Chapter 626: The Lion Dance Troupe
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Eastern Science Hospital was located near the Ginza Hotel in Guangzhou and was housed in a renovated old building that was six-story tall. The building was made of stone, while nurous LED screens adorned its walls. The hospital looked archaic and modern at the sa ti. It was the subject of criticism of the senior citizens in the area, as they could not stand the building, which was a fusion of old Chinese architecture and modern technology.
And of course, the part which they could not stand the most was how much the hospital charged their patients.
The economy in Guangzhou was great. Hence, people would definitely take notice of such a huge hospital. They would enter the hospital and inquire about the price, and so would even seek treatnt there. This was especially true for parents whose children required ergency treatnt. They were the ones who were always rushing to the hospital with their credit cards, as they could care less about how much the treatnt would cost.
Eastern Science Hospital charged their patients a registration fee between 3,000 RMB to 5,000 RMB, while the examination fees started from 600 RMB. There was no limit to how high the price of the imported dication prescribed and the consultation fees could go.
Middle-class families would start doubting their whole entire lives the mont one of their family mbers were admitted into Eastern Science Hospital.
ng Shan, though, did not really care about this. Eastern Science Hospital was a high-end private hospital anyway, and they did not target those with a low inco…
*Pound, pound, clang!*
*Pound, pound, clang!*
After the lion dance troupe at the entrance rested for a while, they started dancing again. ng Shan got seriously annoyed by them.
He could not believe that patients nowadays were actually hiring lion dance troupes to dance at the hospital entrance during a dical dispute. This patient’s family mber must have really hated the hospital a lot.
Since they spent such a large sum of money, it ant that they would not easily let the matter rest. They would at least demand way more than 100,000 RMB or 80,000 RMB. After all, hiring lion dance troupes cost more than 10,000 RMB a day. Aside from this, the lion dance troupe really brought a lot of publicity to the dical dispute. Eastern Science Hospital was located in the city center, and there was a small square in front of the entrance. ng Shan used to like the square a lot, but right now, what was taking place there seriously irked him.
ng Shan could totally imagine the way the social dia newsfeed of those in Guangzhou was flooded with videos of the protest right now.
“Have you found the person?” ng Shan furrowed his eyebrows as he looked down from the window.
“I’m still working on it.” ng Shan’s assistant was a professional manager, and he looked even more flustered compared to ng Shan right now.
“Try finding a way to utilize your connections. In China, we always utilize connections to get things done.” ng Shan sighed. Back when he was looking for an assistant, he only considered the fact that the other party was from a corporate background as he hoped that his assistant would be able to strengthen the hospital’s connection with its investors. This was what ng Shan was relatively weak in.
Who would have thought that even his assistant’s hands were tied in the face of this situation?
ng Shan did not actually know what to do either. None of his connections were in Guangzhou. And ever since he left the public hospital he used to work in, the number of connections he was able to make courtesy of being a doctor plumted. Back when he used to be an assistant chief physician, he had patients from all over the city, all over the province and even all over the country. Those patients would treat him politely just to score a hospital bed and get better care, and they were never stingy when it ca to connecting him with other people and helping him out so that they could get into his good books.
However, because of how expensive seeking treatnt in Eastern Science Hospital was, ng Shan had lost a lot of connections. Not only could he not get any help from all the rich patients, but he also had to work hard to get into those patient’s good books.
However, as long as he got to earn more money, ng Shan did not really care about such things. He was not a fan of socializing anyway. But this was a huge shortcoming now that he was faced with such a problem.
Truth be told, the hospital director used to take care of things like this…
As ng Shan thought about this, he decided not to be conflicted anymore. He dismissed his assistant and made a call.
“I was just thinking about you, and you happened to call.” The hospital director imdiately picked up the call and asked, “What’s the situation now?”
The hospital director of Eastern Science Hospital used to be the executive associate hospital director of Guangzhou. This was exactly ng Shan’s position in Eastern Science Hospital right now. However, only those who had solid connections with the governnt were qualified to beco the hospital directors of public hospitals. Hence, right after he retired, he accepted the offer from Eastern Science Hospital and beca its hospital director. He was mainly in charge of logistics.
