A Thought Makes a Buddha, a Thought Makes a Demon

noon.

Dining room.

Adam and the others are having a meal.

Meredith walked over with her tray and sat down directly opposite Adam, staring intently at him.

Cristina and the others immediately became onlookers, their eyes gleaming with gossip.

Adam didn't follow Sheldon and his friends' bad habit of using forks to pick up food but not actually eating it; he ate as usual.

Bianca frowned at Meredith, looking ready to retaliate at any moment.

"Thanks."

To Cristina's great disappointment, Meredith looked at Adam for a while and then suddenly thanked him sincerely.

"You're welcome."

Adam glanced up at her.

"If you hadn't pointed out the problem on the spot, the consequences would have been..."

Meredith sincerely said, "I thought about it all morning, especially when facing the family. The fear was even stronger. I think if it really happened, I wouldn't be able to help but confess my mistakes in front of the family... Anyway, you saved me, thank you so much!"

"The first lesson in onboarding training is: never admit your mistakes in front of patients and their families."

Cristina couldn't help but remind her, "Even without Adam's reminder, you shouldn't do this. It's common sense, have you forgotten that again?"

"Confessing at the time of the incident is far more useful than confessing impulsively out of guilt afterward."

Adam said calmly, "Paying attention to common sense and details in ordinary times is far more useful than confessing when something happens."

That's her.

Most people wouldn't do that.

A person has worked hard for eight years, accumulating two or three hundred thousand yuan in student loans, and has come to this point.

One step further and you become a high-class doctor.

Taking a step back could mean ending up homeless.

If someone confesses their mistake in front of the family afterward, the most likely outcome is that they will be dismissed or even have their license revoked.

Unable to make a living with the professional skills honed over so many years, and burdened with such a high student loan, they are bound to be unable to repay it, and will most likely end up on the streets, becoming homeless people at the very bottom of society.

They live on food provided by a charitable food shelter every day.

During holidays, I can visit several food shelters. Most of the good things donated by charity are taken home by the volunteers themselves, since they are also 'starving'. But they can eat their fill of junk food, which is also a kind of holiday.

If you're really lucky, you might run into a weirdo like Barney who might even buy you a lap dance and send you to heaven.

But that's how it is.

Is there any comparison between her and a doctor with a promising future?

Between the two, would anyone choose the latter?

Adam asked himself if he would admit it if it happened to him.

This is a weakness of human nature.

But does this mean that Meredith Adam them noble?

Of course not!

This only shows that Meredith's sense of being a protagonist remains strong.

She did not accept the extreme fear of the serious consequences; subconsciously, she still felt that she would be fine, which is why she dared to say that she would confess her mistakes, even in front of the patient's family.

Who among ordinary people would dare to do that?

This kind of thinking is far more terrifying than simple human weaknesses.

Everyone knows about human weaknesses, and various rules and regulations have been established to constrain them, so the harm is actually not significant.

However, this sense of being the protagonist is subconscious, and the person involved is completely unaware of it.

Once you act recklessly, you'll truly harm yourself and others.

Ironically, they readily admit their mistakes and take responsibility, giving them an aura of humanity.

There is great fear between life and death.

As doctors, having fear and reverence is far more appropriate than being fearless.

"Meredith is already very good."

George, the effeminate simp, couldn't help but speak up for his goddess again, "Every doctor makes mistakes. Even someone as good as Dr. Burke left a towel in a patient's lung back then, and it wasn't discovered until today, was it?"

How did you know?

Cristina's eyes narrowed.

"Don't you know?"

George said, "I am Mrs. Drake's attending physician. She had surgery at our hospital five years ago and has been experiencing chest tightness ever since."

But it's normal for her to have shadows on her lungs after smoking four packs of cigarettes the day before, even though she quit a long time ago. Nobody takes her words seriously.

It wasn't until today's surgery, when the head surgeon found a towel in her lung, that they realized there had been a problem with the initial surgery, and Dr. Burke was the surgeon who performed it.

"I'm asking how you knew it was Dr. Burke?"

Cristina pressed for an answer, her voice trembling with anxiety.

Adam couldn't help but glance at her.

Cristina guiltily avoided the question.

She was the one who checked the files from back then. She was originally planning to go to Dr. Burke to give him a heads-up, because the two of them had been having some kind of ambiguous relationship lately.

That's right!

The old nurse who had pancreatic cancer last time didn't choose to have surgery and died of natural causes.

On her deathbed, Cristina suddenly had an emotional outburst and insisted on resuscitating the elderly nurse, despite the nurse having signed a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) agreement. Dr. Burke pulled her away.

In the stairwell, Dr. Burke comforted her, and the two looked at each other closely, their breaths mingling, and an ambiguous atmosphere quickly arose between them.

This morning, Dr. Burke even brought her a latte, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Cristina was pleased with this outcome.

On the one hand, she has little resistance to technical authority, especially in terms of her heart.

Dr. Burke was tall and, although somewhat dark-skinned, possessed a refined and charming demeanor.

For her, who wished she could live in the hospital 24/7, having a colleague who could release hormones at any time was a real bonus.

On the other hand, Meredith's various privileges irritated her.

Since Meredith chose Attending Physician. Shepherd, Neurosurgery, she would choose Dr. Burke, a Cardiothoracic Surgery Attending Physician, since her goal after her internship and during her specialist residency training would be Cardiothoracic Surgery.

If the two become good friends who help each other, then in the future, if there is a coronary artery bypass surgery, it will definitely be her, not Meredith, who goes into the Operating Room!

So she planned to notify Dr. Burke first.

But when she saw Dr. Burke confidently tell her that nothing could stump him, she suddenly backed down.

Once Dr. Burke chooses to press the button on the file, she will be considered an accomplice.

Cristina, being rational, was naturally unwilling to take such a big risk for this ambiguous relationship that was still undecided.

So she said nothing, but simply pulled out the file as Dr. Bailey had asked, handed it to Dr. Bailey, and then kept her mouth shut.

After that, she saw Dr. Bailey hand the file to Dr. Burke.

This left her with mixed feelings.

So Dr. Bailey is like this too. If I had known, I would have preferred to have her do this favor...

But now, George revealed that Dr. Burke was the patient's surgeon back then, which made Cristina a little scared.

Could it be that besides the original paper file, there is also a backup file?

Fortunately, she didn't help cover it up!