Slacking Off in the ER: One Needle Makes the Chief Fall Silent in Public

Gu Yan was the most inconspicuous intern in the emergency department. He ran errands during the day and hid in the on-call room to sleep at night. The entire department was waiting to see him get fired.

Then a VIP patient suddenly went into cardiac arrest. An arrogant department chief misdiagnosed the cause, the monitors blared, and hospital executives and family members blocked the entrance. As everyone stood helpless, Gu Yan walked into the resuscitation room in his rumpled white coat. “Move. Your treatment plan is going to kill him.”

A silver needle fell into place. Combined with defibrillation and medication, it quickly brought the patient’s erratic heartbeat back under control. The department’s bigwigs, who had just mocked him, fell silent as one, but the chief turned around and accused him of unauthorized treatment, demanding that he be suspended and take the blame.

But when the consulting experts recognized the Gu family’s unique needling technique, one of them actually bowed before everyone. “How could the sole heir of the Gu family be working here as an intern?” More surprising still, the VIP’s first words after waking were an order for the hospital director to seal Gu Yan’s records immediately, because his father had once saved someone no one in the entire hospital dared to take on…