The plate of ethambutol, pyrazine, and rifampicin tablets in Lin Sanqi's hand was left over from the last treatment he gave to Pan Ye's father.
Lin Kucan was an expert, he knew it at a glance and gave a wry smile:
"Xiao Qi, this is a Western medicine, right? It has nothing to do with our Chinese medicine, right?"
Lin Sanqi nodded and explained to Doctor Lin using Western medicine theory:
"Yes, this is Western medicine, and it's the most advanced Western medicine. Even developed Western countries haven't launched it yet. This medicine has four ingredients, some of which have bactericidal and some have antibacterial properties.
Western medicine believes that tuberculosis is an infectious respiratory disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria mainly form lesions in the lung tissue, trachea, bronchi and pleura, so in order to cure it, the tuberculosis bacteria must be killed.
Compared to the recently launched dual therapy abroad, they currently require about two years of treatment. However, the ethamidine, pyrazine, and rifampicin tablets I have can be cured in as little as three months, and at most six months. Pan Ye's father was asymptomatic at just three months.
The effectiveness of the drug depends on the patient himself.
In 1960, the Chinese people had not yet experienced the rapid development of science and technology, nor had they been contaminated by large amounts of antibiotics. They were almost a blank slate.
Therefore, once a large dose of antibiotics is used, the effect is miraculous and can kill tuberculosis bacteria in the body in the fastest time.
After hearing this, Lin Kucan sighed softly:
"Can tuberculosis be completely cured within half a year? Western medicine is so amazing! It seems that our traditional Chinese medicine is really out of date. We have been practicing Chinese medicine for thousands of years, but we have never been able to overcome this problem."
Lin Sanqi shrugged:
"Survival of the fittest. Traditional Chinese medicine will not disappear, but it is destined to never become mainstream medicine again. It will only serve as a supplement in the future."
At this time, Dean Shen also wore a coat and walked out of the darkness with a worried look on his face:
"Hey, you two are so relaxed. Boy, do you have anything to eat? I'm a little hungry."
Dean Shen, as Lin Sanqi's recognized "godfather", naturally spoke rudely.
Lin Kucan quickly brought over a bamboo chair and brewed a cup of tea himself: "Old Shen, try it. This is the favorite oolong tea of us Dongguang people."
Dean Shen quickly waved his hand:
"Forget the tea. I don't have much fat in my stomach to begin with. Drinking tea directly will give me a stomachache. Let's eat something. After that, we can drink tea."
Lin Kucan smiled awkwardly. He had no worries about food and drink. His youngest son's feeding had made him gain several pounds.
As the dean of the hospital, Shen Guoming cannot eat and drink as lavishly as Doctor Lin. He has to consider the impact, so at most he can just have a small feast at Lin Sanqi's place.
Lin Sanqi quickly came over with food: a roast chicken from Sam's Club, a bag of peanuts, a bottle of rice wine, and a few cakes.
Dean Shen was no longer surprised. He tore off a chicken leg and began to chew it. He smacked his lips with pleasure and did not forget to remind him:
"Xiao Qi, our tuberculosis department's inpatient department will definitely be completed within a month. Although I'll let you be the department head temporarily, as long as you have the secret recipe, you will definitely be the official department director.
As the department director, you can be promoted directly to a division-level cadre. If your tuberculosis treatment plan and drugs can be promoted nationwide and can eliminate tuberculosis nationwide, I am afraid that my position as dean will also be replaced by you, so you must pay attention to it."
In the early days of the People's Republic of China, there was no age limit for cadres because our D had a fine tradition. For example, if the 101st Army was still in power, he would become a commander at the age of 23. Who would dare to think about it decades later?
Lin Sanqi has no interest in being a director or dean; he just wants to be a happy head of the purchasing department.
"Uncle Shen, I'd like to ask you for a leave of absence for about a month."
Dean Shen and Lin Kucan stopped what they were doing at the same time and looked at Lin Sanqi:
"Why are you asking for leave again so suddenly?"
