Cathy wore a thick coat, and the dog's teeth tore through her sleeves, leaving two lines of teeth marks of varying depths on her skinny arms.
If the skin is not broken, just wash it with soap and water, and at most apply a little disinfectant.
However, two canine teeth made slightly deep marks and broke a little of the skin, causing Cathy to bleed a little.
Murphy asked: "Do I need a rabies vaccine?"
Cathy was stunned: "You are a doctor, you ask me?"
Murphy frowned and said, "It's up to you to vaccinate. That stray dog should have been vaccinated before."
Cathy pondered and said, "I'd better choose to fight!"
Murphy said: "If you need to take 8 injections, it will be more expensive!"
"How much?" Cathy was unconvinced, thinking that my pension was very high!
Murphy said: "800!"
He added: "After deducting medical insurance, we will give you a preferential price."
She meant well, but somehow, when it came out of her mouth, it was just irritating. It would be more comfortable to treat you first, without telling you the price, and then send you a bill two days after the treatment.
This is the effect of wearing the Qihua sachet for a period of time.
In the past, his words would have been simpler, harder to communicate, and his face would have been expressionless and cold. The kind that will make the patient angry immediately, or even to death!
Cathy curled her lips and said: "I thought it was a lot, I will definitely fight! What if something happens to Danielle? How can I be willing to leave her alone in the world?"
After these days of getting along day and night, Cathy has developed deep feelings for Danielle!
Murphy called Elena and asked her to buy vaccines at a pharmacy not far away.
Although Iris Clinic has a pharmacy with a certain stock of common drugs, there is no rabies vaccine.
In fact, many small clinics and hospitals do not have pharmacies. Because the number of patients is not large, it is not cost-effective to build a dedicated pharmacy. This is a cost-effective issue. After all, there are too many types of medicines!
However, large hospitals in European and American countries all have pharmacies under the pharmacy department, which are usually divided into inpatient pharmacies and outpatient pharmacies.
Some people say that hospitals and clinics in the United States do not have pharmacies. How is that possible?
Oh, I need emergency treatment or surgery. Do you want to buy it temporarily? Can you make it?
You are lying in critical condition in the ICU. Doctor: I'm sorry, but you didn't buy any medicine. I can't save you.
However, in large hospitals in the United States, the number of outpatients is small (all are diverted to grassroots clinics), so the scale of outpatient pharmacies is small.
However, since there are more patients in large hospitals, the scale of inpatient pharmacies will be correspondingly larger.
The profits from these drugs belong to the hospital itself. It’s also a big piece of cake! The hospital cannot give up!
Zhou Qiao and his aunt are both Chinese, so hoarding medicine is their natural instinct!
Is it okay to open my own clinic without stocking up on medicine?
Ordinary people who don't have clinics are crazy about grabbing and hoarding medicines when there is any trouble!
Not to mention medicines, even salt and toilet paper must be stocked up! All the cans of sugar water will be robbed!
After Murphy cleaned Cathy several times, he applied the lotion.
Soon, Elena got the vaccine back, and Murphy gave her a shot first. The other few shots will be given later.
Then, the police came to the door!
In the rest area of the Iris Clinic, the police interviewed Cathy and learned in detail about the incident and the physical characteristics of the dog.
Cathy asked, "When you find a dog, do you kill it?"
The police said: "Don't worry, if we confirm that the dog is a stray and is aggressive, we will kill it on the spot!"
Cathy expressed her gratitude, and then said very frightenedly: "If a kind person hadn't rescued me in time today, my daughter and I would have suffered disastrous consequences!"
The police expressed sympathy and said they would find the dog as soon as possible! Then left.
Cathy was surprised, why didn't she hear Danielle's cry? She took a look and quickly came to Zhou Qiao's clinic.
Sure enough, it was Dr. Zhou who took action!
Zhou Qiao was caressing the little guy. The fear in the little guy's heart was gone, and he was still grinning, seemingly very happy.
Cathy couldn't help feeling frustrated and thought to herself, I can't coax her well no matter how much I do, Dr. Zhou just touched her a few times and made me laugh. Oh, I'm such a failure. Maybe I'm really not suitable for raising children!
Ava waved to her and said, "Cathy, come over and learn together. Joe uses a very sophisticated baby touching technique, which can effectively relieve the baby's anxiety, tension, fear...all kinds of negative emotions. "
"Is that so?" Cathy suddenly became energetic. If there is such a technique and she learns it, she can comfort little Danielle every day in the future, and she won't have to trouble Dr. Zhou.
Ava said: "Yes! It's really amazing. I couldn't coax him no matter how hard I tried, but after Joe stroked it gently a few times, the little guy started laughing!"
