Chapter 516 The Remuneration You Never Understand

Strange's words did not meet Li Jie's expectations. Just now, Christine had explained the risks of Penny's surgery.

Li Jie rubbed his chin and said hesitantly: "Using Osborne's latest technology, even using nerve regeneration technology? You don't need to do cumbersome nerve bypass reconstruction. I know that traditional surgery has great risks."

Before Li Jie finished speaking, Strange interrupted him: "The new operation also has great risks! Panny is a six-year-old girl. She is too young, and the younger the child, the risk of this kind of operation is too high." The higher it is, the higher the possibility of failure, and the success rate may be less than 20%. And the success here is for me.”

Strange turned around and looked at the crowd and said, "If it were someone else, there might not even be a 50% chance."

"That's why we need you, Dr. Strange. If there is no operation, Penny will still have problems. Maybe she will die for the rest of her life." Li Jie tried to persuade Strange.

But Strange is a very stubborn person. He continued to shake his head and said, "Instead of having the surgery now, it's better to wait for her to grow up a bit. If she can grow up to ten years old, the success rate of the surgery will increase a lot. At that time, I will Use the knife, Mr. Li."

"But Penny can't wait that long!" Christine interjected, "She fell ill today, and was just being treated in the operating room. Although she is out of danger, her condition is getting worse."

Christine, who came in last, went to the emergency room before she came. She is an important doctor in the emergency room, and she got a lot of information about Penny's rescue just now.

Christine continued: "Her nerves have begun to shrink at an accelerated rate. From now on, the time she can live soberly in this world can only be counted in days."

Christine brings the worst news, worse than could have been expected. There was no time for Penny to let her grow up and reduce the risks of surgery.

"Please, Steve." Christine looked at Strange and said, "This child's time is running out. She needs surgery."

"No, you know the rules, Christine." Strange showed an unusually hard heart. Although he was frowning and thinking about something, he finally chose to refuse.

Hearing Strange's refusal, Li Jie couldn't help but let out a sneer: "What makes you so hard-hearted, Dr. Strange. This is a six-year-old girl who is begging for your mercy in front of you." and rescue."

"You are the only one who can help her, but you choose to stand by?" Li Jie couldn't help mocking Strange and said, "For what? For your ridiculous 100% success rate of surgery? We can find a way to arrange a secret operation."

"It was carried out in the laboratory of the Osborne Group. No one knows that you participated in this operation. If the operation fails, I will randomly find a few cats and dogs to help you take the blame. What do you think?" Li Jie had disdain in his eyes, and his mouth was not Said forgivingly.

"Of course, if you succeed, I will also help find a group of reporters to interview you. The Osborne Group and several members of the "Lancet" are very familiar. Maybe you can still be in the last "Lancet" cover?"

Li Jie was mocking him properly. He has never liked Strange very much, since the first time. But because of the cooperation between the Osborne Group and him, Li Jie maintained a polite relationship with him at least on the surface.

But now that this is all said and done, Strange still refuses the operation, refuses to perform the operation. This is no longer defending one's honor, but pure hard-heartedness.

If a doctor values ​​his own reputation more than the patient's life, and can even watch an innocent life die in front of his own eyes, Li Jie feels that he has lost the basic character of a doctor.

Li Jie's ridicule made Strange very angry, especially the words that a cat or a dog would replace him made him even more angry. Especially when Li Jie said that if he succeeds, he will be interviewed by The Lancet.

This was even more of an insult to Strange. An insult to personality. What did he take himself for? A slut who relies on medical skills to show off and set a high price?

"Enough!" Strange patted his oak desk angrily and made a loud clinking sound.

"What do you know! What do you know!" Strange said angrily, pointing at the three people in the room. What he thinks is completely incomprehensible to others, and he has been wrapping his deepest thoughts with a thick disguise.

"You think I care about this broken honor? What kind of so-called percentage success rate?" Strange lost his former elegance, and he snarled while tugging at his collar.

