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Chapter 970 - 14 D-day

Everyone who has received a normal compulsory level of education knows that burning waste releases a lot of harmful substances.The damage caused by these harmful substances to the human body is difficult to estimate.

As a lieutenant in the Marine Corps with a higher education and an undergraduate degree in engineering mechanical design, Kelenna Tessel did not realize how big a job it is to work next to a burning garbage pit day after day. risky work.

She would even run by the garbage incineration pit for more than an hour.360 days a year, she has [-] days to run beside this garbage pit.The smell here is pungent, but at least there is no threat of IEDs and guerrillas.

Accompanied by thick black smoke, she spent four years in Iraq.And returned to China at the age of 24, and then entered the Parris Island boot training base in South Carolina.

She met her other half here, and quickly married and had children.

When she was 28 years old, a company in Washington offered her and her husband an olive branch and invited them to work in the company.In this way, the couple took their three-year-old child from South Carolina to Washington, DC.

After working in the company for five years, Kelenna began to enjoy the services of a private doctor allocated to her by the company.Her personal doctor quickly decided to do a CT scan of her breasts and pelvis after hearing that Kerenna had been deployed in Iraq 13 years ago and was still in the Fallujah area.

But Ke Luna didn't feel any discomfort in her body.Being busy with work, she refused this scan and made an appointment with the doctor to have another scan in half a year.

The scan results half a year later made Krenna feel like she was struck by lightning—there was a nodule on her right breast, the size was about 2*2*3 cm.

Her personal physician quickly performed radionuclide tumor imaging for Kellenna.The results of the examination brought her bad news again—this was not an early tumor.Her tumor has metastasized to bone, liver and lymph.

According to any staging standard, she has entered the final stage of the tumor.The time left for her will probably not exceed two years.

The insurance company that provided her with medical insurance proposed a new "solution" after reimbursement for her treatment for one year.Either continue to reimburse Kelenna for medical expenses, but the reimbursement rate is reduced to 70% of the cost of each treatment, and the same as the original insurance agreement signed, the payment limit is 100 million US dollars.Either give Kelenna 30 in cash at one time, and then reimburse her 100% of the total medical expenses not exceeding 40.

After two days of hesitation, Kelenna decided to accept the second option.Leave $30 to your children, and then use the $40 to prolong your life as much as possible.

She had a goal to achieve — to get the U.S. government and the Marine Corps to acknowledge, through a statement, that her tumor was directly related to the burning pit in Fallujah.If the statement is passed, it means that other comrades who have suffered from cancer in the war zone can use this statement as a legal basis to claim compensation from the government and the Marine Corps.

After learning of her condition, the VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) first expressed sympathy and "sincere condolences" to her, and then asked Kelenna to go to their designated hospital for a scan to confirm the diagnosis eight weeks later.

Eight weeks later, Kelenna went to the designated hospital and was confirmed again.But two weeks later, the VA dismissed her statement, arguing that her illness was not directly related to the deployment to Iraq.

A second hearing was held three months later.And the outcome of the second hearing was equally dismal — her statement was again dismissed.

However, "fortunately" VA's appeal mechanism does not have a limit on the number of times.She still has the opportunity to continue her appeal.

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"Good guy." Sun Li'en was dumbfounded, "A patient with stage IV cancer waits four weeks for a scan and then three months for a hearing?"

"Their strategy is very simple." Bruen said with a wry smile, "As long as the person with the problem is dragged to death, the problem will disappear by itself."

"So...she gave up now?" Sun Li'en put on a white coat, ready to visit the patient, "Use the remaining funds to continue receiving treatment in China?"

Bruen sighed, "How could she just give up like that? Her child is only ten years old. Losing her mother at this age will have a huge impact on the child."

"Tossing can't prolong her life." Sun Lien opened the door of the room and walked out, "Give up now, maybe she can go home to spend a few more months with her child."

"She used to be in the Marine Corps." Bruen said after Sun Lien, "No one with a normal mind would serve in the Marine Corps."

After entering the ward, Sun Li'en saw the woman lying on the hospital bed.She was not as skinny as the terminal cancer patients Sun Lien had seen before.But from the short hair that seemed to stick to the scalp, Sun Lien could clearly see that she had a bald head about a few months ago.

"Dr. FitzGerald." Kelenna nodded towards Brun, then looked at Sun Lien curiously, but she still asked Brun, "Who is this?"

"He is the doctor in charge of our department." Bruen opened his mouth to explain, but found that his explanation... seemed a little weak.

This degree of explanation is likely to make this unfortunate lady think that she has not been taken seriously in the fourth hospital, and she may have resistance to subsequent treatment-after all, a 28-year-old doctor is "" Head of Department", which is no different from lying.

Then... there can only be a stronger and more powerful statement.Brunn coughed, and then said, "The doctor in front of you is the most likely young doctor in the world to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine before the age of 50. It is also the youngest doctor I know, the youngest, the most Accomplished SNC club member."

The SNC club refers to those who have published papers in "Science", "Nature", and "Cell".In other words, it is a "big cow" who has made great achievements in the field of scientific research.Generally speaking, members of the SNC club can be respectfully called "scientists".

After hearing this "title", Ke Luna's eyes lit up immediately.She asked in a low voice, "Dr. Fitzgerald, are you kidding me?"

"If I am teasing you, I might fabricate a more credible content." Bruen spread his hands helplessly and sincerely, "To be honest, if I suddenly saw such a young doctor saying that he had published five articles Top-level papers, I also think he is lying. But...he did publish so many articles."

After receiving an affirmative answer, Kelenna nodded, then grabbed Sun Lien's hands suddenly, and then shouted, "Doctor, you have to help me!"

(End of this chapter)