Lin Sanqi is really absent from work in the hospital every other day. Fortunately, he is in the purchasing department, otherwise he would have been reported by someone with ulterior motives.
In fact, Lin Sanqi wanted to go to Hong Kong to obtain the patent for tuberculosis drugs before the tuberculosis department was opened.
As I said, once the treatment for tuberculosis begins in Changping and it shows miraculous results, this major event that affects the progress of medicine around the world will definitely be targeted by spies from all over the world.
If the drug falls into the hands of these spies and is transferred to overseas pharmaceutical companies, the patent will be lost for nothing.
Therefore, Lin Sanqi must seize the opportunity to apply for a drug patent first.
However, there are also considerations on where to apply for a patent.
First of all, it can be excluded domestically. Not to mention that you cannot apply for a patent in China at present, even if you apply for it, it will not be recognized abroad.
Secondly, there were not many countries that established diplomatic relations with us in 1960, and almost all of them were poor brothers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The laws of these third world countries were not sound. If you wanted to apply for a patent in these countries, it was estimated that even their patent offices would not be open.
The big country in the north has already fallen out, so it is obviously impossible to go north.
Among the mainstream Western developed countries, the United States and the United States have not established diplomatic relations with us. They are even hostile countries. There are not even direct flights to them, and no one can go there except diplomats.
The three defeated countries in World War II are now busy with their own affairs and have no diplomatic relations with China, so there is no need to consider them.
Only the John Country has an ambiguous attitude towards us. In 1954, the two sides reached an agreement to send each other's agents, and now they are in a state of semi-diplomatic relations.
Of course, John Guo did this for the purpose of communicating on the Hong Kong issue and they had their own considerations.
This is also why Hong Kong has become our only important channel for external communication, and why the Hong Kong Eagle authorities have turned a blind eye to certain underground transactions.
Since it is allowed to ship goods from Hong Kong to the mainland, can Lin Sanqi go in the opposite direction and apply for a patent in Hong Kong?
At that time, Hong Kong's legal system was the same as that of the Eagle Country. A patent applied for in Hong Kong was equivalent to a patent applied for in the Eagle Country and could be recognized by all developed countries in Europe and the United States.
This is the top priority Lin Sanqi can think of.
Dean Shen frowned. "Xiao Qi, setting up a brand new department is a complex undertaking. As the temporary director, it's inappropriate for you to take such a long leave at this time. Or do you have a reason to take leave?"
Of course, it was impossible for Lin Sanqi to report everything to Dean Shen, especially since what he was about to do was extremely treasonous, because he did not want to get the organization's approval and go "abroad" privately.
So an excuse must be given.
"Uncle Shen, don't worry. I'm taking leave for work. Think about it, if our tuberculosis department wants to be promoted nationwide, we need a set of diagnostic and treatment standards, right?
Look at Professor Pan, Ma Lianliang, and Zhao Yanxia. They all ultimately determined whether it was tuberculosis, not using TCM standards, but rather X-rays from the Union Hospital. What does this mean? X-rays are the gold standard.
I am not saying that our Chinese medicine is not good. Chinese medicine masters like my masters, you and my dad, can easily tell whether a patient has tuberculosis by taking his pulse. It seems very simple.
But how many miracle doctors like you are there in the country? In remote small cities and rural areas, where conditions are poor and the skills of doctors vary widely, they may not be able to diagnose tuberculosis simply by taking a pulse. As long as it's a human procedure, mistakes are bound to happen.
So since we are going to establish the first specialized tuberculosis hospital in the country, we must make it the best, most authoritative, and most replicable. One of the X-ray machines cannot be spared. Uncle Shen, if you apply for an X-ray machine now, do you think you can get it?"
Dean Shen was obviously convinced and sighed:
"Where can I get an X-ray machine?"
Lin Sanqi was unconvinced. "Didn't they say Shanghai can already mass-produce X-ray machines? Uncle Shen, you're not a good enough director. We have money, so we can buy some."
