MAX: Go or Not?

Medical Center.

"Elena..."

Faced with Elena's choice, Peter felt like a windfall had fallen from the sky.

Then—

Furious, Jack swung his elbow at Peter's face.

Peter had nowhere to dodge.

But Adam easily blocked Jack's elbow strike and held them back, making them calm down.

He was the resident doctor.

All the bosses were watching.

After a long while, under Adam's persuasion, Jack finally calmed down completely. He kept a cold face and said nothing, looking very much like the protagonist of a broken-engagement story shouting, "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river."

Elena was persuaded to leave.

With her here, it would be easy for conflict to break out.

Leaving Cristina behind to watch over them, Adam, Chief of Surgery Richard, and the others went to the imaging room. Looking over Jack and Peter's CT scans, they began discussing the surgical plan.

"I don't agree to the surgery."

The difficulty of the operation lay in separating the nerves. As the main surgeon, Dr. Shepherd voiced his objection. "Their spines are fused together from the L4 vertebra down, and their blood vessels are intricately tangled. The surgical risk is too high."

"Your patients are asking you to perform the surgery."

Chief of Surgery Richard immediately shot him a blade-sharp look. "Derek, why are you backing down? This isn't like you! Unless there is irrefutable evidence that the surgery cannot be performed, this operation must be done!"

Dr. Shepherd was helpless.

Aside from the fact that this surgery truly was extremely difficult, he would also have to work with Dr. Sloan. That was a reason that made him deeply uncomfortable, yet one he could not voice.

Now that Chief of Surgery Richard had made up his mind to proceed—

He could only give it a