The 32nd Congress of the International Society of Surgeons (ISS) was held in Los Angeles, USA.
This is a large comprehensive society where surgeons of different specialties from various countries gather together, and each developed country takes turns hosting the meeting every other year.
The 32nd Surgical Society Congress was attended by 1,000 doctors, making it a major event in the surgical field.
Thanks to Chen Xia, He Chengde, chief of urology at Yuezhou Hospital, also attended the conference.
In addition, four doctors from Hong Kong Margaret Hospital attended the conference, making it one of the hospitals with the largest number of participants in Asia.
As a subsidiary organization of the Surgical Society, the International Society of Organ Transplantation also participated in this conference.
Because China had previously announced two organ transplant teaching operations in a high-profile manner, but no relevant information about the results was released later, the association's chairman, Mr. Marit, became the subject of interviews by many media outlets.
Press interview area
A reporter from the New England Journal of Medicine stopped Marit:
"Professor Marit, I heard that you participated in an organ transplant teaching operation in China and spent a month in China for clinical observation. What are the current conditions of the two patients? Was the operation successful? Are the anti-rejection drugs claimed by China effective?"
A series of questions attracted the attention of all the reporters, and all the microphones were suddenly pointed at Marit.
Both the medical community and the general public have great hopes for organ transplantation, because it can not only save the lives of many people, but also represent a major technological breakthrough in surgery.
Professor Marit pretended to be stunned for a moment, then showed an embarrassed expression.
After returning to the United States, he negotiated with Chen Xia and Pumpkin Vine Company several times, and the patent transfer fee was increased from US$10 million to US$50 million per drug. Marit thought he was sincere enough.
As a result, Chen Xia not only rejected his transfer request, but also according to the information he received, China and Hong Kong were preparing to set up two organ transplant centers respectively to officially launch those anti-rejection drugs into the market.
Can Marit tolerate this? Can the International Society for Organ Transplantation tolerate this? Can the Johnson & Johnson Company behind it tolerate this?
This interview with the reporter was actually arranged by them. Since the Chinese side is so ungrateful, they are ready to use the same old trick: "demonize anti-rejection drugs."
Anyway, China was still a backward and poor country at that time, and had little influence in the international community.
However, neither Yuezhou Hospital nor Xiangjiang Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company has much say in the international medical community.
No matter how small the International Congress on Organ Transplantation is, as a secondary association, it cannot be compared with a single hospital or pharmaceutical company.
So Marit was going to teach China a lesson, making the anti-rejection drugs they invented become a pile of waste and could never be sold.
Let them know that no matter how good the patented medicine is, it will be in vain without their approval.
Thinking of this, Marit stopped and said very seriously:
"Yes, I and many colleagues participated in two organ transplant teaching operations in China. For scientific rigor, I also stayed in China to observe the patient's prognosis, paying special attention to related complications and organ rejection reactions between the human body.
Unfortunately, I don't think the anti-rejection drugs developed by China or the Xiangjiang Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company are effective; they might just be a publicity stunt.
Describing a "teaching operation" as "a performance" is almost like pointing fingers at China and calling it a scam.
The reporters at the scene were all shocked and very disappointed with the answer. They had originally thought that medicine would take a big step forward.
Obviously, reporters tend to trust the words of a head of an international medical organization.
Professor Marit's words represent personal reputation and integrity, and integrity is taken very seriously abroad.
Another reporter asked:
"Professor Marit, but I heard from other doctors attending the meeting that the two organ transplant patients in China are still alive. What's going on?"
With hundreds of foreign doctors attending the conference, some information could not be concealed. Since the reporters wanted to interview them, they must have done an investigation.
Marit laughed contemptuously:
"Isn't it easy to stay alive? The hospital where the surgery was performed is a backward one in a small city in China. They just received an intensive care unit from Hong Kong. I guess they are doing everything they can to keep the patient alive. That's all."
Oh~~~~
Now many reporters feel that it is clear.
The intensive care unit, a very common department in large hospitals abroad, actually requires foreign assistance in China, which is enough to show that this hospital is backward.
Organ transplantation is currently the ceiling of surgical operations. Reporters also couldn't believe it. How could a hospital that doesn't even have an ICU perform such a top-level operation?
The doctors from Yuezhou Hospital and Margaret Hospital who were present at the scene had not heard of Marit's interview and did not try to stop it.
It was not until the next day that they heard the discussions of other doctors, and it was obvious that the vast majority of doctors listened to Professor Marit and believed that it was impossible for China to issue anti-rejection drugs.
But this is just internal discussion
But when He Chengde and Ma Dezhong saw the news in many media, they realized the seriousness of the problem.
Because the newspapers have headlines like "Is China's organ transplant surgery a scam or a failure?", "China will never do organ transplant surgery well?", and "The International Organ Transplantation Association criticizes China's organ transplant surgery as a show."
For a time, both doctors from various countries in surgical societies and media from various countries were criticizing and accusing China.
It is believed that medicine is a rigorous profession that does not tolerate fraud and is not allowed to be used as a tool for political propaganda.
Is there anyone at the meeting who understands?
Of course there was. The teaching operation performed at Yuezhou Hospital was witnessed by hundreds of doctors from various countries, and the operation was successful.
More than 200 doctors from various countries also attended the subsequent medical analysis meeting, which clearly stated that the vital signs of the two patients who received organ transplants were stable, and they had even returned home in good health.
But now Professor Marit has changed his words in front of reporters, denying that the operation was successful and that the anti-rejection drugs were effective.
While everyone was surprised, they also thought of Marit's suggestion to hand over the patent to the Organ Transplant Association. Comparing the two, even a fool would know that there must be a conspiracy here.
Doctors are all elites with high IQs, but elites often represent rationality. They will calculate whether something is beneficial to themselves?
When it comes to clarifying the facts and offending the International Society for Organ Transplantation, they easily know what they should do and what to say. They will not do anything that is not beneficial.
When gods fight, bystanders stay away.
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