Flynn entered with three beautiful women, quickly attracting the attention of the crowd.
Lilia Hussain, who was arranging the scheduling work, also turned her head and her gaze fell on Rose.
This competition was very important, not only for business warfare but also for the future development of Dragon Gate Group.
Obtaining the title of Niarak’s high-quality enterprise would receive support from various government policies.
It would become Niarak’s new postcard.
Lilia Hussain firmly believed in her victory, and Layla Woods was her greatest reliance.
In this competition, unless Mr. Price or Dr. Porter came, the Sharp’s Group had no hope of winning.
Layla Woods, by her side, also turned her head. She just glanced at Flynn and then looked away.
A man destined to be a foil, she didn’t bother to look at him more.
That was Layla Woods’ pride.
Only the strongest were worthy of her smile and praise.
Flynn obviously didn’t belong to that category.
Finally, the competition organized by eight departments including the Niarak City Joint Tourism and Medical Department began!
Travis Richardson took the stage first and talked about Niarak’s past, present, and future.
He emphasized his gratitude to the entrepreneurs present.
After the routine speech, Travis Richardson shifted the focus to the main point:
“Although Niarak is known as Healer’s Haven, it is not well-known in Ostrad Nine Realms.”
“In order to make use of Niarak’s beautiful scenery and pharmaceutical culture, the province has decided to make Niarak a true haven.”
“We will select a high-quality pharmaceutical company in Niarak for promotion. The condition is that this company must have strong strength and effective medicines.”
“The corporate culture must also be qualified, and the boss must have excellent qualities in all aspects, including research and development teams…”
Travis Richardson spoke for more than half an hour.
Finally, it ended amidst applause from everyone.
Of course, after Mr. Richardson finished speaking, leaders from other departments naturally had to say a few words as well.
After all, this was a characteristic of Ostrad.
Flynn couldn’t help but feel depressed if he had known the speech was so boring, he would come later.
Finally, Mr. Hawthorne from the Hall of Healing appeared on stage.
Wearing a coarse cloth robe and layered cloth shoes, with a white beard and slightly hunched back, he was nearly eighty years old but still spirited with bright eyes.
He was a senior figure in the Hall of Healing and ranked tenth in Ostrad’s Heavenly Ranking of Medicine.
Although his abilities were not as good as Layla Woods’, he was highly respected in the medical field.
At this moment, Flynn and Rose had already stepped onto the stage and sat on both sides.
“Ms. Woods, Mr. Clark, you should already know the rules,” Mr. Hawthorne said.
“But I still need to introduce them. The competition is open and fair. On-site treatment and on-site prescription preparation. No communication with anyone during the process.”
“The cameras are monitoring 360 degrees. If any cheating is discovered, it will be judged as a loss immediately.”
Mr. Hawthorne looked serious and said in a powerful voice. Seeing no objections from both sides, he continued, “Today’s patients are two patients with aquagenic urticaria.”
“Their physical condition is the same, and their illness severity is also the same. They have been treated by me for half a year, but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to relieve their pain.”
A tinge of regret flashed in Mr. Hawthorne’s eyes as he smiled at Flynn and Rose.
“Today, I’ll trouble you two young ones to give it a try. Draw lots to choose your patients.”
After saying this, two patients walked up to them. They had slim figures, pale faces, lifeless eyes, and abnormal red skin.
Some doctors in the audience listened to Mr. Hawthorne’s introduction and looked at the two patients again. Their expressions suddenly changed.
“Aquagenic urticaria… It belongs to the most difficult-to-treat type of urticaria. It’s called an incurable cancer. It’s quite troublesome!”
“Yes, this disease is very strange. Besides distilled water, they can’t come into contact with any other water or even cry because salt in tears can cause severe pain on their skin.”
“It’s an innate immune system disease. Mr. Hawthorne has been treating them for half a year without success. This disease is probably very difficult to deal with!”
Recently, everyone had been speculating about what topic Mr. Hawthorne would choose for the competition. Some guessed diabetes or avascular necrosis of the femoral head-systemic diseases like that.
Unexpectedly, they only guessed half right. Urticaria was also an immune system-related disease.
But compared to diabetes and avascular necrosis of the femoral head, it was even more difficult to cure because diseases like urticaria couldn’t be controlled at all.
It was considered terminal!
Only Mr. Price and a few other top medical experts have a way to deal with it.
And even if Mr. Price intervened, it could only be controlled. Lifelong medication was required because there was no way to eliminate the factors that caused urticaria in their bodies.
“Mr. Hawthorne has been treating them for half a year?” Layla Woods’ face showed seriousness.
She felt that this disease was not as simple as it seemed on the surface. There were probably other factors involved.
Mr. Hawthorne noticed Layla Woods’ thoughts but didn’t explain much. He just smiled faintly, “You two can draw lots now.”
“There is no time limit. If you don’t know how to diagnose or treat them during the process, you can raise your hand to quit.”
“If neither of you can cure them completely, then whoever achieves better results will be declared the winner.”
After saying this, Mr. Hawthorne curved his mouth slightly upwards. As a referee himself, he had his own bias too.
He had heard before that Layla Woods’ master, Green Liniment Ghost Doctor, had deep research on skin diseases.
Treating urticaria shouldn’t be difficult for her either since she inherited his true skills. Her skills should be exceptional too.
Today would be a good opportunity for him to learn from her so that he could handle similar cases more easily in the future.
With these thoughts in mind, Mr. Hawthorne looked at Flynn and raised some doubts.
This man was too calm. His face showed no expression at all.
This kind of performance could only mean two things: either he had strong abilities or he was too confident and arrogant.
Mr. Hawthorne felt that Flynn belonged to the latter category.
In his sixty years of practicing medicine, he had taught over two thousand students before. Many of them had this problem-being too confident and arrogant-thinking they knew everything after studying medicine for a few years when they actually knew nothing at all.
The drawing lots were completed. Each took their patient to separate beds on both sides and began taking pulses.
The audience below held their breaths and focused their attention so as not to make any noise that might affect listening to pulses on stage.
Layla Woods placed her fingers on the patient’s pulse. Five minutes later, her brows furrowed deeply.
As she expected, the patient not only had urticaria but also severe heart disease!
“Mr. Hawthorne, besides urticaria, these two patients also have severe heart diseases, right?” Layla Woods said calmly.
“And they have blood-deficiency type urticaria.”
Mr. Hawthorne was pleased and nodded. “Ms. Woods truly lives up to being ‘the first saintly hand in Southern Territory’. In such a short time frame, you have determined both their types of illness as well as their heart diseases.”
“However… you shouldn’t have said it out loud.”
“I mentioned earlier that both patients suffer from one type of illness.”
His meaning was clear-by saying it out loud she practically diagnosed Flynn’s patient for him too!
Layla Woods replied calmly, “It doesn’t matter. Even if I informed Flynn about their conditions, he wouldn’t be able to treat them without absolute certainty.”
Mr. Hawthorne nodded slightly in agreement with Layla Woods’ words.
Urticaria had three different patterns.
The differences between them were not very significant. Careful identification during pulse-taking was required for diagnosis purposes…
Even those who had practiced medicine for thirty years often made misdiagnoses when faced with such illnesses…
Layla Woods took five minutes while Flynn just briefly took their pulse for less than ten seconds before writing prescriptions…
What could one diagnose in ten seconds?
This brat obviously didn’t understand medical skills very well. It was really hard to understand why the Sharp’s Group would let someone like him represent them. Were they that desperate?