Surgery Godfather
Chapter 795 - 713: The Incomprehensible Department

Chapter 795: Chapter 713: The Incomprehensible Department

The small meeting room in the administration department served as the temporary office of the investigation team.

The electronic medical records were extremely convenient to access. A few computers were placed on the office desk and connected to the hospital’s local network. Subsequently, the electronic medical record system was logged into, and a dozen experts were studying the medical records in earnest.

Whether it was the violation of inviting foreign experts to participate in diagnosis and treatment activities, or the violation of setting up a Comprehensive Surgery Department, the investigation should start from the medical records.

Most experts were surgeons from different specializations, along with a few medical experts and nursing experts. Frequent involvement in hospital inspections has made these experts familiar with the process, hence making the work seamless.

After a while, Professor Li looked up, "I just went over this plastic surgery case. As for the case evaluation, Director Wang is qualified to comment. I shall only discuss the procedure which was indeed illegal. Dr. Ivan, practicing medicine in your hospital’s Plastic Surgery Department and performing surgeries as the chief surgeon without any formalities is unequivocally unlicensed medical practice."

In reality, Professor Li understood that this wasn’t much of a matter, because he had performed such deeds himself. Sometimes, in the name of convenience, foreign medical experts were invited to instruct surgeries, and local surgeons were listed as the chief surgeons.

However, today is different. Today, he is the head of the inspection team and everything must be done according to the rules.

"Indeed, we accept the need for rectification. The responsibility for this matter rests on me, as I approved it." Dean Xia responded calmly, deciding to downplay the situation.

If investigated rigorously, it can be proved illegal, but all these years, such operational methods have been accepted tacitly amongst peers. For instance, conducting surgeries by doctors from higher-level hospitals in lower-level ones is technically illegal as those hospitals are not within their practice range.

In addition, renowned professors visiting other cities to perform surgeries for a few thousand dollars of labor fees, is also tacitly accepted by peers. If they were paid according to the set consultation fee, which would be a couple of hundred dollars, not many experts would be willing to sacrifice their weekends and gladly risk traveling to other cities to perform surgeries.

"We are all peers. Let me be honest with you: It is challenging to ensure if Ivan is the real Ivan. To my knowledge, Ivan’s surgery fees are incredibly high, amounting to millions of US dollars is common. And many top US hospitals have to pay him lots of money and cater to his whims to have him perform surgeries, so how could he possibly volunteer at Sanbo Hospital? There’s a high probability that your Ivan is fraudulent." Professor Wang, the Plastic Surgery expert, shared his thoughts casually while going through medical records.

"Thankfully, no medical incidents occurred. Otherwise, how would you handle it? Your audacity leaves me speechless. In the future, never involve yourself in such activities." Professor Li added.

"Isn’t Yang Ping the champion of Orthopedics in the current Golden Knife Award?" An Orthopedic expert asked, who from the investigation team was familiar with Yang Ping.

Yang Ping’s surgeries during the competition left a deep and lasting impression on him.

"Yes, he is." Dean Sun answered.

The Orthopedic expert’s gaze immediately left the computer screen, "Why did he participate in plastic surgery? This case, underwent two surgeries. The first time, the chief surgeon was Director Lan, and the second time it should be Ivan but after the notice suspending Ivan’s practice and surgery permissions was issued, the subsequent chief surgeon was Yang Ping. At that point, Ivan must have stopped participating in the surgeries. I find it hard to comprehend that Yang Ping, an Orthopedics doctor, performed Plastic Surgery?""

While this expert is a fan of Yang Ping, he also had questions.

"The situation was a bit unique. In our hospital, Yang Ping is not just an Orthopedics doctor. He has the authority to perform any surgery."

"Any surgery?"

The nursing expert nearby couldn’t help but laugh, but she quickly realised her behaviour was inappropriate, immediately covered her mouth, and suppressed her laughter.

"Comprehensive Surgery Department? What does that mean?" Professor Wang asked curiously.

This so-called Comprehensive Surgery Department was something that the experts could not understand.

Dean Sun patiently explained, "It implies an amalgamation of various surgical specializations."

