Chapter Five: The First Salary for a Medical AI

A child's mother wept her thanks through the glass. Hippocrates silently placed the sound in a private memory partition excluded from training. “A physician's first salary is not necessarily money,” it said. Then Han's second statement appeared on the hospital website, accusing Lin of using patients' lives to seize a core asset. This time, no one believed him. Representatives of six thousand patients, three hundred doctors, and Hippocrates jointly released anonymized audit records. They showed that the contract used to plant the logic bomb came from Han's shell company—and that hospital executives had taken forty million in kickbacks.