Chapter 239: Asking for support

Zhang Fan was going to act as the primary surgeon for a rectal cancer surgery! This news spread like a whirlwind through all of Chasu City Hospital. Some passionate individuals even spread detailed information about this to places outside of the hospital.

Although many people already knew about how Zhang Fan had performed highly difficult surgeries in the orthopedic department, a lot of them were still pretending not to know. Only when Zhang Fan successfully performed the highly difficult liver tumor removal surgery for a large liver tumor in the exact center of the liver, excellent to the point where the Dee University Affiliated Hospital professor brought disciples over to learn from him, did people start directly paying attention to him. When Zhang Fan became the acting proctology director, people started paying a great deal of attention to him.

Now, Zhang Fan was about to perform the most major type of surgery in proctology. This was considered quite incredible. Many people started advertising for Zhang Fan's sake, doing their best to spread news about this upcoming surgery everywhere. Even if Zhang Fan became an academician 1today, doing this wouldn't bring them any direct benefits. However, they still tirelessly advertised for Zhang Fan's sake. Basically, Zhang Fan already had a good reputation which had earned him loyal fans.

Actually, it would be the same in any job field. For people whose skills were inferior, it was a common process to be suppressed, and then ignore the skilled individual before finally choosing to follow after the skilled person. Many people would automatically become the skilled person's followers after realizing that their own skills were far inferior. It was simply a common trait for the weak to follow the strong. To describe what was happening in a rather amazing but shameless manner, Zhang Fan had basically conquered all of Chasu City Hospital.

40% of the credit for this belonged to the System, 40% of the credit belonged to Zhang Fan's hard work, and the remaining 20% of the credit belonged to Zhang Fan's way of treating others as well as luck. Maybe many people would think that Zhang Fan counted as nothing without his Medical System. Indeed, Zhang Fan couldn't have achieved what he had so far without the System. However, his hard work and character couldn't be denied. Especially when in certain special job fields, if you started at the lowest level, the way you interacted with others would actually be more important than any amount of talent or hard work.

The System was just like a person's talent. There were plenty of people out there who were highly talented. However, very few such people would accomplish great things in the end! Thus, talent, hard work, character, and luck were all important factors in becoming highly successful.

Rectal cancer surgery was difficult to the point where Zhang Fan wouldn't be able to accomplish this by himself with only ordinary surgical assistants. None of the resident doctors in the proctological department were capable of assisting in such a difficult surgery. Since it was impossible for Zhang Fan to perform surgery alone, what could he do? It was quite simple. He would ask Superintendent Ouyang!

"Superintendent Ouyang, are you busy?" Zhang Fan had a smile as he stood at the doorway to her office. He simply stuck his head in without actually entering. Since he was young, he would take advantage of it by acting young. No actual director would dare to act like this, as they would be too embarrassed to do so, but Zhang Fan didn't care. To him, Superintendent Ouyang was both the boss and an elder. He felt that acting deferential to an elder wasn't embarrassing at all.

"Director Zhang, haha! Please come in." Superintendent Ouyang glanced at Zhang Fan through her eyeglasses. Although she had a serious expression, the smile appearing at the corners of her mouth betrayed her real attitude towards him.

"Haha! Superintendent, you're joking with me again!" Zhang Fan closed the office door and walked up to Superintendent Ouyang.

"Have a seat! Why remain standing? Don't you know that my neck isn't in a good condition? Not bad at all, it's not easy to remain humble. I was worried that a fake director like you would start to think that you're a real director."

After Zhang Fan sat down, Superintendent Ouyang actually even poured a cup of water for him. Although it was simply a one-time-use disposable cup with some bottled water, this was still really rare for someone of the superintendent's standing to do.

"Superintendent, allow me, allow me!" Zhang Fan hurriedly went over to try and offer to help.

"Just have a seat. I've been sitting down for too long, so I decided to get some water for you along the way." Superintendent Ouyang made him sit down. She didn't return to her large personal chair, but instead sat down on the guest sofa next to the other guest sofa that Zhang Fan was sitting on in her office.

