A doctor who travels through two eras

1961:3 AM, March 15, 7

Lin Sanqi stood on the platform of Daiyue Hall, looking at the nearly 200 medical staff below, feeling quite proud.

There are 70 clinical doctors here, most of whom have studied abroad and are absolutely elite talents. Previously, other hospitals had dismissed all of them due to composition issues, but in the end, all of them were given to Lin Sanqi.

Some of them have no experience of studying abroad, but they graduated from domestic private medical schools such as Peking Union Medical College, West China University School of Medicine, Qilu University School of Medicine, and St. John's University School of Medicine during the Republic of China. They are also rare talents.

Feng Ruoqi, Jia Xuezhen and other retired doctors who had just returned to the capital from local areas were also extremely excited at this time.

They thought they would be stuck in the countryside for the rest of their lives, never expecting that there would be a day when they would put on their white coats again.

Maybe they were not loyal to Lin Sanqi, but they definitely worked hard to avoid being driven back to the countryside again.

Lin Sanqi looked at the time and said:
"It's almost 8 o'clock, and everyone's division of labor has been clarified. As the dean, I want to make a few points clear: working in an infectious disease hospital, you don't need to flatter your superiors, nor do you need to worry about the storms in society.

We are all medical personnel. No matter where you come from, no matter what your background is, no matter which university you graduated from, our goal is the same: to serve the people and conquer one infectious disease after another.

In addition, the most important thing is to be loyal to the country. Our tuberculosis drugs are patented, so imperialism will definitely find a way to get our drugs, reverse engineer them, and then counterfeit them for production, which will be a huge loss for our country.

Therefore, everyone should be vigilant at ordinary times, especially nurses, who must ensure that every patient swallows the medicine and check whether there is any residue in the patient's mouth afterwards.

In addition, we are an infectious disease hospital, so everyone must pay attention to personal protection. The hospital provides the latest N95 masks, which everyone needs to wear every day. If anyone needs isolation clothing, you can ask the head nurse, and you must protect yourself. "

At this time, Bi Xinglong hurried over:

"Director Lin, there are too many patients outside. It's simply a sea of ​​people. What should we do?"

The Dongyue Temple is very large and the gate is tightly closed. Lin Sanqi knew that there would be patients waiting outside, but he did not expect the number of patients to be described as "huge crowds".

“So many patients?”

Lin Sanqi was puzzled as he quickly ran towards the door. He ran to the top of the bell tower and took a look. The street outside the hospital was really crowded with people.

"Wow~~~ So many people, at least two or three thousand, right?"

Bi Xinglong estimated: "More than that, definitely more than five thousand, and it's still early in the morning, there should be many patients on their way."

Lin Sanqi still underestimated the power of newspapers during this period.

After the Renzhi Daily, Xinhua Daily, Guangming Daily, Wenhui Daily and other newspapers published in full the news release that the Capital Infectious Disease Hospital was able to cure tuberculosis, provinces across the country also received related newspapers one after another.

Then the news spread from the capital and quickly exploded across the country.

There is no authoritative data on how many tuberculosis patients there are in the country.

During the Republic of China period, chest X-ray examinations were conducted on more than 500 students at Tsinghua University, and the prevalence of tuberculosis among those examined was 3%.

Later, the Tuberculosis Clinic of the First Health Office of Peking conducted a chest examination on 4367 students from Peking University and Fu Jen Catholic University, and the prevalence of active pulmonary tuberculosis was 5.1%.

During the same period, Shanghai's Hongqiao Sanatorium conducted a statistical report on the X-ray examination of 3224 citizens, and found that 795 people were suffering from tuberculosis.

It can be seen from this that the incidence rate of tuberculosis in the early days of liberation was over 3%. Even if calculated at 3%, the total number of people in the country with a population of 6 million is at least around 2000 million.

The number of tuberculosis patients in the capital area alone may exceed 10.

Tuberculosis, tuberculosis, nine out of ten cases of tuberculosis are fatal. This jingle is known to people all over the country. Anyone who gets tuberculosis is waiting to die.

Even a great professor, a great writer and a wealthy man like Mr. Lu Shuren died of tuberculosis.

So when the newspapers reported that the Capital Infectious Disease Hospital had conquered tuberculosis and the cure rate had reached over 90%, tuberculosis patients who were eligible across the country were eager to try.

Even though the capital is far away at this time and one may have to travel day and night, compared with "life and death", what does it matter?

Looking at the crowded street in front of the hospital, Bi Xinglong was a little worried: "Director Lin, how can we see all these patients? How about opening at 6 am and closing at 6 pm? Or working in two shifts, from 6 am to 10 pm?"

