Jiang Xinjia's reaction already puts her at 70% of the battle.
Seeing Jiang Xinjia's reaction, Zhou Deming guessed what was going on.
“Dr. Su, it’s certainly wrong to spread information about the illness in private, but Dr. Jiang probably only overheard the doctors discussing the illness during a consultation. Everyone here is a professional; after hearing just a few words, one can usually guess the general idea of a condition…”
“Yes! I overheard people talking about your husband’s condition during the consultation with other departments, and that’s when I guessed it!” Jiang Xinjia quickly backed down.
Overhearing accidentally and eavesdropping are completely different things.
“Dr. Jiang, you were wrong to do this. You should apologize to Dr. Su right away,” Zhou Deming instructed.
Jiang Xinjia: "..."
She didn't think she had done anything wrong at all, but her so-called backer was Zhou Deming.
Vice President Zhou's wife and Jiang Xinjia's mother are very close friends. The two have a very good relationship. Jiang Xinjia was practically raised by Zhou Deming, so he was particularly tolerant of her.
Since Uncle Zhou had already asked her to apologize, Jiang Xinjia had no choice but to temporarily bow her head, even though she was unwilling.
"Dr. Su, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have spread your husband's illness. I didn't mean to—" Jiang Xinjia apologized reluctantly.
"Stop!" Su Yueya raised her hand, interrupting Jiang Xinjia's insincere apology, and said domineeringly, "Jiang Xinjia, I do not accept your apology. I am going to file a complaint against you. I want you to pay a real price for your unethical behavior, not just a perfunctory apology."
Zhou Deming's intervention was simply to protect Jiang Xinjia.
Su Yueya was well aware that this kind of unethical behavior was indeed different from a major medical accident. It wouldn't warrant dismissal, but it was definitely not something that could be covered up with a simple "sorry."
She wanted to see just how far Zhou Deming would go to protect Jiang Xinjia.
And what attitude will Dean Ni take on this matter?
"Su Yueya, it's such a small matter, and you first made a big deal out of it, and now you're going on and on. What exactly do you want? I've already apologized, what more do you want!" Jiang Xinjia wasn't one to humble herself, especially not to someone she disliked the most, Su Yueya.
"Does your apology mean I have to accept it?"
"A trivial matter? Jiang Xinjia, in your eyes, maliciously spreading patients' privacy, such an unethical act, is just a trivial matter?"
"Dean Ni, Vice Dean Zhou, do you also agree with Jiang Xinjia that maliciously spreading patients' privacy is just a minor matter?" Su Yueya asked.
"Jiang Xinjia, is what Dr. Su said true or not?!" Ni Hongcai questioned angrily.
This is a military hospital!
If even wounded soldiers cannot be respected, it will be a very serious problem if the military investigates it. At best, someone will lose their position; at worst, the entire hospital will be punished.
"Jiang Xinjia, tell the truth!" Ni Hongcai snapped.
"I...I..." Jiang Xinjia panicked. She didn't expect things to develop like this, and looked to Zhou Deming for help.
Zhou Deming understood the seriousness of the matter and knew about Su Yueya's background, but he felt that as the vice dean, the two sisters should give him face.
“Dr. Su, Dr. Jiang did make a mistake in this matter, but we are all colleagues, and she is so young. I think we should give her a chance to formally apologize to you, and then this matter will be over.”
"So that's it?" Su Yueya laughed directly.
"Vice Dean Zhou, I have already made myself very clear. I do not accept a verbal apology," Su Yueya reiterated her stance.
“I can let bygones be bygones how Jiang Xinjia found out about my husband’s condition, ha…” She looked at Jiang Xinjia with disdain and sarcasm, “Jiang Xinjia, you know perfectly well whether you overheard it during his consultation or not. I will let this go for the sake of Vice President Zhou.”
“But—I cannot forgive the malicious dissemination of information that made my husband, an active-duty soldier, a topic of conversation. Jiang Xinjia must be punished!” Su Yueya said.
"I didn't spread it!" Jiang Xinjia suddenly shouted, explaining to the two hospital directors, "Directors, Vice Directors, I really didn't spread it! Since I could hear the consultation, and others heard it during the consultation as well, what does it have to do with me?"
"Su Yueya, did you hear me discussing your husband's illness right there? You can't wrong me like this!"
Su Yueya: "..." They really won't shed tears until they see the coffin!
"Jiang Xinjia, don't you know what kind of person you are? You think you won't spread it?" Qiao Xinruo rolled her eyes. She could guess with her toes that Jiang Xinjia would definitely spread it everywhere.
She'd love to grab a megaphone and shout it from the hospital entrance!
“Dr. Qiao, please calm down. How could you speak so ill of your colleague?” Zhou Deming stepped forward again to defend Jiang Xinjia.
"Vice Dean Zhou, don't be in such a hurry." Su Yueya interrupted Zhou Deming again. She didn't want to listen to Zhou Deming's pretentious lecture to Qiao Xinruo.
"Dean Ni, I came to you only after I found out whether Jiang Xinjia spread rumors maliciously."
"Jiang Xinjia told Qu Yuelin, an internal medicine nurse, about my husband's condition. Qu Yuelin then passed it on to Lin Xinyao, who in turn passed it on to Song Yexing. Song Yexing then passed it on to Lu Xiaojuan, and I caught Lu Xiaojuan red-handed while she was talking about it with someone else."
"This is what you call not spreading maliciously?"
"Of course, this is only the transmission route that I know. What about the routes that I don't know? Who can guarantee that these people only spread it once?"
“Dean Ni, isn’t this enough to punish Jiang Xinjia? Of course, if she can tell me who told her, I can continue to investigate the source, but someone must come forward and pay the price for this,” Su Yueya said.
"Wow, there are so many people!" Qiao Xinruo said, feigning concern. "My brother-in-law is a regimental commander, yet he doesn't get any respect in the military hospital. If it were any other ordinary soldier, I wonder what they would say about him? Tsk tsk... It's really disheartening..."
"Sister, why don't we invite all the doctors and nurses over and have a confrontation? What if Dr. Jiang gets wronged?"
"Jiang Xinjia, do you need me to invite them to confront us?" Su Yueya asked.
Jiang Xinjia: "..."
At this point, she realized she had made a terrible mistake and could only hope that Zhou Deming could protect her.
But the string of names that Su Yueya recited just now was truly alarming. Not to mention the dean, even Zhou Deming knew that it was almost impossible for Jiang Xinjia to escape unscathed this time.
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