This doctor has a system

Chapter 619, Section 681: Showing one's face turned into showing one's buttocks.
"Professor, the rumors circulating outside are quite unfavorable towards you," the assistant cautiously reported to Professor Boldt. "It seems the university is also..."

"I understand," Professor Boldt replied calmly.

"Professor, is all of this true?" the assistant mustered his courage to ask. "But why would you do this?"

In the eyes of his young assistant, Boldt was already a successful man. He had no shortage of money or prestige, but he just liked to publish articles related to hydroxyethyl starch injection.

The medicine is so cheap, the manufacturer won't even give you money, so why would you risk counterfeiting it to make a claim?
Is your brain sick?

"You can leave now. I want to be alone for a while."

Since Nature magazine published this news, the medical community has been in an uproar, with everyone showing tremendous enthusiasm for bringing down a big name.

Suddenly, intellectuals with all sorts of ulterior motives stepped in and quickly stripped Professor Boldt bare.

"This article has problems. I've checked it, and it hasn't undergone ethical review!"

"The data in this article is also problematic; it's absolutely fabricated. Look at this distribution; it's obvious..."

"This article also has a problem; it contains patient information."

“Lorend Hospital doesn’t have any human serum albumin at all! Professor Boldt has lied to everyone!” Evelyn Lyman, a new employee at Anesthesia & Analgesia magazine.

Of the more than 100 articles, nearly 60 were proven to be based on fabricated data. In other words, Professor Boldt did not conduct any clinical comparative trials at all; he probably just wrote them casually on his computer.
The remaining 40-plus articles also have huge problems. According to insiders, the data in the articles is indeed real, but they were all carefully selected.

In other words, Boldt first sets a result, and then he adjusts the data based on the result, keeping the ones that are supported and discarding the ones that are not.

When Nature magazine finally concluded its assessment, the media in Europe, America, and the United States collectively went wild.

A renowned professor fabricated data!

Disregarding the lives of patients, a leading figure in the anesthesiology field published a false article, which has serious consequences!

Boldt, a leading figure in the field of anesthesiology for academic misconduct.

Nature magazine then contacted the official investigative body, and the Hesse Medical Association in Germany agreed to intervene and investigate.

The medical association and Boldt's hospital issued their initial investigation report, stating that they found no patient or laboratory records to support the research data. The head of the hospital's fluid resuscitation team also stated that the hospital rarely uses hydroxyethyl starch injection.

Two weeks later, the joint investigation committee found that many of Boldt's papers lacked ethical review documents.

As a result, 16 medical journals, including Anesthesia & Analgesia, retracted a total of 89 studies from Boldt.

One month later, the joint investigation committee released its third report, indicating that in the 91 papers from Boldt investigated, the vast majority of the papers had incomplete or completely missing original data, and at least 10 studies contained subjective fabrication.

Subsequently, law enforcement authorities in Hesse filed criminal charges against Boldt.

But the police did not make any arrests.

Professor Boldt has disappeared!
He ran away?! Li Yongliang was shocked. How could he have gotten away?! Are German police officers just sitting around doing nothing?!
But that's the truth; Boldt vanished without a trace, and nobody knows where he went.

Boldt has absconded, but the impact he caused is enormous. It is estimated that more than 20 guidelines need to be revised.

The FDA in the United States even added a black box warning to hydroxyethyl starch injection, indicating that the use of this drug may cause serious kidney damage.

Gao Feng's name is frequently mentioned because he single-handedly stirred up the entire medical community.

The domestic medical community is also in despair.

"Old Bao, your students have really caused us a lot of trouble," a big name in the field of anesthesiology complained to Academician Bao. "The guidelines that were just revised last year have now become a joke."

Originally intended to garner attention in the medical community for the association's 100th anniversary, it's now in disarray. The project, barely finished, has to be changed again, turning a public display into a public spectacle.

"Who gave you permission to plagiarize other people's work?" Academician Bao said gloatingly. "You didn't plagiarize?! You didn't plagiarize?"

“We copied only the correct things.”

After hanging up the phone, Academician Bao's smile disappeared. This incident exposed many problems that deserve deep reflection.

Most domestic guidelines have always followed the lead of Europe and the United States, which is an indisputable fact. The reason is simple: they have always been in a leading position in pharmaceutical research.

Many new drugs and treatments were first developed by other countries.

When revising guidelines, you must try to incorporate these advanced concepts; otherwise, how can you guide clinicians in treatment?

However, Academician Bao felt that there were also some mistakes in the process. Some particularly new things, whose clinical efficacy had not yet been determined, were not necessary to be added in order to pursue comprehensiveness.

Some drugs frequently appear in domestic guidelines, but when clinicians check them, they find that, wow, their domestic market availability is still a long way off.

Another point is that we cannot simply copy other people's work. When revising these clinical guidelines that are related to patients' lives, we must conduct clinical validation.

Putting aside the fact that hydroxyethyl starch is not available as an injectable form, from a genetic perspective, there are still significant differences between European and Asian populations in many areas, and the effects of certain drugs may vary in different population groups.

Of course, these are issues that only big shots need to consider.

Zheng Xinglong, an anesthesiologist, looked at the magazine in his hand, feeling like he was about to cry.

After a while of revising and revising, a magazine finally agreed to publish his article. He paid 8000 yuan in publication fees, and the article was finally published.

结果
"Retraction? I can't believe I'm stuck with something like this."

The editor told him that it wasn't targeting him personally, but that any article published within the last 5 years that wasn't related to hydroxyethyl starch would be retracted.

"Can I make some changes? I have the original data here; I've just removed a lot of it to match the results. I can do that."

"No," the editor replied quickly. "Nothing related to hydroxyethyl starch injection."

"Why don't you change direction?"

"If only I hadn't changed the data! My own statistics were clearly correct," Zheng Xinglong lamented.

But thinking back, even if Professor Boldt hadn't been killed by Gao Feng, he still wouldn't have been able to publish his article using real data.

"I'm so damn angry!"

"It's just a lousy article, what's there to be angry about?" a colleague said.

"How can I not be angry?! Do you know how much energy this took me to do?" Zheng Xinglong slapped his thigh hard.

"Don't even mention it, I'm the one who's really miserable," my colleague said, looking utterly hopeless. "The school notified me to revise my thesis."

"what?"

"My graduation thesis was on the clinical efficacy observation of hydroxyethyl starch injection." My colleague couldn't help but chuckle bitterly. "I graduated four years ago, and they want me to go back and rewrite my thesis?"

"I'll write your mother's XXX!"

"Neither Professor Boldt nor Gao Feng are good people!"

Zheng Xinglong thought he was right; none of those professors were good people! He shouldn't have lent the magazine to Gao Feng.

(End of this chapter)