Chapter Seventy-Nine, In the Name of Charity
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Cleveland Workers' District, Salvation Charity Hospital.
The "Salvation" hospital is very different from what it used to be. A devout Baptist believer, a kind parishioner, the Monopoly Scrooge? Mr. MacDonald was so kind that he donated a large sum of money to this charitable hospital through the church. So the hospital, which was originally housed in an old warehouse, completely changed.
The old warehouse has been bulldozed, and many of the shacks around the hospital have been included in the hospital. In just a few months, a brand new hospital appeared in front of people's eyes. This is a magnificent hospital, and even the hospitals in the rich area are not necessarily better than this. At least, that's what it looks like from the outside. (What is the hospital in the rich area, the poor have never seen.) )
In fact, this is also true. It was the first standardized hospital in the entire United States and the second in the world. It began only more than the Cambridge University's "Scrooge? Albert's hospital was less than a month late. Later, Americans tended to use this hospital to flaunt the moral superiority of Americans: "Behold, the first standardized hospital of the British was for the aristocracy and the rich, and only we, in the United States, had the first such hospital built in the slums and served the poor at a very low price." In fact, as soon as Scrooge completed the idea of a standardized hospital, he sent it back to Cleveland and asked his brother Carroll to build such a hospital.
The hospital has a high white fence that separates it from the surrounding squalid workers' ghetto. Only on the front can you see through the wrought-iron carved gates.
Directly opposite the gate is a fountain, behind which is a statue of Hippocrates carved from white marble on a black marble base, and on the black marble base, the following inscription is engraved in gilded lettering:
"I will do my best to take medical measures that I believe will be beneficial to the patient, and will not cause pain or danger to the patient. I do not give poison to anyone, nor do I instruct anyone to use poison...... I want to keep the patient's secret, practice medicine innocently, and never do anything that endangers my life. ”
Behind the statue is the outpatient department of the hospital, which is a small two-story building, and the front and back of the small building are planted with all kinds of flowers and plants, which is pleasing to the eye. Now, if a traveler walks into the outpatient building of this hospital, he will definitely feel very familiar, because it is completely arranged according to the hospital of later generations. In the lobby where you enter, you will be greeted by a medical guidance desk, where a female nurse in a white nurse's uniform will recommend the department you should choose. Then there is the registration counter where you can queue for registration. On both sides of the hall and on the second floor, there are various departments including internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, otolaryngology, and dermatology.
To the left of the outpatient building, there is another small building, which is the treatment center of the hospital, where the emergency room, operating room, and intensive care unit are located. There is also a bungalow behind the small building that is surrounded by a high wall, because the wall is so high that people cannot see the house inside except through the small gate of the wall. There were two guards standing at the small entrance, and a sign was hung: "Isolation and Treatment Area for Dangerous Infectious Diseases".
To the right of the outpatient clinic is a bungalow with a sign for the disinfection area, where all kinds of items in the hospital are disinfected. Behind it is a pharmacy warehouse. Behind this qiē is a garden, and a small building stands in the middle of the garden. There is the inpatient unit.
The medical staff of the hospital have also changed, and there are only a few Mongolian doctors who have no medical license at all in the original "salvation" hospital. Now, these people have lost their qualifications to continue practicing medicine here, and some of them have left, while others have stayed to help the new doctors who are qualified to practice medicine.
The original dean has stayed, but he is no longer the dean, Scrooge? Mr. MacDonald himself was the director of the hospital, but he was not really involved in the management of the specific things, which were run by a man from Prussia named Joseph? Menger's doctor was in charge. He is a doctor with a wealth of medical experience and an extremely amiable smile, and he also holds a doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Munich. He de facto presided over the hospital as vice-president, and his friend Albert? Dr. Heim is in charge of the medical practice. If a traveler came here to see a doctor, he would be scared half to death by the names of these two. However, compared to their descendants with the same name and surname, what they do is not much different. The former Dean of Heathfeld was now assigned to supervise the studies of the little nurses.
In the original era, the world's first nursing school, founded by the great lantern goddess, Ms. Nightingale, would not be established until 186o. But in this time and space, when Scrooge visited Wèn in England, he also took the time to visit this great woman, and proposed to her to build a nursing school to change the chaotic status quo of the nursing profession at that time and better relieve the pain of patients. And donated a huge amount of about 10,000 pounds for this. So, at the end of 1958, the school, which was supposed to appear only in 186o, appeared ahead of schedule. Of course, at least for now, the school is not able to provide qualified nurses for hospitals, because the cadets are just beginning to learn and are far from graduating.
Ms. Nightingale sent the tutorials based on her various nursing experiences to Scrooge by mail. As a result, these things have become the teaching materials that nurses now have time to learn.
