June 6th, a very auspicious day, on this day, the entire Wangjia Village was filled with the sound of gongs and drums and the crackling of firecrackers.
The village clinic, which was originally in the village, officially closed its doors and was replaced by a modernized new hospital integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
This hospital was named Wangjia Village New Life Hospital, and Old Master Wang personally inscribed the plaque for it.
Although this hospital was not large in scale, it was fully equipped.
In terms of Western medicine, New Life Hospital was equipped with two surgeons, two internal medicine doctors, two gynecologists, and two pediatricians.
In addition, the hospital also had two radiologists, specializing in modern diagnostic equipment such as MRI and CT scans.
Furthermore, the hospital had a fully functional laboratory department, where examinations that could be performed in large city hospitals could also be done here.
In addition to the doctors, the hospital was also equipped with more than 30 nurses, the number of nurses equipped far exceeding that of other hospitals.
As for the hospital's director, Wang Bin, he himself was a very outstanding general practitioner.
In terms of traditional Chinese medicine, there were currently only two pharmacists responsible for managing the hospital's Chinese medicine pharmacy and for decocting and processing Chinese medicine for patients.
Physicians would write prescriptions, and patients would directly take the prescriptions to get their medicine. If they could help them decoct the medicine, they would then seal and package it.
Patients could store the decocted liquid in the refrigerator and heat it up to drink when taking it.
This was a popular model in various Chinese medicine hospitals in recent years, which could save patients a lot of trouble.
However, the problem was that in the hospital now, besides Ling Tian, there were no other doctors in the Chinese medicine department.
In fact, at the beginning, Old Master Wang spent a lot of money to hire several Chinese medicine practitioners, but Ling Tian interviewed them and ultimately eliminated all of them.
Ling Tian's evaluation of these people was that their skills were not good, but their temperaments were quite significant.
Finally, Ling Tian had a heart-to-heart talk with Wang Bin, and they came up with a plan, which was for Ling Tian to recruit fresh graduates from medical schools.
Although these students' skills were far inferior to those of experienced Chinese medicine practitioners, Ling Tian believed that as long as these people had a good foundation, he could train them!
However, for a hospital, the most important thing is to have patients.
Wangjia Village had several thousand residents, but not everyone got sick every day.
So Old Master Wang sent people to publicize in several surrounding villages and even towns.
Every morning, a minibus would arrive at each village at a fixed time and place to pick up patients from here to go to New Life Hospital for treatment.
In the afternoon, the bus would depart on time and send these patients back to the village.
The villagers had never enjoyed such treatment. The village health clinic could only treat colds and diarrhea, and could not treat any other illnesses.
As for those township hospitals, an appendectomy was considered a major surgery. Any slightly more complicated illness would be referred to the large hospitals in the city.
With the sudden appearance of such an anomaly as New Life Hospital, patients flocked in.
When these patients arrived at the hospital, they found that the hospital's equipment was even more advanced than they had imagined!
And the doctors in this hospital were no less skilled than the doctors in large city hospitals.
What made them even happier was that the consultation fees here were very low. For the same illness, the consultation fees here were 1/3 lower than in city hospitals.
However, what surprised the patients waiting in line was that the Chinese medicine department, which occupied nearly half of the hospital's area, only had one room open for business.
The Western medicine department had a continuous stream of people queuing, while the Chinese medicine department was deserted.
Some curious patients walked over to watch. Through the glass outside the consultation room, they were surprised to find that in this Chinese medicine consultation room, there was a young man and a little girl about ten years old.
The young man was drawing and writing on a whiteboard, while the little girl was listening attentively and taking notes from time to time.
Almost all the patients shook their heads and left, even if they had to queue, they would not go to the Chinese medicine department.
In the minds of most Chinese people, there is such a cognition: the older the Chinese medicine practitioner, the more valuable they are.
This is because the profession of Chinese medicine requires a lot of time to accumulate clinical experience.
Even those swindlers who pretend to be Chinese medicine practitioners and go out to deceive people are all white-haired and have an ethereal demeanor.
And the two people in this room, many people thought it was a doctor bringing their child to work and asking an intern to help take care of the child.
Ling Tian did not care about the number of patients at all. He had been bringing his apprentice Xing Jiajia to the hospital every day for the past few days. On the one hand, it was to let the little girl experience the hospital atmosphere, and on the other hand, it was to let the little girl come into contact with some patients and accumulate some clinical experience.
In a few more months, junior high school would start, and opportunities to study medicine wholeheartedly like this were rare.
One morning, patients were queuing up for treatment, and at this moment, a middle-aged man in his 50s walked in.
He had a look of pain on his face. What was strange was that this person's neck was crooked, and he seemed to be able to maintain only one posture.
"Oh my, isn't this Xu Laoshuan? What's wrong with you? Did you have a stroke?" Some villagers who recognized him joked.
"What nonsense are you talking about? I'll rip your mouth off if you say that again, you're the one with a stroke, your whole family has a stroke!"
"Haha, you're getting angry, you're getting angry. What bad thing did you do last night..."
The people of Wangjia Village had very good neighborly relations. The fact that they could joke like this showed that their relationship was very good.
"Don't mention it. I was lazy last night and slept on a cold kang. As a result, I got stiff neck. When I got up this morning, my neck was crooked.
I need to find a doctor to prescribe some medicine for me."
"Then you'll have to wait. There are already more than 50 people in line. You'll have to wait for several hours."
"Ah? How unlucky, my neck..." Xu Laoshuan looked dejected.
"There's no one in the Chinese medicine department over there. You can go and see a Chinese medicine doctor!"
"Although that doctor is too young." Someone suggested from the side.
"Young is young, I really can't stand it anymore. At worst, I'll get a plaster!"
So Xu Laoshuan went to register. The registration fee was 10 yuan, which seemed not much different from the large hospitals in the city.
However, at New Life Hospital, the registration fee collected was not kept by the hospital at all. It was all distributed by the doctors and nurses on duty. The more you work, the more you get. This system fully mobilized the enthusiasm of every medical staff member.
Xu Laoshuan pushed open the door of the consultation room, and Ling Tian quickly got up.
At this time, other patients who were queuing also curiously followed behind Xu Laoshuan and surrounded the door of the consultation room. They also wanted to see how capable this young man was.