The narrator tells us that his first day at the hospital wasn't too smooth. He's been training with a famous general surgeon, named Queenie zhou, and she's pretty disdainful of the medical profession. He tells her that he's just starting out, and that he doesn't know much about her work habits and methods yet. He wants to know what she'd like him to do, so he asks her to let him know if he did well or didn't. She tells him to wait until she leaves, and then she'll tell him what he needs to do. First, she tells him that he can do whatever he likes after work, so long as he does it independently. Next, she says, he'll be her superior, but he can't do anything he likes during work hours. And finally, he says, she can do anything she wants after work. He asks if he can laugh at his wife, but she says that's not a good idea. The rich guy comes to pick him up, and the narrator is so hungry that he asks him