Hospital 444
Chapter 41 - 13 Patient Mortality Quota

Chapter 41: Chapter 13 Patient Mortality Quota

Dai Lin remembered that Dr. Gao had surgery scheduled for this afternoon, and by calculating the time, Dr. Gao should have been in the middle of that surgery.

He touched his forehead, pondered for a moment, and recalled the name Jiang Han had mentioned yesterday—Lin Sen.

He pressed the call button, wanting to summon a nurse and inquire about his current condition.

Meanwhile...

In an operating room of the inpatient department.

Gao Heyan was stitching up the incision of the patient before him.

The surgery had been completed, the removal of the curse proceeding very smoothly.

This kind of suturing would leave no scars; once done, the thread would merge with the body, becoming virtually invisible to the naked eye, and naturally, there would be no need for removal.

On the side, there was an iron tray that appeared empty to the naked eye, but it was holding the removed main body of the curse.

Not long after Gao Heyan finished stitching, an inexplicable amount of blood began to seep out from that iron tray!

Only, the blood was black!

The doctors looked toward the tray, and soon, in the center of the black blood, a terrifying human head gradually... emerged!

The head looked ferociously at the patient lying on the operating table, seeming to still want to curse the patient!

But Gao Heyan quickly approached, thrusting the scalpel fiercely into that head!

Subsequently, the head slowly sank down.

"More smoothly than expected," Dr. Lin He said to Gao Heyan, "The main body of the patient’s soul wasn’t greatly affected, so the patient and their family can probably rest assured."

"We can’t be too careless during the postoperative observation," Gao Heyan, looking at the blood on the tray, said, "When the Department of Cursed Objects’ staff come to collect it later, hand this thing over to them."

"Mhm, you still don’t like dealing with the people from the Department of Cursed Objects, huh," Lin He commented while looking at the black blood on the tray, "This must be a Resentful Spirit generated from some kind of evil curse. I wonder what kind of person the patient offended to conjure such a thing."

"It must be an even more sinister art than Gu, " Gao Heyan glanced at the patient still under anesthesia and said, "That’s enough, let’s push the patient out and send them back to their room."

"At dawn, you went to that house with Director Song, didn’t you?" Lin He leaned closer to Gao Heyan and asked, "How did it go? I heard from our department that Director Song advised you not to follow up anymore, after all, only Mr. Jiang was the registered patient."

However, Gao Heyan gave a response that was off-topic, "Lin Yan should also be in the special operating room of the Demons Department by now, right? If Dr. Kree performs the surgery personally, the risk shouldn’t be too big, right?"

"You still dare to ask about that, huh. The affairs of the Demons Department are not to be inquired about by other departments. I’m worried right now, who knows if that Devil is going to come into the hospital again..."

Exiting the operating room, the patient’s parents and several other relatives immediately rushed up.

"Doctor, how did it go? Was the surgery successful?" the patient’s father asked Gao Heyan hopefully, "There are no, no problems, right?"

"There’s nothing to worry about," Gao Heyan said, "The process went very smoothly, and the main body of the curse has been completely removed."

"Everything went smoothly, that’s good, that’s good..."

At that moment, a relative asked, "Wait, doctor, the main body? Are there still other parts that haven’t been removed?"

Lin He then explained, "After the main body of the curse is removed, the remaining part only requires postoperative treatment for clinical recovery. Otherwise, continuing to expand the excision would cause irreversible damage to the soul."

"Doctor, really, thank you so much!" The patient’s father tightly grasped Gao Heyann’s hand, overwhelmed with emotion, "If something happened to our child, I, I really wouldn’t know how to go on living!"

"It’s nothing," Gao Heyann immediately said, "This is what I should do as a doctor."

After sending the patient back to their room, Gao Heyann gave the nurse some more instructions, then asked, "How is Dr. Dai doing?"

The nurse immediately answered, "Dr. Dai is all good, but patient Zhao Lin in bed 42 was found to have a recurrence of the curse this morning. Director Song instructed a blood transfusion first, then observation."

"A recurrence of the curse?" Gao Heyann’s expression became somewhat ugly.

She was the surgeon for this patient, although Director Song was the chief surgeon.

If another patient dies, her quota of patient deaths would increase. And next, she still had to save the person prophesied by Jiang Han. If she couldn’t save him, there was still next month, and the month after that...

Everyone was clear about the consequences of a doctor exceeding their death quota. The death quota was set by the dean according to the department and the doctor’s rank, with no room for leniency.

"How could the curse have recurred?" Gao Heyann asked anxiously, "The data from the last checkup were all good!"

"When the CT report came out, we already found a part of the Resentful Spirit’s body regenerating," the nurse said, biting her lip, "Patient Zhao Lin could have been discharged at the end of the year if his checkups had remained normal, but now..."

"Wait, did you just say Director Song instructed a blood transfusion?"

"Yes, the recurrence was very aggressive this time, and treatment with ordinary Cursed Objects was ineffective, so we started with a transfusion of Karmic Obstacle Ghost blood to suppress it."

"The director actually used such an aggressive treatment method?" Although Gao Heyann said this, she didn’t dare to question Director Song—she was one of the hospital’s most senior surgeons.

"Yes... Given the current situation, another surgery will definitely be needed. As for the specific surgical plan, Director Song will have to decide." Upon saying this, the nurse’s voice trembled, "At that time, Dr. Gao, you were in surgery, and patient Zhao Lin vomited a lot of blood..."

In the evening, the doctors’ cafeteria.

In Hospital 444, because doctors from different floors were not allowed to move around freely, each floor had its own separate cafeteria for doctors.

At this time, Gao Heyann was eating at a table with Song Min.

Although Song Min, as the head of the department, was Gao Heyann’s superior, Gao Heyann was Wuque’s aunt by marriage, so Song Min never put on airs in front of her.

"He Yan, patient Zhao Lin has been possessed by a Resentful Spirit for nine years," Director Song said, "According to the CT results, the body generated by the Resentful Spirit has already developed bones, and the spine is quite complete. The patient himself is very scared; at first, he wanted to opt for conservative treatment, fearing that once he’s on the operating table, he might not come off it."

"Could that be because he was influenced by the death of a fellow patient in the same ward?"

"I instructed an initial transfusion of 200ml of Karmic Obstacle Ghost blood, using the Curse of Karma to suppress it for now; we need to observe for a period of time. Currently, the blood bank is running low on Karmic Obstacle Ghost’s blood, and we need to request more from the Department of Cursed Objects. If this trend of recurrence continues to develop, the patient probably won’t last another two months."

Hearing this, Gao Heyann’s complexion grew increasingly grim.

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