雅美之途
教育，人文，社會
今晨看到一個帖子，稱國家會投資近90個億給母校同濟醫學院，文章也調侃了武漢大學當年沒合並同濟實乃失策之舉。看來同濟校友對武大還是有情緒的，我讀後便在朋友圈這樣留言：
“天下同濟校友至今沒有原諒武大當年的傲慢[疑問]。當時不是讓武漢大學改名，是取名武漢大學同濟醫學院都不允許，武大要求徹底取消同濟的牌子，同濟那幫裘法祖和武忠弼不幹了，“你武大算老幾？我同濟從上海遷漢時一級教授比武大還多”，所以與華工合並，逼華工改名。[強]
這次抗新冠病毒的頭麵人物彭誌勇、張繼先、張定宇、江學慶和“老子到處說”的艾芬都是同濟校友，當然李文亮是武大醫學院的校友。我在抗疫初期曾經感歎這應該是英雄倍出的時刻，現在看來他們就是令我們驕傲的英雄。這些名單還包括同濟法醫的劉良教授，眾多同濟和協和醫院的專家教授們，新冠的很多診療標準出自這兩間中國的著名醫院。這次同濟能夠獲得國家的重大投資是他們的功勞，雖然包括我在內的同濟海外校友在抗疫初期因為著急而抨擊過同濟母校。朋友今天告訴我：“協和醫院的家屬小區，離臭名昭著的華南海鮮市場隻有兩百米之遙”
我帖出後迎來倆位武大校友的不同留言或跟帖，現附錄如下：
武大校友A，華大MD畢業生的老爸和斯坦福還沒退學的在讀生的老爸：“老子現在還罵母校[敲打]當時的校長就是豬隊友。若老道在位，就是憑法老與他私人的關係，我與老兄早就是校友了。”
武大校友B：“我覺得同濟醫科大學就應該繼續獨立，既不跟武大也不跟華工合並。
武大為什麽沒有跟同濟醫科大學合並，各種傳言很多。從地理位置來看，武大跟湖醫合並，校區可以合並，比較方便走動。本來，武大跟湖醫合並後，武大如果有心發展醫學部門，可以通過招聘新人來迅速發展湖醫，可惜沒有大規模招聘，什麽原因不清楚，武大也不是沒錢。我想是武大幾任校長，對發展醫學部要麽缺乏遠見，要麽被束縛，做不了什麽事。
同濟醫科大學跟華工合並後，彼此似乎也沒有什麽互動，同濟醫科大學那邊除了拿錢，依然我行我素。
其實同濟醫科大學一直獨立挺好的，我樂見將來同濟醫科大學再次獨立[Grin]”
另附同濟校友的留言：“武大那邦領導就是蠢，沒見過世麵，武漢大學同濟醫學院有什麽不行。這種事美國到處是，比如芝加哥大學XXX醫學院，康奈尓大學XXX醫學院.人家要拿錢來買名，同濟這名本身就有有含金量.”
我本想找篇我的文章給他們看，以了解當時的那段曆史，結果發現還不在公眾號裏，所以重帖如下：
上海同濟 武漢同濟
(2017-03-05 14:26:53, 雅美之途)
今年是同濟醫學院誕生110周年的校慶，使我想起自己在富有激情的歲月裏做過的一件不成功的事情，一晃眼都快20年了。故事發生在1998年，當時我己經來美國8年了，但是通訊遠沒有現在這麽通暢。我在網上遊覽時發現了上海同濟大學的美國校友會的網站，他們的網站做得漂亮的原因恐怕是因為他們校友會主席是在同濟學計算機出身的，而武漢同濟當時沒有任何的美國校友會，更談不上網站了。
當時新浙江大學已經通過合並產生，雖然隻有浙大一家合並了，但對全國的衝擊很大。原來的浙江醫科大學已經成為新浙大的醫學院，我想母校同濟醫科大學的命運也隻能走合並的道路了。我覺得同濟與其和武漢大學合並，不與重歸上海同濟而成為同濟大學醫學院，當時我借用美國康乃爾大學和它的醫學院分隔幾百英裏的例子來說服自己和大家，如果當時有高鐵就更有說服力了。我便給上海同濟美國校友會的網上聯係郵箱寫了一封信，沒有想到的是，他們以校友會主席吳建為主的數位負責人迅速並且熱情地回應了我。吳建當時還是一位單身貴族，現在己經是相當成功的IT創業人士了。我們一拍即合地決定先在美國建立聯合的同濟校友會，將他們的網站改成聯合校友會的網站，然後試圖遊說國內的兩所同濟響應。他們當時積極與上海同濟大學女校長吳啟迪聯係，據說還得到了她的支持，我則給武漢的裘法祖教授寫過親筆信，但是沒有得到裘先生的回函。他們還弄了個一官半職給我，任命我為同濟大學美國聯合校友會的副主席，讓我負責武漢同濟方麵的工作。這樣我起草了一份希望上海同濟和武漢同濟合並的英文呼籲書，放在了聯合同濟校友會的網上。
雖然這是一段未竟的嚐試，但它表達的是天下同濟人對母校的感情，包括一位普通的武漢同濟美國校友的擔心，因為他的母校僅從校名來看就是這麽顛簸流離：同濟大學醫學院、中南同濟醫學院、武漢醫學院、同濟醫科大學和華中科技大學同濟醫學院。還是讓大家讀這段值得回味的曆史吧：
1。下麵為我在2010年9月20日放入新浪博客時寫的備注。當時我還不會中文輸入法，所以全部用英文寫成：
We are surprised to realize that we have already arrived at an age that we are able to tell a decade-old story. In the fall of 1998, we sensed an upcoming transition that our Alma Mater, Tongji Medical University, may have to face in the era when the new Zhijiang University was emerging through the combination of four different schools in Hangzhou. My browse activities led me to find a newly developed website of Tongji University America Alumni Association (TJUAAA) under the leadership of their president Jian Wu. He was a computer science major from Shanghai Tongji and had been working as a software engineer in the Bay area of California. My email communication with Jian received an enthusiastic response to my initial proposal of exploring the possibility to merge two Tongjis in the future. After a few rounds of discussions, we believed it would be a good idea to have a combined Tongji website to serve all of the Tongji alumni. I drafted an essay to explain our joined mission and this article was put into the combined Tongji alumni website.
