Chapter 664: Chapter 663: Recruiting Troops and Buying Horses

Yan Feifan and Qiu Ge finished their vibration stimulation validation tests on a few lab mice before nine in the morning.

They cleaned up the lab and hurried off to their respective duties.

This was Dr. Qiu Ge’s first Monday since being promoted to department head, and a mountain of departmental affairs was waiting for her to handle.

Tonight, she also had to perform a cranial tumor resection surgery on Ai Bo’s mother with Yan Feifan.

The surgery had originally been scheduled for last Friday.

However, Ai Bo’s mother, weary from her journey, had come down with an unexpected fever. Coupled with her weakened state, the surgery was postponed until today.

A little after ten in the morning, Yan Feifan received some good news.

The Affiliated Hospital had decided to transfer the two offices next to Yan Feifan’s ninth-floor office in the Little Red House to his research lab.

The two offices combined were nearly eighty square meters. Once the walls were knocked down, the space could accommodate at least ten people.

With this, Yan Feifan now had enough office space to start building his team.

In addition to the good news about the office, Yan Feifan also received a notice from the Affiliated Hospital.

Given that Yan Feifan’s medical research lab was a formal entity, for the convenience of future accounting and management, the patients for whom he was the lead surgeon could no longer be scattered across various other departments.

Unless absolutely necessary, all of Yan Feifan’s patients were to be placed in the Little Red House.

The Little Red House primarily treated foreign patients. Besides its relatively high-quality wards, it was fully equipped with sterile rooms, ICU wards, and operating rooms for general surgery, cranial surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and ENT surgery.

It was small but had all the vital components; it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it a miniature general hospital.

For Yan Feifan, this was indeed the most suitable place to treat his diverse range of patients.

The consolidation of his office and treatment location led to an inevitable consequence for Yan Feifan.

The Affiliated Hospital now required him to manage the entire patient process, from admission and surgery to recovery and discharge.

Previously, after Yan Feifan finished a surgery, the patient’s subsequent recovery was basically handed off to the respective department.

At most, he would do rounds to check on them and alter a few medical orders.

Now, having to manage the entire patient journey could be seen as a way to remedy the shortcomings caused by him bouncing between various departments.

Adjusting medical plans based on a patient’s post-operative recovery was a crucial lesson for any doctor.

Previously, Yan Feifan had been too lopsided in his focus, concentrating only on the surgery itself.

However, this meant the size of Yan Feifan’s team would undoubtedly have to be much larger than originally planned.

According to the Affiliated Hospital’s regulations, whichever department’s doctor admitted a foreign patient to the Little Red House was responsible for that patient’s follow-up care.

The Little Red House’s management team was only responsible for the overall administration and maintenance of the building, the supply of medicine and medical materials, and emergency response.

They were not responsible for the specific care of patients.

None of the Affiliated Hospital’s departments were short-staffed, and the frequency of admitting foreign patients wasn’t very high.

Most importantly, the fees for foreign patients were significantly higher than for domestic ones.

Working overtime at the Little Red House came with generous overtime pay.

Therefore, the medical staff from various departments were more than willing to work temporarily at the Little Red House for a few days.

But for Yan Feifan, this presented a considerable problem.

Last Friday, after a discussion with his mentor, Shi Min, Yan Feifan had formed a clear picture of his team’s composition.

There would be two main teams: one for research and fund management, and one for surgery and medical care.

For research and fund management, Yan Feifan would set the direction, Shi Min would oversee it, and He Junxing would be in charge of the fund’s specific affairs.

Yan Ziruo would handle financial management part-time.

Feng Jian, along with the soon-to-return Duan Yu, would manage the entire team’s administration and logistics.

The actual research would naturally be carried out by Yan Feifan, his recruited assistants and students, and his collaborators.

As for the surgical team, besides the two surgical nurses, Meng Yao and Ye Lin, the role of surgical assistant would be rotated among his three or four students.

