A doctor who travels through two eras

Dean Tu shed tears and snot as he described his difficulties:

"Comrade Lin Sanqi, you don't know that we in PUMC have been through a lot. Originally, our strength was not world-class, but at least we could be considered top-notch in Asia, right? It can be said that the history of PUMC is half of the history of Chinese medicine.

Let’s not talk about anything else. Just to build the Union Medical College and Union Hospital, a total investment of more than 4800 million US dollars was made. This was 4800 million US dollars during the Republic of China period. Don’t you think this is amazing? All the equipment and instruments in our Union Hospital are imported from the United States and are the most advanced. "

Lin Sanqi thought, medicine really requires money. Without investment, there is no output. This is equivalent to the national foreign exchange reserves in 1960 only being able to build one hospital?
"Our Union Hospital officially opened in 1920 and has not only become the best hospital in the country, but now almost all of the most outstanding medical talents in the country have been trained by our Union Hospital. It is not an exaggeration to say that we are the founders of modern Chinese medicine."

Lin Sanqi thought, yes, yes, you are awesome. Liang Qichao's left kidney was obviously damaged, but you, Union Hospital, removed his healthy right kidney.

As a result, this core figure of the "Hundred Days' Reform" in the late Qing Dynasty, one of the four major mentors of Tsinghua National Academy, a world-renowned master of Chinese studies, politician, educator, and social activist was forced to meet Musk.

Wait, Liang Qichao should have gone to Emperor Guangxu, right?

Dean Tu said this and punched the ground hard:
"But now, foreign countries won't sell us anything, not even basic medicines, which means our doctors have all the skills but no place to use them.

We are doctors, we cure diseases and save lives, which is related to the livelihood of every ordinary person. Why don't you sell it to us? We are not using it to make weapons, nor are we going to harm any country. Does the right to life also depend on ideology?
These imperialists watched us Chinese die one by one. Where is the promised mercy? Where is the promised fraternity? Where is the promised “all-round” human nature and equality for all? To put it bluntly, they are all ugly and cold-blooded at heart.

Lin Sanqi thought, that’s right, what with all the this-ism and that-ism, in the end it’s all just for that little bit of business.

Just like in later times, when Europe and the United States provoked wars in the East and conflicts in the West, was it really for the sake of "human safety"? In fact, to put it bluntly, it was to promote their own weapons, so that they could share resources such as oil and minerals and make a fortune from the war.

The lives of ordinary people in other countries, can that also be called life?
For these imperialists, if they get ruthless, they won’t even consider the lives of their own people. Otherwise, why would they send their own soldiers to fight abroad?
Dean Tu's words resonated strongly with Lin Sanqi:

"Yes, President Tu, you said it well. They say medicine has no borders, but why do we have borders here? We finally got ahead in a certain area, but they are trying every possible way to suppress us and can't bear to see us do well.

Lin Sanqi refers to an academician in the field of hepatobiliary medicine.

At that time, European and American countries criticized Academician Zheng for the unknown source of his organs. All medical journals refused to publish the academician's papers and banned him from participating in relevant international conferences.

It is indeed difficult to clear this from a legal perspective, because everyone knows the source of organs in the country.

Then, where do the organs used by medical scientists and doctors in Europe and America come from? This is also questionable.

Are there really so many people in the United States, the United States, or France who donate their organs after death? Are they lining up to wait for hospitals to harvest their organs for research?
If there are so many organs, why is the organ black market so prosperous in Eastern Europe and North America? Where did so many Eastern Europeans and South Americans go?
Why is the world's largest organ black market in the United States?
To put it bluntly, the human organs needed by major hospitals and scientific research institutions in Europe and the United States do not need doctors to do it themselves. They can just purchase them through "ghost ships" on the high seas.

These ghost ships hold a large number of healthy young people, and even children. These people were kidnapped or deceived from all over the world. Once on the ghost ships, they are locked in iron cages like animals.

When an order comes in from a wealthy person who needs a certain model of kidney or liver, they will find the person who is the best match, kill him, take out the organs, and send them directly to the nearest airport by helicopter, and then transport them to all parts of the world.

If a scientific research machine requires a large number of organs, there is no need for pairing. Just randomly pick a few people based on how many kidneys, livers, or hearts you need, slaughter them in batches, and then send them out.

Because they are on the high seas, no country's laws can apply to them.

After the organs are removed, the body is simply thrown into the sea. There is no need to even do the follow-up work of digging a hole to bury the body. No one will notice.

The bosses behind these ghost ships are all white people, and they give remote commands via satellite phones.

You shouldn't have double standards when it comes to those so-called top medical journals or international medical organizations controlled by Europeans and Americans.

