Dr. Shine Cracks the Case (A ChiroCozy Mystery, #1) by Cathy Tully

Author:Cathy Tully [Tully, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Visions and Revisions Unlimited
Published: 2020-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

“Have you ever broken any necks?” a gray-eyed boy asked, an engaging grin spread across his face.

“You don’t waste any time, do you?”

Susannah turned to the whiteboard and jotted a few words beneath her name, which had been written by a student in perky round letters, a circle dotting the ‘i’ in Shine. She understood that you never turn your back on a classroom, so she angled herself forty-five degrees, keeping most of the class in view. Career Day at Peach Grove High School was not without its stresses.

She finished writing, “Never broken any necks,” and laughter erupted. She smiled. Career Day was a diversion from patients and a way to avoid thinking about Detective Withers and her taunting visits to the office.

“Take your seats, please,” she said, and the few students who were still standing quickly found a desk.

She enjoyed interacting with teens and had established herself as a presenter at the annual event. Every year, one or two attendees expressed interest in pursuing a career in physical medicine. She enjoyed speaking with them and found the interaction gratifying. If she could help steer one young adult toward a career, it was worth the time. Then there were the others: those who wanted to find out if chiropractic was the quackery they had heard it was. A question about broken bones usually showed up at some point, and she let them know that she was willing to answer it.

“Ever broken any bones at all?” a girl with jet-black hair asked. Her eyeliner tapered up and onto her temple, and she peeked out from under a dark fringe of hair that obscured her eyes. Susannah wasn’t sure if she was shy or if she was just embarrassed to admit that she would enjoy a career that included cracking a few ribs.

“Never.”

Susannah faced her first of five scheduled classes, juniors and seniors who would rotate in at forty-five-minute intervals. They were on holiday from their regular class load, and there was an air of frivolity that she tried to keep in check. She had learned that if they became unruly, it would be difficult to keep their attention.

“Chiropractic is very safe,” she said, not getting any reaction from the cat-eyed girl who now chewed on a black-polished nail. The gray-eyed boy still wore his smile and seemed genuinely interested. “In fact, chiropractic malpractice insurance is much lower than malpractice for most other kinds of doctors.”

“Really? What does that mean?” asked a small girl with bushy, shoulder-length hair. She sat in the front row, wearing a T-shirt sporting the image of the University of Georgia bulldog mascot.

“It means that chiropractors as a group get sued a lot less than other kinds of doctors. And if we do get sued, the insurance companies don’t pay out as much on our claims because they are usually not as serious, compared to say, a claim made against a surgeon.”

The girl bobbed her head and pushed her glasses up her nose as she wrote something in the spiral notebook that lay open on the desk.

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