Chapter 5 - 5 005 Establishing an Expert Group

5: Chapter 005: Establishing an Expert Group 5: Chapter 005: Establishing an Expert Group Zhou Peng hadn’t heard a joke for a long time, but what Ye Qiu said was the biggest joke he’d heard in years. Zhou Peng had already made it clear that Ye Qiu was just an ordinary student at Jiangbei No. 3 Middle School and hadn’t even been exposed to medical skills before, yet he claimed that only he could cure the mayor’s daughter! He thought Ye Qiu was really funny, or maybe he had a car accident and his brain was damaged! “You’re really funny, I won’t bother arguing with a fool like you!” Zhou Peng said. When Zhou Peng was about to leave, Ye Weidong came over and said, “Vice President Zhou, I have already mortgaged our house to the bank. Can the fees my son owes be deferred for a few more days?” “Of course, it’s not like you can run away,” Zhou Peng couldn’t care less about Ye Qiu’s family. Because Vice Mayor Li was still upstairs, he had to go and curry favor with Vice Mayor Li. After Zhou Peng left in the elevator, Ye Weidong looked at Ye Qiu with a complex expression. He felt his son seemed different, yet seemed not different at all. Could it be that his son’s brain really was damaged from the car accident? “Chen Fang, do you think we should take Ye Qiu to the neurology department to check if there’s something wrong with his brain?” Ye Weidong asked Chen Fang, who was standing by. Chen Fang, however, thought her son was very normal, but she too noticed Ye Qiu seemed different from before the car accident. “Dad, Mom, I’m fine.” Ye Qiu knew his own condition, but he just wouldn’t say it. He believed the hospital would definitely seek him out to treat the vice mayor’s daughter in time. Ye Weidong couldn’t figure it out. Now that the house was mortgaged to the bank and the money hadn’t been received yet, Ye Weidong thought it was good that Ye Qiu was kicked out of the deluxe ward, as it eased their financial burden. Sёarᴄh the nôvelFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. However, he knew Ye Qiu had not fully recovered from the surgery and it would be best for him to stay in the hospital, so arranging for him to be admitted to a regular ward was still a good option. When Ye Weidong went to process the admission paperwork for the regular ward for Ye Qiu, the hospital staff ignored him, stating that Ye Qiu still owed the hospital over a hundred thousand in fees. He had to pay those fees first before they would handle the paperwork for Ye Qiu. Ye Weidong understood that the hospital now was different from the hospital of the past. Since Ye Qiu didn’t plan to leave, Ye Weidong could only go back to his shop to get busy; on the other hand, he urged the bank to quickly release the funds. After telling Chen Fang, Ye Weidong took one more glance at Ye Qiu and then headed outside. Soon, the lobby returned to the quiet it had before. Zhou Peng took the elevator to the door of the deluxe ward where Ye Qiu had stayed. Upon entering, he saw that Li Zhiguo’s couple and Li Qianqian were not there, only the female nurse was inside. “Where are they?” Zhou Peng asked. “Vice President Zhou, the patient has been taken to various departments for a full body examination, and President Zhang has instructed you to go to the meeting room for a meeting,” the nurse said. Zhou Peng hurried to the small meeting room. Upon entering the small meeting room, he saw not only President Zhang Weimin but also the renowned integrated Chinese and Western medicine practitioners of Jinling Hospital inside. “Old Zhou, you’ve arrived just in time, we have an emergency meeting to hold,” Zhang Weimin said. “Director Zhang, is it concerning Mayor Li’s daughter?” Zhou Peng asked. “Correct. Because Mayor Li’s daughter has a special status, and her illness is very strange. Therefore, this time we have established an expert team to treat Mayor Li’s daughter.” “I will be the head of this expert team, and you will be the deputy head. However, you will take charge of the team’s responsibilities, and within the expert team, we will have a division between Western medicine experts and traditional Chinese medicine experts.” “The Western medicine expert team will consist of the most skilled Western medicine doctors from Jinling Hospital’s various departments, while the traditional Chinese medicine expert team will be made up of the most skilled representatives from Jinling Hospital’s traditional Chinese medicine departments.” Zhou Peng did not expect Zhang Weimin to take Mayor Li’s daughter’s condition so seriously. Of course, Zhou Peng was well aware that Mayor Li’s status in Jinling City and Jiangnan Province was no simple matter, and now with Zhang Weimin acting this way, even if the treatment for Mayor Li’s daughter ended in no significant effect, then Li Zhiguo and his wife would feel that Jinling Hospital had given their daughter sufficient attention, improving their overall impression of the hospital by a great deal. Zhang Weimin would serve only as the honorary head of the expert team, so he wouldn’t be specifically handling this matter, since the hospital had other big and small meetings waiting for him. Therefore, the person in charge of the expert team was Zhou Peng. Now, after Zhang Weimin left, Zhou Peng convened a meeting with the members of the Western and traditional Chinese medicine expert teams. Before the meeting started, regardless of whether they were members of the Western medicine expert team or representatives of the traditional Chinese medicine expert team, they unanimously decided to wait for Li Qianqian’s test reports before determining how to treat her. Li Qianqian was escorted by the hospital’s female nurses to various departments for tests, starting from her hair all the way down to her toenails, undergoing a full range of examinations and lab tests. Not to mention the blood samples taken from her fingers for lab analysis. According to the turnaround time for other patients’ test reports, the fastest would take three days, the slowest a week, or even half a month to receive all the lab reports. But now, as it concerned Mayor Li’s daughter, the results for various tests would have to be expedited much more quickly. After the tests were completed, Li Qianqian, still unconscious, was sent back to the private deluxe ward to rest, while Jinling Hospital’s departments conducted analyses on her hair, blood, nails, and so on. As for X-ray tests, the results came back quite fast. The test reports and data were delivered to the expert team’s temporary office. However, doctors of Western and traditional Chinese medicine from Jinling Hospital found no issues after reviewing them. As some test data and reports were still yet to come out, they could only wait in the temporary office. By eleven o’clock that night, after a busy afternoon and half the evening, they still hadn’t found what exactly was wrong with Mayor Li’s daughter from those test data and reports. The members of the expert team, including Deputy Head Zhou Peng, were extremely anxious as they were drained by hunger and fatigue. When Zhou Peng let the team members go for dinner in turns before continuing the meeting, his concern only grew. Mayor Li’s daughter had been unconscious for such a long time, and if something really went wrong at Jinling Hospital, Zhou Peng was very worried. Moreover, what he feared the most was that Ye Qiu’s words would come true, that Li Qianqian would not survive until tomorrow and would end up being sent to the crematorium. While the members of the expert team went for dinner in turns, Zhou Peng headed to Li Qianqian’s private deluxe ward. Upon entering, he saw the worried faces of Li Zhiguo and his wife. Seeing Zhou Peng come in, Li Zhiguo asked, “Director Zhou, is there any news about my daughter’s condition?” “Mayor Li, the members of the expert team have not discovered the issue with Miss Li as of yet,” Zhou Peng could only respond truthfully. Lu Xiuyu had been holding her daughter’s hand all along, and upon hearing Zhou Peng’s words, she asked anxiously, “The hospital really hasn’t found the problem with my daughter, then why hasn’t she woken up?”