Originally, Zhou Qiao felt that he could just drive with Talia over, he had a strong hypnotic ability, and even if he encountered an emergency, he also had a certain ability to protect himself.

But after Elena heard about it, she was not at ease, so she specially called Ariel from the laundry next door and entrusted Ariel to escort Zhou Qiao.

It was inconvenient for Zhou Qiao to reveal that he had this almost perverted ability, so he had to follow them.

"Ariel, thank you for your hard work." Zhou Qiao said.

"Where the duty lies." Ariel shrugged, then took the lead, starting the car to open the road in front, while Zhou Qiao drove his own car, carrying Talia behind.

Previously, the Iris Clinic went to Lake Tahoe for group building, skiing, and also passed through Sacramento, but because it is a "small town" and the schedule is very tight, I did not go in to play.

This time it's a familiar one.

And I met a few gangsters last time, so Ariel also felt that it was necessary for her to escort her, in case she encountered criminals again, the bullet was not long-eyed, Dr. Zhou's Sven was not good at marksmanship, and Talia was a weak female star.

Ariel is different, she is an elite soldier under Luo Ya, trained in special forces, with big shoulders and a round waist, flexible skills, accurate marksmanship, and always has a P90 in the car, sometimes with a grenade, and has strong firepower.

Waiting for a dozen gangsters with guns to besiege her can't kill her.

In the past, Luo Ya was an undercover agent and was ordered to provoke a bloody struggle between gangsters to sweep San Francisco, and Ariel once had a record of single-handedly killing more than 30 bandits in just one confrontation.

If you want to be rewarded for meritorious deeds, Ariel can actually be a commander, or a mid-level manager of a large company owned by Luoya, but Ariel thinks that she is not that material, and it is quite satisfying to have a laundry.

Therefore, now this laundry, although it still belongs to Luo Ya, is almost the same as Ariel's private property. It can also be regarded as the placement fee given to her by Luo Ya.

Fortunately, there were no episodes this time, and I arrived at Kaiser Medical Center in Sacramento City smoothly and safely.

"Ariel, thank you. Why don't you go to the hotel and open a room, rest for the night, and go back tomorrow. Zhou Qiao took out a credit card and handed it to Ariel.

The other party took the trouble to escort him, and he couldn't let the other party pay for accommodation. As for the remuneration, in the future, the half-year bonus, the year-end bonus or something, just give Aliel a little more.

Ariel asked, "How long are you going to stay with Dr. Zhou?" ”

Zhou Qiao thought for a while and said, "It's going to take three or five days." ”

Ariel shrugged her shoulders and smiled, "Then I'll go back first." ”

"It's so late, and you're rushing back?"

"It's fine, it's just over an hour's drive. Bye-bye, Dr. Chow, bye-bye, Talia. ”

"Bye-bye, Ariel, thank you." Talia said gratefully.

"It's okay, call me anytime you need to." Ariel waved her hand, got in the car, kicked the accelerator, drove out of the hospital, and drove into the night.

Zhou Qiao accompanied the worried Talia and left the parking lot and went to Building 8.

Talia had already called her mom and said it had arrived, and her mom had given her the exact address, which was on the 7th floor of Building 8, outside the intensive care room.

……

Kaiser Medical Center is a large medical group with a total of nearly 200,000 employees, including more than 50,000 nurses and about 20,000 doctors. There are more than 38 hospitals and more than 600 clinics in 8 states.

This one in Sacramento is one of the 38 hospitals under the Caesars Foundation, and it is also a relatively large hospital.

Although it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening, there were still many people waiting anxiously in the rest area outside the intensive care ward.

When a patient was declared dead and was pushed out with a white cloth, his family was grief-stricken and rushed to follow.

Talia's family couldn't help but be even more worried, fearing that they would be the next one to call.

Taria's grandmother, in particular, kept praying, whispering and chanting, hoping that the old guy would survive this life crisis.

Talia's mother wiped away tears, and Talia's father comforted her softly.

In addition, there are Taria's uncles, aunts, aunts, cousins, cousins, cousins, and others.

It is worth mentioning that Taria's eldest cousin, Adriana, is also one of the relatives here. Taria's grandfather is actually Adriana's grandfather.

It's just that Adriana is in Kansas, which is a bit far away and needs to arrive a little later.

Accompanied by Zhou Qiao, Talia found her family.

"Mom, how is Grandpa?" Taria's eyes were red too.

"Your grandfather is in a bad situation, Jason, come on." Talia's mother choked up and couldn't speak.

Talia looked at her father, Jason Ryder.

Jason Ryder is tall, in his forties, and looks like a personable middle-aged beautiful man, and Talia actually looks more like her father.

Jason glanced at Zhou Qiao curiously and began to speak.

There were also many relatives and friends present who looked at Zhou Qiao, but because Jason was explaining his condition, he didn't ask about the relationship between Zhou Qiao and Talia.

It's just that after a while, someone has already recognized Zhou Qiao, and they can't help muttering in their hearts, Talia said that there were bodyguards to send her back, is this Doctor Zhou talking about?

