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 to comply 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 tenet 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.'

examinations across the board. What used to cost thousands now

of their good work spreading, patients would travel from

in the business, and Winter had expected Fredo's almost vengeful

did not expect it to come

things went on like this, the hospital's reputation

was at stake

not care about her

the other doctors. What she cared most

that would mean that she was abandoning her cond handing over

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