Chapter 160 Specific Medicine & Ineffective Treatment
Having just finished a confidentiality meeting, Shu Jinyue would definitely not reveal anything. She just acted as if she was hearing about it for the first time: "What? An infectious disease?"
Brian sighed, "You may not know yet, but recently a very scary virus has spread in our country, infecting many children..." blah blah blah, what is the name of the virus, what are its epidemic characteristics, and what are the symptoms.
He spoke very quickly and urgently. Although Shu Jinyue already knew the answer, he still pretended to hear it for the first time, saying "Huh?", "Is it so serious?", and "Oh my God!"
Of course, she also discovered a problem - Brian still had reservations about her. When she asked them how many confirmed cases, deaths, and severe cases there were, he hesitated.
Then, his answer was the same as what Jin Yue saw in the newspaper, and far less than one-third of what Lin Zhen told her a week ago.
Of course, with Brian's status and connections in Country A, the numbers he knew would definitely be more accurate than Lin Zhen's, but he concealed it.
Sure enough, doctors like him also have national boundaries, Jin Yue sneered in his heart.
Regardless of her relationship with Brian, this was a request for help from a person from Country A. Shu Jinyue, who did not even have a passport, had just come up with a clinical guideline at a senior symposium. It was still confidential, so she had no right to make a decision. Moreover,—
She and Xu Duan both suspected that this K virus was not simple, and it might have been launched by their country itself. The female spy who poisoned Su Xing was a spy planted by their country itself. Her behavior represented the will of Country A, and elites of Country A like Brian were also the main factor in promoting their will.
Shu Jinyue sneered. He had wanted to kill all the children of the Dragon people one by one and let them not see the sun tomorrow. Now he couldn't control himself anymore and wanted to ask the Dragon people for help?
There is no such thing in the world.
Shu Jinyue refused directly.
Brian was very disappointed, and tried to persuade him a lot on the phone, saying that he couldn't bear to see the child being too young, and even stammered out some half-truths, saying that there were really many infected people in their country, far more than reported by the media, and that the rate of severe illness was ridiculously high... This was a self-torture tactic, and Shu Jinyue knew it very well.
"I'm sorry to hear you say that, but the medical level there is the highest in the world. Your scientists should have been developing special medicines. Maybe some big companies have already developed special medicines. You have to believe in the capabilities of your big pharmaceutical companies."
Brian was speechless. As a citizen of Country A, he was well aware of the shamelessness and greed of capitalists. Have they really developed it? Is it really a panacea? He knew very well whether it was hype or to save lives.
After hanging up the phone, Shu Jinyue thought that her child was actually their primary target. If her family hadn't found out earlier, if she wasn't at home, or if she didn't have the experience in her previous life, her child might have... With such a deep hatred, they still asked her to get treatment?
How dare they think she is a saint!
When she got home, she was still angry. But for the children, their mother, whom they hadn’t seen for more than a month, finally came back. They jumped up and down with excitement, calling “Mom” left and right, calling out like a tape recorder, asking for hugs, kisses, and even feeding.
Shu Jinyue looked over and saw that the one who asked her mother to feed her was actually the always independent Su Yue, "Mom, food."
At least Su Xing had accompanied her in the ward. Su Yue hadn't seen her for almost two months. Shu Jinyue's heart softened. Forget it, just feed her. She is less than two years old. It's better to spoil her for one day. I've never heard of any adult needing others to feed her, right?
To welcome her home, the meal tonight is very sumptuous, comparable to the Chinese New Year's meal. There are the freshest steamed sea bass, palm-sized live shrimps, fist-sized crabs, as well as clear-boiled old hen and mint-braised beef. Every dish is delicious to the heart's content.
Shu Jin ate more and more until his belly was fuller and fatter. "Oh, Dad, your cooking skills are getting better and better. You can open a restaurant now."
"tasty!"
“Xiangxiang!”
Teacher Shu was a little flattered by the praise, "I have really thought about opening a restaurant. I will try it after I raise my children."
Anyway, he has the capital and Old Man Tian can work as a chef in the canteen, so he also wants to try it.
Everyone laughed. This was really something. Ten years ago, who would have thought that Mr. Shu, a cultured man devoted to playing chess, practicing calligraphy and writing articles, could actually become a chef? Even Zhao Wanqiu, who had been married to him for so many years, could not imagine that his cooking could be so delicious. It was a pity that she and her children had to eat pig food for so many years in the past few decades.
