top student at medical school

Chapter 694 Leadership Meeting!
As the setting sun shines through the double-glazed windows of the curtain wall, the argon gas in the interlayer refracts the light into rainbow-colored spots, and the light gray marble veins seem to pulsate with natural veins like gold leaf.

The aroma of tea wafted from the rim of the glazed teacup. Fang Ziye, dressed in casual clothes, sat opposite Professor Duan Hong and watched the doctor who had poured the tea leave before saying:
"Professor Duan, compared to your department, ours is like a tightly sealed little workshop."

Duan Hong, dressed in a navy blue shirt and a white overcoat, with a dark red tie knot neatly tied at the V-neck of the white overcoat, crossed his legs and leaned back in a leather sofa chair, his double chin opening and closing: "Ziye, if you like, come over here."

"Your hospital's orthopedic building is a bit old."

Duan Hong was indeed not as honest as he seemed. Fang Ziye took the initiative and quickly changed the subject: "Poverty does not change one's family name, and misfortune does not change one's father's surname."

"I may envy you, but ultimately I wasn't born with such good fortune."

"I hope my unauthorized visit today hasn't disrupted your work schedule, Professor Duan?"

Duan Hong tilted his head, as if he wanted to smash the refined demeanor Fang Ziye had just put on: "What if I said I was disturbing you?"

"I'm so sorry, Teacher Duan, I'll come again next time." Fang Ziye got up to leave.

Duan Hongqi first pressed down on his chubby hand: "Alright, alright, stop putting on airs. Aren't you tired of all this literary stuff?"

"Professor Fang Ziye, are you planning to change careers or what? Why are you studying word choice and sentence structure so precisely today?"

Fang Ziye's expression returned to calm. After sitting down, he continued to place his hands flat on the patellae of his knees: "Teacher Duan, my master always says that I don't respect you enough."

"I was young and ignorant before, like a frog in a well looking at the moon in the sky. Now that I've walked this path for a while, I realize that seeing Professor Duan is like a floating object seeing the blue sky."

This is indeed part of Fang Ziye's current mindset.

Previously, the social class gap between Fang Ziye and Duan Hong was too large, and Fang Ziye also felt that he was really brave back then.

Fang Ziye is currently only an associate professor. The leap from associate professor to professor is extremely difficult, and only about eleven out of ten can make it through.

Even at the professor level, there are ordinary professors and professors like Han Yuanxiao who have the title but enjoy the corresponding benefits, but in reality they are still "in a panic"!
Further up the hierarchy are senior professors like Professor Qi, Professor Li from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Professor Wu, who served as their dissertation defense committee members back then. They can comfortably be regional leaders, truly deserving of their titles.

Going a step further, one reaches the level of Deng Yong and An Luming, which is a glimpse into the ceiling of a certain college in a province, but Zhou Sheng has no hope of advancing further.

Then there are doctors like Duan Hong, who are nationally renowned "national-level" doctors and are recognized as top-tier professionals!

Duan Hong slightly raised his eyelids, the fat at the corner of his mouth twitching, unable to hold back his guard: "When Fang Ziye used to talk to me, he wasn't as polite as you are now."

"That's why I said I was ignorant before. This time I came here specifically to ask for your advice, Teacher Duan," Fang Ziye said.

Duan Hongze said, "Since you're asking for advice, I'll give you a clear path: come to Tongji University and follow me."

"If you really insist on taking a package with Deng Yong and Yuan Weihong, then I'll go and hire people to fight Li Guohua and his gang."

Duan Hong is also quite cunning and doesn't play by the rules at all.

Duan Hong's sudden display of power caused Fang Ziye's eyelids to twitch violently.

It's not just Zhongnan Hospital that has senior figures. According to Fang Ziye, Professor Xue Yuhui of Tongji Hospital, who retired as director but is still in the department, is a senior figure in the previous trauma surgery department and a national-level expert who is about to retire.

Further up the hierarchy were senior professors like Peng Yuan and Zou Jiefang, who had fought with Li Guohua, Xiong Zhizhang, and others their entire lives and never lost.

