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Cæ heaved a deep breath as he narrowed his eyes in thought, heading back to his dorm room after the Student Council, enjoying the gentle breeze of the evening and the soft sunlight.

The environment of the magicademy was pleasant to the eyes, aiding his thoughtfulness.

"I have a lot of things to do."

He had known this before, of course. He had even planned how to allocate his time to the various things that demanded his attention.

'Magicademics is not an immediate priority at the moment.' He mused inwardly. 'I can cut time on it and spend it on something else. I probably can't reduce the training I go through since I have decided to apply to the training sessions of two contests. The Student Council will not allow me to under-train just because there's a lot of time for the Magic Contest.'

It meant that combat and Capture The Flag training would likely become fixed daily until his final battle with Virlyd would decide, once and for all, which one of them was suited to become the combat representative of the Elendir Institute of Magic.

'I also have to spend some amount of time every day to keep up with Trinity Housings' affairs, not to mention the daily research for my next business venture in the healing surgery industry.'

Previously, he had decided that it was worth it to slow down on magicademics and combat magic training in the early part of the magicademic year since both the exam and the Magic Contest were later in the year.

Which meant that as the months progressed, he would have to focus on them anyway as they became more urgent. However, until then, he could afford to spend less time on them on a daily basis while increasing the amount of time he spent researching for his business.

'I need to resolve the most important parts of my business in the first half of the magicademic year. Things like fleshing out my business model, choosing business partners with the relevant competencies, charting out a plan, and a timeline until the launch of the business.'

These took time and effort.

Trinity Housings had needed eighteen months of preparation ahead of time, and this was despite a powerful source of private funding in the form of the Elendir Institute of Magic. He didn't want to get involved with Headmistress Lenolia to piggyback his launch of his business again, but that also meant that he would need to make sure that whatever source of funding he chose, it would have to come through.

'So far, I have only just begun researching healthcare infrastructure. That too, in particular, surgery infrastructure, but I will need to ensure that the logistics that I have in mind are also viable.'

His solution to ameliorating the shortages in the supply of heart healing surgeons was to simply have surgeons hyper-focus exclusively on the tasks that only they could perform while leaving every other task to other professionals.

The personalized healthcare model has one cardio-healer surgeon remain with a patient from start to finish, with the intention of producing better healthcare outcomes for each individual patient by having the same healer remain with them from start to finish.

However, it reduced the number of patients that senior healing mages could attend to per day, causing a supply shortage.

Cæ intended to resolve that by leaving things like patient care, pre-surgery processes, and post-surgery monitoring and check-ups to other professionals while having senior healing mages focus on just a small part of the surgery.

In his mind, he had an image of ten connected rooms adjacent to each other with ten patients about to undergo a cardio-healing surgery. He could visualize a senior healer coming and tackling the only parts of the surgery in which he was needed due to the difficulty, required skill, and knowledge.

The senior healer would tackle the most difficult parts he was needed for, before leaving the rest of the surgery, the easier parts, to the junior healers, before immediately moving on to the next surgery next door, which would also be waiting for him to do the same thing.

If synchronized with perfection, then Cæ could imagine a whopping twenty surgeries completed per surgeon per day.

Of course, this was too impractical. Humans were not automatons and could not synchronize with each other like machines; thus, Cæ whittled his expectations down to ten surgeries per day.

That was still roughly five times as many surgeries per day as he had found to be the norm.

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In order to fully flesh this out, he needed to do more in-depth research into healing surgeries in general, not just medical infrastructure, something he intended to aggressively research over the next few months.

If for nothing else, it was to convince his yet-to-be-found business partners of this idea. It needed to be well-researched and backed with adequate facts that supported the viability of his business plan.

'I will definitely need a healing surgeon on board.'

Because his model was so different from the personalized model of healthcare, there was a lot of uncertainty in the practical implementation, which meant that he would definitely need to do a lot of practical testing to make sure that it was viable. A healer surgeon would be very useful in that regard, and without their approval and their continuous trials of his models, it would be impossible to know whether it worked or not.

It would also increase the credibility of his business.

