Sitting around the warm campfire, Sun Lien felt a sense of comfort and relaxation that he had never felt before. This feeling comes from the meaning and tiredness of the day's work, as well as the peace of mind that there will be no more emergency calls to me. This special feeling had never been felt before in Sun Lien—what emergency physician during the training period could experience the above two points? Either he was so tired that he didn't want to think about his previous experience, or he was always ready to be called back to the emergency room for another wave of heavy physical work. There is no such thing as relaxation, and neither is peace of mind. To put it mildly, being scared after work is the daily experience of an emergency doctor.

Not only Sun Lien, but also Dr. Pascal and Brunn also looked lazy and tired. Dr. Pascal, in particular, has been working in the United States for a relatively light job since he came to the Fourth Hospital, and it has suddenly become something that can exhaust people to the point of sudden death. It's hard to experience a normal life of "getting off work is equal to the end of work", and the huge contrast makes him even smile all the time without knowing it.

Life can actually be very good.

Half-lying on the outdoor couch around the campfire, Sun Lien twisted his body at the same time with Dr. Pascal and Brunn, and then squeezed a comfortable "moan" out of his stomach. Halfway through the voice, the three men closed their voices at the same time, you look at me, I look at you, and then they burst into laughter.

It's like a comrade who has just crawled out of a trench to look up at the stars and share a crumpled cigarette.

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"It's like what I used to think of as a doctor. Dr. Pascal lay comfortably on the sofa, folded his hands behind his head, crossed his legs and sighed, "There is nothing too great to do, treat people, and then be able to look at the sky and count the stars at night...... he tilted his head, took a sip of beer from the coffee table next to him, and then glanced at Brune, who was also drinking beer, with some disgust, "It would be better if there was no old thing by his side." ”

Brune turned a blind eye to Pascal's habitual provocations, he put down the bottle in his hand, took out his pipe again, filled it with tobacco, took out a piece of red-hot charcoal from the campfire with tongs and lit it, looked at Pascal with some curiosity and asked, "What are your plans for the future?"

Pascal hasn't been here before, but he used to visit here as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He always felt that his old friend came to China with the same idea as before. But being a doctor here is so different from his previous job. It's certainly a good thing to solve the pain of ordinary patients, but what about his research? The original lab didn't get enough funding, but China didn't provide much funding either.

"I talked to Dean Song. Dr. Pascal put down his beer bottle and burped in a dismal manner. She said that the college would help me prepare the labs and help me coordinate the application and enrollment issues. He glanced at Sun Lien with some embarrassment, "Around March this year, I have to go to the academy often to deal with these problems." The time spent in the hospital will definitely be reduced a lot by then......"

At least now, nominally and in daily actions, Sun Lien can be regarded as the leader of the treatment group - although Liu Pingchuan is the leader of the group on the surface, but his lazy nature may not appear in the emergency room once a month. Pascal bypassed Sun Lien and reached certain deals and consensus with Dean Song. This made him feel a little embarrassed.

Sun Lien saw Dr. Pascal's expression through the firelight, and he shook his head with a smile, "Actually, at the beginning, I didn't expect you and Lao Bu to come. He roughly described Xu Yourong, who was like an "Internet addict girl" at that time, "Dr. Xu just said that he wanted to invite some former classmates, but he didn't expect that none of the classmates came, but he attracted the two of you." ”

"I don't care, anyway, it's the same everywhere. At night, with the blessing of the campfire and beer, it was natural for the three men to chat. Brune took another puff of his pipe and lamented, "I've never been fit for research, and I'm probably going to die of boredom if I stay in the lab." ”

He looked at Dr. Pascal and smiled and asked, "So you're going to start recruiting students?"

When there is an independent laboratory, it is inevitable that many researchers will be involved in the experiment. And full-time professional researchers -- that's a salary. And the level of wages is not low.

Recruiting professional researchers is not cost-effective for university laboratories, and the best way is to recruit graduate and doctoral students. Recruiting and cultivating senior talents with bonuses and subsidies can also greatly reduce the financial expenditure of researchers, and only by opening up sources and reducing expenditures can research work be carried out better.

"I'm sure to recruit them, but I haven't decided if I want to call Linus and them over...... Or ask if they'd like to come. Dr. Pascal gave a rare look of heaviness, "After all, their license doesn't work in China." ”

Just like the excuse that Sun Lien once used to prevaricate Professor Yatomi of Shuntendo Hospital, doctors who hold medical licenses abroad will inevitably face all kinds of problems and restrictions if they want to practice medicine in China. The biggest hurdle was a soul question – do you really want to be a doctor in China?

More than half of doctors in the U.S. are self-employed — they are not affiliated with a private or public hospital, but have their own clinics open to the public. While the income is extremely good, the working hours are also very flexible.

What is even more powerful is that the United States has a very rare "consensus." The poor do not deserve health care. What's more, this consensus is not only endorsed by the vast majority of Americans, but even by the poor.

Without personal commercial insurance with extremely high premiums, a doctor should be bankrupt. If you don't want to go bankrupt, you have to endure the pain until you recover naturally or die.

This environment and "consensus" are, of course, extremely absurd and inhumane to the Chinese. But from another point of view, such an environment is a doctor's paradise.

If there is nothing too serious about the brain, whether to practice medicine in China or in the United States, the choice is hardly tangled. On the one hand, there is a high-intensity work, low income and contradictory social cognitive positioning, and on the other hand, there is a work pressure to be freewheeling, high income and high social recognition. And it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Pascal himself is willing to stay in China to work and live because he and his career will develop better here. But former assistants and students don't think so.

"Linus, don't dream, man. Brunn heard a sip of beer spurting out from here, and laughed, "That little man will definitely not come to China, he is Italian." He wiped the beer from his face with his hand without paying attention, "You know, those Italians don't like China in their bones - they think the Chinese will eat rats raw." ”

"Linus is a third-generation immigrant. Pascal glanced at Brunn, "He's more of a New Yorker than an Italian now." ”

Brune laughed and nodded, "Yes, I can smell the stench of him, the smell of liberalism, three streets away. ”

The two old men became more and more vigorous, and they began to get together and speak ill of Italian immigrants and liberals with impunity. And Sun Lien, who couldn't get into the conversation for a long time, shrunk up on the sofa and chatted with Hu Jia on a video call.

"I've only been out for two months, and I'm almost forced to become a super chef!" Hu Jia complained on the other end of the phone, the life of a graduate student is not very easy, especially the difference between food and China is too big. "The British eat four things, fish, potatoes, broccoli, and soybeans. That's all they have!"

Sun Lien wanted to laugh a little when he heard Hu Jia's complaints, but he was worried that he would cause more trouble by laughing, so he could only be concerned, "Chinatown is the same?"

"Chinatown is far away,......" Hu Jia looked pitiful, "and things are expensive! They dare to sell a bowl of egg fried rice for 4.99 pounds, do you know! A bowl of egg fried rice is more than 40 yuan!"

Sun Lien really didn't know that life abroad was so dire that it was, "Then what if you buy a rice cooker yourself and cook by yourself?"

"Rice cooker ......" Hu Jia's eyes flashed with tears, "I bought one from Amazon, and it hasn't been delivered for a week." ”

When the egg fried rice was sold for forty yuan, Hu Jia was just pitiful, but when it came to the efficiency of express delivery, she really couldn't help it, and even ignored the fact that her parents were next to her, Hu Jia cried and shouted with a sad face, "Lao Sun, I miss you, I want to return to China!"