The next day, all mainstream newspapers and English newspapers in Hong Kong published the news of the opening of Lingnan Hospital.
At the same time, the advanced medical equipment displayed by Lin Sanqi were posted online in the form of photos, including a high-tech product that can measure body temperature with just a light press in the ear.
The effect of antibiotics has not yet been shown, and curing a disease will not be effective in one day, so we need to wait and see.
However, the pediatric department of Lingnan Hospital gave the patient emergency treatment and the fever subsided in half an hour. This happened in full view of the public and could not be faked.
Journalists are very gossipy. If you just write that a certain hospital has opened, it won’t attract much traffic.
But if you release the gossip about the epileptic child whose fever was cured within half an hour, the public will be interested.
Yes, it is healing.
Journalists have little moral integrity and like to exaggerate. They wrote high fever convulsion as epilepsy and relief as cure, which has a great influence.
Lin Sanqi did not correct it after seeing it in the newspaper the next day.
What he needs now is traffic and popularity. The more people know about the magic of Lingnan Hospital, the more patients will be attracted.
As long as patients enter Lingnan Hospital and use new drugs with proven efficacy, the business will boom and their own antibiotics will attract the attention of spies from various countries.
Now everything just waits for the scalpers to come and smuggle the drugs abroad to sell, and then let them ferment.
In the Crown car, Lin Sanqi handed the newspaper to his father, Lin Kucan, who was sitting in the back seat:
"Dad, how was the business at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department yesterday?"
Lin Kucan spread out the newspaper and said with a smile:
"Good, very good, better than I expected. When we were in Temple Street, we only saw about 300 outpatients a day. That was already the limit. After all, Chinese medicine can't be as quick as Western medicine.
After moving to Lingnan Hospital, our outpatient clinics expanded from 5 to 50, including Traditional Chinese Medicine Internal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine Surgery, Traditional Chinese Medicine Gynecology, Traditional Chinese Medicine Pediatrics, Traditional Chinese Medicine ENT, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Orthopedics.
In addition, I also asked your second brother to be responsible for reopening the Traditional Chinese Medicine Physiotherapy Department. Acupuncture, massage, cupping, moxibustion, scraping, Chinese medicine fumigation, bone setting, acupoint plastering, qigong, etc. are all provided.
I have to say that your thinking is correct. We now have sufficient staff and can carry out all traditional Chinese medicine projects. This is not only a matter of making money, but also a great opportunity to promote traditional Chinese medicine."
The doctors in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Lingnan Hospital, apart from the old team from Hong Kong, are the employees who were laid off from the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Lin Sanqi's senior brothers and sisters scattered across the country.
Don't underestimate this group of people. Even though they are either farming or sweeping the floors in the mainland, they are at the bottom of society.
But they are definitely the most formal and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the country, and are top talents educated through the master-apprentice model.
In terms of medical skills, apart from those masters, this group of people is the most powerful.
Since domestic hospitals didn't want it, Lin Sanqi accepted it all.
Among them, there are as many as 32 nationally renowned Chinese medicine practitioners, and there are even more famous Chinese medicine practitioners in each province, which makes Lingditang fully satisfied.
Jin Caifeng asked excitedly at this time:
"Qizi, how's your Western Medicine Department doing? Your father said the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department's turnover has increased fivefold. We make as much in a single day as the Capital Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital makes in half a year. That's incredible."
Lin Sanqi was a little amused and confused after hearing this:
"Mom, that's not how it's calculated. Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a public hospital, and the fees are very low.
For example, the registration fee at Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is 10 cents, which is only a few cents in Hong Kong dollars.
Now the registration fee at our Lingnan Hospital is HK$10, while the registration fee for a famous Chinese medicine doctor like Lao Dou is HK$200.
Mom, think about it, how many times different is the registration fee alone?
In addition, our Lingnan Hospital is a private hospital. We pursue profitability and aim for profit. The profit we make is in Hong Kong dollars.
The Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a welfare institution, and a profit of several hundred thousand RMB a year is considered a good harvest.”
Lin Sanqi had served as vice president of the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, so he naturally knew the financial situation of the hospital.