If the source of the organs in Academician Zheng's paper is unknown, then are the sources of the organs in the papers published by doctors in Europe and the United States open and transparent? Can the source of every organ be traced back?
To put it bluntly, it is because Academician Zheng is already far ahead of his peers from all over the world in the field of hepatobiliary surgery. If these people cannot defeat you technically, then they will discredit you based on your character.

Not allowing you to publish papers is equivalent to not giving you the opportunity to speak out and leaving you with no foothold in the international medical community. But don’t they have the final say in hepatobiliary surgery?

For many things, the United States’ requirement is, I can investigate you, but you cannot investigate me.

Look, isn’t this blatant double standards?

But there is nothing we can do about it. In this international world, whoever has the stronger fist has the final say. So in the final analysis, our own country must be strong. You cannot rely on others.

Dean Tu was still complaining:

“Comrade Lin Sanqi, look at the current epidemic in Changping. Because we lack an infectious disease laboratory, related instruments and testing equipment, our Union Hospital has no way of finding out what kind of bacteria or virus caused the epidemic.

Without knowing what caused it, we have no way to prevent and control this wave of epidemic from the root, and can only treat it symptomatically like you Chinese medicine practitioners. If you didn’t have this swab, we would still be confused now.”

Dean Shen was so angry that he laughed:
"Old Tu, you can curse the United States, Britain and France as you like, but please don't bring up our Chinese medicine. Our Chinese medicine is not as pretentious as your Western medicine. We must find out the cause before we can treat it. You need this equipment and that instrument. You can't treat patients without machines?"

Dean Tu was unhappy and retorted:

"Treatment is like the police catching bad guys. You must have evidence and use the right treatment for the right bacteria. This is the only way to treat the disease accurately and minimize the harm to the human body. It's unlike you Chinese medicine practitioners who don't know what disease it is and just prescribe a bunch of medicine, damaging the patient's liver and kidney functions."

"Oh, our Chinese medicine doctor is bad? Don't you want evidence? What evidence do you have?"

"Of course there is evidence. We have been collecting relevant data. If you want it, come back to Concord Hospital with me and I will give it to you."

The two old men started arguing again.

In fact, the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine has never stopped from the Republic of China to 2023. Each person has his own reasons.

For example, from the perspective of Western medicine, aristolochic acid causes severe damage to the kidneys, and there is clear laboratory and clinical data for this.

As a result, Chinese medicinal materials with high aristolochic acid content such as Aristolochia ternata, Stephania tetrandra, and Aristolochia lappa were banned by national management departments. At the same time, Chinese herbal preparations containing aristolochic acid were also listed as prescription drugs, and Chinese medicine practitioners were required to use them with caution.

But from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, all medicines are toxic to some extent. You need to distinguish whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and then use them dialectically. How can you simply ban them?

Moreover, when certain Chinese medicinal materials are combined in this way, their toxicity will actually be reduced to the minimum, and some symptoms may even require these toxicities to be treated.

So the two sides started arguing again, and neither could convince the other.

While a few old men were arguing over there, Lin Sanqi was deep in thought. He was thinking that since he had the ability and the military's endorsement, he would not easily have any problems with his personal safety. So, should he help Union Hospital?

As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

I helped them get a batch of penicillin, but the day will come when the penicillin will run out. Should I give them a laboratory?

Except for a few high-end instruments, all other experimental equipment in 2023 have been domestically produced, and it doesn’t cost much to buy a few machines.

The problem is that if these advanced technologies from 2023 are brought to 1960, the workers in 1960 will not be able to use them.

And if it's too high-tech, with advanced equipment that even European and American countries can't buy, wouldn't that force the relevant departments to arrest you and slice you up for research?

So should we sit back and watch, or should we help Union Hospital, or make a small contribution to our country's fragile modern medical industry?

If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely choose the front one. It is safest to stay there without moving, and he would not think about monetizing the traffic.

But as an ordinary person, Lin Sanqi naturally chose the latter.

It's just like traveling through time and space and not rebelling, or putting an electric drill in your anus. You have traveled through time, so how can there be any logic?

The time travelers are either struggling or on their way to struggling. There is no coward hiding in the corner.

Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi suddenly clapped his hands, interrupting the two old men who were arguing next to him:

"Dean Tu, if you can get me 100 kilograms of natural musk, I will help you get a few instruments. At least I can help you build an infectious disease laboratory at Union Hospital. How do you think?"

As soon as Lin Sanqi finished speaking, the scene fell silent.

Lin Sanqi saw that the four deans were all standing there in a daze, and thought, oh no, was my request too high?
In 2023, the price of 1 gram of artificial musk was about 30 yuan, but since Lin Sanqi asked for it, he definitely wanted natural musk instead of artificial one.

