1855 United States Tycoon

Since Salvation Medical College and its affiliated hospitals are so important in Scrooge's plan, its promotion efficiency is naturally very high, because profitable things are always easier to have higher efficiency.

On January 12, 1907, Hangzhou Jiu'en Hospital officially opened. Although before that, the Salvation Hospital made a full-page advertisement in the newspapers in Hangzhou. Although Salvation Hospital promised to provide free bargaining three days before the opening, the first day of opening, the front door of the Salvation Hospital was indeed available. Set up a net to catch the sparrow.

Until the afternoon, without seeing a patient, McMillan, who was waiting in the hospital, chatted with Zhou Shuren, who was going to be an interpreter when he came.

"Zhou, it seems that you guessed it right. In China, people don’t believe in our modern medicine. I’ve never encountered it before. In such a big city, there is a hospital opened, and it’s also given. Concessions, there will be no one who comes to see a doctor."

"China's people's wisdom is not yet developed." Zhou Shuren sighed, "They lack scientific literacy and still habitually believe in witchcraft and deceit. In fact, our family used to be like this. When my father was seriously ill, he went to a Chinese medicine doctor. Then they prescribed sugar cane that had been frosted for three years, or the original crickets. Hell, is it that the crickets have lost their virginity and have no effect? ​​As a result, after several years of treatment, my father’s disease still did not improve. In the end he died of illness."

Because of his father, Zhou Shuren has always hated Chinese medicine, especially after he has studied some Western medicine seriously, he recalled the symptoms of his father when he was seriously ill, and the famous old Chinese doctors. After the judgment and treatment plan, I felt that these judgments of Chinese medicine were unscientific, so I also attributed my father's serious illness to death because he was deceived by the old Chinese doctor.

"What disease did your father get back then?" McMillan asked.

"I was young at the time, and I knew it there." Zhou Shuren replied, "but I still remember some symptoms. It was like this. At first, the gums were bleeding, and then he vomited blood in the mouth, and later the body was swollen..."

"What kind of life habits does your father have?" McMillan asked again.

Of course Zhou Shuren knows that McMillan's so-called "life habits" mostly refer to bad habits. So he frowned and replied: "He has a bad temper and likes to drink. Sometimes he loses his temper when he gets drunk...""Is it like this even after being sick?" McMillan asked.

"Yes." Zhou Shuren replied.

"Oh, listening to the symptoms, I kind of suspect it is cirrhosis." McMillan said, "This disease is difficult to treat. Zhou, you know, the damage to some organs of the human body, at least for now, is difficult or even irreversible. Yes, some liver diseases are also like this. Alcohol is very harmful to the liver. Our experiments on animals and statistics on patients with various liver diseases have proved this. If it is this disease, it is almost only I can control the disease at the current level of technology. If it’s an early stage, there is a possibility of natural recovery. If I can’t control myself, continue to drink heavily, and reach the late stage, at least I can’t do anything about it. I believe that it is also possible in this world. Not many doctors have any effective methods. If it is me, if it is really cirrhosis of the liver, after the symptoms of body swelling appear, I can only prescribe a placebo to the patient. Well, Zhou, you know, medicine has truly become The time of science is still very short, and our means to face various diseases are still very limited. However, Zhou, the greatest advantage of science is that it is always improving. For example, when we just learned about some of the structure of the human body In terms of knowledge, when we first started surgery, the survival rate of the patients we treated might even be lower than that of no treatment. At that time, before the patient entered the hospital, the family would even help him with the funeral in advance. NS.

But you see, with the discovery of bacteria and the popularization of sterilization methods, the death rate of our patients immediately dropped. Many decades ago, the terminal illnesses that we were helpless can now be treated. Moreover, most hospitals can treat them with a little decent doctor. For example, for appendicitis or something, more than 90% of people who have undergone surgery before will die from postoperative infection. As for now, as long as doctors and nurses do not dereliction of duty, this ratio is so small that it can be almost ignored.

Today we are still helpless in the face of cirrhosis and other diseases, but I believe that with the advancement of science, we will always have time to conquer them. This is the greatest advantage of science, he can always move forward step by step. "

Having said this, McMillan laughed proudly, and he said to Zhou Shuren again: "Do you know what? People in our business often deal with guys in the church. A priest said to me: "The end of science is Philosophy, the end of philosophy is theology.' But I told him that science is always advancing, and the end of today is just the beginning of tomorrow. Do you know? Zhou, my son is also studying medicine at Yale now, I'm sure When he comes out to be a doctor, he can deal with more diseases than I can deal with."

