A doctor who travels through two eras

The plate of ethamidine, pyrazine, and rifampicin tablets in Lin Sanqi's hand were 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 smiled bitterly:
"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 the theory of Western medicine:

"Yes, this is Western medicine, and it is the most advanced Western medicine. Even Western developed countries have not yet launched it. This medicine has a total of four ingredients, some of which have bactericidal functions and some have antibacterial functions.

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 recover, the tuberculosis bacteria must be killed.

Compared with the dual therapy that has just been launched abroad, they currently need about two years of treatment. But the ethamidine pyrazine rifampicin tablets in my hand can be cured in six months at most and three months at the shortest. Pan Ye’s father was asymptomatic at 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 like a blank slate.

Therefore, once a large dose of antibiotics is used, the effect is miraculous and can kill the 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 It seems that our traditional Chinese medicine is really outdated. We have been practicing Chinese medicine for thousands of years, but we have never been able to solve this problem."

Lin Sanqi shrugged:

"Survival of the fittest. Traditional Chinese medicine will not die out, 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 over from 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."

As Lin Sanqi's recognized "godfather", Dean Shen was naturally impolite in his words.

Lin Kucan quickly moved a bamboo chair over and made 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 about the tea. I don't have much fat in my stomach. Drinking tea directly will cause 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 old doctor Lin. He has to consider the impact, and at most he can just have a bite to eat at Lin Sanqi's place.

Lin Sanqi quickly came over with the 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 started 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 you are temporarily appointed as the department head, as long as you have the secret recipe, you will definitely be the official department director.

When you become the department director, you can be promoted directly to the department level. If your tuberculosis treatment program and drugs can be promoted nationwide and can eliminate tuberculosis nationwide, I am afraid that my position as the 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, which is still in power, was a commander at the age of 23, would you dare to think about it decades later?
Lin Sanqi had no interest in being a director or a dean; he just wanted to be a happy head of the purchasing department.

"Uncle Shen, I would 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 do you want to take leave 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 before, once Changping starts treating tuberculosis and achieves miraculous results, this major event that will affect 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 given away for nothing.

Therefore, Lin Sanqi must take the opportunity to apply for a drug patent first.

However, there are also considerations on where to apply for a patent.

First of all, domestic applications can be excluded. Not to mention that patents cannot be applied for in China at present, even if they are applied for, they will not be recognized abroad.

Secondly, there were not many countries that established diplomatic relations with us in 1960, and most of them were poor brothers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The laws in 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 to 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 unable to take care of themselves and have no diplomatic relations with China, so there is no need to consider them.

Only John's country had 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 possible to ship goods from Hong Kong to the mainland, can Lin Sanqi go to Hong Kong to apply for a patent?
The legal system of Hong Kong at that time was the same as that of the United States. A patent applied for in Hong Kong was equivalent to a patent applied for in the United States and could be recognized by all developed countries in Europe and the United States.

This is the top priority that Lin Sanqi can think of.

Dean Shen frowned and said, "Xiao Qi, there are so many things to do when preparing for a new department. As the temporary person in charge, is it inappropriate for you to take such a long leave at this time? Or do you have any reason to take leave?"

Of course, it was impossible for Lin Sanqi to report everything to President Shen, especially since what he was about to do was extremely treasonous, because he did not want to obtain approval from the organization and go "abroad" privately.

So an excuse must be given.

"Uncle Shen, don't worry. I asked for 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?

You see, whether it was Professor Pan, Ma Lianliang, or Zhao Yanxia, ​​they all used the X-rays from the Union Hospital instead of the TCM standard to determine whether it was tuberculosis. What does this mean? X-rays are the gold standard.

I am not saying that our Chinese medicine is not good. Several of my masters, and Chinese medicine masters like you and my father, 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 small cities in remote areas and in rural areas, the conditions are backward and the doctors' skills vary. They may not be able to diagnose tuberculosis by taking the pulse. As long as it is done manually, there will be mistakes.

