Hearing this, Dr. Moore was surprised at first, and then said angrily, “Who did this? Show yourself now!”
Soon, the man with a pair of glasses stepped forward, “It’s me.”
“Why did you inject this to the patient without my permission?” Dr. Moore wanted to slap on his face right now.
The man pushed the glasses and said calmly, “The patient has been suffering a severe inflammation, which needs to be treated with cephalosporin periodically. And that was how the staff from the hospital told me before they sent him here. So, I don’t think I did anything wrong and you can’t just blame the defect of the experimental medicine on me, Dr. Moore. It looks like we can’t get the production permit for the medicine now, so we have to take the next step more carefully.”
Irritated by his justification, Dr. Moore was not shivering out of rage.
Ruby looked at the man for a while and said, “You are not suitable for participating in the research.”
But the man changed his expression after hearing this. In his view, Ruby was nothing but a young girl whose age seemed to be under 25. How was she qualified to judge him and say he was not suitable?
“Who do you think you are? And why do you think you have the ability to judge me? The only reason I did this was to save the patient’s life!” he said boldly and looked at her in disdain.
Dr. Moore couldn’t hold his anger anymore and kicked him, “Get the hell out of my lab! You can even accept your own fault?! You have been participating in this research all along, and you know you are not allowed to give the patient any antibiotics after he is injected with the experimental medicine. Given that you break the rule and almost kill the patient, you need to thank me for being so kind that I haven’t fired you right away! But now you are still trying to argue with her!”
The man was frightened but still finding excuses for himself, “But every medical student knows that in such a case, the patient needs to be injected with antibiotics every day, I…”
“Get him out of here,” Ruby felt the man was so noisy that she couldn’t focus on reading the statistic figures about the patient’s health condition anymore.
Dr. Moore could tell she was thinking about the countermeasure from her expression. To prevent her from being disturbed by the man, he called the security of the institute to take him out.
But the man just pulled himself free from the security guard and pointed at Ruby, “Do you think you are qualified for this job? Do you know anything about pharmacology? Can you be on duty for 24 hours?”
“I have seen so many people like you, who get the job by nepotism and just for polishing your own resume!”
“I have won awards for my research papers. What about you? Without my theoretical support, your experiment won’t last any longer!”
Hearing his words, Ruby, who had been drowning in statistics and hadn’t cared about him at the beginning, raised her head and looked at him with cold and ruthless eyes.
“The experiment won’t last any longer without you?” Ruby stared at the arrogant man and smiled.
“I can forgive you for being silly, but I can’t stand a man who is silly and lacks self-knowledge. I didn’t intend to accuse you of your misconduct at first, but now that you want it, I will give it to you.”
“Call the police, Dr. Moore, and let the layers of the institute get ready. It’s time to put this Mr. Smartass into prison for further study,” this pretty girl made a bright smile that even Dr. Moore was attracted by it, while her words were completely merciless.
Dr. Moore thought for a while and nodded, “Sure, I will inform the layers. How’s the patient?”
“He’s out of danger. I have stabilized his condition,” Ruby gave a simple reply.
“Ha! What an ignorant chick! Are you going to sue me? For what? I have done nothing wrong. It’s your defective medicine that nearly kills the man! I tell you, that I will never compromise with your evil men, and what’s more, I’m going to expose your atrocity, telling everyone that you brutal men are doing experiments on living humans! This patient is doomed now, and I’m sure that his relatives won’t let you get away with it so easily.”
Knowing that Dr. Moore was going to sue him, he was pretty worried at first, but once he heard the words from Ruby, he got rid of the worriment immediately.
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