My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1502 - 605: Profit Can Be Shared but Loss Cannot Be Shouldered—Gaining Face While Losing Substance (Part 2)

Considering their hard work and great contributions, they will be arranged to have new jobs.By this time, many of them are already over thirty, and competing with young girls in terms of physical strength, energy, and appearance has become a disadvantage.

In such circumstances, a sense of crisis is overwhelming. To be able to keep the current job is already fortunate.

Climbing up the ladder is something they don’t even dare to think about.

In fact, due to diminished competitiveness, female workers in their older age group are easily laid off during waves of job cuts.

Although there’s the talk of gender equality, women actually face significant disadvantages in workplace survival.

Ma Xiaolan is now familiar with her role as a circulating nurse. Plus, because of Zhou Can’s very strong surgical skills, she gets to enjoy the perks too, with a good income. So she’s especially worried about losing this position.

Seeing Zhou Can hasn’t agreed for a long time, she pleaded again, "Boss, please don’t kick me out of the team, okay? I didn’t initially want to have a child so soon; Du Leng wants a child, so I got pregnant."

She has tasted the sweetness of marriage but also encountered workplace crises.

"I’ll try my best to figure something out, no matter what. When you come back after having the baby, there’ll definitely be a good position arranged for you."

Zhou Can could only answer her like this.

Nurse positions are highly replaceable.

Especially operating room nurses like Ma Xiaolan, who lack special features, are exceptionally weak in competitiveness.

Talents like Jiang Wei, even if they take a one-year maternity leave and return, can still smoothly rejoin the team.

"Alright then, thank you for your care."

She didn’t get a definitive answer from Zhou Can, clearly feeling a bit disappointed.

Her demeanor also turned gloomy.

After about two days, at work Ma Xiaolan was visibly affected, often making mistakes. She seemed absent-minded, with poor work status.

At the end of the day, Ma Xiaolan proactively said to Zhou Can, "Boss, may I take a week off?"

"Why suddenly ask for such a long leave? Did something happen? Also, I noticed your work wasn’t in good form these two days. Is there some issue at home?"

Zhou Can asked with concern.

Having become the deputy director of the department and deputy group leader of the operating room, his management experience is increasingly rich.

"Nothing’s wrong at home. I want to abort the baby, maybe it’s more suitable to have a child later."

She hesitated for two to three seconds before answering.

"Ah! You finally got pregnant. Why think of aborting the baby? You’re a healthcare professional, belonging to the expert group, surely you know well the huge damage an abortion can do to the body."

Zhou Can was very surprised upon hearing this.

For a woman’s first pregnancy, it’s best not to undergo an abortion easily. Otherwise, it can cause great harm to a woman’s body. Future pregnancies can easily lead to habitual miscarriage, or even possibly never getting pregnant again.

"I’ve thought long and hard these two days, deciding to abort the baby and prioritize my career first. Can you approve a week’s leave for me?"

After discussing maternity leave with Zhou Can last time and not getting a satisfactory answer, she was surely very anxious inside.

No wonder her work status was so poor these days.

Probably she has dwelled on it quite a lot.

Might even have suffered insomnia due to excessive anxiety, leading to worsening anxiety.

"Xiaolan, if you insist on aborting the baby, I will surely respect your opinion. However, I still suggest you consider this matter carefully. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You are still very young now. Even if you give birth to the child, you will absolutely have the ability to return to work. Furthermore, having children at a young age makes recovery faster, babies healthier and smarter. Besides, you’ve already experienced the struggles of early pregnancy for so long, if the baby is aborted now, wouldn’t all those sufferings be in vain?"

Zhou Can tried hard to persuade her not to abort the baby.

Managing a team isn’t easy, he can only try as much as possible to treat every team member kindly.

The team currently has three surgical nurses, and with Ma Xiaolan leaving, surely another one will need to be recruited.

Actually, Zhou Can is thinking of taking this opportunity to recruit another nurse as capable as Jiang Wei.