So since we are going to establish the first tuberculosis hospital in the country, we must make it the best, most authoritative, and most replicable. One of the X-ray machines cannot be saved. Uncle Shen, you are applying 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 not convinced: "Didn't they say that Shanghai can already mass-produce X-ray machines? Uncle Shen, you are not a good director. We are not without money. Let's buy some."

Dean Shen kicked Lin Sanqi on the leg and cursed, "Get lost."

On September 1952, 9, the first 25 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 400 mA large-scale X-ray machine. Since then, my country has finally achieved mass production of X-ray machines, and the medical industry has made great progress.

This is official propaganda, but everyone in the health system knows that this is just an assembled 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, we can only say that we have broken through 0, but it is still far from industrial mass production.

"Xiao Qi, do you mean to say that you are 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 take our papers abroad, they will not recognize it, because papers require evidence. You must first have evidence to prove that your patient has tuberculosis.

If there were no X-ray, the foreign doctors would ask: How did you know in advance that this was tuberculosis? You didn't even have any evidence, maybe this wasn't a tuberculosis patient? Then how dare you say you can cure tuberculosis?

Uncle Shen, maybe you will say that we Chinese medicine practitioners have our own diagnostic methods and do not need X-ray machines. But there is no other way. If we want to go out, we must follow other people’s rules. Otherwise, we can only work behind closed doors and entertain 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 would 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. We're afraid of resistance, so we'll start the experiment in the Changping branch."

In 1960, Shen Guoming and his group of TCM practitioners still stubbornly believed that TCM hospitals should completely adopt traditional TCM treatment methods, in order to prove that TCM was no worse than Western medicine. However, they never expected that after a few decades, TCM hospitals in China would basically be selling dog meat under the guise of sheep.

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, and look at their introduction and what departments they set up:
Respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, cardiovascular medicine, hematology, nephrology, endocrinology, general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, urology, thoracic surgery, cardiac and vascular 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 BJ Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. It has 1400 beds, but among these 1400 beds, not a single one is for traditional Chinese medicine.

And what they are proud of, highlighted in the brochure:
The hospital is equipped with 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging, 256-slice ultra-fast CT, digital flat-panel angiography system, SPECT/CT, ultrasound endoscope, dual-plate digital DR, three-dimensional cardiac mapping system, fully automatic intelligent blood collection system, fully digital flat-panel mammography system, focused ultrasound tumor ablation machine, digital gastrointestinal angiography system and other medical equipment.

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 is not cheap, right? The key is that foreign countries have embargoed it on us, and we can't buy it through formal channels... Oh... I understand!"

It cannot be purchased through formal channels, but don’t forget that Lin Sanqi is a person who specializes in using informal channels.

Lin Sanqi shrugged:

"Uncle Shen, since you let me be the department director, you should do as I say. I must have this X-ray machine. Don't worry about the money for the machine. I will buy the machine first, and the hospital can buy it on credit. When our tuberculosis department makes money, we can use Chinese medicinal materials to pay off the debt."

Lin Sanqi's "channel space" also has a full set of medical auxiliary testing equipment. He had some reservations when he first made the transaction with the digital hospital.

He wanted to keep this set of testing equipment for the Chinese medicine hospital to use itself.

If he wasn't afraid that they would get used to getting things for free and take him, Lin Sanqi, as a sucker, he could actually provide a full set of modern medical equipment for free.

Dean Shen thought for a while before making up his mind:

"Okay, then follow your idea. You can figure out what equipment you need. I believe you have the ability to do it. 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 voices that may arise in the hospital, that is his job as the dean.

After Dean Shen finished eating, he wiped his mouth and went back to sleep. Only the Lin father and son were left by the cornfield.

Lin Kucan didn't say anything just now, but now he had 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 small 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, secretly going there and coming 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 a common thing for the people in Huadu.