"So, men still need to practice. Practice more and they can do anything," said Xu Wenli.
Everyone laughed. They all knew that she was not talking about Teacher Shu, so they looked at Shu Wenming jokingly.
"Why are you looking at me? I can only eat, I can't cook." Silly wife, this is only in their family. If it were in someone else's family, your words would cause a family conflict.
After dinner, they chatted until after ten o'clock. The children fell asleep and everyone went back to their rooms. Shu Jinyue lay on the comfortable big bed, rolled left and right, and smelled the soapy bedding. He felt his heart calmed down a lot.
"Why were you still angry just now?" Xu Duan came in after washing up and asked in a low voice.
"Oh, don't mention it. Brian, do you remember? He just called me..." He kept getting angrier and angrier. "He even blackmailed me morally, saying that he couldn't bear to hurt so many innocent children, so how could he have the heart to hurt my child? The children of our Dragon people deserve to be their stepping stones and be taken advantage of?"
Xu Duan was also a little angry, but he kept his composure and asked back: "If we don't have Chinese medicine, and can only rely on their special medicines and vaccines, would he help you if you made the call for help today?"
Shu Jinyue hesitated for a moment, "No."
"He may say nice words, but when it comes to matters involving interests, he will never give in." Through Director Jin's incident, Shu Jinyue truly understood what it meant to "use people forward rather than backward." She couldn't think highly of herself and let him sell out the interests of their people just because she helped him that time.
"However, for various reasons, he should help me find a special medicine and help their pharmaceutical company make a lot of money from the Dragon people."
"What if their miracle drug is just a gimmick and has no real 'special effect'? We Dragon people have spent a fortune and failed to cure the disease. We may even be left with irreversible sequelae for life... So we are the ones who are being taken advantage of and paying for their drug trial."
Xu Duan smiled, "So you don't have to feel guilty or uneasy. If you put yourself in their shoes, you will find that you have done your best." At least you didn't use fake special medicine to cheat them out of their money. At least you didn't let them lose both their money and their lives.
Shu Jinyue thought about it and it made sense. She was not a saint.
"However, this is a business opportunity." Xu Duan changed the subject and looked at the two children who were sleeping soundly. "They can sell us special medicines. I also suspect that their purpose of poisoning is not only to harm our next generation, but also to take advantage of the opportunity to reap the wealth of our Dragon people and kill traditional Chinese medicine."
Through the development in recent years, the economy of Longguo had improved in the early 1990s, and it seemed that it would achieve a major turnaround in a few years. Then the K virus came. In order to save their children, every household went bankrupt and took on huge debts to buy "miracle drugs". Didn't the wealth accumulated by the people for decades be harvested?
At the same time, with no money left, people dared not spend and could not start production. Many large state-owned enterprises had poor performance and were forced to sell assets and restructure them. The capitalists' agents began to reap these high-quality assets.
For them, this is a season of harvest, but for the Dragon people, it is a time to take advantage of your weakness.
And at this time, if we add some rhythm and people follow the crowd, then everyone will say, "See, the Chinese medicine of the Dragon people is not good enough. At the critical moment, we still have to seek Western medicine. Western medicine has special medicines."
The more Shu Jin thought about these possibilities, the more answers he had for his questions came to him. "So, what you mean is that we can sell them 'special medicine' instead?"
Xu Duan smiled, "We Long people are reserved and conservative in our speech. We don't like to talk about 'miracle medicine'. It's too exaggerated. We can only learn from them. Then..."
Shu Jinyue was stunned. Yes, why not make this money? Her gastric fluid and rhinitis medicine are still making money for her every year. In time, she will receive several considerable incomes. This kind of money is much easier to earn than the hard work of seeing a doctor. Every year, she does not have to do anything and will receive huge dividends. In the future, this steady stream of dividends can be passed on to Su Yue and Su Xing, so that they don't have to worry about food and clothing. Isn't that great?
She should follow the path of the capitalists in Country A and leave them with no way out!
After figuring it out, Shu Jinyue was suddenly happy. She even suspected whether this was the so-called "luck". Country A gave her such a good opportunity to make money!
Well, it’s actually not very fair to think this way, but the virus was not developed by her, nor was it funded by her, and it was certainly not spread by her. This kind of immoral and evil thing was done by the people of Country A themselves, and she just picked up some of the equipment they dropped.
