The surgery went perfectly, leaving the lead surgeon beaming, the patient thrilled, and the observers full of praise.
The dical students here for their internship were unaware that Liu Banxia was a resident without prior experience as a chief surgeon. They humbly asked him questions, naturally addressing him as "Teacher Liu."
"Shi Lei, why don’t you go over and chat with them?" Jiang Tao said with a smile.
Shi Lei nodded. After all, the proctology departnt felt like his old ho.
"Liu, your residency is almost over. What are your plans for the future?" Jiang Tao asked with a smile after they entered his office, personally pouring water for Shi Lei and Liu Banxia.
Liu Banxia was pleasantly surprised. "Director Jiang, I’m currently focused on honing my fundantal skills. I have less than two months left to obtain my residency certificate."
"Hehe, haven’t you thought about staying on at the hospital? You could co to our proctology departnt," Jiang Tao suggested with a smile.
This was a spur-of-the-mont idea. Actually, for today’s ordinary surgery, which had turned into a teaching surgery, he had originally intended to use Liu Banxia as a negative example. After all, Liu Banxia was a resident, and a resident who had never perford as chief surgeon before.
However, Liu Banxia’s performance was stunning. How could he look like soone who had never been a chief surgeon? Every movent was so skilled; he seed born for this profession.
This sparked Jiang Tao’s desire to recruit him.
Hearing this, Liu Banxia’s hands trembled slightly.
Staying at the hospital after his residency had always been his dream. Even after acquiring the System, he still lacked much confidence about whether he could stay. The Second Hospital was truly top-tier, and its standards were incredibly high. For soone like him, what he lacked was more than just academic qualifications.
Shi Lei also glanced at Jiang Tao in surprise but said nothing. This concerned Liu Banxia’s future; it was Liu Banxia’s own decision to make.
Liu Banxia was truly conflicted. On one hand, there was the olive branch extended by Director Jiang; on the other, his own private aspirations.
If he didn’t have the System, he wouldn’t have hesitated and would have eagerly accepted. But not now; now he had the System. If he really accepted Jiang Tao’s invitation, it would more or less tie him to the proctology departnt. This would inevitably have so impact on his future prospects—both career-wise and financially.
After quickly weighing his options, Liu Banxia spoke up, "Director Jiang, my personal situation is a bit special. My skills aren’t solid enough yet, and I plan to continue learning diligently from our Chief Shi. However, you’re the one who recognized my potential. If you don’t mind, whenever things get too busy here, just give a call."
"Chief Shi has also given considerable autonomy recently. Until my residency ends, I can co over every morning to help patients with their wound dressings. This could also help alleviate so of the workload in our proctology departnt. What do you think?"
"You’re a sly one," Jiang Tao glanced at him. "Your words are smooth, but it seems you still don’t quite fancy our proctology departnt. However, it doesn’t matter; we won’t turn down free help. Shi Lei, you heard what Liu just said. He’ll be coming over every morning to change dressings for the patients."
"Director Jiang, this is his good fortune. I learned a great deal from you back in the day. If you hadn’t ntored , I wouldn’t be where I am today," Shi Lei said with a smile.
"Much good that did! Weren’t you still poached by Old Zhou?" Jiang Tao shot him a glare.
Shi Lei just chuckled. Jiang Tao had indeed put a lot of effort into ntoring him back then. It was only due to his own personal reasons that he had chosen to "defect" from the proctology departnt.
"Boss, praise a little, won’t you? Even Director Jiang said I did well," Liu Banxia said with a grin on their way back.
"Praise you? Nonsense. Doing well in surgery is what you’re supposed to do. Why ask for praise? Tell , what are you really up to? Why offer to co over here and help with wound dressings?" Shi Lei glared at him.
"A drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring. Director Jiang gave the chance to operate and even extended an olive branch. I have to show my gratitude," Liu Banxia said, blinking.
Of course, he couldn’t reveal his true intentions, an idea that had just sprouted when he arrived at the proctology departnt today. Post-operative dressing changes for patients in the proctology departnt are very painful. So, what if I take on an in-hospital part-ti job? Coming here every day to help patients change their dressings, wouldn’t that be like a fixed, unlimited monster-grinding spot? The path to grinding experience in the ergency departnt was all but blocked by Qin Hai. Now that there’s this new grinding spot, only a fool would pass it up.
"What were you thinking? Not seizing such a good opportunity," Shi Lei frowned, his gaze fixed ahead.
"Boss, I’m following your lead, aren’t I? So even if I were to stay at the hospital, I’d have to follow in your footsteps," Liu Banxia said with a serious expression.
A smile tugged at the corners of Shi Lei’s lips; he was actually in quite a good mood.
Previously, he had only thought Liu Banxia was serious about his work, a competent doctor. But after having his surgery snatched away, Liu Banxia seed spurred on, becoming more driven and revealing the potential of a surgeon.
He himself is a general surgeon, so naturally, he hopes Liu Banxia can stay in general surgery, on the front lines of saving lives. He was very gratified by Liu Banxia’s choice, but he also knew he couldn’t praise this fellow; any praise would make him overly conceited.
However, he still suspected Liu Banxia had other motives for volunteering to help with wound dressings in the proctology departnt. But there was no need to ask now. The kid’s performance today hadn’t embarrassed him, and his choice was gratifying. That was enough.
"I’ll ntion this to Director Zhou later. You need to keep a low profile during your remaining residency period. Don’t cause any trouble," Shi Lei instructed.
"Boss, don’t worry. You know , right? Trouble always seems to find , but I’m actually very well-behaved," Liu Banxia said with a straight face.
Back in the ergency departnt, before Liu Banxia could even speak, Zhou Li led a group of nurses who sward over to him, patting and touching him all over—ostensibly to share in his good fortune.
It was hard to say how many of those "sharing his good fortune" were actually doing so with the intent to cop a feel. In any case, Liu Banxia felt his face, nose, arms, and chest had all been thoroughly molested. Thankfully, these young won still had so sense of propriety and limited their attentions to his upper body.
"Hehe, thank you, everyone. Tonight, those not on duty, co with after work. Those on duty, don’t worry, I’ll have takeout delivered for sure," Liu Banxia announced generously.
"Argh... if I’d known Liu was treating, I wouldn’t have agreed to swap shifts!" one of the nurses lanted.
"Then how about letting Liu compensate you with an ’ergency room dance’?" another nurse teased mischievously.
Liu Banxia felt a slight headache coming on. This ’ergency room dance’ they’re talking about refers to and Liang Xiaolin from yesterday. These girls... they’re too bold!
Qi Wentai shot him a cold glance, his irritation flaring as he watched Liu Banxia being surrounded by the nurses like a star.
Liu Banxia saw him too but chose to ignore it. Truth be told, even he couldn’t recall when the conflict with Qi Wentai had begun. In any case, he didn’t care about it now.
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