January 1, 1888, the first day of the new year.

Traditionally, this day is a traditional holiday, and most people take a day off to wash away the fatigue of the year and accumulate strength for the new year's efforts. Although there are some stores that open on this day in order to increase sales than usual, there are definitely very few who choose to open on this day.

But it is clear that Heinz General Hospital is an exception.

At eight o'clock in the morning on January 1, 1888, two security guards in clean uniforms pushed open the door of the six-story building, and Heinz General Hospital quietly opened. There was no grand opening, John didn't even inform his friends, and as if it had been open for a long time, the doors of Heinz General Hospital were open to New York City.

The hospital building, which has been completed for a short time, has become popular in an instant.

Although I don't know for what purpose Mr. Huntelaar chose such a day to officially open, the doctors who had long been eager to work did not care at all, and most of them came to the hospital early in the morning excitedly, and each stood at his own post. Although there are many people in this world who like to do nothing, the vast majority of John's subordinates do not belong to this category. Everyone is a young person who is eager to succeed, and people like Ehrlich can enter the scientific research building early to start working, but those doctors have been idle for half a year in addition to receiving training and learning new knowledge, and they have long been a little uncomfortable.

Therefore, when it opened on January 1, it was rare that no one raised any objections.

At seven o'clock in the morning, people began to arrive in several buildings of Heinz General Hospital. It seems that everyone is enthusiastic about the work that is about to begin. And it is precisely because this has been seen for a long time that John did not hold any pre-opening mobilization at all, and even omitted the opening ceremony.

The six-storey main building is a complex that functions as an outpatient, emergency, operating and inpatient department. Of course. The so-called emergency is just a thought in John's mind for the time being. After all, even in the 21st century, emergency medicine is an extremely young discipline, and the American Medical Association will not list it until 1979, and the most important CPR technology will not really appear for sixty or seventy years - if it were not for John the Traveler.

As for outpatient clinics, surgeries, and patient rooms, it was obvious that there would not be as many as six floors, so John only used one or three floors for the time being. The first floor is an outpatient department, which currently has only two parts: internal medicine and surgery, the second floor is an internal medicine ward, and the third floor is an operating room and a surgical ward. The obstetrics and gynecology building and the pediatric building have not been opened because there are no relevant physicians, and the teaching building is naturally the same, but the administrative building, the logistics building and the scientific research building have been put into use, even if the scientific research building with the largest number of people does not exceed 20 people, John still insists on using them all.

He believes it won't be long. The whole hospital will be lively......

……

“…… It's so deserted! ”

Standing at the door of the examination room, John's eyes scanned the cold hall and corridor on the first floor, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching twice. He knew that his face must be very ugly at this time, because apart from the two nurses in charge of the medical guide in the hall, there was no third figure!

This situation was so far from his previous confident prediction that after standing at the door of the outpatient room for ten minutes, John was embarrassed. His cheeks felt even hotter, as if he had been slapped a few times.

I couldn't help but take out my pocket watch and look at the time. It's almost twelve o'clock!

Heinz General Hospital was not advertised except for a revelation of its imminent opening in several newspapers, so John had anticipated the desertion after its opening today. But he never imagined that it had been three hours since it opened at eight o'clock, and not a single patient had come to the door!

There were hundreds of people in the whole hospital, and they had nothing to do for a morning!

"Damn! I was too optimistic. ”

With a black face. John shook his head helplessly and thought.

After a few hours of waiting, John quickly went from anticipation to disappointment, and then, after thinking about it for a long time, he figured out a lot of things.

As a proud traverser, John was just too reserved.

In fact, this can't be blamed on John for not being able to wipe face. It's just that the memories left over from the previous life are too powerful. In China at that time, all the hospitals that advertised on TV or newspapers were basically private or some small hospitals, and the signboards were basically infertility, vitiligo and other diseases. On the one hand, it is naturally because these diseases are the most tormenting, and many patients are prone to rush to the doctor after a long time of incurability, and on the other hand, it is also because these diseases are really difficult to treat at the medical level at that time, and the cure rate is very low even in large hospitals, so they are particularly popular with these hospitals, because there are enough reasons to prevaricate if they are not cured: you see that the well-known hospitals in the country are not cured, and it is not strange that we can't cure them......

