Path of Medicine With a System
chapter-155

The surgery began. The brother-in-law was truly furious as he waited outside the operating room. He really wanted Dai Wengang to die. With Dai Wengang’s typical temper and forceful methods, if his life was saved, the brother-in-law knew that he would end up either dead or crippled. What person who had made a fortune from nothing would possibly be soft-hearted?

Still, the brother-in-law was at least the vice president of a company worth several hundred million yuan. He knew plenty of local government leaders. Although it was now late at night, he couldn’t be bothered with that right now. He tried calling everyone he could from Chasu City Communist Party Committee and in the Chasu City government.

However, the higher-ranking government leaders wouldn’t care one bit about an internal family conflict. The Communist Party still ruled, and the Communist Party still ran the public hospitals. Even the most daring of doctors wouldn’t dare to toy with people’s lives. No matter how much you tried to bribe a doctor to kill a patient, most doctors would refuse. Who would be willing to risk their entire career for the sake of some money?

Although the brother-in-law was a company vice president, the extra “vice” word meant that he didn’t have enough authority. The secretaries of the higher-ranking government leaders ignored him, and wouldn’t even put his calls through. There wasn’t anything that he could do. In the end, he tried everyone he could, and finally contacted one of the vice directors of the Bureau of Health while the latter was at home. “I’ll give you 500,000 yuan. Immediately stop the surgery. Even if you lose your position as vice director because of this, it’s still worth it because you’re retiring next year. Hurry! I’ll give you five minutes to consider.”

“I want 10 million yuan instead!”

“You’re being way too greedy. One million yuan. That’s my final offer. Will you go or not?!” The brother-in-law’s vicious tone made the vice director somewhat scared! The vice director thought about it, and decided against haggling any more!

“Okay! But you need to pay me first.”

“I’ll wire you 100,000 yuan right now! I’ll write you an IOU for the rest. Hurry! There’s no time left!” The two came to an agreement. This vice director who was retiring soon was willing to become the brother-in-law’s hired sword for the sake of money, attacking whomever the latter wanted!

The vice director first called Superintendent Ouyang, who said that she would immediately go to the hospital once she heard of the situation. Actually, Superintendent Ouyang had no interest in listening to the vice director’s command to stop the surgery. The Bureau of Health only had the ability to supervise the hospital, but not to actually directly interfere. Not only that, Superintendent Ouyang was higher-ranking than the vice director of the Bureau of Health.

Superintendent Ouyang was actually busy watching a television show! She called the hospital to ask the directors on duty about what exactly was going on. She then turned off her regular cell phone! Superintendent Ouyang didn’t care one bit about government officials whose ranks were too low. So what if the patient was a millionaire? As long as her hospital wasn’t doing anything illegal, they would simply treat the patient as normal. Superintendent Ouyang didn’t care one bit about anything else. She simply continued watching her television show.

Superintendent Ouyang didn’t respond to the vice director, so he called her number again, only to find that her cell phone had been turned off! There was no helping it, so the vice director decided to personally go to the hospital. He figured that it was a great deal for him to earn 100,000 yuan simply by causing a little trouble. Although he deemed it unlikely that he could actually get the full one million yuan and actually stop the surgery, it was a great deal for him to make 100,000 yuan out of nowhere. He also figured that he would be quite safe. Who at the hospital would even know that he was a vice director of the Bureau of Health? And even if he got punished, at most he would lose his position as the vice director. He was going to retire next year regardless! The vice director made up his mind. He wouldn’t count on making the one million yuan, but he had already secured 100,000 yuan for himself!

“Who’s in charge here? Get out here for me!” The vice director and brother-in-law were acting like clowns in front of the operating room! But actually, the vice director would never dare to try and intrude into the operating room. He’d already planned out how he would do things on the way here. At most, he would shout some things outside the operating room. It would be best if everyone ignored him! He would never intrude into the operating room, because he still wanted to protect himself! He didn’t want to get charged with a serious crime, after all!

Even now, the brother-in-law was hoping that the surgery would fail or that the vice director would be able to stop the surgery! However, the brother-in-law was thinking of things too simply. It would be impossible to stop a surgery after it began, unless an earthquake caused the entire surgical department building to collapse! He also thought too simply of the vice director, who was a veteran government official that could toy with him as if he was a three-year-old child. Although the vice director was acting viciously, he actually wouldn’t be willing to take even one more step forward!

Typically, there weren’t any doctors or nurses in front of the operating rooms, because they would all be quite busy inside. There would be many patients’ family members waiting outside the operating rooms instead. Many patients’ family members became enraged after seeing the brother-in-law and vice director behaving so brazenly. These patients’ family members all had family inside the operating rooms right now, undergoing surgery or giving birth to babies. With how loud these two were being, what if they distracted the doctors inside?