Zhou Qiao said: "Call Elena over, I will explain it to you!"
What he used was naturally the master-level baby touching technique that he exchanged from the system, which cost 20 points of medical mystery.
This is not metaphysics or a fashionable activity, but a medical method with relatively early origins!
It can be said that since the beginning of human beings, there has been touch!
Touch has been associated with medical exploration from the beginning.
In the process of natural childbirth, every newborn receives the special touch of contraction of the mother's birth canal.
Natural delivery can also squeeze out the amniotic fluid inhaled from the respiratory tract, reducing aspiration or lung infection caused after delivery.
In layman's terms, babies who have not been pinched by their mothers are at greater risk of getting sick after birth.
It doesn't matter if the forehead is pinched flat or long, because the baby's skull is soft and the fontanel is open, and it will slowly become round again after birth.
The skin is the largest sensory organ of the human body that accepts external stimulation and is the external receptor of the nervous system. Early touch is to provide appropriate stimulation to the brain cells and nervous system during the critical period of baby's brain development, promote the development of the baby's nervous system, and promote growth and intellectual development.
When Elena came over, Zhou Qiao explained the essentials while touching Danielle. What techniques are there, how much strength is required, what precautions are required, which parts can be touched, and which parts are best not to be touched.
Elena and Ava's eyes lit up after hearing the explanation in simple terms, and they nodded repeatedly, but Cathy looked embarrassed, because she had listened, but Zhou Qiao talked too much, and she was old and would not be able to remember it for a while. !
"Dr. Zhou, can you write down all the steps for me so that I can practice according to them when I get back. Well, this fee can be included in the diagnosis and treatment fee." Cathy said.
Zhou Qiao smiled: "It's just a piece of cake, why bother talking about money? Danielle is also half of my daughter, and I have always paid close attention to her."
After all, this poor little girl was delivered by him himself, and she was the first baby born naturally!
Although the crime of abandonment in the United States is very serious, her mother still secretly ran away after giving birth to her. I don’t know if she was caught later.
But there was no news from the police, so it was probably settled. Perhaps, there was no effort to find it at all.
It is worth mentioning that even if it is found, it cannot be charged.
This is because state laws in the United States prohibit the abandonment of children, but at the same time allow mothers to "safely abandon their newborn babies in a safe place, such as a church, hospital, or fire station."
This exception, known as the "Safe Harbor Act," is intended to protect the innocent life of a baby and avoid abortion, killing, or abandonment that puts the baby in danger as much as possible.
California's Safe Baby Surrender Act is one of them.
Little Danielle’s biological mother was smart enough to leave Danielle directly at the Iris Clinic, what a safe place. So, this is essentially legal behavior.
Cathy took little Danielle home. Zhou Qiao was afraid that she would be in danger again, so he asked her to go to the laundry next door to find Ariel.
Ariel sent a black girl to escort the old and weak couple back. Coincidentally, halfway through, I met the stray dog again.
It bared its teeth and charged forward again.
Ariel's black girl would not tolerate it. She wanted to take out her gun and shoot it in the head, but two policemen appeared around the corner. They were the policemen who asked Cathy before.
They came after the dog.
The black girl immediately retracted her hand and kicked out, hitting the stray dog in the neck.
The stray dog howled and was kicked into the ditch.
However, this stray dog was quite fierce and quickly climbed up again. Perhaps it felt that the black girl was not easy to bully, so it turned and pounced on the two policemen!
When I went, the police were shocked. One of them was timid and immediately took out his pistol, "Bang, bang, bang~" and shot three times in a row!
The dog whimpered and fell to the ground.
Cathy finally breathed a sigh of relief, thanked the black girl, and said she could go back by herself for the rest of the journey.
The black girl said, I'd better take you home.
Because he ran back halfway through delivery, it was difficult for Ariel and Dr. Zhou to explain.
In fact, this kind of ferocious and biting stray dog will be sent to be euthanized even if it is not killed on the spot because it has no owner. Gas poisoning is usually used. More than one million stray dogs are euthanized every year in the United States.
In the words of the Americans themselves: “The reason is simple. If unadopted dogs are not euthanized, the shelter will not have space to accommodate the new dogs, and the shelter cannot refuse to accept dogs or people abandoned by their owners. A stray dog brought here.”
As long as more dogs are abandoned than adopted, the problem of dog euthanasia will remain. This is currently the best way for humans to deal with excess stray dogs.
A depressed mother with severe dark circles under her eyes carried an eight- or nine-month-old crying baby into the clinic of Rachel, a physician. She said that the child had a fever and cough, and asked the doctor to help her quickly.
After consultation, physical examination and communication, Rachel comforted her mother: "Don't worry too much, it's probably a common cold. I'll arrange a check-up for her."
