A meeting room in the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital.
The head of the neurology department, along with the hospital's leadership, had all gathered at the director's summons. Each of them had received a document.
It contained the medical diagnosis of Ding Yun's daughter before her admission, and her current diagnosis.
"Have you all read the documents? I know some of you may still have doubts, but I can guarantee that this information is real. Liu Linxia has indeed made a substantial recovery. Based on her current condition, there might not even be any lasting sequelae.
The miraculousness and importance of this outcome, I believe you all understand clearly. This is an opportunity for our hospital. Now, there is something extremely urgent. Our attitude and treatment towards Dr. Lin must change. By whatever means necessary, we must firmly bind Dr. Lin to our hospital and make her our hospital's golden signboard. We absolutely cannot let her go.
I originally thought she might at best be able to give paralyzed patients some sensation, but the current situation proves she was far too modest, and we had indeed underestimated her capabilities. To date, there has been no patient worldwide with central nervous system damage of Liu Linxia's severity who has completely recovered.
You all understand how important uniqueness is. This not only represents a breakthrough improvement in the medical art of neurology but also signifies a monopoly. Of course, I'm not solely pursuing profit, but if our hospital has a unique department possessing the world's most advanced technology in a specific area, it will undoubtedly elevate our hospital's reputation significantly."
"So, let's discuss her compensation. Let's figure out how to retain Dr. Lin..."
After everyone had largely finished reading the documents, Director Gu immediately and eagerly presented his thoughts. The other matters were secondary. The most important thing was to keep Ding Yun.
"Director, I believe that to retain Dr. Lin, we must focus on two aspects: her position and her compensation. For example, Director of Neurology, or perhaps Vice President of the hospital. However, I am more inclined towards Vice President. After all, the position of Director of Neurology is already filled. And the hospital can have several Vice Presidents; one more or one less makes little difference, so having her as Vice President should be more acceptable to everyone. Especially to Director Ma of Neurology. Wouldn't you agree?"
As he said this, Li Yu specifically addressed Director Ma of Neurology, who could only offer an embarrassed smile. After all, he was certainly unwilling to simply give up his position. So, he chose to remain silent.
Then, Li Yu continued, "Besides the position, the remaining issue is compensation. We can take this step-by-step, initially increasing her salary. If that doesn't work, then we can simply offer profit sharing. The benefits of a shareholding system are well known. Many large corporations use shares, or at least dividends, to retain talent. Fortunately, our hospital is not a public institution, so I believe there is no better way to bind her than through direct equity."
There was nothing wrong with what he said. After all, if you want to win someone over, you have to give something in return, right? Even when princes in ancient times vied for the throne and sought to win over ministers, they had to offer something substantial, or at least vague promises. To win someone over without giving anything away would be pure wishful thinking. And everyone understood this.
The director had not called everyone together simply to obtain a method for winning someone over by sacrificing heavily. He wanted to see if there was a method with a lower cost, to save some money. Therefore, he completely ignored Li Yu's suggestion and looked at the others. At this point, everyone instantly understood his intention. They looked somewhat helpless and continued to suggest methods with lower costs. For example, ordinary promotions and salary increases, or doubling their salary. Another suggestion was whether the technology could be bought out.
However, while they were discussing, Ding Yun had already made her plans: to publish papers and impart her medical skills, and to open corresponding training classes. Although monopolizing and controlling the relevant technology would be more profitable, her individual capacity was limited. Even if she treated patients twenty-four hours a day without eating or drinking, she couldn't treat many. Moreover, with her daughter now standing and able to recover after a couple of years of rehabilitation, she had no use for excessive wealth. It would be better to simply make the treatment method public. This way, she could treat more people and save herself time, allowing her more time to do other things, to learn other skills, or to continue improving her medical skills, rather than being perpetually tied to this one matter and unable to extricate herself.
So, after the hospital spent two days discussing, they grudgingly offered some benefits and even hoped Ding Yun would sign a twenty-year long-term contract with a penalty clause of several hundred million yuan for breach of contract. Ding Yun rolled her eyes and refused. It was only due to her good upbringing that she didn't curse them out. Were they shameless? Did they think she was in the entertainment industry? Even the black-hearted people in the entertainment industry weren't this greedy.
What followed was the expected struggle. Honestly, if Ding Yun's treatment process hadn't been difficult to interrupt, and if she hadn't been concerned about directly interrupting it affecting the recovery of the few critical patients she currently had, she wouldn't have bothered arguing with those people at the hospital. She would have left immediately. But for the sake of those few patients, she finally endured it for a while. She endured until those patients were all treated, and only then did she completely fall out with the hospital and angrily resign, leaving the institution.
By this time, her papers had been published successively, and news that she could treat paralyzed patients with severe central nervous system damage had also spread. Therefore, after leaving the hospital, Ding Yun directly organized a training class, announcing that she would be teaching the complete treatment plan and principles within the class. Upon hearing this news, the hospital leaders who had been frantically extending olive branches to Ding Yun, trying to poach her, were somewhat confused but still actively enrolled their hospital's relevant doctors. They funded the training with hospital funds.
A few days later, the training institution, which only refused doctors from Pingtian City Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital, began its classes. Ding Yun taught wholeheartedly, holding nothing back as some might have feared. Before long, the doctors who attended the training truly admired Ding Yun from the bottom of their hearts, considering her a doctor with true medical ethics and kindness.