Chapter 1503: Information Gaps Inside and Outside the Industry

Her mother said that in the public’s reputation, Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital is stronger than the Provincial People’s Hospital, which is correct to some extent. The main reason was that she didn’t know beforehand that her cousin was looking for an interventional specialist and thought he was looking for a cardiothoracic specialist, until she heard the specific situation from her cousin-in-law last night.

The surgical department of the Provincial People’s Hospital has traditional advantages, but their interventional technology is not well-known. Unlike Guoxie and Zhongshan Medical University Affiliated Hospitals which have famous medical universities as strong backing, the Provincial People’s Hospital is slightly slower in adopting new technologies and is somewhat inferior. The public’s word-of-mouth represents a certain level of accuracy.

If it weren’t for Zhou Ruomei stopping her son, Ding Wenze would be willing to help make the contact, allowing Xiao Shugang to be admitted to Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital immediately, potentially getting a better interventional treatment, rather than going directly to the Capital’s doctors.

The Provincial People’s Hospital and several Zhongshan Medical University Affiliated Hospitals have a competitive relationship, and none are willing to concede to the others. Asking a doctor from the Provincial People’s Hospital to contact a doctor at Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital is akin to self-sabotage, and they are not very willing. This means that the doctor will do it at the family’s request, but it is impossible to do it wholeheartedly.

In the eyes of the doctors at the Provincial People’s Hospital, the technology at Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital is similar to that of their own hospital. Asking the doctors from Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital for help is pointless, and it implies distrust and devaluation of their technology. Doctors don’t like patients switching doctors midway, especially to an institution and doctors who may be on a lower level than themselves and their hospital, as it is insulting.

Doctors have very, very strong self-esteem concerning their own technology, and only such doctors can become technical bosses.

Zhou Ruomei, being in the industry, understands the above information, and had she already anticipated the course of events, including the upcoming development of her nephew Xiao Shugang’s condition and the difficulties he would face?

Xie Wanying believed that Zhou Ruomei and Ding Yuhai could foresee it. The reason is simple: the comprehensive capability of Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital is stronger than that of the Provincial People’s Hospital, ranking ahead of the Provincial People’s Hospital in the national comprehensive tertiary hospital rankings.

To reiterate, why Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital has faster and stronger technological updates than the Provincial People’s Hospital, relies on numerous advantages of being a direct unit of a medical college, primarily reflected in academic exchange.

There are only a few renowned medical colleges nationwide, and the famous doctors in major public tertiary hospitals across the country are often nurtured by these medical colleges. Mentioning a common alma mater and mentor naturally fosters emotions, making some matters very manageable. Medical colleges, leveraging special teacher-student relationships, inevitably engage in frequent daily exchanges, and subordinate units, using the medical college’s network, find academic exchanges advantageous, meaning they almost all play within the same circle.

Like what Xie Wanying previously witnessed, Teacher Fu and Senior Brother Shim were very, very familiar with the doctors at Zhongshan Medical College Affiliated Hospital, something that doesn’t occur with the Provincial People’s Hospital. As a result, most medical students choose their alma mater’s affiliated hospital as their first-choice employment direction. Good interpersonal relationships provide inherent advantages for future research and promotions.

Similarly, graduates from Zhongshan Medical College initially prefer employment at their affiliated hospitals over the Provincial People’s Hospital. Even if the Provincial People’s Hospital’s technology is not bad, its reputation decent, and its salary not low, all their familiar teachers are inside the medical college and its affiliated hospitals, which the Provincial People’s Hospital cannot offer.

The medical circle is no different from other industries; networking is crucial.