Zhang Fan finally allowed his fingers to loosen their grip when the needle holder’s clicking sound was heard. His fingers were really sore already.

“It almost fell back in!” Zhang Fan remarked to Lu Shuyan, still scared by what might have happened.

Zhang Fan took a look at the dildo portion that he had removed. There were already traces of blood on it. Also, due to the rectal spreader, the patient’s anus was slightly torn. “You should hospitalize yourself and have some more detailed checkups to see if any fragments remain. Also, you have severe swelling as well as a slight anal tear. If any fragments are stuck to your intestinal walls, those fragments could cause intestinal inflammation.”

“Doctor, can we not do the hospitalization?” The female patient weakly pulled on the black leather jacketed woman. The patient had a pitiful expression since she had truly been in great discomfort, and also because Zhang Fan had used such a loud and severe tone with her. She was a bit afraid of Zhang Fan now, and didn’t dare to talk to him, which was why she had her girlfriend say it for her instead.

“We can’t force you to hospitalize yourself. I’ve given you all of the proper medical advice that I should. You two can decide for yourselves. Dr. Lu, I’ll be going back to the proctology department now. Could you collect the medical fee from them?” Zhang Fan then immediately left the gynecology department. It wasn’t like the hospital was a prison. If the patient didn’t want to be hospitalized, then there wasn’t anything that he could do. All he could do was give them the proper medical advice.

Zhang Fan put on some gloves as he took the rectal spreader and went back to the proctology department with Wang Zipeng. For this type of reusable medical equipment, it would be necessary to disinfect it afterwards. There was a special department in the hospital that focused on this, so Zhang Fan didn’t need to worry about it. He only needed to hand the rectal spreader to a nurse.

It was now the end of winter. Although it wasn’t as cold as a few weeks before, it definitely wasn’t warm. Since it was around New Year’s, all sorts of businesses were having numerous meetings. The government leaders from nearby smaller cities all gathered at Chasu City.

Since Shao Hua and Jingshu were currently in Thailand, Zhang Fan constantly checked Shao Hua’s updates on QQ whenever he had free time. He saw many beautiful pictures of the two women wearing light summer clothing and floppy straw hats.

Jingshu was eating large mangos, large crabs, and large lobsters. She was smiling so much in the pictures that Zhang Fan could barely see her eyes. Zhang Fan was happy that they were happy. Wasn’t that how it was supposed to be? Seeing the happiness of those close to you would also make oneself happy.

If you were highly skilled, then you would be able to care about more people. If you weren’t skilled enough, then you would have to care about fewer people. That was just how cruel society was. You would have to make such a cruel choice.

The proctology department was now receiving more and more patients. Zhang Fan was doing a good job as the acting proctology director. Superintendent Ouyang was highly satisfied with his performance.

Since Shao Hua was currently in Thailand with Jingshu, Shao Hua’s parents focused fully on cooking for Zhang Fan as well as taking care of him.

Zhang Fan loved to eat noodles which were cooked in the style of his hometown. Shao Hua’s mother especially went to learn how to cook in this style from Shao Hua’s cousin’s wife as the latter was from the same place as Zhang Fan. Although Shao Hua’s mother was still unable to cook these noodles with an authentic hometown taste, Zhang Fan was still incredibly moved that she was willing to go so far for him. Most families would already have their eating habits set in stone. However, Shao Hua’s parents didn’t have any complaints about eating noodles that they weren’t used to eating. They truly cared so much about him!

Now that the department’s work had entered a proper cycle, it would be rather difficult to change things back to how they were. The more experienced resident doctors were really cooperative under Zhang Fan’s leadership. This was because Zhang Fan had loosened the previous director’s way of allocating illicit income. The more that one worked, the more income one would have. This was rather fair, so the department’s doctors became highly motivated again in just two weeks. This was the power of money.

Since everyone was working normally in the department, Zhang Fan suddenly had more free time. This was the difference between him and other people.

Some people would be really busy when they were the director. Back when Zhang Fan had just joined the proctology department, the other young doctors would only address him as Doctor Zhang. But now, only the younger doctors who were more easily embarrassed would address him as Doctor Zhang. The more veteran doctors would directly address him as Director Zhang.

Zhang Fan felt helpless about how he was being addressed. He was indeed the acting director, so it wasn’t like he could tell them not to call him director, yet it made him feel rather awkward to hear himself being referred to as director.