Dean Shen kicked Lin Sanqi on the leg and cursed, "Get out."
On September 25, 1952, the first 200 mA medical X-ray machine in China was successfully developed by Shanghai Medical College and Shanghai Precision Medical Equipment Factory. It was installed in Zhongshan Hospital for trial use and was named "National Day" at the time.
At the end of 1959, the factory successfully trial-produced a large 400 mA X-ray machine. From then on, China finally achieved mass production of X-ray machines, which greatly advanced the medical industry.
This is official propaganda, but everyone in the health system knows that this is just an assembly machine, and the core components, X-ray tubes and high-voltage generators, still need to be imported.
But the problem is back to the starting point. If you cannot import core components, you will not be able to produce the whole machine. In the end, you can only say that you have broken through 0, but it is still far from industrial mass production.
"Xiao Qi, are you saying that you're going to get an X-ray machine for our Chinese Medicine Hospital?"
"Yes, we cannot do without this X-ray machine. Without it, even if we achieve success in treatment in the future and submit our papers to foreign countries, they will not recognize it, because papers require evidence. You must first have evidence to prove that your patient has tuberculosis.
Without this X-ray, foreign doctors would ask: How did you know for sure it was tuberculosis? You didn't even examine the patient to prove it, so perhaps the patient wasn't actually TB? How can you then claim you can cure tuberculosis?
Uncle Shen, you might say that we Chinese medicine practitioners have our own diagnostic methods and don't need X-ray machines. But there's nothing we can do. If we want to go global, we have to play by their rules. Otherwise, we'll just be closed off and entertaining ourselves."
Dean Shen was still a little embarrassed:
"Xiao Qi, we are a traditional Chinese medicine hospital. If we also use X-ray machines to treat patients, then are we considered traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine? I'm afraid there will be many people in the hospital who object."
Lin Sanqi didn't care:
"It doesn't matter whether it's a white cat or a black cat, as long as it can catch mice, it's a good cat. Precisely because we're worried about resistance, we'll conduct the experiment in the Changping branch first."
In 1960, Shen Guoming and his group of Chinese medicine practitioners still stubbornly believed that Chinese medicine hospitals should completely adopt traditional Chinese medicine methods for treatment. They wanted to prove that Chinese medicine was no worse than Western medicine.
But they never imagined that in a few decades, most of the Chinese medicine hospitals in China would become fake.
A traditional Chinese medicine hospital has dozens of departments, but only a few of them are traditional Chinese medicine outpatient clinics, and the rest are all Western medicine (modern medicine) departments.
Let’s take BJ Chinese Medicine Hospital as an example a few decades later. Let’s look at their introduction and see what departments they have:
Respiratory Medicine, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Cardiology, Hematology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Thoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Cosmetology...
Just looking at the introduction of this department, who can tell that this is a "traditional Chinese medicine hospital"?
Let’s take a look at the BJ Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, which has 1,400 beds, but none of these 1,400 beds are for traditional Chinese medicine.
And what they are proud of, highlighted in the brochure:
The hospital is equipped with medical equipment such as a 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging machine, a 256-slice ultra-fast CT scan, a digital flat-panel angiography system, a SPECT/CT scan, an ultrasound endoscope, a dual-plate digital DR, a three-dimensional cardiac mapping system, a fully automatic intelligent blood collection system, a fully digital flat-panel mammography system, a focused ultrasound tumor ablation machine, and a digital gastrointestinal angiography system.
The above machines are advanced, but which one is related to traditional Chinese medicine?
So is this an advancement in medicine or a regression in traditional Chinese medicine?
Dean Shen was also worried about another thing:
"Xiao Qi, this X-ray machine isn't cheap, is it? The problem is that there's an embargo on it from abroad, so we can't buy it through legitimate channels... Oh... I understand!"
It cannot be purchased through formal channels, but don’t forget that Lin Sanqi is someone who specializes in using informal channels.