She is even a kind-hearted person who enjoys saving lives and helping others!
But the next second, she was not happy anymore: "To develop this drug, there are many procedures, clinical trials are very slow, and it will take even longer to actually go on the market. The cycle is really too long. Will it be unable to catch up with this trend?"
Xu Duan shook his head. "We have to make do with the emergency. They can develop a special medicine in half a month, so it's not too much for us to use one or two months."
The more Shu Jin laughed, the more sinister she was. She was confident that if she used the ready-made effective prescriptions, the medicine would be ready in a week instead of two or three months, because she had the cases to prove that these prescriptions were effective, and these prescriptions had been clinically proven to have no toxic side effects. They could be put on the market just by putting on the cloak of "Chinese patent medicine", so why not?
If you don’t know, you might think she knew about this virus infection in advance!
"It's getting late, let's go to sleep first. I'll go find Kang Yongxin tomorrow. It would be much easier if our pharmaceutical factory could produce directly."
Yes, Shu Jinyue also has a small pharmaceutical factory! In order not to be controlled by the city's traditional Chinese medicine factory when she was making gastric fluid and rhinitis medicine, she set up her own company. For this purpose, she poached Kang Yongxin and entrusted her with important tasks. The profits in recent years have been very good, but she basically did not put any effort into this matter. It was all Xu Duan who took care of it, so she did not remember that she had such an "industry".
Moreover, in order to avoid suspicion, the pharmaceutical factory was not registered under her name, but was applied for in the name of Kang Yongxin, and he was given dividends every year. Now that Jin Yue really wants to sell the "special Chinese patent medicine" to people in Country A, this can just avoid some risks in public opinion.
All I can say is, "You guys are really thinking three steps ahead."
"Let's go one at a time." As he said that, he stretched out his long arms and held her in his arms, his eyes and breath were burning.
This time they were separated for too long, as long as seven or eight months, and both of them were mature men and women in their prime, so in the dead of night, a glance from them would spark sparks.
However, maybe the interval was too long, Xu Duan's time was not too long, it seemed like only a few minutes, and he was done before he had time to open his umbrella.
Shu Jinyue paused and couldn't help laughing. Xu Duan's face turned dark. God knows why he could be so disappointing!
She is wronged, okay? "You make me take medicine every few minutes, I am at a disadvantage."
They have been married for so many years, and this is the first time she has to take medicine because of his "mistake". She feels very unhappy just thinking about it.
The man's face was black and green.
Since she is unhappy, she has to be happy: "Since you are forcing me to take medicine, you have to do it again, oh no, twice, to make it up to me."
The man immediately came over and said, "It's my fault this time. I didn't expect it to be like this... I'll go get a vasectomy in a few days."
Neither of them plans to have any more children, so there's no need to take risks.
"Yes, to be responsible for your overconfidence, you have to do it to me twice tonight, even if you die."
As a result, Shu Jinyue paid the price for his "overconfidence". When he woke up the next day, his back and waist ached. He felt as if he had been run over by a truck three times, and there was not a single sore muscle in his body.
In order not to affect the experience, the man sent the children to the nanny's room in the middle of the night. Now, everyone knows what they did last night, and only the two children are unhappy. They were clearly with their mother before going to bed, but when they woke up, they were not in their mother's room. They were angry. Humph!
The more I think about that scene, the funnier it gets.
Ge Hong heard the laughter and turned around to ask, "What's wrong with you?"
Jin Yue tried hard to control his expression so that she wouldn't read it, and said with a straight face: "By the way, how is your friend?"
Ever since I came to Jin Yue and was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome before the New Year, I have been doing physical therapy for such a long time. Jin Yue has not had time to ask Li Si how the treatment is going. But it is not difficult to think about it. As long as the diagnosis is correct, there will definitely be an effect. It’s just that physical therapy is inherently slower, and it is impossible to completely eradicate the disease after just a few times. The key to treatment is persistence.
Unexpectedly, Ge Hong sighed, "Not very good."
Jin Yue was stunned. "Wouldn't it be good to do physical therapy and take medicine to nourish the nerves? Is there any relief?"
Ge Hong shook his head.
Shu Jinyue knew that she was a very objective person. If she said there was no effect, then there really was no effect at all... But, that was not right.
