Rising Through Ranks

CH-0005

A group of men surrounded Quinin and a glim expression flashed through his face.

"What's the meaning of this?" Doctor Col face tightened.

"Don't take it the wrong way. I just want to have a little chat with the young man.." Xerxes stepped forward revealing her vibrant and suffocating aura even though she did nothing.

The other men beamed with an excessive amount of jealousy. A lowly look the man has been able to catch the attention of the almighty heiress.

"Ok..."

"I'm sure you already know who I am. I was informed that prior, Doctor Col noted that you would be able to help with my brother's case."

"So I wanted to know. Are you a well-trained doctor by any means?"

"I only know a little about medicine and nothing more. I'm sorry to disappoint you." Ended Quinin with a blank face.

"Oh... I must have gotten the wrong idea. Thanks for entertaining my curiosity." The bitter pill of disappointment rose through the throat of the heiress and she turned around to leave.

Doctor Col said nothing.

But before she left, the Director, followed by Ben and the other doctors rushed panicking into the halls.

"Is there a problem Doctor?" Xerxes inquired.

"This case Lady Xerxes. I'm sorry but we can do nothing about it. It's Haitus. The disease from three years ago.

We tried all we could do to stabilize the vitals of the patient but it was of no use. We can only assure you of a few hours with him before he eventually ends his course on earth."

Xerxes froze first with shock and then with fury.

"Didn't you tell me that you could help after carrying out the test?" Her face burned with rage that sent the Director falling back in his steps.

"Why didn't you inform me earlier that it was Hiatus!" She stood out more angry than emotional.

"We.. thought we could do something about it." Ben shook his head, his gaze falling on Col.

"Didn't you say that you would be able to do something about it earlier? Or you were just bluffing?

You gave us all the false hope. Now see where it has landed us all." Ben needed someone for the blame to be pushed on. It would be better if the Doctor was even stripped of his license. Ben has always thought that the person preventing him from rising through the ranks was Doctor Col.

"Everyone was there when he said those words. Right?" He turned to the other Doctors.

They could only nod their head in agreement. Frightened at what the outcome would be if they did otherwise.

Having issues with Doctor Ben was more like making life a living hell for yourself at the hospital.

"I never said I could." Doctor Col frowned at how manipulating the young man could be.

"I only recommended someone to which you declined."

"Oh. Your farmer friend?" Ben was choking with his laughter. The hands of the Doctor squeezed tightly, unable to do anything.

"Quinin?" Xerxes spilled with desperation itched in her throat.

"Then let him start working on him right away!" Shocks ran through the crowd like a wave.

Xerxes was desperate. The life of someone who dared to her was on the line. She had briefly forgotten what she had been told a few moments ago.

Besides, there was nothing to lose and a lot to gain if the one perfect chance worked out in their Favour.

Ben chuckled, thinking that he had heard wrong.

"I think you're making a terrible mistake. Doctor Col was only pulling a prank on us. Tell him Col how stupid you were."

"I wasn't joking when I said what I said." Col rebuke sternly and turned to Quinin, his expression softened.

"I'm very sorry for everything Doctor Quinin. But if you could help for your uncle's sake." His eyes formed a whirlwind of emotions as he spoke.

"Col what's wrong with you? Lady Xerxes. You aren't going to let someone who has barely been in the four walls of a medical school come close to someone close to you, right?

In ten years from now, I don't think he would even be able to get himself a license." The director spoke out of desperation while gritting his teeth.

"What's the percentage of him surviving?" Xerxes inquired.

"None."

"But wouldn't it be better to give the young man a dignified death?"

Xerxes slapped the direction right in the face, shattering the glasses.

"Any further words and you will be the one ending up without a license."

"I'm very sorry about that Doctor Quinin. If there's anything that you can do to save him."

Quinn nodded his head and proceeded into the operation room. The doctor stood back and watched while Doctor Col served as the assistant.

Quinin taking two shots of needles pulled off fluid right from the spine, replacing them with a dose of water.

The eyes of the Doctors widened. The central nervous system is the most complicated in the body

Even if the young man had a chance of survival before, now he wouldn't.

"Are you out of your mind?" The Director barked. "Do you want to damage him?"

"He was poisoned, dude. And thanks for your delay. It has affected his life force. This's the only way to save him."

"Huh? Poisoned. That's Haitus. You don't even know the proper diagnosis. Then how do you even intend to help you man?" Ben was going to use the slightest opportunity to make a shade out of Doctor Col and anyone who was related to him.

Everyone muttered curses at Doctor Quinin. Even Xerxes had her heart at the bottom of her stomach.

However, eventually, the breath of the man on the bed steadied after the last procedure and his vitals machine started beeping normally.

After a few moments, he was totally fine. Like nothing had happened to him in the first instance.

A hurricane of shocks pummeled forcefully through the spine of everyone that stood in the halls.