"I really don’t want to lose this job. Du Leng and I took out a loan to buy an apartment, he also bought a car on installment basis, and household expenses are currently large. Having a child requires a significant sum, and after childbirth, not only will dedicated care be needed but also milk powder. I won’t be able to work, all burdens would fall on Old Du alone, and his career is still in its initial phase. I don’t dare to imagine what life under such circumstances would become."

Ma Xiaolan isn’t a brainless woman.

She’s already thought things through clearly these past few days.

Performing surgeries with Zhou Can’s team provides her with a very considerable income. Each month she can at least maintain a monthly income above twenty thousand.

Du Leng’s current earnings may not be even better than hers.

Essentially, the hospital is indeed an enterprise too. It also needs to survive and profit.

Don’t be fooled by Zhou Can earning at least several dozen thousand a month, that’s because the benefits he brings the hospital far exceeds this amount.

Performing one major surgery alone, just the surgery fee and equipment fee, can bring in several thousand to the hospital. High-cost surgeries even reach tens of thousands. Coupled with preoperative examination fees, postoperative medication fees, hospital stay fees, etc., his contribution is indeed substantial.

He earns seventy thousand a month while creating revenue worth hundreds of thousands, even millions for the hospital.

Du Leng’s education truly is high, yet he overshoots without low skills. Now he’s running a digital surgery room, and although the concept is novel, unfortunately, it not only fails to profit the hospital in the early phases but requires large investments from the hospital.

Therefore, his salary certainly won’t be high.

"Regarding the loan for buying a house, I strongly support it because after all, housing is a basic need. However, I must say a few words about Du Leng: consumption should be rational and proportionate to one’s ability. Opting for a 200 square-meter premium residence and choosing the area where property is most expensive. Buying a car has to be an eighty thousand-plus BMW luxury car. What’s the point of putting on such a show?"

Zhou Can knows a little bit about Ma Xiaolan’s family matters.

Her and Du Leng’s pretax combined monthly income amounts to three-four thousand, which is considered high.

But Du Leng particularly likes to put up appearances.

They bought a famous Shengshi Haoting apartment, priced at 24,000 per square meter.

Shengshi Haoting isn’t just a river-view apartment but also features spacious suites, with a minimum area of over 180 square meters. To be honest, ordinary families really don’t need to buy such a spacious suite.

A 200 square-meter apartment costs over 4.8 million, comparing it to a villa price.

Really wondering what Du Leng is thinking?

Even if the couple’s salaries go entirely towards nothing else, it would take longer than ten years to pay off.

In reality, with a 20% down payment, loaning 3.8 million, the monthly interest costs alone are an intimidating expense. Not to mention ten years, twenty years may not suffice to pay it off.

Buying a house almost stretches the couple’s financial limit. After seeing Zhou Can driving luxury cars and feeling emotional, he bought one too.

And an eighty thousand-plus BMW car.

Simply put, this person gets appearances and loses substance.

Du Leng’s reckless debt-based consumption doesn’t quite match his high intelligence.

Lack of rational consumption, the resulting consequences could be disastrous.

"Oh, Old Du insisted on buying, and I couldn’t stop him. Buying this riverside deluxe suite was because he saw I liked it so he gritted his teeth and bought it. Buying the BMW car was because he saw every time you drove your Benz to take us out for meals and supper, he felt overshadowed by you, and wanted to win back some pride. Plus, that time I accompanied him to attend a classmate gathering, one of his classmates, drunk, asked what car he came with. Old Du felt embarrassed to answer."

"Some classmate publicly exposed us, saying we came on a shared bike. At the time, Old Du was so ashamed he almost wanted to bury himself. As a PhD overseas studying alum, it turns out his situation was less favorable than his college classmates. Not long after, he insisted on buying that BMW. Now taking it out, the pride is there but the economic burden is really heavy."

Ma Xiaolan sounded quite helpless when talking about these matters.

Every family has difficult matters, and each of Du Leng’s irrational purchases has reasons behind them.