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Chapter 2240: Chapter 2240: A Different Mindset

My daughter is not interested in obstetrics and gynecology.

This remark brought Sun Rongfang back to several years ago. At that time, her daughter mentioned at her cousin’s home about wanting to be a certain type of surgeon, seemingly not in obstetrics and gynecology, which caused Zhou Ruomei to explode in anger.

"She has good learning abilities; it’s not a technical or capability issue." Cao Zhao quickly followed up, explaining to Mother Xie the meaning behind his words, "When medical students choose their departments for employment, it’s more crucial to consider which specialty fits their personality. Each department deals with different specialty diseases and patient groups. For instance, Yingying should feel from her visit to the obstetrics and gynecology department that there are some special requirements for doctors in this field."

Second Brother Cao should be referring to the information she had heard from her senior sisters before going to the obstetrics and gynecology department. They said that obstetricians need to care for the patients’ psychological well-being as if they were their parents. Once she arrived at Beidou Third Hospital, she indeed witnessed her teachers comforting the emotionally fragile mothers like parents.

"What kind of mentality is that?" Sun Rongfang asked.

"She followed Teacher Du, who is called Obstetrics Father." Indeed, this was what Cao Zhao said.

"You mean a mindset like parents? Then that’s it. She’s like a child." Sun Rongfang decisively slapped her thigh, acknowledging her daughter’s inadequacy in this regard.

Others were taken aback by Mother Xie’s words.

"The ancients said that people who haven’t established a family or career are like children." Sun Rongfang stated, admitting her daughter wasn’t married or had a family.

"It’s not like that." Cao Zhao chuckled, continuing to explain to Mother Xie, "It’s not necessary for obstetricians to have married or had children. We have lifelong unmarried obstetricians in our country who have dedicated themselves fiercely to the medical field and made significant academic contributions." fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

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"I mean those with the complex of being a mother or father."

Even without marriage, such obstetricians harbor maternal and paternal feelings in their hearts. Having maternal and paternal feelings does not necessarily require marriage and children. The simplest example is Doctor Zheng, who is not married yet and only has a boyfriend, but she fantasizes about marriage and having children. Despite the criticism Shen Xifei faces, Doctor Hu can see her simple dreams of working, marrying, and having children, with an early desire to be a mother. Although Doctor Peng is young, she is already the mother of a two-year-old child.

In stark contrast, Student Geng Yongzhe is focused solely on treating his brother’s leg. Student Xie is focused on a career in cardiac surgery. On clinical rounds, there are many such medical students, not just the two of them, who are not very suitable for obstetrics and gynecology. The heart of an obstetrician is extremely exhausted and needs to be like the parents of female patients. Many conditions in obstetrics, to put it bluntly, demand a heart that is understanding, forgiving, concerned, and disciplining like a parent’s.

Du Haiwei is a renowned doctor and teacher who holds high standards for his students. Ordinary institutions do not demand this level of requirements. All of these need to be clearly expressed.

Hearing this, one inevitably raises a question. If obstetricians are like parents, then what about pediatricians? Isn’t it the pediatric kids who would more pursue a feeling of doctors as parents?

Not necessarily. You can refer to the two children present here; do they pursue doctors as elder siblings rather than parents?

Sun Rongfang realized, "My son is in his rebellious phase and least likes listening to me."

Here lies the complexity of pediatrics. Children undergo unforeseen individual changes every year, physically and mentally, as they grow older. Last year they might still be clinging to their parents, yet next year they might suddenly distance themselves from their parents.