This is the practice of the vast majority of hospitals. No matter how many patients there are, all patients will be treated on the same day. Even if you, as a doctor, do not eat or rest, you have to see all the patients before you leave.

Is there anything wrong with this logic?
Or from the patient's perspective, there is no problem.

But from the perspective of medical staff, the problem is huge, because this pace is so exhausting that it will kill people.

A few decades later, there was a statistic that showed that among all industries across the country, doctors had the highest rate of sudden death and the shortest average life expectancy.

They are really being used like beasts of burden. Not only are they tiring at work, but they also have to take various continuing education courses after get off work. For example, you are required to obtain a certain number of credits a year. It takes 3 hours to get 9 credits, 5 hours to get 15 credits, and the total score must be 25 to meet the requirement.

In order to keep up with the times, you have to enroll in various graduate courses, right? A master's degree is not enough, you have to get a doctorate, right?
There are also various professional titles to consider, such as chief physician, associate senior professor, and senior professor. The exams are very strict, so you have to study hard with your books after get off work, right?

In addition, if you want to make progress, you have to do research projects, right? You have to write papers, right? This is a process of repeated experiments, repeated research, and so on.

Even if you don't have any study tasks, you should read various cutting-edge medical magazines, journals, medical materials, etc. in order to improve your level.

Now we have to add an outpatient clinic to see the doctor.

It is said that foreign doctors have good attitudes, high skills, patience, and talk to patients like friends.

In those European and American medical dramas, doctors wear smart white coats, hold coffee in one hand and are in the mood to joke around, as if life is peaceful and tranquil. How many patients do they see in a day? Are there more than 10?
If you go to China and try it, you will find that once the outpatient clinic opens in the morning, the number calling machine never stops.

When you are busy, let alone taking a break or eating, you don’t even have time to pee. If you leave for a few minutes, the patients will start scolding you.

If it is the night clinic of the emergency department, it is even worse. After a night of rescue get off work, you are so tired that you have to sit on the ground and drink glucose.

If you are so busy every day, with high-intensity mental and physical labor, it would be strange if you don't die suddenly.

So Lin Sanqi firmly denied it:
"Lao Bi, in this way, we can open a few more clinics, but each doctor must be limited in number."

"F; N?"

Bi Xinglong was a little surprised:
"President Lin, I know that doctors abroad are limited in number, but we don't have such a thing in our country.

Moreover, limiting the number of patients will definitely cause dissatisfaction among patients. Our current slogan is to serve the people wholeheartedly. If there are too many complaints from patients, it will affect your reputation and assessment. "

Lin Sanqi pointed at the patient outside and asked:
"What if there is no limit on the number of patients? Believe it or not, even if we treat patients 24 hours a day, how many patients can we see? To eliminate tuberculosis, we need the strength of the whole country, not the strength of our entire hospital.

I brought you back as overseas doctors to treat you as seeds. If each of you learns how to treat tuberculosis, then you can set up a hospital just like me.

Now you have 70 doctors. If you set up 70 hospitals, can you cure more tuberculosis patients? If these 70 people teach 700 students, can you set up 700 hospitals in the future?
So now every doctor in our hospital is the most precious medical talent. I am cultivating them as seeds, and I cannot let them die of exhaustion at work. If I do that, I will be sorry for these doctors and their families.”

When Bi Xinglong heard this, he would be lying if he said he wasn't touched.

"Thank you, thank you Dean Lin, thank you for treating us as human beings!"

Lin Sanqi also sings high-profile slogans, otherwise it will be troublesome if it does not match the current propaganda:
"In our socialist country, everyone is equal. Patients are human beings, and doctors are human beings too. Patients want to live, and doctors also want to live. Since everyone is equal, no one owes anyone anything, so the best way is for no one to wrong anyone.

In this case, you should immediately post a notice at the entrance of the hospital, saying that we will open 15 clinics every day, and each doctor can only see 50 patients a day. Of course, you should not say that you are worried that the doctor will be tired, because patients will not accept this reason and will be scolded instead. "

Bi Xinglong scratched his head: "Then how can I limit the number of restrictions?"

Lin Sanqi said with contempt:

"You are such a wooden man. You just said that our infectious disease hospital currently only has 300 beds. In addition, the supply of medicines is limited. We can only accommodate so many beds every day."

Bi Xinglong's eyes lit up: "Yes, this is a good idea!"

Lin Sanqi looked at the huge crowd and wondered if what he was doing would lead to the emergence of scalpers. (End of this chapter)