Therefore, it was actually Duan Hong who was giving in to Fang Ziye all along, not that he couldn't do anything about Fang Ziye.

If Duan Hong really wanted to poach people, neither Dong Yaohui, Li Guohua, nor Xiong Zhizhang could stop him.

“Teacher Duan, we young people don’t need to trouble the senior with our affairs.”

"Everyone has his own ambition."

"It's better for a hundred flowers to bloom than for one to stand out. Tongji Hospital already has a wealth of talent, and it doesn't need another one like me, Fang Ziye." Fang Ziye was very low-key and did not doubt the truthfulness of Duan Hong's words at all.

"So, did Professor Fang come to see me this time to inspect the progress of the project, or to interrogate our team's progress?" Duan Hong pressed on once he had the upper hand!

Fang Ziye understood the other person's meaning: "Teacher Duan, since I came to Wuhan, I have never been to a bone tumor department other than Zhongnan Hospital!"

Fang Ziye is currently leading a clinical research project on bone tumors and microcirculation chemotherapy using a microcirculation device, and is responsible for monitoring, auditing, and data statistics.

Tongji Hospital's Department of Bone Tumors may not be a clinical pilot program, but it cannot disobey regulations.

Duan Hong nodded with a simple smile, his arms crossed to hide his chubby hands, and said, "Yes, that's right. You don't come directly to the bone tumor department; you just report the problem as soon as you discover it."

"You're not the killer; you're just a middleman who tips off the executioner."

"Anyway, you definitely don't have the authority to kill people directly, everyone understands that."

Fang Ziye then realized that he was no match for Professor Duan Hong's tricks, and his skill level was no match for him.

He had the inherent advantage of his status, so he simply admitted defeat and focused on his strengths:

"Professor Duan, I came here specifically for our trauma surgery department. I hope to ask you about our future plans for trauma surgery."

At that moment, Fang Ziye made up his mind that he would agree with anyone who said Duan Hong was kind and honest, but if anyone said that Professor Duan Hong was not good at speaking, he would definitely slap them.

Duan Hong's skill level has long reached the point of returning to simplicity. Unlike other old foxes who use cunning tactics, he can make your soul tremble with just the most ordinary moves.

If you really take the appropriate measures, you probably won't even be qualified to face them head-on.

Similar moves have nothing to do with talent, but rather with personal experience. Fang Ziye is still no match for his opponent.

When Duan Hong saw Fang Ziye bring the topic back on track, he loosened his hands and slowly lowered his crossed legs, the sound of his leather shoes hitting the ground crisp but not harsh.

The coating on the glass curtain wall filters the light beams into liquid amber, which then gurgles into the interior at a 45-degree angle, while the hand-carved ice cracks on the floor stretch their limbs in the twilight.

Duan Hong moved without saying a word. He reached out, picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip, and then gently put it down. He picked it up and put it down again, without uttering a word.

Fang Ziye also took a small sip, without making a sound to disturb them...

After a full five or six minutes, Duan Hong stretched his slightly overweight neck and said in a low voice, "Professor Fang, no matter how a specialty develops, the bottom line and the basic principle should always be for the good of the patient."

“I, my teachers, and my seniors have all told me more than once that the people who support us are always the patients who come and go.”

"We are a doctor first, and then a professor, and then a researcher."

Fang Ziye was not surprised that Professor Duan Hong could say such things. This kind of profound wisdom must be the fundamental core reason why various well-known hospitals have achieved their current status in the medical field.

Fang Ziye also proactively clarified his shortcomings: "Professor Duan, my knowledge is shallow. I only know the surface level of scientific research and am currently ignorant of what our Hubei Province needs for development."

Doing scientific research and doing research that can be applied in practice are two different things.

Limb salvage surgery involving severe injuries, limb salvage surgery with the intervention of a microcirculatory device, and limb transplantation all follow a purely scientific research approach, focusing solely on brute force.

Fang Ziye knew that such lines would not continue indefinitely, and he could never break through the outermost constraints in a single specialty and, in a short period of time, lead Zhongnan Hospital to dismantle the research groups of all hospitals in the world.

