's a first one, there will be a second one. Could he be the second one?

Although K therapy is not perfect, it is effective. Isn't the most essential goal of any treatment method to be effective? For cancer treatment, as long as it is effective, other things can be improved gradually. Saving lives is the most crucial thing.

To repay Professor Yang, Adams decided to seriously address the problem of hospital management. He was a mathematician, not a management expert, so he began to study management science and, at the same time, used his personal connections to collect information on top hospital management practices from around the world. He intended to study this information with a serious and rigorous attitude and then, combined with his mathematical knowledge, design a scientific hospital management model.

Of course, his goal was simply to improve the efficiency of hospital operations, reduce the waste of medical resources, and reduce the workload of medical staff. This was not a simple task, but a difficult one. To accomplish this task, Adams had contacted several friends, one of whom was a management guru.

Yang Ping is currently focusing on K therapy. K therapy has now achieved its goals in terms of both efficacy and safety. The remaining work is to address the problems discovered in clinical trials and continuously improve it.

He wants to focus on expanding the therapeutic scope of K therapy. The key technology lies in finding recognition factors for other tumor cells. If recognition factors can be found, they can be attached to a vector modified from adenovirus, similar to the current K protein complex.

Yang Ping now adopts a focused approach, tackling each project one by one without scattering his energy. He concentrates his efforts on the most important projects and the most critical technical aspects, while delegating other projects or aspects to his team.

Currently, there is only one K factor, which can accurately identify very few types of tumors. To expand the scope of K therapy, more K factors must be cultivated using gene recombination technology. However, things are not as simple as they seem, as this recombination is extremely difficult.

Yang Ping was pondering these questions in his office in the laboratory. Of course, when he was thinking about these questions, he would always enter the system space, so that he could do a long time of thinking in a very short time and make full use of the time advantage of the system space.

For Yang Ping now, the greatest benefit of the system space is not the experimental subjects, instruments, drugs, etc., but time. Yang Ping can utilize the fragmented time in reality and amplify it using the system space.

As he was thinking, his phone vibrated. Yang Ping picked it up and answered: "Professor, don't forget about the interview. Today is the first batch of doctoral applicants for interviews. I sent the list and resumes to your email three days ago. You've seen them, right? The interviews start in half an hour. Tang Shun and I will come to pick you up later."

"Oh, let me see." Yang Ping hung up the phone.

He didn't even look at the interview list or the resumes. He hated things that were unrelated to clinical practice and research, and he tried to avoid them as much as possible.

Yang Ping opened his email and browsed through the interview list and resumes. A familiar name caught his eye—He Zijian.

Isn't this my classmate from undergraduate days? Could it be someone with the same name?

Yang Ping looked at the resume more carefully and realized that the person was his classmate He Zijian. After graduating from undergraduate studies, he was admitted to West China University of Technology for graduate studies. Back then, he and Yang Ping were roommates. He Zijian studied very hard and had excellent grades. He never expected that he would graduate with a doctorate now. Time flies.

However, this student was quite honest. He came for the interview without telling Yang Ping beforehand, hoping that Yang Ping could give him some preferential treatment. It seems that this guy is still the same as before, sincere and down-to-earth.

Looking at this student's resume, it's clear that He Zijian has had a tough time. He has worked incredibly hard over the years, step by step, from undergraduate to master's degree, and then from master's to doctoral studies. He came from a rural area and had no family connections; he relied entirely on his own hard work and perseverance.

I remember back then, Yang Ping and He Zijian often went to the library to read books together. While others spent their weekends dating and playing games, they actually went to the library to read books, which seemed a bit unusual.

He Zijian's family was relatively poor. Back then, he often tutored to earn some living expenses, and on weekends he would sell second-hand items on campus to make a little money.

After their undergraduate graduation ceremony, Yang Ping and He Zijian lost contact. Unexpectedly, they met again during an interview today.

Tang Shun and Song Ziming came to find Yang Ping. The personnel department had already arranged the interviews and asked the interviewers from the research institute to hurry over.

