I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 329 - 295: Sincerity Is the Ultimate Trump Card
Lu Jiu TCM Hospital.
Since Lu Jiu developed several formulas, the hospital’s business has been getting better and better.
Although the formulas are priced fairly cheap, the profit is still quite good when sold in volume.
Lu Jiu didn’t opt for particularly expensive traditional medicines like Calming Palace Bezoar Pill, which costs eight hundred or even a thousand per pill.
Ever since the rhino became a protected animal, Calming Palace Bezoar Pill lost its life-saving function. The current version uses buffalo horn, deer musk, bezoar, and orpiment, most of which are synthetic rather than wild, making it impossible to create a truly authentic Calming Palace Bezoar Pill.
There’s no need for Lu Jiu to make it so expensive; it’s enough to develop formulas that people need daily, with a small profit margin and high turnover.
The more medicine sold, the more people come to see a doctor.
Even people without apparent ailments come by to buy medicine and end up being diagnosed with issues through pulse reading, a common occurrence these days.
Actually, these days, it’s hard to find truly healthy people in their twenties or thirties.
A basic pulse reading often shows spleen deficiency as the most common issue.
The next most common is kidney deficiency.
It’s somewhat acceptable for people in their forties or fifties to have kidney deficiency, but lately, many college students from teaching universities come for consultations and almost all exhibit some kidney deficiency.
According to the hospital’s internal database, among five or six hundred college students, regardless of gender, nearly 90% have kidney deficiency.
This probability is somewhat high.
One female student even fractured a bone just by falling on flat ground; her bones are as fragile as those of someone in their seventies or eighties.
College students are typically around the age of twenty.
This is supposed to be the healthiest period of life!
Yet they still suffer from kidney deficiency!
One has to say that youth health issues are already quite severe.
As the number of patients keeps increasing, the workload in each department becomes heavier and heavier.
This also gives young doctors many opportunities to train, and the salary increase surprises many.
Especially Peng Yan, who used to earn about twelve thousand at Jinling Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with the year-end bonus, making around sixteen or seventeen thousand a year, which isn’t low in Jinling but isn’t particularly high either.
Given the high cost of living in Jinling, with rent being a significant expense, he only manages to save about fifty thousand a year, which is already considered very frugal compared to his colleagues.
However, at Lu Jiu TCM Hospital, his salary last month reached twenty-two thousand.
This is in Jianghan!
A city-level private hospital, which has only been around for a few months.
He actually earns twenty-two thousand a month!
Most notably, his director, Director Zuo, had a salary of nearly eighty thousand last month.
What does this mean!
A million-a-year salary! 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
Frankly, when the salaries were distributed, most people were stunned.
Yes, the patient flow is endless every day, and it’s indeed exhausting.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a skill-based practice, and spending the whole day focusing on it isn’t something everyone can endure.
However, once the salary was distributed, no one felt tired or bitter anymore.
The salaries they receive now aren’t lower than those in Jinling, and in many cases are even considerably higher.
But after receiving their money, aside from joy, they were mostly worried.
Though they know the hospital is profiting from its diet therapy, beauty, and health rehabilitation departments.
But the directors almost earn a hundred thousand monthly, most doctors earn twenty thousand or so, the lowest being around eight or nine thousand, plus the nursing and support staff—one or two million must be distributed in salaries each month, totaling ten or twenty million annually.
Can it be sustained?
This question quickly reached Lu Jiu.
However, Lu Jiu wasn’t worried at all.
Why?
Because the diet therapy department alone nets over twenty thousand daily, and the beauty department slightly less but still around seventeen thousand in net income.
Health rehabilitation, due to its membership model, initially has high income, and it’s essentially all net profit, averaging fifteen thousand or so daily.
The other departments are not as profitable as the diet therapy, but altogether they make about forty-five thousand daily, mostly from consultation fees, as the medicines don’t make much profit.
Thus, the hospital’s daily net income reaches one hundred thousand.
This income makes it more than enough to pay salaries.
The main expense of a Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital is salary, so with this profit level, sustaining Lu Jiu TCM Hospital is truly not an issue.
Note, this income level is achieved even when Lu Jiu TCM Hospital’s patient numbers haven’t surpassed Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine yet.
Next month, not only will the hospital’s revenue surge, but doctors’ incomes will also rise dramatically.
Many people’s salaries will likely exceed those in Jinling significantly.
Quite a few people, especially those at the director level.
Some of them are even considering staying here for the long term.
After all, at their previous hospital, they had reached the ceiling, and positions and titles at large hospitals aren’t easily attainable, especially for Chinese medicine practitioners.
The requirements for titles are extremely strict; you must have papers published in important journals.
But what kind of Chinese medicine papers are worth publishing?
For someone to make it to a departmental director, their titles are decent, and at around fifty years old, there’s basically no room for advancement.
In that situation, they might as well focus on making money.
