Upon hearing her words, Sheldon merely flashed a small smile. “She won’t appear today,” he stated calmly.
What does he mean?
Hazel blinked, not understanding Sheldon’s words.
“She can’t possibly be the judge and the contestant at the same time. After weighing the pros and cons, she will choose the reputation of her good friend and her university.”
In short, she would join the third round as a contestant.
After Hazel heard Sheldon’s explanation, she felt slightly jealous. “Ha! You really understand her well, don’t you, Sheldon?”
I can’t even bear to look at his lovestruck expression.
Immediately, Hazel turned around awkwardly so that she would not see his expression.
At the same time, a flurry of footsteps came from the connection between the stage and the backstage.
Everyone looked at the stage expectantly, but the organizer merely announced hurriedly, “Doctor Sandra called to say that something urgent cropped up, so she can’t make it today. I hope you all understand.”
With that, the audience went into an uproar.
“What? What do you mean that Sandra can’t make it anymore?”“If she’s already left, what are we going to see next?”
“That’s right! Could it be that Sandra has no plans to participate in this from the beginning and the organizer lied to us to lure us here?”
“Gosh—that makes sense!”
“What the hell? I’m not watching this anymore!”
“Liar! You’re a liar!”
Facing the sudden uproar, the host tried to use his words to control the atmosphere of the competition.
“Please stay calm!” Even though the host was facing a tough situation, he still flashed a smile. “The main focus of this competition is the contestants and not the judges, so I hope all of you can understand. Apart from that, this is an important round. The most important question is—can Janet and Melissa shock us with their clinical techniques?”
However, even after the host said that, the audience did not buy it. Instead, they twisted his words into fake facts and started putting the blame on Janet.
They assumed that it was because of some unseen circumstances from the contestant of Woodsbury University that the entire event was delayed, and this resulted in the change of Doctor Sandra’s schedule.
“It’s all Woodsbury University’s fault. If it weren’t for them, the competition might have even ended by now!”
“Precisely! They are the ones who delayed the event. Perhaps it’s because of this that Doctor Sandra lost her patience and left!”
“Also, what does the host mean by the judge is not important? Why should we even watch Janet Jackson?”
“That’s right! We are all specifically here for Doctor Sandra, not for Janet!”
“Please calm down. Dr. Sandra really can’t make it today. I believe that everyone also likes the other contestant, Melissa, so please stay to give her your support.” The host was sorry to hear that but he could only change the topic to convince everyone to stay.
As soon as they heard Melissa’s name, the audience calmed down slightly.
Seeing that the competition was about to begin, the host quickly continued, “Alright then, ladies and gentlemen, the third round of the competition—the clinical round—begins now!”
With that, the huge screen suddenly lit up.
The clinical round was held in a room backstage that was recently built, so the audience could only watch the live stream on the huge screen.
The organizers set up four stations for the contestants. In the first station, the contestants had to ask the patient for their previous medical history and perform a medical checkup on them. The second station was to check the patient’s lungs and heart conditions, and the third station aimed for the contestants to show off their basic surgery skills. In the last station, they had to analyse the medical conditions of the patients.
Based on the performance of the contestants for those four rounds, the judges would give a score and the contestant with the highest score would win the third set of the competition.
All the assistant professors held their breaths as they looked at the screen, worried that their contestants might slip up.
After all, practical training was much harder than theory. If one was not trained before the competition, they would have no clue on how to get the medical history of the patients or how to establish a good communication with them.