Therefore, in the intervals between these major breakthroughs, Fang Ziye must focus on the practical level, consider some real and down-to-earth small issues, and accurately grasp the next development path.

This is what a provincial academic leader should do.

Everyone understands the general direction: to make trauma surgery the best in the world, to make Zhongnan Hospital a holy land for trauma surgery, and to attract scholars from all over the world to come and pay homage.

But to achieve this, one cannot rely solely on imagination and boasting.

We need a blueprint for development at each stage, moving forward step by step.

Duan Hong suddenly raised his eyelids, his eyes flashed, and then his pupils rolled around several times: "Fang Ziye, are you asking me about the future development direction of your Zhongnan Hospital, or the future development direction of trauma surgery in our entire Hubei Province?"

"Why do I get the feeling you came here for the former?"

Duan Hong reached this conclusion mainly because he knew that Fang Ziye had already reached a high position in the Department of Orthopedics at Zhongnan Hospital and now needed to make a decision on the direction of the department.

Fang Ziye had nowhere else to turn for advice, so he turned to Duan Hong.

Development is like a race; those behind have a clear goal: to overtake those in front.

Leading a team is like pioneering a new field; if the wrong path is chosen, it's very likely that a group of people will end up stuck in the mud...

The development of disciplines today is not as simple as just bringing some participants into a race. In addition to running alone, you also need to lead people, lead a team, or even a super team from a region...

Fang Ziye hurriedly replied, "Teacher Duan, we have them all."

"If you don't mind, Professor Duan, please feel free to offer your guidance." Fang Ziye bowed slightly and spoke frankly.

Although Fang Ziye has stabilized the current tasks and situation of Zhongnan Hospital, as a "leadership member," he has to look to the future. After stabilizing the situation at Zhongnan Hospital and after Yuan Weihong and others have laid a solid foundation, what else needs to be done to better benefit patients?

This requires a detailed analysis of the disease classification and distribution in Hubei Province, the current service capabilities of hospitals at different levels, and the gaps and loopholes in the overall trauma surgery disease category in Hubei Province.

This gap and loophole refers to the shortcomings of technological barriers that have not been overcome by any country or even the world.

It refers to technical vulnerabilities that other provinces, such as Shanghai, have, but Hubei province does not yet have.

"The development direction of your hospital is your own business, and I will not make a decision."

"But last time, my own plan was that our trauma surgery in Hubei Province should develop into a multi-center, cluster-oriented blockchain."

"To put it more simply, it means developing medical alliances with different focuses, such as our hospital as the core for bone defects, and Zhongnan Hospital as the core for nonunion."

"The focus is on complex fracture fixation, with Peking Union Medical College Hospital as the core, and on severe soft tissue infections, with the Provincial People's Hospital as the core."

"Our four hospitals are developing in their own directions, while complementing each other's core regional advantages."

"Based on this, we should strive to make breakthroughs in limb salvage surgery for severe injuries, which is a promising area for breakthroughs."

"To put it simply, taking your hospital as an example, you could say you're maintaining the existing advantages in treating nonunion fractures, using this as your daily routine and foundation..."

"Limb salvage surgery for severe injuries is a dream."

After saying this, Duan Hong reached out his right hand and touched his right ear: "But your hospital is amazing. You've shattered dreams and turned what everyone wanted to do as a 'research project' into a routine disease. Moreover, on this basis, you've developed functional reconstruction surgery and improved the microcirculation device..."

"If you were to ask me now what the next development direction of Hubei Province should be, I wouldn't be able to give a comprehensive and detailed answer."

"It was only last year that a temporary decision was hastily made, which was to focus on developing our advantageous diseases with our four hospitals as the center, with the core of our advantageous treatment direction being limb-sparing surgery for traumatic injuries and postoperative functional reconstruction."

"The core focus of previous treatments on bone defects, nonunion, and infections of orthopedic diseases has been transferred to hospitals such as Liyuan Hospital and the Municipal Hospital."

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye frowned slightly and asked uncertainly, "Teacher Duan, does this mean I've disrupted your plans?"

Duan Hong immediately looked up and scanned Fang Ziye from head to toe. Finding no hint of mockery in Fang Ziye's tone, he retorted, "Is Deng Yong teaching you every day how to drive people crazy?"

