Chapter 18 One Day
Hearing this, Dr. Moore was surprised at first, and then said angrily, “Who did this? Show yourself now!”
Soon, the man with a pair of glasses stepped forward, “It’s me.”
“Why did you inject this to the patient without my permission?” Dr. Moore wanted to slap on his face right now.
The man pushed the glasses and said calmly, “The patient has been suffering a severe inflammation, which needs to be treated with cephalosporin periodically. And that was how the staff from the hospital told me before they sent him here. So, I don’t think I did anything wrong and you can’t just blame the defect of the experimental medicine on me, Dr. Moore. It looks like we can’t get the production permit for the medicine now, so we have to take the next step more carefully.”
Irritated by his justification, Dr. Moore was not shivering out of rage.
Ruby looked at the man for a while and said, “You are not suitable for participating in the research.”
But the man changed his expression after hearing this. In his view, Ruby was nothing but a young girl whose age seemed to be under 25. How was she qualified to judge him and say he was not suitable?
“Who do you think you are? And why do you think you have the ability to judge me? The only reason I did this was to save the patient’s life!” he said boldly and looked at her in disdain.
Dr. Moore couldn’t hold his anger anymore and kicked him, “Get the hell out of my lab! You can even accept your own fault?! You have been participating in this research all along, and you know you are not allowed to give the patient any antibiotics after he is injected with the experimental medicine. Given that you break the rule and almost kill the patient, you need to thank me for being so kind that I haven’t fired you right away! But now you are still trying to argue with her!”
The man was frightened but still finding excuses for himself, “But every medical student knows that in such a case, the patient needs to be injected with antibiotics every day, I…”
“Get him out of here,” Ruby felt the man was so noisy that she couldn’t focus on reading the statistic figures about the patient’s health condition anymore.
Dr. Moore could tell she was thinking about the countermeasure from her expression. To prevent her from being disturbed by the man, he called the security of the institute to take him out.
But the man just pulled himself free from the security guard and pointed at Ruby, “Do you think you are qualified for this job? Do you know anything about pharmacology? Can you be on duty for 24 hours?”
“I have seen so many people like you, who get the job by nepotism and just for polishing your own resume!”
“I have won awards for my research papers. What about you? Without my theoretical support, your experiment won’t last any longer!”
Hearing his words, Ruby, who had been drowning in statistics and hadn’t cared about him at the beginning, raised her head and looked at him with cold and ruthless eyes.
“The experiment won’t last any longer without you?” Ruby stared at the arrogant man and smiled.
“I can forgive you for being silly, but I can’t stand a man who is silly and lacks self-knowledge. I didn’t intend to accuse you of your misconduct at first, but now that you want it, I will give it to you.”
“Call the police, Dr. Moore, and let the layers of the institute get ready. It’s time to put this Mr. Smartass into prison for further study,” this pretty girl made a bright smile that even Dr. Moore was attracted by it, while her words were completely merciless.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .
Dr. Moore thought for a while and nodded, “Sure, I will inform the layers. How’s the patient?”
“He’s out of danger. I have stabilized his condition,” Ruby gave a simple reply.
“Ha! What an ignorant chick! Are you going to sue me? For what? I have done nothing wrong. It’s your defective medicine that nearly kills the man! I tell you, that I will never compromise with your evil men, and what’s more, I’m going to expose your atrocity, telling everyone that you brutal men are doing experiments on living humans! This patient is doomed now, and I’m sure that his relatives won’t let you get away with it so easily.”
Knowing that Dr. Moore was going to sue him, he was pretty worried at first, but once he heard the words from Ruby, he got rid of the worriment immediately.
She was surely a girl with a pretty appearance and an empty head. How was that possible for her to stabilize his condition?
He had been treating the patient for so long and knew much about his health condition. The patient had been suffering multiple organ failures already.
Even the greatest doctor in the world could not save his life!
Besides, this patient was not an ordinary person. He was coming from the Sheridan family. If he really died in the institute, his family would let them pay for it.
While his gentle-looking face distorted with conceit, he stared at Ruby and said wildly, “You will be regret messing with me one day! You will be kneeling on the ground and begging me one day! You asshole!”
“Sorry for letting you down. I’m afraid that the day will never come.”
She walked by the patient’s bed and felt the pulse on his wrist. Then, she grabbed a small bottle from her pocket, took a tiny red pill from it, and put it into his mouth. After that, she took out three silver needles from the bag and stuck them into the top of his head.
The man looked at Ruby and smiled coldly, “You think you can save him just by…”
Before he could finish his words, he stopped all of a sudden and stared at the patient, who suddenly start to cough and then woke up, with an astonishing look.
Dr. Moore glanced at him indifferently and had enough of this eyesore, “Guys, just get him out of here and call the police.”
“No! You can’t do this to me! You need to thank me for injecting cephalosporin for him and saving his life! You need to…”
He was so annoying that Ruby just gave him a prick with the needle and shut him up.
The room was quiet immediately.
The security guards took a look at Ruby respectfully and took him out.
“You really cure him?” Dr. Moore said in surprise.
He had been getting along with her long enough to know how incredible she was. The experimental medicine couldn’t be made without her contribution.
If she hadn’t been a girl who loved to stay a low profile and seldom took the credit, she would have been the youngest academician in the country due to her contribution to the medical world. She was only twenty years old! What a great record!
“No, he can’t be cured so easily. He has been in a coma for so long that his physical function starts to degenerate, and his organs are so heavily damaged that he doesn’t have much time even though we keep using medicines on him to sustain his life,” Ruby shook her head and took a look at the man who did nothing but only stared at the ceiling dully after opening his eyes.
“Do you have any idea about how to save him?” Dr. Moore hesitated and said cautiously.
Ruby took a look at him in surprise, “What? Is he a relative of yours?”
“No. He is Taylor Sheridan from the Sheridan family. He was turned to this to save a great man. We have been trying to sustain his life in these years, so is the great man who also cares about his condition. If you can cure him, it will be helpful for you to have a better life and career in the country,” Dr. Moore shook his head gently and introduced him to Ruby.
“His health condition is so bad that I can’t do anything about it now. Just keep treating him with medicines and find a reliable person to look after him. He can’t stand another medical negligence now anymore. If something like this happens once again, nobody can save him one more time,” Ruby said after long reflection.
Hearing this, Dr. Moore said nothing but nodded.