NBA: The best team doctor in history

Chapter 169: Nobel Prize Vane: Lasker Award

"Well, you can all leave now. Sorry, I don't need an administrator like this."

The final result of the meeting was that all these people were fired by Jiang Ming.

Although it was a bit dragged out, Jiang Ming at least listened to all their demands.

If I were five years younger, I would have kicked them out the moment they mentioned building Portland's Mayo.

No, who do you think you are?
"What is Chinese Mayo?"

"I am Jiang Ming from China, I will never change my surname or name!!!"

No matter how much severance pay is paid in one lump sum or something else, these people will always be a cancer if they are kept.

Because their proposals are to turn the Tomorrow Clinic into a high-end clinic like Mayo, and they also want to continue to serve only the wealthy class, but Jiang Ming will never set a threshold for medical treatment.

He had said yesterday when he was having a midnight snack with the Trail Blazers' Chinese Medicine Department that he was ready to lower registration fees and specialist outpatient fees so that ordinary people could afford to see a doctor.

And now these people are actually talking about raising prices?

The reason was that Jiang Ming was now cleaning the entire hospital, organizing instruments and upgrading equipment. In addition, Jiang Ming was much more famous than the former dean, so it was normal to increase the registration fee.

Then Jiang Ming really couldn't waste any more words.

Although patients from China may not care about the difference of a few dozen dollars, a little less is still a little less, and their attitude will not change.

Moreover, this can be regarded as a pilot attempt for Jiang Ming to open a hospital in China in the future. If he can do well in the United States, he will be able to open it in China as well.

The main thing is to serve our own people!
The best outcome would be to make money from the Americans so that the Chinese people could get cheap medical treatment. This was Jiang Ming's ultimate goal, but he had never told anyone about it.

However, these big doctors said that judging others by one's own standards would simply touch Jiang Ming's sore spot.

Don't judge all the patients in the world by the patients you have been seeing.

Mayo Clinic in the United States has a total of 1,000 beds, with annual revenue of nearly 100 billion yuan. To put it roughly, one bed costs 100 million yuan.

The gambling king spent HK$20 billion to buy his life for several years at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. If all hospitals were like this, wouldn’t everyone have to look at their account balance and consider their own weight?

Do you still dare to see a doctor? It has really become an imperial hospital.

Jiang Ming obviously doesn't want to build such a hospital.

It's not like he hasn't heard of Mayo. It's one of the world's top private hospitals with really high standards and good service, but it's also really expensive. In essence, it has nothing to do with ordinary people. It's a place where the rich spend money to buy their lives.

And it doesn't have to be that expensive. Compared with Mayo Clinic's bed costing 500 million yuan, the average bed revenue of major hospitals in China is about 300 million yuan for Fudan University and Union University, and more than million yuan for the world's largest hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University.

The bed that Jiang Ming's parents have at Dongli costs 160 million per bed per year.

Other beds cost 160 million each, but this bed costs 1200 million. You should know that the Mayo Clinic has only 157 beds and an annual revenue of 80 billion US dollars, while the top Peking Union Medical College Hospital in the capital only has billion RMB!

The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, the largest in Asia, only has RMB 220 billion.

This shows that Mayo's ability to generate profits is too strong.

With this comparison, can domestic medical care be considered conscientious?
This was ridiculous in Jiang Ming's view, but he would not criticize hospitals like Mayo, because rich people from all over the world rushed to Mayo, and the medical resources of this public hospital were closer to the public, which could also suppress the nature of domestic hospitals.

"Sorry, I don't run a money-printing hospital." Jiang Ming used this excuse when he drove them away.

"Why?" the vice presidents asked subconsciously.

"The medical progress in the United States and the decline in life expectancy in the United States to a level lower than that of many countries are in stark contrast. In short, medical progress has nothing to do with ordinary Americans. I am not a great saint, I just want to treat everyone equally."

"Not all the crazy people who go to Mayo are Americans. There are also many Chinese people who go there."

"Yeah, isn't it good to be a high-end professional?"

At this time, Jiang Muyan, who was the most combative, rushed over and scolded everyone away with one sentence:

"Just because we don't raise our fees does that mean we are unprofessional and unreliable? You maggots are really insulting the medical profession. Find another job!"

"You juniors are so young and don't know the rules? Can you be more respectful? You haven't even joined the Medical Association, and you dare to talk to us like this? Do you believe that no one will come to your hospital?"

"Yeah, a guy with a blank resume, you're so proud of yourself after treating a rich man? People gave you a hospital because they wanted you to be their private hospital, not to rob the rich and help the poor!"

"random."

