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Chapter 85 Stable in the Atmosphere (First Update, Please Subscribe)
"Driver, please find me the nearest bus stop. I'd like to take a bus ride around." Yuan Weihong didn't reply to Fang Ziye's message immediately, but instead gave this instruction to the taxi driver.

Yuan Weihong's feelings were clearly very complicated at this moment.

It's fair to say that if Fang Ziye hadn't been his first student, Yuan Weihong would have been happy for him if Fang Ziye had gone on to have a better career in hand surgery.

But Fang Ziye was his first student, and he was about to be able to pursue a doctorate and stay at the institute, so he could keep him by his side, nurture him, work together, and build a research group...

But then an unexpected event occurred: the professor of hand surgery said that his student had a great talent for hand surgery and that he should transfer to hand surgery to develop his skills, which would greatly increase his chances of staying in the hospital.

Hand surgery requires a higher level of specialization than trauma surgery. Therefore, when recruiting undergraduate hand surgeons, technical skills are valued more highly than research ability.

Compared to trauma surgery and other orthopedic subspecialties, Fang Ziye's current professional skills give him a greater chance of being retained in the hospital.

The taxi driver replied, "Boss, it's still quite a distance to the beach. Can I just take you there?"

"It's nothing, I just wanted to experience the atmosphere of taking the bus. Thank you for your hard work, driver." Yuan Weihong's purpose was not the beach, nor taking the bus; he just wanted to relax a little.

"Okay, there's a bus stop about two kilometers ahead. You can take the X7 bus, which should also take you to the beach. Just look for it on the bus stop sign; I might not remember it exactly." Seeing Yuan Weihong's insistence, the driver felt he had to stop before even completing half of the fare.

But he didn't dare to force the passengers, after all, he thought about Yuan Weihong's height and figured he probably couldn't beat him in a real fight.

After braking, Yuan Weihong glanced at the bus again before replying to Fang Ziye: "What are your own plans?"

"It's quite an achievement to gain the appreciation of a senior professor of hand surgery!"

Fang Ziye was sitting in the lab, completely unable to concentrate on the experiment. Although the scheduled time was approaching, he kept putting it off, hoping to get his teacher's reply and guidance as soon as possible.

Seeing that Fang Ziye showed no signs of going to do the experiment and seemed distracted, Luo Tingzhu asked, "Senior Brother Fang, do you want to use the cell culture room you reserved? If not, can I collect some cells first?"

"Then we'll immediately continue the blue light disinfection process. It will only take a maximum of fifty minutes before you can use it again."

Luo Tingzhu was fully equipped with blue laboratory gloves and a disposable surgical mask with cute cartoon patterns. Her hair was tied in a ponytail. Now that she had made her experimental plan, she was full of energy.

My mood is much happier than before, and I'm no longer as lost as I used to be.

"Okay, you can use it first. My experiment isn't urgent for now."

"Oh, right, Tingzhu, could you take a look at how many of my cells have adhered to the wall?" Fang Ziye added.

"How much of the cells adhered to the culture dish" means approximately how much of the bottom of the dish the cells covered, whether it was 50%, 80%, or 100%.

The required actions differ depending on the degree to which the area is filled.

Giant cell tumors of bone grow slightly slower than osteosarcomas. If only 70% of the tumor is culturing, it may need to be cultured for another two or three days before further processing.

"OK, no problem, thank you, senior brother." Luo Tingzhu didn't bother Fang Ziye any further and headed towards the cell culture room to collect the cells.

After seeing his teacher's reply, Fang Ziye noticed that his junior brother Jie Han had also sent a message, roughly asking what had happened on his end. It seemed that his teacher wasn't in a good mood after Professor Ni Yaoping had spoken to Yuan Weihong that day.

Fang Ziye ignored Jie Han for the time being, and instead thought for a long time before carefully editing the message for his teacher. It took him a full ten minutes to edit out the following message, which was several hundred words long.

Review it again and try to express yourself clearly in one go.

“Master, the results of this tail artery reconnection suture were actually quite good, which was beyond my expectations. I had never practiced this procedure before, but recently my suturing skills have improved a bit, and I was able to suture the jelly.”

"Lan Tianluo and Junior Sister Tingzhu witnessed this. If it weren't for Brother Yang Wenzheng asking one of our lab members to help today, and after several failures, he rewarded me with a chance to suture, I would have been completely unaware of this. It's not that I didn't report the progress to you, Teacher."

"My own consideration is that staying in trauma surgery is the best option for me. There are several reasons for this. First, even if I could pursue a doctoral degree under Professor Ni Yaoping, I could still pursue a doctoral degree under Professor Deng Yong if I stay in trauma surgery."

“In the current trauma surgery field, I have two mentors who guide me, so my future development in trauma surgery will definitely be better than in hand surgery. After all, it's an unfamiliar environment that I'm entering out of nowhere. Even if I integrate into the atmosphere, many people will become my competitors, that's one reason.”

