From small clinic to medical empire

Chapter 73

Dr. Russell just received a call from the dean, saying that Professor Trudeau from UCLA School of Medicine is coming to Kuta Hospital for inspection.

For a long time, as a state hospital in California, Kuta Hospital has a so-called normal cooperation mechanism with UCLA School of Medicine, the leader in the medical field in California.

It's just that UCLA has a big business, and it may not be remembered to look up the brand of Kuta Hospital in a year or so.

Somehow today, the director of the International Exchange Office of UCLA School of Medicine actually came in person.

The dean of Kuta Hospital was flattered, and immediately called the key doctors in the hospital to welcome the UCLA experts at the door together.

To their delight, Professor Trudeau and several of his assistants got out of the car and said bluntly that they would conduct a teaching demonstration at Kuta Hospital.

This is a great thing, not only an affirmation of the hardware facilities of Kuta Hospital, but also an improvement for Dr. Kuta.

But what happened next was a bit confusing.

Professor Trudeau did not accept the invitation to drink afternoon tea, but directly stated that he would conduct a preoperative assessment.

Is this too urgent?
Generally speaking, when this kind of superior doctor comes to a small hospital for teaching rounds or surgical demonstrations, he has to plan slowly and select suitable cases. How can he directly go to the ward to select people?
But since Professor Trudeau made such a request, Kuta naturally had no objection.

The doctor in charge of the ward on duty today was Russell, and he immediately led a group of people to the ward.

"Do you have a Chinese patient here?" Trudeau asked.

Russell nodded. It turned out that Professor Trudeau was invited by these Chinese people. The Chinese people are indeed very energetic!

In the United States, expert doctors also have a lot of "extra money" to earn.

For example, the income obtained from corporate institutions, including lecture fees, entertainment expenses, consulting fees, stock options, etc., this part of the income is legal income, but the government requires that it must be disclosed. For example, Germany requires all kinds of gray income to be registered in the "hidden income database". .

In the United States, there is also a requirement for the "public remuneration project". Pharmaceutical companies need to report and publish all payments to doctors and teaching hospitals, and they can be viewed online.

In the name of teaching, coming to a small hospital to perform surgery on patients is of course one of the ways doctors often use to make money.

Dr. Russell felt that he had understood what Professor Trudeau meant. The only thing he was not sure about was that he remembered that Professor Trudeau seemed to be an expert in the treatment of kidney diseases...

But no matter what, Dr. Russell graciously brought everyone to Nie Shiping's ward.

"This is Dr. from UCLA..."

Dr. Russell was just about to make an introduction, but unexpectedly Professor Trudeau pushed him away, stretched out his hand with a smile on his face, and walked towards Zhang Zifan: "Dr. Zhang! I was in a hurry in Shanghai and couldn't have dinner with you. , It’s really a pity, I hope we can cooperate happily this time!”

Zhang Zifan didn't expect the professor to be so enthusiastic, and felt a little guilty.

At that time, because of Zheng Senming, Zhang Zifan did not give Trudeau any face.

People respect me as much as I respect others. This is Zhang Zifan's principle of life, so he also respectfully said: "Professor Trudeau, thank you for your help this time!"

"Huh? Dr. Zhang, calling me that doesn't mean I'm a friend!"

Trudeau explained: "In the United States, if someone calls you Professor Zhang (Professor Zhang), it is a sign of alienation, and calling you Dr. Zhang (Doctor Zhang or Dr. Zhang) like me is a sign of alienation." Treat you as one of your own."

Zhang Zifan really doesn't know the rules of the Americans. Although he has the ability to be proficient in foreign languages, he hasn't developed it carefully. Some slang and language habits can't be understood for a while.

Seeing Professor Trudeau talking and laughing happily with the Chinese doctor, Dr. Russell's small eyes were full of big doubts.

Trudeau said to him: "The content of today's teaching is this lip cancer surgery. Please arrange the operating room quickly. I can't wait to enjoy Dr. Zhang's surgery performance!"

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Trudeau certainly has his reasons for thinking so highly of Zhang Zifan.

First of all, as the director of the International Relations Office of UCLA School of Medicine, he has been committed to promoting the international exchange of medical achievements.