The administrative lady Meili, who had been listening terrifiedly nearby, quickly came up to act as a peacemaker. She asked the staff to "drive" these people out of the meeting room first, and then she mentioned some severance pay or something, which allowed them to leave cursing.

After all, they don't have to worry about food and drink. They are able to sit in the management positions of the hospital, so they are capable. There is no such thing as pure parachuting like in China:

Only with this person can this position be created.

So since Jiang Ming doesn't want them, they don't care. They just want to get more money. If they can't give it, they can just go to another hospital. The original shareholders are also recruiting people to build a new hospital.

It was just that she couldn't save her face after hearing what Jiang Ming said, so she had to curse a few times to vent her anger. Who would have thought that Jiang Ming would not buy it? It would be fine if he didn't buy it, but was the female doctor below so arrogant?
"People of the same family stick together. I want to see how many months you can stay open. What a mess!"

After handling everything, Mei Li also said that these people would not come to the hospital again, because the severance pay had been given as Jiang Ming said, which was equivalent to terminating the contract.

However, she herself also has a lot of questions. If so many managers and directors are laid off at once, can the hospital really operate?
After all, there are several people who are very authoritative in Portland.

Network of relationships and personal connections. Many patients were introduced by them or came because of them.

So he couldn't help but whispered to Jiang Ming:

"Director Jiang Ming, did you just drive them away like that? Can you tell me the real reason?"

Jiang Ming found Mei Li to be okay and down-to-earth. She was the one who directly delivered the share certificate to him.

So I simply answered:

"Let me put it this way. A registration at Mayo Clinic costs 500 US dollars. A registration at my previous hospital only costs 168 RMB. Our hospitalization for a heart surgery and valve replacement costs at most 12 RMB. Their 12 USD does not include hospitalization. Are they just trying to make money and spend money?"

Mei Li was speechless after hearing this. Indeed, it is difficult for ordinary people to see a doctor. If you calculate the exchange rate, you will understand why Jiang Ming has such an idea.

Jiang Muyan also sighed:

"I have a friend who is studying abroad in Los Angeles. He suddenly fell ill and the ambulance cost thousands of dollars each time." Jiang Ming said with a smile:

"Oh, I know more about this kind of thing. My father had a relatively wealthy patient who went to the emergency room in the United States and asked: If I have an operation, will the insurance cover it? The doctor took a look and said: No!
It took a total of 15 minutes, they asked a few questions, and charged me $5000.”

"In the end, the operation failed, and I spent all the money I brought with me, so I had to come back to my dad for treatment."

"Hahahahaha."

"Don't laugh, what are we going to do now? All of our core members are gone."

In the evening, when Jiang Ming invited all the hospital staff to eat roasted whole beef in the cafeteria, Fang Xiaotong looked at Jiang Ming with her hands on her hips and a resentful look on her face.

"What can I do? I'm still so cute even if you're mean to me."

Jiang Ming rubbed her bun.

"Why can't we talk things out calmly? What if someone changes their mind? Sometimes the hospital still needs these people."

There is a reason why Fang Xiaotong can be the deputy chief nurse. She is called the Little Sun and also the Peacemaker. No matter how noisy the patients are, they will be persuaded by her, not to mention the doctors.

But Jiang Ming would not tolerate it, not because he was young and frivolous.

Rather, his mentality has changed after his trip to Sanqing Mountain.

This is his unique romantic sentiment, which he learned from Hua Tuo and others.

Fortunately, there is no Cao Cao in this life, and it is no longer the emperor era.

So he could be an ascetic within his ability.

As for how to do it, it is very simple. Just promote the administrative lady Meili and let her find some good HR to recruit people.

"In any hospital, doctors are the easiest to replace, not to mention administrative staff. Isn't managing a hospital much easier than managing a company?"

In Jiang Ming's opinion, asking Paul Allen to borrow an HR or administrative manager from Microsoft would do a much better job than these people.

"That's right. Besides, you, me, sister Muyan, Sean, Robert, and so many other juniors and seniors, a lot of people want to come to our hospital."

After hearing what Jiang Ming said, Fang Xiaotong felt much relieved. Indeed, there was no shortage of such people, and they could be recruited quickly.

The main reason is that everyone has a professional background and has their own network of connections, and former school mentors are also eager to find employment opportunities for graduates.

Tomorrow the clinic may not be a good place to work in the eyes of Americans.

But it is definitely a hot commodity for Asian doctors, especially Chinese doctors. Working in the United States comes with a lot of prestige, not to mention working under the popular Jiang Ming. It is just a matter of time to get a visa.

