Chapter 868: [(868)] Surrounded by fellow villagers with no way out Chapter 868: [(868)] Surrounded by fellow villagers with no way out If Doctor Guoxie didn’t often descend to the grassroots to understand the health situation and the prevalence of diseases, how could he serve patients of all levels adequately? As a leading hospital and a public institution, Doctor Guoxie’s hospital should have a philanthropic nature, without discriminating between rich and poor or between urban and non-urban patients, devoid of haughtiness, and should be accessible and close to the patients. This is an important part in the development of a doctor’s medical ethics.

“President Wu’s words can’t be said to be wrong,” Kang Mingzhu defended President Wu. She was young and very eager to accumulate more clinical experience. As President Wu said, having the opportunity to enter the living areas of grassroots patients for understanding was very beneficial to a doctor’s own skill enhancement.

Yao Jie and Doctor Kim looked at her: Alright, since it’s your first time here, you’re considered enthusiastic, which is understandable.

After a few more visits, you’ll definitely become a Slick.

“How many times have you two participated?” Kang Mingzhu asked them.

Could it be that these two had participated many times already?

Yao Jie said, “This is my second time. How about you, Doctor Kim?”

Doctor Kim smiled slyly; in reality, she was the same as Kang Mingzhu–this was her first time. After all, opportunities were hard to snatch. So many doctors in the hospital competed. Just like Chang Jiawei, that shameless guy, who said that Bone I and Bone II should give up their spots for him when it was clear that they, Bone III, had snatched the opportunity from other orthopedics.

Kang Mingzhu exclaimed in surprise and playfully slapped Doctor Kim: “Are you tricking me into telling you?”

“Feeling the pressure,” Doctor Kim responded to Kang Mingzhu, “Didn’t President Wu say? The hospital volunteers people, effort, and money for the free clinic, and our coming out here is to advertise for our own hospital.”

She remembered what President Wu had emphasized to the doctors at the end, that doctors going out for the free clinic were the billboards for Guoxie’s activities. Therefore, there were internal cash rewards and extra points for promotion assessments. This made even the more senior doctors want to participate. But the hospital aimed to give younger people more training opportunities.

There was definitely pressure; if they underperformed, they could forget about the reward. They’d face a heap of penalties for smashing their own billboard. Opportunities were always accompanied by challenges. This was President Wu’s philosophy in managing doctors: “Guoxie doctors, you can only charge forward.”

But now, the minibus could only creep slowly towards the village committee of Shier Zhuang. Because those enthusiastic villagers spotted their vehicle at the village entrance and swarmed toward them like a hive of bees, surrounding the minibus incessantly.

Among them were the elderly, children, and women; the minibus dared not speed up for fear of hitting someone, which would be an unaffordable mistake.

“You all get off the bus, we really can’t drive any further,” the driver pulled the handbrake and shouted back to the doctors on the bus.

The tension inside the vehicle immediately surged. The doctors’ hearts seemed about to leap out of their chests. The situation was akin to when a Panda is about to step out of its cage during its most glorious moment.

“Was it like this last time?” Doctor Kim and Kang Mingzhu asked Yao Jie, who had been through it once before.

Yao Jie shook her head, “The last place I went to didn’t have this many people. This is a big village. I heard from the nursing department when accepting the task that I should prepare extra medical supplies, fearing that there wouldn’t be enough.”

Everyone looked to the team leader for a decision on whether to get off or stay on the bus. The problem today was that the team was led by a foreign professor, who probably didn’t understand what was happening.

He Guangyou remembered the instructions Tao Zhijie had given before he left and picked up his cell phone to call Village Chief Li of the Shier Zhuang village committee.

The village committee officials had actually received a heads-up. The forty-something Village Chief Li and a group of village cadres all ran out to maintain order.