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Chapter 195 All's Fair in War (Please Subscribe)

In the doctor's office, only Wu Guonan's group remained.

Despite encountering a challenging patient like Pang Hong, Zhang Mingcan and the team led by former Chief Physician Hongdu still maintained normal medical services. In fact, Wu Guonan even transferred patients scheduled for surgery to their team.

Work involves a large team, so there must be cooperation and prioritization.

Xue Tao touched his big nose, his thick eyebrows like knives: "Director Wu, in his situation, can we find a breakthrough by looking at his family? After all, Pang Hong has parents, an ex-wife, and a son."

Wu Guonan immediately reached out to refuse: "No, you must not have any ulterior motives in this regard."

"You said it yourself, his wife is his ex-wife, and his child is a minor and not fully capable of acting. What's the point of you persuading his son?"

"His son and wife had surgery. Are you going to have surgery? Are you expecting our department to pay him off for his wife and children's retirement?"

patient!

The right to informed consent!

This is a right granted to them by law.

Anyone who is a patient has this right. And anyone who enters a hospital and establishes a medical relationship with the hospital is a patient, as stipulated by law.

This regulation was originally intended to protect ordinary people, but it has now become a protective shield for Pang Hong.

"What about his parents?" Xue Tao still wanted to take a shortcut.

"Pang Hong is not incapacitated yet, and he does not need a guardian."

"Of course, you can have his parents come over and put pressure on him, but I don't think that will be of any use. If Pang Hong explains the situation to his parents, it will only be an obstacle for us."

“Currently, Pang Hong is still clinging to the last shred of dignity and hasn’t involved his children and parents. We only need to deal with him, not several of them,” Wu Guonan said quickly, rejecting Xue Tao’s suggestion once again.

"Did you call the security office?" Wu Guonan asked.

“We called, but the security office said the recording equipment couldn’t be moved. They suggested that Pang Hong go to the security office, if he can use a wheelchair, to talk to the police outside!” Xue Tao replied.

"Okay, go explain the situation." Wu Guonan checked the relevant documents for informed consent for the surgery.

However, Xue Tao returned shortly afterward.

"Director Liu outside said that they have law enforcement equipment that can record the whole process, and that they will also participate in the whole process, which will be discussed in the ward."

"Does the security office agree? Actually, having police officers as witnesses is the best and most credible way to verify information," Wu Guonan asked again.

"Agreed. The Security Office and the Dean both agree. Dean Qin will also come in person."

……

There were three people in the department who went to have their conversations and sign the documents.

One was Wu Guonan, and the other was Xue Tao. These two were the main force in the talks and signing. The third was Fang Ziye, because in the end, Wu Guonan contacted Professor Duan Hong from Tongji Hospital and Professor Deng Yong from Zhongnan Hospital, two giants who worked on both sides at the same time.

It's like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Two top-notch trauma surgeons, instead of performing routine nonunion surgeries, opted to perform open reduction and internal fixation of fractures, as well as simple debridement, suturing, exploration, and hemostasis.

Although Wu Xuanqi was not the representative to sign the agreement, Professor Deng Yong had Fang Ziye present as an observer, just in case there were any hidden problems.

The professors who came to assist with the consultation and surgery didn't want the process of talking and signing to be messy, so they ended up going back smelling like scum.

Pang Hong still refuses to vote!
But he wasn't angry. Instead, he looked Wu Guonan over carefully before slowly saying, "Director Wu, you're avoiding the main point!"

"I'm asking you what exactly my current condition is, when the forensic doctor will come to assess whether it constitutes a disability, and what kind of harm that man named Shen Dong caused me—you haven't said a word about it?"

Trouble is coming.

Pang Hong is no ordinary person, not even an ordinary doctor. He can annoy people to death by focusing on any one point.

Indeed, Pang Hong was injured and suffered a fracture, which is no longer a minor injury.