"Secondly, Master, it's not that I'm being overly ambitious, but the overall capabilities of the trauma surgery department within the orthopedics platform of Zhongnan Hospital are relatively superior compared to the hand surgery department, both provincially and nationally. The platform is higher, and there are advantages such as experienced teachers and a mature team, which will be more helpful in reaching the upper limit in the future."

"Thirdly, I chose to stay in trauma surgery. Professor Ni in hand surgery wouldn't think I'm clueless about human relationships, but if I switched to hand surgery, Professor Deng Yong might think I'm only interested in profit."

“Of course, choosing hand surgery also has its advantages, as you have already explained before, Master.”

"My own idea is that it's better to stay in a familiar environment, because I have already discussed my research plan before and during my doctoral studies with you, Professor."

"I think I still have a good chance of accumulating clinical and research skills for my career without using hand surgery as a stepping stone, and then getting a good job opportunity."

"Furthermore, if I stay, in a more familiar environment, my seniors may already be prepared to apply for full scholarships to study abroad. If I go to an unfamiliar environment, I will have to give way to my seniors."

"After all, we're new here, so we shouldn't be too ostentatious."

"But the reason I need to discuss this with you is because you said that opportunities to pursue a doctorate and find a job are extremely difficult to come by. Senior student Sun Shaoqing is determined to stay at the hospital, but the chances are slim. Even the doctoral students in trauma surgery who want to stay at the hospital to work in orthopedics have little chance."

“If I give up this opportunity carelessly, Master, you might think that I’m careless and don’t take it seriously, and that I just gave it up on a whim.”

When faced with a crucial choice, Fang Ziye dared not act on his own initiative.

Fang Ziye didn't even consult his parents right away, because in their eyes, whatever choice he made was correct. Since he started high school, they couldn't interfere much with his studies or choices, given their limited knowledge and abilities.

But Yuan Weihong is different; although he is only a master's thesis supervisor in name only.

Fang Ziye, who had experience with basic experiments, knew that, regardless of other factors, Yuan Weihong's first-author, first-zone basic SCI paper was enough to earn him the title of "mentor."

I've been wandering around in the lab for so long, and I've done so many experiments, but without animal experiments, none of my results would be enough to publish a Q1 SCI paper. I haven't done enough.

Therefore, we can see that the quality of an article is so high that we can compare the quantity of other people's articles based on the quality of the article itself, and this is not a lie.

After clicking send, Fang Ziye replied to his junior brother Jie Han with a brief explanation of the current situation and predicament.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Ziye saw Jie Han continuously typing, then stopping, then typing again.

Finally, he simply said, "Senior, this opportunity is indeed very good, but we need to consider it carefully. It's not easy for medical students to find jobs these days, and job opportunities are more important than many other things."

"Senior brother, please think it over carefully and discuss it with the teacher."

If all that was promised was an opportunity for Fang Ziye to pursue a doctorate, then Jie Han would have said without hesitation, "What a joke! Wherever Fang Ziye pursues his doctorate, it doesn't matter."

However, if a hand surgeon promises a job opportunity, then it's worth considering carefully.

As of now, Fang Ziye's experience is not enough to meet the hospitalization standards for trauma surgery. Even though Professor Deng Yong is the administrative director of trauma surgery, he will not make any promises to Fang Ziye. Fang Ziye still needs to accumulate experience gradually.

The Department of Orthopedics at Zhongnan Hospital recruits very few people each year, in five subspecialties. The chances of retaining someone are equal for everyone, regardless of which subspecialty might retain them. Unless your subspecialty's administrative director specifically requests someone to stay, even if it comes at a certain cost, Professor Du Xinzhan, the head of the Department of Orthopedics, will likely grant you that request. However, the corresponding cost is that you might not be able to recruit new staff for five years, or even longer.

Such a loss is not insignificant.

After all, it was you who specifically named who you wanted to keep, rather than everyone having an equal chance and fighting each other for survival.

"Congratulations, junior brother, on your outstanding suturing skills. You've already surpassed the suturing abilities of some attending physicians, even though you've just graduated with your master's degree." Jie Han sent the message with a silly grin emoji.

After reading it, Fang Ziye sent Jie Han a fat cat emoji.

He then shifted his position, turned around, and continued crawling, waiting for Yuan Weihong's reply.

Yuan Weihong said, "As long as you can think it through and understand it, your choice is fine."

"To be honest, as a teacher, I should have let you pursue a doctorate in hand surgery. After all, Professor Ni Yaoping contacted me, so he certainly wouldn't go back on his word."

"Job opportunities are the ultimate goal of all the accumulation during my master's and doctoral studies. All the prior preparations are for the purpose of being able to enter a relatively good platform when I start working."

"But as a teacher, I also have some selfish motives."

Yuan Weihong didn't say what his motives were, but Fang Ziye already understood.

The teacher corresponds to the student, the master corresponds to the apprentice, or even the son apprentice.

A student should be kept by one's side and slowly trained, learning knowledge, establishing rules, and teaching how to conduct oneself and act.

