Chapter 2273 Ding County Investigation

Shen Long's agreement to sell the school and hospital was not without conditions. He proposed to the education department that after the establishment of the National Jingcheng Medical College, there should be an institution dedicated to training rural doctors, and a research department on rural medical and health should be established. Also agreed.

Therefore, Shen Long put his main energy on this when he was not working normally. After the school was established and the new students enrolled and started classes normally, Shen Long left the capital with his students and went to Ding County, Hebei. , he is going to start his own experiment here.

Why choose Dingxian? This is because there is an important term in the history of Chinese public health called "Dingxianism". In the 1930s, Yan Yangchu, a civilian educator and rural builder who graduated from Yale University and Princeton successively, conducted civilian education here. Afterwards, two doctors of Union Medical College, Yao Xunyuan, who made Chinese people eat iodized salt and solved the big neck disease, and Chen Zhiqian, the father of "Chinese public health", came here successively to establish a rural public health practice base. This is how health care started.

In order to commemorate their achievements, Shen Long also chose Ding County, Hebei Province as the experimental site. This time, he brought Bai Jingye with him. Bai Jingye has now graduated from elementary school. He has been living in Dazhaimen before. Shen Long often took him out to see the lives of ordinary people in the capital, but would it be more effective than going directly to the countryside?

Ding County is more than 200 kilometers away from the capital. They first came to Baoding by train, and then got off from Baoding and hired a carriage to go to Ding County. Shen Long was familiar with this road, because Ding County was next door to Anguo. He often ran to the Anguo Pharmaceutical Market. Along the way, Shen Long told Bai Jingye and the students about his various experiences in the Anguo Pharmaceutical Market.

The distance of 200 kilometers, if this is put in later generations, the high-speed rail will arrive in just over an hour, and the high-speed train will take two and a half hours at most, but now they have traveled from the capital to Dingxian for more than two days.

"Is this place really poor enough?" said a student named Murong Wu. He is from Modu, and he came to Shen Long's school to study. county seat.

"It's much better than my hometown. This is still a county seat. When you get to the village, you will really know what it means to be poor!" said another student named Yuan Xiaoyan. He was born in the Yimeng mountain area, but he is used to such places.

"Today, find a place to rest in the city for the night. When we get up tomorrow, let's go to the medical center and pharmacy in the county to take a look." Shen Long made arrangements according to the plan made in advance, and Murong Wu and Yuan Xiaoyan hurried to find the inn I went there, but when I came back from the county town with only two streets, both of them showed embarrassment.

"Teacher, according to my opinion, you should send the little brother back first! We adults are fine, but the little brother may not be able to stay in this kind of place!" Waiting at the entrance of the best inn in the county, the big guy Only then did he understand what they meant. This place is really too poor, and the sanitary conditions in the inn are not optimistic. Bai Jingye is still a child, and it would be terrible if he got sick.

"It doesn't matter, I prepared all the medicine before I left, besides, Jingye has been practicing boxing and kicking with me since he was a child, and he is in good health!" Shen Long touched Bai Jingye's head, "Jingye, are you going back, or are you going with me? countryside?"

"I'm with dad!" Shen Long's teachings all these years were really not in vain. Although Bai Jingye felt a little uncomfortable when he saw this kind of place, he didn't shrink back, but he was bitten by fleas at night and couldn't sleep.

After waking up, they first walked around the streets of the county seat, and when they encountered medical clinics and pharmacies, they went in and inquired in detail. Shen Long reported his identity as the principal of the National Capital Medical College and the successor of the old Bai family of the Beijing Baicao Hall. The doctor of the restaurant and the shopkeeper of the pharmacy had nothing to say, and Shen Long could feel that the latter seemed to have more influence on these people.

Thinking about it, after all, it is next to Anguo, and Baicao Hall is the biggest customer in Anguo Pharmaceutical Market. As a person in the medical field, who would not know the reputation of the old name of Baicao Hall?

Relying on this identity, Shen Long and the others quickly figured out the medical level of Ding County, and the data they obtained were not optimistic. There were only two sitting doctors in the county, and none of them had received professional medical education.

One is a son who followed his father, and he learned all the medical skills from his father, but judging from the prescriptions left behind, his father's level is very average, and he is not as good as his father; the other is a scholar, who passed the exam in his early years. A scholar, but Juren didn't pass the exam once. Seeing that he was getting older and his family had a lot of savings, he read a few medical books and began to prescribe medicine to see a doctor.

This kind of situation was not uncommon in ancient China, but most of the scholars had read some medical books, and some of them who were brave enough tried to prescribe medicine for themselves or others. What you have achieved, write a good prescription, take it, and die." If you are lucky, you will be able to rely on this for a living.

Hearing them talk about the past diagnosis and treatment cases, Murong Wu and Yuan Xiaoyan frowned and slapped the table after they went back, "This is really reckless! Such a person can also be a doctor? How many people have been cured by the prescription they prescribed?" ah!"

Let's put it this way, if these two people were put in the hospital of later generations, they would be beaten to death by the doctor after less than a week of keeping them alive, and there would be cases of seeing a doctor and treating people to death almost every month.

"No, I have to go and talk to the county magistrate. Doctors of this level must never allow them to treat people again!" Murong Wu, who has an impulsive personality, said and was about to leave the house.

"Come back! You told the county magistrate, and the county magistrate arrested both of them. What about the people in Ding County? Are you staying here to see a doctor for them?" Shen Long called Murong Wu, "You should be a member of Ding County. The common people don’t know their level? But do they have a choice? Such a doctor is already the highest level in Ding County! The rest are wandering doctors who only know a few folk remedies, so it’s not as good as them!”

Murong Wu, Yuan Xiaoyan and others were silent. In Ding County, which has 400,000 people, there are only two doctors who are completely unqualified. The life of ordinary people in Ding County is simply too pitiful.

After adjusting their mood, they continued to investigate. They even went to the county government, asked the county magistrate for some information, and then chatted with the subordinate officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and got more information from the information and the mouths of these people.

This information makes everyone shudder. Although they have done similar surveys in the suburbs of the capital before, the situation in Ding County is undoubtedly more serious. The average death rate is 35% per year. Any medical help, the infant mortality rate is extremely high, that's what they are facing.