庞宏继续说：“按照我们国家的法律规定，股骨干骨折缩短5.0cm以上、成角畸形30°以上或者严重旋转畸形、胫腓骨骨折缩短5.0cm以上、成角畸形30°以上或者严重旋转畸形、膝关节挛缩畸形屈曲30o以上、一侧膝关节交叉韧带完全断裂遗留旋转不稳、股骨颈骨折或者髋关节脱位，致股骨头坏死、四肢长骨骨折不愈合或者假关节形成；四肢长骨骨折并发慢性骨髓炎……”

"These are all classified as level two serious injuries. You haven't mentioned any of these complications, have you?"

Wu Guonan didn't expect Pang Hong to continue to nitpick on this point, so he said, "Pang Hong, as you can see, I have Officer Liu from the police station, our hospital's on-duty officer, Dean Qin, Director Zhang, and Director Liu from the security office here. These people can all be witnesses."

"Pang Hong, your current mental state is normal."

"I want to make it clear to you again that your current condition is an absolute indication for surgery, and the sooner the surgery is performed, the better."

"As for what you've said, it's not within the scope of our hospital's functions. You were also a practitioner back then, so it's pointless for you to communicate these things with us."

"Our hospital cannot communicate with the forensic department."

"Our department recommends surgery, and we will invite the best trauma surgeon in the province to perform the surgery."

“If you refuse, it means you are willing to bear all the consequences of refusing treatment and delaying treatment!” Wu Guonan’s voice remained calm, neither pleased nor angry.

"So there's nothing to talk about then?" Pang Hong said, then started 'playing dead' again!
It was as if the conversation couldn't continue unless you called in a forensic doctor.

This is clearly an attempt to nail Shen Dong to the ground!

Liu Chaodong said, "Forensic experts should assess the extent of injury after active treatment has been administered, rather than fixing your condition at the time of injury and thus delaying treatment."

“Don’t think I’m an amateur.” Pang Hong looked at Liu Chaodong.

"You're the one who's an amateur here."

"After accepting a case of injury, the public security organ shall issue a letter of entrustment for injury assessment within 24 hours and inform the victim to go to the designated assessment institution for injury assessment."

"According to the standards for personal injury assessment promulgated by relevant national departments and the victim's injuries at the time and hospital diagnosis certificates, if the conditions for immediate injury assessment are met, the public security organ's assessment institution shall submit its assessment opinion within 24 hours of being commissioned and issue an assessment document within 3 days."

"As you just heard, Director Wu said that my injuries are not complicated and that I meet the conditions for immediate assessment."

"As for any lingering effects, that will be addressed during the reassessment of serious injury and disability," Pang Hong sneered.

"According to my research, as long as the law is not amended, this is still the regulation."

Liu Chaodong: "You!"

Wu Guonan immediately took two steps back and said to the hospital director, "Director Qin, as you can see, the patient is not cooperating, and we doctors are ignoring what he says and not responding."

He then looked at Liu Chaodong and said, "Officer Liu, we doctors are also helpless. If the patient's condition changes or even becomes life-threatening, there is nothing we can do!"

Pang Hong smiled and waved the recording phone at Wu Guonan: "Director Wu, what you said makes a lot of sense."

"We are all adults, and adults should be responsible for their own actions and choices."

“I currently meet the criteria for treatment and have already been admitted to the hospital and established a medical relationship, so you still have to find a way for me. What do you mean by being powerless? Didn’t you just propose so many contingency plans?”

"They are unprofessional and failed to conduct a timely injury assessment for me. They wanted to play dirty tricks on me, so I cannot compromise fairness for the sake of treatment."

"Knowing the law and breaking it is an even greater crime." Pang Hong sneered, his mouth covered in salty saliva, making him look particularly slovenly.

Pang Hong was hospitalized, which must be due to medical indications. The hospital cannot discharge him without being in violation of the law and being inhumane.

Now it seems Pang Hong isn't causing trouble for the hospital, but is instead targeting Shen Dong and Liu Chaodong, and it's unclear where this deep-seated hatred comes from.

Just then.

Liu Chaodong's phone rang.

Liu Chaodong stepped back and answered the call: "What?"

