370: Chapter 37 Medical Malpractice

"What's wrong? Did something happen at the company?"

Hearing Shen Yan's lazy voice, Chen Guangke said to him with some exasperation, "You've been on vacation for two days, you must have had a great time, huh?"

Shen Yan replied with a smile, "How did you know?"

After a moment of speechlessness, Chen Guangke chose to change the subject.

"The software has been fully launched, and the promotion plan is starting to show results. Our download volume has increased more than a hundredfold since the first day of launch."

"There are many things at the company that need to be reported to you now. When will you be back?"

Hearing the question, Shen Yan glanced at the time on his watch and replied to Chen Guangke, "I'll be over this afternoon."

Chen Guangke had only called to ask about this matter.

After getting the answer, he immediately hung up the phone without hesitation.

After ending the call, Liu Hui sat leaning against Shen Yan on the sofa and asked, "Are you going back to the company?"

Shen Yan nodded.

"I agreed to take these two days off, so I have to go back this afternoon. What about you? When are you going back to work at the hospital?"

As soon as the words fell.

Liu Hui straightened her back and stretched lazily.

"A little something happened at the hospital recently, so I probably won't be back anytime soon."

Shen Yan instinctively felt that what happened at the hospital was no small matter, so he asked Liu Hui quite curiously.

"What happened that you needed to take such a long leave?"

Liu Hui thought for a moment, then explained to Shen Yan in simple terms, "Simply put, it was a relatively minor medical accident, but the protagonist of that medical accident is someone who is not easy to mess with, so the matter is causing a big stir right now."

"You probably don't watch local news much, right? That incident is already on the local news."

Shen Yan couldn't be bothered to look at things that had nothing to do with his work.

He lazily stroked Liu Hui's face and said, "Just tell me the basics of what happened."

Liu Hui nodded.

Actually, the matter was quite simple.

Their hospital was a private hospital.

There was quite a big difference between a private hospital and a public hospital.

Besides differences in salary and benefits, there was also the difference in internal factions.

Liu Hui had worked at a public hospital before.

The factions in a public hospital were not that complicated.

As long as your skills were solid and you didn't cause trouble, you could basically live peacefully in the hospital until retirement.

Private hospitals were a bit more complicated.

Besides work-related matters, one also needed to understand some social graces.

The relationships between the leaders were not as harmonious as they appeared on the surface.

In addition to daily work, they also had to carefully watch expressions and choose sides.

Because Liu Hui did not want to get involved in complex matters, she always maintained an expression of turning a blind eye to those annoying issues.

If it weren't for her excellent skills, she would have long been ousted by the leaders who disliked her.

Director Lian was one of those leaders who disliked her.

And this medical accident was also closely related to Director Lian.

The matter dated back half a month.

Half a month ago, a patient with a minor ailment came to their hospital.

That patient had a tumor inside his body.

Although it was a tumor, as long as it was safely removed and the patient paid attention to daily rest and diet, there would be no major issues later on.

But the problem lay right there: Director Lian, in order to secure more commission for herself, devised a surgical plan that would cause maximum harm to the patient's body.

Initially, the patient's family did not know about this and was grateful, asking Director Lian to take good care of the patient. To encourage Director Lian to be more conscientious, they even gave her a gift.

Director Lian assumed that everything she did would remain undiscovered.

Thus, she accepted the gift from the patient's family with peace of mind.

Unexpectedly, just two weeks after the surgery, the patient's condition deteriorated.

There were two reasons for the deterioration. The first was that the tumor inside the patient's body was not completely removed, and there was another undiscovered tumor.

The second reason was that a quarter of the patient's stomach was removed due to the surgical plan proposed by Director Lian.

This quarter removal greatly affected the patient's appetite, making him unable to eat or drink, causing the patient's body to waste away at a visible rate.

Because Director Lian could not stop this side effect, the patient's family transferred the patient to a more authoritative private hospital.

What Director Lian did not expect was that after the patient was transferred to the private hospital, the patient's family learned that the surgical plan Director Lian had previously provided did not consider the patient's physical condition at all.

Not only that, but she had even performed a completely unnecessary gastrectomy.

Upon learning this, the patient's family was furious. They rushed to the hospital to confront Director Lian and also reported the matter to the news and the relevant local regulatory agencies.

Director Lian was driven to distraction by the incident.

She also ended up taking all the vacation time she had previously been unable to take off.

After briefly understanding the whole sequence of events, Shen Yan sighed:

"Although I knew your director wasn't a good person, I didn't expect her to be this much of a bad person. For the sake of a small commission, she would actually harm a patient's body. Does a person like her deserve to be a doctor?"

Hearing Shen Yan's question, Liu Hui did not answer immediately.

She was silent for a few seconds before replying to Shen Yan in a somewhat sorrowful tone, "When I was still in school, I heard many such cases. At that time, I thought those cases were extremely rare, but after I started working..."

Saying this, she let out a deep sigh.

"Not everyone can truly be a selflessly dedicated doctor. Whether it's the doctors in textbooks or the predecessors who made countless achievements for us in the past, they are all brave and selfless doctors worthy of admiration."

"But just because they did that doesn't mean we must emulate them."

"I used to be more idealistic, believing that only those who were selflessly dedicated could be doctors, but I don't think that way anymore."

"Besides the identity of a doctor, we also have the identity of an ordinary person."

"As long as we are human, we will inevitably have our own greed and ambition. So, I can't define others now. I can only require myself to strive to be a doctor who is good to the patient."

As her voice trailed off.

Shen Yan suddenly didn't know how to comfort Liu Hui.

He moved his lips slightly, finally opening his mouth to say, "No matter what others do, at least you have become the doctor you wanted to be in your heart, haven't you?"

Liu Hui let out a slight, self-mocking laugh.

"Is that so?"

"But what if my family wasn't well-off, and I happened to be in desperate need of money due to certain circumstances? Would I still be like this today?"