Chapter 11: Emergency Injuries
When Cathy heard that Anna had died in a car accident, she was shocked.
"Anna is a good person, I didn't expect her to go ahead of me." Cathy was very emotional, and immediately closed her eyes, her expression was solemn, and her right hand crossed her forehead and chest one after another, expressing silent mourning and prayer.
After her ceremony was completed, Zhou Qiao expressed her gratitude, but Zhou Qiao's mood also became sad all of a sudden.
Although the aunt only hugged him when he was a child, and he didn't see him much later, after all, he was a blood relative, and he left all the inheritance to himself before leaving, which was really good to himself.
Elena brews Cathy a cup of coffee and puts her favorite yellow sugar cube on top.
Cathy said that she hadn't had such a sweet coffee in a long, long time.
When the test report was faxed over, Zhou Qiao looked at it and saw that the white blood cell count had decreased and the lymphocytes had increased relatively well, so he was confident.
It was just a viral cold and fever, so Cathy was given a little antiviral cold medicine, fever reducer, cough drop, and vitamin C, and told her the specific amount and frequency of taking it.
Taking vitamin C when you have a cold can effectively improve immunity, accelerate the body's metabolism, and make the body recover faster.
Cathy is very thin and weighs only about 88 pounds, which is equivalent to about 40 kilograms, so in terms of medication, Zhou Qiao reduced the dosage for her, which is only about two-thirds of that of an ordinary adult.
This is also an uncomfortable place for Zhou Qiao after immigrating to the United States, where the temperature and weight are in Fahrenheit and British pounds, which are quite different from the domestic degrees of Celsius and kilograms, Fahrenheit = Celsius temperature× 1.8 + 32, and one British pound is about 0.4535 kilograms.
Whenever he encounters this situation, Zhou Qiao also needs to silently convert it in his heart, and sometimes he will mumble it out of his mouth, which can speed up the conversion efficiency.
It should be much better later on, though.
For Zhou Qiao to be able to quickly convert these two units, Elena and Ava are still quite surprised, in their hearts, Zhou Qiao is like a god!
Because, with only a vocational high school degree, they are complete scum in mathematics.
It's not that they're stupid, it's that American education hasn't given them a foundation in this area at all. They haven't learned the ninety-nine multiplication table either, have they?
Elena is quite obsessed with Zhou Qiao, and may also have the admiration of the scumbag for the top student?
In fact, Zhou Qiao is really a top student, but he didn't play well in the college entrance examination, and he can score more than 630 points in the usual exam, but all kinds of difficulties came one after another in the college entrance examination in the past few days, and in the end he only scored about 550 points, and he went to a second book.
These are things of the past, and they are not worth mentioning. Now that Zhou Qiao has a system and a clinic, a new chapter has been opened in his life!
Zhou Qiao told the precautions, and chatted with Cathy for a while, and then asked Ava to drive the clinic's car to send Cathy back, and the service was considerate.
Cathy said no, but Zhou Qiao insisted, saying that it was just a matter of kicking the accelerator, and told her that even if she needed help with other things, she could call the clinic, and they would be very happy to help.
Cathy was very moved, sat in the car and chattered, and kept telling Ava that Zhou Qiao was a very good person, with the legacy of his aunt Anna, and the young man from China was very handsome.
For these two points, Ava also agrees.
In private, she and her sister Elena have talked about Zhou Qiao's appearance more than once, which is very attractive compared to local boys.
Even, the two even made some more exciting jokes in private.
The classic car in the clinic is a bit old, but it is well maintained, and there is no problem in driving it in the city.
The clinic follows up with patients and sends samples to testing companies, all in this car.
Since Zhou Qiao had just immigrated and had not yet obtained a driver's license, Elena or Ava became a part-time driver.
Cathy also has health insurance, and the U.S. government has additional Medicaid, Medicare, commonly known as the "red and blue card," for seniors like her who are over 65 years old.
There is also a "white card", which is specifically for low-income people, especially pregnant women and children, and does not require a premium, which can be understood as the "Poor Relief Program".
As a result, Cathy only paid fifty dollars, but the total amount cost was more than four hundred dollars, and the clinic could make at least one hundred and fifty dollars after deducting the various costs.
This is still the case where Zhou Qiao's fees are relatively low. Because hospitals and clinics in the U.S. set their own prices, and there is little transparency. Some hospitals and clinics are very black-hearted, and the price is at least 3-4 times the cost!
I have to say that wool picking in the United States is still very comfortable, and you can make amazing profits without having to do too much work.
Zhou Qiao remembered that some experts in China once said that what is the little money of your patients, our main income comes from the medical insurance fund.
In the United States, the same is true. In addition to commercial health insurance, social health insurance also occupies a significant proportion.
Ava went to see Cathy, but she didn't know that in the clinic, Zhou Qiao and Elena took this opportunity to talk to me and me, and their ears and temples were grinding.
The room is full of spring.
Elena smiled and said, "Next time I have a job to go out, let me do it, every time I spend her, she will be suspicious." ”
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The huge clinic has no business, and it has been open for a few days, except for Mr. Westin on the first day, there were only five patients after that, three had a cold and fever, one had eaten something bad, acute gastroenteritis, and the other had a fall and a bruise on his arm, and came to take some medicine.
The clinic was idle most of the time, which worried Zhou Qiao, and he wondered if he should open it at night, but Elena and Ava did not recommend doing so because of safety concerns.
First, the law and order are not good, and secondly, most of the patients at night are those injured caused by gang fights, and even if they are healed, they may not be given money, and may cause some other unnecessary trouble.
Zhou Qiao thought about it, especially, how could such beautiful two white little sister twins be revealed in front of those gang members?
The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty!
Fortunately, Elena and Ava are relatively gentle and well-behaved, and they usually stay at home at night.
So, after 7 p.m., the doors of the iris clinic are closed.
Zhou Qiao is quite satisfied with the indoor nightlife after the closure, except that he can't make money.
On this day, not long after the iris clinic was closed, there was a rapid knock on the door and shouts downstairs, and there seemed to be a lot of people listening to the movement, Elena, Ava and Zhou Qiao, who had just gone up to the living area on the third floor, were startled, and the three of them looked at each other and were silent for a while.
However, Zhou Qiao listened attentively for a moment, but his eyes suddenly lit up!
Because, he vaguely heard someone calling in Chinese "Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou, not there?" Open the door and help! ”
It's a fellow countryman!