"It may not be that easy to go to Hong Kong now. If you have to go through the procedures, it will require approval from your superiors. Even if they agree, it will take several months. You were right to sneak over there. It saves you the trouble."

It does save me trouble. Now going abroad requires approval and one can easily be suspected if one is not careful.

In addition, there is no foreign exchange in the country at that time, and you need to exchange currency to go abroad. In order to save money, it will most likely not be approved.

Not to mention 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 are so advanced, we should work harder and strive to catch up.

There is another type of people who feel that we will never catch up, and if we can't beat them, we will just join them. So they find ways 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 plan to go to Xiangjiang, don't go through Bao'an County. As far as I know, if you go through Bao'an by land, the inspection and monitoring there are very strict. Especially if you are an outsider and go to Bao'an County for no reason, you will definitely be closely watched. You will not be able to reach the boundary river at all, let alone swim across."

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 getting a fake ID and buying a ticket?"

Doctor Lin snorted disdainfully:
"You wish. The railway line between Guangdong and Hong Kong was disconnected in 1952. There are no more passenger trains between the two places. Otherwise, do you think others would not think of taking a train to Hong Kong? It only takes half a day to get there."

Lin Sanqi was puzzled: "Dad, since the train is so convenient, why didn't you think of taking the train to Hong Kong in 49?"

Doctor Lin smiled bitterly and sighed:
"It seems like you've forgotten everything about your childhood. Back then, my family was stopped when we were heading south at the train station, and then we were sent directly to the northbound train on the opposite side of the platform, ahem..."

When Lin Sanqi heard this, he couldn't hold back his laughter any longer.

No wonder. The Lin family clearly has a house 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 understands it all at once. 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 are 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 we are 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 does not allow us to go south, but north, we must follow the will of God. After we survive this damn natural disaster, our country will work hard on economic construction, and its future achievements will not be worse than Hong Kong, which is too small after all. "

Lin Sanqi thought that the old man had a good vision and could make the most correct choice in the most urgent situations to avoid becoming a victim.

But 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 envisioned economic and military power would have to wait another 20 years.

"Oh, Dad, how can I sneak over to Hong Kong?"

Doctor Lin thought for a while and thought of a person:

"Well, after you arrive at our hometown 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 boss in Zhongshan and he might be able to get you a boat to Hong Kong. That's how your fifth uncle and sixth uncle got there."

Lin Sanqi thought, how could his old man be so wild? He knew people from all walks of life, so it seemed that he was not a simple person before liberation.

Originally, he was planning to try swimming in the sea to the Victoria Harbour. He would put on a few tires and set 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 sailing to Hong Kong, it seems pretty good to sit safely on the smuggling boat.

"Okay, Dad, I got it. 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 want to see how our business in Hong Kong is going. Second, they have a lot of connections in Hong Kong, so if you have any problems, you can ask them for help.

Don't worry. Unlike those other rogue uncles who have seized our property, your fifth uncle and sixth uncle were brought up by me personally. I also taught them medical skills. You can trust them and there is no need to worry. After all, you have to rely on your relatives when you go out.

If you are short of money, I have deposited 20 US dollars in HSBC Bank in Hong Kong. With the interest and property rent over the years, the amount will only increase. I will give you the passbook and you can withdraw money at any time, but don't let your two brothers know 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 foreign exchange, I have a lot of gold on hand, which is enough to spend there. If the money is really not enough, don't you still have your fifth uncle and sixth uncle?"

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 it is not written in detail in the book, after being arrested by the police last time, Lin Sanqi's black market transactions have moved underground.

Every time, it was Old Man Fu Zuo who acted as the intermediary. Those wealthy old men and capitalists would make a calculation on 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. Someone would naturally come to pick up the goods later.

The advantage of doing this is that Lin Sanqi and the trader don't meet face to face, so both sides won't be wiped out at the same time...

(To be continued) (End of this chapter)