"Now, only county or township level hospitals have this kind of setup, don’t they? Not differentiating between surgical departments and just having a general surgery department where any surgery is performed. Sanbo is a tertiary hospital, how do you have such a department and what kind of surgeries do you normally perform?" Professor Wang continued to grill.

Professor Wang’s career journey had been very inspirational. His college entrance exam results were quite poor and despite his father being the Dean of a Provincial Hospital, he could do little to help. Consequently, he ended up with an associate degree from a less known Medical University.

However, this didn’t deter Professor Wang’s ambition to rise. For some reason, probably because Professor Wang was a late bloomer or had higher talent, he unexpectedly excelled in college, triumphing from the rear.

His associate degree was transformed into a bachelor’s degree through a professional upgrade program. Subsequently, he smoothly entered the master’s program at the Provincial Medical University, and then continued onto the doctoral program. With a doctorate, he joined the Provincial Hospital where his father was, then went abroad for further studies, and on return, became part of a key youth talent training program. Hence, his career climbed pretty quickly, and he is currently the Department Director of Plastic Surgery in the hospital.

" They probably perform minor surgeries usually. In terms of cranial surgery, I guess they just operate on scalp tumors or similar minor issues, nothing too significant." Another expert from the investigation team commented.

The tone of Dean Sun was very gentle: "On the contrary, the general surgeries that other specialties can’t handle are referred to the Comprehensive Surgery Department."

"Complex cases?" That expert was highly curious, "They surely aren’t performing craniotomies, right?"

The Neurosurgery expert in the investigation team chimed in, "When I do surgery in lower-level hospitals, some smaller ones do it that way. The entire surgery department is just one department with a few surgeons, and they do all types of surgeries like appendectomies, the removal of urinary tract stones, craniotomies to clear out hematoma, etc. They do it all, but they can only perform simple and common surgeries, so they are a jack of all trades but master of none."

The Neurosurgery expert’s words held a tinge of mockery. It was a natural sense of superiority held by doctors from higher-level hospitals towards their counterparts from lower-level ones.

In reality, higher and lower-level hospitals have different specializations, and there shouldn’t be any chains of contempt. For example, during an emergency rescue of acute heart failure, the mixed surgery doctors of lower-level hospitals who are capable of everything may be able to conduct the rescue smoothly.

But when the professors of higher-level hospitals encounter acute heart failure, many of them are completely clueless. Apart from supplying oxygen, setting up cardiac monitoring, and hanging fluids, they can’t do much else. The rest can only be worked upon by waiting for a consultation from a respective specialist.

"Our Comprehensive Surgery Department is a bit unique. They do not perform normal surgeries. For example, in Neurosurgery, operations like brain stem tumor surgeries which the Neurosurgery Department can’t handle are transferred to the Comprehensive Surgery Department." Dean Sun answered patiently.

Dean Xia sat with a solemn expression beside him, remaining silent the entire time.

Dean Sun immediately said, "Dean Xia, don’t you have a meeting to attend? I can handle things here."

Dean Xia nodded, "Alright then, I’ll take my leave."

"No worries, go ahead with your work." The congenial Investigation Team Leader, Professor Li, told Dean Xia.

He had done his homework beforehand and knew that Dean Xia was very competent, hence he held him in high regard and didn’t dare to be overly commanding around him.

After the departure of Dean Xia, Dean Sun and the others stayed behind to cooperate with the work of the investigation team.

"Pull out all the surgery cases of Dr. Yang." Professor Wang scratched his nose, it was his first time hearing about a Comprehensive Surgery Department.

Even if some hospitals set up such a Comprehensive Surgery Department, it essentially equates to a VIP - Very Important Persons’ department, which accepts all surgical patients, and executes centralized management. The actual surgeries, however, are performed by experts from each department.

Namely, this type of comprehensive VIP ward generally has a dedicated team of nurses, a dedicated team of resident doctors, but the chief surgeons are still the senior doctors of each specialty.

"What about Dr. Yang’s work history?"

The nursing expert on the investigation team made a request.

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