Chapter 9 Free Healthcare?

"Divine doctor, now the People's Hospital has gathered more than 10 famous doctors such as Hua Tuo. More than 100 apprentices were recruited. These apprentices are all literate teenagers in their teens, and Hua Tuo has already taken out his book "The Book of Green Bags" to teach these teenagers, and the famous doctors have also compiled and printed their own skills into a book to teach these apprentices in turn. ”

The middle-aged scribe continued to explain the matter of the hospital to Zhang Zhongjing. Zhang Zhongjing was greatly touched: "With so many mentors and friends, over time, these teenagers will be able to become successful." ”

"That's right, the little boy also said that it only takes 4 or 5 years for these young apprentices to be able to take charge on their own. When the time comes, they can be sent everywhere to treat the sick everywhere. In this way, it is better than the miracle doctor and you are fighting alone? But Xiao Gongzi also said that when it comes to the diagnosis and treatment of plague and typhoid fever, Doctor Zhang can be called the first person in the world. I wonder if the doctor would be willing to teach these children? ”

"Teach, of course teach!" Zhang Zhongjing's chickens froze, and the middle-aged scribe painted a bright future for him. According to this method, 100 miracle doctors can be produced in 4 or 5 years, and another 100 miracle doctors will be produced in another 4 or 5 years.

In ancient times, there were few doctors, and even fewer doctors with high medical skills, for many reasons. Teacher inheritance is a reason, at that time there was no medical school, many doctors were children who followed the master to catch medicine, and learned medical knowledge from the master bit by bit.

Therefore, most doctors do not go through systematic learning, but rely more on their own diligence and talent. If the master's level is high, it's okay, you can get the master's effective guidance when you encounter difficulties, if the master's level is stinky, it's good not to point you astray.

Some are self-taught. The so-called not a good appearance is also a good doctor, in ancient times, some scholars had no hope of gaining fame, so they simply changed careers to become doctors. For a good appearance is to govern the country, a good doctor is to govern people, and if you can't govern the country, it is okay to take a step back and govern people. Although the text of the medical book is obscure, it is very easy for those who have studied the Four Books and the Five Classics to understand, and it is much easier to learn than ordinary people, so many famous doctors in history came out in this way.

It is said that Hua Tuo did not have a teacher, he was also a "scholar" (that is, a scholar), when he was young, he traveled abroad to study, and later became obsessed with medicine, and devoted himself to studying medical skills instead of seeking a career.

One can imagine how difficult it is to rely on self-education, especially medicine, which must go through a lot of clinical practice to achieve a "good doctor". What's more, in ancient times, when the printing industry was not developed, or even when printing was not invented at all, medical books were not so good.

Based on the above reasons, in ancient times, there were few doctors, even fewer "good doctors", and the level of doctors was uneven. Now Liu Hou has a hospital (including the functions of a medical school) that solves the problem of doctors' mentorship. Not only does it simply solve the problem of mentorship, but it also can concentrate a number of famous doctors, learn from each other's strengths, and intensively instill the most advanced medical knowledge of contemporary times to those apprentices. There is no reason for a "good doctor".

Zhang Zhongjing knew the superiority of this method as soon as he heard it, of course, the premise was that these famous doctors could make selfless contributions. What Zhang Zhongjing didn't know was that because Zuo Ci's master and apprentice had successively developed papermaking and printing, the textbook problem had also been well solved.

"Wait!" Zhang Zhongjing suddenly remembered a question, "What kind of people's hospital is for the people, I believe this, but now it is a troubled time, many people are displaced, and many people are even hungry. ”

In fact, Zhang Zhongjing's implication is: Can I see a doctor for free? If you see a doctor for free, how can you support it financially? He has done this himself, and of course he knows that the financial burden of treating these displaced people is heavy, and with his strength in Changsha County, facing these displaced people is only a drop in the bucket.

"The divine doctor can rest assured that the people's hospital set up by Xiao Gongzi has taken into account the problem of the poor. Seeing a doctor in a people's hospital can be divided into two situations: for those who have the ability to pay, they naturally still need to pay for medical treatment. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Zhongjing also nodded secretly, he agreed with this, and he did even more absolutely, for rich people, he often paid a lot of money before he was willing to go to the door to see a doctor.

For example, the last time he saw Mrs. Gan, he received 10 taels of gold from Liu Bei, which was put in the 21st century, almost 100,000 yuan, which is not expensive. Treating Wu Guotai turned out to be a night pearl, this kind of thing directly belongs to the ranks of priceless treasures.

Of course, you may say, what is 100,000 yuan? Now living in a hospital, I can't get out of it without tens of thousands of yuan, and 100,000 yuan is the scale of a minor illness.

However, you must know that modern medical care is so expensive, and a large part of it is because of the use of many large instruments and equipment, this inspection and that test. If you have surgery, the entire operating room and even all the equipment and accessories used are all sterile, and these things are not piled up with money.

But Zhang Zhongjing treats people, but he just looks and hears, and he doesn't even have an earpiece, if he wants to say that he has instruments and equipment, it is just a few silver needles. Take the pulse, roll your eyelids, pick up a brush and brush to open a prescription, if you do this, you will also charge 100,000 yuan, and put it in the 21st century, even if you claim to be the descendant of the imperial doctor, it is estimated that no one will give it, right?