"Limb salvage surgery for traumatic injuries is a very popular and central clinical topic in trauma surgery worldwide. Our ability to be the first to achieve success in this field will be a permanent advantage for Hubei Province."

"Like the limb replantation performed at Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital and Huashan Hospital, or the pediatric triple osteotomy and orthopedic surgery performed at Jishuitan Hospital."

"The whole world must follow the Huashan standard or the Jishuitan standard."

“We also have our own Hubei Province standards, or your ‘Central and Southern China standards’!”

"Are you out of your mind?"

"As for what kind of breakthrough the next hot field will be, I can't say for sure right now."

"However, based on the current patient population in Hubei Province, Wuhan City does not lack a treatment network for standard surgical procedures. It is just that in prefecture-level city hospitals, there is still a lack of mature teams that can perform various standard surgical procedures."

"What our hospitals need to do is innovate while maintaining stability, explore treatments for new diseases, and simplify and innovate treatments for existing diseases..."

"Of course, if you have the capacity, helping hospitals in major prefecture-level cities to cultivate and establish mature teams with standardized surgical procedures, so that patients in prefecture-level cities have to travel less, is also a very practical initiative."

"But doing this only results in being down-to-earth, without any recognized achievements." Duan Hong's analysis of the pros and cons was quite objective.

Duan Hong's thinking coincided with the plans of Director Chen Song and others at the sanatorium.

However, Duan Hong is not a sanatorium resident, so his thinking also carries an extra layer of universal benefit.

Fang Ziye was taken aback upon hearing this: "Thank you for your guidance, Teacher Duan."

Duan Hong's eyebrows twitched as he said this: "Originally, I had also prepared some research topics that we could focus on for future breakthroughs. These included, but were not limited to, five-year plans and ten-year plans."

"But you've ruined all of these things, so I won't try to teach you anything."

"Now, considering your situation, I've made a summary in private."

"Ziye, if you are interested, there are several directions you can choose to pursue. The first is to further refine and simplify the techniques of limb-sparing surgery for traumatic injuries, and strive to enable doctors in some county hospitals to perform such surgeries."

"This can benefit patients who don't have time to be transferred to prefecture-level city hospitals and require limb preservation." Duan Hong carefully laid out the route and destination one by one.

"The second is the treatment of bone defects with individualized prostheses. You and Wu Xuanqi have already made plans for this, but I want to say that if you can really successfully cooperate with Professor Zhang of West China Hospital..."

"Therefore, in the field of materials science, the design of prostheses is not limited to individualized prostheses."

"Third, I heard from Wu Xuanqi that Ziye, you not only have basic research projects on bone tumors, but also new research directions related to animal experiments."

"These are all valuable items, the very jade blanks that every team dreams of. We must make good use of them and not let them gather dust on the attic shelves, but rather turn them into practical applications."

"With these things, Ziye, there are actually quite a few things you can do."

"If some of our teams are willing to cooperate with other teams in our province, it would be enough for us teams to work for more than ten years."

“Taking on a major research project is not something that a small team can do; it should be the focus of a region, a province, or even a country.”

"As long as the base in this direction is solid enough to support it, we can choose to cultivate it further."

Duan Hong's words were pointed.

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye once again bowed and expressed his gratitude: "Thank you for your trust, Teacher Duan. I will definitely continue to work hard."

Duan Hong stated that as long as the pie is big enough to satisfy everyone at our level, we will not go out of our way to question other research directions.

After all, every super team will eventually only have one or two public "spokespersons"!
Even a top talent like Mr. Yuan could not have achieved his current level of expertise without the support of a team.

If someone stands in front, someone else must stand behind.

Previously, Wu Xuanqi, Tongji Hospital, and Union Hospital had all tried to win, and Fang Ziye won by a landslide. So Duan Hong, as the representative of the Department of Trauma Surgery at Tongji Hospital, also "accepted defeat"!
"Professor Duan, if I have the opportunity, I would like to visit the two senior scholars, Peng Yuan and Peng Ziye. I wonder if you could introduce me?" Fang Ziye asked politely.

