Chapter 51: Untitled
After a cursory reading of the article in The Lancet, Bergman looked at John with a completely different look.
For John, Bergman is undoubtedly very important.
From the first day he walked into the office, John's watch caught the attention of this Bergman, because his understanding of foreign science was so much that even the professor of surgery would be amazed! So when John asked to study surgery with Bergman in advance and agreed to the test, he agreed without hesitation.
The results of the test allowed Bergman to confirm that he had not made the wrong decision.
It can be said that since then, Bergman has made John his key training target, even if the kid is an American. It didn't take long for Bergman to be rewarded – he was pleasantly surprised to see the new technology for surgical sterilization.
Autoclave sterilization will lay the foundation for surgical sterilization for hundreds of years to come.
Although this method of high-temperature disinfection has been discovered for a long time, and it has only been overlooked in the case of Lister's promotion of stone carbonic acid, John was able to find this argument in the literature and find a better way to verify it, which surprised Bergman. Being good at discovering and summarizing the qualities necessary for a good surgeon is so that his emphasis on John has been strengthened once again!
But......
When John had just written a paper on the treatment of a foreign body in the airways, and today he had come up with a paper on blood type, Bergman was completely messy.
Is this student a monster?
It's only been a year and a half since I arrived at the University of Berlin, and I've already reshaped the disinfection system at Charlotte Hospital. Solving the problem of foreign body blockage in the respiratory tract that has plagued mankind for thousands of years, and even discovering what human blood type is at the same time - the content of the article has been verified by professors at Cambridge University, so Bergman does not doubt its correctness.
Does he really want to be a physiologist?
Bergman's mind was in chaos, and countless thoughts flashed through him, in a word, he had been stunned by John's appearance!
At this time, John had already read the magazine in his hand seriously, raised his head and said excitedly: "Thank you, Professor Bergman, I didn't expect that two articles would be published together. It was a pleasant surprise......"
"Nope. The Lancet is a few days in the morning. ”
The reflex is average, Professor Bergman replied casually.
Although they were all published after the New Year, the Lancet was indeed a few days earlier in terms of date, but it was sent at the same time because German Medicine was located in Berlin.
If you do the math this way. That's a difference of thousands of kilometers!
For John. A few days away is nothing at all. But for Bergman, it is a matter of course to pay attention to the gaps of these days. Because in this special era, it is often the case that two people publish the same theory or invention at the same time, if the order is not clear. Sometimes the big guys of science want to fight about it! Like Bell, who invented the telephone, if he had filed a patent a few hours at night, history could have changed forever.
But of course John didn't care, he just said excitedly, "Thank you again, Professor, if nothing else happens, I'll go out." ”
"Oh, okay."
Nodding subconsciously, Bergman stared at John as he left his office briskly, and then took a deep breath, a complicated look on his face......
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After walking out of Bergman's office, the excitement on John's face suddenly receded.
The publication of the article was expected by him, but he was only slightly surprised that The Lancet magazine published so quickly without informing him. Therefore, John really has nothing to be excited about for this kind of thing that he has been mentally prepared for a long time, and he just deliberately came out to show Bergman just now.
Putting the magazine in his bag, John did not rush to the operating room immediately, but sat down in his place.
He needed to be quiet for a moment.
The publication of this article John did not intend to make a big publicity, and it was enough for Bergman to know about it alone for the time being. And John could expect that with the release of the new issue of The Lancet, there would be a bit of controversy among many subscribers when they got their hands on the publication.
These days, no one argues that it's a big deal!
And John also knows that even if the ABO blood group theory is endorsed by The Lancet magazine, it does not mean that it will be popularized around the world immediately, and it is better not to get too hopeful. You must know that although the real discoverer of ABO blood group in history won the Nobel Prize, it was only thirty years after the theory was proposed, and the large-scale application of clinical blood transfusion was not until the Spanish Civil War began to establish a blood bank, and it was still half a century away!
"Unless ......"
John's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a way to apply the blood group theory and promote the blood group system as much as possible!
"No, no!"
But after two or three seconds, John's head shook like a rattle, and he rejected his idea: "The social impact is too great, and it is easy to cause an uproar, and even provoke criticism and attacks...... Now is not the time! ”
In this relatively conservative era, John really didn't want to get himself in trouble!
And he wasn't in a hurry.
The ABO blood group system was proposed so early, on the one hand, to build prestige for himself, and on the other hand, for the future development in the field of surgery. Today's surgeons can't even figure out appendicitis surgery, and they can't even think of thoracotomy and other surgeries, but for John, the future will definitely be to "difficult" surgery, so mature blood transfusion technology is very necessary. Now put the theory out, if other surgeons are willing to be the pioneers to explore, John will naturally enjoy it!
"Hmm......"
Thinking of this, John couldn't help frowning, and secretly pondered: "In that case, should you consider developing heparin and sodium citrate in two years?" Then if you get the indirect blood transfusion method out, then the blood transfusion technology will really be practical......"
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After a busy day at the hospital, John dragged his tired body home.
It was already getting dark, and it was still cold in Berlin in January, and the biting cold wind blew on the body to make people feel that they were cold in the cracks of the bones. Still riding his bike, John walked home a little distraught.
It's been another boring day!
Fundamentally, John is not a very anxious person, but very patient, otherwise it would not have taken him a year to understand the medical knowledge of this era, but the two months in Charlotte Hospital really made him a little bored, and he also felt more and more bored at his current work: repeating those minor surgeries such as bloodletting and abscess incision every day, and occasionally going to see Bergman for fractures and amputations, it was really boring.
But John had to wait patiently.
Whether it is improving disinfection technology, or studying blood type, in the final analysis, it can be said that it is the technology of the real room, and John can use his talent to make it through after all, even if Heimlik's abdominal impact method can be said to be because of his familiarity with the structure of the human body, plus a little knowledge of physics and imagination.
And clinical medicine is in no hurry.
In John's time as a surgeon, the physicians' research on every drug and every operation has reached a very detailed point, and the dosage of drugs, the method of use, the indications, contraindications and precautions of surgery are very mature, so many times John feels that his work is like doing a math problem, as long as the patient is used as a variable and substituted into the formula of the specification.
But in this day and age, the situation is completely different!
Chemically synthesized drugs have not yet appeared, and most of the drugs people take are natural medicines that exist in nature, and as for the dosage or something, it is completely based on experience, and doctors have not yet begun rigorous quantitative research. Diagnosing diseases does not have the CT, MRI, X-ray, or even blood routine that John is familiar with, etc., and it still relies on the experience of doctors!
These things are not in the books, and you have to learn and explore them little by little in the hospital
John needed time to adjust to the times.
He had never imagined that he would have to rely entirely on subjective judgment to diagnose and treat patients, so during the two months at Charlotte Hospital, John spent most of his time observing, observing how other physicians made diagnoses, how drugs were used, how to perform surgeries, and silently learning their ways.
John had to learn how to get rid of his dependence on those means of inspection!
"Wait until the spring blossoms."
Seeing the roof of his home from afar, John raised his eyebrows, and gently patted the leather bag hanging on his body with his left hand: "If you use these papers as capital, Professor Bergman should not refuse my request......
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I'm in a bad state tonight, and what I've written always feels messy, so I'll leave a chapter. (To be continued......)