"Director, your students have returned. Should I go back to the nursing department to report for duty now?"
The next morning, as soon as Li Chu sat down in the chair in the examination room, he heard Nurse Zhou ask timidly.
"They still have a week of rest and adjustment time, so there's no rush."
"Oh, I understand, Director."
Seeing the somewhat dejected look on Nurse Zhou's face, Li Chu thought for a moment and asked, "Zhou, did you register for the exam at the end of the year?"
"Yes, Director."
"Okay, then, even if they come back to work in a week, you can stay here as usual. If the nursing department asks you, just tell them to come find me."
The exam is less than two months away, and it's especially important for Nurse Zhou. If she passes, she'll become a doctor instead of a nurse—a real chance for her to rise to the top.
She is currently a soldier. After her three-year service period, she can apply for extended service, but that would only be for two more years. If she continues to be a nurse, she may be able to become a volunteer soldier in the future, but she will still be a soldier.
The vast majority of nurses at the main hospital are former soldiers. Some came after graduating from nursing school, while others were assigned to the main hospital after serving in the military and then went to nursing school for training. Only those who studied nursing at the junior college or university level can obtain cadre status after entering the hospital, or if you perform well during your service, you can be promoted to head nurse and obtain cadre status, but this situation is very rare.
If Nurse Xiao Zhou passes the exam this time and is transferred from a nursing position to a doctor position, she will be able to obtain cadre status.
Therefore, this is a very good opportunity for her. In addition, Li Chu has given her a lot of guidance over the past six months. If she makes good use of the last month or so to review, she is quite confident.
But if we transfer her to another busy department now, where she'll be too busy to study, things could get really difficult when the exams come at the end of the year.
Upon hearing Li Chu say that she could stay here indefinitely, she almost jumped for joy and quickly saluted, saying, "Thank you, Director. I will definitely make the most of my time to study hard and strive for good grades at the end of the year."
"Well, just don't let all your hard work go to waste."
Li Chu had witnessed Nurse Zhou's hard work. She wasted no time reading and studying every day, and she would write down everything that Li Chu told her. Although she might not be as talented as Wenxuan and Wenhui in terms of learning, her diligence was second to none.
That's why he was willing to do her a favor and let her stay. If it were someone who only knew how to cheat and shirk responsibility, he would have kicked them out long ago. You think you can get away with living under my wing? You're dreaming.
Li Chu is never stingy in helping people who study diligently at the age when they should be studying and who can endure loneliness.
"Doctor, should I go out and call the patient over now?"
"No rush. I have some things to write in my office. I have meetings to attend these next few days, so you can study in the clinic by yourself for now."
Starting today, both of them have a meeting to attend, but in different locations. He is attending a medical and health system meeting organized by the health department, while Ding Qiunan is going to headquarters to attend a meeting of grassroots logistics department (section) chiefs.
He was driven to work by his son-in-law. Tian Jun drove Ding Qiunan to drop him off. When he comes back, he will detour to the guesthouse under the jurisdiction of the health department to check in for him.
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This conference will last for five days in total, and today is only the first day. It's mainly just a matter of checking in and having acquaintances chat together.
The health department has also booked rooms at the guesthouse for out-of-town attendees, and local attendees can also stay there for the next few days if they wish.
After hearing this, Nurse Zhou obediently sat down at another table, took out her book, and began to study diligently.
Li Chu sat there seemingly lost in thought, but his mind was actually considering the upcoming health meeting.
He was invited to the conference as an expert and scholar, and therefore has the right to speak at the conference.
The increasingly heated debate between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine will certainly be brought up again at this conference.
He was puzzled. What was there to fight over? You do your thing, I do mine, we can keep to ourselves. Why do some people have to make it a life-or-death struggle? What kind of mentality is that?
Moreover, it seems that Western medicine always starts conflicts first; in the past, they would only attack each other during meetings.
Now we've found a reasonable approach: utilizing the media.
Well, people in the North tend to be more conservative in their thinking, and some of the content published in the media is still quite measured.
As a bridgehead for economic development, the South is closer to Hong Kong Island, making it easier to connect with the outside world. Or rather, the media there tends to express bolder, even more radical, opinions.
During this period, all sorts of shady characters have been saying all sorts of things, some of which you can't even tell if they're human or ghosts. Some of what they say gets published in newspapers or magazines. They're quite shrewd at manipulating public opinion.
The opinions published in the newspapers were all given titles like "expert" or "professor" and "scholar," which sometimes made Li Chu scratch his head.
He felt as if he were living in a vacuum, otherwise why would he not know most of those people, or even have heard of them?
One time, he couldn't resist and asked someone else to check it for him.
According to the newspaper, the person he was investigating was the head of surgery at an affiliated hospital of a medical college, known as the top surgeon in the area, and also a professor and doctoral supervisor at the medical college, which was quite famous in academic circles.
It would have been better if they hadn't investigated, because the investigation actually gave Li Chu a fright.
This is no surgical director, professor, or doctoral supervisor. There are indeed people with that name who work at this medical school, but he is just an ordinary staff member managing the cadavers.
The job title didn't match up at all. The head of surgery at that hospital was also the vice president, and he was only responsible for the administrative work of the department. As for the professional work, it was managed by several deputy directors. Although they all worked at the medical school, only one of them was qualified to supervise master's students, and there was no doctoral supervisor at all.
This is simply outrageous!
From then on, Li Chu would skim over the content published in the newspapers in the south, and he would not read it unless it was about someone he knew.
Now that the health department has brought everyone together, it's possible that the leadership also intends to completely resolve the disputes that have lasted for nearly a year.
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