Currently, even though Jianghan is a small place, the salary level here is quite tempting for them.
Especially since Lu Jiu, chosen by Huang Fusheng as the director, doesn’t hold back at all with these doctors.
Not a single penny is missing from their salaries, and the initial salary agreement has basically been followed without any deductions. If your cure rate is high, he’ll even proactively chat with you, asking if you want to increase your consultation fee.
Many have indeed raised their fees, and their income now considerably surpasses that of ordinary doctors.
Besides the salary, the consultation environment is quite comfortable.
During this period, there haven’t been any incidents where patients made trouble, but these doctors never get into arguments with the patients.
They listen to patients’ legitimate requests and provide reasonable explanations. If it’s their own mistake, they take the initiative to communicate with the patients, and the hospital compensates promptly. There were even a few times when Lu Jiu personally visited patients to apologize and refunded the medical expenses in full.
When there are patients causing unreasonable trouble, the hospital does not ignore it and strives to protect the doctors as best as possible.
This is why, in the three to four months the hospital has been operating, there haven’t been any serious medical dispute incidents.
Over time, everyone realizes that at Lu Jiu TCM Hospital, they genuinely treat you if you’re sick, and if they can’t, they genuinely refund you. If you don’t want to visit the hospital, they’ll even come to you to refund the money.
These days, life is actually quite exhausting for everyone. Whenever you go out, you risk being overcharged here or there. Suddenly encountering a place that sincerely cares for you, to be honest, would move anyone.
Even though a lot of people say that treatment at Lu Jiu TCM Hospital isn’t cheap—consultation with a director alone costs a hundred or two, not including medicine, and if you’re receiving dietary therapy, it’s even more expensive, with minor illnesses costing four to five hundred, which is more than at a Western Hospital.
But many people also feel that if a more expensive hospital can cure your illness, or even tell you how to prevent it in the future, then paying more is worth it.
Even if in the end the hospital doesn’t cure your illness, they’ll refund your money.
Just because of this, many people unconditionally trust Lu Jiu TCM Hospital.
So, sincerity is the ultimate weapon in this society!
The hospital model that Lu Jiu initially envisioned is gradually becoming mature.
Meanwhile, as the director, he has also started to devote some of his energy to some children at the school.
Since the primary school started, Lu Jiu, like the previous year, gives them a class once a week.
Sometimes, he plays games with them, teaching Chinese medicine knowledge through entertainment; at other times, he seriously and earnestly explains it in the classroom.
There are also exams during this period, and of course, the exam content revolves around the Five Viscera illustrations that he drew.
Occasionally, he finds some students performing well and takes them, two or three at a time, to experience the hospital atmosphere. He then uses half a day of his rest time to help them identify Chinese herbs up close, making learning more profound than merely looking at images of herbs in books.
Truth be told, after Lu Jiu’s training, quite a few students in the class have developed a strong interest in Chinese medicine.
Some children even take notes on their own and recite them at home after finishing their homework, without needing their parents to force them.
Some children learned simple healthcare knowledge from Lu Jiu and keep persuading their parents at home to take care of their health and not play with their phones too much.
Hearing these funny stories, Lu Jiu can’t help but be delighted.
However, recently, when encountering Tang Yi, he always finds him worried.
If asked about his situation, Tang Yi hesitates and is reluctant to speak.
Lu Jiu actually learned from his uncle about the current state of Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and heard that Dean Qi seems to intend to dismantle the Chinese medicine department and cease further advancement of the hospital’s reform.
This seems a bit like giving up.
After all, at first, he wanted to establish the Chinese medicine department and urged the entire hospital’s doctors to learn Chinese medicine as a foundation for future hospital reform. However, except for the people in the Chinese medicine department, no one responded to his call, and many even thought he was making unnecessary efforts.
Now, with the rise of Lu Jiu’s TCM Hospital, his Chinese medicine department naturally can’t continue.
Recently, it’s likely that some medical staff at Jianghan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine are laughing at Dean Qi for his futile efforts.
In fact, Lu Jiu quite likes Dean Qi.
He’s a leader who wants to get things done.
Unfortunately, the larger environment forces him to restrain himself, and he has never been able to realize some of his ideas.
Speaking of which, Lu Jiu actually quite wants to bring this Dean Qi to the hospital to hold a management position. After all, he has many years of experience in the hospital, and the fact that he advanced Tang Yi’s salary shows he’s a compassionate person.
If someone like him could come to their hospital, it would be a win-win situation.
But, after all, he is still the director of a public hospital, and Lu Jiu is not confident he can persuade him to join.
However, he can convince Tang Yi to come; right now, what they need most in their hospital are doctors, and young doctors like Tang Yi are rare.
So, Lu Jiu is also planning to try persuading Tang Yi once more at some point.
After all, since the Jianghan Hospital’s Chinese medicine department can’t continue, he will eventually have to leave.
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