“…… Goodbye, Mr. Huntelaar! ”

"Goodbye, Mr. Edelman."

Finally, he shook Erman's hand, and John said with a smile: "If I have time recently, I will call or write to you as much as possible." ”

"Haha, looking forward to your presentation at Columbia College!"

The two men, who had only met for the first time today, said goodbye warmly like old friends for many years, and then Edelman got into the carriage and left.

"Hoo ......"

After watching the vice president of Columbia College go away, the butler Hans breathed a sigh of relief, and his whole body relaxed. Although he must have been used to it for a long time, every time he saw John being able to communicate freely with a big man like Edelman, Hans still felt strange in his heart, because he knew how difficult it was for a young man who had just turned nineteen to do this.

And......

"I don't quite understand, sir."

After closing the door, Hans turned his head and asked, "Please forgive me for listening to your conversation with Mr. Edelman...... But do you really need to get a university degree to become a surgeon? ”

Although he knew that it was inappropriate for him to ask such a question, Hans really couldn't suppress the doubts in his heart.

Even after five years in Europe with Johan, Hans knew that becoming a physician was not an easy task, and that he needed to change the way he had thought about physicians for decades. But Hans still couldn't imagine what a medical school would look like if he needed a college degree to go to it - he remembered that when he was younger, he didn't even need to read to get into the medical school in his hometown, he just had to pay the tuition......

"Uh......"

John didn't know how to explain Mr. Butler's doubts for a while.

The United States at the end of the 19th century, like China at the end of the 20th century, was in an era of rapid change, and university education was undoubtedly one of the biggest changes. The same is certainly true for medical education. But John couldn't explain to Mr. Butler why physicians in the United States would become one of the highest-paid professions in the United States, along with lawyers and other professions, a hundred years later, or why medical schools would no longer admit ordinary high school students in a few decades, and would only admit college graduates with undergraduate degrees. He couldn't even tell his housekeeper about the founding of the Hopkins School of Medicine five or six years later. It will kick off the prelude to this historic change!

After pondering for a long time, John shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Mr. Elber, the specific reason may be difficult to explain for a while, but I think it won't take you a few years to understand what the reason is......"

……

Mr. Edelman's visit was like a small wave in life, thrown away by John in a few minutes.

But the official visit of the vice president of Columbia College urged John to start preparing for a medical school on his agenda.

Hopkins University was the first research university in the United States to copy the German university system in its entirety, and the Hopkins School of Medicine was the first American medical school to offer graduate medical education, and it was founded in 1893. So John would not have expected Columbia College to agree to his offer in 1887, nor would he have waited until the graduates of the Hopkins School of Medicine proved themselves. Justify the Hopkins model.

Therefore, it is imperative to prepare for your own medical school!

If the time is a hundred years from now, John has no choice but to choose a medical school in New York to join, but it is now 1887, even in the largest city in the United States to build a medical school, with John's current strength, it is very simple to do this!

There is a floor. There is land, there are people!

Inside the hospital, which is nearing completion. John prepared a school building for the medical school, and after his first visit to the hospital, John thought twice and gave Steve the difficult task of purchasing at least five acres of land next to the hospital. And in order to achieve this goal, John paid more than a dozen drawings of new toys and dividends from the Lego toy factory for the whole of this year. The five acres of land are in addition to being reserved land for the hospital. There is also an important purpose for preparing for future medical school.

As for the teacher's words, in addition to John himself, there are also Ehrlich and Thomas and others, and they dare not say more, but it is still possible to gather one or twenty people. And in the era when seven or eight "professors" could prepare for the establishment of a medical school. John's teaching team, which consisted entirely of people living in Europe, was sufficient.

If we add to this the large quantities of equipment and equipment that were purchased and shipped back from Europe......

"It's definitely too late this year, but next year it's definitely fine!"

After thinking about it, John had a clear idea of what he was going to do to build a medical school.

Although his main goal at the moment is to handle the affairs of the hospital properly and make it run as much as possible, but such a large hospital now only has a few dozen people, the scale is too small, in addition to continuing to recruit talents from Europe and even the United States in the future, the training of medical school personnel is also John's top priority!

And......

"It should be good to be a pioneer in the reform of medical education in the United States, right?"

Thinking about the many benefits that this name will bring to him in the future, John is more and more certain of one thing: the preparation for the establishment of the medical school must begin immediately, and some things must be done in advance......

……

After returning to New York, John only had a few days off and started getting busy.

Although the journey from Europe to New York was long and arduous, the young body of this life had already recovered. And with so many things to do, John really has no reason to mess around at home. He didn't have to worry much about the factory, but as the hospital project came to an end, as the owner had to constantly check and fill in the gaps and find the deficiencies. And the elder Huntelaar also gave John the difficult task of convincing Tesla to accept the financing of the bankers and vigorously develop the alternating current industry......

On the other hand, John's men were not idle.

With ready-to-use plant and equipment, the pharmaceutical plant was built at an astonishing pace, and the two newly hired plant managers estimated that even if it took time to recruit and train workers, it could be up and running by the end of the year at the latest. In other words, drugs such as aspirin, sulfonamides and lidocaine can be produced directly in New York and supplied to the entire American market! As for the medical device factory, the elder Huntelaar has already contacted Carnegie Steel, and they will supply enough stainless steel from next month, and with enough mechanical workers in New York, it can be put into production much faster than the pharmaceutical factory.

As for the words of Ehrlich and Thomas and others, this time was not idle either.

All the physicians were grouped together and trained by Thomas in accordance with John's textbook. In addition to this, Paul was responsible for starting a large-scale recruitment of nurses. Although many young girls have started working in this era, as long as they are paid enough, they are not afraid of not being able to recruit people, but there are few professional nurses in the United States, so Paul also has to train them rigorously to prepare for the opening of the hospital. As for Ehrlich and the others, they continued to live in the house rented by John, and refused to waste a little time.

After seeing the hospital that has been completed, everyone is full of anticipation.

Of course, in addition to the busyness of work, John's life is also colorful, and he is basically surrounded by many old friends. Needless to say, old friends such as Steve, Joshua, and Funk get together almost every week, and even Emma seems to have put aside the awkwardness of chatting that day and frequently shows up at Huntelaar's house.

The Aurora that John brought back from Europe has been lent out many times during this time.

Like Europe, the appearance of the aurora in New York caused a huge sensation, although many people have long learned about the invention of the automobile from the newspaper, but it is not a real thing after all, so every time the aurora appears on the street, it will attract countless onlookers.

And as the news of automobiles, hospitals, and factories gradually spread, the surname Huntelaar gradually spread among some well-informed people in New York...... (To be continued......)