"Jessica, are you up?" After the call was connected, Mr. Clark said with faint anger.
Although he has always loved his daughter, he has gradually drifted away from her. Now he cannot come back a few times a year and has no phone calls. It also happens that his wife is suffering from cancer. He would be lying if he said he is not angry.
Now, as the operation was approaching, Mr. Clark suddenly became afraid. If the operation failed, there would not be much time left and he had to inform his daughter.
Jessica, who was far away in New York, looked for her cell phone from the bedside with sleepy eyes, and yawned: "Daddy, I'm sorry, I haven't gotten up yet. I had a video conference with colleagues in the Asia-Pacific region at 11 o'clock last night and it kept going. I didn’t go to bed until after 3 o’clock in the morning, so I slept a little longer in the morning. What’s the matter? Is anything okay?”
After hearing this, Mr. Clark's resentment suddenly disappeared. It turned out that his daughter was really busy! The meeting actually lasted until past 3 o'clock in the morning! What kind of colleagues are these!
But immediately, he smiled bitterly again. Because he realized that the time zone in the Asia-Pacific region is different from that in the United States, and it is daytime over there!
However, if the United States is so powerful, why should it accommodate its colleagues in the Asia-Pacific region?
Can't we choose the time to be during the day in the United States and at night in the Asia-Pacific region?
Has the mighty United States declined? Need someone to look up to?
"Daddy, what's wrong with you?" Jessica asked.
Mr. Clark rubbed his eyes, which seemed to be filled with sand. He choked and said: "Your mother has cancer, and it is a very serious pancreatic cancer. The doctor said it is the king of cancers. She had pre-chemotherapy before, and it will be carried out at one o'clock this afternoon. Surgery!"
"What?..." Jessica was stunned for a moment. She was stunned for seven seconds before jumping off the bed without wearing any clothes. She hurriedly confirmed, "Daddy, say it again! I didn't listen. Qing! I must be hallucinating, right?"
She thought it was because she didn't sleep well! It's all my fault to my colleagues in China. They can't solve the problem at all, and they keep nagging at the meeting!
Mr. Clark, such a strong person, could not help but wipe away his tears at this time and repeated what he just said.
"Oh my God! I can't believe it! Daddy, is mom okay? I want to talk to her on the phone!" Jessica stamped her feet, fidgeted, and walked around in the bedroom!
"Your mother is in good condition. Dr. Zhou from Iris Clinic is very good." Mr. Clark said, and then gave the phone to Mrs. Clark who was lying on the hospital bed.
"Jessica, I'm mom..."
"Mom..." Jessica couldn't help it any longer and burst into tears all of a sudden, "Mom, are you okay now? Why didn't you call me before and didn't notify me until now?... Wuwu... …”
Mrs. Clark said softly: "Silly child, mom is fine for the time being. The doctor said there is hope for a cure. Don't cry...be good...your dad also called you before, but you said he was busy."
Jessica suddenly remembered that that phone call a month ago was what her father wanted to say!
God, she felt so undeserving!
She always felt that her parents were still young and could always stay with her. When she was a child, she naively believed that her parents would never die.
But now, something like this happened!
"Mom, it's Jessica, it's not right! I'm sorry! Just wait for me, I'll take leave immediately and take the fastest flight back!" Jessica cried, and then, after chatting for a few words, she hung up the phone. She was in a hurry. Start packing!
However, New York is too far from San Francisco. One is on the east coast and the other is on the west coast. The direct flight takes more than five hours, and if you connect, it takes more than eight hours.
She still had to buy a ticket and rush to the airport. She would not arrive at the Iris Clinic for six or seven hours.
The time is now almost 7:30, and Jessica is very anxious: "I hope I can arrive before the operation!"
"Hey, Iris Clinic? What kind of clinic is it? Why don't you remember it?"
Jessica suddenly thought of a question, so she quickly searched the Internet for information about this clinic.
She was shocked to discover that this was a small clinic of ordinary size, and there was news on the Internet that its boss was a Chinese woman who died in a car accident almost two months ago, and she was replaced by a young man from China. .
This news was a local news in San Francisco when Zhou Qiao first came here. It was very inconspicuous, but luckily Jessica could still search for it.
I have to say that the elites at Harvard University are very capable of finding information!
She called again and asked her high school classmates who stayed in San Francisco to work.
A high school classmate told her that this clinic now only has one doctor and two small nurses, both young people, but it is said that the business is quite good. Especially the weight loss aspect!
"What the hell? Lose weight? Are you telling me that a doctor who is good at weight loss wants to perform pancreatic cancer surgery on my mother?"
Jessica was going crazy, feeling that her parents had been deceived by the Chinese doctor!
How could such an important surgery be performed by a little-known doctor? And what they are good at is losing weight!
Isn't that a joke with your life?
She hurriedly called to stop her, but Mr. Clark was accompanying Mrs. Clark for a preoperative examination and did not hear her.
At this time, Jessica's flight boarding time came again, and the airport announcement was urging her, so she had no choice but to grit her teeth and walk quickly towards the boarding entrance!
"Forget it, let's talk about it after we get there. I hope mom can be safe!"
She stopped calling because the plane was about to take off and she couldn't make any calls. But that's not the main reason.
The main reason is that she knows her parents. This couple is very stubborn and won't listen to opinions. Once they decide something, even the eight violent Tyrannosaurus rex can't take it back. Now she tells them to change clinics. , changing doctors probably wouldn’t make sense!
Sitting on the plane, Jessica had no time to admire the spectacular sea of clouds in the sky and the golden light rising from the morning sun. She was worried and sighed from time to time.
An elderly flight attendant came over and asked what was going on, if she felt uncomfortable and if she needed help. Jessica just waved her hands wordlessly, indicating that she was fine.
Iris Clinic was busy preparing for the afternoon surgery, but at nine o'clock, we suddenly received an uninvited guest!
There were seven people in total, six of whom were investigators from the California Medical Board task force, and one was Kainz, the owner of the Red-billed Gull Clinic.
Kainz is the whistleblower. He is familiar with one of the doctors in the investigation team, and he came here just to watch the fun!
In the United States, the profession that ranks first in average earnings has long been that of doctors.
If practicing medicine is regarded as a competition, then after the rules of the competition (doctor practice regulations) are determined, the practicing doctors will undoubtedly be the competitors, and the medical committee will review and approve the qualifications of the competitors, supervise the competition field, and issue yellow card warnings or even red cards to punish offending players. Referee!
Each state government in the United States has a medical board (The Medical Board) or similar agency, which is responsible for issuing medical licenses in the state and punishing doctors who violate regulations.
