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Chapter 2

作者: Evil SIL
After replying to the message, I decided to go to the office to retrieve my computer.

When I reached the department entrance, I froze.

The card reader on the security lock glowed red, meaning that my access card had been deactivated.

Through the glass door, I saw June sitting at my desk.

I knocked on the glass.

June looked up. When she saw it was me, she opened the door and blocked the entrance.

“Dr. Britton, you can’t blame me for this. Dr. Guzman put me in charge of the department’s medications. I had to prove to him that I was doing my job.”

“So reporting me was your idea of proving that?”

“You’re not being fair to me.” She tilted her head. “If you had done nothing wrong, a report would not do any harm, right?”

“June, do you even know who owns this hospi—”

She cut me off with an impatient wave. “Enough, Dr. Britton. A doctor about to lose her license wants to pretend that she runs the hospital? Save that act for Dr. Guzman. Honestly, that attitude is exactly why I had your access card deactivated. Someone needed to remind you that you’re not above everyone else.”

Anger surged through me, but arguing with her right away would accomplish nothing.

“My patient rounds logbook is still inside,” I suppressed my anger to tell her.

She smiled. “I’m keeping it safe for you.”

“I want it now.”

She snorted.

“Dr. Britton, it’s not that I won’t let you in. But if you come in now, and something else goes wrong with the drug inventory, how would we sort it out? This is for your own good.”

Just then, Kenneth walked over and stood behind June.

“Dr. Britton, why don’t you just go home for now? Let’s wait until the Medical Affairs finishes its investigation.”

“Kenneth.” I looked him straight in the eye. “About the patient under your care last week, the one with the unstable blood pressure, I told you to adjust the antihypertensive dosage. Did you do it?”

His gaze immediately shifted away.

“June said your standards were too strict. She said it was fine as long as the blood pressure stayed within the borderline range.”

June jumped in. “Dr. Britton, do you really have to make things so intense for everyone here? You run everything like it is a medical school entrance exam. Everyone’s exhausted.”

Several doctors behind her nodded in agreement.

“Exactly. Dr. Britton, you expect too much from people.”

“Nobody else runs their department like this.”

“Besides, promotions are mostly about who has the department chief’s support. The patient charts don’t have to be perfect. Good enough is fine.”

I stood there, stunned.

None of them had ever said any of this to my face before.

“Kenneth, half of your board exam study guide came from—”

“I know!” He cut me off and raised his voice at me. “I know you helped me a lot! However, Dr. Britton, helping me doesn’t mean that you get to stay on top of me forever! I’m allowed to think for myself! I’m tired of being told what to do every single step of the way!”

A few people behind him murmured their agreement.

“Exactly. Every shift change, she calls us out by name and lectures us like we’re grade schoolers.”

“Whenever there’s a complex surgery, she takes the lead case, and we’re stuck assisting.”

“Well, of course. She’s Dr. Guzman’s favorite.”

My lips curled into a bitter smile. It suddenly struck me that I had spent a lot of my time helping a pack of ingrates.

June looked at me with a smug smile.

“Don’t worry, Dr. Britton. I’ll take over your VIP patients from here.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Dr. Guzman approved it. The high-priority cases you were managing have been reassigned to me.”

My mind went blank for a moment.

One of those patients had an extremely rare condition. I had spent more than six months researching a treatment plan.

Tom had told me himself that the case was too specialized for anyone else to handle.

“You’re lying.”

June merely shrugged. “Check the group chat.”

I opened the group chat on my phone.

Five minutes earlier, Tom had posted an announcement.

[Effective immediately, Dr. Olivia Britton’s priority cases will be transferred to June Wyck. All relevant medical staff are requested to cooperate with the handover process.]

My heart sank.

Why would Tom hand those patients over to June?

She had only been in the department for a month. She had not even mastered changing a simple dressing. How could she possibly be responsible for cases like these?

I wanted to press for answers, but June had already walked away.

Just then, my grandfather’s assistant, Evan Murphy, called.

“Ms. Britton, why am I not seeing you or Dr. Guzman at the symposium? Your grandfather personally secured Dr. Guzman’s invitation to this event. He specifically instructed Dr. Guzman to bring you along.”

I froze. Symposium?

Tom had never told me that I was supposed to attend.

Why had he lied to me?

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