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Chapter 287 The Battlefield of Young People (Please Subscribe)
As Fang Ziye was about to part ways with Yuan Weihong, Yuan Weihong called out to him midway: "Ziye, do not be misled by temporary rise and fall, nor be overjoyed by temporary success."

"In clinical practice, your current qualifications are indeed still limited, and there are many things you cannot do independently."

"But you should also know that the reason for this arrangement and regulation is that most people your age have the desire to heal the sick and save lives, but lack the ability to do so."

"This difference is very important because if such a gap is not controlled, it can be compared to some hypocritical and sanctimonious people in real life."

After explaining this, Yuan Weihong scanned Fang Ziye's changing expression, and then wiped his bald spot again: "Moreover, what goes up must come down. What you see may not be the core of things."

"Professor Deng Yong is not as incompetent as you think. If he were incompetent, he wouldn't have reached his previous position."

"Or to put it another way, if you put aside Professor Deng Yong and my status as his mentor and look at the two of us as individuals, neither of us are spineless cowards who can be bullied."

“You’re not that kind of person, but since this has happened, you should learn from it and observe it carefully.”

"Recognize the core areas where you can develop now."

"The most crucial point is that scientific research has no borders and no age limits. On the contrary, the main force of scientific research at all times is young people."

Upon hearing Yuan Weihong's words, Fang Ziye breathed a sigh of relief. Instead of going home immediately, he followed Yuan Weihong a short distance to the parking lot.

Today is Lunar New Year's Eve, and Yuan Weihong didn't travel by electric scooter, but instead pulled out his BMW.

"Master, when I was abroad, I heard that our small research group's laboratory was given up. What happened?" Fang Ziye asked.

Indeed, Fang Ziye's current qualifications are too limited to be involved in clinical matters.

Even if it were an associate professor criticizing Fang Ziye, given the vast difference in their professional titles, Fang Ziye, no matter how many reasons he had, might not be able to explain himself in public. He could only agree in person and then continue to do as he pleased behind Fang Ziye's back.

But the research in our group is different.

Fang Ziye had carefully calculated that his research group's achievements, if not ranking in the top three in the entire institute, would definitely be in the top ten.

Given such fruitful results, the hospital actually took away Professor Deng Yong's laboratory. Isn't that ridiculous?

Why would someone abandon their supporter when there's already output?

Yuan Weihong urged Fang Ziye to pay more attention to scientific research output, but the two major prerequisites for scientific research output are funding and a place for experimentation.

Yuan Weihong replied, "It's alright. These things, no matter how others take them, they'll eventually come back, and even more will come back."

"Don't you think that our research group's lab is actually a bit small?"

"Moreover, February each year, after the end of the year, is the best time for various research groups to fight for the interests of their teams within the hospital."

There's a saying: "Give first, then take."

After Yuan Weihong explained, seeing that Fang Ziye still looked a little confused, Yuan Weihong continued, "Let's put it this way."

"When Professor Deng Yong was forced to give up his lab as you understand it, our research group's results were not actually very fruitful. But under such circumstances, we had already followed the rules and acted based on the results."

"So this year, with the major seasonal change, we can be more assertive and put on a better shell."

Fang Ziye understood what he was hearing.

So, Professor Deng Yong has been thinking about playing chess for a long time.

However, Fang Ziye still felt that the logic was flawed: "Master, didn't you say that February and March are the time for the major change of seasons? Then why was Professor Deng Yong able to give up the laboratory in September?"

Yuan Weihong countered, "How do you know that Professor Deng Yong wasn't asked to leave the lab last February or March?"

Yuan Weihong knew that Deng Yong had been severely impacted last year. If Fang Ziye hadn't donated a significant amount of work to the research group, Professor Deng Yong's lab might have really gone awry.

Fang Ziye immediately became thoughtful.

……

After seeing Yuan Weihong off and returning to Luo Tingzhu's rented apartment, Fang Ziye told Luo Tingzhu about the incident. Luo Tingzhu, who was watching the Spring Festival Gala, only slightly turned her head.

Then, Professor Deng Yong revealed the crucial part of his plan: "Professor, are you playing dumb to exploit an absolute information gap?"