When carpal tunnel syndrome does not involve serious bone lesions, physical therapy is very suitable. How could it be ineffective?
"It may also be related to his insistence on using his hands during this period. He cannot stop working." Ge Hong said calmly.
"Then I'll show him someday when he's free."
Ge Hong acted quickly. He called Li Si over when he was about to get off work the next day. "Dean Shu said she can still help you. You must tell her the truth if you have anything to say."
Based on her understanding of this blockhead, she wondered if he had missed something. But she was not a medical professional, and she didn't know. The consultation she attended that day with Dean Shu was very detailed and comprehensive, and there should not be any omissions.
Li Si, who had not been seen for two months, seemed to be thinner than last time and his face looked a little pale.
"Comrade Li, please sit down. Let me take a look."
"how are things?"
"It's still numb, especially when I'm tired from work or stay up late."
Shu Jinyue looked at his complexion carefully and found that it was not completely pale, but a little red. He works indoors all year round, never seeing the sun, and his skin is whiter than most people of that era, so this redness is particularly obvious.
But how could it become popular?
Shu Jinyue thought about it and asked, "Are you hot now?"
Li Si shook his head. It was still early spring, and the weather was still cold. The windows of the clinic were open, and the spring breeze blowing in was still a little chilly.
Shu Jinyue was worried, so he took his temperature, which was 36.3 degrees, not a fever.
"Are you nervous then?"
Li Si shook his head.
Shu Jinyue also felt that he was not lying. People who do his job have strong psychological qualities and it is impossible for them to be so nervous that their faces turn red just by seeing a doctor.
"The results of the last toxicology test are out. The results for common toxic substances are all negative, so the possibility of poisoning should be ruled out." Shu Jinyue was busy those days and forgot to tell Ge Hong about this.
Ge Hong and Li Si looked at each other and said, "We know."
The more I thought about it, the more possible reasons I could think of were ruled out. What else could it be? "Let me check your pulse first."
Li Si stretched out his hand and Jin Yue placed three fingers on it. The pulse was similar to last time... but not right. It was still a little stringy.
It is easy to feel the string pulse. Jin Yue remembered that he didn't have it last time. "Are you still feeling uncomfortable? For example, anxious, depressed, etc.?"
"No."
Shu Jin was completely at his wit's end. He had no idea what was going on. Logically speaking, such an obvious symptom as numbness in the fingers should be easy to diagnose.
After asking questions for another quarter of an hour and thinking quietly for a while, Jin Yue finally told the truth: "If cervical spondylosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, carpal tunnel syndrome, and psychological factors are ruled out, I really can't think of any other possibilities for the time being. How about this, I will think about it for a few days and contact you when I have some clues?"
Li Si agreed, and Ge Hong sent him out. Jin Yue was sitting in the clinic thinking about something, when Anna came and said that Senior Brother Wang's son had arrived.
"This young man was really quick, as if he was afraid you wouldn't accept him. He arrived by train at around 2 a.m. last night and stayed at the guesthouse opposite our hospital. He came early this morning, but when he heard that you had something to do, he didn't dare to come up. He is watching you on the second floor now."
Shu Jinyue laughed more and more, "Let him in."
Xiao Wang is about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and an outgoing and cheerful personality. Jin Yue chatted with him briefly and it was obvious that he has a strong foundation in Western medicine. People who have received a formal education are different. He was able to rely on his own strength to be admitted to the Medical School of Jingshi University. He is definitely a rare talent.
"I don't have anything to do these few days. Assistant An will arrange a dormitory for you. Go get your key first, put your luggage down, and take a rest. You will start work tomorrow."
Xiao Wang went there happily. The dormitory Anna assigned to him was a double room. His roommate was a young Chinese medicine practitioner working at the general TCM clinic on the third floor, which made it convenient for them to discuss and learn.
Xiao Wang got the key and happily went to report to Lao Wang. His father, Senior Brother Wang, had nothing to do here, but he had to wait for a summary meeting before going back, so the entire expert group was still there.
Someone asked curiously, "Why did Xiao Wang come to visit his old father? He is so filial."
"Tsk tsk, filial child."
Senior Brother Wang coughed quickly, but it was too late. He failed to stop his simple-minded son from blabbering about his plan to take Shu Jinyue as his master and come to study under him for a year.
