chymotrypsin An enzyme involved in the digestion of proteins; secreted as the inactive precursor chymotrypsinogen in the pancreatic juice. It is activated by trypsin, and is an endopeptidase, with a different specificity from trypsin and pepsin.
The cost varies depending where you are and what kind of hospital you want. Here are some examples for you. Note that hospital construction cost is generally expressed in cost per bed. Two new hospital buildings are opening this year in Dallas, Texas. Both are big teaching hospitals and cost around $1.5 million per bed to build. The University of Texas Southwestern hospital (picture below) is over 1.3 million square feet and has 532 beds. It cost $800 million. Parkland Memorial, Dallas County's public hospital, is about 2 million square feet and has 862 beds.
Argentina and Spain were the other two countries highlighted in that one-day hospital cost comparison with respective prices of $702 and $481. Among the study's other findings 1  : A heart bypass in the States is a whopping $75,345, compared with $42,130 in Australia, $40,368 in New Zealand and $15,742 in the Netherlands.