In John's pre-time world, the most famous academic journals were undoubtedly CNS, "cell", "nature" and "science", which represented the highest achievements of the world's scientific community. For Chinese scientists, at least, being able to publish a paper in one of these three journals often means they are among the country's top researchers.

This influence has spread to all aspects.

For example, in the selection of professors and doctoral supervisors, it is basically appropriate to have one such paper, and for example, in the university rankings, everyone often takes the number of CNS papers published by the school as one of the main bases.

Among these three journals, life science papers occupy a very important position.

Life sciences are the real core science of the world of the future, and every country has invested huge human and financial resources in it, especially developed countries like the United States, Europe, and Japan. Therefore, in the CNS series of journals, the proportion of life science papers is naturally rising, and the weight is getting heavier and heavier.

But as far as pure medical papers are concerned, the most authoritative are undoubtedly the four comprehensive medical journals.

The British have two, the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, and the Americans have two, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine, and the best of them, that is, the New England Journal of Medicine is undoubtedly at the top if the order is evaluated by impact factors.

John was also very sorry for this result.

If it were not for the defeat in the two world wars, if it were not for the fact that German scientists were wiped out by the United States and the Soviet Union, such an honor should definitely not be missing German magazines. You know, the medical journals of the Soviets were published in German until the 60s of the 20th century, and the Americans reaped endless benefits from the failed Germans......

So when choosing a journal to submit to. John chose the New England Journal of Medicine.

On the one hand, it is because of the future reputation of the magazine, and on the other hand, Boston is much closer to New York than Chicago, where the Journal of the American Medical Association is located, and it can save a lot of money on postage. As for who is better and who is inferior to the two magazines now, John doesn't really care, anyway, compared to those top magazines in Europe. There was no essential difference between them in John's eyes.

After Thomas left with the task, John continued to write.

The outpatient patients in the hospital have increased slightly in the past few days, but they still haven't broken through double digits every day, and they have long been divided up by idle hairy doctors, and there is no chance for John to make a move. However, he naturally didn't want to be idle when he came to the hospital, so he quickly found something to do for himself - although the disinfection technology has been taken out by him, the foundation of surgery is not only disinfection, there are many things that can be done, and it is just time to improve it.

"Gotcha! Get! ”

John had just written for less than ten minutes. There was another knock on the office door.

John, who was interrupted from his thoughts, was naturally a little dissatisfied, but after frowning, he immediately relaxed, and said loudly: "Please come in." ”

"Sir, there is a letter from you."

A young girl pushed open the door and walked in, respectfully handing a letter to Mr. Dean.

John didn't take the letter directly, but frowned and asked, "Miss Brown, didn't I say that all the letters should be brought before going to work?" ”

Although her tone was not so stern, the young Miss Brown still had a panicked look on her face. Hurriedly trembled: "Sir, Mr. Miller thinks that this letter should be important to you. So I asked to bring it to you now...... I'm sorry, I'm leaving immediately! ”

Seeing Miss Brown's panicked appearance, John's heart suddenly softened.

As a traverser, John certainly doesn't want to have only doctors and nurses in the hospital, in fact, in addition to the logistics and security staff, he also has a lot of administrative staff from the beginning. For example, in this building. There are personnel responsible for registration and billing, and of course, the so-called "hospital office" is indispensable. Mr. Miller, with two young girls, was in charge of all the chores in the building, such as arranging the cleaning and security work, and meeting all the needs of the doctors. Another example is to be responsible for receiving letters and telegrams, or helping to send letters and telegrams......

Anyone in the hospital, John doesn't pay a low salary.

In fact, with the exception of higher-paid physicians, John booked nurses about twice as much as other hospitals in New York -- after they became qualified nurses, of course. Now, it's just a little bit better than the nurses in other hospitals. As for the rest of the support staff, he also guaranteed that the salary would be 20 percent higher than that of the same work in the city, so that everyone cherished the opportunity, even if they had to comply with all kinds of strict management systems.

When the young girl saw that the dean was dissatisfied, she was naturally anxious.

But before she could turn around, John waved his hand and said, "Forget it, since Mr. Miller thinks this letter may be important to me, leave it to me." ”

"Yes, sir."

Miss Brown hurriedly handed the letter to John, saluted, and left as swiftly as a frightened rabbit.

"Smack!"

After hearing the sound of the door shut, John shook his head with a wry smile. Even in a big city like New York, there are really not many young women who can come out to work, let alone have experience. It wasn't until World War I that women really started working outside the home in large numbers. In fact, most of these girls are children of poor families, and they come out to work to support the family, so John doesn't want to criticize them too hard. If they get married in the future, most of them will have to quit their jobs and return to their families, which may be a headache.

After a moment's silence, John shifted his gaze to the letter in his hand.

But just after glancing at the address of the letter, John immediately understood why Mr. Miller thought it was important, because it was the East Coast Association of Surgeons!

"Now in the United States, there is an organization of surgeons?"

After seeing the letter signed, John couldn't help but be a little surprised.

The rise of surgery should have been the events of these decades, and the landmark event was the creation of Yimi as an anesthetic and surgical disinfection technology. With these two most basic surgical techniques, patients no longer have to endure the pain of cutting with a sharp blade on their bodies, and the mortality rate of surgery is greatly reduced. As a result, surgeons began to gradually move away from the image of butchers and barbers, and gradually began to be accepted by ordinary people.

But compared with the later generations, it is still not the same.

In the 21st century, both in China and abroad, surgeons earn more than internal medicine doctors, but in the 19th century, the two did not seem to belong to the same field of expertise. Internal medicine physicians tend to be professionals with university degrees, while surgeons are craftsmen who have been passed down from master to apprentice until recent decades. However, compared to internal medicine doctors, the status of surgeons is still much lower, otherwise John would not have brought back such a small number of talents after staying in Europe for so long.

The establishment of the Association of Surgeons represents a further improvement in the status of surgeons......

"What did they write to me for?"

Although he already had a vague guess in his heart, John still opened the letter and read it carefully.

The content of the letter is simple, it is to invite John? Mr. Huntelaar joined the Society of Surgeons and attended a conference in Boston in May of this year! In this letter, John's achievements in the field of surgery are fully acknowledged, and he is greatly appreciated, and in addition to welcoming him back to the United States, he also hopes to support the development of the Society of Surgeons......

Really!

After reading the letter, John already knew it in his heart.

In this era of extremely backward means of information exchange, how the other party knew that he had returned to New York and got a specific address, John did not want to know, but this association of surgeons was able to invite him to join so quickly, but it was sensitive enough.

But......

After a long silence, John sighed softly and put the letter away.

If it were a few decades later, he would definitely join this association without hesitation, and he would try his best to occupy an important position, but what about now......

The organization is too loose to play an important role; The traffic is too inconvenient, and it takes too much time to come and go; The gap is too big for it to make sense compared to the same associations in Europe; In this era of great surgical change, this association is full of all kinds of strife and discontent.

The most important thing, of course, was that John had other ideas.

The most important role of this kind of academic organization is academic exchange, but for John this role is pure chicken ribs. The most important thing in front of him right now is not these, but to find a way to explain it, and throw out the knowledge in his mind little by little, and everything else is not absolutely necessary...... (To be continued......)