The hospital director was mostly in charge of things such as managing the nurses and patient care assistants as well as renovation and purchasing. anwhile, ng Shan was in charge of the managent of doctors and dical matters as well as the drugs and dical consumables used by the hospital. They worked quite well together. After all, private hospitals were small, there were not many channels where they could receive bribes from, and all of them were highly paid. As long as nothing serious happened, everyone worked well together.
However, ng Shan had always tried his best to breach the hospital director’s territory before this. This was why he had been holding himself back from calling the hospital director.
Now that he was on the phone with the hospital director, ng Shan had no choice but to take a deep breath and say in all seriousness, “We’re involved in a dical dispute with a family now. They have hired a lion dance troupe, and the troupe is in front of our entrance…”
“I know what’s going on. What’s with this family?” The hospital director cut ng Shan off.
ng Shan was almost out of breath. ‘This man…’
*Pound, clang! Pound, clang! Pound, clang…*
The lion dance troupe’s musical score sounded like a ss, and it also seed extrely strange. However, there were plenty of onlookers. This was because the fact that a family hired a lion dance troupe to protest during a dical dispute was extrely interesting. Moreover, the hospital was located in the city center. There was a subway station right in front of it, and it was surrounded by restaurants.
ng Shan sighed. He drew the receiver closer to his ears and said, “It’s not really a major matter. The patient is a young child, and he was sent to our hospital with a suspected cold. The doctor who gave him a consultation perford so basic examinations and authorized forms for the child to receive so tests and scans. However, as the child’s parents found it expensive, they requested for our hospital to omit so of those tests and scans.”
“There was a misdiagnosis?”
“Yeah. It’s no big deal actually. After the child received fluid transfusions for two days, we realized that his condition had worsened. Hence, we invited doctors from another hospital over for a consultation. The child was diagnosed with viral myocarditis. He recovered after we adjusted his treatnt plan, but there are so sequelae. He sotis experiences tightness in the chest and shortness of breath, and he’s not allowed to do sports for a while. He will actually recover naturally after a while.” ng Shan paused for a mont and said, “The patient’s family isn’t that well-off, so they might be dissatisfied about the expenses.”
“The child isn’t attached to any health insurance plan?”
“None of them covers our hospital.”
“How much did they spend?”
“Around 820,000 RMB. We rounded the sum.”
On the other end, the hospital director fell silent.
He used to work in a governnt hospital himself, and based on his experience, such things happened even more often in governnt hospitals. Viral myocarditis in children was not easy to diagnose to begin with, and it was often misdiagnosed as a cold or pneumonia.
But no matter what treatnt governnt hospitals administered, the fee could never go up to 820,000 RMB.
The hospital director shook his head and did not continue the topic. He said, “Anyway, I went and found out more about this family. They shouldn’t be able to afford to hire a lion dance troupe, and they are the type who would find another way to give us trouble instead.”
“Are you saying that there’s soone backing them up?” This was actually what ng Shan speculated too.
The hospital director humd in agreent and continued, “The child’s parents specifically said that they wanted to see you, right?”
ng Shan furrowed his eyebrows. “What do you an?”
The hospital director chuckled and said, “I’ll just get straight to the point. The other party is looking to bring you down.”
ng Shan froze and tightened his grip on his phone. “How did you know?”
“They’re not being subtle about it,” the hospital director said airily, “Do you rember this patient called Qi Yuquan? The dance troupe belonged to a business the Qi family owns.”
ng Shan imdiately felt diffident. “About this…”
“This matter is actually your problem,” the hospital director concluded. “Let give you a suggestion. You can try solving it by issuing an apology or sothing. See what they want from you. Don’t worry that the other party will sue you or sothing. This isn’t how people in China do things.”
ng Shan was speechless. He argued, “I rely gave them a suggestion. Besides, the patient’s surgery was a success.”
The hospital director sighed and said. “There’s no point telling this. Let put it this way. The Qi family is perhaps just testing the waters. They might just let matters rest if you’re able to solve the problem with the lion dance troupe and the child’s family without making a commotion. But if you’re unable to do this, it would be better for you to find out how the Qi family gets things done and find a way to deal with it.”
The hospital director hung up. ng Shan’s grip on his phone was so tight that blood drained from his fingers.
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