Chapter 19: Choices
"What are the people of this era enduring?"
Lying on his big bed at night, John tossed and turned. Even though it had been nearly ten hours since he left, Serena's big eyes still flashed frequently in his heart.
Today's events have given him a lot of psychological impact.
Before he was reborn, he was a general surgeon, and while working in general surgery, although John also met people whose family conditions were not good and it was difficult to even pay off their medical bills, after all, they were very few, and they were far from being miserable.
After working for so many years, he has never encountered such a situation as today.
For the first ten years of his rebirth, John was protected under the wing of his mother Elizabeth, especially with a Western face, so that the city of Beijing in this era rarely had the opportunity to contact outsiders. And when he came to New York, under his grandfather's arrangement and his own heartlessness, he only came into contact with Joshua and others, so seeing Philip's mother and daughter in despair, his heart was finally touched.
"You really can't do anything, can you?"
In a trance, John Huntelaar seemed to hear a faint voice, torturing himself in the depths of his heart......
In his previous life, with the lofty ideal of treating diseases and saving people, John was admitted to a famous old medical school in China, studied hard, worked hard to take the postgraduate examination, and then found a job that was quite good among his classmates. It can be said that from the college entrance examination to work, John's life has been smooth sailing for more than ten years.
But after working, he slowly realized that the hospital was not the pure holy place he imagined, and the doctors and nurses were not all the angels in white that he idealized.
Then, gradually, he figured out a lot of things.
He understood why the leaders of non-profit public hospitals always emphasized the efficiency of the department, why people hated and even resented doctors so much, and why he always had endless surgeries and rarely took a break from annual leave, but he didn't even dare to think about a house in that city.
In the struggle between ideals and reality, he slowly learned to accept and compromise.
So after being reborn, although there were hesitations and entanglements, John finally gave up the urge to become a physician again. Because in this era, even in New York, London, and Paris, the environment in which physicians live is infinitely worse than that of later generations!
Because this is 1881, a time when modern medicine is just beginning to pioneer.
This is an era when the understanding of disease is still very superficial, bacteriology has begun to start, but most doctors have never heard of or refuse to accept it, and many doctors also regard Hippocrates' theory of body fluids as the bible of the medical community, believing that illness is the deterioration of the fluid in the human body.
This is an era when people are still using traditional herbs and secret recipes, not to mention the complex chemical and biological agents in later generations, even the most basic drugs in hospitals, antibiotics, will take more than 40 years to be revealed, and it will even take more than 60 years to be really applied!
This is an era when there are no modern examination equipment, and doctors can only use simple stethoscopes and blood pressure monitors, using their own eyes and ears, relying on experience and imagination to diagnose patients.
This was a time when the treatment was so backward that it was unimaginable for future generations, the French had to import countless leeches a year, and there was still a vast market for the bloodletting therapy that had tormented the dead founding father Washington, and all kinds of strange treatments were emerging one after another.
What's even more terrifying is that this is an era of rampant infectious diseases, and even in the most hygienic West, people can only suffer in silence in the face of these diseases, and they don't even know how to escape from these demons. For doctors, these diseases are also their nightmares, and I don't know how many doctors in history are excellent compared to the times, and even some doctors who have left their names in the history of medicine have died under the clutches of these infectious diseases!
In this era, even the best economic life expectancy of white people is less than 50 years old, and this level is not because of the high level of doctors, but because of the economic development, people's nutritional level is improving, immunity is also increasing, and the construction of large-scale sewers and other public services in cities has improved sanitation and reduced the chance of people getting sick.
Therefore, there is no reason to respect the physicians who are mostly struggling to make ends meet.
After all, they can't relieve most people's suffering, and they only need to pay a hundred dollars a year in tuition, study in a medical school that doesn't require any admission standards, and then they can carry a small medicine box on their backs, pick up a scalpel and toss it on people.
It was with all of this in mind that John gave up on becoming a physician again.
As a surgeon, and a surgeon with a little knowledge of the history of medicine, John would not think that he would be able to become a Newton in medicine in this era with some future knowledge and theories, because he knew that it took nearly half a century to popularize just one theory of sterilization in history. John will not be naïve to think that he can occupy the global market and create Bayer and Glaxo one by one, because he knows that it took more than ten years for X-ray to be used in clinical applications, and it took 20 years for penicillin to be born and mass-produced!
But......
"Is your knowledge really insignificant?"
The voice in his heart gradually became louder, and began to violently impact John's thoughts, making him roll over in bed suddenly wider.
Yes, it was a dark age before the dawn, but it was also a time of passion and hope.
Pasteur and Koch's bacterial theories have begun their journey to influence the whole world, Liszt is waving his arms on the stage of promoting aseptic operation, Roentgen is running wild on the road of X-ray research, and countless scientists and physicians who have left their names or not in the history of modern medicine are burying their heads in their respective fields of research, or breaking their heads, or opening doors for the whole discipline.
A door that can lead medicine to modern science!
"You can do more than them!"
Finally, the voice in his heart grew louder and louder, and finally formed a loud roar like thunder, which shook John's spirit, and he sat up from the bed with a pout......
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I wanted to do it three times today.,But I'm too sleepy.,I fell asleep twice when I wrote such a little.,It's messy and it's not hard to hold on.,That's it.。
Also, is this obsessive-compulsive disorder? Volume 2 I'm going to have to make it twenty chapters!
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