Where is this bodyguard, this is clearly a flower messenger! Could it be that our little princess is in love? Heck, if she gets her hands on it by another man, will it affect her acting career? After all, she has always been a relatively rare and innocent character in North America.

Although this Dr. Zhou also looks very good.

Taria's father told the story that just this morning, Taria's grandfather suddenly had palpitations at home, accompanied by symptoms such as convulsions, chest tightness, chest pain, and dizziness.

After taking the medicine, the symptoms did not improve significantly, and Talia's uncle thought that her old father's coronary heart disease had recurred, so he quickly called an ambulance and sent him to Kaiser Medical Center for treatment.

In fact, as early as half a year ago, Talia's grandfather had been hospitalized here, when there was paroxysmal palpitations, electrocardiogram showed that he had atrial premature contractions, the doctor diagnosed coronary heart disease, and was discharged after about half a month of symptomatic treatment in the hospital.

Then after being admitted this time, the doctor perfected the blood routine, seven blood lipids, thyroid function and other examinations according to the medical history, and the results showed that there were indeed coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, hypothyroidism, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other problems.

The team of doctors from the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Kaiser Medical Center gave symptomatic treatment according to the condition.

Then, Talya's grandfather's condition did relieve, such as palpitations, chest tightness and other symptoms were reduced, but he still had convulsions, and in the evening, the condition was critical again, and Talya's grandfather gradually showed symptoms of limb weakness.

"That's how your grandfather's condition is. Of course, if you want to know more clearly and in more detail, we can go to the doctor later. Jason Ryder couldn't help but glance at Zhou Qiao again and said.

Talia asked, "Is there a doctor on duty at night?" ”

"Yes, but not much. The doctor is very busy, and I don't know if I'm free to see you now. Jason Ryder looked at Zhou Qiao again, looked at his daughter in an inquiring tone, and said in his heart, "Little baby, don't you want to introduce this man to your parents?"

Who the hell is it? Do you want to arch my daughter?

Talia thought about it and introduced Zhou Qiao to her parents: "Dad, Mom, this is a famous doctor Zhou in San Francisco, and he is very well-known in the field of cardiology. I invited him here just to ask him to help me check on my grandfather's condition. ”

She and Zhou Qiao have just started, and Zhou Qiao seems to be more than just a woman, she doesn't know how to tell her parents.

And there are cousins and cousins at the scene, as well as some other people, in case it leaks out, the agent hears that he is in love, and he will talk about it again.

So I decided to keep it a secret for the time being.

"Oh~, that's so thankful. Hello Dr. Chow, I'm Taria's father, Jason Ryder. Just call me Jason. Jason Ryder held out his hand.

I heard that it was just a doctor, not to arch my daughter, so I was a little relieved. Zhou Qiao's name, he still heard of it.

Zhou Qiao shook hands with him: "It's a pleasure to meet you." ”

He also greeted Talia's mother: "Good evening, Auntie, and I'm very happy to see you." ”

"Thank you very much for accompanying Talia at such a late hour." Taria's mother said as she wiped away her tears.

It's just that, as a mother, she knows her daughter better than Jason, so she doesn't believe Talia's words, and her heart says that she came all the way from San Francisco so late, can the relationship be average?

Perhaps, this is Talia's future husband.

Talia's mother looked at Zhou Qiao carefully, and couldn't help but like it more and more, and said in her heart, well, don't say anything else, just in terms of appearance, she is worthy of my daughter.

"Dad, do you have the contact information for the doctor in charge?" Talia asked.

"Yes." Jason Ryder took out a business card and handed it to his daughter.

Talia took it in her hand, glanced at it, and was about to make a phone call, when Zhou Qiao glanced at it on the side, and felt that the name was so familiar, and suddenly remembered, isn't this doctor named Victoria Fervis the female doctor she had seen at the National Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Competition before?

At that time, the other party sat with himself and others, and he was very gossip and chattering.

Although it was only a "one-sided relationship", Zhou Qiao still had a very deep impression of the female doctor.

The other party has wavy curly hair, a relatively plump figure, wears glasses, and has a lot of flesh on his lips, which is particularly thick.

So, Zhou Qiao's heart moved, and he said, "Why don't I fight." ”

Talia was stunned for a moment and looked at Zhou Qiao.

Zhou Qiao shrugged his shoulders and said, "I may know this doctor, if it weren't for the same name and surname." ”

Talia was overjoyed, and the rest of the family members around her also looked at her in surprise, saying that this Dr. Zhou has a lot of friends, and if he opens a clinic in San Francisco, he can still meet the doctors at Caesar Medical Center in Sacramento?

Sure enough, after Zhou Qiao got through, he revealed his identity and intention, and the doctor named Victoria Fevis was Zhou Qiao's "old acquaintance", and immediately shouted very happily: "Doctor Zhou, where are you, I'll come over immediately." ”

"I'm on the 7th floor of Building 8, outside the ICU." Zhou Qiao said.

"OK, wait for me in five minutes, I'll be there right away." Victoria Fervis said.

