Chapter 7: The Great Panic

How much of a difference the Flexner-Huntelaar report will make, John knows exactly what it will do. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This report can be said to have revolutionized medical education in the United States, and in turn, the development of American medicine. It allowed Americans to establish an access system for the medical profession, it allowed the German curriculum teaching model that combines biological sciences and clinical practice to dominate, and it also allowed a large amount of money to enter the field of medical education, promoting the survival of the fittest in medical schools. During this period, a large number of charitable foundations such as the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Education played a huge role, such as Rockefeller, who invested nearly $100 million in it, making excellent medical schools the main body of medical research and education in the United States, and more schools were completely eliminated.

John knew all these future developments.

But this Flexner-Huntelaar report, in addition to its good effects, is bound to have many undesirable consequences. For example, the elimination of a large number of medical schools, such as the recommendation to close a few black medical schools and women's medical schools, will make medical education in the United States completely elite education, the number of physicians will be greatly limited, and the end result will be that the disadvantaged groups will lose the opportunity to seek medical care; Another example is that in the future, the income of doctors will increase significantly, which will lead to a sharp increase in the cost of medical education, and the poor will not be able to attend school.

John was also clear about these future drawbacks.

But John wouldn't tell anyone about these things. In fact, whether he participates or not, these destined changes will still happen, and he is just a "bystander" to participate. For him, it was the annexes to the Flexner-Huntelaar report, parts that an American might not even notice......

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Thank you so much, Mr. Flexner! ”

As he saw him off, John hugged Flexner tightly: "Thank you for everything you did for me, you didn't know how important it was to me!" ”

"Hehe, I think I understand, Mr. Huntelaar."

Patting John on the back, Flexner whispered, "I didn't understand it at first, but ...... In the past few years, I have probably learned about what you are doing in that eastern country, so ...... Oh, I hope you can succeed! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Thank you. ”

A thousand words came together in one sentence, and John finally patted Flexner on the back to express his gratitude......

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In November 1910, after being reorganized and polished, John submitted to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education "Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Letter to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education on Educational Reform," which came to be known as the Flexner-Huntelaar Report!

From the Carnegie Foundation to the American Medical Association, and then to the White House.

Taft did not hesitate to give his greatest support, and the bureaucratic forces cultivated by the Huntelaar consortium over the years also vigorously promoted the report's recommendations. As a result, with the participation of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education, the Rockefeller Education Foundation and other charitable foundations, the vigorous reform of medical education in the United States began.

Within a year, more than eighty percent of U.S. states had established medical examiners and a federation of medical boards.

In 1911, the American Medical Association proposed an admission standard for college education for the year before admission, which was raised to two years in 1917, and by 1921, 37 states had implemented the standard.

In 1920, more than 80 medical schools were merged or disappeared in the United States, a number that caused a huge sensation when it was reported!

The trajectory almost coincides with history, except that the Flexner Report becomes the Flexner-Huntelaar Report.

Since then, American medicine has embarked on the road of rise, coupled with the opportunity of two world wars, both American medical education and medical level have finally stepped on the peak of the world. As a result, the Flexner-Huntelaar report has also been leaked to future generations, and has become an unavoidable research area for every medical historian, and it has also become a knowledge point that future generations of medical students must learn......

Merely......

How things will play out in the future, John is no longer concerned.

Or whether medical education in the United States will go from the masses to the elite and begin to rise, as it has historically been, John is no longer concerned - he has no interest in knowing the results. In fact, after refining the Flexner report and submitting it to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education, he put the matter aside and began to study the other report that Flexner had given himβ€”an add-on to the official report!

This report is the most important thing for him.

To get the report, John gave Flexner an additional $200,000 and a team of fifteen people to help. And in order to complete this report, Flexnado took a year. But in John? Under Mr. Huntelaar's stern orders, this additional report, which existed in reliance on the Flexner-Huntelaar report, does not appear in the historical record. Neither the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education nor the American Medical Association received any hint, and the dozen or so parties never revealed a hint of news, except that when Flexner himself died in 1959, he muttered a few words like "he did it, he really did" as he died.

No one understood what those words meant, and the truth was completely drowned in the long river of history......

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While John was studying the report, a catastrophe was quietly struck in far-away northeastern China.

On October 25, 1910, in Manchuria, a small city on the border between China and Russia, two laborers who had returned from Russia died suddenly in a hotel. Immediately afterwards, the landlord and guests who lived in the same courtyard also died. Several people had the same symptoms, they all had fever, cough, coughing up blood, and soon died, and after death, their whole bodies showed a strange purple red!

In fact, as early as the beginning of October, there was a similar abnormal death in a Chinese workers' shed near the Daula station in Russia. At that time, the seven Chinese laborers died suddenly, and the corpses were all strangely purple-red, and the Russians, knowing what was going on, immediately panicked, expelled all the Chinese laborers in the shed, and burned all their clothes and luggage.

Two of the Chinese laborers came to Manchuria on October 19......

The demon that one person can't see has been quietly sown on the land of the Northeast. Beginning on October 25th, death began to spread in one city after another!

On October 29, the Chahan Aola coal kiln was infected with the epidemic.

On 5 November, Zarainuoer contracted the disease.

On 7 November, two marmot hunters arrived in Harbin from Manchuria and stayed in a drilling tool shop, where they soon fell ill and died, infecting four other people living with them.

The north wind is howling!

A great panic spread in Harbin...... (To be continued.) )