353 A Pure Person (1/2)

In the hospital director's office in Yun Hua Hospital.

A Malabar chestnut stared at the steady stream of luxurious cars outside the window, gently swaying its body.

Even at full blast, the air conditioner was unable to ventilate the smoke in the room.

Huo Congjun observed the expressions and the movements of the people through the smoke.

The director of the Orthopedics Department smoked.

The director of the Medical Affairs Department smoked like it was his final act on Earth.

The director of the Department of Gynecology smoked.

The director of the Gynaeoncology Department smoked and rolled his eyes at the director of the Gynaecology Department.

The director of the Hand Surgery Director did not know how to smoke... what a pity.

Huo Congjun lit up a cigarette and inhaled deeply. Then, he exhaled along the direction of the wind blowing from the air conditioner. The smoke went straight to the director of the Hand Surgery Department, Jin Xi.

Jin Xi had not been aware of this. His nose twitched, and he immediately descended into a coughing fit.

”Oh, I forgot that you don't smoke, Department Director Jin Xi.” The Director of the Respiratory Medicine Department sat next to Director Jin Xi, and he happened to be a chain smoker. He chuckled and moved the ashtray in front of him from the left to the right. He smiled and said, ”Stay far away so that the smoke doesn't reach you. Inhaling secondhand smoke is harmful to your health.”

Director Jin Xi chuckled. ”Director Hong, you work with lung cancer. Don't you feel bad smoking like this?”

”It's exactly because I don't want you to inhale too much second-hand smoke. That's why, when I smoke, the smoke I exhale is so clean,” Director Hong said as he inhaled a mouthful of smoke. It circulated in his lungs, and when he exhaled, it came out as a puff of pale white smoke. ”Look at my smoke, and look at other people's smoke. It's because they don't inhale everything, so that's why there's so much second-hand smoke.”

The Director of the Hand Surgery Department, Jin Xi, looked at Department Director Hong, just like how he would when he looked at a patient with eight severed fingers.

The hospital director cleared her throat. ”If there are no other opinions...”

”Wait.”

”No way.”

”Hospital director!”

Everyone shouted together.

That included Director Jin Xi. He also sat up straight and said, ”Our funds are tight now, and our department even has our rehabilitation rooms occupied...”

Huo Congjun's immediately schooled his face and showed an anxious look, ”Director Jin Xi, it's not that I want to take up your rehabilitation room, but look, Ling Ran searches for surgeries all day long. If I don't give him a rehabilitation room, he would be raising hell.”

Director Jin Xi frowned. ”Don't use Ling Ran as an excuse.”

”I am not using him as an excuse. Look at it this way. Ling Ran has been in the VIP patient building for the past week and hasn't performed any surgeries. Isn't your rehabilitation room free now?” Huo Congjun sighed. ”It's not that I want an Emergency Medical Center, but we really do have that need...”

”You can't use Chief Wang as a shield,” the director of the Orthopedics Department said unhappily, ”It's nothing more than a knee arthroscopic meniscoplasty. You can simply find someone from the department who can perform this operation. You are just lucky...”

”This is not about having good luck.” Huo Congjun squared his shoulders and said, ”He came up to the door and specifically looked for Ling Ran. I'm not lying. If you can get a patient like that in your Orthopedics Department, then good for you, so how about the Orthopedics Department get a patient like Chief Wang and work on him?”

The director of the Orthopedics Department eyes burned with rage.

If it were to be said that the finger replantation surgery was the strength of the Hand Surgery Department, then the knee arthroscopic meniscoplasty was within the Orthopedics Department's territory. Although knee arthroscopic meniscoplasty replantations did not require the use of prostheses and were hence not regarded highly by the Orthopedics Department, it became another matter if they could take in patients like Chief Wang.

The hospital director stood up. ”There is a demand for an Emergency Medical Center, I think it can be on the agenda.”

”Hospital director...” The director of the Orthopedics Department lamented.

The hospital director shook her head and said, ”I have heard opinions that coincide and clash with this idea. This is a closed-door meeting, so I'll tell all of this in private. I believe that there are benefits if we use this opportunity to set up the Emergency Medical Center...”

The director of the Orthopedics Department screamed internally, 'What do you mean you're saying it in private, is this not what you consider a public space?!'

Huo Congjun smiled smugly before his face immediately turned serious.

This time, with Chief Wang's help, his plan to build a large Emergency Department could be described as something that was easily settled. The opposition from several department directors could not really be considered as an objection, but was rather similar to them venting their frustration.

The hospital director was only giving them a channel to vent, and when they finished venting, she would still do what was needed to be done.