windy city rainy season

In Chicago, it snows half of the year. The good time is from May to October, but it rains constantly.

The night before the autumn vacation, Tao Yu had a door on water chemistry.There will be a storm in the forecast for this day, and it will be cloudy all day, until the end of get out of class at nine o'clock, the rain comes.Tao Yu watched the wind and rain outside the window, hesitated for two seconds, and decided to go home in the rain—he had to put his schoolbag back, and then go to the cold storage to move pork.

The strong wind and heavy rain hit from all directions, and the umbrella became a decoration. Tao Yu simply put away the umbrella and ran wildly in the rain. When he ran back to Tang Hainan's house, he looked as if he had just been fished out of the river.He stood outside the door tremblingly and took out the key. The door opened from the inside, and Doctor Chang threw a towel out.

"Are you resting today?" Tao Yu looked at his watch subconsciously, it was just 09:30, and he was still not used to seeing Chang Zheng so early.He took the towel and wiped himself up and down, put down his bag and went to the bathroom to change clothes.

When he came out, he saw Chang Zheng watching TV in the living room, and Teacher Tang hadn't come home yet.Tao Yu sensitively sensed that something was wrong with Chang Zheng. Although he usually doesn't talk much, today's air pressure is exceptionally low.He remembered that Dr. Chang had gone to work in the morning, and today was not his day off. With their insane working system of [-] hours a day as a resident doctor, it was really the sun coming out of the west to appear at home so early.

"Doctor Chang, do you want to drink water?" Seeing that it was still early, Tao Yu planned to take care of his roommate. He didn't usually have many opportunities to communicate with Chang Zheng, so it was not good to directly ask him what he was unhappy about and let everyone have fun.

Chang Zheng turned on the TV, but he didn't focus on the screen at all.There was a reason why he came back earlier, because of a medical accident.Today he had an operation with the doctor in charge. The patient was a newborn baby with congenital tricuspid valve atresia.The attending doctor originally thought that the surgical conditions were insufficient, and it was found that there was regurgitation in the atrioventricular valve before the operation.Chang Zheng searched a lot of literature, and some cases showed that if the operation method is appropriate, this situation can be operated, and his information finally convinced the attending doctor.Before the operation, they considered various situations. Everything went well, but during the operation, the baby suddenly became stiff and stopped breathing. Although he was rescued later, the operation failed. Prolonged suffocation may also cause damage to the brain.Now the family members are pursuing medical responsibility. Since the cause of atrioventricular valve regurgitation was found out before, this matter is a bit unclear.The operation was strongly advocated by Chang Zhengyi, but he is only an intern, and without the consent of the attending doctor, this operation cannot be performed, so now the boss has been implicated by him and has become the main person responsible for the investigation.

The boss didn't blame him, but told him meaningfully that young people can't operate for the sake of surgery.On the one hand, Chang Zheng felt sorry for his boss, but felt aggrieved.Everyone thinks that intern doctors do everything possible to perform surgery in order to increase their experience, even if they have no conditions to create conditions.But he is not that kind of person, what he thinks is to perform an operation so that the child can get rid of the shadow of congenital heart disease.

"Doctor Chang?" Tao Yu waved his hand in front of the other person's eyes, "Okay, I thought you had someone get acupuncture."

Chang Zheng didn't answer, took the glass from Tao Yu's hand and drank it all, then put the glass back in his hand.

Tao Yu thought that this person was not being polite, he straightened up and wanted to send the cup back to the kitchen, when his eyes suddenly went dark, and his footsteps paused.

Chang Zheng raised his head and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Tao Yu said after a while, "I woke up violently."

Chang Zheng looked at Tao Yu's back thoughtfully, and felt that this kid was much thinner than when he first met, and the T-shirt on him seemed to be supported by a stick.

"Have you had dinner?" Chang Zheng asked.

Tao Yu thought about it for a while: "I ate a hot dog in the afternoon."

Chang Zheng walked to the window and saw that the rain outside had lightened. He turned around and went back to the house to get the car keys, and said to Tao Yu, "Let's have a meal together."

Tao Yu was a little flattered, Chang Zheng was always lukewarm, except for helping him in the Chinese restaurant last time, and later gave him two meal cards, he had no further contact with him, just met under the same roof. Nodding to say hello, you actually want to take him to dinner today?Tao Yu hesitated and said, "I have to go to work at 10:30."

Chang Zheng looked at his watch: "It's too late, I'll take you there to finish your meal."

Tao Yu looked at the other party helplessly, really not used to the habit of speaking Chinese in English word order.

