national health system amounting to an astronomical sum of 1 billion yuan. This sounded like a large amount but there were countless provinces, cities, and counties across the nation all waiting for...Chapter 286: Body Search

"Come on, Director Hu, is there anything you can't say"

Xiao Yu looked at the hesitant Director Hu before smiling and speaking to him.

"Alright then, let me tell you. A patient was admitted to the hospital today. This patient has a very special identity; he's an old senior from the army. The senior is suffering from heart disease and, because of his advanced age, surgery isn't an option. He can only be treated with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Since our hospital’s TCM capabilities are lacking, I recommended you!"

Upon hearing Xiao Yu's words, Director Hu steeled himself before saying.

Xiao Yu's medical skills were something he greatly admired. Especially when he saw him save a severely yang-deficient patient with just a few golden needles on the plane—his technique was miraculous.

So upon hearing that this old leader’s personal physician needed to find an excellent TCM practitioner for treatment, Director Hu immediately thought of Xiao Yu. As a member of the expert panel treating the veteran general, he recommended Xiao Yu.

Due to the incident involving Cao Er's illness previously, which almost endangered Xiao Yu, Director Hu felt extremely guilty towards him. Therefore, this time when an old senior from Beijing came for inspection and suddenly had a heart attack in Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Director Hu knew it was too risky to perform surgery on the veteran general due to his advanced age.

Thus, after consultation among members of the expert panel and the veteran general's personal physician, they decided that TCM treatment would be the best course. They were all well aware of their hospital’s TCM capabilities; if they used them to treat the veteran general without success, it could lead to serious consequences.

However, renowned national-level TCM experts from outside would be different. Even if the senior didn’t pull through, their hospital could claim to have done everything in their power.

In addition, as long as they safely got past today, Beijing’s expert team would arrive by evening. At that point, there wouldn't be anything left for their hospital to do.

Actually, using only Western medicine could allow the veteran general to hold on until Beijing's experts arrived. However, his personal physician believed that simultaneously employing both TCM and Western medicine was the best approach.

This time bringing in a TCM expert wouldn't result in much responsibility for them either. When the senior’s family and doctors from Beijing arrive, it might be an opportunity for their hospital. For famous national-level TCM experts, this kind of situation isn’t significant; but for a young doctor like Xiao Yu, there would be substantial benefits.

Xiao Yu thought about Director Hu's words before saying, "Director Hu, with so many experts here, I think I'll just stay out of it!"

"Sigh... It’s alright. The TCM expert is being brought in from outside. Let's go! Consider this helping me out."

Director Hu interrupted Xiao Yu’s words and said.

About the last matter, he always felt that he owed Xiao Yu a favor. However, this time, he didn’t need to take responsibility for anything. At the same time, he needed to invite an expert in traditional Chinese medicine, so he thought of Xiao Yu. Even if Xiao Yu did nothing, he would still gain a favor from it. Moreover, with Xiao Yu’s medical skills, who knows if he could improve the condition of the old general. If that happened, Xiao Yu would become prosperous.

"Alright, then I’ll go."

Xiao Yu thought for a moment and said. He didn’t think too much about it; he just felt that he couldn't refuse.

"Good, good, come on, let's go in!"

Director Hu hurriedly said when he heard Xiao Yu’s agreement. Director Hu secretly sighed with relief. He thought to himself that the favor from last time could finally be repaid now.

In Director Hu’s view, although Xiao Yu was so young and skilled in medicine, he needed a platform. If he could establish some connection with this old general's family, it would have an incalculable impact on his future development.

Xiao Yu parked the car and came to the hospital with Director Hu. On the way, Xiao Yu learned that even Director Hu was not very clear about who exactly this old general was, only knowing that he was a highly influential elder in Beijing.

The two of them went down to the second basement level where there was a dedicated elevator shaft which directly led to the twenty-third floor of the Deep Sea People’s Hospital. There was no one in the elevator lobby, but Xiao Yu could clearly sense with his current perception that someone had been paying close attention nearby.

The two rode the elevator up to the twenty-third floor where a few young people were seated on chairs across from them reading newspapers and wearing headsets. These people glanced at Xiao Yu and Director Hu before continuing to read their papers without saying anything further.

"Doctor Xiao, please come in; the expert group is inside!"

After they got out of the elevator, Director Hu gestured with his hand and said, then he walked ahead leading Xiao Yu into a room marked as an "conference room."

Xiao Yu entered to see only three or four people sitting in the conference room's chairs, still discussing something intensely.

