NOVPUBChapter 185 -185: Dead? (Five Updates)
Chapter 185 -185: Dead? (Five Updates)
Bai Xiao looked around the empty consulting room, not a single surge in popularity despite the last time’s grand opening success.
She was not in a hurry.
However, Xiaoli mentioned that the department had been quite unsettled recently, apparently because there was one spot available for this year’s training program. The trainees would go to the large hospitals in the provincial capital for their study, which not only offered better treatment, but also an opportunity to learn a great deal. It was considered a gilding of their qualifications, which upon returning, would benefit salary raises or adjustments in seniority—definitely something to show for.
Lately, the four doctors had been engaged in an open and secret battle, but it had nothing to do with Bai Xiao!
That was true, even if Bai Xiao had powerful backing, it wouldn’t help. She had only been in the department for just over a month, maybe two, and if the training spot were given to her, it would likely incite public outrage—it definitely couldn’t be hers, which is why her place remained the most peaceful.
She glanced at the newspaper, right, it was almost time for lunch again.
She really felt like she was rearing a pig, doing nothing but eating and reading the newspaper.
What a life of leisure. 𝔫𝔬𝖛𝖕𝔲𝖇.𝖈𝖔𝖒
Then she heard a rising quarrel coming from Zhao Zhiguo’s consulting room, growing louder and seeming to involve a scuffle. Bai Xiao blinked, debating whether to go and see or not. Not going would seem too indifferent, but going there might look like she was there for the spectacle!
Being a decent person was truly difficult.
Bai Xiao stood up and walked to the door of the consulting room, now hearing everything clearly—after all, it was the same hallway and the doors were wide open.
“You… you’re trying to rob me of my money and my life! I’m going to sue you!” cried a woman’s voice, filled with sobs.
“Sister, the child is in shock now; we must rush him to emergency care. You’re wasting time here, and if we delay, the child could really die!” said Fang Zhiping’s voice.
“It was you, you old man. Just look, one needle and now he’s breathless. Don’t think I’m a fool. The child is already breathless, and you still want me to take him to emergency? That’s just trying to send us away so you can deny responsibility later. I’m telling you, no way! My child is gone, and I want your life for his!” the woman was now crying and yelling.
“Sister, sister, it’s not the acupuncture that’s the problem. The shock happened after the needle insertion, it’s not that he’s breathless, it’s different, there’s still hope, really! Our hospital is not irresponsible. Can we save the child first?” Zhao Zhiguo was also pleading.
“Sister, what’s going on? I recognized your voice, what happened?” another voice chimed in, signaling more people had arrived.
Bai Xiao felt too embarrassed to step out; that would indeed be spectating.
“Zhang Duo, you have to stand up for me. Your niece had asthma these past two days; we got Western medicine which didn’t work well, and her grandma insisted on Traditional Chinese Medicine, and here we are. This old man swore his Acupuncture could cure the asthma in three days, guaranteed. But look now, just one day in and the child is gasping for breath. My husband and I only have this one daughter; this is like asking for our lives.”
“Doctor, what’s going on? Hurry up and save the person!”
“Comrade, the child is in shock and needs to be rushed to the emergency room right up front. But this sister refuses to let us move him, and any more delay could mean we can’t save him!”
Bai Xiao walked out the door and quietly approached Zhao Zhiguo’s clinic, peeking inside, when someone suddenly pulled her in.
“Little doctor, please save this child. The child’s father is a hero who lost a leg to injury and is now an amputee. If the child is gone, how can his father go on living!” The loud voice made Bai Xiao’s ears ring.
Bai Xiao reached out to feel the child’s pulse.
There really was no breath left, her special ability had scanned the area, and the child had already stopped breathing. It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried to save them, it was just impossible to do so.
Shaking her head, she sighed, “I’m sorry, I can’t save them!”
Zhang Duo was shocked. The emergency department’s doctors and nurses had already rushed over, and a doctor went up to attempt resuscitation on the child.
Bai Xiao stepped aside, her heart aching as she watched the eight-year-old child slip away like this. However heartbroken she might be, she didn’t possess the power to bring back the dead or raise bones to life. She wasn’t a deity, her special ability could only revive living people, those who still had a breath left in them. Without a breath, even a great immortal arriving would be powerless.
In the end, the doctor shook his head, and both nurses and doctors began to remove the emergency equipment.
“I’m so sorry, please make arrangements for what comes next.”
Zhao Zhiguo fell to the ground with a thud.
It was over, the child was dead.
Actually dead.
The child’s relative, evidently the mother, rushed over and started to attack Zhao Zhiguo, “Give me back my daughter, bring back my girl! It was just asthma, how could it kill someone? What kind of doctors are you? You don’t care about human life at all. I’m going to sue you, all of you in the Traditional Chinese Medicine department are quacks, you’ve murdered her!”
Zhao Zhiguo didn’t move, letting the relative hit him, just as baffled as to how an injection could have taken a life so suddenly.
The scene had descended into chaos.
Zhang Duo went up to embrace the relative, “Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, please don’t do this. We’ll hold them accountable, but now is not the time. The little girl is still lying here, we need to take her back home first, she can’t just lie here like this, sister-in-law, please, calm down.” Comrades on either side also joined in, trying to console the woman.
“I won’t leave, I won’t! I demand their Dean give me an explanation. Their doctors have killed my child, they have to pay with their lives.” The woman wasn’t listening to reason.
Dean Zhang rushed over.
Who could have envisioned such an incident in their hospital that hadn’t seen a medical mishap in five years? Dean Zhang could never have imagined that something like this could happen in the department of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
“Big sister, I’m deeply sorry for what happened. Rest assured, we will take full responsibility and provide you with an explanation. For now, let’s take care of the child’s matters. The hospital will cover all costs, including subsequent compensation. We won’t shirk our duty; we will see this through to the end.”
Bai Xiao suddenly noticed that the child lying there seemed to be breathing very faintly. Because she was being jostled by the crowd, she was now standing right beside the child, so she could clearly see the slight flare of the nostrils. Could it be that the child’s last breath was coming back?
She grabbed the child’s hand, “What are you doing?”
The mother, like a fierce beast protecting her calf, violently slapped Bai Xiao’s hand away, guarding in front of her child.
Everyone was looking at Bai Xiao. She pushed the woman aside with such force that the woman stumbled backward, “I saw the child breathing!”
Upon hearing this, not just the woman but the other doctors as well hurried over to check. The stethoscope and the equipment were brought in for examination, but the emergency doctor shook his head, “The effect of the emergency injection we administered earlier is kicking in, but once this breath fades, the child will be completely…” In other words, this was the last breath hanging on, and without it, the child would be no more.
