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Chapter 193 Remember to wear gloves (Please subscribe)
When Fang Ziye, Xue Tao, and the others arrived at the location, uniformed police officers had already taken control of the situation.

The suspect, thin and with an absolutely deformed left foot, sat on a high step on the ground, bearing weight on his right foot while his left foot trembled slightly.

He was wearing a mask, dressed simply, and had neat hair, making it impossible to tell his exact age.

But at this moment, his face showed no sign of pain; instead, his eyes were sinister as he stared intently at one of the people, tilting his head as if trying to memorize his appearance.

"Make way, make way." Xue Tao and Fang Ziye formed a stretcher team, while the actual ambulance doctor went to negotiate with the police.

During the arrest, the patient suffered such a severe fracture. Out of humanitarian considerations, he should still be sent to the hospital, but the handcuffs were not removed.

After the ambulance doctor went to hand over the patient to someone else, Xue Tao stepped forward and pretended not to know anything: "Who is the patient? How did it get like this? It's already fractured without even looking."

"Can you still move your other leg? Are there any other injuries?"

Xue Tao, wearing gloves, lifted her right foot and discovered that there was also blood inside, but it was covered by dark socks and pants and was not noticed immediately.

The middle-aged man, seemingly oblivious to pain, looked at the leader among the uniformed men and said, "What else can you do besides bully honest people? Useless lackeys."

"You bunch of cowards, eating the taxes paid by the people while doing nothing but swallowing their bones, you all deserve to die!"

The middle-aged man had yellow teeth and a cold smile, as if he wasn't worried about being caught at all.

After saying that, he looked at the leader and said, "Shen Dong, I remember you. Don't worry, this time I'll only look for Zhang Yu after I get out. Next time it will be your turn."

"You have a son who's currently in middle school, and you also have a wife who might have hyperthyroidism. I've found out all that. Hehehe..."

Upon hearing the name Shen Dong, Fang Ziye immediately thought of the boy's father from the emergency room that morning and turned his head to look.

"Now that I've chosen this line of work, I'm not afraid of your threats!"

"Doctor, let's take him to the hospital. Our colleagues will be going there to question him later."

“But your car cannot leave our sight,” Shen Dong said to the doctor from the 120 ambulance.

The man in the green shirt (number 120) thought for a moment and nodded.

The middle-aged man showed no fear and even cooperated by being laid down on a stretcher by Xue Tao and a policeman.

It was only then that Fang Ziye realized that not only was one of his feet broken, but his other leg was also broken, though not as severely deformed as his left foot.

After Fang Ziye and Xue Tao pushed the man into the car, a policeman also got in. He didn't remove the man's handcuffs, but just watched from the side, his eyes fixed on the middle-aged man.

The car started quickly.

Xue Tao and Fang Ziye didn't dare to utter a sound.

After his eyes darted around, the middle-aged man said to Fang Ziye, Xue Tao, and the others, "Both of my legs were broken. Please do not cut off my pants, because there are still fingerprints on them."

"What's the use of leaving fingerprints? You committed murder and fled, and you resisted arrest!" The officer was slightly moved upon hearing this.

"kill?"

"You police officers arrest people without any evidence?"

"What murder? Is there any evidence?"

"Recordings, fingerprints, the crime scene? Or something else?"

"But Shen Dong, he broke my leg, that's a fact. As for resisting?"

"Sorry, I can't find any of my fingerprints on any of your items." The middle-aged man chuckled sinisterly.

"But Shen Dong, he broke both my legs when I was completely unprepared and unable to resist. That's malicious assault, that's a fact." The middle-aged man laughed maniacally.

"You're despicable! Shameless!" The police officer, who was clearly not very old, was seething with hatred.

What's the use of being noble?

"Do you think Zhang Yu and Shen Dong are noble? They're just putting on an act for outsiders. They don't know anything. In ancient times, they would just be lackeys and lapdogs."

"Who do they think they are?"

"Sooner or later I'll kill at least one and cripple the other, then I'll break even. Oh, and their families too."

"Hehehehe..." The middle-aged man laughed, a string of spiky lips.