The price of natural musk is RMB 800-1000 per gram, and the price is still rising.

There is no way. Musk-producing animals, such as forest musk deer, red musk deer, and wild musk deer are too difficult to raise.
Musk deer are solitary animals that like to live alone and have high requirements for the environment. It is best to choose a place with a higher altitude to raise them, and the place needs to be quiet. They are very sensitive to the surrounding environment and are easily frightened. Musk deer grow slowly and take four to five years to mature, which means that breeders need to wait a long time before they can harvest musk. This is undoubtedly a huge challenge for many breeders who hope to get a quick return.

Even if you have prepared the venue, bought the cubs, prepared the breeders, etc.

But there is one most crucial thing. Musk deer are a national first-class protected animal. If you want to breed them, you need to go through the relevant procedures approved by the State Forestry Administration, which is not easy to do.

Okay, now that you have completed all the necessary procedures and have waited for four or five years, the musk deer are mature and can be harvested. You want to export them and sell them at a high price.

Well, I have bad news for you: Musk is almost never exported, so you can't earn foreign exchange.

You say you sell it to domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers, hehe, then you will know what black means. Domestic capital is just as barbaric, and at most they will let you gnaw on some bones.

Even if you find a generous buyer, unfortunately the use of natural musk must be strictly limited to key medicines such as special-effect medicines and key medicines and key hospitals.

Well, that means you only have a few buyers, and it’s impossible for you to wait for a good price.

Therefore, in 2023, there will be very little natural musk in China and the price will be very expensive. Lin Sanqi will open a Chinese medicine factory in the future, and musk will be indispensable.

What Lin Sanqi didn’t know was that in 1960 there was almost no artificially cultivated musk, only pure natural wild musk.

In 2023, the price of this wild musk per gram is 5 to 10...

Yes, you read that right, 5 to 10 per gram.

Of course, if Lin Sanqi is able to get it, he must not make it public, because the relevant departments will definitely come to your door, and then reward you with a pair of silver bracelets, and then I will punish you!

Dean Tu was overjoyed and excitedly shook Lin Sanqi's hand:
"Comrade Lin Sanqi, are you saying that you can help us get a laboratory?"

Vice President Ye also excitedly grabbed Lin Sanqi's other hand: "You want 100 kilograms of musk?"

Lin Sanqi was held by the two old men, and his muscles and skin were all tense. He asked weakly, "100 kilograms, is that too much?"

Dean Tu asked anxiously at this time:
"You, do you know how much equipment is needed to build a laboratory? Let me calculate for you, electric constant temperature incubator, low temperature refrigerator, centrifuge, nucleic acid extractor, gel imager, fluorescence quantifier, polymerase chain reaction nucleic acid amplification instrument, microplate reader, microbial ordinary incubator, etc.

Comrade Lin Sanqi, I don't ask for anything else. I just want you to help me get five instruments: a nucleic acid extractor, a gel imager, a fluorescence quantification instrument, a polymerase chain reaction nucleic acid amplification instrument, and an enzyme marker. I will be grateful to God and thank you!"

After all, Lin Sanqi studied clinical medicine, not microbiology, so he quickly took out a pen and paper to write it down.

When Dean Shen saw that his baby was going to buy equipment for Union Hospital, he felt very jealous and said sarcastically:
"Old butcher, 100 kilograms of musk is not cheap, 1000 yuan per kilogram, you need to prepare 10 yuan."

Dean Tu laughed out loud after hearing this:
"Old Shen, do you think our Union Hospital will be short of money? We have 500 beds alone, and our outpatient visits exceed one million a year. Do you think we will be short of money?"

Dean Shen was unhappy: "What does it matter if you are rich? Can you buy delicious food? Can you buy medical equipment? Just being rich means you can be a miser."

Lin Sanqi suddenly realized that Union Hospital is not a digital hospital. Digital hospitals are special and cannot aim to make profits. They are responsible for the medical treatment of the entire army.

The Chinese Medicine Hospital is said to be national-level, but it is too small. After downsizing, there are only more than 300 employees in the hospital, and the money earned is limited.

But as an old hospital, Union Medical College has more than a thousand employees, and Western medicine is more efficient and makes money faster. No wonder President Tu does not take a mere 5 yuan seriously.

This is a big fish.

After a busy day of medical treatment, even if the salary is only 5 or 8 yuan, with more than 2000 patients a day, the Chinese medicine hospital still makes a lot of money.

Of course, most people don’t know that the Chinese Medicine Hospital also has an additional special care tent for patients who cannot afford the high medical bills.