Lin Sanqi shrugged:
"Uncle Shen, since you've appointed me as the department director, I'll do what I say. I absolutely must have this X-ray machine, and don't worry about the money. I'll buy it first, and the hospital can buy it on credit. When our tuberculosis department makes money, we can use Chinese medicinal herbs to pay for it."
Lin Sanqi's "channel space" also has a full set of medical auxiliary testing equipment. He had some reservations when he made the deal with the digital hospital.
He wanted to keep this set of testing equipment for the Chinese medicine hospital to use.
If he wasn't afraid that they would get used to it and take advantage of him, Lin Sanqi, he could actually provide a full set of modern medical equipment for free.
Dean Shen thought for a while before making up his mind:
"Alright, then, let's do it your way. You can figure out what equipment you need yourself. I believe you have the ability. I approve this leave."
As long as he is not stupid, Dean Shen should understand that everything Lin Sanqi does is beneficial to the Chinese Medicine Hospital and has no harm.
As for how to suppress any opposition that may arise in the hospital, that is his job as the hospital director.
After Dean Shen finished eating, he wiped his mouth and went back to sleep. Only the Lin family father and son were left by the cornfield.
Lin Kucan didn't say anything just now, but now he has to ask another question.
A father worries about his son even when he is far away. It is obvious that X-ray machines are not available in China, so the most likely possibility is that he will have to go abroad, and going abroad is no trivial matter.
"Xiao Qi, where are you going to get the X-machine?"
Lin Sanqi lowered his voice and said, "Dad, I'm going to Xiangjiang. I'll go there secretly and come back secretly."
Lin Kucan thought that this was indeed the case, and of course he did not object. After all, going to Hong Kong was as easy as pie for the people in Huadu.
"Going to Hong Kong right now might not be that easy. The procedures require approval from higher-ups, and even if they do, it'll take months. You were right to sneak over, saving yourself the trouble."
It does save me trouble. Now going abroad requires approval, and you can easily be suspected if you are not careful.
In addition, there is no foreign exchange in the country at this time, and you need to exchange currency to go abroad. In order to save money, it is likely that the application will not be approved.
Not to mention it was for the medical cause. In fact, before the reform and opening up, medical exchanges between China and foreign countries (developed countries in Europe and the United States) were almost zero.
After the reform and opening up, all doctors in the country were shocked to find that foreign medical technology had become so advanced.
Then two kinds of people emerged. One group thought that since foreign countries were so advanced, we should work harder and strive to catch up.
There is another type of people who think that we will never catch up, and if we can't beat them, we will just join them. So they try every means to go abroad, and then never come back.
Doctor Lin quickly went over the plan in his mind and gave his son a mature "smuggling" plan:
"If you're planning on going to Xiangjiang, don't go through Bao'an County. As far as I know, the land route through Bao'an is very strict with inspections and surveillance. Especially as an outsider like you, going to Bao'an County for no reason will definitely be closely watched. You won't be able to reach the boundary river, let alone swim across it."
Lin Sanqi recalled the information from his previous life and asked:
"Isn't there a direct train from Huadu to Xiangjiang? How about hitching a ride? Or maybe getting a fake ID and buying a ticket?"
Doctor Lin snorted disdainfully:
"You're dreaming. The Guangdong-Hong Kong railway line was disconnected in 1952, and there are no longer any passenger trains between the two places. Otherwise, do you think others wouldn't think of taking a train to Hong Kong? It only takes half a day."
Lin Sanqi was puzzled: "Dad, if the train is so convenient, why didn't you think of taking the train to Hong Kong in 1949?"
Doctor Lin smiled bitterly and sighed:
"It seems you've forgotten everything about your childhood. Back then, our family was stopped at the train station while heading south, and then we were sent directly to the northbound train on the opposite platform. Ahem..."
When Lin Sanqi heard this, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
No wonder. The Lin family clearly has houses and savings in Hong Kong, which means they have a way out. Why would they suddenly volunteer to go north to aid the capital?
Lin Sanqi was a little confused before, but now he suddenly understood. It turns out that they went north voluntarily.