"I was just talking nonsense, and I wasn't talking nonsense in front of Shen Dong and Zhang Yu. I'm not breaking the law, am I?" The middle-aged man was very arrogant.

The officer clenched his fist.

"Shut up!" the ambulance doctor shouted.

The middle-aged man glanced at the man in green but didn't speak. Then he turned his gaze towards Xue Tao. After a moment, his smile faded, and he fell silent.

Then Fang Ziye noticed that Xue Tao seemed a little lost after recognizing the middle-aged man's face.

Another half minute passed before Xue Tao hesitated for a long time before saying, "Director Pang, how could it be you?"

Xue Tao's words were startling, and Fang Ziye, who was standing next to her, immediately felt a chill.

It seems Xue Tao knew him.

This explains why he was able to enter the ICU and even impersonate a superior, giving orders to resident trainees.

only?

Is he a doctor at this hospital?

What grudge does he have against Shen Dong and Zhang Yu?
"You've mistaken me for someone else." The middle-aged man turned his head and body away without hesitation, as if he didn't want to say anything.

Upon hearing this, Xue Tao opened and closed her mouth a few times, but in the end, she didn't ask any more questions.

Soon, the ambulance arrived at the emergency department of Enshi Central Hospital.

The process went very smoothly. Upon arrival, the patient was immediately taken to the X-ray room and the CT scan room.

The middle-aged man cooperated fully and did not struggle further.

But later, after he was hospitalized in a "special ward" at the trauma center, he was no longer someone Xue Tao and Fang Ziye could contact.

Because several police officers went inside and were conducting interrogation procedures.

Fang Ziye and Xue Tao personally completed the admission and inpatient medical record procedures in the doctor's office.

"Brother Tao, was this person a colleague before?" Fang Ziye asked Xue Tao, who was writing a major illness record, or first hospitalization record, after finishing the admission medical record.

"Yes, it was a superior. He left the company inexplicably a few years ago, and I heard he went to jail. I don't know the details."

“When I first started working here, I met Director Pang. He was a very kind person. I don’t know how things ended up like this.”

Xue Tao immediately said, "Let's not ask questions we shouldn't ask."

"However, since this Director Pang is in this field, he will probably be very difficult to deal with. It will be very difficult for us to even get him into the operating room."

"You know, he just said that he got divorced, left with nothing, no savings, no family, no money, no relatives."

"And when we're talking and signing documents, we don't need to use any of those tricks!"

"We're doomed!"

"That'll give Director Wu and Director Zhang a headache," Xue Tao said, scratching his head.

That's really true.

A shrewd bastard who's even risen to the position of chief physician—getting him to sign an informed consent form for surgery is no easy feat.

If he refuses surgery and just drags it out, he won't be able to be transferred to prison, nor will he be able to undergo lengthy interrogations.

Moreover, the longer this injury drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for Shen Dong, who caused it.

Regardless of the circumstances, this middle-aged man, pretending to be a superior, entered the ICU and ordered the rookie resident to remove Zhang Yu's tube. This is akin to murder, unethical, and a disgrace to his colleagues.

"Yes!" Fang Ziye nodded as well.

"Brother Tao, Director Wu just called you. Is Zhang Yu in the ICU any better?" Fang Ziye was more concerned about Zhang Yu's injuries.

Zhang Yu, a hero who was targeted for revenge, did something that hurt bad people, and now Director Pang is going after him.

Fang Ziye had no liking for this kind of person.

"I don't know. For now, it's still being maintained by extracorporeal circulation. This is something we can't control." Xue Tao shook his head.

"Did Director Wu get away? Isn't the situation clear now?" Fang Ziye asked again. "Investigating cases is even more of a novice for me, but I reckon neither of us will get any sleep for the next few days," Xue Tao said.

A short while later, someone came to the doctor's office looking for Xue Tao.

"He won't budge, doctor, what's wrong with his treatment?" A uniform that neither Fang Ziye nor Xue Tao recognized asked this question directly.

"Given his fracture condition, surgery is the only treatment option we can consider."

