A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return

The doctor in charge knelt down and wept, before he ended up questioning Chu Chen’s father, ”Doctor Chu, you’re the best surgeon in our hospital. If you don’t take charge of this surgery, I’ll have no choice but to get Doctor Liu! You know Doctor Liu’s certificate was bought with money, he was just a vet before this! He has barely done a few proper surgeries, much less take charge of something so complicated! If I get him to do this, that patient is basically being given a death sentence! Are you so heartless as to watch the patient die in the operating table?”

His father thought in silence for a while before finally agreeing.

He was a soft-hearted man, after all. The doctor in charge thanked him profusely before leaving.

He took much time to prepare for that surgery—going to research centers, analyzing similar cases from overseas, asking the doctors and nurses about the patient’s details… he was even caught up with thinking about the surgery during mealtimes.

Eventually, under the pressure of the hospital management and the patient’s family members, he walked into the operating room.

Chu Chen knew that he had done his best.

Even so, doctors were not divine beings. Although his father had put in every ounce of effort and was perfect in his execution, the patient still went into a coma and did not live past the month.

His father was greatly pained and full of self-reproach. ”I really regret this. If he had not undergone this surgery, he would’ve lived for another month at least, and witnessed the birth of his granddaughter.”

But he was just a surgeon, after all, there were things that were simply out of his control.

For the first time, he felt upset for being just an ordinary doctor. If he had more power and authority, could he have stopped this tragedy from happening?

After the patient’s death, he was reticent for a long time.

Little Chu Chen and his mother were worried about his state of mind, but never would they have expected that this was just the beginning of their nightmare.

The family of the deceased started voicing their unhappiness. They aggressively demanded an explanation from the hospital.

The hospital management could not deal with the pressure and decided to push Chu Chen’s father forward instead.

Chu Chen’s father was dumbfounded. He had done all his preparation, executed his techniques perfectly, and went through each step as per the requirements. He had not betrayed his conscience at all, how could he be held responsible for this tragedy? If anyone was to be accountable, it should be those who single-handedly made the decision to go ahead with the surgery!

What’s worse, the hospital held him responsible for this charge—error in surgical procedure, medical mishap.

They said that Chu Chen’s father had been a doctor for so many years but was never given a promotion. In a bid to climb the ranks as soon as possible, he boasted that he’d be able to do the surgery well and hence, swayed the doctor in charge to give the green light. Moreover, he even made countless mistakes during the surgery itself, directly leading to the death of the patient.

His father did not protest against those words; there was practically no way to justify himself.

The doctor in charge who had wept and begged him back then had now turned against him. He looked at him with utter disdain and chided him in front of the deceased’s family as well as their colleagues. ”Doctor Chu, I never thought you were such a person. If you hadn’t guaranteed the success of the surgery, I wouldn’t have agreed for my patient to undergo this risky procedure! I can’t believe how unethical you are, what a disappointment!”