As for the anesthesiologist—though a vital position second only to his own as lead surgeon—Yan Feifan didn’t plan on hiring a full-time one, given the diversity of his surgeries.

Yan Feifan and Shi Min’s original idea was to have the department where the surgery was being performed assign an experienced anesthesiologist.

But now that most of his surgeries would be fixed at the Little Red House, it became necessary to have an anesthesiologist as a permanent member of the team.

After all, patients often required an anesthesiologist to provide pain management solutions during their post-operative recovery.

On top of that, there were the nurses to care for patients day and night, and an on-call doctor available at a moment’s notice.

The lab’s finances were to be independently accounted for, and a patient’s daily expenses needed to be tallied. He would need an accountant or a cashier at the very least...

Just thinking about it gave Yan Feifan a headache.

’At this rate, my tiny medical research lab is turning into a goddamn full-fledged department...’

Yan Feifan quickly stopped himself from thinking about it any further.

’These tedious matters aren’t my forte. I’ll just leave it all to Mr. Shi Min to handle.’

Staying in his office in the Little Red House, Yan Feifan quickly pulled up the Thai patient Nawa’s physical examination data on his computer and began to study it...

Yan Feifan’s workload this week was quite heavy.

His routine surgical schedule for the week was already packed. It included two intraspinal tumor puncture and injection surgeries for Neurosurgery, and brain tumor puncture and injection surgeries for patients of Dr. Qin Feng and Mr. Vega, respectively.

Due to a rescheduling of the observation seminar, this Sunday, Yan Feifan also had to go to Baining Hospital to perform three more puncture and injection surgeries.

Besides this routine schedule, there was also Ai Bo’s mother’s brain tumor puncture and injection surgery tonight.

Yan Feifan also planned to complete several other surgeries this week: the first of the body-sculpting surgeries for the man from Thailand, the macroglossia correction surgery for the daughter of Mr. Vega’s friend, and the surgery to resolve Liao Zili’s unexplained lower leg pain.

He would endure the hardship and exhaustion, concentrating it all into this one week.

Yan Feifan’s idea was to start with a clean slate next week and head to the cardiothoracic surgery department to begin a new journey...

He hadn’t been focused on his work for long when he was interrupted by a phone call. It was from Vice President Chen Yu.

"Feifan, have you officially taken on a student? That kid from the Yu family?"

Faced with Chen Yu’s direct question, Yan Feifan explained, "President Chen, this was part of the exchange negotiated with the Yu family."

"Su Ye’s work contract is being officially transferred to the Affiliated Hospital. The Yu family said they would let Su Ye go on the condition that I take on one of their students."

"And that’s how it happened..."

"Feifan, I don’t care about that..."

Chen Yu cut him off bluntly over the phone. "Feifan, we had an agreement. If you were going to take on students, you had to accept one that I recommended. You can’t go back on your word."

Yan Feifan searched his memory and realized they really did have such an agreement.

"Alright."

"But Mrs. Chen, let me be clear upfront. If the person you recommend lacks ability or has character flaws, I won’t accept them."

Chen Yu stated over the phone, "Feifan, don’t worry about that. If he isn’t outstanding enough, he won’t even get past me..."

Not long after ending the call with Chen Yu, Yan Feifan received another call, this time from Qiu Ge.

"Mr. Yan, I heard you’ve officially taken on a student?"

Hearing Dr. Qiu ask the same direct question, Yan Feifan remembered he had a similar agreement with her too.

Fortunately, since Yan Feifan needed to expand his team anyway, it wasn’t an awkward situation.

"Dr. Qiu, if you have someone suitable, just recommend them to me."

"But I have to be clear upfront..."

Less than ten minutes later, Yan Feifan heard a knock, followed by the sound of Feng Jian opening the door.

Then, a familiar male voice spoke up.

"Feng Jian, hello! Is Mr. Yan in?"

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