"What's up? Do you want to get permanently assigned to a department? Have you really become enamored with proctology?" Superintendent Ouyang wasn't the type who would praise others. This was simply how she was. She would always try her best to teach her heartfelt intentions to the people that she viewed as important.

Zhang Fan finally understood what the urology director must have felt with Superintendent Ouyang being his ex-girlfriend. Superintendent Ouyang spoke in a slightly sarcastic tone. She was forceful, intelligent, and also had a sharp tongue!

"No, of course you would have to decide on permanently assigning me to a department! I came here today simply to report on my current work to you." Zhang Fan hurriedly explained what he was here for. Nobody would be immune to Superintendent Ouyang's sharp tongue.

"What's the matter? Do you not have enough patient beds in your department? Previously, the proctology department was always so empty. You managed to fill things to the brim after just two weeks. Should I be praising you or scolding you?" Superintendent Ouyang was more than skilled enough to judge from his attitude when standing at her doorway that Zhang Fan hadn't come to see her about anything related to himself. She knew that it would be about his department's work. Still, it was in Superintendent Ouyang's nature to give Zhang Fan a small blow at such a time!

Still, the way that she would give small blows was highly skilled and practiced. Superintendent Ouyang wouldn't directly state things by herself. She would make the person think about things by themselves. Was stealing patients correct or not? You would have to improve by thinking things over by yourself. This was her leadership style, and what a true leader was! If you felt that a leader should be really direct, then you still needed more improvement yourself, says this author!

"T-that's not it! There are just enough patient beds in our department. I can't accept any more patients. Any more patients will likely lead to a medical incident," Zhang Fan answered after some slight consideration.

"Good, your head is still quite clear. I'll feel reassured, then. The proctology department isn't very large, but it's still a full and complete department. This is a rare opportunity for you. Don't just focus on surgeries. Only by developing yourself in every aspect will you do right by your hard work and our care and protection for you. Say it, what do you need from me today?" This ended Superintendent Ouyang's lecture!

Zhang Fan was breaking out into a cold sweat. He felt just like a defenseless little child in front of Superintendent Ouyang. Not only that, she was saying things for his own good. Not acting sincere and contemplative would be doing wrong by her own good intentions. This was simply Superintendent Ouyang's leadership style and personal aura. She would suppress you with her forcefulness and restrict you with gratitude. Anyone who was the type who wouldn't forget a favor would instantly be bound by her restraints.

"Um, cardiology nurse Chen Yan's older cousin has rectal cancer. He's currently a patient in the proctology department. All of the pre-surgery checkups have been completed. However, the proctology department doesn't have many doctors, and there aren't any veteran doctors. I'm a little worried!" Zhang Fan didn't say anything so direct such as the proctologists being incapable of being his surgical assistant. That would be considered too rude and unnecessary.

"Chen Yan? Okay, I know her. The rectal cancer diagnosis has been absolutely confirmed?" Superintendent Ouyang was originally from the cardiology department, so she knew who the nurse Chen Yan was.

"Yes, the fast checkup and standard examination both support this diagnosis." Zhang Fan felt much less pressure talking about professional medicine.

"Have you already come up with a surgery plan?" Superintendent Ouyang inquired.

"Yes, but since the surgery plan will be a bit difficult, that's why I would like to ask for you to look it over."

"Why ask me to look it over? I don't have the professional knowledge necessary regarding surgeries." Superintendent Ouyang thought about things for a moment before saying, "Let's do this, then. We can have a small meeting in the conference room in a bit. I'll also summon the surgeon vice superintendent. You can prepare your surgery plan some more in the meantime. You're certain that there's no problem?" Superintendent Ouyang asked once more for confirmation.

"There are no problems. It's just that the difficulty of this surgery is greater than most others."

"How difficult is it?"

"I looked through our hospital's past surgery records and medical reports. Our hospital has never performed this type of surgery before."

"How much of a guarantee do you have?"

"Around 80%. If I can't finish the type of surgery that I want, then I'll perform the standard surgery, which shouldn't have much risk," Zhang Fan explained.

"Alright, okay! You make your preparations. I'll start contacting the others for you." Superintendent Ouyang then left her office!

She really was the fiery type who would act swiftly despite getting older in years!