"Gentlemen, please be sure to wear masks, hats, and gloves or you will not be allowed in the operating room!"

Before finally making preparations, Thomas went to the place where the doctors of Columbia College gathered, and explained it again. Although there was a young surgeon watching these people, Thomas was still afraid that these people would not obey the management, and it would not be good if there was an argument at that time.

"Don't worry, sir."

A middle-aged man in his forties immediately nodded and smiled, "We have all carefully read Mr. Huntelaar's papers...... And of course, yours, know the importance of these precautions! ”

When he said this, the middle-aged man looked around and asked a little puzzled, "I'm sorry, will Mr. Huntelaar come today?" I wish I could continue to talk to him about the topic from last time......"

"Mr. Huntelaar has something important to do today, and I'm afraid it won't come today."

Thomas obviously knew the middle-aged man, and immediately shook his head and smiled.

After a few conversations, Thomas went to get ready for the upcoming surgery, while the four doctors from Columbia College waited patiently in the room until a nurse brought them a full set of surgical equipment!

"Buzz ......"

When they saw what the nurse had brought, the four doctors immediately surrounded them.

"Miss Nurse, why are these things wrapped in cloth?"

Seeing that the nurse brought cloth bags instead of imaginary clothes and other items, the middle-aged man immediately asked with some puzzlement.

"Because we want to make sure it's sterile!"

The little nurse blinked and patiently explained: "According to the regulations of our hospital, all isolation gowns, including hats, masks and gloves, can only be used once, and must be disinfected after use. After disinfection, it must be covered with a white cloth that has also been disinfected. to maintain its sterility...... Oh, and by the way, if you take it apart, even if you don't use it, you have to re-disinfect it after 24 hours! ”

"Huh?"

After listening to the little nurse's words, several doctors looked at each other. At the same time, I was stunned.

The reason why they were surprised was naturally because Heinz General Hospital was so strict with the management of disinfection items, far beyond the imagination of a few people!

Although they had heard Mr. Huntelaar explain before, basically everyone was a little unimpressed, and no one would think that it was really necessary to do this - ten years ago, everyone was wearing an apron that was not washed once a year for surgery, how could they suddenly start wearing isolation gowns, and they could only wear them once?

But the facts in front of them tell them that Heinz General Hospital really did just that! And it seems that even a young nurse who is no more than twenty years old understands this truth. Both the expression and the tone seem to take these maddening measures for granted! "Hee-hee."

After looking at the surprised faces of the doctors, the little nurse, who was originally a little shy, finally couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, but quickly pursed her lips and said, "Gentlemen, do you need me to show you how to wear it?" ”

"This ...... No need. ”

Waving his hand, the middle-aged man just now said with a wry smile.

Last year, Mr. Huntelaar's lecture at Columbia College was not only about appendectomy, but also included local anesthesia, disinfection techniques, etc., and of course, it was indispensable to demonstrate to doctors the isolation equipment he "invented". In fact, because of the very convincing figures in Mr. Huntelaar's paper. The surgeons at Columbia College also copied some for their own use, and it worked very well. There has been a significant reduction in infection rates among surgical patients......

However, when a few people unpacked the cloth bag and saw the set of equipment from Heinz General Hospital up close, they immediately found a significant difference - the isolation gown is lighter and more comfortable, the masks and hats are more delicate, and the gloves are thinner!

"Hoo ......"

After a moment of silence, the middle-aged physician suddenly let out a long sigh of relief. Looking at the other companions around him, the eyes of several people flashed rapidly at the same time......

……

"Hoo ......"

Under the gaze of countless eyes, John couldn't help but exhale softly.

Today was the day of the first surgery at Heinz General Hospital, and John was supposed to stay at the hospital to watch Thomas finish the operation and receive his colleagues from Columbia College. But now he was ten miles away, where the Heinz pharmaceutical company in New York was located.

"Let's get started!"

Under everyone's gaze, old Huntelaar nodded at John.

"Okay."

After taking a deep breath, John picked up the small gavel in his hand and slammed it on the clock in front of him!

"Wow......"

With the sound of a bell, the whole factory was like a hot oil pan that was sprinkled with a drop of water, and it became lively in an instant. In just a few seconds, the sound of human voices, machine qì and mixed cheers filled the entire plant!

The New York plant of Heinz Pharmaceutical Company has finally officially put into production.

According to the original plan, the factory was supposed to start production at the end of last year, but it had to be postponed due to problems with worker training. The overall backwardness of the chemical industry not only made it impossible for Heinz Pharmaceutical Company to recruit enough qualified workers in New York, but it was also quite difficult to even train a group of people. This also allowed John to see once again the gap between North America and the European continent. Not to mention high-end fields such as science and technology, education, etc., just in terms of workers' qualifications, even if New York is already at the top of the United States, the gap with Berlin is still more than a star and a half!

Before coming to North America from China, John had never imagined such a situation.

But......

"It's finally in production."

Looking at the busy scene around him, John finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Compared with Heinz Pharmaceutical, Heinz Medical Devices went into production much earlier. Whether it is a stethoscope or a blood pressure monitor, in fact, the structure is not complicated, as long as there is enough machinery and equipment, there is no shortage of skilled workers in New York, and simple training is enough. But Heinz Pharmaceutical is different, New York does not have the excessively powerful chemical industry in Germany, and there is an extreme shortage of relevant technicians and workers, and it took more than half a year to train these workers!

Every time he was troubled by it, John couldn't help but be glad that he had set up his R&D center in Berlin in the first place.

For this era, the chemical industry is like the aerospace technology of later generations, which can be regarded as a high-end industry. Unlike the large number of high-tech talents who immigrated to North America in later generations, most of those who were willing to come to the New World in this era were willing to escape famine, war, or because there were more opportunities to make a living. Therefore, a fine industry such as chemistry could not withstand the rough economy and technology of the North American continent. You know, when John decided to buy the dye factory, thousands of chemists were already employed in the German chemical industry, but at the same time in New York City, old Huntelaar couldn't even hire a few qualified people!

Like today's factories, production volumes are not at all the same as those in Berlin.

To put it simply, employing the same number of workers, the factories in Berlin could produce 1.5 million marks worth of drugs a month, but in New York they could only produce 300,000 marks worth of goods at most. Even if this number can rise to a million marks over time and with technical proficiency, it will be very difficult to reach the level of Berlin.

Fortunately, for North America, the demand for drugs is much lower for the time being than in Europe.

So even if he brought Ehrlich and a group of talented people to New York, John didn't plan to let them study any production processes, but was ready to devote all of them to basic medical research. In the future, John would come up with the molecular formula and send it to Berlin for the drug development work of Heinz Pharmaceuticals, so that the powerful German chemical industry could translate it into a real production process, and then copy it back to New York...... "Let's go, John." ”

While John was pondering, old Huntelaar patted him on the shoulder and said, "In another place, there is a very important person waiting for us to meet......" (To be continued......