"No, you'd better not see those two old professors for now. I'm afraid they'll beat you or me to death."

Duan Hong immediately shook his head: "Ziye, you should know that these two senior colleagues built such a good starting point and platform for our hospital, but now I have become like this by relying on this platform."

I feel so guilty towards them!

"But I have no choice, I have to make a decision."

Fang Ziye remained silent...

After leaving Tongji Hospital, Fang Ziye did not finalize the very specific details with Duan Hong, but the general direction was finally settled.

After Duan Hong finished speaking, he felt like a victim, so he refused to invite Fang Ziye to dinner or accept Fang Ziye's invitations to banquets, and directly kicked Fang Ziye out of the hospital.

Fang Ziye could actually understand Professor Duan Hong.

Standing at the entrance of Tongji Hospital, Fang Ziye turned around and looked back, but he couldn't find Duan Hong in that brightly lit cement cage. At that moment, he felt as if his heart was being torn apart.

"Thank you, Teacher Duan." Fang Ziye bowed deeply in gratitude from afar, then hailed a taxi and told Luo Tingzhu where she lived.

Sitting in the back row, Fang Ziye opened his memo app and began to write:
"1. The core of standard surgical procedures has been established, and common standard surgical procedures have been disseminated from Wuhan to prefecture-level city hospitals!~"

Fang Ziye marked the importance of this with five stars because, although there might not be many benefits on the surface, if Fang Ziye did this himself, it would definitely be another wave of decent knowledge points gains.

However, this raises a crucial point: teaching capacity. The general direction of disseminating medical technology to lower-level hospitals is certainly good, but can prefecture-level hospitals accept this, and how long will it take for them to learn these standard surgical procedures?

Besides personal qualifications, how you mentor is also a problem.

Can't city-level hospitals always focus on fractures and complex fractures as their primary task?
If we want to further extend this vertically, then we need to ensure that county-level hospitals learn the standard surgical procedures for treating complex fractures, so that basic diseases can be treated within the county and complex cases can be treated within the city.

"2. Simplify limb-sparing surgery for severe injuries, and strive to enable doctors in county hospitals to perform limb-sparing surgery for severe injuries. At the very least, they should learn how to treat severe injuries and avoid amputation, so as to save time for transferring patients to prefecture-level or even provincial-level hospitals."

This is also important.

Currently, some hospitals in Wuhan have treated patients with severe injuries who can avoid amputation, but not all hospitals can avoid amputation.

Currently, there are certainly still many municipal and county hospitals performing amputations to save the lives of patients with severe injuries!
"3. Individualized prosthesis design and CC material..."

"4. The implementation of basic tumor experiments and animal experimental models."

Fang Ziye did not provide detailed plans for points 3 and 4. Firstly, there were no specific implementation measures, and secondly, they were not near-term goals.

After editing this information, Fang Ziye looked up at the neon lights and bustling traffic outside the car and said in a low voice, "Professor Duan is indeed Professor Duan. His perspective is completely different depending on his position."

"Asking others for advice is a shortcut that can save you a lot of time in collecting information, but you have to ask the right people..."

"The more knowledge points, the better," Fang Ziye said, glancing at the skills on his panel.

[Medical Basic Cell Experiment Technology Level 7 0/0 (Cannot be upgraded, unique characteristic, redefinition)]

Even with this, there is still no good treatment for ALS!
This proves that one's other reserves are definitely insufficient.

If you want more, you can only earn more knowledge points, improve your various skills, and reach the starting point where you can research ALS treatment and activate the 'ALS treatment technique or targeted drug research' entry.

然后再从1级0/0或者2级0/0开始慢慢往前推进跃升。

Previously, the "Disruption and Limb Rescue Technique" only appeared as a standard entry on the panel after Fang Ziye had acquired multiple level 5 skills and several level 4 skills.

……

Sunday afternoon.

Fang Ziye carried the wine he had prepared out the door.

Knowing he was going to drink, Fang Ziye didn't drive his car out, but instead took a taxi to Deng Yong's neighborhood.

