Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 201 - : Turns out it’s so hard to stay behind

Chapter 201: Turns out it’s so hard to stay behind

The last statement from that person set off a storm in Xie Wanying’s heart that took a long time to calm down.

She had thought securing the top spot among her peers would be enough, but who could have anticipated that even being first wasn’t enough? The hospital already had a full roster of staff. The positions left weren’t for outstanding students, they were for prodigies.

That’s why they say the job market for graduates depends on luck. Sometimes, when a hospital is short-staffed, even less capable people can easily get in. Now, with no shortage of staff, it’s hard to get in no matter what you do.

“What’s the use of reluctantly keeping someone who has nothing to do?” Zhou Junpeng said with a laugh.

How could there be nothing to do when there’s a pile of work in clinical practice? People are working themselves to death.

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If they don’t trust you, they won’t let you do the job. Which senior or leader would want to be dragged down by someone who doesn’t do their job well? Besides, some people really didn’t get in on their merit. Like Zhang Xiaohui, who had taken a shortcut by clever manipulation.

Every year, the hospital recruits students with special talents, such as in sports or the arts, mainly for external promotion, and they don’t expect these people to actually work; it’s more like half supporting them. So, Zhang Xiaohui, not understanding her place, thought it was ok to be liked by the leadership and to be treated like a useless person by the hospital; after all, she could wear the title of a Guoxie doctor, without realizing that even being half-supported couldn’t breach the bottom line of being a doctor.

Even if you’re half-supported, you can’t mess things up; you have to at least be able to do the basic tasks.

Moreover, in departments like surgery, some people who are recruited have very few opportunities to step up to the operating table. They’re called surgeons, but they don’t even have the power to admit patients independently because they lack the skill to operate. These individuals are recruited to write papers. Only people inside the department know this.

As a surgeon, of course you want to be the Chief Surgeon; ending up as someone who specializes in writing papers, the frustration is immense. A few years ago, a female in general surgery was said to have joined to be a surgeon. After struggling for years, she got married, had a child, and transferred departments because she had hardly any surgeries to perform, making the prospect of being Chief Surgeon indefinitely delayed. She had realized what her purpose was in the department.

“I also think she’s pitiful,” Zhou Junpeng said, not sure whether to cry when discussing this.

Nobody wants to be exploited. The problem is, indeed the leaders recruit you because they feel you’re only suitable for that kind of work.

Hearing this example, Xie Wanying thought to herself: if it were her, she would have slammed the table and walked out.

This also shows how vexing the words of her cousins Zhou Ruomei and Ding Yuhai were, but the fact remains as such. Female surgeons genuinely integral to the department, performing major surgeries daily, not even talking about specialists in neurosurgery or thoracic surgery—just general surgery, are practically non-existent.

Gynecology and obstetrics is a special case and exception. Even in breast surgery, a department primarily serving female patients, the backbone force is mainly male doctors.

Anesthesiology seems to be slightly better than surgery. Nowadays, many female anesthesia students are being recruited.

But it all depends on which hospital it is. Unless that hospital is expanding and has an immediate need for staff, otherwise consider that even the hospital’s finance department would rather hire men than women. You can understand the situation—being a woman, you must make yourself indispensable.

The implication from the two seniors in front of her was: if her senior colleague Lau Jingyun hadn’t shown the talent necessary for an anesthesiologist, then it would be better to go to another hospital with less competition to develop her own professional skills rather than stay here in dejection, still helping treat and save patients all the same.