At this moment, McCall was lying on the ground in a disheveled state, struggling to lift a camera that had been crushed beneath him. His glasses had been thrown onto the floor and trampled into pieces by the fleeing crowd. His once neatly combed, spotless, and glossy hair was now a tangled mess. The dignified image of a scholarly gentleman had been transformed into a disaster-stricken figure, as if he had just survived a catastrophe.
Seeing McCall in such a pitiful state, Mu Lin felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction. These people controlled the life and death of the entire medical field in Country U and had always held a grudge against him and his clinic. During his previous attempt to obtain a Western medical license, they had given him only extremely difficult exam questions. When establishing the rules for the acupuncture physician licensing exam in Country U, they had only involved him in the rule-making process because they needed him at the time. Once the rules were finalized, they completely discarded him.
His clinic had already gained a certain reputation in Country U. If he hadn’t chosen an upscale, boutique approach and avoided competing with these hospital-controlled institutions for patients, and if he didn’t have many powerful figures backing him, these people, whose skills were inferior to his, would have already sabotaged him long before the Y-country opposition could act.
This time, the challenge he set up appeared on the surface to be a confrontation between him and Y-country along with its opposition. However, those who knew the truth understood that without the silent approval of the U.S. Family Medical Board, the Y-country government, which always followed Country U’s lead, would never have dared to challenge Mu Lin.
These experts claimed to be here to supervise Mu Lin’s clinic, but in reality, they wanted to assess the clinic’s medical capabilities and identify any gaps compared to their own. Without the unexpected nationwide protests, the treatment data from Mu Lin’s clinic would have become their research material.
The sudden, nationwide protests caused them to feel an unprecedented sense of crisis and immense responsibility. Even the U.S. Health Minister had to resign under pressure to appease public outrage and ease public anger.
Once the protests ended, the country would inevitably find scapegoats to take the blame for the protests to satisfy the public. To avoid taking responsibility themselves, they chose to escape, directly pushing Mu Lin and his clinic into the spotlight. They left Mu Lin and his clinic to face the entire nation alone. Eventually, they would shift all the blame onto Mu Lin and his clinic, severely damaging their reputation and achieving their original goal.
However, during the days they chose to evade responsibility, the nationwide protests ended, and Mu Lin’s clinic completed the treatment of the patient. The nationwide protests, sparked by Mu Lin’s initial statements, had now shifted the primary responsibility onto the U.S. Family Medical Board represented by experts like McCall.
If the U.S. government, for the sake of its own reputation, truly decided to target Y-country and its healthcare system, who could guarantee that, to protect their own interests, certain people within the Y-country government and the National Health Service wouldn’t reveal their secret dealings with the U.S. Family Medical Board to the U.S. government?
If the secret dealings between the U.S. medical experts and the Y-country government and National Health Service were exposed to the media, these U.S. medical experts would suffer a devastating blow to their reputations and lose all the prestige and benefits they had once cherished.
Since Mu Lin had turned off all the cameras during the treatment process, there would be no video footage to hand over to them. Even if there had been recordings, Mu Lin’s clinic had every reason to refuse to provide them. Moreover, during the treatment process, several international notary organizations had been present to oversee the entire procedure.
Furthermore, the clinic had already unilaterally announced the patient’s full recovery, and the patient and their family had not raised any objections. Therefore, in terms of treatment, these experts could no longer find any fault with the clinic.
Since the clinic had announced the patient’s recovery and provided all the patient’s data, in the eyes of these experts, this was still only one-sided data from the clinic itself. Authoritative data still needed to be verified and issued by these experts to be convincing to the world. The final conclusion should also come from these experts to be globally accepted. That’s why they wanted to independently issue the final test results and conclusions. This was also why they insisted on conducting another comprehensive examination of the patient and insisted on excluding the clinic staff from being present during the examination.
After years of experience, Mu Lin was no longer the naive newcomer he once was. He deeply understood the complexity of human nature and knew that when personal interests were at stake, people were capable of anything.
Mu Lin did not yet have a valid reason to refuse the U.S. Family Medical Board experts’ request. After all, they represented the entire U.S. healthcare system, and these individuals were influential figures. Their reasoning was flawless.
Their request to conduct the final examination of the patient on behalf of the U.S. Family Medical Board could be seen as protecting both U.S. and clinic interests. In their eyes, their actions were entirely well-intentioned.
To be safe, Mu Lin insisted on his position: at least two clinic doctors must be present, the entire process must be recorded by cameras, and notary personnel must supervise on-site. He feared that during the upcoming press conference, if any of these individuals had ulterior motives and played some small tricks on the patient, all his efforts would be in vain.
During the past few days of treatment, Mu Lin had completely understood the patient’s personality—a straightforward, hot-tempered worker whose emotions had been suppressed to the breaking point by years of illness.
Throughout his treatment process, Mu Lin always held the philosophy of serving the patient completely, treating them like family. He always explained clearly to the patient every treatment measure he took. Sometimes he might not explain immediately, but he would definitely clarify afterward. Additionally, this patient had a deep fear of injections. Moreover, the patient had already lost all confidence in doctors and, by extension, any goodwill toward them. In his subconscious, there was only one doctor in the world—Dr. Daniel. As for getting sick in the future, he could always go back to Dr. Daniel, after all, they were already best friends.
These so-called medical experts, facing a patient who had already been cured, would naturally rush into their examination work like hungry wolves seeing a delicacy, offering no explanation to the patient. They would not allow clinic staff to explain anything to the patient either. In their eyes, the patient was no different from an ordinary object.
This would first make the patient, who already knew he had recovered, psychologically unable to accept it. When he saw these people preparing to give him injections and draw blood, he would surely unleash the anger and fear he had suppressed for years. However, this was no longer something Mu Lin could control.
During his time hosting the Mayor of New York City, Mu Lin’s spiritual sense had been continuously monitoring everything happening at the clinic. He verbally stopped the mayor from rushing to visit the patient’s ward, waiting until almost all the experts had been beaten by the patient before bringing the mayor and his entourage to the ward.
McCall had no words to answer Mu Lin’s question, his face turning alternately green and purple. What could he say? That so many doctors and experts had been beaten by a patient they were examining? Patients usually had a natural obedience to doctors—their gods. But being beaten by a patient during an examination was something that had never happened in their medical careers.
When the Mayor of New York City learned the full story, his face lit up with ecstatic joy. “God! I can’t believe this is real! A few days ago, this patient was on the brink of death, and now he has enough energy to beat up a dozen doctors. This is fantastic!
Oh! God bless! Please don’t let the cameras malfunction because this is the best evidence. Let those damned data go to hell! At this afternoon’s press conference, we will use this video footage as proof that the patient has fully recovered. I believe the reporters will love this footage. Because they are more convincing than any data!”
The Mayor of New York City didn’t care about these so-called experts at all. Moreover, with Mu Lin’s presence, the lives of these social elites were now more secure. What he was thinking now was how to make his city—New York, where Mu Lin’s clinic was located—famous nationwide and worldwide because of this incident, thereby gaining greater capital for his future political career.
This was exactly the result Mu Lin wanted.
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