Chapter 100: Tuotuo Is Very Angry, and the Consequences Are Very Serious

He brought them back to the hospital room.

Yu Dazhang looked around but didn't spot Qu Tuotuo.

She left?

That can't be right—she'd agreed to wait for us to come back.

Just as he was about to call her to ask, he suddenly saw Qu Tuotuo walk in from outside.

She looked all puffed up with anger, as if sulking at someone, yet her expression also carried a hint of helplessness.

"What's wrong with you?" Yu Dazhang asked in a low voice:

"Got into an argument with someone?"

Qu Tuotuo first glanced into the hospital room, made sure no medical staff were inside, then said:

"After the doctor left, I went in to check on the child's condition."

"I saw she was still running a fever, so I went to find the nurses to ask them to bring the child's temperature down, but the nurses refused."

"Then I went to find that male doctor from earlier and asked him about the medication."

"He actually turned me down, saying I'm not the child's family and have no right to know."

"His attitude was awful."

At this point, Qu Tuotuo still seemed unable to swallow her anger. She took a deep breath before continuing:

"How can this hospital be like this—the nurses are like this, and so are the doctors."

So that's what it was... After hearing her out, Yu Dazhang showed no particular surprise.

He had already been given a harsh lesson by this hospital's service attitude once before.

Though he sensed something was off, Yu Dazhang didn't dwell on it.

Probably the family ran off, and the doctors and nurses were nursing a grudge.

"Maybe they're under a lot of work pressure day to day, so their emotions are a bit unsteady," Yu Dazhang coaxed softly:

"Forget it, don't bother arguing with them."

"No way." Qu Tuotuo's tone grew a touch heated:

"We can't just let it go. The child has to have the fever brought down—how can that be okay? If they won't tell me, I'll ask someone else."

Saying so, she took out her phone and began scrolling through her contacts.

Yu Dazhang didn't stop her either. He also felt that a child running a fever nonstop wasn't a good sign, and it was fine to let Qu Tuotuo ask a professional.

With her circle and her family's connections, there would always be some backdoor at the big hospitals.

Soon Qu Tuotuo placed the call.

Then she held the phone to her ear and moved to the other end of the corridor, away from the nurses' station.

This girl's quite something... At that moment Yu Dazhang suddenly felt that Qu Tuotuo's personality was very likable.

Unlike those quiet, reserved girls, her disposition was like a gentle breeze brushing past, putting one at ease.

Frank, warm-hearted, unpretentious—she always gave people a sense of innocence and freshness.

Often, a person's true character only shows through some particular event.

Some people are perfectly pleasant day to day, but at the critical moment they can abandon you without a second thought.

Yet before it happens, you'd never imagine they were that kind of person.

Qu Tuotuo's phone call lasted a full fifteen minutes.

When she came back, she signaled Yu Dazhang to find somewhere else to talk.

Leaving the pediatric ward, the two of them went to the window by the hospital stairwell.

"I suggest we transfer the child to another hospital," Qu Tuotuo said, looking at Yu Dazhang with a solemn face:

"The sooner the better."

"What's the reason?" Yu Dazhang asked.

Transferring the child to another hospital wasn't a decision he could make.

Now that the child's parents had been found, even if he asked them to handle the transfer, a reasonable explanation still had to be given.

"I just got the numbers of two pediatric specialists through a friend," Qu Tuotuo said, her speech quickening:

"They both said the child should be brought out of the fever right away given the current situation."

"I also described the child's current symptoms in detail. They couldn't be certain, but they gave a rough assessment."

"They said it doesn't look much like pediatric encephalitis."

That's a lot to take in... Yu Dazhang quickly digested it all in his head.

First, it's confirmed that bringing down the fever is the right call. Second, this hospital has very likely misdiagnosed.

Those pediatric specialists, without seeing the patient, wouldn't speak in absolutes.

But the fact that they could make a judgment just from hearing the symptoms means they had a fair degree of confidence.

If that's the case, then this hospital really can't be stayed at any longer.

A life is at stake—no time to delay.

Back in the hospital room, they explained the situation to the child's parents, who didn't object and agreed to the transfer.

Moreover, they now had absolute trust in Yu Dazhang.

Not only because of his identity as a police officer, but more because he had stepped forward to help pay off the outstanding bill.

Next came the paperwork.

In the meantime, Qu Tuotuo contacted another hospital and had them send a medical vehicle to pick up the patient.

Please... save.... 6... 9.... book.... bar....!

He had thought it would go smoothly.

But no one expected that just as the paperwork was halfway done, the pediatrician from before suddenly walked into the ward.

"Who told you to transfer hospitals?" he demanded the moment he came in:

"Do you know the consequences of doing this?"

The child's parents were caught so off guard by the question that they froze in place. They seemed a little afraid of this male doctor, but still explained:

"The child has been here for half a month and hasn't gotten any better. Switching hospitals is only reasonable."

Yu Dazhang stood to the side watching, his brow furrowed.

Why were the child's parents so afraid of him?

Is it normal for a patient's family to be afraid of the doctor?

He himself had never had an experience like this, but he just felt that the relationship between them was a little off.

"She hasn't gotten better because she has a serious illness." The male doctor's voice grew louder and louder:

"If you transfer her to another hospital now and something happens to the patient, our hospital will also have to bear the responsibility."

It did sound like a reasonable argument, but there was still a whiff of sophistry about it.

Seeing the couple cowed into silence, Yu Dazhang immediately stepped forward and put himself between them.

"Whether or not to transfer is the patient's family's choice. The hospital shouldn't interfere, right?"

He didn't know much about this area, so he didn't dare use a definitive tone. Instead, he asked a probing question to see what this doctor was really after.

"Officer, you're overstepping your bounds." The male doctor seemed quite annoyed and retorted with an unfriendly tone:

"This doesn't seem to be within your duties, does it?"

How could Yu Dazhang possibly be stumped by that? He glared:

"If there's a dispute, of course I'll step in. As far as I can tell, you're deliberately making things hard for them."

"You—" The male doctor hadn't expected Yu Dazhang to push back so hard, and for a moment didn't know how to argue back.

Just then, the nurses outside also walked in.

They came to the bedside and shielded the child.

"You can't transfer the patient. It's very dangerous for her."

They weren't cold anymore… Yu Dazhang couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

They weren't this eager during treatment, so why were they so worked up the moment they heard about a transfer?

It was like they had become completely different people.

As if all their warmth and energy had been poured into stopping the transfer.

Could they really be thinking of the patient?

For the moment, Yu Dazhang couldn't make up his mind either.

Because of his lack of medical knowledge, he couldn't judge whether what they were saying was true.

Just as they were at a stalemate, Qu Tuotuo walked in holding a stack of paperwork.

"The medical transport is downstairs. All that's left is the attending physician and the hospital leadership's approval. Everything else is done."

Transferring and being discharged aren't the same thing, so the procedures are completely different.

It really does require the approval of the transferring hospital's leadership, because there's a question of liability involved.

"I am the attending physician." The male doctor said to Qu Tuotuo:

"I don't agree to the transfer, and the leadership won't either."

As if she had long anticipated this would happen, Qu Tuotuo merely glanced at him and replied calmly:

"I don't need your agreement. The person coordinating with you will be here any moment."

(End of chapter)