A Second Chance at Forever (Eleanor and Bernard) novel Chapter 998

In the hospital's conference room, Liana grilled everyone involved with the surgery. They all agreed that Mr. Webb's surgical mishap led to the accident.

She suspected Yeager of deliberately concealing the patient's condition, so she personally checked the patient's previous medical reports. Finding nothing wrong, she requisitioned the surveillance footage of the operation. The video showed Yeager warning Mr. Webb against messing with the major blood vessels. The autopsy report also stated the cause of death was a botched repair of a major blood vessel.

Without concrete evidence, Liana couldn't just lay the blame on Yeager. She had to deal with the medical dispute, fork over a hefty compensation to the patient's family, and promise them that the hospital would give Mr. Webb the boot and seriously discipline him.

As for the drug developed by Mr. Webb, the dead patient's students (who were all top dogs in the global medical field) kept showing up at the hospital to have their say.

They believed Mr. Webb was a bad apple and shouldn't get the Nobel Prize in Medicine. If Mr. Webb won, they would team up with major hospitals and companies in the medical device field to give their hospital a hard time.

On hearing this, Liana outright said they didn't need the honor, but they had to keep Mr. Webb's name as the developer of the drug.

However, other hospital bigwigs believed that the research was authorized by the hospital and Mr. Webb was assigned to develop it. They thought Mr. Webb was just the head honcho in the team and the success of the drug was a team effort, not all down to him. They insisted that they had to get the prize, as it was a feather in the hospital's cap.

To put the hospital on the map internationally with this drug and gain influence, the hospital leaders unanimously decided to have Yeager, who helped with the development, replace Mr. Webb in completing the paper. They intended to hand over the fruits of Mr. Webb's hard work to Yeager.

Liana disagreed with this decision and wanted to talk to Bernard. But the hospital leaders said, "Medical accidents are par for the course, and we can't run to investors every time something goes wrong. Investors only care about the bottom line and don't run the hospital. The handling of accidents should be done by the hospital director and management, not always running to investors."

Liana smacked the table in anger and said, "We've been discussing, but everyone's opinion is all over the place, so I wanted to involve the investor."

One of the hospital leaders sarcastically replied, "You're the only one who disagrees, the rest of us are on the same page. Are you the be-all and end-all of this medical system?"

Seeing the argument escalate to a national medical system level, Mr. Webb quickly stepped in to stop the arguing Liana, "This is my fault, and I'm willing to take all the blame. Let's decide by vote according to hospital rules."

That was pretty much Mr. Webb burning his bridges.

Liana just stared at him, momentarily lost for words.

The rest of the hospital management started voting, all in favor, with only Liana opposing.

Even as the director, Liana couldn't protect Will.

Seeing the overwhelming support in the vote count, the hospital leaders made a decision on the spot.

As the crowd dispersed, Liana lifted her clear eyes to look at Will sitting below.

Just then, he was calmly looking back at her with a faint smile.