Chapter 666 - 331: Pitiful but Not to Be Bullied

Director Tao retorted, "Then why is Dr. Lu the only one who can do it?"

"Tongren is also a prefecture-level city, why don't you go there?"

"Dr. Lu is just skilled, he hasn't broken any laws, and not doing this surgery won't be the end of the world for him!"

"You're an adult too, at least try to understand others, okay?"

"If you say Dr. Lu just worked a day and a night straight, considering your special case, we call on Dr. Lu, it's nothing!"

"More than ninety hours."

"Four days and nights!"

"What?"

"Your son's leg is a leg, but others' lives are not lives?"

Only when Tao Ze saw Xiang Yaojun was cornered did he calm down, "It's that this surgery is too difficult; very few can learn it."

"That's why many hospitals can't do it."

"Today, Dr. Lu just got off work, it's fate, it's fate, you have to accept it!~"

"I know what you're thinking. You came all the way from Tongren, and it's still an amputation, so wasn't that trip wasted?"

"And that's indeed the case."

"Will doing one more surgery kill him?" Xiang Yaojun gritted his teeth.

Tao Ze crossed his arms, "If you talk like this, then we can have a good talk."

"If your son undergoes amputation, will he die?"

"Put your hand down!"

"What, you want to hit someone, cause trouble?" Tao Ze grabbed Xiang Yaojun's wrist.

Though Xiang Yaojun did physical work, Tao Ze and the others were not weaker than him. They wrestled for a while, evenly matched.

Tao Ze said, "You shouldn't have any extreme thoughts, your son got injured not because of others, but because he was careless."

"It's a matter of luck."

"You could say, others his age, if faced with this situation, would share the same fate. No one's targeting you."

"When faced with problems, your first thought should be how to solve them."

"Not acting shamelessly!~"

While they spoke, police stationed near the State People's Hospital arrived.

The safety office and the medical department's other two people approached and briefly explained the situation.

Tao Ze and Xiang Yaojun each let go of their hands.

A police officer in uniform asked, "What do you want to do?"

Xiang Yaojun repeated his request.

Of course, Xiang Yaojun didn't mention factors unfavorable to him, "Officer, my son is only nine."

Society is generally lenient towards children.

Hearing this, a middle-aged policeman looked sympathetically at Tao Ze and the others, "This is indeed a special case."

"It's not easy coming from out of town either..."

Dou Haiqing from the medical department said, "Comrade, if it were any other time, we would certainly help out according to the situation."

"But it really is a special case, our emergency department's Dr. Lu, he worked from the 30th to the 4th before going home."

"And he's on duty again on the 6th."

"During this time, he barely rested..."

"How can we make this request?"

Upon hearing this, Xiang Yaojun was furious to the extreme, yelling, "Then who made him not rest when he should have?"

Dou Haiqing chuckled, "So, Dr. Lu now is resting when he should, what's wrong with that?"

Xiang Yaojun suddenly knelt down, "Leaders, officers, I'm begging you, please help us."

"As long as you're willing to help, I'll do anything you ask. Please, I'm begging you."

"Save my son..."

At this point, the police roughly understood the situation.

"Xiang Yaojun, is it? Show your ID," one officer began processing the procedure.

Xiang Yaojun was steadied by others, but he refused to stand up.

"Don't be unreasonable, being unreasonable won't help."

"This is a hospital, an emergency department, making a scene here is breaking the law!~"

"We're all adults here, let's not do this," said an officer who had long activated his body camera, now recording Xiang Yaojun.

"First, I warn you, show your ID, please cooperate!"

The officer's voice was formal...

Xiang Yaojun slowly sank into despair, resigning himself to fate.

His eyes were vacant.

Seeing Xiang Yaojun cooperating afterwards, the police and the security office didn't hold him accountable.

After everyone sat down, Du Hua'an, representing the trauma center of the emergency department, and doctors from trauma surgery came to talk and get Xiang Yaojun's signature.