There were many reasons for his gaffe, including Li Jie's sarcasm and Christine's distrust of him. Maybe there are some other things, maybe he is just tired, the more honors he has, the more things he has to bear. Sometimes tense nerves need an outlet.

"Then what do you care about?" Li Jie returned to Strange without giving an inch.

"Life!" Strange said a word that Li Jie could never have imagined. Li Jie found this word extremely ridiculous when it came out of Strange's mouth.

"Ha!" Li Jie didn't hide his contempt.

Strange glared at Li Jie, Christine and Thor and said, "When I read the Hibernate Manifesto to the medical book, I knew the weight of life in my hands."

"The higher your medical skills, the greater the responsibility you have to bear! It is against the law for criminals to kill people. They use guns, knives, drugs, and other methods to kill people."

"They will be punished by the law and cast aside. Everyone will say they deserve what they deserve." Strange's face showed an abnormal flush.

"But the doctor won't! I knew it when I stood at the operating table with the lancet. I was given a legal license to kill."

"The life and death of the patient on the operating table is in my hands. I can save him or kill him. And I don't need to be responsible to anyone. I don't need to be responsible to anyone when I kill any patient. Because this is It’s legal! And even if you do kill someone, someone will come and pat you on the shoulder and say: I’ve tried my best.”

"Do you understand this feeling? I am a doctor, and my duty is to save people, not to kill them. Just like what you did last time, Christine, inject brain death injections for organ donation patients. I have done it all my life. not!"

"Any life that I can't save, I would rather not have any intersection with them. I don't want my hands to be stained with blood, and I don't want to be haunted by those ghosts when I dream back at midnight!"

Li Jie looked at Strange in surprise. And Christine has known Strange longer, and knows more things, some things about Strange's sister.

It was a failed operation, and the surgeon was Steve Strange. Strange has since refused to undergo any surgery he felt could not be done.

Just when Strange was shouting hysterically, Thor said in a low voice: "Coward."

He lowered his volume suspiciously so everyone could hear him.

Then Thor repeated it loudly: "Coward!" he said loudly, pointing at Strange's nose.

"So you'd rather watch innocent lives die in front of you than lend a helping hand?" Thor didn't accept Strange's words at all.

"The so-called saving and killing theory is just your fallacy. You are just pure cowardly! Look at yourself, look at you!" Thor said, pointing to this luxurious office.

"Look at the clothes you wear, look at the watch you wear (a Patek Philippe), your outfit is something ordinary people can't afford after ten years of work. Look at the trophies and awards in your cabinet, countless doctors have won them all their lives Not one of them!"

Thor's eyes were as big as Tongling's. He was as angry as a lion. He walked to Christine's side and took Christine's hands.

"Listen to what you just said? You said that Christine killed someone? Killed an organ donor!" Thor said, grabbing Christine's hands.

"Do you know how many people have been saved by these hands? How many dying lives lying in the ambulance were saved by these hands. I went out with Christine and rescued together. I know what she did for the world what."

"We ran, galloped. We did everything we could. How many times have I seen Christine tremble because her hands were loose. Look at this beautiful woman. She could have chosen a happier life. But she chose the cruelest battlefield."

"There is no big office, no personal assistant, no big house, no Patek Philippe, and no honor on the wall behind you. But how many people did she save? She defeated the god of death time and time again in the war against the god of death, and let the death continue Defeated! Look at her hands, the calluses and blood vessels dilated due to years of hard work are clearly visible!"

Thor let go of Christine's hand and walked towards Strange step by step, making Strange feel an unprecedented sense of oppression. Until he was oppressed and sat down in the chair. Thor stared at Strange with his eyes.

"But look at what you've done, are you really keeping your vows? Are you really saving lives? You're not, you're not! You're just trying to save yourself the whole time!"

