"You got looked at for free and kissed for free, is this compensation?"
Chen Xiao was speechless. Fearing that Chen Qing would try to play matchmaker between him and Song Nuan in front of Song Nuan, he ate a few mouthfuls without thinking, then grabbed the trash bag Song Nuan had placed under the table and quickly left for work.
Regardless of the season, every morning is the peak period for consultations at the emergency department's outpatient center of the Central Hospital.
It was not yet time for the outpatient doctors to start their shifts, but the outpatient hall was already crowded with patients waiting for consultations.
The examination room with the most waiting patients was naturally Examination Room No. 1, where Meng Baobao had been practicing for many years. More than half of the patients in the waiting area had registered specifically to see her.
Examination Room No. 8, where Chen Xiao was practicing, had the fewest registered patients, only a handful of three.
When Song Hongzhang was practicing, the number of patients registered for Examination Room No. 8 was already pitifully small. After Chen Xiao's relevant professional information replaced Song Hongzhang's in the hospital's self-registration system, ninety-nine percent of patients found Chen Xiao too young and were even less likely to register intentionally.
In short, the number of registrations not only represented the skill level of the practicing doctor but was also directly linked to their performance-based salary.
In the office, doctors and nurses from various examination rooms were preparing for their shifts while logging into the internal system to check registration numbers. Discussions were ongoing, and the most frequent topic was Examination Room No. 8, where Chen Xiao and Xu Jingyin were partnered.
"An intern is just an intern. Even if they become a clinical resident doctor through connections and favors, it's useless. The registration data speaks for itself."
"Unless they're blind, no patient would intentionally register for a doctor in their early twenties."
"Nurse Xiao Xu, why don't you ask Dr. Meng to transfer you back to the triage desk, or assign you to my Examination Room No. 2? If you stick with Chen Xiao, you probably won't even earn three thousand yuan this month."
Xu Jingyin, dressed in her nurse's uniform, was also a bit worried about how much her salary would be this month, as she hadn't expected Chen Xiao to have only three registered patients on his first day of independent practice. After all, when she worked at the triage desk, her performance bonus wasn't calculated based on the number of registrations for a single examination room.
However, her experiences with Chen Xiao last night had significantly improved her impression of him. She, who rarely argued with her colleagues, couldn't help but cautiously speak up for Chen Xiao as the doctors and nurses' words became increasingly harsh:
"Dr. Bao, you might all be misunderstanding Dr. Chen. Actually, his medical skills are extraordinary, and his character is upright. As the saying goes, 'A long road tests a horse's strength, and time reveals a person's heart'..."
Xu Jingyin woke up this morning realizing that Chen Xiao hadn't bullied her last night and suddenly understood that the hospital's malicious rumors about Chen Xiao might all be fabrications.
Coupled with Chen Xiao having helped and saved her brother, and the Gu Hou tattoo, her impression of Chen Xiao had undergone an uncontrollable reversal.
"Pfft—"
Bao Xinlai, the doctor practicing in Examination Room No. 2, couldn't help but burst out laughing before Xu Jingyin could finish speaking. He said sarcastically,
"Nurse Xiao Xu, when you say extraordinary medical skills, do you mean the countless waiting patients he treated in the waiting area yesterday? He didn't charge them anything, so of course those patients were willing to trust him. That doesn't prove his medical skills are high. As for his character, that's even more of a joke. How can a scumbag who was fired for sexually harassing female colleagues with mass messages and then fabricated false reports online to gain fame and cause public panic possibly have upright character?"
Like Song Hongzhang, Bao Xinlai had always secretly harbored feelings for the beautiful Xu Jingyin and wanted to win her over to his Examination Room No. 2. Now, seeing Xu Jingyin being snatched up by the newcomer Chen Xiao, he naturally wanted to do his best to tarnish Chen Xiao's image.
Coincidentally, just as he finished his malicious slander, Chen Xiao walked into the office to clock in.
Pretending not to hear Bao Xinlai's harsh words and deliberately not seeing the hostility of the other doctors and nurses, Chen Xiao clocked in as usual, then casually put on the white coat at his workstation. He then spoke to Xu Jingyin as if no one else was there:
"Nurse Xiao Xu, when I gave you a massage at your place last night, you were already asleep. I didn't get a chance to ask if you were still in pain!"
He could sense that the hostility from most of the male doctors present was due to Xu Jingyin. He said this intentionally to provoke them.
As expected, as soon as he finished speaking, the male doctors who had designs on Xu Jingyin all wore expressions of disgust, as if they had eaten a fly. Bao Xinlai, in particular, gritted his teeth and said,
"Chen, you are truly the scum of scums. It's one thing to come to work with kiss marks on your face, but you're actually slandering Nurse Xiao Xu's reputation in public! She's always been a virtuous woman. How could she possibly take someone like you to her home?"
"Kiss marks?"
Chen Xiao was initially confused, then he remembered Song Nuan, who had applied fiery lip gloss, kissing him on the face, and he immediately panicked.