"For those who can't afford to pay, we will first let them be treated, and when they recover, we will arrange for these patients or their relatives to work and repay them with their wages. Xiao Gongzi cultivated a lot of medicinal fields in the suburbs of Chengdu and planted a large number of various commonly used medicinal materials. In addition, Xiao Gongzi also opened some workshops, and those poor people who had no money for treatment or even food, Xiao Gongzi took them in to work in the medicine fields or go to work in the workshops. ”

"Oh, this is a good way to grow medicinal herbs, alas, why didn't I think of it, in this way, the price of medicinal herbs will inevitably drop greatly. But what is this workshop for? Why not grow food? ”

"Because there are too many people who can't afford to pay for medical treatment, the medicine field can't accommodate so many people at once, so Xiao Gongzi arranged some people to work in the workshop. This workshop produces all kinds of daily necessities, such as shoes, clothes, etc. Because the Chengdu Plain is fertile and the land has been cultivated for a long time, the war basically did not affect these families, and not many people abandoned their land and fled. As a result, there is not much wasteland left to farm. ”

In fact, Liu Hou's workshop produced a lot of things, such as paper, books, cement, gunpowder, guns, etc., which were rare or even never seen by people in this era. Save Zhang Zhongjing from asking endlessly.

Originally, Liu Hou was also ambitious and wanted to learn from Cao Cao's Tuntian, but when he came to the Chengdu Plain, he realized that the country of abundance here is not in vain, such a fertile piece of land, I don't know how many generations it is the owner's thing, people have been farming here for generations, you are always embarrassed to grab the Tuntian.

Cao Cao was able to engage in Tuntian because the Central Plains was in constant war, and the people either fled to avoid the military disaster or were slaughtered, so that a large amount of land was abandoned. Cao Cao was able to obtain ownership of these lands without much effort and implement the tuntian system.

In the name of benevolence and righteousness, even if Liu Bei attacked Yizhou, he would restrain his subordinates and would never condone the looting of his subordinates. Therefore, there was basically no damage to local production, and the people knew that the benevolent and righteous Uncle Liu Huang had arrived, and there was no phenomenon of fleeing. This also led Liu Hou to find some wasteland to come to Tuntian, but he couldn't find it. Therefore, we can only build more workshops and replace "medicine" (medical expenses) with "work".

"This method is really ingenious, so that not only is there no shortage of medicinal materials, but even the food of these displaced people is solved. You don't have to pay a penny from the government. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Zhang Zhongjing stroked his beard and said.

Of course, there is no need for the government to pay for it, and Liu Hou will not be stupid enough to implement a free medical care system for all. 2,000 years later, the land of China will not be able to achieve free medical care for all, let alone in this Three Kingdoms era where the level of productivity is extremely low.

What's more, even if he proposes a free medical plan, will he Lao Tzu Liu Bei agree? People are heroes, and they want to conquer the world, not to mention that there is no extra money and food now, even if they have, they will all use it to recruit troops and horses, make weapons and armor, where can they take care of any bullshit medical problems. Liu Hou naturally wouldn't be bored with himself and proposed such an unpleasant plan to him.

Liu Hou basically achieved the self-sufficiency of the hospital with this method. Part of the money comes from the appropriate increase in medical expenses for the wealthy, and most of the money comes from the labor income of these patients after they have recovered.

Although some patients will die, this part of the labor force will be lost in vain. However, the vast majority of recovered patients will be unwittingly "overworked" and, in Liu Hou's words, squeezed of surplus value. But most people don't notice it.

On the contrary, they can be treated, and they have already been thanked, where is the question of the length of the working time. What's more, for those homeless people who can't eat, even if they don't get medical treatment, they are willing to sell their labor force if they can have something to eat, so Liu Hou is really equivalent to a bodhisattva who saves suffering, so no one cheats, and the cured patients are willing to work honestly to pay off their debts.

In this way, Zhang Zhongjing was also successfully fooled back by Liu Hou. Liu Hou had the impression that there were three divine doctors during the Three Kingdoms period, known as the "Three Divine Doctors of Jian'an", but the other person was far less famous than Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, he only remembered that the person's surname was Dong, and he didn't remember the person's name.

In fact, Liu Hou didn't know that another miracle doctor of the "Three Divine Doctors of Jian'an" was called Dong Feng, who was also very famous in the medical community in later generations, and it was this person who represented the medical community with "Xinglin" in later generations.

It is said that Dong Feng has noble medical virtues, and he treats people all year round, but does not accept other people's remuneration. He cured the seriously ill and had them plant five apricot trees. If the patient is not seriously ill, he cures him and asks the patient to plant an apricot tree. In this way, more than ten years later, there are more than 100,000 apricot trees. This is a bit like Liu Hou's trick of "replacing medicine with work".

Dong Feng lived in a grass hut in the forest, and when the apricots were ripe, he said to the people, "Whoever wants to buy apricots does not have to tell me, as long as he pours a pot of rice into my rice warehouse, he can hold a pot of apricots." Dong Feng also exchanged the rice for apricots to help the poor peasants. Later, people built the apricot altar, the real altar, and the newspaper immortal altar in Dong Feng's seclusion to commemorate Dong Feng.

According to this legend, people use "apricot forest" to praise doctors, and use idioms such as "apricot forest spring warmth", "apricot forest spring full", "apricot forest full garden" or "reputation full of apopine forest" to praise the doctor's high medical skills and noble medical ethics.

The reason why Liu Hou couldn't find Dong Feng was very simple, because Dong Feng had not yet been born at this time, but his father Dong Xiao was one of Zhang Zhongjing's disciples......