Let’s talk about giving the simplest medicine. In fact, the medicine used by these patients who have no money to treat their illness is exactly the same as that of the patients who pay money…

When night fell, Lin Sanqi quietly found a door and returned to 2023.

The penicillin needed by Union Hospital is very easy to purchase.

Lin Musen’s Lingnantang Chinese Medicine Hospital also has a “Village Health Center” sign, which is a barefoot doctor certificate, and can purchase goods directly from pharmaceutical companies.

As a basic medicine, penicillin is too cheap, only a few cents per dose. Even if the price is doubled and sold to patients, it is only one or two yuan per dose, so the profit is limited.

Penicillin is rarely used in either regular hospitals or small clinics, which has led to mountains of it in pharmaceutical companies' warehouses, with spider webs almost growing on the boxes.

So when Lin Sanqi went to purchase the goods, the people at the pharmaceutical company wanted to clear out their stock for him.

In the end, Lin Sanqi spent 5 yuan and took away 10 bottles of penicillin from the pharmaceutical company, at an average price of 5 cents per bottle.

After putting all the penicillin into the "channel space", Lin Sanqi took out a box of medicine and held it in his hand. There were 20 penicillins in this box.

Lin Sanqi sighed again, saying that this common commodity that can be seen everywhere but no one uses in 2023 actually needed to be smuggled into the country from Hong Kong or abroad using gold and silver in 1960.

The key point is that the prices back then were outrageous.

Before liberation, especially during World War II, a tube of penicillin cost about US$10 in Shanghai, which would cost more than ten yuan in RMB.

If we calculate based on the fact that 35 US dollars was equal to 31 grams of gold per ounce at that time, a small yellow croaker was equal to 30 dollars, or 3 penicillins, during the Republic of China period.

The key point is not that it is expensive, but that sometimes you can’t buy penicillin even if you have money.

At that time, in order to obtain the precious penicillin, our party’s underground workers not only had to buy it at a sky-high price, but also had to pay the price of their lives to transport it to the liberated areas. It was extremely precious.

There is a plot in the TV series "Sesame Alley" where Yan Zhensheng, the owner of a pickle shop, got ten penicillins and exchanged them for a wife named Mu Chunhua (played by Wang Ou, very beautiful)
By 1960, global prices of penicillin had fallen as production increased.

However, with the establishment of our country, penicillin could no longer be imported openly and had to be imported secretly, which caused the price of penicillin in the country to soar again.

A certain tycoon transported penicillin to the country in shiploads, and then brought back real gold and silver in shiploads, making himself one of the richest men in Hong Kong.

Of course, the money is not earned by Mr. Huo alone. Behind him are foreign pharmaceutical companies, upper echelons of the colonial government, garrisons, sirs, communities, etc. Everyone has a share, and everyone makes money, forming an industrial chain.

Otherwise, do you really think that the American warships in Dapeng Bay and Houhai Bay are just for show? They are also identifying them. If the big guys dare to smuggle weapons or precision machine tools to the mainland, believe it or not, they would have been bombarded to the sky long ago.

So in 1960, even if the price of penicillin was not as exaggerated as one tael of gold per tube, Lin Sanqi's box of 20 tubes of penicillin was more than enough to exchange for a small yellow croaker.

Then 10 bottles of penicillin can be exchanged for gold worth hundreds of millions.

So compared to those antiques that are hard to sell, traveling between two eras to sell high-priced items is the biggest profit among the biggest profits.

Lin Sanqi was humming a little tune happily while taking out an iced cola from the refrigerator when he suddenly remembered the experimental equipment he had to buy for Union Hospital.

2023 is not 1960. Lin Sanqi can sit at home and find the information he needs just by typing something on the computer.

Fluorescence quantification instrument, polymerase chain reaction nucleic acid amplification instrument, microplate reader, nucleic acid extraction instrument, gel imaging instrument...

Lin Sanqi quickly found the sales information of the relevant equipment on Alibaba.com. The price was not too expensive. They were obviously some basic instruments, and the total price did not exceed 500 million.

But Lin Sanqi studied it for a long time before he touched his chin in embarrassment.

It's not that the instruments are bad, but that they are too good. They are all automated and easy to operate. Just put the specimen into the instrument and all the required data will be automatically generated. Even the screen is touch-screen.

It was not practical to get this kind of advanced equipment in 1960. Firstly, the researchers did not know how to operate it, as everything was done manually.

Secondly, it would easily arouse official suspicion. The country would also be jealous of such high-tech things. It would be funny if they treated Lin Sanqi as a genius inventor and imprisoned him in Lop Nur to do scientific research.

So the best way is to buy those obsolete but still usable old generation instruments, but where can I find such machines? (End of this chapter)