“Master, could you please help me politely decline Professor Ni’s offer? I feel it’s not appropriate for me, as a student, to directly refuse such a professor.”

“Master, my choice is definitely the result of careful consideration. I have also communicated with you before. My current level of basic experimental skills is just average.”

"Thank you, Master, for leaving a considerable amount of research funding for me and Junior Brother Jiehan. Currently, with my proficiency still at a decent level, after completing your research on cell experiments, I still have a substantial amount left over."

"Furthermore, in the lab, when some senior students asked me to help with experiments, I actually managed to advance the research to the point of understanding the regulation of HK2 by borrowing reagents and so on."

"Naturally, with the remaining funding, I can probably also work on the regulation of HK2 by metformin, and even its effect on mRNA, as well as the effect of regulating mRNA on HK2 levels."

"It means that I can maximize the use of my funds. As you said, Master, with these three high-quality articles, plus the previous Q1 article, if all the subsequent animal experiments are completed..."

"If we can't stay in the hospital yet, then we can only say we've encountered a miracle worker. There's nothing we can do about it..." Fang Ziye joked at the end.

After listening, Yuan Weihong finally smiled and replied, "You've been saving our group's research funds so carefully. I thought you were saving the money for Luo Tingzhu."

“Master, Tingzhu is very smart. She had already thought of a contingency plan. She didn’t need our help at all, and she didn’t ask our group for any funds or anything.”

"At most, I might borrow a little bit of reagent occasionally. This is a very common thing in the lab. It's usually borrowed and never returned, and it's not much money."

“Master, I’m doing this because I’m learning from you. It’s about deepening, expanding, and strengthening the preliminary experiments and the current research project, taking it to the crucial step, and then turning it into a research proposal, as if to put it directly.”

"My research project is almost finished, all I need is funding. Once I have the money, I can complete the project immediately, obtain excellent experimental results, and achieve a high level of depth and quality in my research..."

Once they decided to make a decision, Fang Ziye and Yuan Weihong started chatting casually.

Moreover, while Fang Ziye's conversation with Yuan Weihong was somewhat humorous, it also crossed some lines.

Although everyone's proposals are written like this, it is very rare to see someone like Fang Ziye, who completes the basic experimental part of the pre-application project before applying for the project, but does not directly give you the results just to get the money. Such a person who walks on the edge of risk is very rare.

This requires a very strong experimental foundation.

To make the most of a single resource, you need to strictly control the success rate of your experiments. If you manage it well, have a supporting laboratory, and a large enough team, it is indeed possible.

One research grant can be used to conduct full-process experiments on two to three in-depth research projects.

Because all research grants will not give you only one opportunity to conduct the entire experiment.

With a certain margin of error, if you can produce results within three to four attempts, then you can consider yourself able to complete the project.

In this situation, the higher your success rate, the more money you can save and the more you can do. As long as you don't spend it on yourself and only use it for research, it's definitely not against the rules.

"Don't say such things to anyone but me, not even to Jie Han. Do you understand?" Yuan Weihong thought his apprentice was ruthless and strong.

Similarly, they were also terrified by Fang Ziye's audacity.

Using the money for one research project is equivalent to doing the work of three research projects, and completing the basic experimental part of three research projects. Then, using a portion of the data from the basic experimental part, you go to the TM (a derogatory term for a certain organization) to ask for money.

This behavior is equivalent to buying a BMW and then demanding money with the keychain.

Here, I bought the keychain. Can you give me some money so I can buy a BMW?

But in reality, Fang Ziye already owned a BMW; he was using the money to buy a Lamborghini…

Naturally, this approach would certainly allow his research group to grow stronger. If he were to secure more research funding, Fang Ziye could potentially obtain the results of miRNA's impact on mRNA and then further analyze its impact on HK2, and then use that information to ask for even more money.

This is very beneficial to the healthy development of the research group.

This is something that only an ordinary person could do.

Most people, after receiving funding, only think about how to conclude their research and publish articles. Who dares to play like Fang Ziye? He uses the money for multiple purposes, then uses it to obtain more funding, then obtains more funding and uses it again…

"Master, don't worry, our chat history will be gone soon," Fang Ziye said cryptically.

"Just don't lose your master's friends."

"Although this kind of thing is good for the research group and also gives an explanation to the country, it is ultimately not in accordance with the rules. Because we can achieve success on the first try, other research groups may not be able to do it, and others may not be able to do it, so it cannot be revealed or leaked."

"Otherwise, it will be difficult for the special management department of the project funds. If they want to punish you, you have indeed completed the task. If they don't want to punish you, the money you asked for is a bit more than your expenses. That's a difficult situation."

"Making others feel at ease is a sign of one's own maturity..." After saying this, Yuan Weihong gradually calmed down.

Yuan Weihong truly did not expect that after Fang Ziye was put into the laboratory, Fang Ziye would unleash so much energy and preparation.

(End of this chapter)