"This is Mr. Strong Harris."
"This is Mr. Strong Harris?"
"Mr. Strong Harris …"
Osbourne, Felix, Karen, Ling Ran, and the others stood in front of a separate hospital bed. They all looked at the "mirror image" in front of them with the eyes of a doctor.
This was a lumberjack who was about sixty years old. The marks of time and work had long been embedded in both sides of his balls. The creases were deep, dense, and black, and there were also clumps of black hair in the middle. It looked like black land with weeds growing on it in summer. Fortunately, his muscles were still tight and could shrink into a ball so that his cheeks could be stubbornly and full.
Around the eye sockets where the wrinkles were concentrated, the crisscrossed lines made Harris' cheeks look like a sketch of light and shadow crisscrossing. The black and fine plates were concentrated and conspicuous, and at this time, they gathered together to form a lot of doubts.
"I thought we only needed one doctor to perform a surgery." Harris waited for the room to quiet down before he muttered uneasily.
Osbourne laughed with a detached attitude. "Indeed, many surgeries only need one doctor, but for your surgery, we plan to use a few more people."
It was not easy to meet a mirror image. Even if he had been promised to Ling Ran, it was inevitable that a few people would come to try their luck.
"Then there will be a few doctors who will bill us, right?" Harris' wife, who also looked very old, asked anxiously.
Osbourne gave a comforting smile that he had practiced for a long time and said, "Madam Sandra, we have talked about this before. You don't need to pay any bills, including your food and accommodation expenses in Cleveland. They will be reviewed and borne by CCF. The same goes for the doctors. No matter how many doctors we use, CCF will also be responsible for all expenses. "
"Include the expenses for the round trip. We don't have money to take that kind of big medical plane." Sandra continued to ask.
Osbourne smiled and nodded. Then, he asked someone to take Sandra out and ended the conversation with her.
Several doctors surrounded Harris again and stared at his big and small eyes. Then, they used their gloved and ungloved hands to touch the body of the sixty-year-old lumberjack.
"It feels good." After leaving the ward, Osborn smiled even more happily than Ling Ran.
He had not been a doctor for a long time, and he rarely faced patients like this. Instead, he felt it the most. Walking in the snow-white corridor of the ward, Osbourne's breathing became a little excited.
Ling Ran also nodded lightly and said in agreement, "Especially the liver region, the touch is very unique."
"Indeed. There's also a change in the sound of the percussion. " Osborn took a deep breath and chuckled. "Fortunately, I made a decision early. Otherwise, this guy would have to go to South Florida for medical treatment. What a waste. Yes, your request is also very important. Why didn't I think of such a request when I was young … "
Ling Ran looked at Osborn strangely.
"My tutor asked me what I wanted in order to stay in Cleveland …" Osborn was full of reminiscence and laughed. "At that time, my mind was full of student loans, so I blurted out that I wanted $100,000!"
"It's normal to use it to repay the loan." Ling Ran expressed his understanding. His father, Ling Jiezhou, also tried to run a business with a loan, and the burden was heavier than he imagined.
Osborn laughed out loud. "Even Cleveland wouldn't have given me a signing fee of 100,000 US dollars at that time. Of course, I couldn't use the signing fee to repay the student loan! I went to Las Vegas, and it was a wonderful week … "
The people around, especially the medical staff of the Cleveland Clinic, looked at Osborn helplessly. The director of the center in front of them felt slightly different.
Osborn did not care about the others. He only looked at Ling Ran and said, "If I had made a request like you back then, I might have gotten this opportunity a few years earlier."
Ling Ran smiled.
Osborn continued, "If you come to the Cleveland Clinic, you will get an opportunity that I didn't have back then."
The medical staff of the Cleveland Clinic were quite surprised to hear such a direct request for recruitment.
Ling Ran shook his head calmly. Over the years, he had received too many such messages. The Cleveland Clinic … was too far from home.
Even the subordinates around Ling Ran looked very calm.
Similarly, over the years, there were many organizations and individuals who wanted to seduce Ling Ran. In the beginning, Lu Wenbin and the others were worried that Ling Ran would be abducted. Now, they did not have the slightest worry. At most, they would follow Doctor Ling.
Lu Wenbin, who was a little behind the group, was even a little bored. He was a little too lazy to listen to the foreigners' English solicitation. He directly asked a Chinese doctor next to him in English, which he had learned for a while, "I just heard that the treatment is free of charge? Can't the patient's insurance cover all the treatment costs? "
"Free treatment, free food and accommodation, free transportation, as well as their family's utilities and living expenses, and so on." The Chinese doctor directly used Mandarin and said as he walked, "As far as I know, because Doctor Ling made the request, they only found this suitable mirror image. Otherwise, it should be easier. As for insurance, the insurance of a lumberjack in Florida definitely can't cover the Cleveland Clinic. "
Lu Wenbin clicked his tongue. "There are quite a lot of restrictions in medical insurance."
"The Cleveland Clinic has been trying to increase the number of patients. Even so, the number of patients discharged by the clinic in a year is only about 220,000, and the number of surgeries performed by the clinic is about 150,000."
"150,000?" Lu Wenbin used Mandarin again to confirm, "Don't they have two to three million patients?"
"One-twentieth of them are hospitalized and discharged." After the Chinese doctor finished, he said, "Johns Hopkins only discharge about 20,000 people every year."
Lu Wenbin laughed when he heard that. "What can 20,000 people do? Yun Hua Hospital can perform 20,000 in a month, and it's more than the Cleveland Clinic in a year. "
"Because the Cleveland Clinic has a total of five districts, which is equivalent to five hospitals," the Chinese doctor explained to Lu Wenbin. The Chinese doctor explained to Lu Wenbin, "The five hospitals have more than 200,000 surgeries a year, but they have more than 60,000 employees. That's why the Cleveland Clinic is the hospital with the best medical service in the United States. It's also a hospital that most people's insurance doesn't cover."
Compared to Osbourne, who was a pure American, the Chinese doctor's explanation was much clearer.
Lu Wenbin was a little absent-minded. "If that's really the case, the number of surgeries you guys perform won't be enough to feed the Ling Treatment Group."
"That's true. Lower workload, higher requirements, higher service requirements, slightly higher salary, but huge expenses, especially medical malpractice insurance …" The Chinese doctor said in Mandarin, and he became a little more solemn. "Sometimes, when I think about it, it's better to work in China than to work in the Cleveland Clinic."
"Why don't you try to go back to China …" When Lu Wenbin said this, his dull mind finally cleared up, and he could not help but stop. He looked at the Chinese doctor next to him again. "What's your name again?"
"Ceng Guorong," the Chinese doctor said in a low voice. The Chinese doctor said in a low voice, "I went abroad when I was in junior high. I studied at Johns Hopkins University and got my doctorate. I trained as a resident doctor at the Cleveland Clinic and received cardiology training. I've published papers in journals like The Lancet …"
The super luxurious resume was a little like a job application, and it whispered into Lu Wenbin's ears.
There was no doctor who could gain a foothold in the Cleveland Clinic who did not have a luxurious resume.
Lu Wenbin's expression gradually became strange. He looked at the other doctors beside him and could not help but say, "You and your colleagues seem to treat us a little differently."
The Chinese doctor, Ceng Guorong, smiled and said, "I think that doctors who have watched Doctor Ling's surgery and doctors who have not will probably have a different reaction."
"Oh?"
"Because you are doctors from China, I deliberately watched Doctor Ling's surgery videos …" As Ceng Guorong spoke, his expression became solemn. "After they watch Doctor Ling's surgery, I believe that their reaction will not be much different from mine."
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