Get off the elevator, walk to the department, and push open the door.

Luo Yanan looked at Su Tang with some sympathy, "Our inpatient department is an old building. If it were a new inpatient building, the elevators for doctors and patients would be separate."

Many patients feel that hospitals are particularly dirty after entering them. If they see someone sneezing, they think it is the flu, and if they see someone coughing, they think it is definitely an infectious disease...

But the fact is that although the hospital is not absolutely clean, it is much cleaner than many places.

The floor and handrails here need to be mopped and wiped with disinfectant every day, various air purifiers are operated in turn, and disinfection equipment is sprayed daily.

If there is one thing that is the dirtiest here, it is probably the white coats they wear every day when they go to work.

Basically, the clothes will only be collected by an outsourced cleaning company and cleaned and disinfected every Monday.

Su Tang nodded, followed Luo Yanan and the other two, and glanced subconsciously at the wards on both sides of the department.

Compared to the bustling hospital entrance, the general internal medicine ward is obviously much quieter.

Compared to those famous departments in the hospital which are so crowded that they can't even add extra beds in the corridors, only about one-third of the beds in the general internal medicine department are occupied, and some wards don't even have a single patient.

Xiong Wei glanced at the wall clock, quickened his pace, and urged Su Tang to go inside, saying, "Let's go, we have to hurry. Although there are not many patients in our department, the director still hates people being late. We have to go to the outpatient clinic later to see if we can admit two more patients today."

The salaries of all medical staff are linked to the total revenue of the department, and the internal medicine department has become increasingly divided in recent years.

The number of patients in the general internal medicine department has become fewer and fewer. If it were not for the director's persistence over the years, the general internal medicine department of the Sixth Hospital would have disappeared in the long history of hospital reform, just like the comprehensive internal medicine departments of other hospitals.

Now they can hardly even compare to the least popular rehabilitation department in the hospital...

Xiong Wei sighed, a rare trace of sadness showing on his silly face.

He also doesn't know how long the general internal medicine department can last given the current situation of the department.

Although the hospital is a public one, medical staff cannot skip meals.

Anyone who has worked in a hospital knows that the basic salary is very low, and it is not even enough to pay the rent, let alone the expenses of food and transportation. Only performance accounts for the bulk of the salary.

Thinking about things in his mind, Xiong Wei felt heavy-hearted.

I pushed open the familiar door of the office, but I didn't see the director's face as usual. There were only three colleagues wearing white coats, collecting papers and pens on the table, preparing to report to the outpatient clinic.

"Huh? Why hasn't the director come today? This is Doctor Su Tang, who was sent here by the hospital's Personnel Department yesterday. From today on, she's our colleague." Xiong Wei introduced Su Tang and the other three people in the department one by one.

As one of the less popular departments in the entire hospital.

There are only five doctors in the general internal medicine department, including Su Tang, and one is in regular training.

Among them, except for the department director with the highest qualifications who is a chief physician, their department does not even have a deputy director.

Among the four, Xiong Wei and another tall and strong man named Pan Yuhao are attending physicians, and the remaining two are junior residents, just like Su Tang.

Pan Yuhao, as his name suggests, has a forthright personality. There is no deputy director in the department, so he is vaguely considered the second-in-command in the department: "The director received a call last night saying that he had to go out for a meeting and study. It is estimated that he will be out for two or three days. He called me this morning and asked me to arrange work for Dr. Su."

Pan Yuhao stood in front of Su Tang and confidently introduced the other two people to Su Tang. He also arranged Su Tang's work for this morning: "There are few patients in our hospital department. After the ward rounds every morning, only one doctor needs to stay in the department. The rest will go to the outpatient clinic to see if they can admit more patients. You can go to the outpatient clinic with us today."

Pan Yuhao pointed to the two remaining doctors in the office and said, "This is Ma Jun. Like you, he is a resident doctor at General Hospital and came in last year."

"This person's name is Lan Haicui. She came here for regular training from the geriatric internal medicine department downstairs. In a few months, she will have to return to the geriatric internal medicine department." Pan Yuhao looked quite envious. Although the geriatric internal medicine department was not considered a star department in the Sixth Hospital, the income of the department was much better than theirs.

After all, there are many aging populations in the country these days, so geriatrics is not a problem at all.

Su Tang looked at the other two people in the direction Pan Yuhao introduced.

The boy is very thin and a little handsome, and he dresses very fashionably.

The girl was dressed like a typical honor student, wearing thick myopic glasses and a meticulous white coat, and holding the latest medical magazines from both China and abroad in her hands.

Su Tangchong nodded to the two of them, and after saying hello, he couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for this declining general internal medicine doctor.

As a doctor in a tertiary hospital, he actually has time to read other medical magazines during work. Only those departments with extremely leisurely hours can do that.

Although it is nice to slack off while getting paid, doctors probably don't want this kind of happiness.

