1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 79: In the Name of Charity

Cleveland Workers District, “Salvation” Charity Hospital.

The “Salvation” hospital is very different from before. The devout believers of the Baptist Church, a kind church member, and the tycoon Mr. Scrooge McDonald, showed his kindness and donated a large sum of money to this charity hospital through the church. As a result, the hospital, which was originally shrunk in an old warehouse, completely changed its appearance.

The old warehouse has been demolished, and many shacks around the hospital have also been included in the scope of the hospital. In just a few months, a brand new hospital appeared in front of people. This is a magnificent hospital, even a hospital in a wealthy area is not necessarily better than this. At least, it looks like this from the outside. (How is it in the hospital in the rich district, the poor have never seen it.)

In fact, the same is true. This is the first standardized hospital in the entire United States and the second such hospital in the world. Its construction was only less than a month later than the “Scrooge Albert” Hospital affiliated to the University of Cambridge. Later, people in United States would often use this hospital to show off the moral advantages of people in United States: “Look, the first standardized hospital for the British is only for the nobles and wealthy people. Only our United States, the first Such hospitals are built in slums and serve the poor at extremely low prices.” In fact, after Scrooge completed his vision of a standardized hospital, he immediately sent it back to Cleveland to let own Big Brother Carol is arrogantly building such a hospital.

This hospital has a high white wall separating it from the surrounding dirty and messy worker settlements. Only at the front can you see the scene inside through the iron carved gate.

Facing the gate is a fountain. Behind the fountain is a statue of Hippocrates carved from white marble on a black marble base. On the black marble base, there is a bronzing flower body. The word was carved with an inscription like this:

“I will do my best to take medical measures that I think are beneficial to the patient, and never cause pain or harm 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 secrets. Practice medicine innocently and never do anything that is life-threatening. If you violate this oath, Deva will die together!”

Behind the statue is the outpatient department of the hospital. This is a two-story small building. 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 traverser walks into the outpatient building of this hospital, he will feel very familiar, because it is completely arranged in accordance with the hospital of later generations. The entrance hall is facing the doctor’s desk, where there is a female nurse wearing a white nurse uniform recommending the department you should choose. Then there is the registration desk where you can queue up for registration. On both sides of the hall and on the second floor, there are various departments including internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, ENT, and dermatology.

On the left side of the outpatient building, there is another small building, which is the treatment center of the hospital. The emergency room, operating room, and intensive care unit are all there. Behind the small building is a bungalow surrounded by a high wall. Because the wall is very high, people can’t see the house inside except from the small door of the wall. Two guards stood at the small gate, and a sign was hung: “Dangerous infectious disease isolation treatment area.”

On the right side of the outpatient clinic, there is a bungalow with a sign of disinfection area, where various items in the hospital are disinfected. Behind it is the pharmacy warehouse. And behind all this is a garden, and a small building standing in the garden. There is the inpatient department.

The medical staff of the hospital has also changed. In the original “Salvation” hospital, there were only a few Mongolian doctors who had no medical license at all. Now, these people have lost the qualifications to continue practicing medicine here. Some of them left, while others stayed to help the new doctors who are qualified to practice medicine.

The original dean stayed, but he is no longer the dean. Mr. Scrooge McDonald personally served as the dean of this hospital, but he is not really involved in the management of specific things. The specific matters were handled by a doctor from Prussia called Joseph Menger. This is a doctor with a wealth of medical experience and an extremely amiable smile, and he also has a doctorate from the University of Munich Medical School. He actually presides over the work of the hospital as the deputy dean, while his friend Dr. Albertheim is in charge of the medical business. If a traverser came here to see a doctor, he would definitely be scared to death by the names of these two. However, compared to their younger generations with the same name and surname, what they did was not much different. The former Dean of Heathfeld is now assigned to supervise the study of the little nurses.

In the original era, the world’s first nursing school created by the great lantern goddess Nightingale would not be established until 1860. But in this time and space, when Scrooge was visiting the United Kingdom, he also took time to visit this great woman, and proposed to her to build a nursing school to change the chaotic situation of the nursing industry at that time, and better serve the patients. Relieve the pain. And donated a huge sum of about 10,000 pounds. Therefore, at the end of 1958, this school, which should have only appeared in 1860, appeared ahead of schedule. Of course, at least for now, this school is not yet able to provide qualified nurses for the hospital, because the students have just started learning, and it is far from the time to graduate.

Ms. Nightingale kept sending tutorials based on her various nursing experiences to Scrooge by post. So these things have become teaching materials for the current nurses to hurry up and learn.

