Chapter 415 - 255: Too Late for Regrets! Wu Ting’s Grand Move
Chapter 415: Chapter 255: Too Late for Regrets! Wu Ting’s Grand Move
Fu Jinfen called Wu Ting directly.
"Director Wu, this is Fu Jinfen. I have a patient with a rare case of giant exophytic liver cancer with splenic invasion who needs a tumor resection. I believe the best treatment plan is the immune negative-regulatory therapy you pioneered, combined with the Perfect Triple Method. So, I was hoping to invite you for a consultation."
But before Fu Jinfen could finish, he heard Wu Ting ask from the other end.
"Director Fu, is it that patient at Anxin International Hospital in Xiao City?"
Director Fu clearly hadn’t expected Wu Ting to know about the case. After he confirmed, he heard a blunt reply from the other end.
"Director Fu, I’m not interested in this surgery."
"Of course, if the patient is willing, they can come to the Hepatic Tumor Surgery department at City First Hospital and book a regular appointment with me."
An old hand like Fu Jinfen, how could he not tell that Li Tian and Yang Bao must have offended Wu Ting somehow? He didn’t press the matter further.
"Okay, I understand. I’ll pass the message along to the patient. When you have some free time, you should stop by our department. Our doctors could use your guidance..."
Fu Jinfen and Wu Ting chatted for a bit longer before hanging up. He was puzzled, wondering how Li Tian and Yang Bao had managed to offend Wu Ting.
After all, from what he knew, Wu Ting was an exceptionally humble and magnanimous person.
"President Li, did you contact Director Wu Ting before this? He has refused to be part of the surgery."
Fu Jinfen asked directly.
At that moment, it finally dawned on Li Tian and Yang Bao. The expert Fu Jinfen held in such high regard—the one who had pioneered the country’s immune negative-regulatory therapy combined with the Triple Method—was the very same Director Wu they had offended the other day!
Only then did Li Tian realize that he had truly offended the wrong person.
A recommendation from the Director of Hepatic Tumor Surgery at Jin Province Tumor Hospital, and now an emphatic endorsement from the famous Fu Jinfen, who even admitted feeling inadequate in comparison. All of it pointed to one undeniable fact: Director Wu was an absolute authority in the diagnosis and treatment of primary liver cancer in Jin Province.
After a moment of stunned silence, Li Tian confessed to Director Fu the whole story of how he had tried to throw money at Wu Ting.
Hearing about Li Tian’s arrogance, Director Fu finally understood why Wu Ting had refused the surgery.
Looking at the humble and polite Li Tian before him, Director Fu was surprised. He hadn’t expected him to be the type to treat people differently based on their perceived status. Unfortunately for him, he had picked a fight he couldn’t win.
Fu Jinfen sighed.
"President Li, perhaps you don’t realize this, but Director Wu is a man of great integrity and compassion; he’s the furthest thing from a greedy person. If an ordinary citizen were sick and I invited him, he would come without a second thought as long as he was free. But you... you just had to go and throw money at him."
"To put it bluntly, Director Wu can afford to be so principled because he’s genuinely not short on cash."
"Director Wu’s net worth is easily on par with your father’s, if not more. And that’s just a current estimate. Once Wu’s Pharmaceutical Company, which he has a controlling stake in, goes public, that number will become even more staggering."
Fu Jinfen knew that Wu Ting was a man of his word; if he said he wasn’t coming, he wasn’t coming. He thought about it further. ’For this surgery, I’d be using a technique I learned from Wu Ting, with equipment developed by Wu Ting, and my success rate and the patient’s prognosis would be far inferior to what Wu Ting could achieve.’
’Taking this surgery for a bit of money would be a blow to my pride. If any post-op complications were to arise, it would be an even bigger humiliation.’
Given Fu Jinfen’s current status, he didn’t have to care what Li Tian or his father, Li Nian, thought.
Before Li Tian and Yang Bao could make a decision, Fu Jinfen took the lead and stated his position:
"President Li, I won’t beat around the bush. If my team were to perform the surgery on your girlfriend, I can’t guarantee the success rate or the prognosis. I only agreed to this case because I was counting on Director Wu to be the lead surgeon. Furthermore, our team’s proficiency with the immune negative-regulatory therapy combined with the Perfect Triple Method was acquired directly from Director Wu’s team."
"Now that you’ve had a falling out with Director Wu’s team, and given my own mentor-student relationship with him... there is no way my team can proceed with this operation."
"I’m truly sorry. President Li, we’ll have to leave it at that for today."
Fu Jinfen decisively refused to operate on Yang Bao, returning the envelope he had received earlier completely untouched.
Liu Xingye fully supported Director Fu’s decision. ’This President Li looked down on even Director Wu’s team, so how could they have the audacity to step forward?’
"Goodbye!"
Liu Xingye was even more direct, simply turning and walking away.
Watching Director Fu and Liu Xingye leave so decisively,
Li Tian and Yang Bao were both dumbfounded.
’Is this Director Wu really that influential?’
Seeing Director Fu and Liu Xingye refuse the surgery, Li Tian could only eat humble pie. Given Fu Jinfen’s standing in his field, he didn’t dare lose his temper.
Yang Bao was truly scared now. This was a matter of life and death for her.
"Tian, what are we going to do? I think we’ve offended someone we can’t afford to offend."
Li Tian scratched his head, panicking inwardly. The situation had spiraled out of his control.
But there was still a glimmer of hope. His dad had also invited Dean Chen from the Xianglin City Xuanshang University Affiliated Tumor Hospital!
In terms of skill and professional standing, Dean Chen was the true heavyweight.
However, something completely unexpected happened. Not even half an hour later, his father, Li Nian, called him.