Of course, what Su Tang cares about most is... that everyone in the department is taller than her.

Even though the doctor in front of her, Dr. Lan, was obviously a person who liked to spend all day in library management and did not exercise, he was still five or six centimeters taller than her.

How can she bear the thought of getting up early every day to exercise and drinking two bottles of milk a day just to grow taller? !

Su Tang: “…………”

His eyes scanned the surroundings and finally stopped at himself.

Plus the department director who has not shown up yet but is definitely quite old.

The general internal medicine department should be complete now - a group of six people, tall, short, fat, thin, old and young.

Ahem, of course... She firmly believed that she was young, not short.

………

After greeting several doctors in the department, the group simply checked the room as usual.

Su Tang then counted and found that there were only 8 patients in the entire department. No wonder everyone wanted to admit more patients. In other departments, the number of patients was three or four times the number of medical staff. In the general internal medicine department... the number of medical staff was two or three times the number of patients. This situation was indeed quite embarrassing.

The one who needed to stay in the department today was Ma Jun. Lan Haicui, as a resident intern, usually followed the director. Since the director was not there today, she naturally stayed in the department. Pan Yuhao and Xiong Wei took Su Tang directly to the general internal medicine clinic.

As a general clinic, this was originally used by three general doctors in the Department of Internal Medicine, so there were only two seats. Now that Su Tang was added, Pan Yuhao directly said hello to the front desk of the clinic and arranged her in this office.

On the one hand, only the chief and deputy chief physicians have separate clinics, and Su Tang is not qualified to open another clinic. On the other hand, as a newcomer, he still needs the guidance and supervision of seniors to feel at ease.

But when Su Tang walked into the General Internal Medicine Clinic, he found that the bustle here was completely different from the deserted department.

"Hmm?" Su Tang was a little confused and paused subconsciously.

The noisy and hot atmosphere came with the air, and even the central air conditioning in the clinic area could not cover up the high-temperature noise from the crowd. It was not yet the official opening time of the clinic at 8 o'clock, and there were at least nearly 400 to 500 people waiting in the clinic area of ​​Pu Nei!

These people were a large crowd, some sitting and some standing, all waiting in the public waiting area, their faces full of anticipation, waiting for the doctor to arrive.

"Don't look at them. These patients are not ours." Pan Yuhao looked at the crowd enviously, and took Su Tang to the office at the end of the corridor.

Passing by the clinics in front, Pan Yuhao pointed at the rooms with signs for General Internal Medicine Clinic Rooms 1, 2, and 3 and pursed his lips: "Although these are all general internal medicine clinics, they actually have nothing to do with our general internal medicine department. These are all directors and deputy directors of other departments such as cardiology, respiratory medicine, and gastroenterology. They just have a general internal medicine clinic sign."

"When we got to work in the afternoon, we changed the name on the front desk computer and it immediately became their original department name."

"There are now more than 50 doctors in the general internal medicine clinic of the hospital every day. But in reality, at most three doctors are from our department every day. Now, including you, there are only four people."

Xiong Wei pointed to the surrounding environment and introduced: "The reason why everyone is still working together and others are still wearing the general internal medicine sign in the morning is mainly because after the hospital reform, the outpatient building was not rebuilt, so it is naturally difficult to re-divide the office area. In addition, some patients come for the first time and may not know which department they need to go to."

"The hospital asked the outpatient receptionist to let other people register for the general internal medicine department in the morning and register for their own department in the afternoon."

To put it bluntly, this is like an outpatient clinic with the name of general internal medicine, but in reality each department accepts its own patients.

Xiong Wei looked a little sad: "But in the past two years... more and more doctors from other departments have changed their outpatient clinics back to their original departments, or they do general internal medicine once and their original departments twice. They also write down their areas of expertise in detail below the doctor's introduction so that patients can distinguish them."

Therefore, even if the house number still has "General Internal Medicine" on it, it is actually no longer a General Internal Medicine department.

People who come here for medical treatment are more willing to trust specialized doctors for specialized diseases.

In fact, considering the current situation in the country, this management method is indeed the most appropriate.

The atmosphere in the corridor seemed a bit depressing. After listening to Su Tang, she didn't know what to say for a while. In order to facilitate management and improve the efficiency of hospital work, reform is sometimes inevitable.

The three of them soon arrived at their office.

"Xiao Su, just sit here, don't be nervous."

Pan Yuhao poured himself a cup of tea skillfully. "Although this is your first time as an outpatient clinic, I guess that few people will come to see you. On weekdays, apart from the director, Fatty Xiong and I are the only ones who can occasionally admit patients. Xiao Ma has been in the department for a whole year, and he has only admitted three patients in total."

"Ah?" Su Tang was stunned. Is it so miserable?

Even though the general internal medicine department is a little unpopular, it shouldn't only admit three patients a year, right?