Chapter 1908: Wasting Medical Resources

The doctor didn’t show much of a reaction. He’d seen all kinds of cases. He simply went through the routine questions, and once the procedure was done, he happened to catch sight of Sister Lai coming in. That ball of pent-up anger in his chest swelled and he was ready to let it out.

“Miss Song was lucky this time, but next time she might not be this fortunate. No matter what, once you’re at the hospital, if you’re injured, the injury gets treated first. The rest of the tests, you cooperate with the doctors step by step. The way you went straight into a ward and waited for a doctor to come and treat only you was inappropriate. Hospital resources are limited, especially when the ER doctors simply don’t have any spare time. It’s not that anyone you name can just come over. I was on my way to the emergency clinic, and when I heard from the nurse that you were badly hurt, I came to take a look first. I didn’t expect I wouldn’t even make it through the door.”

Song Yuan’s face flushed unnaturally. She snuck a glance at Bo Yanching, bit her lip, and said softly, “I’m very sorry for the trouble I’ve caused you.”

“It’s not exactly trouble. Treating and saving patients is our duty. I just wanted to remind Miss Song not to waste resources. The few minutes you delayed me at the door were enough for me to bandage one patient’s wound.”

Song Yuan’s face was burning with embarrassment, and she kept apologizing. She braced herself, trying to sit up. The doctor lifted his hand and pressed downward in a calming gesture. “No need to get up. Focus on recuperating. I’ve ordered a CT scan for you. Once you’ve rested and feel you can get up, go and get the scan done first.”

Song Yuan nodded, thanked him, and had Sister Lai walk the doctor out. But the moment he saw Sister Lai’s face, his temper flared again. He didn’t even let her come within two meters, just picked up his medical kit and left on his own.

Sister Lai followed him out but didn’t get a single word in. The back of the doctor’s head grew farther and farther away, so she returned to the ward, sharply aware that the atmosphere had gone stiff.

“Sister Lai, I had no idea you could make things difficult for a doctor like that. You… you’re being so immature!”

Song Yuan was propping up her upper body, still trying to sit. Sister Lai glanced at Bo Yanching; seeing that the man showed no inclination to step in or show any chivalry, she had no choice but to hurry over, help Song Yuan up, and stuff two pillows behind her back.

“I was just thinking that among the surgeons, Doctor Xu is the best, and you have some ties with him. If a familiar face treats you, at least he’ll be conscientious and won’t pull any tricks with the tests. That doctor just now, you could tell at a glance he wasn’t reliable—looked like the scheming type.”

“Nonsense! How can you judge a doctor’s skill purely by appearances and casually pass verdicts on people like that!”

Song Yuan raised her voice a bit. She was already weak, and the sound seemed to be forcibly dragged out from her throat. As the last word fell, a surge of breath slammed into her chest and set her coughing.

Sister Lai was startled too. She yanked out a few tissues and pressed them into Song Yuan’s hand, then moved behind her to pat her back and help her catch her breath.

Song Yuan turned her head and coughed for quite a while. She raised a hand to rub her chest back and forth, and only then did her breathing gradually steady.

She lifted her arm slightly to stop Sister Lai from patting her. “Enough. I’ll talk to you about this later. For now, go wait outside. If you really care, buy some fruit and go apologize to that doctor.”

Sister Lai didn’t quite understand. “It wasn’t that big a deal, just a few exchanged words. Do we really have to go that far?”

After she entered the industry, she was led around by one or two agents, and then the first rookie she handled, Xiao Hua, exploded in popularity with her very first drama. The marketing and follow-up resource connections she did for that artist made a name for her, and she herself became hot in the circle. Not long after, someone offered a hefty price to poach her.

Having spent so many days with this 208W crowd, the more her artists blew up, the more solid her qualifications and status became. Gradually, her mentality floated upward, and there had simply never been anything that could make her bow her head and apologize.