"Director Hu is back So quickly The other doctors haven't arrived yet!"

Seeing Director Hu entering with a greeting from these doctors. They were also puzzled by how quickly he had returned after just leaving earlier.

"Hehe, yes! I happened to meet Doctor Xiao at the hospital gate! It saves me a trip!"

Director Hu gave a light chuckle and said to everyone present.

The doctors who saw Xiao Yu all nodded to him; they had met him during Dr Cao's consultation last time, knowing that despite his youth, he knew several veteran TCM physicians. However, as they hadn't witnessed him treating patients back then, they didn’t know the standard of his medical skills.

"You幾位先休息一下，我帶蕭醫生去看看病人！"

Director Hu spoke to the few doctors before leading Xiao Yu out of the meeting room and walking deeper into the corridor.

"Wait a moment, we need to check you!"

Just as they were walking, two people emerged from one of the rooms nearby, blocking their path.

Xiao Yu took a glance at these two individuals. They appeared to be in their twenties and wore ordinary sports attire with crew cuts. Their faces showed stern expressions, and they walked upright and straight. Xiao Yu immediately recognized them as military personnel just from that one look.

Director Hu seemed accustomed to this procedure; he led Xiao Yu into the room where those two young men had emerged from.

In the room were another couple of young people who already knew Director Hu and were aware that he was a doctor here. However, they hadn’t met Xiao Yu before, so their focus was on him.

"Bag!" One of these young men pointed to Xiao Yu’s medical bag.

The language used by these young people was concise with no unnecessary words or phrases.

Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment before placing his medical bag on the table. The young men then proceeded to take out each item from the bag and examine it thoroughly.

"Take off your jacket, we need to search you!"

Upon seeing nothing suspicious in Xiao Yu’s bag, they placed all the items back inside before turning towards Xiao Yu.

Their intention to inspect his medical bag was something Xiao Yu could reluctantly accept, but when these young men wanted to search him personally, a sudden change came over his previously calm face.

"Hehe, I'm sorry, Director Ho, but I won't be treating this patient!"

Miao Yu's expression quickly returned to calm as he chuckled and said that to Director Ho. Afterward, he picked up his medical bag and headed towards the door.

"Doctor Miao... This is their rule..."

Director Ho hadn't expected Miao Yu to react so strongly because of a body search. He hurriedly tried to stop Miao Yu as he walked out, saying that.

In his view, considering how young Miao Yu was and the fact that such an important leader had asked him for medical treatment, it was already an honor in itself. If he managed to treat General Old well, then a bright future would await him. It might even be possible for him to become one of the imperial physicians inside the palace. Hence, he hadn't mentioned these rules to Miao Yu.

In his opinion, such leaders should have this kind of treatment and that Miao Yu would not oppose it in pursuit of a promising future.

However, Miao Yu did not agree with that view. To him, everyone was equal regardless of their status; they were all just patients to him.

"I'm sorry, Director Ho, but I cannot accept such rules!"

Miao Yu dodged Director Ho's attempts to stop him and said so. After speaking with Director Ho, he got up and walked out regardless of whether Director Ho was trying to help or not. He would never consent to allowing someone else to search his body before treating a patient. Furthermore, Miao Yu still had the large凶器 dagger on him.

"Stop! Regardless of whether you will treat them today or not, we must search your person. Otherwise, we have the right to suspect that you're here to harm the leader!"

The few young men in the room quickly moved forward when they saw Miao Yu leaving and surrounded him loosely in a circle.

Even in these soldiers' minds, it was similar to what Director Ho thought. Being able to treat such important leaders was something many people yearned for; no one would be angry about being searched by them.

When Miao Yu heard that they were going to search him after he said nothing and his expression suddenly changed as he turned around and walked out, it seemed suspicious to the soldiers. They thought Miao Yu might have come from somewhere else with the intent to harm General Old.

As for whether or not Miao Yu truly wanted to harm General Old, they would arrest him immediately if any weapon was found during the search. If nothing was found, then he'd be restrained first and investigated thoroughly. From their perspective, Miao Yu clearly looked guilty when his expression darkened after hearing about the body search.

"Comrades, this is a misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding... This is Doctor Miao, an extremely skilled physician whom I invited to treat the patient!"

Hearing them label Miao Yu with such a charge, Director Ho quickly explained to those young men.lisman. They had already recognized the symbol that Xiao Yu was drawing and Du’s face suddenly tensed up when he saw that Xiao Yu had copied six times; but seeing no unusual expression from Xiao Yu, h...