Chapter 199: Self-discipline of medical students

Xie Wanying was somewhat hesitant to spend Senior Cao’s money.

Another person came and stood beside the two of them, saying, “It’s not Huang Zhilei’s money, it’s the hospital-issued meal card, go ahead and order.”

When Xie Wanying and Huang Zhilei turned their heads, they saw Zhou Junpeng.

“How did you get here?” Huang Zhilei asked, as of late this fellow villager seemed to him like an unshakable ghost, always around.

“I sent a patient to get a CT scan and came down to eat on my way back,” Zhou Junpeng said.

Hearing the patient had finished the CT scan, Huang Zhilei and Xie Wanying were both curious about the results, so the three sat down together for a meal.

“What did the image show?” Huang Zhilei asked.

“The results are with the teacher, not with me. CT rooms don’t produce written reports that quickly,” Zhou Junpeng replied.

“But you were there to see it, you must have seen something,” Huang Zhilei said.

“Generally speaking, her speculation was reasonable,” Zhou Junpeng said, glancing at Xie Wanying.

That meant that the younger junior sister was right. Huang Zhilei was quite pleased, he quietly clenched an excited fist.

Xie Wanying kept her head down and continued eating.

The other two watched her eat. Both the men were surprised to see that the amount of food on her plate was not much different from what they had, considering she was a girl.

Eating is about replenishing energy, how much one eats depends on how much they expend. Eating too much leads to leftovers and weight gain. Eating too little leads to insufficiency and a lack of nutrients. This principle seems very simple. However, actually managing to eat the right amount of nutrition according to one’s body needs is a feat achieved by very few people.

Because it requires a great deal of self-discipline.

Medical students, in fact, consume a huge amount of energy. After all, teachers always call on you to do miscellaneous tasks. Besides the physical labor of doing miscellaneous tasks, the brain needs to work. Those who study medicine know that intellectual work also consumes a lot of energy.

Besides work, medical students and doctors need to exercise when they have free time. A good physique is essential to taking care of patients instead of needing someone else to take care of you. Exercising also requires energy expenditure.

Some medical students intentionally eat less to slim down and look good, but then when there’s an occasional increase in clinical workloads, they gain weight compensatorily. This happens to both male and female medical students. It’s like saying that even with medical knowledge, medical students find it hard to control their desire to follow trends.

Medical students who want to maintain a good figure should not aim to lose weight, but rather learn how to eat and how to exercise. Maintain a regular diet to cope with the high energy demands of clinical work, and exercise during the rest of the time.

The problem is that clinical work, studies, and exams are very tiring as they are, and adding exercise on top of that is extremely challenging. Most medical students, including some doctors already in practice, cannot manage this.

Those who do manage it often become the top of their field, Da Niu, because their willpower is extraordinary.

Xie Wanying’s plate had a lot of food, but she chewed slowly, not in a hurry to finish, and chewed her food finely. Only by thoroughly chewing can the stress on the gastrointestinal tract be lessened.

Watching her eat, Zhou Junpeng blurted out, “She wouldn’t happen to like eating alone like Doctor Fu, right?”

Eating alone, without conversation, allows one to focus more on the food. However, to others, it makes that person seem asocial. That’s why Fu Xinheng is nicknamed “Robot”; what does a robot need conversation for when eating?

Hearing Zhou Junpeng say this, Huang Zhilei was displeased, “Who says that? She’s had meals with us several times.”

Although when they ate, everyone was usually silent. Huang Zhilei also felt that his Senior Cao didn’t like to talk during meals, causing him to usually follow suit and not chat while eating.

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