Chapter 42‖ Centennial Concord
In 1914, Wu Liande, a public health scientist who had presided over the eradication of pneumonic plague in Northeast China, urged the Rockefeller Foundation to establish a Western medical system in country Z.
After three visits to country Z, the Rockefeller Foundation purchased all the land of the former Union Medical College Hall and Yuwangfu, and invested 7.5 million US dollars to build the Beijing Union Hospital.
The Union Hospital complex consists of 14 buildings, equipped with the most advanced medical equipment in the world at that time, and the overall architectural quality was at the peak level at that time.
Not only that, Concord has independent power equipment and mechanical equipment, including power plants, high-pressure boiler rooms, ice factories, laughing gas plants, gas plants, car rooms, laundry rooms, sewing rooms, printing rooms, telephone rooms, machine shops, electrical factories and drawing rooms.
The "Annals of Union Medical College" describes the scene of the initial construction of Union Medical College Hospital as follows:
"Bought the old site of Yuwangfu, with an area of more than 60 acres, built 14 new houses, painted carved beams on the outside, jade rails and green tiles, concentrated on the grand view of Chinese architecture, and the inside was well-equipped and well-equipped."
On October 26 of that year, the communiqué of the Rockefeller Medical Society described Union Hospital as follows-
"The early autumn in Beijing is beautiful, the hutongs are not as dusty as they are on a daily basis, the shops in the streets and alleys look like paintings, and even the shouts of wandering vendors and beggars sound pleasant......
Through the clear air, the blue and blue West Mountain stands in the distance; The nearby Jingshan Mountain is adorned with exquisite pagodas.
There is also the magnificent Imperial City Wall Gate, the Forbidden City with its golden roof.
The green glazed roof of the Yuwang Mansion is no less impressive in comparison, and this is the newly built medical school and hospital."
In terms of faculty, Union Medical College Hospital is more solid, and when Rockefeller planned to build Union Medical College, he introduced the world's most advanced medical technology and management experience at that time.
The Beijing Union Hospital, like its magnificent and wonderful complex, is a standard combination of Chinese and Western medicine, which is rooted in the foundation of country Z.
By the 30s of the 20th century, most of the backbone doctors here were from country Z.
Lin Qiaozhi, the founder of gynecology in country Z and the mother of ten thousand babies
According to a report by Time magazine in 1956, the Rockefeller Foundation invested a total of $48 million in the construction of Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Peking Union Medical College.
In 1924, when Rabindranath Tagore, a master of Indian literature, visited China, some poets of the Crescent Society celebrated Tagore's 64th birthday in the Concord Chapel and performed Tagore's Zidra in English.
In 1924, Sun Wen fell ill on his way north, and on the last day of that year, he arrived in the capital.
He was found to have cirrhosis of the liver and nodules all over the place during an open examination at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Liu Ruiheng, the director of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, admitted that he had no hope of survival.
Mr. Sun Wen died on March 12, 1925, and the day after his death, James, then head of the Department of Pathology, performed an autopsy, and the final autopsy report was gallbladder cancer.
Friends who have watched the movie "Evil Does Not Prevail Over Justice" must remember a scene where Li Tianran, who had just come to Beijing, got a job at Union Hospital.
On the first day of employment, the dean worshiped a kidney soaked in a jar with him.
The dean said that he had cut the wrong good kidney of a scholar in Beiping, and left the bad kidney in his body, which was not completely apocryphal.
In 1926, Liang Qichao found that he always had blood in his urine and died for a long time, so he went to Union Hospital, which had X-rays and other examination methods at that time.
Suspected of cancer, Liu Ruiheng, the director of Union Hospital at the time, removed the right kidney, and the operation was very successful, but he became ill half a year after the operation.
At that time, there were rumors that the dean cut the wrong kidney, which caused Liang Qichao's condition to worsen, which caused a lot of public opinion, in order to make everyone have confidence in Western medicine.
Liang Qichao specially published an article titled "My Illness and Union Hospital" to correct the doctor's name.
At the beginning of 1928, Liang Qichao died, and the matter also became a headless public case.
A history of Concord is half of the history of medicine in country Z, Concord is very famous, and it is difficult to get into Concord Medical College.
This is also one of the reasons why the Union Hospital was heavily copied in the future.
It was previously reported on the Internet that only 4 of the more than 1,700 Union hospitals in the country are true.
They are:
Beijing Union Hospital, Wuhan Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Union Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, and Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Hospital, in fact, although the first three hospitals have the same origin, they are not the same.
They were all formerly known as local church hospitals, and the word "Union" is derived from the English word "Union".
For nearly 100 years, they all represent a high level of local medicine, but they are not three branches of the same hospital, and the fourth hospital was jointly founded by Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital.
These four hospitals are completely different from the XX Union Medical College that specializes in the treatment of dark diseases in online advertisements, and it has been very difficult to get into Beijing Union Medical College since its establishment.
Students at Union Medical College are required to take a three-year preparatory course before admission, and the scope of study is so broad that students doubt their lives.
They are all required to be proficient in the natural sciences, English and humanities, as the hospital believes that before they can become doctors, they must become a complete "person".
Those who are admitted to the pre-medical department are already the top students, and the number of people who can graduate from the pre-medical department and be admitted to the pre-medical college is less than one-third.
Admission to the school is not everything, and the policy of strict entry and strict exit makes students never neglect their studies, Wu Jieping, a famous Chinese urologist who graduated from Peking Union Medical College, recalls his life in the first year:
"I arrived at school from the dormitory at 8 a.m., got out of class after 12 p.m., rushed back to the dormitory for lunch, took a lunch break of no more than half an hour, and rushed to school to start the lab class at 2 p.m.
Although it was supposed to end at 5 o'clock, sometimes it was delayed, and I remember one time when the results of the experiment were not given until 1 a.m....... Before the exam, some students were even more nervous, and some students stayed up all night and stayed up all night to revise their homework."
One failed re-exam, two failed repeaters, and three failed expulsions, while the passing mark was 75 points.
The brutal elimination system makes every student who successfully graduates must be the strongest king.
It is under this rigorous academic style that Union Medical College has cultivated the top doctors of modern medicine in country Z and continuously delivered them to hospitals all over China.
It can be said that a history of Concord is half of the history of Western studies in country Z.
100 years later, when we look back at the day of the completion of Union Hospital.
Mishi Street is not as busy and congested as it is now, and there are no magnificent buildings like Jinbao Street and Oriental Plaza around.
Ordinary people are running around the streets and alleys, not knowing what the future holds. A group of ambitious, quick-witted young people began their quest for a new world, doing their part to reduce the suffering and restore health to the patients who came to them.
And today, it is still a group of such enthusiastic people, holding a sword without a handle, to assist all mankind in the fight against disease.