Of course, this is also related to Comrade Lao Lin's awareness of the times. If Doctor Lao Lin had insisted on going south and refused to go north, the Lin family might not be in Sijiucheng now, but should be in Qinghai or Gansu.
"Hahaha, Dad, you're so miserable."
Lin Kucan poured himself a glass of water and drank it.
"Why are you miserable? Isn't everything fine now? What's important is that our family of five can stay together. Now in the capital, your two brothers have married and have children, and you also have a fiancée. How wonderful it is that our family lives in peace and tranquility, right?
If we had gone to Hong Kong back then, it would have been a blessing or a curse. Hong Kong is full of corrupt police and gangs. Rich outsiders like us could easily become fat sheep in their eyes. Kidnapping and extortion could have happened, and our family might not have lived in peace.
As the saying goes, time and fate. Since God doesn't allow us to go south, but to go north, we must follow the will of heaven. After we get through this damn natural disaster, our country will focus on economic development, and its future achievements will not be inferior to those of Hong Kong. After all, Hong Kong is too small.
Lin Sanqi thought that the old man had good vision and could make the most correct choice in the most urgent situations to avoid becoming a victim.
However, the old man's vision was still limited. He did not expect that what he would be doing a few years later was not economic development, and the expected economic and military power would have to wait another 20 years.
"Oh, Dad, how can I get to Hong Kong secretly?"
Doctor Lin thought for a moment and thought of someone:
"Well, after you arrive in our hometown of Huadu, go to Zhongshan County first. Director Pang Xingwen of Zhongshan County Hospital is an old friend of mine. I'll write you a letter. He's a local tyrant in Zhongshan and might be able to get you a boat to Hong Kong. That's how your fifth and sixth uncles got there."
Lin Sanqi wondered, how could his old man be so unconventional? He knew people from all walks of life, so it seemed he wasn't a simple person before liberation.
Originally, he was planning to try swimming to the Victoria Harbour, putting on a few tires and setting off from the mangroves. It seemed very exciting. He would take a few photos and be considered a historical witness, which he could brag about to his descendants in the future.
But compared to the half death rate when traveling to Hong Kong, it seems that riding on a smuggling boat safely is not bad.
"Okay, Dad, I understand. Let's go to Zhongshan County to find Doctor Pang Xingwen first."
"Also, when you get to Hong Kong, go look for your fifth and sixth uncles first. First, they'll want to see how our business in Hong Kong is doing. Second, they have connections in Hong Kong, so you can ask them for help if you have any difficulties.
Don't worry. Unlike the other rogue uncles who took over our property, your fifth and sixth uncles were brought up by me personally. I also taught them medical skills. You can trust them and don't have to worry. After all, you have to rely on your relatives when you go out.
If you're short on cash, I've deposited $200,000 in HSBC Bank in Hong Kong. With the interest and property rentals over the years, the amount will only increase. I'll give you the passbook and you can withdraw it anytime, but don't tell your two brothers about this."
Lin Sanqi was really touched when he heard this. This was the treatment of the eldest son, which ordinary sons could not enjoy.
"Dad, don't worry. Although I don't have any foreign currency, I have a lot of gold on hand, which is enough to spend over there. If money is really not enough, don't you still have your fifth and sixth uncles?"
Lin Kucan nodded slightly. He now had full faith in his youngest son's ability to cause trouble.
Lin Sanqi didn't lie, he had a lot of gold in his hands.
Although the book does not go into detail, after being arrested by the police last time, Lin Sanqi's black market transactions had already moved underground.
Every time, it was Old Man Fu Zuo who acted as the intermediary. Those wealthy old men and capitalists would calculate how much food and medicine they needed, and then give it to Lin Sanqi.
Lin Sanqi then selected a place, transported all the supplies there, and left first. Someone would naturally come to pick up the goods later.
The advantage of this is that Lin Sanqi and the trader don't have to face each other, so both sides won't be caught in the same trap...
(To be continued) (End of this chapter)
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