Chapter 1003

Rachel was stressing over how to deal with her clothes being drenched in sweat when Malcolm showed up unexpectedly.

She felt awkward right away. "Why didn't you knock before coming in, Uncle Malcolm?"

Did Malcolm need to knock? He was taken aback for a moment, then got irritated. Rachel actually picked on him because of Matthew.

Malcolm was the eldest sibling in the family. Since Fred was always away on business trips, he was the one in charge. Everyone in the family showed him respect when they saw him.

Rachel would typically show Malcolm some respect, but she had become so rude to him because of Matthew.

Malcolm's face immediately darkened. "Do I really need to knock before entering your room, Rachel? What do you take me for? Am I one of your subordinates?"

Rachel was afraid to stand up because her clothes were soaked with sweat and sticking to her skin. She was in a really embarrassing situation.

Hoping to hide her sorry state, she grabbed a folder and started organizing her desk, perfectly blocking her chest.

Seeing Malcolm snap at her, Rachel sternly retorted, "Keep it professional in the company. I don't care IF we're related by blood. I'm the president, so everyone needs to knock before entering."

Malcolm clenched his teeth. "Fine then. So even though I'm your uncle, that doesn't change anything, huh?"

As Malcolm spoke, he glanced at Matthew beside him, and it made him even more upset.

Rachel wasn't married to Matthew yet, and she was already defending him this much. She even showed no respect to Malcolm. If she tied the knot with him, Wealthwave Group might have ended up under the Grant family.

Just thinking about it made Malcolm even more pissed off. He scoffed and turned around to leave, slamming the door as he walked out of the office.

Rachel furrowed her brows, realizing she'd been a bit harsh with her tone earlier. Feeling annoyed, she glared at Matthew.

"It's all because of you. If you're done here, you should leave. I've got work to do."

Matthew was touched when Rachel stood up for him. With that alone, if anyone dared to hurt her, he would be the first to step in.

He walked up to Rachel with a grin. "We've got the important stuff done, but there's still a small matter."

Rachel was taken aback. "What's up?"

Matthew replied, "I have a plan to establish a new type of hospital."

Rachel glared at Matthew. Did he treat building a hospital as something trivial, but their earlier intimate moment as the "important matter"? Seriously... he had no sense of being proper at all.

She playfully complained, "Quit joking around for something serious. Tell me what kind of hospital you have in your mind."

Matthew chuckled. "While I call it a hospital, it's just a place a little bigger than a clinic with a lab in the back. The main focus is to integratë traditional medicine and modern medicine to create a new kind of medical practice."

Rachel had never heard of it before. "New medical practice? What exactly do you mean by that?"

Matthew leaned closer. "A genuine approach to medicine that takes the best of traditional medicine, modern medicine, and biology with the sole purpose of treating people saving lives. We get rid of all the ineffective treatments, unnecessary tests, and meds that don't do any good."

Rachel's eyes lit up. After hearing it all, she looked confused. "What kind of treatments, tests, and drugs are you talking about?"

Matthew recalled how little he used to know about malpractice in the medical industry and decided to elaborate further.

"Ineffective treatment happens with diseases like cancer. Even though it's obvious they can't be cured, they go ahead with surgery and chemotherapy anyway.

"As a result, healthy cells are destroyed, and the patient's lifespan is shortened. That's effectively wasting the patient's time and money—the ineffective treatment.

"As for unnecessary tests, some doctors can diagnose the problem right away, and a cheap prescription will do the job. But they still insist on blood tests scans X-rays and everything else.

"Ineffective medications are drugs that don't treat the illness but have no side effects. Many doctors still prescribe whole boxes of them to patients.

"Situations like these make up to 80% of the treatment expenses. I want to bring

medicine back to just focusing on helping people and saving lives."