Originally, Fang Ziye had planned to have a family dinner at his home, but Deng Yong considered that there was no woman in Fang Ziye's home and didn't quite trust Fang Ziye's cooking skills, so he changed the venue to his home as originally planned.

Fang Ziye's 'rank' wasn't high enough to need to pick up guests; his wife was in charge of making arrangements at home, while Deng Yong was responsible for inviting Gong Jiahe and Professor Li Guohua.

When Fang Ziye arrived at Deng Yong's house, Deng Yong hadn't even left yet, and Fang Ziye very conscientiously joined the kitchen helpers.

"Master's wife, I originally said I was going to buy groceries, but Master specifically told me beforehand, so I took it seriously," Fang Ziye said as he put on his apron and helped scrape the roasted pig's trotters.

Deng Yong was still washing lotus root, his upper arm muscles bulging as he scrubbed: "I told you not to buy it, so I won't. Why are you being so formal?"

"And that wine you brought, it might not taste as good as the infused wine I have treasured."

As his wife chopped vegetables, she said between the clinking of the knife, "Ziye, next time you come, don't bring anything. Just come empty-handed."

“Yes, Madam.” Fang Ziye replied once again.

“Even if you agree, you might not listen.” The teacher’s wife understood Fang Ziye.

The three of them started preparing food in the kitchen like a family of three.

……

Dinner was served at 6 p.m., and by 6:20 p.m., the teacher's wife had quickly finished eating. After taking her bowl and putting it down in the kitchen, she went out for a walk, leaving her place in the house for Deng Yong and the others.

After his wife left, Deng Yong took Fang Ziye and toasted Gong Jiahe and Li Guohua with half a cup of wine each.

After downing a glass or two of liquor, everyone felt warm and cozy, and the atmosphere finally warmed up.

Li Guohua remained calm and composed, turning his head to say, "Professor Gong, my students and grand-disciples are quite mischievous. Before, there was no Wuzhishan in the department to keep them in check."

"Please keep an eye on them in the future and help keep an eye on them to prevent them from causing too much trouble."

Upon hearing this, Gong Jiahe hurriedly replied, "Professor Li, you are too kind. Professor Deng and Professor Fang are both exceptionally talented individuals, and it is I who should learn more from them."

"Especially Professor Deng, he put in a lot of effort to train someone like Professor Fang."

Upon hearing this, Li Guohua glanced at Deng Yong and said, "It's just picking up the scraps, and even those who picked up the scraps didn't get a good advantage in terms of who came first."

"If you dawdle at crucial moments, you'll probably be eating shit before it's even hot."

Realizing his mistake, Li Guohua quickly added, "I'm used to being crude, Professor Gong, please don't mind."

"I wonder what Professor Gong's previous research area was? Do you have any good guidance for the future development of our trauma surgery?"

Li Guohua's statement was quite humble.

Although the Gong family and the position they were in were positions that Li Guohua had never been in before, he did not put on airs: "I dare not presume to offer guidance, Professor Li."

"Under the leadership of Professor Li and Professor Deng Yong, the Department of Trauma Surgery has now developed to a leading position. In fact, the team I lead is not yet at that level."

"I dare not speak presumptuously."

"When I first arrived, I was very cautious, afraid of disturbing Professor Deng Yong's plans, so I always hoped to have a good chat with Professor Deng."

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain.

A team or department should not have a paradoxical development plan; it should only have one long-term development focus, with other branches serving as embellishments.

Deng Yong hurriedly said, "Professor Gong, if we continue to be so polite, we probably won't be able to get to the point tonight, even if we get drunk."

"Actually, it's like this: our hospital's orthopedics department has always been walking a tightrope with trepidation."

"Now we have barely reached the unknown places we have never been before. The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, where Professor Gong used to work, is much larger in development and scale than our hospital's orthopedics department. There should be some teachings to pass on to us."

"For example, our orthopedics department is currently in a relatively uneven stage of development. Among them, the development of trauma surgery, hand surgery, and bone disease is more advanced than that of joint surgery, which was previously a dominant department."

"Our hospital's sports medicine has always been in a relatively backward stage. How should we choose and plan in this unbalanced stage?"