"Did that resident trainee give a different story? Has the real suspect been found?"

"Then this Pang Hong?"

"Damn it." Upon hearing this, Liu Chaodong glared fiercely at Pang Hong, pointed at Pang Hong several times, and gestured.

"You~"

"Director Liu, you arrested me, your men beat me, and you pinned the charges against me on my head. How can you blame me?"

"What's the use of protesting my innocence to you?" Pang Hong sneered.

He waved his phone, saying, "Don't look at me. These words came from your mouths. I didn't entice or coerce you. We were all recording our conversations." "Do you know that your current actions are already illegal?" Liu Chaodong's face was extremely dark, terrifyingly dark, so dark that he wanted to swallow Pang Hong whole.

"Suspected?"

"Is this another baseless accusation?"

“I’m not afraid of your framing at all! You’ve done similar things before, I’m not afraid of you for a second!” Pang Hong turned his head away.

"What you should be doing now is bringing in a forensic doctor to preserve the evidence. I'm going to sue your company in court, and this will all be evidence!"

Liu Chaodong turned and left.

Pang Hong then readily signed his name, without needing Wu Guonan to say anything more.

After signing the papers, Pang Hongcai said again, "Director Wu, I'll say it again: I'll have the surgery after the forensic doctor comes to assess the injuries."

But once you get here, it's as if everything has turned out to be a farce.

Dean Qin and Director Liu from the Security Office, among others, all left. They felt that everything that had happened today was utterly ridiculous.

"Director Pang, why are you doing this?" Wu Guonan looked at Pang Hong, completely baffled as to why Pang Hong had to make things so tense with Liu Chaodong and the others.

"You don't understand~" Pang Hong turned his head away, hissing and twitching as he felt the pain in his leg.

It was as if this were a farce.

……

Wu Guonan and Xue Tao left with expressions of helplessness on their faces.

After all that fuss, it turned out to be just a misunderstanding.

Pang Hong was not a murderer; he was framed. The real murderer was someone else, Shen Dong and his gang. Pang Hong had his legs broken after shouting at them.

What about all that he's been doing in his own department?
Donate?

Wu Guonan and Xue Tao felt like clowns, secretly cursing Liu Chaodong and the others for their incompetence.

But what else can we do?

The surgery has to begin, and all the necessary personnel are on their way. So, we can only instruct the operating room to be ready for the necessary pre-operative preparations at any time.

Let's just consider this a way to lighten the punishment for Shen Dong and the others, to make them clean up the mess they made by hitting the wrong people.

Of course, the promises made beforehand, the audio recorded by Pang Hong, and all of these things still have to be done, even if it's difficult to keep them.

Is it because Pang Hong is a suspect, and out of a sense of justice, that so many arrangements were made to send him to jail?
Now that he is innocent, all the previous arrangements have been completely cancelled. And those professors who were already on the high-speed train, are you making them turn back halfway?
You can think that way in your heart, but you can't say it that way, and you can't do things that way.

……

The forensic doctor requested by Pang Hong has arrived, but the injury assessment report will not be available for some time.

However, Pang Hong was not worried because he had recorded the whole process. He only said when the forensic team left: "I have already secured the evidence. We are all in the medical field, so don't try to shirk responsibility or cover up for anyone."

"Whatever it is, that's what it is. If the final result differs from your report, let me remind you, damn it, everyone in this world has connections."

"The connections I can make aren't within the provincial circle. If you insist on not following the procedures, you might get into trouble too. I'm not afraid to make a big deal out of it..."

The forensic team left with grim faces.

In fact, Pang Hong's current diagnosis is very clear; it's just a matter of how their report came out.

However, Pang Hong's insistence on causing trouble in this way or that way made them quite unhappy.

……

"What kind of mess are you making of all this?"

"How could the suspect be mistaken?" Xue Tao muttered helplessly as he returned to the doctor's office.

It felt as if I was feeling very disappointed, as if the things I had been working so hard for had suddenly become several levels less prestigious.

However, Wu Guonan looked at Xue Tao and said, "Xue Tao, haven't you heard that all's fair in war?"