So from the very beginning of the construction of this hospital to the opening of today, John never thought of advertising in the newspaper, or handing out small flyers along the street.

In addition to the subconscious resistance, it is also because in John's mind, the hardware equipment of his hospital is definitely the top in the United States in this era, and the doctors are all returnees from Europe, and among them, there is also his own "calf", which has achieved a lot of prestige, has enough attraction.

But John forgot about jì, and good wine is afraid of deep alleys.

Not to mention that John didn't advertise the strength of the hospital, even if he advertised the opening of the newspaper in the newspaper, but don't forget, it's 1888, and the New York Times is now selling only a few thousand copies, and how many people will notice this ordinary news? For Heinz General Hospital, I'm afraid people know more about the big line of light bulbs, right?

"Now it seems that I have neglected a lot of things in the past six months!"

After quickly finding the problem, John sighed secretly and couldn't help but start self-examination.

In order to make Heinz General Hospital meet his expectations as much as possible, in addition to making the hospital facilities as perfect as possible, John spent most of his time and energy training doctors and nurses in the past six months. It can be said that the energy and money he invested in this is unimaginable to others, and at the same time incomprehensible. But John, who was only concerned about the improvement of the hospital's strength, ignored the fact that Heinz General Hospital had no roots in New York!

For New York City, Heinz General Hospital is a newcomer.

How about several prestigious papers you have published? What about your reputation among European surgeons? Some physicians in New York City may have heard John's name, such as Columbia College, where he was asked to give a lecture, but to ordinary people, and even most of the promiscuous physicians, the surname Huntelaar has no meaning at all!

Without fame, who will come to a new hospital?

And don't forget, it's 1888, and hospitals aren't the place to be for the wealthy or even the middle class. In an era when there were no large medical equipment, and even the simplest X-ray machines did not exist, doctors only needed stethoscopes, thermometers, and a small medicine box at most, so they would call doctors to their homes when they fell ill. Unless you need surgery or something, you won't step through the hospital door. Most of the hospitals that have begun to emerge in this era are run by philanthropists, and they are mainly for the poor.

But in the face of such a luxurious building as Heinz General Hospital, who would dare to come in with the ordinary poor?

Of course, our esteemed John? When Mr. Huntelaar was preparing to build this hospital, he never thought of it to serve the poor, and in fact, on the contrary, he intended to use his own hospital to prove one thing, that is, being a doctor can also make a lot of money, as long as you have a sufficient level, and the first thing that comes to mind when encountering any disease is to pull a hole in the patient or put a few leeches to bleed, or prescribe a few yapian to relieve pain......

"Uh, off topic......"

Turning his thoughts back to the empty hospital building, the corners of John's mouth twitched and twitched, although he had long been prepared for the hospital to lose money, even if it was ten or eight years, it didn't matter, but there was no patient for half a day after the opening, which was really a bit of a headache.

Just as John was frowning and pondering, a head poked out from a nearby consultation room.

Seeing someone in the corridor, Thomas immediately walked over and whispered with a sad face: "John, why hasn't a patient come to the door after so long?" We...... Should it be advertised in newspapers? ”

"This ......"

After a little hesitation, although he still felt a little awkward in his heart, in the end, John nodded with a wry smile and said, "Okay, then we can only advertise in the newspaper a few times...... But Thomas, the ad just needs to introduce the situation of our hospital, well, not like other doctors or drug advertisements are so blunt and exaggerated......"

After all, our Mr. Huntelaar still can't let go of his body, and finally adds.

However, after Thomas agreed to come down and leave, John still frowned tightly and pondered seriously: "Even if it is advertised, because of the positioning of the hospital and the particularity of this era, I am afraid that the hospital will still have the problem of lack of disease sources, in this case, it seems that it is really necessary to make something that can attract people...... (to be continued......