Jin Caifeng is from the south. Both her natal family and her husband's family are from business backgrounds. She has no taboos about making money. At this time, she also sighed:
"We finally made the right choice to come to Hong Kong. If we continue like this, you three brothers, and Jiageng's generation, should be able to support the Lin family's ancestral hall."
Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes and suggested:
"Dad, our Lin family's ancestral hall is in Huadu, but it's no longer allowed. Should we open a new one in Xiangjiang, with you as the founding ancestor of Xiangjiang? This way, the family can be passed down from generation to generation and have more cohesion."
Who would have thought that Lin Kucan, who had come from a feudal society, would shake his head and deny it:
"There's no need for an ancestral hall. Building one isn't necessarily a good thing; it has many disadvantages.
For example, if the clan is too powerful, it will affect the development of individuals, because the development of the family must sacrifice the interests of some people.
My generation can do it, including your fifth and sixth uncles. Look at them busying around all day long. Aren’t they just working for you, my little nephew?
This is actually a kind of sacrifice. Otherwise, they can open their own clinic and be their own boss. How free is that?
By the time you brothers, including your cousins, have reached this generation, the clan concept can no longer hold water, just like when we were having a hard time living in the capital, your second brother and his wife were clamoring to split up the family business.
At that time, because you were the one more mouth to feed, food was already in short supply and the whole family was on the verge of starvation. Your second brother and his wife were unwilling to make sacrifices for the family and chose to separate and live separately.
From a personal perspective, your second brother did nothing wrong. Protecting himself is always the first priority.
But from the family's perspective, he became the first defector, and the family actually broke up.
Just like you, everything in our Lin family now is brought by you, even Lingnan Hospital is your private property, Lin Sanqi.
But in the future, for the development of the family, you will need to turn your private property into public property, and you will lose control and the right to dividends. Are you willing?
Even if you are willing to sacrifice yourself, can you guarantee that your children will be willing to do so in the future? This is still an unknown.
Anyway, based on my observation, children nowadays are independent and may not be willing to share their property with others. They are also more willing to make their own way in the world.
So, rather than making family conflicts public in the future and becoming a laughing stock of outsiders, who would laugh at our Lin family’s corrupt traditions, we should do this.
It would be even more cruel if there was a Xuanwu Gate Incident, with brothers killing each other and fighting to the death. It would be better to separate the families from the beginning.
What belongs to whomever belongs to whom, should not be mixed together, and certainly not eaten from the same pot. Responsibilities and obligations are clear, this is the most correct way for relatives to get along.
Jin Caifeng is a woman, and women are more emotional. She said worriedly:
"What the second son did was wrong, but he's still our flesh and blood, and he's changed a lot now. If you insist on dividing the family, when Jiageng and Susu grow up, they'll be so lonely with no one to help them."
Lin Kucan covered his wife's hand with his big hand and comforted her with a smile:
"The affairs of future generations are not something you and I, two old men, can interfere with. Besides, our Lin family doesn't have an imperial throne to inherit. Let everything take its course. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings.
We gave birth to three sons, raised them up, taught them to read and write, and taught them a craft so that they can make a living in the future. This will be a way of repaying our ancestors and doing justice to the three brothers.
Now what we need to do is help them get on their feet and give them a little while longer. Then we can retire completely, enjoy our old age, and finally enjoy life. I've toiled all my life and I'm tired."
If Lin Sanqi had not appeared, Lin Kushen would definitely have continued to be busy and fight to the end for the family.
However, his youngest son suddenly appeared and did better than him, earning more money. Lin Kucan felt that the family foundation was there, so he gradually began to think about retiring.
When Chinese medicine practitioners learn Taoist philosophy, they all have the desire to retire to the mountains when they get old.
Lin Sanqi quickly nodded and said:
"Mom, Dad is right. You've worked hard all your lives and suffered so much. It's time to enjoy yourself. Let's take care of the villa first, then hire a few servants and try to live to be 150 years old."
Jin Caifeng's mood improved after being criticized by her youngest son:
"Go, you're the only one who knows how to coax Mom. Now we're all up the mountain. Where is the villa you mentioned?"
Lin Sanqi took a look and said:
"It's just around the corner." (End of this chapter)
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