"Open reduction and internal fixation. Then a follow-up examination. If the results are good, we can complete the connection with you, right?"

"But his current situation is troublesome. First, the hospital is currently covering his hospitalization expenses, but the national policy for hospitals is to be responsible for their own profits and losses, and the same applies to our department."

“If you can’t determine the nature of his condition and instead use government funds to pay for his medical expenses, then his family will have to pay for the medical and surgical costs upfront, right?” Xue Tao explained the situation clearly.

There was nothing he could do. He was just an employee. If Zhang Mingcan hadn't made a statement that Pang Hong could have the surgery without paying, and without hospital leaders stepping in to cover it, Xue Tao wouldn't have been able to arrange the surgery.

Not to mention going to him for a talk or to get him to sign anything.

Currently, several department heads are still being questioned down there, and it's unclear when they will be able to return. Furthermore, it's impossible to definitively determine the nature of the incident. Even if Pang Hong did indeed induce the resident physicians to remove the patient's tubes, then these department heads will not be able to return.

"This? What's your hospital's perspective on this? Don't you have any emergency plans in place?" the officer asked.

"Yes, but I don't have the authority. Only our department head can come. Our Director Zhang is still downstairs," Xue Tao said.

"As for treatment, we still need Pang Hong's signature to obtain informed consent. If he does not agree to the surgery, all our discussions will be in vain."

Informed consent is an absolute principle. Anyone, regardless of their status, is a patient in a hospital. If they do not consent, even if the King of Heaven himself came, the doctor would not perform the surgery on them!

Even the police can't help it.

After all, what if Pang Hong is not a suspect, is later exonerated, and then dies on the operating table during surgery? What would the hospital do then?
"Damn it!" the uniformed man across from him cursed, as if he was disgusted by Xue Tao's white coat, but he didn't lash out.

Fang Ziye stood aside, unable to say anything.

The uniformed man turned and walked away.

Soon.

Director Zhang Mingcan, former Director Hongdu, and Wu Guonan and several others finally managed to escape from downstairs.

Because it's unnecessary. If they really wanted to harm Zhang Yu, they could have just inserted a lump of fat into his blood vessels on the operating table or cut off several blood vessels. That would have been much more direct, reasonable, and legal than going to the ICU.

Why stir up trouble unnecessarily, unless it's out of passion?

Although Wu Guonan and others do not have absolute alibis, they were all in the operating room at the time of the incident and were later rushed to the ICU for emergency treatment, which many people can attest to.

Those who stayed behind, including Zhang Mingcan, could only ask them.

After the three directors returned, Xue Tao immediately reported Pang Hong's situation to them.

However, the three of them seemed to have known Pang Hong's identity all along.

"Xue Tao, I know, this is Director Pang."

"But it's precisely because he's Director Pang that this matter is definitely complicated."

"The person who broke his bones will definitely not come out unscathed in the end. He was just being played by him. I have good reason to suspect that he deliberately provoked someone to break his bones."

"Because he was hospitalized with a broken bone, Pang Hong had plenty of time to deal with the situation."

“Right now, whether it’s our hospital or other colleagues, who can persuade him to go to the operating table?” Zhang Mingcan said with a wry smile.

"If we had known it was him earlier, we would have sent him to the People's Hospital or the Minzu University Hospital instead."

Director Hongdu, the most senior official and the mentor of both Zhang Mingcan and Wu Guonan, said upon hearing this, "We can't just ignore it."

"The most important thing right now is to find an absolute indication for emergency surgery so that he has no choice but to go under the knife. But unfortunately, he's already in the hospital. If he were still on his way, it would be easier to handle."

When Hong Du said this, Zhang Mingcan and the others glanced at him.

What do you mean by "it's actually easier to handle"?

Are you going to create an absolute indication for surgery?

Hongdu glanced at the group and said, “You are still young and haven’t experienced the banditry in Enzhou. In those days, the local customs were much more fierce. There were many people who wanted to stay in the hospital and refuse to leave in order to avoid disaster.”

