{"id":6209,"date":"2025-04-23T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:08:25","slug":"a-chinese-doctor-moved-to-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese doctor moved to the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese doctor moved to the U.S., but couldn\u2019t land a job at a hospital. So, he decided to open his own little clinic and hung a sign outside that read:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet treatment for $20 \u2014 If not cured, get $100 back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One day, an American lawyer saw the sign and thought, \u201cEasy money!\u201d So he walked in.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer: \u201cDoc, I\u2019ve lost my sense of taste.\u201d<br \/>\nDoctor: \u201cNurse, bring medicine from box No. 22. Put three drops in the patient\u2019s mouth.\u201d<br \/>\nLawyer: \u201cUgh! That\u2019s kerosene!\u201d<br \/>\nDoctor: \u201cCongrats, your taste is back! That\u2019ll be $20.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Annoyed but not giving up, the lawyer returned a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer: \u201cI\u2019ve lost my memory. I can\u2019t remember a thing.\u201d<br \/>\nDoctor: \u201cNurse, bring medicine from box No. 22 and put three drops in his mouth.\u201d<br \/>\nLawyer: \u201cHey \u2014 that\u2019s kerosene! You gave me this last time!\u201d<br \/>\nDoctor: \u201cCongrats, your memory\u2019s back! That\u2019ll be $20.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now fuming, the lawyer came back one last time, determined to win the $100.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer: \u201cDoc, my eyesight is so bad \u2014 I can\u2019t see a thing!\u201d<br \/>\nDoctor: \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t have any medicine for that. Here\u2019s your $100.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The doctor handed him a $20 bill.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer (squinting): \u201cHey, wait! This is only $20, not $100!\u201d<br \/>\nDoctor: \u201cCongrats, your eyesight\u2019s restored! That\u2019ll be $20.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese doctor moved to the U.S., but couldn\u2019t land a job at a hospital. So, he decided to open his own little clinic and hung a sign outside that read: \u201cGet treatment for $20 \u2014 If not cured, get $100 back!\u201d One day, an American lawyer saw the sign and thought, \u201cEasy money!\u201d So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/6210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}