She had a sleek figure and she carried herself with grace and elegance.
With dark and silky hair, porcelain skin, and sparkly eyes, she was the epitome of beauty.
Her voice echoed around the lecture theatre as she spoke.
“Misdiagnosis is particularly high amongst female patients, due to the resemblance of its symptoms to acute appendicitis. To date, the First Hospital has taken in three thousand and eighty-seven female patients complaining of acute abdominal pain, in which fifty-nine of those cases were misdiagnosed as acute appendicitis. This is not a small number,” she said.
The convincing evidence made the med students’ ears prick up.
“As doctors and nurses, our jobs don’t just stop at dealing with case after case of different illnesses. We are responsible for the lives of our patients, and we cannot afford to make even the tiniest of mistakes. I’m sure you understand the repercussions of misdiagnosis from the examples I gave earlier,” she continued. “Principal Potter?”
Principal Potter, who had been listening to her lecture attentively, jumped when she mentioned his name. He stood up immediately. “Yes, Dr. Berry?”
Ashlyn showed him a thumb drive. “The slides for today’s lecture are in this thumb drive. I hope you can help me out and give every student here a copy of the slides for self-study.”
Everyone was shocked.
She’s willing to share such a rare gem?
Ashlyn left immediately after the lecture, only to bump into a young police officer standing by the door.
“Ms. Berry?”
“Yes?” she asked, slowing to a halt.
“We need you at the police station,” the police officer informed her awkwardly.
She could tell that Blair and Tinsor were in trouble by the look of it.
She arrived at the police station soon after.
The moment she entered, she saw a man sporting a grim expression standing beside Hayden, with one hand in his pocket.
Hayden stared at the tip of his shoes. The wounds on his face had been cleaned and dressed.
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