My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points Chapter 1360 - 539: Bandit Logic, Talents Seeking to Join

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Previously on My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points...
Zhou Can's cousin tried to manipulate him into attending a dinner with Vice Dean Zhang. Despite her repeated pleas and his initial anger, Zhou Can firmly refused. Later, as Zhou Can left work, Vice Dean Zhang and the Third Hospital's head dean, Zhang Qilian, approached him. The head dean, Zhang Qilian, made an incredibly generous offer of five million annually to recruit Zhou Can to their declining hospital.

Is Vice President Zhang Mingxing related to Grand President Zhang Qilian, given their shared surname?

Within larger organizations, particularly in public hospitals or government bodies, nepotism is generally avoided. For instance, a wife typically cannot serve as vice president if her husband holds the position of hospital president.

Legal statutes clearly prohibit spouses, direct relatives, collateral relatives within three generations, and close in-laws from occupying positions subordinate to the same leader or maintaining direct superior-subordinate relationships. Furthermore, they are barred from involvement in organizational, personnel, disciplinary, auditing, and financial capacities within the same institution where either party is a leader.

Consequently, in major hospitals, it's exceptionally rare for a president and vice president to be family members.

This exclusion primarily applies unless the hospital is privately owned, in which case external interference is minimal.

Despite lacking apparent facial resemblance, their professional cooperation appears seamless.

Zhou Can himself feels a degree of uncertainty.

"The offer of a five million post-tax annual salary is certainly appealing, but I would not dare to sign any non-compete agreement with you." Zhou Can subtly hinted at the Third Hospital's hollow promises, implying they were deceiving Deputy Director Lu and others.

He believed they were merely painting a picture of unrealistic rewards; whether it was five million or a hundred million, he felt they could offer it without consequence.

"Ahem... Dr. Zhou is a distinguished talent that our Third Hospital has acquired, so there will be minimal restrictions. In addition, to demonstrate our sincerity, we propose an initial payment of one million as a deposit, another million midway through the year, and the remaining balance settled by year's end."

This was the promise made to Zhou Can by Deputy President Zhang.

The financial standing of Third Hospital seems to be struggling more than anticipated.

Such a substantial hospital is seemingly unable to produce five million in cash upfront.

Tuya Hospital's daily total income significantly surpasses this sum.

To illustrate, the cost to initiate ECMO treatment in the ICU alone exceeds seventy thousand, and when factoring in other associated expenses, the emergency cost for a single patient could potentially reach over one hundred thousand within a day.

Subsequently, as long as the machine remains in use, the daily cost typically averages twenty to thirty thousand.

And this figure represents the expenses for just one critically ill patient.

Tuya Hospital, at its peak, can accommodate nearly ten thousand outpatients daily, generating revenues exceeding fifty million during its busiest periods.

Naturally, its current assets are immense, accompanied by extraordinarily high overall expenditures.

According to certain well-informed sources, the hospital's profitability is quite low, leaving only a marginal surplus.

The extensive expenses of a major hospital encompass the procurement of medical equipment, staff salaries, research funding, hospital construction projects, and the upkeep of facilities. Additionally, costs for utilities, daily consumables, and various subsidies provided to medical personnel or departments contribute to immense financial obligations.

Third Hospital had previously made a considerable public display when introducing Japanese medical experts and acquiring a complete set of imported medical equipment.

They have also recently undertaken the expansion of new hospital wings.

This involves substantial spending on land acquisition and building construction.

During their period of prosperity, their daily revenue was at least several hundred thousand, and likely even more.

For efficiently managed hospitals in prefecture-level cities, daily revenue generally exceeds one million.

Considering this is a provincial capital city, the figures should be even higher.

Now, to secure Zhou Can's recruitment, they are offering a high annual salary of five million but have resorted to installment payments. This drastic measure suggests they are in a precarious financial situation.

Even at this juncture, with both the president and vice president personally intervening and proposing a substantial post-tax annual salary of five million to Zhou Can,

it underscores the immense value Third Hospital places on him.

"I appreciate your attention to me, but I am merely a doctor who desires a quiet life at Tuya. Please cease your efforts to recruit me."

Zhou Can firmly declined once more.

A post-tax salary of five million implies an employment cost for the company nearing ten million.

It is important to note that Zhou Can is currently only a Resident Doctor!

His academic qualification is merely a Bachelor's degree.

If other physicians were aware that a hospital was willing to expend such a significant sum to recruit a Resident Doctor with a Bachelor's degree, they would likely set Zhou Can as a lifelong aspiration. Even for their children's education, highlighting success in any field, Dr. Zhou Can at Tuya Hospital, still a Resident Doctor, earning close to ten million annually just a few years post-graduation, would serve as a powerful example.

"Dr. Zhou, we can still negotiate! If you are hesitant to leave Tuya Hospital, perhaps you would consider affiliating with our hospital, providing consultations for half a day each week, and performing three to four complex cardiothoracic surgeries. What are your thoughts? The post-tax annual salary would be two million."

Deputy President Zhang has clearly assumed the lead in the negotiation process.

This proposition is indeed more alluring than the last. If Zhou Can were in dire need of funds, he might have actually entertained the idea. It is a prevalent practice within the medical field for accomplished physicians from one institution to accept positions at other hospitals for supplementary earnings, a move that typically doesn't contravene hospital regulations. An annual income of two million is substantially greater than the earnings of many senior physicians. Even at Tuya Hospital, a significant number of senior doctors bring in about seventeen to eighteen thousand annually. I've heard whispers of some senior physicians earning as little as eleven thousand per year. Zhou Can's yearly external earnings equate to eleven years of rigorous work for them; such a chance is genuinely enviable. It can truly be said that in any profession, skill reigns supreme. "It's genuinely not about the money, my apologies! You truly shouldn't squander your precious time on me." With those words, Zhou Can made to open the car door and exit. "Dr. Zhou, please don't be so hasty! I comprehend; you likely harbor a strong bias against our hospital due to the situation with those dozens of medical personnel who transferred to our care but couldn't receive their wages promptly. Many of them have dependents, both elderly parents and young children, and are bound by exclusive contracts with our hospital, leaving them no alternative but to work here. Considering even their plight, you should agree to take a post at our Third Hospital."