After she hung up the phone, she immediately jumped up excitedly and screamed again and again: "I didn't expect him to come, he actually came!" ”

On the side, a colleague asked in surprise, "Victoria, who's coming?" Look, you're excited! ”

"My idol, Dr. Zhou Qiao Zhou!"

"Is that the Dr. Zhou who won last year's National Surgery Competition?"

"Yes, yes, that's him. It turned out that the patient was the grandfather of star Taria, and Dr. Zhou came with her. ”

"This Doctor Zhou, there are always stunning beauties by his side." The colleague shook his head and said.

"Yes, yes, little handsome guy!" Victoria Fevis took out a small mirror and quickly touched up her makeup.

"Don't wear makeup, no matter how beautiful you are, you can't beat Talia."

"I know. I'm not interested in Dr. Zhou, I just don't want to be rude. ”

Then Victoria Fervis walked briskly outside. The colleague didn't follow because he still had too many things to do, but just glanced at Victoria Fevis's back and couldn't help but sigh.

The doctor remembered that when he met Zhou Qiao at the competition site, he thought that he was just like them and had come to participate in the award.

Because of the two beauties around Zhou Qiao, they also discussed in private, whether Zhou Qiao is very big and talented, otherwise how could white beauties look down on him?

But obviously, Dr. Zhou's talent in that area is not strong or not, but his talent in medical skills is really unmatched. Later, it simply amazed the medical community in the United States.

Victoria Fevis hurried over, hugged Zhou Qiao warmly, greeted him, and then pulled Zhou Qiao and gave him a detailed description of his condition, and Talya's family was stunned.

Prior to this, one of Talia's aunts had chased the doctor to inquire about her condition, but the doctor kept saying that he was busy, and left in a hurry after a few perfunctory words.

Unexpectedly, now that Zhou Qiao has changed, and it is a big night, it is more than ten o'clock in the middle of the night, and people are running over and are so enthusiastic.

Victoria Fevis is quite professional, and Zhou Qiao learned more information from her.

It's just that Zhou Qiao couldn't help frowning as he listened.

"What's wrong, Dr. Zhou?" Victoria Fevis asked in surprise. The heart said, is there something wrong with his diagnosis? No, though, uh, I actually think something is wrong. I'm looking for a multidisciplinary consultation with a specialist.

However, it is night, and many experts cannot find anyone, so they can only wait for tomorrow daylight.

Kaiser Medical Center, very busy, very busy, very busy, working overtime every day, but overtime is limited to their young doctors, the kind of top specialists, who will not be there at night. And it's easy to get in touch.

Zhou Qiao said: "There are many diseases that have symptoms of convulsions in the human body, such as coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, thyroid disease, and nervous system disease. ”

"Yes. It's just ......" Victoria Fervis said and stopped.

"Just what?" Zhou Qiao asked.

"Nothing, I try to arrange it. It's just that the night is not efficient, and it may take a little longer. Well, I'll let you know as soon as the result is available. ”

"Okay, thank you, call me then."

Victoria Fevis hurried away.

Zhou Qiao turned around to comfort Taria, and said to Taria's family: "Although the condition is serious, I estimate that there will be no danger to life for a while, or everyone will go back to rest first, and when the results of the examination come out, I will find a way." ”

"If I don't go back, I'll wait here." Taria's mother said. It's such a time, where is the mood to go back. Even if I go back, I can't sleep.

Victoria Fevis's ability and connections are still quite strong, although the doctor in the imaging department scolded him, but in the end, for the sake of Victoria Fevis's face, he gave priority to Talia's grandfather.

When the results came out, Zhou Qiao and Talia went to Dr. Victoria Feevis's office together to carefully look at the MRI film of the skull on the computer screen.

"Joe, how's it going?"

"Doctor Zhou, is there anything abnormal?"

Zhou Qiao watched it for a long time, zoomed in and out of the film, and finally, pointed to one of the areas and said, "You see, the signal in this place actually has a very suspicious signal shadow. ”

Victoria Fevis took a closer look and couldn't help but gasp: "This is the dorsal aspect of the patient's brainstem medulla oblongata?" Is it a disease of the optic nerve? ”

"Yes, it could be neuromyelitis optica. However, the abnormal signal point is too weak and requires further investigation. Dr. Victoria, please collect the patient's cerebrospinal fluid and blood samples immediately, and complete the MRI of the whole spine, thank you. Zhou Qiao got up and said.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Victoria Fervis turned to leave, and she had to use her connections to cut the queue again.

Are hospitals in the US easy? No, on the big night, there are still many people working overtime.

What neither Dr. Victoria Fervis nor Zhou Qiao expected was that a storm was already brewing at Kaiser Medical Center due to busy work, shortage of staff, and relatively cheap salaries.

And for the sake of Talya's grandfather's condition, they kept cutting in line and kept working for the doctors in the examination center, which became the fuse of this incident.

Thanks to the 588 reading points of "facing difficulties". The previous text was modified, and it is enough to drive, because it is not really far, more than 100 kilometers.

(End of chapter)