“Shut up! Get the hell out of here, do you hear me?” One patient’s family member stood up! Right after that, several other family members also stood up and gathered round. “This is no place for you to be noisy! Get out!”

The patient’s family members wouldn’t care who you were! “Are you leaving or not? If you don’t leave, I’m going to hit you!”

It was common for men in northwestern China to instantly start fights over verbal disputes. Of course they would hit someone if they said they would!

“Yes! I’ll leave! We’ll leave right now!” the vice director hurriedly said. There were far too many patients’ family members waiting outside the operating rooms. He didn’t want to actually receive a beating from some burly man! He was far too old to fight back!

Outside the surgical department, the brother-in-law finally understood that the vice director wasn’t serious about helping him at all! He said, “Give my money back to me! You’re not worth even a single fart! Some vice director you are!”

“Why are you cursing at me? You saw for yourself, I called the hospital superintendent for you, and I even came here to the hospital. It’s not that I haven’t tried to help you. Both you and I have ‘vice’ in our titles. Even if you’re a vice president, it still means that you’re working for someone else. The higher-ups in charge won’t care about what you think! I think we should just let things go here!”

“Give my money back!”

“How can you not live up to your word? I did everything that you requested. It’s not my fault that it didn’t succeed. I’m not going to give your money back! You think that I would try to cause trouble for nothing?”

“F*ck! You dogsh*t!”

“Little brat!”

The vice director and brother-in-law started physically fighting each other! However, the vice director was old and had a weak body, while the brother-in-law lived an easy and idle lifestyle. Their fight was more like a street fight between women as they grabbed each other’s hair and tried to choke each other’s necks!

There was no need to break up the fight. 10 minutes later, both of them simultaneously stopped fighting and lay down while panting like dogs in midsummer. Both of them were completely out of energy to fight! The brother-in-law panted heavily while declaring, “Just you wait!”

The vice director wasn’t worried one bit about his threat! While continuing to sit on the ground, he said, “Dear grandson, this granddaddy will wait for you, you p*ssy-licking bastard!” The vice director was highly pleased with himself as he watched the brother-in-law leave. He felt that he had earned 100,000 yuan simply by having a fight with the person who paid him!

Inside the operating room, Zhang Fan, Liu Zhaoyun, and Xia Huadong were highly tense as they worked on the surgery, with no knowledge of what had happened outside. Liu Zhaoyun was assisting Zhang Fan with opening up the patient’s skull, while Xia Huadong stood to the side with the aspirator. Xia Huadong kept feeling like cold sweat was running through his heart as he watched the ongoing surgery. ‘Zhang Fan is actually the primary surgeon!? Zhang Fan is actually the primary surgeon!? He’s actually the primary surgeon for such a highly difficult surgery!?’

However, he only thought this to himself, without being able to say it out loud!

“Bleeding from the middle cerebral artery!” These were Zhang Fan’s first words after opening up the patient’s skull. The fact that this artery was bleeding meant that it was highly possible that the patient might die here on the operating table!

“Continue the surgery!” Liu Zhaoyun also felt his heart get heavier when he heard this news. However, his tone remained calm and steady!

Although Xia Huadong was a master’s degree student in neurosurgery, he still didn’t have much actual surgical experience yet. However, he had a really deep impression regarding how important bleeding from the middle cerebral artery was, because his teaching neurosurgeon had failed to save a patient in the same condition, and that patient had died on the operating table. That patient’s family had refused to forgive his teaching doctor and caused a huge commotion!

“The surgery paperwork has already been properly signed, right?” Although it might not be really appropriate for Xia Huadong to say this at such a time, he still asked this question. This was because of his conscience! He didn’t want his coworkers to be held responsible if possible. Not all people were the type who wanted to see fellow coworkers suffer!

“Yes, it’s been signed!”

Zhang Fan slowly searched for the foramen spinosum in the middle cranial fossa. Brain surgeries were nothing like ordinary appendix surgeries. For appendix surgeries, even if you couldn’t locate the appendix, you could look around in the stomach until you located the appendix. However, the brain was a lot different. The surgeon would have to be careful to the extreme. If the surgeon accidentally injured any portion of the brain, the patient might suffer from negative side effects or might even never wake up again!

Zhang Fan’s back was now completely soaked with sweat, all the way through his surgical garb. How thick was surgical garb? It would have thickness equivalent to typical curtains during winter. This surgery was simply far too dangerous! Xia Huadong was only the secondary surgical assistant, but even he constantly sweated rivers! This was because he understood the surgery that was going on. He knew what Zhang Fan needed to do, and also knew about the potential consequences if the surgeon did anything even slightly wrong!

Outside the operating room, the brother-in-law returned to greet his sister, father, and mother. “Sister!” With how things were now, he could only try to get into his sister’s good graces. However, Dai Wengang’s wife glared at him as if he was a wolf. When he went up to her, she viciously slapped her younger brother in the face, even though she had never even argued with him before over anything! Slap!