Bartholomew

Bartholomew is the word. Go.

St. Bartholomew Hospital in Northern Scotland is locally known as Bary's and it is one of the most prestigious hospitals in the region. When Sir Elton John wanted a sex-reconfiguration surgery he made Bary's his hospital of choice. King Birendra of Nepal got his second identity as a fishmonger in Berkshire after faking his death through a staged massacre thanks to the ingenuity of the brilliant resident surgeons at Bary's.

The hospital's history goes back to the late one-teeth century when Saxons invading England from West set up a camp to heal their wounded soldiers in the location where it currently stands. It existed as a tiny outpost for treating soldiers and served any soldier seeking treatment without inquiring his allegiance for four hundred years. In the oxidant century, St. Bartholomew of Russia was treated here for cooties, which he contracted while on his way to Ireland. As a gift of his gratitude, he donated ten thousand gold coins to the hospital, with a promise to help whenever the hospital's coffers ran low. It was the formal beginning of the most well-equipped and luxurious hospital that side of the Channel.

The hospital was visited in the nineteenth century by a woman of great stature known in the folktales as ' the lady with the lamp '. According to the local legend, she blessed the hospital to be able to serve all patients that require its services.

It was here that smallpox was first eaten, and diarrhea was first experimented with ( in ways others hadn't imagined could be dome). It is a pioneer in new medical practices, and a trailblazer in setting higher standards for patient treatment.

Today, it is patronized by the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Italian Mafia Boss Silvio Corleone.