Not A Small-Town Girl

Chapter 4-2

They had no choice but to wait for his family members to arrive. After all, the patient’s grandson was too formidable-if anything happened to him at their hospital, they couldn’t bear the responsibility. The entire hospital might not survive the fallout.

With one eyebrow arched, Danielle asked, "Is valvular heart disease really that complicated?"

"You know the condition?" Christopher asked, surprise coloring his tone.

"Do you know medicine?" Savannah Watson chimed in. "Since you know this is valvular heart disease, you must also know that valve replacement surgery is necessary!"

Danielle lifted her cool gaze, her eyes sparkling like stars. "If you’re considering valve replacement, it only shows you haven’t used enough antibiotics, which led to the infection and perivalvular leakage."

The doctors froze at the young girl’s words-she’d pinpointed their oversight with surgical precision.

holdup?" Ethan Wood, director of St. Katherine Hospital and head of cardiac surgery, asked, his commanding presence preceding his silver

family’s still an

three valve replacement surgeries, soon developing perivalvular leakage and

complications like postoperative recurrence and infection

condition was now critical, and there wasn’t time to go abroad

was nationally renowned, and Ethan’s expertise in this

stabilize Logan’s condition-essentially pulling him back from death’s door. However, the very next day, he developed

infection had progressed to pneumonia, and just as they’d gotten the pneumonia under control,

not survive the surgery. They could only

liability even if the patient didn’t