Similar to the western doctors who helped China establish Xiehe, Huaxi, and Gongji 100 years ago, Trudeau has a relatively broad mind and recognizes the talents of Easterners.

Second, where there are people, there will be politics, and UCLA Medical Center is no exception.

The international talent pool plan has been a plan that Trudeau has been actively promoting.

This was originally a mutually beneficial good thing and an innovation to reduce the pressure on the country's medical system.

But obviously, in the eyes of white supremacists, Trudeau's ideas are undoubtedly extremely stupid.

"Asians can't even drive a car well, and surgery is a disaster!"

Faced with such accusations, Trudeau urgently needs a proof. He hopes that Zhang Zifan can pass the assessment and enter his talent pool.

Zhang Zifan had no interest in this at first.

Just kidding, I worked hard to do tasks and accumulate points, not to carry forward Bethune's spirit of internationalism.

But then...they gave too much.

The evil emperor of the United States is simply sucking the bones and sucking the marrow of the patients!

A lip cancer resection + skin flap transplantation + neck lymph node dissection, the operation fee is 20 US dollars, the total cost is 30 US dollars, equivalent to 210 million RMB, Zhang Zifan can get half of the operation fee, which is 10 US dollars, 70 RMB .

The price of the same operation in the First Affiliated Hospital of S University is 8 RMB.

Yes, you read that right, it is 8 RMB!

Among them, the operation fee is 4 yuan, the microvascular stapler, which is the legendary high-value consumables with huge profits, is 1.5 yuan, and the rest is the intensive care unit fee, anesthesia fee, and drug fee.

So after thinking about it carefully, if American people don’t make any money, are they still human beings?
That's why Zhang Zifan agreed to Trudeau's request.

Using the money of American patients to subsidize Chinese patients is a deal worth considering.

Of course, Haoran's outpatient department is not strong enough now, so it has to go through middlemen to make the difference.

After the outpatient department has the ability to operate independently, we can find a way to directly open external business and directly benefit the Americans.

You know, in fact, the medical system of the United States is now plucking the wool of the Chinese.

Whether it's Li Yong or Lu Guanqiu, they went to the United States to spend a lot of money to seek medical treatment. In fact, they used the money of ordinary Chinese people to support the medical treatment of the United States. Of course, we cannot say that they did something wrong.

Facing death, everyone wants better treatment and the right to survive.

But in the future, this may be the other way around.

The upper-class ladies in the United States, business tycoons, Silicon Valley elites, and Wall Street greedy wolves, it is best to prepare more RMB.

Of course, Trudeau at this time had no idea how ambitious Zhang Zifan was. He was trying to lure wolves into the house and poach the corner of American Medical.

At this moment, he is more concerned about whether the young man in front of him can surprise him again.

There is no doubt about the theoretical level of this young man. Next, let this operation test his operational ability!

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Some readers questioned why Zhang Zifan went to the United States for a visit, and this chapter explains it.

There are not many novels about private medical treatment, because it is difficult to write, and unless the system directly sends money, it will be difficult to justify itself.

As a doctor, the contradiction between making money and non-profit medical care is irreconcilable.

In business warfare novels and entertainment novels, everyone takes it for granted that the protagonist earns money from the common people. Even if he can make a fortune and harvest the IQ tax of the common people, the readers will applaud.

But as the head of a medical empire, can you do this?

Obviously not.

Far from being impossible, it is better to have affordable medical care, and free medical care for the needy.

This is a contradiction.

However, there is no way to solve this contradiction. One is to make small profits but sell more to form a scale effect, and the other is to provide value-added services by grading medical care.

However, the two famous sayings of the king of understanding provide us with a third way of thinking.

1. China first!

2. We Will Build A Medical Empire And American Will Pay For It
The Chinese people, or in other words, the East Asian nation is the most industrious nation in the world.

But why do East Asians work so hard, but the world's wealth is still concentrated in the hands of Westerners?
Those Westerners only work a few hours a day, never work overtime, go on strike and parade every day, demand high welfare, and have a higher quality of life than East Asians.

Why?
Relying on hegemony.

We dare not write anything else, but in terms of medical care, we have to make arrangements for them.

Enjoy the real "VIP" medical treatment, line up for lottery, and then obediently pay to the Haoran Poverty Fund!

(End of this chapter)