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    Winter continued, "Your actions will encourage doctors to prescribe them the most expensive medicine, and the poor won''t ever be able to afford healthcare! Can you really do such a thing against your conscience?!"


    "Yes, I can."


    Fredo nodded brazenly despite Winter''s deafening outburst. "I''m sorry, Ms. Lawrence, but I''m a businessman, not a doctor. Morals and ethics are a joke to me that I have no need for, and all I see is that which makes money."


    Then, returning to the catch, he leered at Winter as he continued, "So, are you going toply and sign my agreement, or will you wait until the journalists charge inside and expose this scandal, while you watch as your hospital falls apart?"


    Laughing, he then added, "Oh, and don''t forget-if you don''t sign it, we will build another hospital and invest everything we have in it. Not signing it really doesn''t matter at that point."


    "I..."


    Hearing Fredo''s threat, hesitation showed in Winter''s eyes.


    She was in a dilemma, as she remembered the t of traditional Draconian medicine that Frank had taught her: ''The medicine can gather dust on the racks, but if there is one less patient, so be it.''


    That was the mindset that motivated Winter, who implemented rebates on medicine and medical examinations across the board. What used to cost thousands now cost hundreds, but despite receiving more patients, their standard never fell short-there were even signs that they had improved. With word of their good work spreading, patients would travel from hundreds of miles away-even from other states-just to get treatment here. That certainly caused dissatisfaction among many others in the business, and Winter had expected Fredo''s almost vengeful rtions. She just did not expect it toe so treacherously and quickly.


    Moreover, she also knew that if things went on like this, the hospital''s reputation would hit the dirt.


    And it went without saying what was at stake when it came to reputation.


    In reality, Winter did not care about her position as the hospital chief.


    She had treated patients personally on multiple asions but drew a standard sry like the other doctors.


    What she cared most about was Frank''s expectations and that she must never let him down no matter what. That was her creed.


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    And now, if she signed Fredo''s agreement, that would mean that she was abandoning her creed and


    handing over Zamrican


    without anything in return.


    But if she did not sign it, the patients in the


    hal reputation would be r hospital might die, while t


    ruined.


    When that happens, Frank, Gene Pearce, Lanecorp, or any of the medical staff and colleagues who had so much faith in her would alle under fire under the deliberate incitement.


    That was something Winter could not ept.


    She was now between a rock and a hard ce, and her choices were not up to her either.


    Hence, after a long silence, she sighed topose herself for a moment and said, "I''ll sign it."


    She picked up her pen with a shaking hand and signed at the bottom of the document as Fredo looked on smugly.


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