"I bet the department that took the lab from our professor back then regretted it terribly after learning about our research group's annual research achievements."

Fang Ziye realized that Luo Tingzhu probably knew more about this than he did.

He then asked, "What does this mean?"

Luo Tingzhu thought about it seriously for a moment, and then said, "Well, our orthopedics department is not actually one of the top research departments in the whole hospital, so we rarely participate in the allocation of related resources, and teachers and other professors rarely mention these things."

"But in reality, when you go to the laboratory building, you'll find that some disciplines have several floors dedicated to their laboratories, while others only have one floor, or even half a floor, or not even half a floor."

"For example, breast and thyroid surgery, where oncology research is very advanced now, is a subspecialty where basic research is very difficult to conduct, but the treatment methods and even targeted therapy drugs are very mature."

"However, in internal medicine, such as cardiology and nephrology, which are strong in research, and even infectious diseases, the proportion of public resources occupied by each discipline is positively correlated with the research output of each discipline."

"The overall market size is limited, so expansion is definitely not an option. Zhongnan Hospital is in a very awkward location. Although the surrounding residential areas are old, we simply can't afford to acquire them."

"So, if you want more resources, you need to produce more; that's a competitive mechanism..."

“For example…” Luo Tingzhu gave a few examples, such as the cardiology department, which has the strongest research capabilities in the hospital. The research resources it occupies and the research funding it receives are beyond what the orthopedics department can conventionally imagine.

However, it should be understood that many internists, after completing ward rounds and writing medical records, need to focus on research, which does not take a very long time, or even involve surgery, which is the main part of surgical treatment.

"Isn't this kind of mechanism either all positive feedback or all negative feedback?" Fang Ziye immediately understood the intricacies of the situation.

The research output of a team is definitely proportional to the corresponding resources and the size of the team.

However, Luo Tingzhu only mentioned the gap in scientific research output between disciplines, without explaining the ratio between resource allocation and scientific research output.

In this way, strong teams will only get stronger, while weak teams will only get weaker.

A strong team has good teachers and more funding, which can attract more talented students to study there, ensuring a continuous stream of talent, even top talent!
In such a situation, how can you compete in your general subjects?

"But that's how real scientific research is. There's no such thing as fairness. Different countries and different teams around the world can't possibly start on the same footing."

"Robbing the rich to help the poor is absolutely unheard of in the field of scientific research!" Luo Tingzhu explained.

Luo Tingzhu is actually quite intelligent; if she wanted to analyze things, most people wouldn't be as good as her.

Of course, Luo Tingzhu would occasionally act foolishly, but her foolishness was merely a kind of deficiency arising from being a young girl, not true stupidity. Fang Ziye nodded.

"Therefore, in scientific research competition, there is no such thing as good or bad; everyone just uses different methods."

"Others wanted to compete, so they saw a loophole in Professor Deng Yong's argument and took advantage of it."

"Of course, if Master wants to compete, he has to give first and then take, because our orthopedics department is already a weak discipline. But when we start to become more assertive and want to compete with others for things, we have to suffer some grievances first."

"Wouldn't that mean we'd have more funding and more experimental data this year?" Fang Ziye analyzed.

The methods Deng Yong used were not particularly honorable.

Luo Tingzhu understood Fang Ziye's meaning, turned down the volume of the boring Spring Festival Gala a little, and explained with her head tilted: "But the teacher's health is not very good to begin with, and he still has to support our team, so we have to think of a way."

"As long as you don't intentionally harm or frame others, and you're using methods that everyone agrees on, then it's perfectly aboveboard."

"Moreover, at the teacher level and above, the competition between them is not simply a competition of individual strength and qualifications, but a comprehensive competition of the number of teams and the quality of team members."

"It is a competition between the total amount of resources each team has and the efficiency of converting resources into research workload."

"Actually, since I came to see the teacher's place, I have seen the many hardships the teacher has gone through. I understand more and more why many internal medicine professors used to hope to take on more qualified students."

"One student can't control the whole situation, but ten or twenty students can potentially influence or even reverse the team's situation."

