A doctor who travels through two eras

Zou Jinxing sat on the ground, holding his youngest son in his arms and his eldest daughter leaning on him, looking anxious.

His wife Jin Xiaoting was leaning against the wall, holding her second daughter in her arms. The family of five looked like beggars, with no image at all.

A gust of wind blew by, rolling up countless fallen leaves and dust. If you add the background music of "Erquan Yinyue" by Blind A-Ring, it looks like a whole family fleeing.

But Zou Jinxing was a local commune cadre in Changping and a well-known person.

Unfortunately, with the epidemic at its peak, no cadres are of any use. Anyway, no one has any privileges, so everyone has to line up obediently.

Jin Xiaoting stood up with difficulty and looked at the endless line of doctors, her heart filled with despair.

"Old Zou, why don't you ask someone to think of a way to see if we can cut in line? Xiaoyan, Xiaoyan's body is so hot."

Zou Jinxing touched his eldest daughter's forehead and sighed heavily:

"People are lining up, everyone has a fever, but only our family is special? Besides, who can I ask to go? They are the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and next to it is the Union Hospital. Which of these two hospitals is lower in level than ours? Who among them knows me, a grassroots cadre?"

Jin Xiaoting wiped her tears and said, "But, but what about our son and daughter?"

Zou Jinxing touched his pocket and found 100 yuan hidden inside, which was all his family's savings:
"Don't worry, I have money with me. It will be our turn soon. I will ask the doctor to give the child the best medicine. Be content. Many peasant brothers have no money and can only wait to die at home when they get sick. We are blessed by the new society."

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded next to him:
"Hello, comrade. I am a doctor from the Chinese Medicine Hospital. I am going to do a preliminary examination on your family. Please cooperate with me."

Zou Jinxing looked back and saw a young doctor in a white coat. He felt a little strange, but smiled weakly on the surface:
"Hello, hello, why are you suddenly cutting in line for our family? There are so many people waiting, why don't you let those in need come first?"

Jin Xiaoting suddenly kicked her husband, hating this stubborn man.

Lin Sanqi laughed and consoled him:
"It's okay. Everyone will have a turn. I'll start with your family. Only when we know what disease everyone has can we treat it better, right?"

When Zou Jinxing heard this, he suddenly felt that he was very lucky. The first thing the Chinese medicine hospital investigated was his family. So why would they ignore him afterwards?

"Okay, comrade, you can do whatever you want to test, we will definitely cooperate."

Lin Sanqi asked, "Does your whole family have the same symptoms now? Is there any obvious coughing or runny nose?"

Zou Jinxing shook his head:
"It's just a fever, no other cold symptoms, but there is pain, all the limbs hurt, as if someone hit them. We adults are fine, but the children have fever and are shaking. We as parents are scared, afraid that the children will have cramps. What should we do?"

There was only a fever and muscle aches all over the body, but no catarrhal symptoms. Lin Sanqi sighed inwardly after hearing this. These symptoms were still like those of a mask disease.

Lin Sanqi took out a few test tubes and said:
"Okay, then please cooperate with me. I need to collect a sample. Specifically, I need to poke it into the nose and the throat. Each person needs to poke it twice."

Generally, when you go to the hospital for testing, you only have to choose between a nasal swab or a throat swab.

But when the mask disease occurred, in order to prevent errors in the specimens, they required nasopharyngeal swabs to be taken simultaneously, in duplicate, and sent to two testing institutions, which was very rigorous.

Lin Sanqi was also afraid of errors, and since he didn't want the patients to spend any money, he simply tested both.

The common people during this period were very obedient and easy to fool. They would cooperate with whatever Lin Sanqi said.

As a medical student, Lin Sanqi happened to come into contact with masks while at school, so his level of nucleic acid collection was quite high. After a while, 5 samples from 10 people were obtained.

Lin Sanqi wrote his name on the test tube and sealed it in a plastic bag. The collection work for one family was completed and he quickly disinfected his hands.

With a start, Lin Sanqi was no longer afraid of being rejected, so he collected specimens from the adults and children in the queue behind him one by one.

During this time, other staff members of the Chinese medicine hospital also saw Lin Sanqi poking people's throats and noses with objects in a strange way, but as he was the godson of the director, no one came forward to ask about it.

After collecting specimens from five groups of families, Lin Sanqi found an office door as quickly as possible, pushed it open, and hid in the "passageway space".

Within an hour, all the specimen results came out.

Lin Sanqi looked at the two bars above and breathed a sigh of relief:

Fortunately, it was not a mask disease, but influenza A.

This result is the best one.

But influenza is much better. Although it is fierce, the harm it causes to society and the body is much lighter. The key is that there are specific medicines to treat it.

In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Lin Sanqi, an intern doctor, who thinks that influenza is milder than masks.

