Chapter 3085 Fox
Zhou Man returned home, holding his waist. Bai Shan had just returned from the county government office. Seeing her smiling face, he asked, "Is there anything good?"
Zhou Man put away the smile on his face and said, "No." The other person is injured, how can there be any good thing?
Bai Shan just stared at her.
Zhou Man held back her words, but after washing up and leaning against the bed, she couldn't help but say to him, "Several people asked today if they could send their pregnant women to the hospital for delivery, and I agreed to all of them."
Bai Shan: "How many people are several people?"
Zhou Man: "Two people?"
Bai Shan suppressed his laughter and asked, "Do you want to deliver a baby?"
Zhou Man touched her belly and said, "Because there are no contraceptive drugs, it is very easy for women to get pregnant, but the survival rate of the children is very low. Although our medical department has given lectures several times, few people who come to listen can really listen. This matter is a long way to go. If we want them to listen and understand, we must at least show some skills."
"Besides, starting directly with childbirth can also minimize the child's mortality rate. Many people, although they have become parents or even grandparents, do not know how to raise children."
Bai Shan, who had read a lot of parenting books recently, blinked and said, "Those books you showed me..."
Zhou Man glanced at him and said, "It's not available in the bookstore."
Bai Shan became thoughtful. "I see. It will still look a bit awkward if shown to others, but after revising the wording and sentence structure, it can be sold in bookstores."
Zhou Man urged him, "You should write it. I've been too busy lately, and I also have to revise the medical book. I really don't have time."
Bai Shan was also busy, but he nodded and said, "I will summarize some applicable ones and then hand them over to the princess's bookstore for engraving and printing."
But how many people in this world can read?
Most ordinary people in the world are illiterate, and they get information more from their elders, village heads and county government offices.
Bai Shan weighed the pros and cons and said, "This seems to be within the scope of your medical department's responsibilities."
Zhou Man: "Oh, population growth is also the responsibility of the county government, so we should work together."
She smiled foolishly at him and reached out to massage his shoulders. "I have something else to tell you. I've told people that pregnant women who come to the medical office to give birth don't have to pay for either the lower or middle households. However, all expenses have to be covered by the medical office, and the medical office is having some difficulties. So, do you think your county government should share half of the cost with us?"
Bai Shan: ...
Zhou Man hurriedly said, "This is a major event related to population growth, and it's also your achievement."
Bai Shan rubbed his forehead and said, "I can share some of the burden for you, but will the magistrate of other county offices also agree to share the burden with the medical department?"
"Why don't you agree?" Zhou Man asked, "Wait two years, and the data comes out. If the infant mortality rate has truly dropped and the population has truly grown, that would be a solid political achievement. How could the magistrates of other counties still refuse?"
Bai Shan thought about it and realized that it was true. She couldn't help but give her a thumbs up. "I finally understand why His Majesty is willing to put us together. This is because the difficulty lies in the first time."
Without data and political achievements, the first county to do so will only see the input but not the gains, and it will be difficult to persist.
However, with the population growing, infant mortality is common. Data will not be available without two to three years. In fact, more reliable data should be from six years later. It is only reliable when the child is over five years old.
Apart from him, who else would be willing to take out so much money from the county government to mess with the medical department?
Zhou Man pinched his shoulder and said with a smile, "I would like to thank County Magistrate Bai in advance."
"You're welcome."
Zhou Man was about to speak when he suddenly made a hissing sound and pressed down on his legs.
Bai Shan immediately became nervous and reached out to massage her leg. "Are you having a cramp? Did you stand for too long today?"
Zhou Man nodded, thinking that he had stood for a long time today to treat the wound and suture it.
Bai Shan frowned and massaged her to relieve the pain while saying, "Hasn't the capital city transferred someone to you yet? Your health is getting worse, and we'll have to open another medical office next year..."
The muscles slowly relaxed, and Zhou Man stretched out her legs comfortably in bed, letting Bai Shan continue the massage. She hummed, "Mr. Xiao said that there's a shortage of manpower everywhere, including in the capital. When the weather gets cold, the Imperial Medical Bureau in the capital will work with the medical bureaus in Yongzhou and Beijing to vaccinate ordinary people in both areas. Children between the ages of eight and sixteen are included in the vaccination."
She said, "It is said that all the third-level students in the Imperial Medical Bureau have been transferred to help out, so there is no manpower available."
Otherwise, she wouldn't have deceived Dr. Tian and others into becoming apprentices with Mr. Qian.
Bai Shan massaged her other leg and asked, "Did Doctor Tian and the others use it smoothly?"
"It's not going well," Zhou Man said. "Although they are apprentices of the Medical Department, they still want to return to their old employer and won't stay there long. Although they have done what I asked them to do, there is still a big difference between whether their hearts are in the Cao camp or the Han camp."
Bai Shan said distressedly, "How about I give you some money, and you can hire two good doctors to sit in your clinic?"
Zhou Man shook his head. "No, not to mention that I'm paying a lot of money, I wonder if other local medical offices can follow my example. Even if I pay a lot of money, it's still difficult to hire people now."
Unless they are traveling doctors, other folk doctors either have their own pharmacies or have been trained in other pharmacies since childhood.
A doctor who has been raised as an apprentice will generally not leave the pharmacy where he has worked since childhood unless he has irreconcilable conflicts with his boss.
Bai Shan expressed his doubt, "Can't doctors travel and study?"
"Of course you can, but it's rare for me to change my employer," Zhou Man said. "For example, if I were an apprentice at Jishitang in Yizhou, then even if I were to travel after graduation, unless I were to become a traveling doctor, I would definitely choose Jishitang as my own medicine shop. If I chose another pharmacy to list my medicine, it would not only be bad for my reputation, but it would also turn Jishitang and I into enemies."
This taboo was something she slowly figured out as she grew up. Even now, she was not an apprentice of Jishidiang, and they had always had a cooperative relationship. However, because of this cooperative relationship, she worked in Jishidiang, and their relationship was naturally closer than that of other pharmacies.
Whenever Zhou Man wanted to sell a prescription, she would first look for Jishidiang. Only when the price offered by Jishidiang was not to her liking would she look for other pharmacies.
Jishidiang will naturally feel close to her and will give her some help within its capacity. This is the tacit rule in the industry, and pharmacies and doctors benefit each other.
Zhou Man had posted the recruitment notice on the bulletin board for such a long time, but he didn't recruit anyone. This showed the situation of doctors in Qingzhou and even Laizhou.
She can't recruit anyone at the moment.
But Zhou Man was not discouraged. She said, "If we can't find a doctor with a lot of money, we can use our medical skills to attract apprentices. If Doctor Tian and the other three are not satisfied with their skills, we can attract a few more. Apprentices have basically no expenses except for three meals a day, so I can still afford to support them."
Bai Shan couldn't help but use more force and said happily: "You are really a fox."
Zhou Man was not convinced, "I am honest."
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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