“Professor Gong, now that you’re here, you’re one of us. So please give me your guidance.” Deng Yong bowed his head slightly, making a respectful gesture as if asking for instructions.

Although Gong Jiahe has come to Zhongnan Hospital, Deng Yong and others have not yet provided him with the corresponding treatment.

Under such circumstances, Gong Jiahe is entitled to lose his temper.

However, the fact that Gong Jiahe is currently not receiving any benefits is because he himself is unwilling to accept it.

Deng Yong didn't treat Gong Jiahe as an outsider, so he invited Gong Jiahe to his home to ask for advice.

"The uneven development among subspecialties is an inevitable path for the development of each specialty. Only by establishing one's own advantageous subspecialty can one use it as a foundation to support the development of the entire specialty."

"Besides, Professor Deng, based on what I've learned since I came to Zhongnan Hospital!"

"Has the future development strategy for sports medicine at our hospital been finalized?"

"If the miniature circulation device can really regenerate the meniscus, then the standard treatment plan for meniscus in sports medicine will have to be rewritten."

"This is the core of the future development of sports medicine."

"However, the joint surgery department where Professor Du Xinzhan originally worked, which used to be our hospital's core strength in skeletal surgery, has not yet found a suitable anchor point."

"But there's no need to rush. Joint surgery remains a leader in the province."

"I dare to guess that Professor Deng, what you most want to ask is about the redundancy of senior professional titles in the Department of Orthopedics."

"Is Professor Deng asking whether it's better to prioritize establishing a bone disease specialty or a trauma surgery specialty after the new hospital campus opens?"

The branch campus is not the main campus, and the number of beds is limited. There is only one ward that can be allocated to the orthopedics department.

Deng Yong chuckled in embarrassment upon hearing this.

From a selfish perspective, Deng Yong, as the chief administrative officer, would naturally prioritize the development of trauma surgery.

From a holistic perspective, the number of senior specialists in the Department of Orthopedics already exceeds that of other specialties, so it is only natural that the Department of Orthopedics should be separated first.

Once clinical trials in the Department of Orthopedics begin, its development speed and level will far surpass other specialties, making it the most advantageous specialty in orthopedics!
Ultimately, the biggest beneficiary was Deng Yong's student, Fang Ziye.

"Professor Deng, but we must consider the social function of the branch wards."

"He was a hospital first, and then a specialist in that hospital."

"If a branch hospital doesn't even have the most basic trauma surgery in orthopedics, is that acceptable?" Gong Jiahe said bluntly.

Deng Yong understood Gong Jiahe's meaning: "But Professor Gong, if we do this, the professors in the orthopedics department will definitely accuse me of abusing my power for personal gain!"

Some things cannot be fully explained by the word "should".

"Of course!~"

"The current predicament of the orthopedics department also needs to be addressed."

"The main sociological function of the branch campus must also be considered; it depends on whether Professor Deng is willing to give it up."

"One approach is to send professors from the Department of Orthopedics over there, but an accountability system must be established, requiring professors from the Department of Orthopedics to handle all orthopedic emergencies in the branch hospital."

"But there are risks involved."

"After all, the orthopedics department is not as good as our trauma surgery department in handling orthopedic emergency trauma."

Gong Jiahe didn't keep them in suspense and continued, "The second approach is for our trauma surgery department to send out a team to assist the orthopedics department in handling orthopedic trauma emergencies."

"The main focus of the department's operations is still on the treatment of bone diseases."

"But this arrangement is selfless. We took on the emergency care tasks over there without getting any benefits. We are essentially working for the orthopedics department."

"The pros and cons are for you, Director Deng, to decide."

Gong Jiahe went on and on, skillfully extricating himself from the situation, but it was as if he hadn't said anything at all.

Upon hearing this, Deng Yong pinched his nose hard.

"Professor Gong, how was the process handled when the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University was established in its branch campus?" Deng Yong asked directly.

Gong Jiahe shook his head: "This is not a useful reference. In the past, no other subspecialty at Zhengzhou University Affiliated First Hospital had such an advantageous subspecialty as the Department of Orthopedics at Zhongnan Hospital today."

