The Sweet Scent of Giving In

Didi.

Didi.

As everyone was talking, Cristina's pager went off again.

"Damn it! This is never going to end!"

Cristina shoveled a mouthful of rice into her mouth and got up to run to the ward.

"Don't rush."

Adam laughed and said, "Wouldn't you like to end this miserable life?"

"Do you have a solution?"

Cristina was delighted.

"Hehe."

Adam smiled noncommittally, "If you finish now, you might still be able to make it to Mr. Herman's surgery, after all, you snatched it from him."

"Certainly!"

Cristina nodded, glanced at the pager, and seeing that it wasn't the most urgent 911, sat back down, her face showing her most amiable smile, "Adam, do you have a solution?"

"Uh-huh."

Adam snorted softly, "It's just a pity that someone broke my heart this morning."

"Sorry."

Cristina apologized immediately.

"If I had known about this surgery this morning, I would definitely have chosen it."

Adam continued.

"..."

Cristina's lips twitched, and she laid her cards on the table. "Adam, what will it take for you to help me?"

"A rare surgery!"

Adam dropped the pretense and held up one finger. "Next time you encounter such a rare surgery that I'm interested in, you have to let me have it!"

"You wish!"

Cristina's small eyes widened immediately. "You've taken all the good surgeries, and I finally found one, risking punishment, and you want me to give it to you willingly?"

"Have you thought this through?"

Adam smiled and said, "If you finish this tedious, dirty work now, there's a good chance you'll be involved in the first adult male Teratoma Excision Surgery."

Do you think you'll ever need this kind of surgery again?

"By trading a future, unknown, and rare surgery for this truly first-ever rare surgery, are you really losing out?"

"Whether I lose or not, you've made a killing!"

Cristina pinpointed the key point.

"For us, this is a win-win situation."

Adam smiled calmly.

"Cristina, the patient is the priority!"

Liz realized what was happening and quickly urged him on.

Whether it's a win-win situation where both Adam and Cristina win, or Adam wins twice, it's not good news for her.

"He won't die."

Cristina rolled her eyes at her and looked at Adam: "Okay, I agree, but only if I actually participate in the surgery afterwards."

"Make a deal."

Adam nodded.

What are you going to do?

Cristina asked.

"Hehe."

Adam couldn't help but laugh and said, "You've completely misunderstood the problem. You think you offended Dr. Bailey and were punished by her?"

"Isn't that so?"

Cristina was stunned. "Who else but her could punish me like this..."

Then she realized what was happening and gritted her teeth, saying, "Nurse!"

"That's right."

Adam laughed and said, "Think about how you offended the nurse when you were trying to take Mr. Herman's case?"

"To keep it a secret, I didn't tell them beforehand that I had moved Mr. Herman over, so why are they being so petty?"

Cristina couldn't believe it.

That's it?

Adam scoffed, "That's not what I heard. What are nurses to you? Not colleagues? You don't need to explain to them. You only notify them when you need to change a bedpan?"

"Whoa!"

George exclaimed, "Cristina, this is so insulting!"

"What's wrong?"

Cristina realized what was happening, but still stubbornly insisted, "Did I say something wrong? This is what a nurse does! If you don't want to be a nurse, go to medical school and become a doctor!"

"If you maintain this attitude, there's nothing I can do to help you."

Adam shook his head.

"I don't need your help."

Cristina said smugly, "Now that I know it's not Dr. Bailey punishing me, I don't need to pay any attention to their calls. I'm going to find Dr. Bailey right now and make things clear that I want to participate in Mr. Herman's surgery! Our agreement is null and void!"

"You're so naive."

Adam said with a half-smile, "It seems I have to raise the stakes now. If you want me to help you solve this problem, in addition to a rare surgery, you'll also need to do me a favor."

"I think you're too naive. What if I don't agree?"

Cristina laughed.

"You think telling Dr. Bailey the truth is enough?"

Adam shook his head and laughed, "Let me tell you this cruel reality: even if you tell me, Dr. Bailey won't care about the conflict between you and the nurse. If the nurse calls you, you have to go. Believe it or not?"

"How is that possible!"

Cristina was stunned.

"Nurses are the foundation of the hospital's operation; they do all the dirty and hard work."

Adam cautioned, "Only an arrogant intern like you would dare to offend them like this. Do you know Dr. Benton?"

"Have no idea."

Cristina shook her head blankly.

"It's good that you don't know."

Adam laughed and said, "He was your senior. He was an excellent surgical resident at the Medical Center. Because he was in a bad mood, he couldn't control his temper and vented his anger on the nurses."

He found fault with the nurse, scolding her for writing the medical orders for him, saying she could write them herself!

Only a doctor like him could write that!

Then he immediately suffered a backlash!

Every time they encountered a patient, the nurses would make him write down the medical orders himself, and they expressed strong distrust of his verbal orders, insisting that he write down the specific medical orders before they would follow them.

Is the handwriting illegible?

Then ask him one word at a time!

When patients with venous problems receive intravenous infusions or other difficult treatments, the nurses are 'worried' about not doing it right and insist that the senior doctor personally demonstrate the procedure.

Call him first if you have any difficult patients!

Especially when he sneaked a break in the duty room, they would call him frantically!

"And then what?"

George asked curiously.

"He is just as stubborn as Cristina."

Adam looked at Cristina, whose face had darkened, and said with a grin, "She resolutely refuses to apologize, she does everything on her own, and then she becomes our former senior."

Without the cooperation of nurses, it takes several times longer and requires much more effort; there will always be a time when we can't hold on any longer.

And once a problem arises, it's a big problem.

In his desperate state, Dr. Benton made a mistake, causing unnecessary and permanent harm to the patient.

The investigation committee did not revoke his medical license.

But the Medical Center also asked him to resign voluntarily.

"That's terrible."

George sighed, "It seems we really can't afford to offend any nurse."

"Wrong."

Adam corrected, "It's not that you can't offend any individual nurse, but that you can't offend the nursing profession as a whole, especially someone like Cristina who makes sweeping generalizations."

To describe nurses as simply changing bedpans is a major taboo; by saying this, she offended the entire nursing profession.

Everything we've seen so far is just the appetizer.

"Vomit!"

Upon hearing this, Liz glanced at the anal lubricant on Cristina's chest and gagged.

"A rare surgery, plus a favor."

Cristina's face turned from dark to pale. Meeting Adam's amused gaze, she thought to herself, "I agree."

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