Yang Ping snapped out of his thoughts: "You guys can take charge, I'll just sit on the sidelines and make up the numbers to listen in."

"Director Wan Quan of the Personnel Department repeatedly instructed that Professor Yang must be invited. This group of people are of very high quality, and they all look down on everyone. Director Wan said to invite you to sit there and deflate their arrogance. Besides, many of them are here because of your reputation, so you should ask them a few questions," Tang Shun said.

This group includes both clinicians and researchers in basic medicine. Song Ziming was in charge of interviewing the clinicians, while Tang Shun was in charge of interviewing the researchers in basic medicine. These people were interviewed together, as the research institute integrates clinical practice and scientific research.

"Alright then." Yang Ping didn't really like participating in public events, but he figured he might as well go to this kind of interview; it would be a good opportunity to see what kind of quality this year's new recruits were like.

Moreover, some of my old classmates are on the interview list, so I might as well take this opportunity to see them.

When Yang Ping, Song Ziming, and Tang Shun arrived at the interview room, everyone else was already there. Sitting on the interview table were Wan Quanzhen, the director of the personnel department, several department heads, senior experts from several expert groups, and Director Gao of the sports medicine department—all key experts at the hospital. Of course, these experts were only there to assist; the final decision rested with the three people from the research institute, since it was the institute recruiting.

More than a dozen students also arrived and sat in the next meeting room waiting. The interview time had not yet arrived. When the time came, they would be interviewed one by one in order.

As Yang Ping passed by the next conference room, he really wanted to go in and see his old classmate He Zijian. However, after thinking about it carefully, he realized it wouldn't be appropriate. He figured He Zijian hadn't contacted him beforehand to avoid suspicion and trouble for Yang Ping, who wanted to get into the research institute based on his own abilities. So Yang Ping only glanced at the next conference room out of the corner of his eye and gave up the idea of ​​going in to say hello.

"Professor Yang, you've arrived!"

As Yang Ping approached the conference room door, Gao Yuan came out to greet him from afar and bowed to lead him to his seat.

Director Wan is the head of the personnel department. She usually gives people the impression of being a caring older sister. When she met Yang Ping, she saw that the interview time had not yet arrived, so she chatted with Yang Ping for a few minutes and gave a brief introduction to the basic information of this batch of students.

All of these people are PhDs. Now, PhDs are a strict requirement for Sanbo Hospital to recruit people. Some are from eight-year programs, and some are from segmented programs. In any case, they all graduated from top medical universities in China.

These PhDs will be called into the interview room one by one, with each person having only thirty minutes. Their educational background has been thoroughly investigated. The interview is simply a face-to-face communication. If there are no problems, the interview will be kept to thirty minutes. If there are problems, the time may be extended appropriately. In any case, if the interviews cannot be completed today, they can continue tomorrow. The interviews are scheduled for three days.

Director Wan kept He Zijian in mind.

When Director Wan first reviewed the application materials of the PhD candidates, he saw He Zijian's undergraduate university and seemed to remember something. Wasn't this PhD student from the same university as Professor Yang? And judging from the graduation time, they were even in the same year? Did they know each other? What a coincidence.

Logically, if this were truly the case, Professor Yang should be recused. However, this is Professor Yang, and Director Wan pretended to know nothing, remaining calm and collected. He began to wonder if this person was related to Professor Yang. If they were, he would probably have to make careful arrangements in secret. Professor Yang certainly couldn't be in a position to intervene in such matters; Director Wan was quite adept at these social niceties.

After discovering the problem, Director Wan immediately assigned a trusted subordinate to investigate He Zijian thoroughly. He asked her to find out if He Zijian was in the same class as Professor Yang. This subordinate was extremely efficient and could distinguish between important and unimportant matters. She quickly gave a reply: He Zijian was in the same class as Professor Yang. Moreover, this subordinate was quite capable and quickly found a classmate of Yang Ping. Anyway, the medical circle is only so big, and it's easy to find someone by going through a few twists and turns.