At this moment, suddenly a nurse ran in and shouted: "Doctor McMillan, a patient is coming!"

After listening to McMillan's words, Zhou Shuren was about to say something, but when he heard the report, he immediately turned his head and looked towards the door.

"Zhou, let's go and take a look." Dr. McMillan said.

...

"It's appendicitis." After examining the patient, Dr. McMillan made such a judgment. He said to several nurses next to him: "Prepare for surgery!" Then he said to Zhou Shuren: "Mr. Zhou, you come to me as an assistant."

"Okay, Doctor McMillan." For the first patient who came to the door, he was suffering from appendicitis. Zhou Shuren felt that it was not bad. Oriental traditional medical techniques, whether it is Chinese medicine or other medical techniques, hardly have any good solutions to this type of disease. But after solving the problem of postoperative infection, this disease is really a small problem for Western medicine. Moreover, in the legend of the so-called genius doctor in ancient China, the genius doctor who is most respected by the people is Hua Tuo. And Hua Tuo's most praised magical skill is the open-ended surgery. Therefore, Chinese people always value doctors who can perform open-hearted operations.

However, before the operation, there is one major issue that needs to be resolved, that is, the operation must be approved by the patient’s family, and the patient’s family must sign a certificate of life and death. This is necessary, even if the risk of appendicitis surgery is already small, it is also indispensable.

Sure enough, several family members hesitated immediately after hearing that these foreigners were about to break the patient's stomach and sign a document stating that life and death depend on the destiny.

"His second uncle, what do you want to do with this?" a woman who looked like the wife of a patient asked an elderly person next to her in a bewildered manner.

"Is this one with a broken stomach, can it really work? With a broken stomach, can people still live?" The second uncle just shook his head.

"But this foreigner said he can be cured." Another young man interrupted, "Doctor Wang has already said that the disease is not cured. Doctor Wang said that he is not saved, which is basically equivalent to half of the death. , Now you can only use a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Maybe you will live?"

"But my eldest nephew, if your Big Brother is torn apart by others, and it is still not saved, isn't there even a whole corpse? This dead man will come to the underworld..." The second uncle still Shaking his head constantly, his little withered braid swayed along with it.

"Second uncle, third brother is not dead yet!" The young man stomped and said, "No matter what, you can't look at him like this. Third brother and sister, don't you think...Oh, what are you worrying about at this time? Do you want your child to have no father at such a young age?"

Several people entangled for a while, and finally the young man persuaded the person next to him, so the patient’s wife pulled the child who was following behind, who still didn’t know what was going on, and asked him to reach out and be there. A handprint was stamped on the document.

...

The operation went very smoothly, and by the evening, the patient was already awake. The whole family was extremely happy to see the patient who had woken up.

"Dr. Mai, thank you for your great grace! She is able to survive, and it's all due to his medical skills. Other doctors have already judged that she will not survive the night. Fortunately, I met Dr. Mai..." Obviously, this man I thought that Dr. McMillan was named Mai.

Of course McMillan did not understand these, but naturally Zhou Shuren would help translate. Moreover, even if not, in general, he can basically guess what the patient's family will say at this time.

"Everyone, although the patient has woken up, but is not completely out of danger." McMillan said, "So, I suggest that the patient stay in the hospital for a period of time until the patient's condition is completely stable and the surgical incision has healed. After that, I will be discharged from the hospital."

McMillan’s suggestion is totally justified. It is necessary to know that the main reason why the death rate of this type of surgery was so high in the past was postoperative infection.

After Zhou Shuren translated this sentence, these family members hesitated again.

"Doctor Mai, this, how long will it take for me, Little Brother, to go home?" the young man asked, "Also, can we keep someone here to accompany him?"

"How long will it take depends on the patient’s recovery. We can’t say that. It’s okay to leave a person to accompany you, but although we are opening a free bargain today, we can only provide patients with free treatment, but not Those you stay behind provide free board and lodging. Moreover, those who stay behind must unconditionally obey the arrangements of our medical staff and must not hinder our work."

...

After explaining the matter, Dr. McMillan, who had been busy all day, was ready to leave work. The successor was Dr. Rodney from United States.

"I have basically told you about the patient's situation. An important task given to us in China is to record the effects of various anti-infective drugs. Now, let's use A1 drugs first, and pay attention to the records after the medication. , It’s best to record once every hour."

"Don't worry, it's okay. I wrote it all down." Dr. Rodney said.

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