Chapter 82: You Want To Go After My Backbone??
Not a word was spoken all night. Lu Cheng slept soundly after returning home.
September 4th, Friday.
At eight ten in the morning, Lin Qianlong walked out of the restroom on the administrative floor of Long County People’s Hospital and then forcefully kicked open the office door of the Director of the Medical Affairs Department.
Bao Liming, the Director of the Medical Affairs Department, was preparing tea to start a good day. Fortunately, he was grinding tea leaves, and the sound of the kicked door sent tea leaves scattering across the desk.
Lin Qianlong’s hair was disheveled, as if still damp with sweat, his small eyes prominent, and his eyebrows raised.
His pockmarked face, like a cicada in winter, his short chin tilted, he preempted: “Bao Liming, am I giving you too much leeway? Are you doing this to me?”
Bao Liming’s mouth slightly parted, and he blinked a few times before snapping back to attention: “Lin Qianlong, what’s gotten into you?”
Lin Qianlong was Bao Liming’s high school classmate. After graduating from university, they both returned to work at the county hospital. The difference was that Lin Qianlong pursued a clinical path, while he switched to administration and climbed to the position of Director of the Medical Affairs Department, making him Lin Qianlong’s superior.
“You’re plotting against me behind my back!!!” Lin Qianlong entered, thumping Bao Liming’s desk with his thick fingers. The tea leaves on the desk sprang up and flew, hovering in mid-air before scattering again.
“When have I ever plotted against you behind your back?” Bao Liming spat, feeling utterly wronged.
“Our Emergency Department performed two manual reductions, and you suspended the surgical permissions for the doctor performing them. What’s going on?”
“It’s the twenty-first century, the age of information, and you still want to pull off a frame-up?”
“Has this People’s Hospital been liberated yet?” Lin Qianlong grabbed Bao Liming’s hand and then jabbed his own chest.
“Why don’t you just get a knife and stab me to death? What’s with all this backstabbing?”
“Let’s be more direct!”
“Here, take the knife.” Lin Qianlong took out a newly bought old-fashioned pencil knife with his left hand and slapped it into Bao Liming’s hand, then pulled Bao Liming’s hand towards himself to stab him…
Bao Liming quickly struggled to throw the knife away and took two steps back: “Lin Qianlong, if you have something to say, say it. Don’t resort to these crooked tactics.”
“Explain exactly what happened? When did I suspend your surgical permissions? How come I don’t know?”
Bao Liming felt that Lin Qianlong had gone mad. He came in ready to get him locked up. If this knife had gone in, who would believe he was innocent?
“Regarding the On-duty Supervisor suspending surgical authorization, besides you, who else could have managed that?”
“Look for yourself…” Lin Qianlong directly smashed his newly bought second-hand mobile phone onto Bao Liming’s desk.
Due to excessive force, the phone bounced off and hit the wall, becoming a corpse. Already old, it could finally retire with honor.
Bao Liming’s expression stiffened: “You fool, what am I supposed to look at?”
He prepared to walk over to try and salvage it.
However, Lin Qianlong was ready: “That’s my spare phone. If it’s broken, it’s broken. You just look.”
“2023/09/03 22:14:14, Lu Cheng, Attending Physician, Manual Reduction Surgical Permissions, Authorization Suspended.”
“2023/09/03 22:35:49, Lu Cheng, Attending Physician, Manual Reduction Surgical Permissions, Authorization Granted.”
“Operator, Bao Liming.”
Lin Qianlong pressed aggressively: “Are you blind? Is that your employee number? I’m asking you?”
“What’s wrong with our Emergency Department doctors? Why suspend surgical authorization? Are you trying to harm someone?”
“Has the public service system in Long County not been liberated yet? What mistake did Lu Cheng make? A medical accident? A medical dispute?”
“If you want someone dead, they should at least die knowing why!”