Ava had just learned a new skill, but her hands were itchy and she felt like she had nowhere to use it, so she hurriedly ran in and volunteered, "I'll cajole you!"
Mommy was already upset by the noise from the baby, so she handed it over to Ava and said, "Be careful!"
Ava said: "Don't worry, I'm a professional!"
After taking the baby and coaxing it for a few times, he placed it on the examination bed and began to practice his newly learned baby caressing technique with the baby.
However, after she used all the techniques from beginning to end, the child not only did not feel relieved, but actually cried more and more!
Ava lost her temper and said, "I'll take her out for a walk."
Seeing Bao's mother nodding, Ava quickly hugged the child and came to Zhou Qiao's clinic.
"Qiao, please help me see what I did wrong? Why does he keep crying and can't be comforted at all?" Ava said very depressedly.
Zhou Qiao said: "Let me try!"
As soon as the master child soothing technique started, surprisingly, the little guy stopped crying immediately.
However, it lasted less than ten seconds before the child started crying again!
Zhou Qiao frowned, feeling something was wrong. He didn't think it was like a common cold or fever. If so, it would be impossible for his masterful child soothing technique to last only 10 seconds!
However, he carefully examined the child and found no particularly abnormal symptoms!
"System, start auxiliary diagnosis!"
Soon, a golden virtual panel popped up in Zhou Qiao's mind:
[Sick child Hank Pujols's condition is: congenital diaphragmatic hernia. It is not obvious at birth, but during later development, diaphragm disorders appear, the thoracoperitoneal hiatus is delayed in closing, and the intestines are prematurely transferred into the abdominal cavity. 】
[Diagnosis completed, 3 medical points will be deducted! The balance of the host’s Yi Xuan point account: 283 points. 】
Zhou Qiao was shocked and immediately carried the baby to Rachel's clinic and said, "Let's get a chest X-ray for this baby."
"Huh?" Rachel was stunned. She wanted to take a chest X-ray as soon as she came up? The fever has only lasted less than a day, so it is unlikely that it will progress to pneumonia so quickly.
I can't help but feel that Zhou Qiao is making a fuss out of a molehill.
But on second thought, Rachel thought that Zhou Qiao might be doing it to make more money.
While placing the order, she secretly said, OK, you are the boss, you have the final say!
Naturally, she will not disobey Zhou Qiao, and Zhou Qiao will do whatever he says.
This is her experience in the workplace for many years.
The child's mother looked over in surprise, and Zhou Qiao explained: "I suspect that the child has other symptoms, not just a common cold or fever. To be on the safe side, I suggest you get one!"
"Okay then." The child's mother had no idea. She had long been exhausted by the baby's crying!
Because the child cried all night last night and barely slept. She stayed up all night too.
Sometimes, the child fell asleep briefly, but she had a fever. She felt distressed and kept cooling the child physically, so she basically didn't sleep a wink.
As for the child's father, he slept like a dead pig! Then she went to work again early in the morning, and she had to take the baby to the hospital alone.
At first, I went to a community hospital, but the nurse at the triage desk said that the doctor was not here and asked her to come tomorrow!
She said my child's fever was so serious, how could it be postponed until tomorrow?
The nurse shrugged: "I would venture to ask, will your child's life be in danger soon?"
The child's mother hesitated and said, "Probably not."
"Isn't this the end of it? Come back tomorrow!" The nurse thought to herself. There is nothing I can do. If you were going to die soon, I could still contact you, but you have a cold and a fever...
There was no other way, so the mother had no choice but to hold her baby and go to the nearby Iris Clinic.
It might be a little more expensive, but it shouldn't make her wait.
As a result, the doctor suddenly said that other tests were needed, which immediately made her heart jump into her throat.
"Doctor, can you tell me what disease you suspect?" the child's mother asked.
Rachel looked at Zhou Qiao, wanting to see what he said. I thought to myself, if it were me, I would have to say: "Let's wait for the test results to come out first."
Zhou Qiao thought about it carefully. Anyway, the other party will know sooner or later. Let him take a breath first so that the other party can be mentally prepared.
So he said: "I am thinking that there is a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, but it is not certain. We will look at the examination report when the time comes."
"Then what if it's true?" the child's mother asked worriedly.
"Then we can only arrange the surgery as soon as possible!"
The child's mother still wanted to ask, but Zhou Qiao said, "You'd better take your child for a check-up as soon as possible. There will be bad consequences if you delay."
"Okay!" The child's mother frowned, took the letter from Rachel, and hurried out.
Zhou Qiao sighed softly, there was a chance for surgery and he could make a lot of money, but why was he feeling a little sad in his heart?
(End of chapter)
