Overpowered Resident Doctor

Chapter 550: Chapter 549: Learning from Mistakes

After listlessly having lunch with Wang Chuan and nearly ten visiting plastic surgeons, Yan Feifan returned to the Plastic Surgery Center to find that this time, someone was truly waiting for him.

It wasn’t the grim-faced police officers, nor was it the notoriously stern investigators from the hospital’s incident investigation department. It was Wei Xin.

When Yan Feifan had learned the previous night that she and Zhu Xiangdong had shifted the blame onto him, he had been truly heartbroken.

He considered himself an open and honest person, but this incident gave him a true taste of human treachery.

Yan Feifan didn’t want to say another word to her.

However, the state Wei Xin was in was enough to raise eyebrows. Dressed in her white coat, her face was haggard, her eyes red and swollen, and her expression dazed—she looked as if she’d been cruelly used and abandoned.

Resignedly, Yan Feifan endured the questioning gazes from Wang Chuan and the others and led Wei Xin into an empty examination room.

They looked at each other, and Yan Feifan made no effort to conceal the loathing and contempt in his gaze.

He said icily, "If you have something to say, say it quickly. I have a lot of work to do!"

Wei Xin gave a wretched smile. "Honestly, I hate myself now, too, for doing something like that."

"Mr. Yan, I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry!"

As she spoke, she gave Yan Feifan a deep bow.

Yan Feifan remained unmoved. "It’s already done," he said coldly. "If ’sorry’ was enough, would Zhou Guangji be alive right now?"

After a pause, he added, "Wei Xin, if you’ve really come here to apologize, if you’re truly repentant, then tell me exactly what happened last night, from start to finish."

Wei Xin straightened up and wiped the corners of her eyes with her fingertips.

"That’s exactly why I came..."

She said in a soft, slow voice, "Last night, Dr. Tan Xiao first spoke with and hypnotized Zhou Guangji for about forty minutes. Afterward, we took him to the temporarily set up scenario-reproduction test room."

"That’s when Mr. Zhu’s girlfriend showed up..."

"’Girlfriend?’" Yan Feifan cut in.

Wei Xin nodded. "She’s a student from Bin University Medical College, majoring in laboratory technology. She met Mr. Zhu during her internship at the hospital. I’m not sure how, but they hit it off."

After a pause, she continued softly, "His girlfriend was also very interested and got involved in the scenario reproduction test that followed."

"Dr. Zhu didn’t stop her, so I..."

Wei Xin said, her face full of regret, "I was worried about making things awkward. Even though I knew it was against regulations, I didn’t say anything."

"The scenario reproduction test went fairly smoothly."

"When his ’wife’ started verbally abusing him, Zhou Guangji’s heart rate and blood pressure skyrocketed, and his brainwaves became abnormally active, but he ultimately didn’t enter a state of hysteria."

"When that unexpected situation appeared in front of him, he reacted in time, slamming on the brakes and turning the wheel to avoid it."

"Since the scenario reproduction test didn’t yield the desired results, we proceeded with epilepsy induction."

"We started with photic stimulation, followed by electrical stimulation..."

At this point, Wei Xin’s face twisted in anguish. Full of self-blame and regret, she said, "The equipment... that enthusiastic girlfriend was the one operating it..."

"When Zhou Guangji, lying on the test bed, suddenly started convulsing violently, we realized something was wrong."

"We glanced at the microcurrent indicator and saw the reading was two milliamps. We knew immediately that something had gone terribly wrong."

"The seizure was too fast and violent. By the time we rushed over to perform emergency treatment, Zhou Guangji had already started bleeding from his mouth."

"A lot of blood..."

"A small piece of his tongue, asphyxiation, cardiac arrest..."

Wei Xin’s face grew deathly pale as she recalled and recounted the events.

"I was terrified."

"Mr. Zhu told his girlfriend to leave immediately and not to tell anyone she had been there."

"Then... he started begging me..."

"He said that if word got out about an accident like this, losing our licenses would be getting off easy—we could even face prison time."

"The only way out, he said, was to shift the blame to you."

"Mr. Zhu said that you’re the hospital’s golden boy, and if you were involved, the hospital would do everything in its power to protect you."

"That way, at worst, we would just have to pay more in compensation and face some disciplinary action..."

Wei Xin forcefully wiped her eyes again, her voice choking up. "I was terrified, so in my confusion, I just agreed."

"When our mentor and the others rushed over, I backed up Mr. Zhu’s story. We concealed his girlfriend’s presence and claimed that the two-milliamp stimulation current was your instruction."

"Mr. Yan, I’m so, so sorry!"

Wei Xin bowed deeply to Yan Feifan once more, covering her mouth as she whimpered, "Everything that happened after that..."

"Mr. Yan... you probably know the rest."

"I couldn’t sleep all night. The more I thought about it, the more I came to regret it and hate myself."

"I always thought I was a good doctor. Responsible, accountable, someone who did everything for her patients."

"But I never imagined that one sudden medical accident would force me to see my true self."

"This person... this isn’t who I want to be... *sob*..."

By now, tears were streaming from Wei Xin’s eyes, and she couldn’t wipe them away fast enough.

His heart softening slightly, Yan Feifan found a roll of medical gauze in the examination room and handed it to her.

"It’s human instinct to protect yourself."

Yan Feifan offered this lukewarm platitude before asking with concern, "Have you told the police the truth about the incident?"

After wiping away her tears and composing herself, Wei Xin shook her head.

"No. I only told our mentor."

"My mentor said that it’s not easy to train a doctor, and every doctor makes mistakes. If every single error were to be strictly punished, there would be very few doctors left in the world."

"He said the most important thing is to learn from our mistakes so we don’t repeat them, and to atone for our wrongdoings by healing more people."

"My mentor told me to stick to the agreed-upon story."

"I just felt that you deserved to know the truth."

Yan Feifan gave a soft "oh" and said, "Alright. I guess I know the truth about last night now."

"Anything else?"

Wei Xin opened her mouth, but just shook her head in the end. "No. I came to apologize and to tell you what happened last night."

"I’ve said what I came to say. I’ll leave now and won’t disturb you further."

Wei Xin turned and took a couple of steps, but then she turned back around.

"Mr. Yan, do you remember the girl named Lehong?"

Yan Feifan nodded. "The patient from my first day in the Diagnostics Department. Congenital venous valve dysplasia."

"What about her?"

Wei Xin sighed softly. "She’s doing fairly well now. With strict management, her symptoms haven’t returned."

"At the time, I joked that you’d be able to solve her problem within five years, Mr. Yan. Looking at it now, I was being conservative. It might take even less time."

"Mr. Yan, when your surgical skills reach that level, please remember to contact her."

Wei Xin said, her expression bitter, "After what’s happened, I doubt I’ll be staying at the Affiliated Hospital."

Yan Feifan grunted in acknowledgment. "When that day comes, I will..."

He parted ways with Wei Xin and returned to the Director’s Office, only to find it occupied by yet another group of strangers.

Yan Feifan sighed to himself, forced some enthusiasm, and started making nice with the new arrivals.

At nearly three in the afternoon, the police questioning Yan Feifan had been waiting for finally arrived.

However, it came in the form of a phone call.

"Mr. Yan, this is He Pengfei, chief of the Dacheng Street Police Station. I’m calling to verify some details with you regarding the death of Zhou Guangji last night..."