In the end, Zhang Fan’s female patient from the dildo incident finally decided to hospitalize herself. When she and her girlfriend learned that Zhang Fan was the proctology director, they were so astonished that their mouths went wide agape.

“I was really lucky to have a director treat me. Otherwise, this would have been troublesome. Let’s see if you still dare to act recklessly with me in the future!” In the patient room, the beautiful white-clad woman was embracing the black leather jacketed woman. The white-clad patient was acting spoiled to her girlfriend. Well, they had a private room with only the two of them inside. An older person who hadn’t seen much of the world would likely get rectal prolapse from seeing this sight!

Winter would always be a peak season for going to hospitals in the border province. This was because winter would always bring about the most illnesses, and also because people had received their income for their year and wanted to spend it.

Since China had a government medical insurance system that helped pay for treatment, more and more patients were going to hospitals even in the smaller cities. Zhang Fan would often go work for other hospitals to perform surgeries there after he got off from work at Chasu City Hospital.

Every city was different. Every hospital was different. Of course, every doctor was also different. In the smaller cities around Chasu City Hospital, there was only a single city hospital that had a general surgery director who was capable of independently performing laparoscopic appendectomy. The other hospitals were incapable of performing this type of surgery, mainly because the doctors didn’t want to learn it.

Zhang Fan had quite a good income due to also working at other hospitals. That was why he didn’t care very much about the typical illicit income that most doctors had. Meanwhile, Ma Wentao’s hospital’s business was improving even more. Everything was developing well for his hospital.

Typically, Shao Hua’s parents would go to the supermarket to buy some food to treat friends and relatives with over New Year’s. However, this year was different because of Zhang Fan. Shao Hua’s parents even took a ride to the farm to buy many products for New Year’s, just as if they were afraid that Zhang Fan and Jingshu would suffer without these things.

“Ma’am, you should tell me if there’s anything that you want to go buy. It would be so bad if you accidentally slipped and fell in winter,” Zhang Fan told Shao Hua’s mother when he returned from work and saw that the apartment was just like a warehouse with how much food was piled all over.

“It’s nothing. We just treated it as getting some exercise. You’ve been busy all day, so hurry and get some rest. Let me pour some water for you. Look at how dry your lips are again. When Shao Hua left, she especially told me that I need to make sure that you drink plenty of water. Here, let me add some honey to this water for you. Back when I was younger, I would drink so much water every day,” Shao Hua’s mother said to Zhang Fan.

Shao Hua’s mother really was treating Zhang Fan like her own son now. She would be happy as long as Zhang Fan was happy. She would feel pained upon seeing Zhang Fan come home with fatigue from work. That was why she never let Zhang Fan do anything at home. She even shined Zhang Fan’s leather shoes for him.

The doctors in Zhang Fan’s generational group had now finished one full year of rotations in Chasu City Hospital. Several of them were now beginning to apply for permanent departmental assignment. These doctors had all reached agreements with various department directors. The remaining doctors who hadn’t been contacted by a department director or who hadn’t obtained a medical license yet could only continue with their rotations.

Zhang Fan was in no hurry to finish with his rotations. He wanted to rotate through many different departments first so that he could perform as many general surgeries as possible. In his System, he first needed to finish leveling general surgery before he could activate new types of courses. However, general surgery required an incredible amount of experience to level up. Zhang Fan felt a headache with how much experience he would need.

Since the proctology department’s acting director was trying to obtain as many surgery patients as possible, the lower-ranking doctors would of course be influenced by the acting director. Zhang Fan was doing this because he wanted to level up his surgery experience. He brought every single proctological surgery patient possible over to the proctology department.

Zhang Fan’s having spent several months waiting around in the emergency department to take every surgery he possibly could previously had been quite useful for him. The emergency department director and doctors all had a good impression of him. Zhang Fan would still often go to visit the emergency department. Not only that, Zhang Fan also treated the entire emergency department staff to a New Year’s meal in the name of the proctology department.

Although this meal wasn’t worth much money, this was about Zhang Fan showing his respect and deference to the emergency department. All he wanted was that any intestine related surgery would be brought over to the proctology department. The emergency department would have to send these emergency patients to some department regardless, so why not to Zhang Fan? Due to the emergency department’s good relationship with Zhang Fan, they indeed sent most intestine surgery patients over to the proctology department.

