In 1914, Wu Liande, a public health scientist who had presided over the elimination of pneumonic plague in Northeast China, urged the Rockefeller Foundation to establish a Western medical system in China.
After three visits to country Z, the Rockefeller Foundation purchased all the land of the former Union Medical College and Prince Yu's Mansion, and invested US$7.5 million to build Beijing Union Medical College Hospital.
The Xiehe Hospital complex consists of 14 buildings, equipped with the most advanced medical equipment in the world at that time, and the overall construction quality was at the peak level at that time.
Not only that, Xiehe Jian has independent power equipment and mechanical equipment, including power plants, high-pressure boiler rooms, ice plants, laughing gas plants, gas plants, garages, laundry rooms, sewing rooms, printing rooms, telephone rooms, and machine repair shops.
, electrical factory and drafting room.
"Annual Review of Union Medical College" describes the scene of the initial construction of Union Medical College Hospital as follows:
"The former site of Prince Yu's Mansion was acquired, covering an area of more than 60 acres, and fourteen new houses were built. On the outside, there are painted pillars, carved beams, jade railings and green tiles, embodying the grand view of Chinese architecture. Inside, the facilities are well-equipped and sophisticated."
On October 26 of that year, the Bulletin of the Rockefeller Medical Association described Union Hospital as follows:
"The early autumn in Beijing is beautiful. The alleys are not as dusty as usual. The shops in the streets and alleys look like paintings. Even the shouts of the wandering vendors and beggars sound pleasant...
Through the clear air, the indigo-colored Western Mountain stands in the distance; the nearby Jingshan Mountain is dotted with exquisite pagodas.
There are also the magnificent Imperial City Wall Gate and the Forbidden City with golden roofs.
The Prince Yu's Mansion with its green glazed roof is no less impressive in comparison. This is the newly built medical school and hospital."
In terms of teaching staff, Union Medical College Hospital was more solid. When Rockefeller planned to build Union Medical College, he introduced the most advanced medical technology and management experience in the world at that time.
Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, like its gorgeous and wonderful buildings, is a standard product of the combination of Chinese and Western medicine. Western medicine rooted in China is nurtured here.
By the 1930s, most of the key doctors here were Chinese.
Lin Qiaozhi, the founder of gynecology in China and the mother of all babies
According to a 1956 report in Time Magazine, the Rockefeller Foundation invested a total of US$48 million in the construction of Beijing Union Medical College Hospital and Union Medical College.
In 1924, Indian literary giant Rabindranath Tagore visited China. Some poets from the Crescent Society celebrated Tagore's 64th birthday at the Union Chapel and performed Tagore's "Chitra" in English.
In 1924, Sun Wen fell ill on his way north. On the last day of that year, he arrived in the capital.
During his laparotomy at Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, he was found to have liver cirrhosis and nodules all over the place. Liu Ruiheng, the president of Union Hospital, admitted frankly that he had no hope of survival.
Mr. Sun Wen passed away on March 12, 1925. The day after his death, James, then head of the Department of Pathology, conducted an autopsy. The final autopsy report was gallbladder cancer.
Friends who have watched the movie "The Righteous" must remember a scene where Li Tianran, who had just arrived in Beijing, got a job at Union Hospital.
On his first day of employment, the dean worshiped a kidney soaked in a jar with him.
The dean said that he cut out the good kidney of a gentleman in Peiping by mistake and left the bad kidney in his body. In fact, this paragraph is not completely fabricated.
In 1926, Liang Qichao discovered that he always had blood in his urine and was unable to be treated for a long time. He was transferred to the Union Medical College Hospital, which had X-ray and other examination methods at that time.
Suspecting that it was cancer, Liu Ruiheng, the then president of Union Hospital, performed an operation to remove the right kidney. The operation was very successful, but he became ill six months after the operation.
At that time, there were rumors that the director had cut off the wrong kidney, which made Liang Qichao's condition worse, which caused a lot of public opinion. In order to make everyone have confidence in Western medicine.
Liang Qichao published an article titled "My Disease and Union Medical College Hospital" to rectify the doctor's name.
In early 1928, Liang Qichao passed away, and the matter became a headless public case.
A history of Union Medical College is half of the history of medicine in China. Union Medical College is very famous, and it is difficult to take the entrance exam for Union Medical College.
This is also one of the reasons why Union Medical College Hospital was copied in large numbers in later generations.
There were previous reports on the Internet that there were more than 1,700 Union Medical College hospitals across the country, but only 4 were true.
They are:
Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Medical College Wuhan Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Shenzhen Hospital. In fact, although the first three hospitals have the same origin, they are of different origins.
Their predecessors were local mission hospitals, and the word "Xiehe" comes from the English "union".
In the past 100 years, they have represented the local high medical level, but they are not three branches of the same hospital. The fourth hospital was jointly founded by Wuhan Union Hospital.
These four hospitals are completely different from xx Union Medical College in online advertisements, which specializes in treating hidden diseases. Beijing Union Medical College has been very difficult to get admitted to since its establishment.
Before enrolling at Union Medical College, students must study for three years as a preparatory course. The scope of study is so broad that it makes students doubt their life.
They must be proficient in natural sciences, English and humanities, because the hospital believes that before becoming a doctor, they must become a complete "person".
Those who are admitted to the preparatory course of medical school are already among the best, but the number of people who can graduate from the preparatory course and enter Union Medical College is less than one-third of the preparatory course.
Getting into school is not a sure thing. The strict-in-strict-out policy means that students must not neglect their studies. Wu Jieping, a famous Chinese urology expert who graduated from Union Medical College, recalled his first-year life like this:
"I arrive at the school from the dormitory at 8 o'clock in the morning. get out of class ends after 12 o'clock. I rush back to the dormitory for lunch. I take a lunch break of no more than half an hour. I rush to school again and start the experimental class at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Although it is stipulated to end at 5 o'clock, it sometimes drags on very late. I remember one time, the experimental results did not stop until 1 o'clock in the middle of the night... I was even more nervous before the exam. Some students stayed up all night and stayed up all night to review their homework."
If you fail one subject, you will be retaken, if you fail two subjects you will be repeated, if you fail three subjects you will be expelled, and the passing mark is 75 points.
The cruel elimination system makes every student who successfully graduates must be the strongest king.
It is under this rigorous style of study that Union Medical College has trained top doctors in modern medicine in China and has continuously supplied them to hospitals across China.
It can be said that a history of Xiehe is half of the history of Western learning in China.
100 years later, when we go back to the day when the Union Medical College Hospital was completed.
Mishi Street was not as busy and crowded as it is now, and there were no magnificent buildings like Jinbao Street and Oriental Plaza around it.
Ordinary people are running around in the streets and alleys, not knowing what the future will be like. A group of young people full of ambition and sharp minds have begun to explore the new world here, doing their best to reduce the pain and recovery of patients who come for help.
healthy.
But today, there is still a group of such passionate people, holding handleless swords, to help all mankind fight against the disease.