Philadelphia, one of the oldest and most historic cities in the young country of the United States.

Before Washington was founded, it was the capital of the United States, where two Continental Congresses were held, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and the first Constitution of the United States was born. At the same time, it is also one of the economic centers of the United States, shipping and rail transportation are extremely developed, and the manufacturing output value once accounted for more than 30% of the United States more than 20 years ago.

There is no doubt that this is a very important big city.

As the most important city in Pennsylvania, by Benjamin? The University of Pennsylvania, founded by Benjamin Franklin, is of course located here. The University of Pennsylvania is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and the affiliated University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is the first medical school in North America.

Until now, Penn Medical School is one of the best medical schools in the United States.

Of course, the so-called excellence here is relatively speaking, compared with the medical schools of Britain, France, Germany, Austria and other countries in Europe, it is still in an inconspicuous position, and the education model inherited along the way makes it difficult for it to adapt to the development of the times. However, with the success of Harvard Medical School's reform, Penn Medical School quickly followed suit and gradually developed......

One morning at the end of May, a horse-drawn carriage drove up to the gates of Penn Medical School.

"Gentlemen, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has arrived."

He jumped out of the carriage first, and the coachman shouted respectfully to the carriage.

Early this morning, I encountered a job from downtown to Penn Medical School, which made the driver very happy with his good fortune. You know, after Penn moved from downtown to West Philadelphia more than a decade ago, this kind of work is what all rental carriages dream of.

"Bang!"

As soon as the coachman's voice fell, a young man in his twenties jumped out of the carriage.

But the young man did not pay attention to the coachman, but immediately turned around and said equally respectfully, "Mr. Huntelaar." The ground is a little rough, so please be careful. ”

"Thank you, Henry."

After the younger man got out of the carriage, the coachman involuntarily took a step back, and a sense of coercion involuntarily welled up in his heart. The other man was very tall, about six and a half feet by sight. He was a whole head taller than the coachman, and more importantly, the young man was dressed in a very sophisticated suit, as well as that plain and natural attitude, which also made the coachman subconsciously feel the pressure.

At the signal of the young Mr. Huntelaar, the man named Henry generously paid the fare, and then sternly instructed: "Remember, wait here at four o'clock in the afternoon, understand?" ”

"Understood, sir!"

He took the money with a happy face. The coachman nodded in response.

From the city center to here, the other party paid twice the usual fare, and the requirement was to return to the city center from here at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the driver naturally agreed in a hurry. For these gentlemen, paying twice as much as the fare is nothing, but for him, it means that he can buy a few more pieces of bread for his family today, which is naturally impossible to ignore.

Under the respectful gaze of the coachman, the two young men strode towards the school.

Penn Medicine isn't huge. It was only five minutes from the gate to the destination, and soon the two young men were in a building. After questioning a young lecturer, he found one with the words "William?" hanging in front of the door. In front of the office of Professor Osler's nameplate.

"Gotcha! Get! ”

Mr. Huntelaar straightened his clothes before knocking on the office door.

"Please come in!"

A moment later, there was a powerful response from inside.

Hearing that there was someone in the room, Mr. Huntelaar suddenly seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, turned his head and whispered, "Henry." Wait for me at the school gate at four o'clock in the afternoon", then he turned around and pushed the door open, and walked in quickly.

"Good morning, Professor Osler!"

Walk into the office and close the door with your backhand. Mr. Huntelaar smiled at the middle-aged man in front of him with a puzzled face and said, "I wrote to you a few days ago to make an appointment to meet John?" Huntelaar, it's an honor to meet you......"

……

This morning, Howard? Atwood? Mr. Kelly has two classes to attend.

It was nearly twelve o'clock when Kelly finished two classes and walked slowly back to his office. Anyone could see that Mr. Kelly's face was full of exhaustion, and he sat down in his chair and closed his eyes, not moving again.

"Howard, take a sip of water."

A moment later, a colleague brought Mr. Kelly a glass of water and placed it on his desk.

"Oh, thank you!"

After opening his eyes, Mr. Kelly thanked his colleague with a grateful face, and then picked up the glass of water in front of him and drank it in one gulp. Then, as if a parched earth had been poured into a spring of fresh water, Mr. Kelly's state of mind suddenly improved a little.

"Howard, are you going to Kensington today?"

looked at Kelly, who was full of tiredness, and at the same time couldn't help frowning and asked.

"Of course!"

Speaking of his hospital in Kensington, Kelly's eyebrows immediately raised, and he nodded vigorously: "The people there need me!" ”

"Uh...... All right. ”

Looking at Kelly's determined expression, his colleague shook his head and sighed secretly.

As a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, being able to stay in the school is enough to show that Kelly is excellent. In the eyes of his colleagues, this young man who entered Penn's biology department at the age of 15 and then graduated from medical school was smart, hardworking, and had a talent in the field of medicine that no one else could match, and he was definitely promising. Moreover, this young physician has a very lively personality, especially likes children, and once organized the first summer camp in the history of the United States, and is a very likable young man.

But on the other hand, Kelly always does things that are incomprehensible.

For example, two years ago, he heard that Kensington, a mining engineer with a population of 200,000, lacked physicians and that no one wanted to go to that poor place to open a business, so he went there to establish the Kensington Hospital, and took the train to see the miners every day after work, tossing himself out of exhaustion; For example, last year, he actually changed the hospital into a special obstetrics and gynecology hospital for women......

All of this is difficult for colleagues to understand.

However, my colleague also knew how insistent Kelly was on this, so after just sighing secretly, he didn't say anything more about it, and said with a smile: "Howard, let's go to lunch together......"

"Gotcha! Get! ”

At this moment, there was a sudden double knock on the office door.

The two of them turned their heads to see a familiar face standing in the doorway, shouting at them, "Howard, Mr. Osler, please come to his office!" ”

"Mr. Osler?"

Upon hearing the name, Kelly immediately stood up.

At Penn Medical School, Professor Osler could only have been referring to William, the chair of the Department of Clinical Medicine. Mr. Osler is one of the very few non-Penn professors, but he is also the best professor at Penn Medicine. Kelly was respectful of this gentleman, so when he heard this, he immediately got up and walked to the door, and asked puzzled as he went, "Phil, what is Professor Osler looking for me?" ”

"I don't know."

While turning around to leave with Kelly, the man named Phil shook his head and smiled, "I just know that there was a visitor to the professor's office this morning...... Well, it seems that Professor Osler takes this visitor very seriously, and the two of them talked inside for more than two hours! Then, he asked me to see if you were out of class, please come over! ”

"Visitors? Two hours? ”

After hearing this, Kelly was taken aback!

Although he had never been a student of Professor Osler, Kelly knew him well, and he could talk to a professor for more than two hours, which he had never seen before.

"The point is, what are you looking for me to do?"

While walking briskly, Kelly couldn't help but think about it secretly.

After a while, Kelly came to the door of Professor Osler's office, nodded at the departing Phil, and knocked on the office door.

"Please come in!"

Following Professor Osler's familiar voice, Kelly walked into the office, which he rarely visited.

After seeing Kelly come in, Professor Osler, who was obviously in a very happy mood at this time, immediately stood up, and introduced Kelly to a very young-looking gentleman in the room with a smile: "Howard, come, let me introduce you to John who came from New York?" Mr. Huntelaar ......" (to be continued......