But according to an authoritative statistical data from Japan.

60岁以上老人：流感的重症率0.79%、致死率0.55%；口罩的重症率0.14%、致死率0.475%～0.64%。

这说明口罩重症率是流感的20%，致死率与流感相当，或者稍高出一些。60岁以下：流感的重症率0.03%、致死率0.01%；口罩的重症率0.01%、死亡率0.004%～0.01%。

The severity rate of mask-induced illness is only 33% of that of influenza, and the mortality rate is also lower than that of influenza.

So influenza is by no means as harmless to humans and animals as it appears on the surface. The several influenza outbreaks in Europe that year were still a living hell.

It is only in later generations when medicine has developed that influenza has become an infectious disease that is prevalent every year. Countries have developed specific medicines, such as mabaloxavir and oseltamivir, so it seems that the harm is not great.

After Lin Sanqi learned that the epidemic in Changping was influenza, he immediately traveled back to 2023.

Knowing what disease he has, he now needs a lot of medicine to treat it, otherwise it would be useless.

Although Lin Sanqi will no longer be able to become a doctor in 2023, he studied at a medical university for five years, so his basic connections and circle of friends will always be there.

Through his senior brother Xu Kaicheng at Huadu No. 8 Hospital, Lin Sanqi contacted a pharmaceutical representative who made influenza drugs.

In a private room of a high-end hotel.

Xu Kaicheng looked at Lin Sanqi, who was still wearing ordinary clothes, and exclaimed:

"Qizai, you really can't judge a person by his appearance. When we first learned that you were punished by the school, we all thought your life was over and you were screwed. I never thought that you are the real hidden capital boss among our classmates."

Lin Sanqi is now the legal representative of three companies. In just a few months, the company's turnover is approaching 10 billion. This news has spread among the classmates of Huadu Medical University.

From rags to riches, it's definitely a miracle.

Although there are still doubts among classmates, the reputation of Lingnan Hall cannot be false, especially since Lingnan Hall only sells precious Chinese medicinal materials, which is not something that ordinary companies can do.

Just one hundred-year-old wild ginseng beats all its peers across the country, and people in the industry understand how important this ginseng is.

Lin Sanqi laughed at himself:

"Brother Xu, please stop making fun of me. I also want to be a good doctor, but my ability does not allow it, so I can only be a drug dealer and serve you doctors to earn some hard-earned money."

"Bah, is there any drug dealer as rich as you? You make money like picking up groceries. If it were me, I wouldn't want to be a lousy doctor. How many dollars a month?"

People in society have misunderstandings about doctors' income. They think that the average income of a doctor must start from a million, and that tens of millions a year is nothing for those unscrupulous doctors.

This misunderstanding has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that it is a plus in the marriage market, it can help single young doctors solve personal problems better, and mothers-in-law like it.

But the downside is that after marriage, if you find out that the doctor is not that rich, family disputes may easily arise, and many of them end up in divorce.

Therefore, in order to save trouble, most medical personnel prefer to look for spouses in the same hospital or within the same system.

In this way, both parties have the same values, similar diplomas, education and income, and even work the same night shifts. No one will look down on the other, and they will support each other throughout their lives.

As I said, doctors are in this profession where their popularity increases as they get older, but the prerequisite is that they are “old”.

For example, a medical student who has completed 5 years of undergraduate studies and 3 years of graduate studies (doctoral studies do not count) still needs to undergo regular training after entering a hospital and cannot practice medicine independently.

After graduation, undergraduate students will receive 3 years of regular training, and after graduation, postgraduate students will receive 2 years of regular training.

In the past few years, the income of resident doctors is very low, which is just basic living expenses, and the monthly income will not exceed 5000 yuan. Remember, this is not US dollars, but RMB.

If you are more miserable and are assigned to some county-level local hospitals, your monthly income may be only around 3000 yuan, which can barely ensure that you don't starve to death.

After the regular training is completed and you officially start working, as an ordinary resident or a junior attending physician, your annual income will not exceed 20 yuan.

This 20 is already the standard for a Grade A hospital.

If you work in a county or city level hospital, it would be considered good if a junior doctor could earn a little over 10 yuan a year.

Then compare it with the current housing prices, and you will know how hard the young doctor's life is. He can only find a budget hotel to book a room with his girlfriend. It is impossible to have a romantic stay in a five-star hotel.

The income is so low, but the working hours are beyond everyone's imagination.

Resident doctors have to be in the ward almost 30 days a month, especially those attending ward doctors, who have to be there for daily rounds.

So you may pay attention and observe that there are very few doctors among the tourists. Doctors are either at work or taking exams, or they may not have money to travel.

When doctors' income increases, they will be promoted to associate chief physician, which is the level of deputy chief physician. (End of this chapter)