The “Salvation” hospital has a good environment, high level of medical staff, and a variety of magical medicines behind it. Therefore, the medical effect of this hospital is quite excellent. Not to mention, the poor workers around, even the wealthy people who are sick, are willing to come here to see them. Of course, wealthy people must pay when they see a doctor.

With the rise of the hospital’s reputation, Scrooge’s reputation in Cleveland has begun to approach that of Sage. When he went to church every week to pretend to pray, almost everyone who passed by him would say: “May God bless you, Mr. MacDonald.” Now even the old man of his father Joseph Sr. Neighbors also called him “Mr. MacDonald” instead of “Scrooge”. As for his father Joseph Sr., he was naturally elevated to “Mr. MacDonald Sr.”. Some people even say that more than 1,800 years ago, a Joseph carpenter bred a Sacred; and the current Joseph cobbler, although a little closer, also bred a Sage.

However, the construction of this hospital is not specifically for reputation. This hospital has a major mission, which is to test drugs for McDonald’s Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company.At the end of July, after Scrooge returned to United States, within a month, McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceuticals completed the development of two new drugs. These two drugs are well-known in later generations. They are diacetylmorphine (heroin) and methamphetamine (meth). In the original history, chemist Wetter first synthesized heroin in 1874, which was only used as a surgical anesthetic at the beginning. From then on in the 1990s, the Bayer company in Germany discovered that this thing is good for almost any physical pain and discomfort. It has a very strong relieving effect, so it will be used as a miraculous medicine to cure all diseases to the market and make a fortune. (This is still in the case that Bayer does not have a patent for heroin at all. Now, Scrooge has a full set of patents for this thing)

When dealing with these two drugs, Scrooge’s approach is the same as Bayer’s approach back then.

First of all, in the drug trial stage, because heroin is a morphine product, at that time, the addictiveness of morphine was already very clear. Therefore, if you want to make this kind of thing sell well, and finally buy a single medicine that accounts for more than 5.5% of the total sales of all medicines in the world as in history, people must be convinced that this thing is not addictive. of. At that time, Bayer’s approach was as follows: First, each pill was made very small, the total amount of heroin in it was strictly controlled, and the dosage was also very small. Secondly, some slow-release technologies are used to slow down the absorption of heroin in the medicine by the human body. In this way, before heroin enters the brain, a lot of it is metabolized in the human body, and then in various experiments, the addiction is naturally not obvious. Of course, if someone has to take a lot of medicine, then what happens is nothing to do with MacDonald Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.

According to Bayer’s experience in another time and space, bribing doctors is very important for the promotion of drugs. In order to promote heroin, Bayer issued a high rebate to every doctor who prescribes the heroin produced by Bayer for a patient. The amount even reached two to three tiers of profit from selling the drug. (This trick was still used by GlaxoSmithKline not long ago.) In order to rebate, doctors frantically prescribe heroin to various patients. What? Have a cold? Easy to handle! Let’s have a box of heroin. What? Have a fever? It’s okay, let’s have a box of heroin. What kid can’t sleep well at night? It’s okay, here’s a box… With this trick, the sales of heroin have almost increased exponentially. How can 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: heroin has a very good cough relieving effect on coughs, and it has no obvious side effects and is absolutely harmless. It is the safest and best kind of all cough medicines; it is not only a cough relieving, but it is effective for almost all cough medicines. The pain caused by the disease has miraculous curative effects, which is simply a miracle God bestows on mankind. Even for healthy people, this medicine has a great effect. For example, taking a little before exercise can also make breathing easier.

Of course, Scrooge understands that when advertising any medicine, if it is advertised that it has no side effects, it will often make patients worry about it. So when the drug is ready to be officially launched on the market, Scrooge thought about it. , Read the various reports carefully, and then crossed out the words “no side effects” in the side-effect column of the manual prepared by the assistant, and then added this Text: There may be a small chance of causing mild constipation.

As a result, this terrible devil was officially introduced into the market through the recommendation of the “Salvation” hospital, and began its history of harming mankind. Hippocrates, standing quietly on the marble base in front of the “Salvation” hospital, look back and see what is going on in this hospital! Those who have sworn “not to give poison to anyone, and do not instruct anyone to use poison” are giving terrible poison to every patient; those who claim to “never do anything endangering life” are releasing forthcoming Devil who devours countless lives. If you can look back, if you can shout loudly, would you also shout to the sky: “Gods of Olympus, Zeus, father of the gods, where is your thunder and lightning now? ?!”