It was still an amputation.

After getting the documents, a trauma surgeon said, "Xiang Mingliang's pre-surgery preparations are complete, the amputation must be done quickly, or the spread of necrosis will endanger his life."

"We're going to start the surgery now, wait outside the operating room!"

Xiang Yaojun's eyes were vacant, watching the trauma surgeon and others from the office, "Can you really bear to see a nine-year-old child undergo amputation?"

The trauma surgeon was about to leave, but paused at the words, "Even if you ask a hundred times, my answer is the same, it's hard for me to accept!"

Associate Chief Physician Dou Kongyue, the main surgeon, had an emotional outburst, "I want more than anyone to save your son's leg!"

"But I can't do it; I'm thirty-eight, I've studied medicine for over ten years, and I still can't do it."

"Not just me, our chief can't either, ninety-nine percent of doctors nationwide can't do it."

"It's just not possible!"

"We don't have the ability!!"

"Don't want to, do we?"

"Honestly, who the hell doesn't want to be a billionaire, but how many actually become billionaires?"

"Is it that they don't want to?"

After finishing, Dou Kongyue walked out with the medical record.

He was too frustrated by Xiang Yaojun!

At this time, hearing Dou Kongyue, the officer began to console:

"Mr. Xiang Mingliang, we've really tried our best."

"But we can't put people in a difficult position, can we..."

Xiang Yaojun didn't say another word. Regardless of what others said, he seemed lost, with his head hanging, as if oblivious to the outside world.

After some consoling, someone from the medical department said, "Xiang Yaojun, let's leave it at this for now."

"Your son is about to have surgery, you need to wait outside the operating room, surgery is not child's play."

"If there are any accidents during the surgery, you'll have to talk and sign documents."

Xiang Yaojun suddenly snapped alert, "What kind of accident could happen?"

"There are many unpredictable events in medicine. The specific risks were explained to you just now by our trauma surgeons and the trauma center doctors."

Xiang Yaojun gradually returned to his senses, "Aren't you doctors just trying to scare people to avoid responsibility?"

"Could something this minor actually be fatal?"

"If you see it that way, I can stop the surgery now and let you go to another hospital you trust," Dou Haiqing from the medical department said with a serious expression.

"You have that right, and I respect your right!"

"Do you agree to the surgery or not? The surgery hasn't officially started yet, you still have the right to choose!"

"But once it starts, signing those papers means you agree to all the risks."

There's audio and video recording in the safety office.

And the police, Dou Haiqing stood firm.

In such a situation, even if a medical dispute arises and something goes wrong, the worst case is humanitarian compensation.

The courts won't wrong them, and the hospital is defenseless.

"Do it, what else can I do?"

"You're truly heartless, to a child."

"You really let him die without saving him."

"Hospitals are all like this, untouchable authority... we ordinary folks can't afford to offend them..."

"We've never been able to." Xiang Yaojun muttered as if crushed to pieces by the wheels of society.

Everyone heard what Xiang Yaojun said but remained silent.

In fact, Xiang Yaojun was pitiable, but his pathetic state didn't grant him the right to oppress others.

After Xiang Yaojun left, a middle-aged policeman said, "Director Tao, there's been a high frequency of police calls to your hospital these days?"

"What's going on?"

"Sigh," Dou Haiqing sighed helplessly.

"Director Lu at the trauma center is skilled, but there's only one Director Lu at the center, everyone wants him for surgery."

"They fight over the surgery queue, fight over being first."

"Now they even argue over not working overtime; we're just a public institution, not law enforcement, so it's hard on you..."

The senior policeman's eyes flashed, "This Dr. Lu? So impressive?"

At this point, the young officer spoke, "Captain, I heard the guy from Qianzhou branch, his hand was saved by Dr. Lu."

"In the past, it might have had to be amputated."

"Based on the timing, Dr. Lu was working overtime too."