Chapter 821: [821] Don’t betray the patient’s trust Chapter 821: [821] Don’t betray the patient’s trust What did Cao Yong mean by contemplating General Surgery Department Two?
Dai Ronghong said, “I talked about this with her mother. This illness is too difficult to diagnose, and it’s not that Director Shen and the others didn’t thoroughly examine her daughter.”
“That’s not what I’m referring to,” Cao Yong corrected her line of thinking, “Her daughter had an incident during her time in the General Surgery Department Two, when she ran out of the hospital ward at night. You should have had a phone consultation with General Surgery Department Two about this.”
“Did you ever follow up on that incident afterwards? When she was to be readmitted, did you tell her mother that her daughter couldn’t do this again, that she needed to educate her daughter? A hospital isn’t a school. Did you let her mother mistakenly believe again that just leaving her daughter at the hospital for the doctors was sufficient?”
“Dr. Cao, I really hadn’t considered the issues you’re raising,” Dai Ronghong admitted she was struggling to keep up.
“That shows you didn’t truly have this patient in your heart; she didn’t mean as much to you as her mother did. Did you even know that she developed a crush on a medical student from our hospital during her stay?”
“I really didn’t know that,” Dai Ronghong expressed her surprise at the matter, “I heard that she took a knife to find an intern, which I found unbelievable. If she was looking for a lifesaving doctor, it should have been a certified doctor.”
Lin Hao, sitting in a corner with his mentor Ren Chongda and class leader Yue Wentong, listened and hung his head. To this day, he couldn’t understand why Li Yaxi was infatuated with him; he had always been strictly professional with her to prevent any unrealistic fantasies.
“Did Doctor Lin show her any special attention?” Dai Ronghong asked.
Lin Hao immediately looked up, “No, I treated her the same as any other patient when I was responsible for her.”
Teachers from the General Surgery Department Two spoke up for him, “That’s true. During his internship in our department, he was by-the-book with patients, not like Xie Wanying. Xie Wanying was genuinely gentle and considerate with patients.”
Suddenly, the topic shifted to Student Xie.
“I asked Dr. Dai this question hoping she could recall something,” Cao Yong said.
Dai Ronghong was stunned: What exactly did he mean by that?
“Doctor Lin wasn’t particularly different towards her. Anyone knowledgeable would give you the same answer. So, I suspect she wasn’t looking for Doctor Lin, but for someone else’s trace in him.”
“Doctor Lin he–“, Dai Ronghong turned, and struggled to find a similar memory in Lin Hao’s appearance, suddenly her eyes widened, “He does look a bit like–”
“Like who?” the other doctors asked eagerly.
Dai Ronghong was too shocked to speak.
Cao Yong unveiled the mystery, “Your son is also a medical student, although not at Guoxie. He doesn’t look like Doctor Lin, but his silhouette is somewhat similar, and most importantly, they share a similar cold, aloof personality that doesn’t easily mingle with others. No one would inexplicably, as you said, develop an incomprehensible infatuation with a medical student, treating him like a lifeline.”
Dai Ronghong wiped the sweat from her forehead vigorously.
“Do you think she was fretting over her mother? Why didn’t she ever worry about whether her father would come? She screamed for her mother and Doctor Lin with a knife in hand. It’s because you, Doctor Dai, have a closer relationship with her mother. She might have once liked your son, but ultimately, feeling lonely and isolated during her hospital stay, she thought of you, the aunt who brought her to this hospital for treatment, and trusted you wholeheartedly. And the result?”
“Dr. Cao, there’s no need to say more, I was wrong,” Dai Ronghong’s eyes reddened.