Due to Zhang Fan’s policy where everyone would earn money equal to how much they worked, everyone in the proctological department worked very hard on the high number of patients and surgeries. They received appendectomies, intestinal obstructions, intestinal polyps, and so on. Zhang Fan shamelessly stole every single patient whose problem was related to the intestines that he possibly could.

Before, back when Zhang Fan was only stealing patients for himself, the influence wouldn’t be quite obvious. The other department directors would simply smile and ignore him. But now, things were different as Zhang Fan’s patient stealing had greatly elevated in scale.

The entire proctology department was working actively at stealing patients under the lead of acting director Zhang Fan. The general surgery director Zhao Quanping was infuriated by this. However, he didn’t dare to say something like “try to steal stomach surgery patients as well if you dare,” because he knew that Zhang Fan wouldn’t find those surgeries difficult at all. Thus, he wasn’t able to taunt Zhang Fan in such a manner.

Zhao Quanping could only watch as his general surgery department received less and less surgeries every day. Over the past two weeks, the general surgery department had received a total of zero appendectomies and intestinal obstructions. He was unable to leave this alone anymore. He didn’t directly go to talk to Zhang Fan, because the latter was too young. If Zhang Fan had been of the same rank as him, then Zhao Quanping definitely would have had a direct confrontation. However, Zhang Fan was still only a resident doctor. It would sound bad for Zhao Quanping’s reputation if he went to directly confront Zhang Fan. A department director needed to confront a resident doctor over the issue of stealing patients? Zhao Quanping would lose too much face.

Zhao Quanping couldn’t go talk to the emergency department, either, since the emergency department wasn’t subordinate to his general surgery department. Zhao Quanping could only come talk to the superintendent.

“Superintendent Ouyang, Zhang Fan doesn’t really understand the medical system of the hospital. I recommend that we send him to a special class just for him so that he can learn how things are supposed to work. This will protect him, and it’s also the responsibility of the hospital,” Zhao Quanping said to Superintendent Ouyang. He truly was feeling helpless about Zhang Fan.

“What happened?” Superintendent Ouyang looked in confusion at general surgery director Zhao Quanping. The general surgery department was one of the largest departments in Chasu City Hospital. Even the regular vice superintendents of the hospital didn’t have it as good as him in terms of income.

“Zhang Fan has gone far too overboard. Right now, the more than 30 doctors in my department are far too bored with how much free time they have every day. Meanwhile, the few doctors in their proctology department are incredibly overworked. A medical incident will easily occur this way.”

“Eh? Zhang Fan is stealing patients?”

“Yeah!” Zhao Quanping felt rather embarrassed that he needed to complain about a resident doctor when he was a director. His face was starting to burn up.

“That’s strange. Did Zhang Fan start living in the emergency department again?” Superintendent Ouyang asked in some confusion.

“It’s not that extreme. However, he especially sends two nurses over to the emergency department to wait around while he’s performing outpatient services. The nurses will bring any patient with an intestinal problem to their department. The emergency department just allows them to do this. Actually, it’s not a big deal even if they steal some patients, but the proctology department doesn’t even have a single attending physician. If a medical incident really occurs, it will be easy for the patient to sue, so…”

“Yeah! Indeed, but as the higher-ranking doctors, we can’t deal too much of a blow against the younger doctors’ motivation to work hard. How about you send a second-highest level certification doctor to their department as a doctor on loan? I’ll then lecture Zhang Fan about it.” Actually, Superintendent Ouyang didn’t care at all that Zhang Fan was stealing patients. The general surgery department was far too large, while the proctology department was really weak. She would be delighted if Zhang Fan could really help develop the proctology department.

“That might not be good, will it? Then what should we do?”

“No amount of gold or silver medals can compare to reputation. The doctors in the general surgery department have had it easy for far too long. It’s time that they had a sense of danger. I’m not going to get involved in this matter. Just send a second-highest level certification doctor over to their department as a doctor on loan.” Superintendent Ouyang then pretended to look down at some documents on her desk. She was incredibly delighted inside!

This was all because Zhang Fan was the obedient type, or at least he acted obedient whenever Superintendent Ouyang was scolding him. If any other doctor had tried such a major amount of patient stealing, that would have counted as disturbing the regular order of the hospital. However, this didn’t count when Zhang Fan did it. This wasn’t because he was highly skilled. The more important part was that he was obedient. This was an unwritten rule of how Chinese workplace society was.

What were the unwritten rules? These were the unwritten rules. People would always have to obey them in the workplace. What do you think the unwritten rules were? Think about it by yourself!