The "Salvation" hospital has a good environment, a high level of medical staff, and a variety of miracle drugs behind it, so the medical effect of this hospital is quite outstanding. Not to mention, the poor workers around, even some rich people, are willing to come here to see a doctor when they are sick. Of course, rich people have to pay for medical treatment.
As the hospital's reputation grew, Scrooge's reputation in Cleveland began to come close to that of a saint. When he went to church every week to pretend to pray, as was customary, almost everyone who passed by him would say, "May God bless you, Mr. MacDonald." Today, even his father, Joseph Sr., is called "Mr. MacDonald" rather than "Scrooge." As for his father, Joseph Sr., he was naturally promoted to "Mr. MacDonald Sr." It is even said that more than 1,800 years ago, a Joseph carpenter raised a saint; And today's Joseph cobbler, although a little worse, has also raised a saint.
However, the construction of this hospital is not specifically for reputation. The hospital has a mission: to test drugs for McDonald Chemical & Pharmaceutical.
After Scrooge returned to the United States at the end of July, less than a month later, McDonald Chemical & Pharmaceuticals completed the development of two new drugs. Both of these drugs became famous in later generations: diacetylmorphine (heroin) and methamphetamine (ice). In the original history, in 1874, the chemist Waite first synthesized heroin, which was only used as a surgical anesthetic at first, and then in the 9o's, the German Bayer company, now this thing has a strong relieving effect on almost any physical pain and discomfort, so it will be introduced to the market as a miracle drug that cures all diseases, and makes a lot of money. (And that's even when Bayer doesn't have a patent for heroin at all.) And now, Scrooge has a full set of patents for this thing.)
In dealing with these two drugs, Scrooge did the same thing as Bayer.
First, in the drug trial stage, because heroin was a morphine product, and at that time, people were already very clear about the addictive nature of morphine. So, in order for this thing to sell well, and finally buy more than 5.5 percent of all drug sales in the world as a single drug has historically been the case, people have to be convinced that it is not addictive. At that time, Bayer's approach was as follows: first, each pill was made small, the total amount of heroin in it was strictly controlled, and the dosage was also very small. Secondly, some sustained-release technologies are used to slow down the absorption of heroin by the human body. In this way, when heroin enters the brain, it is metabolized in the human body a lot, and then in various tests, the addiction is naturally not obvious. Of course, if someone has to take a lot of medicine, what happens is none of McDonald's business with Chemical & Pharmaceuticals.
Based on the experience of Bayer in another time and space, bribing doctors is very important to promote the drug. In order to promote heroin, Bayer gave high kickbacks to every doctor who prescribed Bayer's heroin to his patients, and the amount even reached two or three levels of the profit from the sale of the drug. (This trick, Glaxo?) SmithKline was still using it not long ago. For kickbacks, doctors are frantically prescribing heroin to all kinds of patients. What the? Got a cold? Easy to do! Let's have a box of heroin. What the? Go up in flames? It's okay, let's have a box of heroin. What little children don't sleep well at night? It's okay, here's a box...... With this trick, heroin sales have increased almost exponentially. How could Scrooge not follow such a successful experience?
In the "Salvation" hospital, the new drug "heroin" was tested on many patients. Most of these patients are poor, they do not have any basic medical knowledge, and they are easy to deceive. The results of human trials are naturally as follows: heroin has a very good cough suppressant effect on cough, and has no obvious side effects, is absolutely harmless, and is the safest and best of all cough medicines; Not only cough suppressant, but it has miraculous curative effects on the pain caused by almost all diseases, and it is simply a miracle given by God to mankind. Even for healthy people, this medicine can be very useful, for example, before exercising, taking a little can also make breathing easier.
Of course, Scrooge understands that when any drug is advertised, if it boasts that it has no side effects, it will often make patients worried, so when this drug is ready to be officially put on the market, Scrooge thought about it, read the various reports carefully, and then crossed out the words "no side effects" in the side effects column of the instructions prepared by the assistant, and then added the following text: There may be a small chance of mild constipation.
Thus, this terrible devil officially entered the market through the recommendation of the "Salvation" hospital, and began its history of scourge of mankind. O Hippocrates, standing quietly on the marble pedestal in front of the Hospital of Salvation, look back at what is going on in this hospital! Those who have sworn that "they will not give poison to anyone, nor instruct anyone to use it", are giving terrible poison to every sick person; Those who declare that they "will never do anything that endangers their lives" are unleashing demons that are about to devour countless lives. If you could look back, if you could shout loudly, would you also shout to the heavens: "O gods of Olympus, Zeus, father of the gods, where is your thunder and lightning now?!" ”