"Trauma surgery is always the first step."

"Trauma orthopedics is the cornerstone of all orthopedic subspecialties."

Gong Jiahe seemed to have seen through Deng Yong's thoughts: "Even if Director Deng wanted to combine the two subspecialties of bone disease and trauma into one ward, it would be of no use."

"The primary task of trauma surgery still falls on the shoulders of trauma surgeons."

"Either we ignore it completely and let the orthopedics department develop on its own, even at the cost of our reputation."

"Either take over completely, protect the reputation, and suffer the hardship of a vocational college."

There is no third way.

Deng Yong touched his chin and explained in a low voice, "Actually, the development of our trauma surgery is also quite stagnant!"

"Our department has many surgeons who can perform the surgery. Even if they are assigned to a different ward, they can still complete limb-sparing and functional reconstruction surgeries for severe injuries with high quality and quantity."

"Our trauma surgery department is also very experienced in treating complex fractures and bone defects, as well as bone transport procedures."

"The Department of Orthopedics is currently in the expected development stage, and combined chemotherapy is only in the clinical trial phase. There is still a long time to collect data," Deng Yong said.

Li Guohua has withdrawn from the core clinical practice, so he no longer gets involved in these detailed policy decisions. He has remained silent, simply acting as a carefree old man responsible for getting things done!
Gong Jiahe then said, "Actually, there is another option, which is what I asked about. It depends on whether you, Professor Deng, are willing to give it up."

"In our orthopedics department, we currently only have one person who is skilled in both the diagnosis and treatment of bone tumors combined with chemotherapy, and is also most proficient in emergency care in our trauma surgery department..."

Deng Yong shook his head vigorously without even thinking: "That's impossible!"

“Ziye would never work for their orthopedics department.”

Gong Jiahe paused speaking, waiting until Deng Yong had calmed down, his lips pressed together for a moment, and he was completely composed before he spoke:
"Professor Deng, you need to understand something."

"Fang Ziye is now an associate professor and associate chief physician."

"Associate professors and associate chief physicians are not simply those who meet the standard of being able to lead a research group."

"The minimum requirement for becoming a ward director, as stipulated by our hospital, is that one must be an associate senior physician."

“If Professor Deng doesn’t want to lose control of the first ward in the branch hospital, then sending Fang Ziye there is the most appropriate option.”

"This is also a stepping stone for Fang Ziye's training!"

Gong Jiahe looked at Deng Yong with a half-smile.

He understood Deng Yong. Deng Yong felt sorry for Fang Ziye and was worried about him. He couldn't bear to let Fang Ziye go out alone.

In reality, Fang Ziye had already been leading his own team independently at the sanatorium.

Fang Ziye leads both the trauma surgery and hand surgery teams!
Now that he's gone to the new hospital campus, it's not impossible for him to also serve as the 'administrative director' of both the Department of Orthopedics and the Department of Trauma Surgery.

"Director Deng, just tell me, besides Fang Ziye."

"Who do you appoint as the administrative director? Will Professor Du Yingshan and the others in the Department of Orthopedics be satisfied with that?" Gong Jiahe's rhetorical question was resounding.

Deng Yong remained silent, while Li Guohua paused eating, but then continued to pick up food and put it in his mouth.

Gong Jiahe then said firmly, "Professor Deng, Ziye has grown up."

“He needs to grow up, or he already has.”

"Here he is Fang Ziye, but elsewhere he might be Professor Fang or Director Fang, right?"

"You just haven't realized it yet?"

Deng Yong's hands began to open and close nervously, his four fingers clenching so tightly that the knuckles of his thumbs cracked.

The Adam's apple also moves up and down with the swallowing of saliva.

After this continued for a while, Deng Yong narrowed his eyes and sighed softly, "Sigh..."

Every father feels that his child is too young!
Every parent feels that their child is growing up too fast, so fast that they don't even have time to react before they suddenly grow up, start having their own thoughts, start rebelling, and start disobeying...

But ultimately, as they grow up, their parents also grow old.

"Yes." Deng Yong nodded, accepting the decision.

"Ziye, what are your thoughts?"

(End of this chapter)