“You are really Jiang Ming now, not Ming for tomorrow, but you dare to ask the sun and moon to change the sun and moon of the new sky!”

"You are good at talking, why should I give you the title of vice president?"

Seeing that Fang Xiaotong was so good at talking, Jiang Ming tore a beef thigh for her, daring to change the sun and the moon to a new sky. This was indeed his ultimate goal.

"Then let's do it!"

A week later.

Tomorrow the clinic's sign replaced the original name of the Salmon River Heritage Endowment Hospital, and to thank Paul Allen, Jiang Ming also added his name.

As soon as the doorplate was changed, it instantly felt different, and you could also feel that this was Jiang Ming's private clinic.

Now more and more people know the name of "Tomorrow's Clinic". Every day, people come to the sign to check in, take photos and post them on Twitter and basketball forums.

There are also patients who come to the security room every day to ask.

Even when Jiang Ming was watching a game at the scene, there were fans asking him when the clinic would open, whether he could treat certain diseases, when Jiang Ming himself would be available for outpatient consultation, how much the registration fee would be, etc. There were a lot of questions like this. He still attracted a lot of attention in the local area.

The Trail Blazers official Weibo also advertised Jiang Ming in China:
"The private clinic "Tomorrow Clinic" of Dr. Jiang Ming, the director of the medical department of our team, will soon open in Portland. I hope all patients will be healthy and live long, and have a bright future."

This attracted many Chinese patients, as he is a master of Chinese medicine who was carefully selected by Microsoft and certified by the NBA!

Those patients who worship traditional Chinese medicine or even think it is crazy are very eager to go to the clinic for treatment tomorrow, but there are also a lot of negative news and pessimism.

There were even rumors that Jiang Ming was only an honorary dean and that his team did not treat patients at all.

In order to ensure the smooth opening of Jiang Ming's private clinic, Paul Allen also secretly assisted Jiang Ming.

In order to match his status as Dean Jiang, he was awarded the Lasker Medical Award for Clinical Medical Research without Jiang Ming's knowledge!
This is a big award in the medical field!

The Lasker Award is known as the "barometer" of the Nobel Prize and is also one of the most important awards in the biomedical field worldwide.

This medical award with a history of more than 60 years has four awards: Basic Medical Research Award, Clinical Medical Research Award, Public Service Award, and Special Achievement Award in Medical Science.

Jiang Ming had naturally heard of it. He had to know about this when he came to the United States, because it was the most prestigious biomedical award in the United States and the second largest award in the medical field after the Nobel Prize.

It was founded in 1946 by Albert Lasker, a famous American advertising manager and philanthropist known as the "Father of Modern Advertising", and his wife Mary Ward Lasker to honor scientists, doctors and public service personnel who have made outstanding contributions to the field of medicine.

When the people from the Lasker Award organization found Jiang Ming, Jiang Ming thought it was a scam until they showed him the real money award and certificate.

The official website of the Lasker Award wrote the reasons why these awards were given to these doctors this year, and Jiang Ming was still very interested and went to check it out.

There is a prize winner for "discovering and developing GLP-1-based drugs, which has revolutionized the treatment of obesity." In other words, he invented a drug that promotes weight loss. It is indeed a good and practical invention. There are too many fat people in Europe and the United States now.

There was also recognition for a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School for his discovery of "the cGAS enzyme that senses foreign and self-DNA, unlocking the mystery of how DNA stimulates immune and inflammatory responses."

The Public Service Award was given to a couple in Africa who are both public health experts. The reason is obvious to everyone. There are too many AIDS cases in Africa. They introduced key methods of AIDS prevention and treatment that can save lives, as well as their outstanding talents in public health policy and advocacy.

As for the reason for Jiang Ming's award, it's a bit forced, but it's okay
To commend "Chinese doctor Jiang Ming for his superb application of traditional Chinese medicine in tumor surgery."

It has nothing to do with sports medicine, nor the Trail Blazers. It's more about the magic and advancement of Jiang Ming's traditional Chinese medicine. Does this mean that the Americans also admit that traditional Chinese medicine is awesome?
This is not easy!
No matter how much infighting there is among traditional Chinese medicine practitioners at home and abroad, they can all be proud of Jiang Ming's award!
So this is obviously the work of Paul Allen, otherwise would it be the turn of Asian doctors?
The reason why Paul Allen did this is very simple:
Didn't they say Jiang Ming had no achievements? Isn't this coming?
Now the honor can fully match the strength.

In the future, passers-by and patients will ask about the level of the director of this Tomorrow Clinic?
“A Lasker Award winner at the age of 28!”

(End of this chapter)