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Six seven years old I remember, first grade teacher would tell
us. Hey, what would you guys want to be when you grow up?
I drew a picture of the restaurant of where my mom
worked. Me and a friend of mine decided to open our own
restaurant and that was Sabroso came in. It is hectic. It goes
by fast. I'm I rather be here and be busy then be here and
not be busy. I like being here just because I like, you know
taking care of the customers. I've kind of
known Marcos for a long time. You know, his restaurant is
just a couple miles from here. And so we just kind of became
acquaintances over the years and I sort of gradually learned
more and more about him. He had to overcome a lot and
he's still running this family restaurant.
I had testicular cancer that moved up to my lungs about it's
a little bit over ten years ago. I beat it once. It came back
in a month. It came back even harder. I beat it the second
time and I've stayed clean ever since. That's kind of I guess
our culture. We don't go to the doctor until
we're almost dying. That's how I got I think I got the cancer.
I went through it without insurance. It it was very hard.
These days where you know health insurance is mandatory. You know
to me it's cheaper to just pay the penalties. You know,
most of the employees would rather just go to the emergency
room or to the doctor and pay the cash. Then paying a five
hundred dollar premium a month or something like that. I don't
mind paying it. I don't want to hand out but you know they have
to be reasonable. David Circle was a regular
customer of ours and his family comes in eats here often. He
did approach us to kind of be his Guinea pig. Tried to
refine his method of using telemedicine.
I have been an emergency medicine physician for fifteen
years in Greenville. I realize that a lot of people either
didn't have access to healthcare or
they may even have insurance and have a doctor but it was very
difficult for them to get in to see their doctor and so they
would end up in the emergency department. Couple of friends of
mine and I got together and we came up with an idea where
people could log into a website and essentially call us. It's
almost like face time with us. The two way video conference.
Essentially we're trying to make it convenient for people to get
seen. By a physician. In the E.R.
every single patient I see. I shake their hand and introduce
myself. It's kind of the same way. It's
hard to shake hands by telemedicine but, you know I say
hi and introduce myself and there's always, you know you
have to kind of get to know somebody a little bit.
What I do find myself doing in the emergency department, is
when I'm talking to someone. The little voice in the back of my
head is thinking. This person doesn't need to be seen here. I
could have treated them so much quicker, so much cheaper,
so much easier, on our website.
You know a lot of the restaurant industry works very long
hours. Very late and there are emergency rooms but, you know
the affordability for people that don't have insurance. Yeah
it's a no brainer. We will set up a conference
whenever he's available an whenever I'm available. Usually
late night or early in the morning and I just so easy.
With personal health issues and you know stuff its hard to talk
to a doctor. I'm very comfortable with him and I
think we develop almost like friendship. After we became
friends he's become, you know part of the Sabroso family. I
know i can depend on him for my health concerns and everything.