Fang Ziye agreed with Luo Tingzhu's view, but he also wanted to give Luo Tingzhu some advice: "Nuonuo, there is a difference between large teams and small teams."

"And there are definitely differences."

"Moreover, small cliques will gradually form within small teams, and there will definitely be differences between them."

This wasn't some lesson learned by Fang Ziye, but rather an insight he gained.

Everyone's experience is limited.

For example, Fang Ziye and Li Yuanpei, who are both first-year doctoral students and both students of Professor Deng Yong, do Yuan Weihong treat them differently?

some.

Does Professor Deng Yong have a different attitude towards the two?

some.

Do many senior students have different attitudes towards the two?

some!

Similarly, Fang Ziye's attitude towards everyone was different.

Yuan Weihong is slightly older than Deng Yong, and the two are in the first tier.

Then it is: Luo Tingzhu > Lan Tianluo ≈ Jie Han > Yuan Weihong's direct junior brother > Deng Yong's other fellow students > colleagues in the department or other superior teachers.

While Luo Tingzhu was deep in thought, Fang Ziye said, "Before Senior Brother Sun Shaoqing, there are two more senior brothers!"

“When I was a first-year master’s student, I met my senior, Peng, who was a third-year doctoral student at the time. But I didn’t have much contact with him.”

"After Senior Brother Peng, there was another Senior Brother Lin Xuanlei. This Senior Brother Lin was the one who taught me more. Later, after Senior Brother Lin Xuanlei was about to graduate, Senior Brother Sun took over my training."

"Of course, like Senior Brother Sun Shaoqing, Senior Brother Lin Xuanlei also graduated in January of the following year. He also couldn't stay in the hospital at that time..."

After listening attentively, Luo Tingzhu did not answer Fang Ziye's question, nor did she continue the topic Fang Ziye was discussing.

Instead, he said, "Senior, if you graduate this year, you still won't be able to apply for research projects as a doctoral student. You won't even be able to apply for city-level projects."

"Of course, I can no longer apply for school-level research projects; I can only apply for city-level and provincial-level projects..."

Luo Tingzhu has brought the topic back to its most basic level.

Young people are actually the main battleground for competition between teams.

Of course, on the main battlefield, no matter how large your base is, what you ultimately need is still food and supplies.

The main source of food and supplies is research funding.

Luo Tingzhu couldn't get large-scale research grants, but...?

Luo Tingzhu has a secret: Lan Tianluo now has the opportunity to obtain a higher-level research grant. Lan Tianluo's idea is to try applying for a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) youth grant in Luo Tingzhu's name...

This is usually difficult, but it is also an opportunity.

Such a level of difficulty, once overcome, becomes the biggest competitive advantage for staying in the hospital.

"Well, I probably can't apply for research projects anymore, so my master and junior brothers will have to fight for it, otherwise it will affect my graduation."

"But precisely because I am graduating early, my mentor, fellow students, and even Professor Deng Yong have to bear a lot more pressure."

"This is the price of making an exception."

“What my master told me at the beginning was correct. Regardless of the advantages and disadvantages of breaking the rules, breaking the rules can not save energy, it can only save time.”

"The premise of saving time is that all the workload and pressure that needs to be completed must be compressed to a limited extent." Fang Ziye sighed softly as he said this.

Although I could apply for early graduation, I also used a lot of money from the research group. Moreover, I haven't earned any official research funding for the group.

Luo Tingzhu felt no pressure at all when she heard Fang Ziye say that; instead, she turned up the volume of the TV a few notches.

Then he said, "Senior, if money can get the professor to receive the Excellent Young Scientists Fund and millions of yuan in research funding, I believe there are at least one or two hundred people in the hospital who would be willing to pay that amount."

"The evaluation of outstanding young talents is not something that can be accomplished simply by accumulating resources and reducing workload."

Luo Tingzhu wasn't trying to comfort Fang Ziye, but rather to make him realize his own importance and understand his extraordinary fighting power.

After all, for a long time to come, Fang Ziye will likely be the primary source of output, contributing to other departments within the hospital, other departments in other hospitals in Wuhan, and trauma surgery departments in other top hospitals across China.

(End of this chapter)