'Given that the medical infrastructure of my hospital project is going to be very different from the norm as well, it seems I really will need a hospital planner with some experience in these matters as well. That will be enough of a basis to be able to venture into this project.'

He intended to overthrow the current paradigms and norms of the medical industry and go with something he thought was more efficient and more commercially viable, while also creating more healthcare for people.

It was a win-win-win for everybody.

Normally, even the half-year that he intended to dedicate to researching this project would not be anywhere near enough to resolve all the issues that they would be facing. However, Cæ knew that once he got his business partners on board after presenting a well-researched business proposition that was solid enough to compel them, his job was largely over.

The same thing had happened with Trinity Housings.

He had come up with an idea, spent a lot of time researching the idea and ensuring that it was commercially viable before presenting a scrupulously researched pitch to Feidin Norton, who became his business partner after realizing the merit in his idea. Once he got Seliphaz on board, the two of them began working on the project with their specialties.

After that, he had been free to pursue his magicademics in peace while staying on top of progress and ensuring that it was in line with his vision for the company.

'Once I recruit a healing surgeon and a hospital planner to this business idea, then I'm set. The only problem will be… finding a good healing surgeon and hospital planner who are willing to join hands on this venture.'

This was the hard part.

He knew that he had lucked out with Feidin and Seliphaz, but he highly doubted that he was going to get that lucky, especially with the latter, over this business.

It was just almost as risky as Trinity Housings had been. While Trinity Housings targeted the slums as a market, its new business was taking on the giant that was the healthcare industry.

Because of the high barrier to entry, the healthcare industry was dominated by hospitals owned by a handful of healthcare corporations that squeezed out all new players in the town, leaving only smaller clinics in town. When it came to Trinity Housings in the slums, he at least didn't have any other competition.

Here, he was facing off against titans who would ruthlessly crush him.

On top of that, because healthcare was such an important commodity, regarded as a basic necessity by most, the regulations for the industry were extremely high. The sheer number of barriers that he had discovered during his research into the red tape around starting a new hospital completely overwhelmed him.

Trinity Housings had very little red tape to get around, considering that they were selling micro-housing units, which had no regulatory body, in the slums that nobody cared about. In comparison, the red tape that he needed to face when trying to start a hospital was just scary.

All manner of regulations applied, while he also needed to get many permits and licenses, as well as authorization from the Colohen Clinical Board that ensured that all new hospitals met bare minimum quality standards to ensure that the healthcare discharged was of high quality.

'I might need to get another person on board just to handle these pesky barriers,' Cæ huffed. 'I don't want to spread my share of the ownership too thin, but at this rate, I may not have a choice. I can't expect a surgeon or a hospital planner to take care of these matters to take care of all these pesky matters.'

However, considering that he was probably going to keep running into these kinds of business barriers over and over, he couldn't help but consider whether he ought to employ a business administrator who would be paid to set up every business that Cæ created, as far as the legal and governmental procedures that were required.

'…Maybe in the future, but for now, it doesn't make sense to hire such a person to work for me on retainer when I'm busy with so many non-business matters.'

For now, he genuinely needs to find a business administrator who has experience in the medical industry.

'That also makes this harder…' he groaned internally.

He would need to find three people who were willing to take a huge risk in this business venture with him.

It was a big ask, he knew. He highly doubted that conventional senior healers, hospital planners, and business administrators would give him any consideration, even considering his background as a student of the Elendir Institute of Magic.

He would need to find unusual apples or even deviant ones apart from the norm.

People who weren't able to fit into the conventional industry for whatever reason, these were the kinds of people that he needed to find and appeal to.

'Finding them alone is going to take a lot of time; it will probably take a few months to find them. Though I suppose the timing is good because it will take me long to conclude all my market research in this field and finalize my vision on the matter,' he mused, heaving a deep breath.

"I have a lot to do. I can't afford to waste any time from this point on to the very end of the year."

And just like that, Cæ began a long slog that was not projected to end until the end of the year. With the number of matters that he needed to pay attention to and take care of, he had almost no time for personal leisure, putting his work above everything else in his life.

He couldn't even afford to consider whether what he was doing was particularly healthy or not, not if he wanted to actually achieve his ultimate objective.

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