"If we don't do this, do you think Pang Hong would be willing to have the surgery?"

Upon hearing this, Xue Tao suddenly turned her head and looked at Wu Guonan.

Then, looking at Fang Ziye and Wang Zhongxing, he found that apart from Wu Guonan, everyone else seemed to know nothing about the matter.

So, this was actually a tactic Liu Chaodong used to lower Pang Hong's guard. He pretended to have caught the other murderers just to make Pang Hong lower his guard.
"Director Wu, what do you mean?"

“But that’s not right. Since Pang Hong has already done all that, why would he still want to turn back? Can he even turn back?” Xue Tao was very confused.

But the passion deep inside me suddenly surged up again.

A man is a boy until death; why shouldn't a man carry a sword?

Serving justice is something many people want to do, and even something they feel obligated to do within their power.

"This is not our responsibility. What we need to do is to perform the surgery well."

"To reiterate, we are just doctors, only responsible for treating patients and saving lives. The investigation, methods, and suspects have nothing to do with us."

"This Pang Hong is just a patient, a patient. We can't afford to have anything go wrong during the surgery!" Wu Guonan warned Xue Tao, fearing that Xue Tao, with his thick eyebrows, big eyes, and thick nose, might make a rash move during the surgery and ruin Pang Hong's life.

Then, around 1 p.m., after learning that Professor Deng Yong and Professor Duan Hong had arrived in Ba County, Pang Hong was taken to the operating room by his department.

Fang Ziye followed the crowd into the operating room, but there were quite a few people in the operating room at this time.

Nie Mingxian was in the anesthesiologist team, but the team consisted of nine people at the moment. Besides Nie Mingxian, who was performing nerve block anesthesia, there were five or six others surrounding a female professor who looked very elegant.

The female professor sat there casually, watching, occasionally chatting with Tang Yue, whom Fang Ziye had met briefly the day before...

At the same time, Fang Ziye's medical team also has a considerable number of members.

Besides Wu Guonan's team, Director Hong Du and Director Zhang Mingcan were both in the operating room, while Zhong Xuegao and Wang Zhongxing went to the train station to pick up people.

Besides Director Zhang Mingcan, Wu Xuanqi from Minzu University Hospital and the director of the Department of Trauma Surgery from Minzu University Hospital were also in the operating room. It's unclear whether they were there just to make up the numbers or if they were genuinely there to make a splash.

Clearly, everyone had been preparing for this surgery for a long time, all for one outcome: to perform the surgery on Pang Hong successfully, and then to take Pang Hong directly from the operating room to the prison hospital.

No one showed any malice towards Pang Hong; they were simply discussing the illness objectively.

Soon, Nie Mingxian completed the anesthesia.

After the anesthesia was administered, the female professor personally determined the depth of anesthesia and asked Pang Hong, "Hello, do you feel any pain?"

"No." Pang Hong shook his head.

"What about touch?"

"Yes!" Pang Hong nodded in reply.

Hearing this, the female professor seemed to understand something and said, "Then move it."

The professor's words immediately shocked all the anesthesiologists present.

After anesthesia, it's common to feel no pain, and occasionally you might retain some tactile sensation, which could allow you to complete a task. However, you still retain motor function. What the hell?
That's kind of amazing, isn't it?

"Holy crap!" Fang Ziye exclaimed. Wu Xuanqi gasped in a low voice, clearly finding the anesthetic effect achievable at the moment unimaginable.

With thorough preparations, and in the spirit of war, all's fair in deception, we lure the enemy into our trap.

Pang Hong, however, seemed oblivious to everything, still exchanging pleasantries with Wu Guonan: "Director Wu, please thank Professor Feng for me."

Wu Guonan, a shrewd fellow, grinned and said, "No problem, no problem. Professor Feng, Pang Hong said thank you."

He seemed to have a good relationship with Pang Hong, but his smile wasn't very pleasant, as if to say, "Who would have such a good relationship with you, Pang Hong?"

……

(End of this chapter)