"Thank you very much, Mr. Huntelaar."

As he left Heinz General Hospital, Dr. Doug said with a smile on his face, "I will inform the surgeons at the college and ask them to come here tomorrow morning to observe this surgery, thank you again for this opportunity." ”

"Don't worry, I'll make arrangements."

After shaking hands vigorously, John sent Dr. Doug away.

Because of Dr. Doug's patient persuasion and strong recommendation, and because Thomas himself kept all the previous appendectomy records at Charlotte Hospital, after a night of deliberation, Mr. Crawford finally agreed to the surgery. Of course, the extremely "luxurious" looking operating room at Heinz General Hospital also gave him a little more confidence - at least for the well-informed Mr. Crawford, the operating room on the third floor was really an eye-opener!

And for such an opportunity, Dr. Doug naturally will not let it go.

Although many surgeons in Europe have been trying appendectomy since last year, this "high-end technology" is still only sporadic in the North American continent. And because it is far away from Berlin, the center of this surgical disinfection and local anesthesia technology breakthrough, the success rate of even the completed appendectomy is less than 40%, and nearly 30% of patients die from postoperative infection......

So when Mr. Crawford agreed to the operation, Dr. Doug immediately made a request to John.

As an internal medicine physician, Dr. Dow is also very interested in these new technologies, not to mention the surgeons in the college. Dr. Doug was able to see the surgeries of Mr. Huntelaar, the pioneer of appendectomy and the pioneer of local anesthesia and surgical sterilization, up close, and was able to thank his colleagues for their ......

"When will the patient be admitted?"

After seeing Dr. Doug away, John immediately turned back to ask Thomas.

"It's two o'clock in the afternoon at the latest."

Thomas groaned slightly, then continued: "We will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of him after he is admitted to the hospital. If Ichiē is in good condition, the surgery is scheduled to begin by 9 a.m. tomorrow...... John, it's up to you to do this surgery yourself, after all, this is the first surgery at Heinz General Hospital, and it is very important......"

"Haha......"

After hearing Thomas's words, John was immediately happy, and shook his head again and again: "No, no." It's up to you, you're the director of the surgery, and you're the first surgeon! ”

"This ......"

Hearing John's decision, Thomas was hesitant and happy at the same time.

The future of Heinz General Hospital, Thomas is certainly more confident than the average employee, because he knows best how much money and energy John has invested in this hospital. Therefore, Thomas can almost foresee that Heinz General Hospital will inevitably reach the top of the industry step by step in the future!

In such a situation, it is a great honor to perform the first operation of the main surgery!

For John not hesitating to cede this honor to himself, it is impossible for Thomas not to be grateful. Even if he knew that John, the founder of the hospital, didn't care about this honor.

"Hoo ......"

After breathing a sigh of relief, Thomas stopped dwelling on the issue and said, "John, if this operation is successful, I think we can advertise it in the newspaper again...... There are almost no patients in the hospital now, but at least tens of thousands of dollars a month are needed, and we have to do everything we can to reverse this situation. ”

In addition to being the director of surgery, Thomas is also the vice president of Heinz General Hospital. Naturally, we have to think about the problem from the perspective of the hospital.

Heinz General Hospital now has more than a hundred employees, and nurses, security guards, and those who support staff are paid relatively low. That's twenty or thirty dollars a month, and it won't exceed four hundred dollars a year, but the salaries of the physicians and researchers who were invited back from Europe by John are much higher, almost all of them are more than sixty a month, and the main ones like Thomas, Paul, and Robert, and of course, the future bulls like Ehrlich. John even gave a monthly salary of far more than $100!

If you calculate it in this way, the salary of the entire hospital alone will cost tens of thousands of dollars a year!

If you add in the cost of water, electricity, telephone, and all kinds of miscellaneous items, Heinz General Hospital can swallow up John's huge funds of nearly 100,000 dollars in a year!

Perhaps for people in the 21st century, $100,000 is not a big number, and anyone in Manhattan can probably get it. But don't forget, this is 1888, a time when per capita income was less than a dollar a day. For ordinary people, 100,000 dollars is an astronomical amount, and even for an ordinary rich person, it is almost impossible to bear.

When he got that number, Thomas barely slept soundly.

"Don't worry."

John also knew that Thomas's worries were normal, so he just smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "By next month at the latest, I will inject $200,000 in cash into the hospital, which is enough to support its operation for a year or two, and after two years, there will be nothing to worry about......"

……

From the time the decision was made to build the hospital, John never thought of making money from it.

He figured out that Guò Heinz General Hospital would set a benchmark for this era, he wanted to bring to the hospital those who were accustomed to calling doctors to their homes, and he even figured out that Guò Hospital told everyone: whether it is an internal medicine or a surgeon, it should be a profession that depends on exquisite skills to make a living, not someone who can go to a poor medical school for two or three years to do it, and they deserve to be richly rewarded. But from beginning to end, John never thought about making money from hospitals!

On the contrary, at least for the first few years, he has invested a lot of money to keep the hospital running.

Of course, not to mention the cash that the Huntelaar family has saved now, relying only on pharmaceutical factories in Europe and the upcoming second factory in New York City will be enough to meet these needs, but deep down, John still hopes that the hospital can be self-financed and rely on its own income to support itself!

This requirement is really quite high.

And to achieve this goal, we must not count on the ordinary patients in New York City, but the rich people to their own hospitals. Of course, John did not plan to turn away the poor and ordinary people, and in fact he had already begun to think about how to minimize their medical expenses by means of certain subsidies without lowering the hospital fees. After all, for hospitals, an adequate hospital is not only a necessary condition for development and growth, but also the foundation for countless research projects to be carried out later!

"Sure enough, it's troublesome!"

Thinking about it, John couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Although the economy of the United States has begun to catch up with Britain and France, and will soon become the world's economic leader, in this era when most people are still poor, it is really not easy to feed such a hospital that John sees as ordinary but "luxurious" in the eyes of others...... (To be continued......)