Tao Yu was worried all the way that Chang Zheng would take him to some high-end restaurant, which he couldn't afford, but the car stopped at a small Mexican fast food restaurant on the side of the road, which didn't even have seats, which was similar to a domestic food stall.Chang Zheng got out of the car and bought two Burritos, rice, meat and vegetables rolled in the bread—the Mexican version of spring pancakes.

It was raining sporadically outside, and the two of them sat in the car to eat, and no one spoke in the small space. Chang Zheng was used to silence, but Tao Yu felt like he was sitting on pins and needles in this atmosphere, and he had nothing to say: "I didn't expect you to be Doctor, treat yourself like this when you eat."

Chang Zheng looked at the Mexican roll in his hand inexplicably: "There are meat, rice and vegetables, how do we deal with it?"

"That's not what I mean." Tao Yu said, "You are a doctor with such a high salary, and you still eat at roadside stalls?"

Chang Zheng wiped his mouth and said: "The salary of a resident doctor is not high. After finishing medical school, I owed 20 in loans. The current salary is not enough to pay the interest on the loan." The debtor is not himself.

Tao Yu looked at the other party in surprise. He had heard that American doctors earned more than Wall Street CEOs.In fact, the income of doctors is indeed high, which is directly proportional to their long working hours.There are only so many medical schools in the United States, and the number of medical students admitted each year is fixed, and no increase is allowed. The official statement is to ensure the quality of teaching, but this has also caused a situation where the demand for doctors in the United States is in short supply, unless the person is not skilled or has a major medical condition. Accident, otherwise I have never heard of medical school graduates not being able to find a job.But having said that, the salary of doctors is high, but it is not as high as that of small inpatients who have just graduated. Repaying the high tuition loan is a knife hanging over their heads, sometimes this knife can hang for more than ten years.

Tao Yu suddenly felt that compared with Dr. Chang, his current hard work was nothing. He also woke up earlier than chickens and went to bed later than "chickens". Anyway, his deficit was zero.He suddenly felt that he couldn't even eat this meal. He reached for his wallet and asked carefully, "How much is this meat roll?"

Chang Zheng turned his head and glanced at Tao Yu, he didn't expect that his words would flood the other party with sympathy, this kid was so worried about money that he was like a dog, yet he still had the leisure to sympathize with others.

"There is a saying in Chinese called 'monk', 'crossing the river', and 'melting away'..." Chang Zheng racked his brains to think of a sentence he had heard before. His Chinese is limited to daily conversations, and he is not good at idioms and slang. .

Tao Yu didn't realize it for a while, why did the topic develop in the direction of horror, and "dissolve", is there water for dissolving corpses in the river?

After Dr. Chang's relentless talking and gestures, he finally understood: "That's called a mud bodhisattva crossing the river—it's hard to protect yourself."

Chang Zheng nodded seriously: "Yes, you are the Clay Bodhisattva."

Tao Yu smiled and said, "Each to each other."

After dinner, Chang Zheng drove Tao Yu to the cold storage in Chinatown.The six sons had already arrived. Seeing Tao Yu getting off the car, they leaned over and said that the lobsters that arrived today were from Maine. Autumn is the season when a large number of lobsters are on the market.

After Tao Yu heard this, he turned his head and said to Chang Zheng who hadn't had time to leave yet, "You and Mr. Tang have a good time, I'll take it home for you to eat. I'm allergic to shrimp, and I used to smoke croissants when I was young."

"Goat horn mad?" Chang Zheng's heart skipped a beat.

Tao Yu thought that ABC couldn't understand the native name of sarcophagus, and explained, "It's epilepsy..."

Before he finished speaking, Dr. Chang kicked the accelerator and drove away as if he had been electrified.

The six sons looked at the direction the car was leaving inexplicably, and asked Tao Yu, "What's wrong with him?"

Tao Yu patted the back of his head, wondering, "Epilepsy is not contagious..."

Two days later, the results of the medical malpractice investigation came out. The cause of the baby's body stiffness and suffocation was congenital epilepsy. Before the operation, he also had slight convulsions, but it may be due to the heart problem of the baby, plus premature birth, weak constitution, and symptoms. Not obvious, failed to attract attention.

Chang Zheng and the attending doctor were relieved that it wasn't a problem with the operation, but the child's heart problem still could not be solved, and Dr. Chang devoted himself to the literature search of related cases.

One morning when Tao Yu was tidying up the sofa, he took out another 20 yuan Jimmy Johns sandwich gift card from under his pillow.

"The two cards last time were used to pay me back for my meal, so what are they for this time?" Tao Yu was not rewarded for his meritorious service, and while Chang Zheng was resting, he blocked him in the room.

"This is the clay bodhisattva..." Chang Zheng tried hard to recall a newly learned word, "Reshape the golden body."

Tao Yu: "..."