This was a big deal. Everyone had smiles on their faces. In the afternoon, Jin Yue's office received several groups of people. They were all senior experts in the expert group. One said that her child was also studying medicine and wanted to learn from her. One said that her nephew wanted to learn. One said that her niece was studying at the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Haicheng and happened to have an internship, so she wanted to come and do internship with Jin Yue. Some even asked if the young doctors in their department could come and study for a month or two, full-time, so that she wouldn't have to pay them and they could even pay her tuition.
Shu Jinyue: "..."
Are you guys overly enthusiastic?
However, she is "unaware of the true face of Mount Lu because she is already in the mountain". She does not know that the entire medical community now has legends about her. Her story has not been reported in newspapers or publicly, but everyone who should know knows it.
Everyone was thinking: since Xiao Wang’s child can be admitted, then my 40-year-old son who is the deputy director of the gastroenterology department can also be admitted, right? Can my niece, who has been the attending physician in the cardiovascular department for five years, also be admitted? The young doctor in our department who has excellent professional skills and has been awarded the title of Outstanding Employee for three consecutive years is more likely to be accepted, right?
Everybody was so enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that there wasn't a bit of hypocrisy. Shu Jinyue couldn't refuse with polite words, so he could only agree temporarily. He thought to himself that even if you want them to learn, they might not be willing to learn. If they don't come at that time, I won't have to be the bad guy.
Who would have thought that early the next morning, Anna said with a bitter face: "Dean, there are three young people outside who say they are here to see you, but I see they haven't made an appointment with you, and they are not here to see a doctor, this..."
Shu Jinyue's heart skipped a beat: Could he be here to learn skills from a master? !
Sure enough, as soon as they came in and introduced themselves, one was the son of Expert Zhang, and that was the niece of Expert Liu, Shu Jinyue knew that these people took it seriously.
It was also her fault that she had been too busy during this period and had no idea how famous she was. It was an advantage for her to arrange for the younger generation in her family to study with her, but she had no idea of it at all.
Shu Jinyue held her forehead and sighed. Now that they were already here, she couldn't just send everyone back. After thinking about it, she decided to just let everyone come and follow.
Many of these people have jobs, so it's impossible for them to take a leave of absence for too long. Everything should be fine after they get through this period, right?
When she went home and told her family about it, they all laughed at her: "President Shu, your clinic will be very lively from now on!"
From then on, Jin Yue not only treated patients, but also had to teach. Every time she went to see patients, she was followed by seven or eight "students" in white coats. The key point was that these "students" were older than her!
It’s really impressive. Patients who come for the first time will feel that Director Shu is really young and promising, and he has the style of an expert at such a young age!
Of course, there is strength in numbers. It is rare to have so many "disciples" around her. When Shu Jinyue encounters difficult problems, she also has many colleagues with whom she can discuss and inspire each other. Especially Li Si's illness, she has discussed it with them several times, hoping to find some ideas.
***
Soon, the expert group's work was officially completed. Everyone had a meal, dispersed on the spot, and went home. Shu Jinyue was able to officially resume his outpatient work.
"Have you heard about the recent K virus pneumonia in Country A? It's getting worse and worse."
"I heard about it. It was on the news. The number of infections has exceeded 100,000. If the situation continues to develop, all children under the age of eight in their country will be infected. I heard that the mortality rate is also very high. The special medicine they developed is not effective at all. It is not as good as the traditional Chinese medicine prescribed by our Dean Shu."
As soon as Shu Jinyue entered the clinic, the first thing he heard was, "Are there so many infected people already?"
“It may actually be more than that.”
Jin Yue was feeling a little depressed, but Xu Duan and his team's investigation had already produced preliminary results, showing that the K virus was not a naturally occurring virus in nature, but was instead created artificially in a laboratory.
Although they have not yet found out where it came from or who made it, this time they really played with fire and got burned. After Shu Jinyue knew the reason behind it, he suddenly felt that some people really did not deserve sympathy. They themselves did not even treat their people as human beings... It's just that the child is pitiful.
Just as he was thinking, Anna suddenly came in again. She came to Jin Yue and whispered, "Someone called. It's a foreigner who wants to see you. He said he needs your help with something important."
Shu Jinyue frowned: Brian called again?
It just so happened that Kang Yongxin had people working overtime during this period and had produced a lot of "special Chinese medicines"!
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