Hospital 444
Chapter 560 - 22 Also, please ask a question for me

Chapter 560: Chapter 22 Also, please ask a question for me

"I’ve heard something about it," Dai Lin often heard the nurses discussing Mei Quzhen. "At that time..."

"I roughly know why Fei Jingyan asked you to come to me with this question."

Mei Quzhen showed a reminiscent look and said, "Back then, many people advised me against establishing the Evil Ghost Department on my own."

"Yes, I’ve heard many people mention that. Now, anyone who talks about Director Mei greatly admires you."

In today’s era, women greatly enjoy the so-called independent leading ladies, and Mei Quzhen, with her own strength, upheld the Evil Ghost Department, even among all department heads she was one of the top. Even Director Song Min thought Mei Quzhen was a peerless genius.

Of course... now that Dai Lin had appeared, Mei Quzhen felt she couldn’t really consider herself as "peerless" anymore. If this man in front of her could pass the test at the Oroñe Hotel, he would definitely be immediately promoted as a department head.

"What I originally wanted to do... I still haven’t accomplished it. I wanted to obtain information about the curse logic of malevolent ghosts through An Xiunian. You know, the prognosis of malevolent ghost curses often varies greatly, and even if the Curse Artifact Department produced curse logic reports, they are often difficult to treat. Only by understanding the curse logic and creating corresponding curse artifacts can we improve the treatment level."

"Director Mei, what you want to do is to thoroughly analyze the Malevolent Spirit Curse Logic?"

"Strictly speaking, malevolent ghosts were once considered a subtype of malevolent spirits, and the treatment adopted wasn’t much different from that of malevolent spirit curses. Even after establishing the Evil Ghost Department, this path was still extremely difficult. Even the Curse Artifact Department didn’t support us. Although they are not a clinical department, their cooperation is very important and crucial for treating patients."

"You can reply to Fei Jingyan with this. And tell him, I don’t regret it."

Dai Lin realized that perhaps for the sake of establishing the Evil Ghost Department, Director Mei... probably lost a lot.

When Vice President Lu was alive, he naturally could protect her well. But after Vice President Lu passed away, Han Ming, who had no fondness for Mei Quzhen who had relied on Vice President Lu’s support to establish the Evil Ghost Department, naturally oppressed her.

But the question was, why did Fei Jingyan specifically ask Dai Lin to inquire Mei Quzhen about this?

"Fei Jingyan, he must have heard about An Xiunian’s incident. He knows that I was close to having a lead on the Malevolent Spirit Curse Logic."

Dai Lin listened to Mei Quzhen’s words and did not ask about any enmity between Mei Quzhen and Fei Jingyan.

"I understand, Director Mei. I will convey your answer to Doctor Fei."

Mei Quzhen picked up a cup next to her, walked to the water dispenser, poured some water, and after a long while, said, "Dai Lin, you also need to be prepared. Soon, a huge disaster will befall our hospital."

Dai Lin nodded.

He certainly knew.

Mei Quzhen must also be aware of the existence of 666 Hospital.

"At that time, most of the doctors in this hospital will die. I probably won’t be an exception. The only consolation is that those papers and medical data we left on the official website of the hospital, will be passed down. I just hope that before I die, I can leave some legacy for the successors, so they can take fewer detours. Because... the detours we’ve taken are surely paved with accumulations of bones."

Mei Quzhen picked up the cup and took a sip.

She actually hadn’t expected Fei Jingyan to ask her such a question through Dai Lin.

After all... over the years, she couldn’t possibly be the only doctor who had noticed the special nature of the malevolent ghost curses. However, since malevolent ghost curses were relatively rare and didn’t significantly affect doctors’ patient death quotas, not many were willing to do thankless tasks. It’s like the drug development process for rare diseases, which certainly can’t keep up with that for common diseases.

Mei Quzhen came from a very ordinary family background.

Her parents were very common rural migrants working in the city.

They had little wages to speak of, and no medical insurance. This meant that if they fell seriously ill, they often faced a situation of despair. Therefore, they dared not fall ill, and even saved money by not undergoing routine physical examinations, as their employer certainly didn’t provide such benefits.

They were just the most inconspicuous people in the city, pointed out by others to their children as a warning: "If you don’t study hard, you will end up like them." People would label them as good or bad based simply on their regional identity. As for being owed wages and having no way to claim them, that was all too common.

If that were all, then so be it.

But when death suddenly struck, the family was completely crushed.

When her father was rushed into the emergency room with a cerebral hemorrhage, Mei Quzhen remembered her uncle telling her how her mother had knelt in front of the doctors, begging them to save her father. But at that time, they could not gather enough money for the surgery. And even if they had, after barely saving her father, he would need to stay in the ICU, which cost several thousand dollars a day.

"Doctor, please, our family can’t live without him..."

Mei Quzhen had not witnessed it with her own eyes, but she could imagine how her mother might have begged the doctors, utterly humiliated.

Yet life had to be bought with money.

To the doctors, the death of a patient was just a part of daily medical practice.

For the employer, finding every possible way to ensure that the father’s case was not classified as a work-related injury was of the utmost importance.

Migrant workers with no connections were the easiest targets for humiliation. They didn’t have the money to sue their employers and simply couldn’t afford the fight.

After Mei Quzhen became a Paranormal Doctor, the thing she was most grateful for was that she could use the Spiritual Therapy Points she earned to extend her mother’s life. But no matter how many points she had, she could not bring the dead back to life.

"By the way, the resident doctor of Curse Management Department in the outpatient building is He Jinghan, right?"

Having finished the water in her cup, Mei Quzhen suddenly asked.

She wasn’t actually thirsty at the moment, but she always felt like she had to do something, to distract herself.

"Yes. He Jinghan, doctor of the Curse Management Department."

"Back then, she was a surgeon in the Evil Ghost Department, my colleague."

"Dr. He was originally with the Ghost Surgery Department?" Dai Lin was quite surprised. A surgeon, turning away from the frontlines of clinical work to the Curse Management Department?

Switching departments at Hospital 444 was not a simple matter, and moving from clinical to Curse Management was even rarer. At least, as a surgeon, Dai Lin couldn’t imagine completely putting down his scalpel one day and never entering an operating room again.

"A lot of things happened back then."

"I think... they must have."

"He Jinghan’s departure from clinical work was a significant loss for the hospital’s surgery departments. Now, she only enters the operating room when she has to deal with cursed objects," Mei Quzhen said in such a way as to guarantee the surgical skills of Dr. He.

"So, when you see her, can you also ask her a question for me? Does she really... not want to come back to be a surgeon?"

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