Unlike the strong influential alumni groups in the United States, our voice had limited calling power as this campaign was ultimately unsuccessful and we are now part of HUST since 2000. One positive outcome from this is that I got reconnected with one classmate who was doing the postdoctoral training in Germany, while I was coordinated to collect the communication list of the alumni from Wuhan Tongji. Later on, we all were aware of Chen Ligong's noted article on the opposition of Wuhan Tongji's merge with HUST, and some details in the nearly humiliated negotiation process with Wuhan University. We completely understood the feeling when Qiu Fazhu and Wu Zhongbi were in a position to defend Tongji’s brand in their talks with the arrogant Wuda officials. Reading through these twelve-year-old words, the emotion is still there.
2。An essay written in 1998 for combined Tongji website: （當時我為同濟大學聯合美國校友會網站寫的呼籲上海同濟和武漢同濟合並的英文文章，曾經放在我們網站的首頁。當時中文軟件更是十分缺乏，隻能寫英文）
“As one of the most prestigious universities in China, Tongji started her prospective journey as a medical school in Shanghai, which was established by Germany physician Dr. Bolon in 1907. Early Tongji Medical School with its special relationship with Germany, while a powerhouse in medical education and research, had served as a unique academic basis to introduce modern western medicine to ancient China.
The rich history of medical education has been associated with Tongji University for almost a half-century. However, the order of separating Tongji's Medical School from its main campus in the 1950s had a terrible impact on Tongji University's operation as a first-class university although the separated Tongji Medical University in Wuhan has been developed into one of the finest medical schools in China. Last year, thousands of Tongji alumni around the world, together with faculties and students of Tongji University in Shanghai (Shanghai Tongji) and Tongji Medical University in Wuhan (Wuhan Tongji), simultaneously celebrated our Alma Mater's 90 years birthday. Looking back, the two universities of Tongji not only share the respected name but also the tradition of excellence in teaching and research; Looking forward, the two Tongjis have to face the future challenge: recombination of the high education system in response to the merging China's economic power.
The idea of potentially merging Shanghai Tongji and Wuhan Tongji in the near future has received a strong positive response from numerous alumni and friends associated with both universities. It will be an exciting project to pursue in terms of combining two solid schools with a similar history. In a united Tongji University, medical students need to spend three to four years of their college life on the main campus of Shanghai Tongji to build a solid foundation on basic science and humanity knowledge. With a deep understanding of the laws about how nature and society operate and function, the medical students will have more broad views to go back to Wuhan Tongji for finishing their formal medical training. The requirement of completed college education prior to medical school, beginning at Johns Hopkins University approximately one hundred years ago, is a characterized principle of America's medical education system. This system is renowned for its ability to produce not only highly qualified clinical practitioners to manage care but also the outstanding physician-scientists for scientific discovery and innovation. If we could establish this system in Tongji successfully, the demands of high-quality pre-medical education are also a driving force to enhance Shanghai Tongji's development on basic science and humanity departments, a transition from a technical institute into a real comprehensive university.
It is obvious that we need to work hard to overcome the geographic barrier between Wuhan and Shanghai, but these concerns can be minimized in the situation when China becomes more advanced in electrical communication and transportation. In the United States, one of Ivy League, Cornell University has been successfully operating its medical school in New York City, several hundred miles from its main campus in Ithaca, Upstate New York. We even can view this problem positively, medical students who have a privilege to study in the environment of both shanghai and Wuhan sub-cultures will enrich their life experiences in a wonderful young age.
It is also a privilege for any comprehensive university (even in the United States) to host a medical school. There are only 128 medical schools in this country compared with more than one thousand universities and colleges around the fifty states. If you consider the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) as a medical school of UC, Berkeley, Princeton University may be the only elite comprehensive university that does not have a medical school in the United States. We have impressed that the medical schools in this country are almost always the largest and most important component in the university. The reason for this phenomenon is very simple, that is because human beings care about themselves, life science has a direct beneficial impact on mankind.
We have demonstrated that the unification of two universities of Tongji is an exciting project to explore. The positive results of the project will benefit both universities and significantly improve Tongji University's position in the map of China's high education. We have agreed to unite our America's Alumni organization of both schools as one of the initial steps. Let's work together to push this project forward and turn our dream into a reality as soon as it can.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/04/21/university-furlough-update-add-michigan-kentucky-boise-state--and-washington-university-to-the-list/#424d8a547bd5
*從同濟分出來的同德醫學院， 後並入上二醫。陳中偉是同德入，二醫畢。
*上二醫並入交大，交大賺大發了。現在交大大部分國家級研究經費來之於上二醫部分。
*上醫並入複旦，仍保持複旦上海醫學院名稱
*協和並清華，到現在不清不楚。哪有美國洛克非勒醫院並給留美預備學校的？
複旦吃上海第一醫學院，川大並華西，中南（鄙母校）合湘雅，都屬於沒事找抽的光輝典範
英國好像是有人反疫苗的，如果能有這些小孩是否接種過疫苗的數據就太好了。