I, Aki Tomoya, will not be a simp.

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As a medical trainee at a university hospital, all they need to do is obey orders. Before the end of their medical traineeship, they bear no responsibility and simply need to follow orders; others will take the blame.

The best thing is to get through the medical training phase safely and without incident.

"I understand that, of course..."

Aki Tomoya replied somewhat helplessly, then thought of Takagi's last reply to him.

Takagi probably wants to try this again.

After all, Takagi is one of the parties involved.

Although Aki Tomoya wanted to help Takagi, he didn't have any good ideas for the time being.

The dim light in the room was eventually turned off, and all was quiet.

The next morning, Aki Tomoya saw Moriyama again. They didn't mention the events of the previous night, but simply carried out the morning room check as usual.

During the lunch break, after much deliberation, Aki Tomoya finally consulted with Moriyama and then approached Sasaki Ichiru.

"...Have you mentioned this to Dr. Moriyama before?"

"I did say that, but I had no choice but to ask Dr. Moriyama for permission before coming to see you, Dr. Sasaki."

Before coming to see Sasaki Ichiru, he had also sought Moriyama's permission.

However, this can be considered skipping a level.

It's hard to know what Moriyama was really thinking.

But this isn't a university hospital, and it doesn't have such an exaggerated and strict hierarchical system. Optimistically speaking, there shouldn't be too many problems.

Sasaki Ichiro thought for a moment, and after a while, instead of discussing what he had said with Aki Tomoya, he told Aki Tomoya, "From now on, you will follow Dr. Yoshida until you are rotated to the ICU."

He didn't offer to help, but instead changed Aki Tomoya's supervising doctor.

This surprised Aki Tomoya.

No chance?

Sasaki Ichiru doesn't want to get involved in this matter either?

Aki Tomoya sighed inwardly, said nothing more, and took his leave after exchanging some polite words.

After leaving the department, he thought he would go to report to Yoshida Aoba. For the next month and a half, Yoshida Aoba would be his mentor, not Moriyama, who had outstanding abilities in major blood vessels.

Yoshida Aoba has been missing since the morning. It's said that he's taking a break today, probably to relax somewhere.

It's quite rare, though. Even when he's resting, this is the first time I've seen him leave the hospital and rest outside.

Let's talk about it when he gets back, his new supervising doctor, Aoba Yoshida.

Whether this is good or bad, Aki Tomoya doesn't know yet.

But it shouldn't be too bad, at least Sasaki Ichijin didn't arrange for anyone else to take care of him, but instead put Yoshida Aoba in charge.

Given Yoshida Aoba's position in cardiac surgery, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. I don't know how Sasaki Ichiru came up with this decision. Was he worried about Moriyama's side?

But that's not what Aki Tomoya is concerned about right now; he's more concerned about Takagi.

……

"At the affiliated hospital of Tokyo University, isn't the Department of Otolaryngology still led by Professor Taniguchi?"

Back in the office, Yoshida Aoba approached Sasaki Ichiru and asked.

“That’s right. We’ve been around for so long and have had a lot of people come and go, but those people are the ones who haven’t been replaced yet.”

Sasaki Ichiro replied.

"You actually care about things there? What brings you here?"

"It's nothing, I just met up with someone I knew before and they helped me confirm something small."

He knew someone at the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Southeast University, and asked that person to confirm it for him.

"He's willing to help?"

"How could that be? How could we interfere in other departments' affairs without their consent? We were just letting him check the situation... It seems you already know that An Yi-kun contacted you?"

I really just wanted someone to help me check the situation.

But even if someone knows someone at the University of Tokyo Affiliated Hospital, they won't get involved in anything, since the patient was admitted to the ENT department, not the cardiac surgery department.

Rather, it's because of this kind of thing that some people are waiting to see the show.

"Even if you ask me to ask the head of the Monogatari department for help, Professor Taniguchi and the head of the Monogatari department don't have a good relationship. If he finds the other party, not to mention whether it will be effective, the young man who tells Aki-kun about this will probably have a lot of trouble before the rotation ends."