Through this classmate, I learned that He Zijian had a pretty good personal relationship with Yang Ping when they were in school, and that He Zijian's academic performance was always outstanding. In school, both he and Professor Yang were among the top students, and they had a kind of mutual respect between heroes.

After this verification and investigation, Director Wan had a better understanding of the situation. However, she still needed to observe Professor Yang's reaction during the interview in order to better understand his true thoughts.

Director Wan certainly couldn't ask Yang Ping directly about this kind of thing, so he had to rely entirely on observing his words and carefully considering his intentions. Director Wan was quite experienced in this regard.

The interview began, and to everyone's surprise, the first PhD candidate to come in was He Zijian. Yang Ping was very surprised, but He Zijian was not surprised at all. He was mentally prepared and had come specifically for Yang Ping. However, he did not want to use connections, so he did not contact Yang Ping in advance to ask for special consideration.

He saw Yang Ping and smiled slightly, and Yang Ping smiled slightly in return; the two old classmates had exchanged greetings.

Director Wan noticed and remembered this subtle expression. She used her womanly sensitivity to understand that Professor Yang appreciated He Zijian.

Yang Ping didn't speak because He Zijian was a clinical doctor, and his interview was mainly conducted by Song Ziming. Song Ziming had no idea that he was Yang Ping's classmate, so he didn't offer any special treatment and just asked questions according to the standard procedure.

Song Ziming asked several highly technical questions, and He Zijian answered them all perfectly. These questions all involved cutting-edge technologies that are not found in textbooks and require frequent reading of top-tier English papers in the field to acquire this knowledge.

Following that, Tang Shun asked a few more questions about scientific research. A doctor who has undergone rigorous scientific research training cannot just be a clinician; he also needs to engage in scientific research and be able to creatively solve some difficult problems.

In grassroots hospitals, doctors can focus solely on clinical work. In top-tier hospitals, doctors must possess exceptional research capabilities. If all doctors merely engage in clinical practice and accumulate experience, who will research new problems and drive medical progress?

Tang Shun had studied in the United States and Japan, so he asked questions directly in English, and the questions he asked were very tricky, and most people would not be able to answer them.

He wasn't showing off his English, but rather using the interview method to test the other person's true English level. After all, these days you need to test everything to be sure, and grades can't represent a person's true level, especially for master's and doctoral students, which still need to be tested face-to-face.

When faced with Tang Shun's question, He Zijian answered it steadily and flawlessly. While his answer didn't stand out, it also had no obvious flaws. It was a rather composed and thoughtful response, which was consistent with his usual personality.

He Zijian did not study abroad, but his English is very good, which shows that he has put in a lot of effort.

A top doctor must be proficient in English because over 90% of medical knowledge is recorded in English. Any translated books and papers are severely outdated and distorted. Doctors must be able to read English literature and write English papers themselves. At this point, English is no longer just the language of a particular country, but the de facto universal language of academia.

Yang Ping was very satisfied with He Zijian's performance. When He Zijian was in school, he neither dated nor went to internet cafes to play games. He spent all his time in the library, so Yang Ping admired him very much. Now that he had graduated with his doctorate, he actually came to the research institute to apply for a job, which was a good thing.

The saying goes, "One should not avoid recommending the worthy even if they are relatives." Although they are classmates, as long as they have talent, they can also enter the research institute. Yang Ping doesn't have the same thoughts as some people who are afraid that acquaintances will come in and expose his secrets. Not to mention that Yang Ping doesn't have any secrets to expose, even if he did, he wouldn't miss out on a qualified talent because of this. So what if someone exposes his secrets? It's no big deal.

Yang Ping always smiled slightly at He Zijian's answers, appearing very satisfied. After careful observation, Director Wan, who was standing next to him, was already confident. Regardless of whether this person had contacted Professor Yang beforehand, Professor Yang was very satisfied with him. Director Wan decided to lend a hand and also to gain some favor with Professor Yang.

"Professor Yang, do you have any other questions?" Director Wan asked.

Song Ziming and Tang Shun have already asked their questions. At this point, Yang Ping needs to ask a few key questions, and then other experts can ask some questions to assist.