Bao Liming obviously saw his name: “Am I out of my mind? Canceling Lu Cheng’s surgical authorization at past ten? The On-duty Supervisor knows my employee number and password…”
Lin Qianlong continued to bang on the table: “Then call the person over. Do what needs to be done, deal with people as they should be dealt with…”
“I want to tear down your Medical Affairs Department! You stab us in the back, doing things that aren’t human all day. We’re on the front lines doing our best for patients, and you’re stabbing us in the back.
“If you want to suspend surgical authorization, you should inform us in advance, issue a notice, make an announcement. Canceling surgical authorization arbitrarily late at night, are you trying to make us live? Huh…” Lin Qianlong’s spittle flew everywhere, his anger mixed with a sense of grievance.
Bao Liming finally understood why Lin Qianlong was so angry.
Lu Cheng performed a manual reduction, and the Medical Affairs Department stopped his manual reduction permissions, which meant Lin Qianlong had someone without surgical permissions perform the surgery!
What if the patient found out about this and reported it? While the main responsibility would be Lu Cheng’s, could the leadership escape responsibility?
In fact, this record alone could cause trouble for Lu Cheng.
“Could it have been an operational error?” Bao Liming asked while looking for a phone.
Lin Qianlong wasn’t an idiot: “Operational error my foot! Lu Cheng is an Attending Physician. In terms of name, number, and ranking, which one could you possibly move up?”
More than ten minutes later, the On-duty Supervisor from the previous night rushed back to the Medical Affairs Department from the hospital entrance.
Upon entering, he saw Lin Qianlong’s appearance, was taken aback, and then explained: “Director Bao, Director Tang called me yesterday and asked me to suspend the surgical permissions.”
“I was just doing my job. I thought you knew too.”
Lin Qianlong looked at the person who had arrived and said: “Du Gaofeng, you’re the one who handled it, right?”
“Immediately issue a public announcement listing the reasons for suspending surgical permissions. Go to the County Health Bureau to get the leader’s signature and seal!”
“Get a copy of the report you submitted!”
Du Gaofeng, a thirty-two-year-old youth, his eyes stiffened: “Director Lin, this is a misunderstanding!”
“After Doctor Lu came to the Medical Affairs Department yesterday, I immediately…”
“Misunderstanding my ass!”
Lin Qianlong unleashed his fury: “Bao Liming, the situation is clear. Find the documents for me!”
“I want to see the documents from the County Health Bureau now, see the signatures and seals, see the application forms!”
Lin Qianlong was very sure that Bao Liming couldn’t find a medical dispute for Lu Cheng, but the Medical Affairs Department still had the authority to suspend Lu Cheng’s surgical authorization, as long as it was reported to the County Health Bureau.
This was the supervisory responsibility of the Medical Affairs Department. If it was determined that a doctor in the hospital was not competent enough to perform a certain surgical procedure and their conversations were ineffective, they could directly approach leadership to suspend surgical permissions and prevent “over-treatment”!
“Director Lin, this is truly a misunderstanding. After Doctor Lu came to me, I immediately canceled it.”
Du Gaofeng’s face contorted: “And it was Director Tang’s order. I was just an executor.”
He hadn’t reported it. He only later learned it was Tang Zhongqi’s impulsive decision.
Bao Liming made a phone call: “Tang Zhongqi, come to my office…”
A few minutes later, Tang Zhongqi entered with a polite smile: “Director Lin, you’re here, Director Bao…”
But Lin Qianlong did not shake hands with Tang Zhongqi.
“Either he leaves, or Bao Liming, you report the entire matter to the President and explain the reason. Or, get the report submitted to the Health Bureau and retrieve the signature and seal!”
“Otherwise, don’t blame me for erupting in the hospital-wide group chat. Who gave you the audacity to suddenly stab us frontline clinicians in the back?” Lin Qianlong’s tone was very formal.
“Director Lin, it’s a mis… misunderstanding… let’s clear it up.” Tang Zhongqi knew he was in the wrong.
“Once this has happened, there’s no room for misunderstanding!!!”
……
Two hours later, Du Gaofeng was slated for transfer to the archives, and Tang Zhongqi received a verbal warning…