Regardless of whether it will be effective, if they go to remind them and the other side doesn't appreciate it, and the thing they're worried about happens, then who leaked the information about the university hospital?

What will happen if it turns out who leaked the information?

To be honest, Sasaki Ichiru didn't want to get involved in this matter, much less tell the head of the Monobe department.

"And don't forget how we were kicked out of the university hospital."

Sasaki Ichiru reminded Yoshida Aoba that he had better not have too many ideas.

"...They always fight like this without any bottom line. We're no longer in the university hospital, does that mean we can't do this anymore?"

Yoshida Aoba scoffed, then decided to go find the head of the department himself.

Watching his retreating figure, Sasaki suddenly said, "You should finish dealing with your own problems first. What kind of person are you, hiding in the hospital and not going home?"

"It's none of your business to remind me!"

Yoshida Aoba angrily went to find the head of the Monobu department.

The head of the department, who knew about these things, became interested, but gave him a perfunctory reply.

Three days later, Aki Tomoya received a furious rebuke from Takagi, which he could only vent through words.

On the fifth day after the patient was admitted to the hospital, he suddenly experienced bleeding from his mouth and nose, and his breathing and heartbeat stopped. He died despite all efforts to save him.

The clinical diagnosis given by the affiliated hospital of Southeast University was that the cause of death was respiratory and cardiac arrest following massive hemoptysis.

The day before the patient died, he developed a fever again, had a sore throat, cough, phlegm, and chest pain when coughing, but they only gave him cough suppressants and expectorants.

"I want to suggest to the bereaved family that a more thorough pathological autopsy be performed!"

Have you thought it through?

"I can always go back to Kyoto!"

Chapter 452 Autopsy Report

Back to Kyoto?

Upon hearing this, Aki Tomoya bit his lip. He could tell just how determined Takagi Sai was.

This came at the cost of his future career at the University of Tokyo Affiliated Hospital.

A more thorough pathological autopsy should be performed, and the cause of death should be determined by a forensic institution to identify any medical malpractice.

"If you go to the bereaved family and act as a witness there, do you want to go back and inherit the family business right now?"

Aki Tomoya asked worriedly.

This is not as simple as just returning to Kyoto.

He is going against the university hospital.

No matter how much competition there is between hospitals, between regions, or between different departments, they are ultimately all on the same side.

He defected to the University of Tokyo Affiliated Hospital. Even if he didn't return to Kansai, his father's arrangements would have allowed him to continue his medical training at a university hospital, waiting to become a full-fledged doctor.

Competition among university hospitals is fierce, but they are remarkably united in times like this.

Even doctors with a conscience can only keep quiet under the pressure of the prevailing trend and the pressure of reality.

Of course, Takagi's family owns a hospital in Kyoto, so they have the right to say something like, "At worst, we'll just go back to Kyoto!"

But given his past achievements, the university hospital wouldn't welcome him back to his hometown of Kyoto; that would truly mean returning to Kyoto to inherit the family business.

However, he could perhaps endure it for two years, go abroad for further studies, and continue to pursue his desired field of neurosurgery.

In fact, he doesn't need others to worry too much, but whether it's worth it or not, Aki Tomoya can't really say.

"Takagi, you still want to go to neurosurgery, don't you..."

"After completing your medical training, you can go abroad as well."

That's exactly what he said.

However, as his good friend, Aki Tomoya also knew very well that Takagi did not want to go to a foreign country; he preferred to stay in Japan.

Takagi is from Kansai, his hometown is Kyoto, and he has been living in Tokyo for six years, but in the end, Tokyo is not that far from Kyoto.

If he didn't miss home, he wouldn't keep bothering them and often appear so lonely.

"We must fight this lawsuit; we must make them feel the pain!"

Even being a witness is acceptable.

By accusing the University of Tokyo Medical School Hospital and acting as an insider to testify, Takagi is not simply at odds with the University of Tokyo Hospital, but with the entire university hospital.

He firmly believed that there would always be a lesson to be learned from mistakes.