Thor's words pierced Strange's heart like a sharp sword. He stopped suddenly.

"I was reading a book on nursing recently, and I read Nightingale's biography. She was known as the goddess of the lamp, and the modern nursing technology she created saved millions of lives. But before she was called a murderer Demon, because when she first came into contact with nursing, she didn't master the method, which once made the mortality rate in the nursing home as high as 65%!"

Thor slapped Strange's table louder than Strange.

"But did she give up? No! She pioneered modern nursing and became the object of modern medical staff's oath. Millions of people died because of her."

"On the first day I met Christine, she told me that medical treatment is a war, and there must be winners and losers in wars. You are delusional that you will always be a victorious general. But I am sorry to tell you that I I have experienced more wars than you!" Thor's tone was full of determination.

"I can tell you with certainty that there are no permanent victors in war. I have lost many friends in war, and I have not always won wars. But you will never succeed without losing, coward!"

"Aren't there other candidates besides this trash?" Thor pointed to Strange who had paused and said to Li Jie.

Li Jie thought for a while: "Dr. Otto, who helps the company research neuroskeletal, does not know if he knows other neurosurgery experts, let's go to him and try."

Thor glanced at Strange disdainfully and said, "Live your life on your false honor, coward!"

After speaking, he patted Strange's solid oak table heavily. A broad palm slapped the table with a loud thud. Louder than anything before it.

And as the sound fell, a huge crack appeared on the originally solid oak table. There was no way for humans to break the oak board five centimeters away. Li Jie noticed this, and his eyes lit up when he looked at Thor.

And Strange was also woken up by the exaggerated force. He glanced at the crack on the table and was not curious (because it is very common in the Marvel world, isn't it?). He just asked: "Why do you manage a child in an orphanage like this!"

Thor said without looking back: "Because she gave me a reward I couldn't refuse."

"What reward?" Strange asked.

Thor didn't answer, but Christine took a deep look at Strange: "Two pieces of taffy and a piece of hard candy."

"What?" Strange felt as if he had misheard.

Christine shook her head and said, "You will never understand, Strange." After saying this, she quickly caught up with Thor.

There was a special kind of smile on his face, and Strange assured that this was the first time this woman had smiled like this in the long time he had known Christine. And she took the initiative to hold Thor's hand.

Li Jie looked at Thor with admiration today, and he showed respect to Thor for the first time. After getting in touch with Dr. Otto in the company, he offered to help Thor open the door of Strange's office. And nodded to Thor with a smile: "You look like a real man today. Dr. Otto seems to have a way."

Christine took Thor's hand and said, "Just like when you just held my hand, Thor, you made me look at you with admiration."

Thor was confused by the attitude of the two, he just said what he wanted to say.

"No, don't do this. Is there any conspiracy between the two of you?" Thor couldn't believe that the two were so friendly to him. Forget about Christine, Li Jie is the one who plots against him every day.

Li Jie patted him on the shoulder and said nothing. Christine said, "Let's go see Penny, and then it's time for dinner. What would you like to eat, Thor."

"Salad bar. I need to lose weight," Thor said.

"No, no need. I think you are fine as you are now. Being too thin is not good for your health." Christine squeezed Thor's shoulder and patted his stomach.

"Huh?" Thor felt like he was hallucinating.

………………

The three of Li Jie drifted away. Seeing Christine's departure, Strange had a premonition that he might lose her forever.

And the words Thor said just now pierced his heart like a sharp knife. He sat blankly in his chair. At this moment, Strange felt unprecedentedly alone.

He put his hand on the oak table, but the table split in two without a sound and fell down.

"Damn it!" Strange cursed. Maybe Thor is right, he didn't want to save anyone, he only wanted to save himself.

Everyone left at this moment, and Strange felt like he was a loner in this world.

PS: The third is more spicy! The chapter update of 4,500 words. Everyone is asking for votes, today I updated 9,800 words, which counts as 10,000 words!