"There are all sorts of scoundrels, and hospitals always have to find ways to get rid of people."

"Now that conditions are better, there are fewer people like that."

"However, these methods are only for laymen. This Pang Hong will not succeed in intimidating people by using similar methods," Hong Du complained.

"So we can only wait like this, there's nothing we can do?" Wu Guonan asked.

I felt extremely frustrated.

“There is a way.” Hongdu shook his head.

"First, we need to get the anesthesiology department to contact the top professors in the province so that Pang Hong can't find any loopholes in the anesthesia risks."

"Secondly, we need to contact the top professors in trauma surgery so that they can't even question the risks of surgery!"

"Thirdly, we need to contact the blood bank and make full preoperative preparations so that he has nothing to say and must sign the document."

"Fourth, we need to find a way to resolve the issue of the surgery costs."

"A fracture is a clear indication for surgery. If the funds are sufficient and the surgical and anesthesia teams are fully staffed, and the patient still refuses to undergo surgery, then it's not up to him to decide."

"After all, if a fracture is left untreated for a long time, it will lead to an emergency indication for amputation."

"At that time, we'll just follow the general duty officer's procedures and proceed with the amputation procedure."

"Pang Hong would never do such a thing." Pang Hong was a junior colleague of the former director of Hongdu, and it seemed that Hongdu still had some understanding of Pang Hong.

Wu Guonan then asked, "Director Hong, why exactly did Pang Hong resign?"

"do not know."

"Don't ask." Hong Du clearly knew, but was unwilling to say.

"Zhang Mingcan, try contacting Professor Duan Hong at Tongji Hospital first, and then Professor Deng Yong at Zhongnan Hospital. If they can't come, call Professor An at the Provincial People's Hospital or Professor Qi at Union Hospital."

“We can always find someone. Once we get one, Pang Hong won’t be able to say that the surgery is too risky. He’s already the best professor in the province.”

"Okay! I'll give it a try. But it'll probably be tomorrow by then," Zhang Mingcan said.

Asking a professor to perform the surgery—this trivial emergency surgery requires them to rush over overnight—is something Zhang Mingcan simply cannot bring himself to do.

"We'll talk about the rest later!"

"Wu Guonan, Xue Tao, and Xiao Fang, you should all go and rest first."

"This dispute with Pang Hong isn't something that can be resolved in a few words. It will take at least several more days to resolve," Hong Du instructed, clearly showing that he was the most composed person in the face of such a major matter.

An old house where a treasure.

Even if Zhang Mingcan and Hong Du have different ideas, when faced with such an emergency, the old director still needs to step in to take charge.

The main issue is that the current situation is simply too unusual!

Xue Tao had no time to rest; he still had to prepare various signed documents, such as the informed consent form for surgery and the admission interview record.

This patient is special, and only Xue Tao can personally manage and communicate with him. Fang Ziye is a PhD from Zhongnan Hospital, and they dare not let Fang Ziye communicate directly with the patient.

If Fang Ziye were to ask his teacher for help again, all of their phones would be ringing off the hook the next day.

Why don't your own hospital staff manage patients with such special circumstances, and instead let Fang Ziye handle it? Is this to harm people?

Fang Ziye then had some free time again. After saying goodbye to the trembling and bewildered Mao Mao in the doctor's office, he left the department.

However, as he entered the elevator leading to the doctors' and staff's passage, he turned his gaze and saw a person standing in the stairwell, crouching against the wall with their head in their hands, as if they were in great pain.

It was Shen Dong, who had a fiery temper, spoke bluntly, and trusted Fang Ziye implicitly.

Upon seeing this, Fang Ziye's expression flickered slightly. He scratched his head and said, "Actually, you should wear gloves."

Fang Ziye knew that Pang Hong was the one whose bones were broken by Shen Dong in a fit of rage.

However, Fang Ziye still felt that Shen Dong was far too immature.

If he knew Pang Hong, and knew that Pang Hong was a doctor, he shouldn't have admitted him to the hospital!
Furthermore, one should not allow oneself to be entangled in the crime of intentional injury!
(End of this chapter)