"Monitor, I have a question for you." Xie Wanying leaned in and asked.
It was rare for the classâs top female student to seek advice from others, and everyone perked up their ears to hear what she had to say.
"What issue, go ahead."
Monitorâs steady voice drifted over.
Xie Wanying boldly asked, "Monitor, youâre very knowledgeable about neurosurgery. Do you know Director Zhai from Fangze Hospitalâs neurosurgery department?"
Monitor Yueâs focus was on neurosurgery, so he surely knew more about the neurosurgical community than other classmates.
Indeed, Yue Wentong effortlessly answered her, "Fangzeâs neurosurgery is well-known, with a large number of patients and nine wards. Director Zhai Yunsheng is a renowned neurosurgery expert in the country, specializing in intracranial tumors, especially the most challenging glioma treatment and surgery. At Fangze, heâs the best at treating gliomas, recognized nationwide. He serves as the director in the second ward."
In simple terms, this person is a top expert in the neurosurgical circle.
Other students who hadnât been to Fangze were surprised to hear this introduction from the Monitor. Li Qiâan asked, "Monitor, how does it compare to our Guoxie?"
If ranking hospitals by their neurosurgical comprehensive technical capabilities, which includes the overall average technical level of doctors and the hardware and software facilities, itâs evident from where the public prefers to seek treatment.
Fangze, like Beidou Third Hospital, specializes in a leading department aiming to create the nationâs number one neurosurgery center, nearly becoming a specialized hospital like Guo Zhi Hospital. All financial resources are concentrated in a single department, which shows results, and itâs obvious Guoxieâs neurosurgery canât compete with it.
Guoxie focuses on comprehensive skills across all departments, not on singular departmental strengths.
"You should understand that doctors and hospitals are not quite the same." Yue Wentong earnestly advised his classmates.
No matter how good a hospital is, there are differences in the skill level among doctors. Moreover, regardless of a doctorâs technical prowess, if theyâre unwilling to perform a surgery for a patient, their skills donât really matter.
There are frequent reports of special cases in the news where patients go to the most renowned hospitals for treatment only to find their doctors unwilling to perform the surgery, forcing them to seek a doctor willing to operate at a lesser hospital.
Itâs understandable for a medical student to want to work in the most advanced hospital environment, but the key thing to discern is whether or not a doctor can and will save a patient, which is a personal matter rather than related to the hospital.
If a doctor is determined to save someone, can the hospital stop them? The law never prohibits anyone from saving lives. Having experienced the painful ordeal of seeking treatment when his mother was ill, Yue Wentong despises those doctors who use hospital rules as an excuse not to save lives.
He doesnât know the true situation inside Fangze, as he has never been there. But he knows Senior Cao is impressive in the field and is aware Senior Cao is an excellent and charismatic doctor, and he just wants to learn from Senior Cao.
The other students understood the Monitorâs words. What they didnât understand was, Li Qiâan asked, "Yingying, why did you suddenly ask the Monitor about Fangze?"
"Hereâs what happened," Geng Yongzhe helped explain for Student Xie, "Tonight, when Yingying and I were escorting the patient to Fangze, we met Director Zhai. He recognized us as students from Guoxie. Yingying and I havenât met him before and donât know how he identified us. Do you know, Monitor?"
"Director Zhai knows you?" Yue Wentong was puzzled by their account, "Director Zhai, being a neurosurgical expert, might have visited Guoxie for academic exchanges with Senior Cao and others, but as for how he recognized youâ"