Chapter 7: From 800,000 to 50,000
April 21, 2016
1:30 PM
A week after changing positions, from a genius surgeon at Metro General who performed miraculous surgeries on 100 difficult cases in just 7 years, I received a sky-high salary. In first year of employment Strange earned 50,000 dollars, before jumping to 200,000 dollars, and ended career as a surgeon at 800,000 dollars per month.
Now I have become a surgical consultant instead. My salary has dropped to 50,000 dollars per month, but it's not too bad. It's just a digit lower salary. My spending behavior has to be adjusted according to my income.
I used to have new suits often, changed my belt and clothes once a week, and bought luxury watches worth 100,000 or 1 million dollars at the end of the month. I just stopped. I use what I have. I stopped buying new things to put in my closet.
As for food, I eat at hotels or nearby restaurants and have them delivered. I don't have to go to waste on thousand-dollar table courses. It's quite comfortable. If you want to save even more, you can buy the ingredients to cook your own food. But the kitchen in this penthouse probably won't be used anytime soon. Even if I want to save money, but my hands are shaking like this, it's easier to just buy ready-made food and pour it into a plate to eat.
As for washing dishes... I can wash them myself sometimes. If I can't do it, just call the maid to collect the dishes and wash them. The service fee is included in the common rent fee.
As for the workload of the position that earns $50,000 per month, I do the same as i was surgeon.
Read the case, study the necessary information, call the psychology department, whether it's a child or an adult, to talk to the patient, ask detailed questions so that I can get information that may not be listed in the medical record.
For example, the latest case is a 12-year-old child who has a lung infection. He has a history of being hospitalized twice, but he hasn't recovered yet. It also affects his respiratory system more. There's no other information besides an X-ray. I looked at it and it didn't seem difficult to treat. But to be on the safe side, I asked the child psychology department to talk to the patient. And that's how I learned...
The patient had a little problem with a friend in class. And the reason he got a lung infection and had to have surgery was because he was bullied. By throwing the important key chain into the pond behind the school, the patient jumped in. This is where the lung infection is likely to have occurred. Fortunately, it was not a serious infection. It was just difficult to detect through an X-ray. The hospital that treated the patient the second time before sending him to our hospital assessed that he needed to undergo a lung biopsy to examine the infection.
Funny... A lung biopsy to examine the infection? Instead of asking the patient's symptoms in detail... How strange. Or is this a case where other hospitals are trying to slander him?
Never mind those things. I'll just do what I can. The conclusion is to go and examine the infection in that pond and compare it with the patient's phlegm, mucus, and secretions, and then find the right medication to treat it. There is no need for surgery.
Because surgery affects the patient's health, starting from the anesthesia step. Sometimes, the infection in the lungs, which is still unclear, may react chemically with some anesthetics, which may adversely affect the respiratory system and even cause the patient's death. Who knows?
Unless... I use my Ope Ope fruit surgery that has no side effects. Leftover from the patient, it's a pity that the power hasn't returned yet . .
"Even if I get my power back, using a special power in a world where special powers aren't widespread, it's still not good." I said softly while sipping afternoon tea, looking at the view of New York, the new city that would become my main residence from now on.
At first, I thought that the tall buildings would not have any problems with safety, but . . . from Stephen's memory and watching the news, reading the news in the past . . .
The problem in big cities is the criminals who hide in the crowd. Fortunately, this world doesn't have special powers like devil fruits, swords, spears, axes, or long sharp objects that can be bought and carried around the city.
But there are guns that are easy to find instead, and they are more effective than muskets, loaded with gunpowder and bullets one on one at a time like in my pirate world!
Everyone can have a gun, making robberies with guns very common. Fortunately, the police are ready to move quickly to protect the civilians to the fullest. And fortunately, there are no upper class people who ride slaves as vehicles, raising guns to shoot those shoot that person up to self desired as the Celestial Dragons strolling through sabaody
However, in the dark corners, in the nooks and crannies of downtown New York, there are gangs of criminals, drug dealers, illegal goods, loan sharks, gambling, and other dark business that normal people would not go to. But if anyone accidentally walks by, they might be kidnapped for ransom or killed to sell their internal organs. . .
Every world has its scary side. And right now, my hands are not ready to hold a weapon to protect myself. Without the power of the devil fruit, I will continue to live comfortably and safely in this penthouse.
Even though 4 years ago in this world, in 2012, New York was... invaded by aliens. From the dimensional gate that was opened above Stark Tower... Almost half of New York was destroyed. Luckily, everyone survived.
Aliens invading a big city is something that this world is "used to" through media such as movies. But when it actually happens, it's quite scary. And I hope New York won't be invaded often...
"If there is an event like the Avengers having to join forces to fight the enemy in New York again... I think moving to live quietly in Europe would be good. Or going to a tropical area like Asia wouldn't be bad."
I said softly to myself before turning to look at my laptop that had popped up a notification that the hospital had sent me a new case to prepare for review to write a summary again. So I got up to check.
"The deadline is in 2 days… Hmm… I'm free today. I can check the information attached to the email. but since I'm free, I might as well go check out this case at the hospital."
Although staying in the room was comfortable, walking in the afternoon sun that wasn't too hot should be good for my body. So I decided to leave the room and walk down a street where there weren't many people, heading to the hospital.
But… It seemed like Fate was waiting for me. If it could talk, it would say to me,
"Do you think you're going to live a peaceful life? Let's try this TEST"
Because in front of me, in the narrow space between the buildings, not far from the hospital, there was a woman and child, probably family, surrounded by a gang of four thugs, trying to force them into the gap in the building, hoping to do something, which wouldn't be good.
I was only 100 meters away from the event in front of me. Even though there was a road blocking the way, I could clearly see it. With many people walking around normally, as if they didn't see anything bad happening.
'This is what's called an Elephant in the Room. A big problem like an elephant in the middle of the room, but no one cares... In this situation, we should use the word Victim on Street more... Another interesting theory is that when a crime happens in front of a lot of people, there will be a mindset that someone will take care of it, someone will call the authorities officer, the relevant staff themselves. We don't have to waste time getting involved. But when everyone thinks like that, the victims who are attacked will lose the chance to survive because no one will call for help.'
I thought to myself worriedly. Now I can be called disabled or handicapped. My shaking hands can't hold any weapons to fight with the gangsters. So I picked up another weapon that is very powerful in this world, which is... a mobile phone.
I picked it up to take a picture to prepare to send it to the hospital group chat and prepare to call the police. But... the problem is that the image on the mobile phone screen... The camera lens can't capture people in the event in front of me! It's like an illusion that only I can see!!
"What is this? The special power of a Paramecia Devil Fruit eater, an illusionary power??"