The Y country side originally had no intention of making things so complicated. Who could have known that the tree wished for stillness, but the wind would not cease? The entire situation had completely slipped beyond their control. Initially, the media only wanted to hype the event a bit, looking for some selling points. Now, however, if you stop reporting on Mu Lin’s clinic, your newspaper sales and TV news program ratings will immediately drop. The attention of ordinary citizens has all turned to this contest, because it is no longer a simple match—it has become a contest tied directly to their economic interests.
Yet Mu Lin and his clinic declined all media interviews. Publicly, they claimed they needed to mobilize every available resource to prepare for the incoming patient and study his condition in advance. Privately, Mu Lin did not want his image exposed to the Western world, as doing so would completely strip him of his freedom for at least the next decade. Given this seemingly reasonable excuse, the various media outlets could only retreat helplessly and turned instead to the Y country government, the Ministry of Health, and the national healthcare service for interviews.
After all, Mu Lin’s clinic is now fully preparing to treat your patients. You, on your end, are merely sending the patient over—you shouldn’t be that busy, right? Now, all the media attention has shifted entirely to Y country. Suddenly, Y country found itself in the global spotlight, with every detail of the patient’s situation being dug up and exposed to the public by the media.
Mu Lin had not expected that refusing media interviews would actually allow him to obtain all of the patient’s information in advance. The patient turned out to be a shipyard worker who had been ill for over a year. Despite treatment from the medical school at London University in Y country, his condition had not significantly improved, and the doctors had no better solutions. Therefore, these doctors decided to pass the patient on to Mu Lin’s clinic. With the media’s relentless digging, even the patient’s dental treatment records were unearthed, and the patient instantly became an international celebrity.
After receiving the patient’s medical records, Mu Lin began analyzing the case. The patient had worked long-term in the shipbuilding industry, clearly not due to heavy physical labor. Moreover, there was no history of hereditary diseases in the patient’s family. Thus, there was only one likely possibility—Mu Lin suspected poisoning.
Right now, what Mu Lin appreciated most were the media outlets—they had practically done him a huge favor. Without the detailed medical reports and family medical history analyses uncovered by the media, the Y country side would never have provided such comprehensive patient data. Without this information, diagnosing and treating the illness would have taken Mu Lin a significant amount of time.
By the time the patient was eventually cured, the Y country opposition might have seized the opportunity to claim that such a simple illness shouldn’t have taken so long to treat. Now, however, with all of the patient’s circumstances in Y country exposed to the media, the world could clearly see that Y country had already been unable to cure him. Therefore, even if Mu Lin’s clinic successfully treated the patient, taking some time in the process, neither the world nor Y country would be able to find fault—provided the treatment did not exceed three months.
Now, the Y country government and Ministry of Health had been pushed to the edge by the media. Sympathy for the weak has always been human nature, especially when the weak are exposed to the spotlight. The media began heavily criticizing Y country’s government and medical departments for their incompetence, allowing a sick worker to have to travel across oceans to seek treatment at Mu Lin’s small private clinic in U country. While people sympathized with Mu Lin’s clinic, they felt even more compassion for the ailing worker. Domestic Y country media also began to sympathize with the sick worker, who had become a pawn in a political contest between the government and a private clinic. Union organizations even began preparing to organize worker strikes.
Eventually, Y country could no longer withstand such media criticism. After urgent communications with the U country government, a green channel was established, and the patient was quickly transferred to Mu Lin’s clinic in order to quell the increasingly unfavorable domestic and international public opinion.
Additionally, Y country reissued a statement declaring that regardless of whether the patient’s illness could be cured, they would acknowledge that Mu Lin’s clinic possessed world-class medical expertise. They also promised that if Mu Lin’s clinic required it, they would selflessly provide all the treatment and research data collected over the past year on the patient.
Mu Lin was indeed well prepared. Based on his understanding of the patient’s condition, if the illness was due to poisoning, then he needed to determine the cause of the poisoning. Y country must have already figured out the cause but had no effective treatment method. That’s why they sent the patient to his clinic. As long as Mu Lin publicly softened his stance toward the Y government in the media, he could obtain the year’s worth of research data. However, if his actions showed any hesitation or compromise this time, it would leave a precedent for other countries to challenge him in the future. Therefore, he absolutely could not yield.
Mu Lin’s response was that the patient’s treatment at his clinic would not exceed one month. He welcomed Y country’s government for retracting its previous statements in favor of a seriously ill worker. However, he would not abandon his own stance. Mu Lin claimed that based on the patient information released by the media, he already had a basic diagnosis of the patient’s condition. He did not need charity or sympathy—because in science, everything must be based on facts. Facts would ultimately prove who held the truth.
Finally, amid global attention, the patient was transferred to Mu Lin’s clinic in New York. Upon entering the clinic, the patient was immediately taken over by Mu Lin’s clinic staff, who refused entry to any Y country personnel. For this treatment, the clinic made a special exception, allowing the patient’s family members to enter as special guests.
Inside the clinic, Mu Lin invited notary agencies from U country, Germany, and France to jointly certify the treatment process and its duration. He also invited officials and experts from U country’s Family Medicine Committee and the World Health Organization to supervise the entire treatment procedure. This ensured that no human interference would disrupt the process and guaranteed the smooth progression of the entire treatment plan.
Citing the patient’s life safety and the need to protect technical secrets, Mu Lin politely declined all media interviews. Toward all other related institutions and organizations, Mu Lin maintained a firm and uncompromising stance, prohibiting their entry into his clinic.
Inside a large meeting room, on a hospital bed, lay the patient who had become the focal point of the contest between Mu Lin’s clinic and the Y country government. Mu Lin and eight of his clinic staff entered the room. Outside the room, behind a glass wall, sat all the notaries and supervisors invited by Mu Lin.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone present, Mu Lin prepared to begin examining the patient.
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