Chapter 38: Academician Qi is saved, FDA is blocked

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Jian Guohua failed to push the medicine and returned home in frustration, but he didn't take it to heart.

After all, there are too many family members who don’t shed tears without seeing the coffin.

Family members do not know how to treat diseases, but they have their own ideas. If they do not have absolute trust in the doctor, they will often be stubborn.

Especially some family members with status and wealth always want the best, and think that the most expensive is the best, and foreign medicines are also particularly fragrant.

Free drug trials can be a huge benefit to the average patient.

But for picky family members, it means unreliability, many side effects, being used as a guinea pig, etc. After all, in their eyes, no matter how expensive the anti-cancer drug is, as long as it is a commercially available drug, it is only readily available.

Things in the world are often unexpected.

Three days later, at two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Jian Guohua was suddenly awakened by a phone ringing.

Urgent shouting came from the phone.

"Director Jian, it's not good. Academician Qi's condition suddenly worsened and he is about to die. His family members are crying and asking you to do the operation. Please come here immediately!"

Jian Guohua is almost 60. He has been able to hold the position of department director of a top hospital for so many years because of his famous name. After reaching his fifties, facing the customers who came from all over the country, he only performed surgery on critically ill patients.

Fortunately, he lived nearby and rushed to the hospital in a hurry.

Outside the operating room, when Qi Yeting and his wife saw him, they immediately rushed towards him and burst into tears.

"Director Jian, you must save my dad. He still has an unfulfilled wish. Wuwuwu..."

Jian Guohua patted the family member's arm lightly and said solemnly, "I will do my best."

Then he strode into the operating room.

Qi Yeting looked at his disappearing back and felt great regret in his heart. If he had known earlier, he should not have insisted on conservative treatment and should have undergone surgery early in the morning. Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine to take now.

Outside the operating room, the family members were sitting on pins and needles, and their days were like years.

Finally waited until the sun rose high.

A ray of sunlight shone in from the window, and the operating room door suddenly opened.

Jian Guohua walked out with a tired look on his face and was immediately surrounded by his family members.

He smiled slightly and said: "The tumors have been removed and the patient's physical signs are stable. As long as the prognosis is good, he should be fine."

The family members were instantly overjoyed and hugged each other to thank God.

Jian Guohua yawned and went home, then fell asleep.

However, he didn't sleep for long when he was woken up by a phone call again.

"What? Academician Qi's physical condition suddenly dropped sharply and he has been admitted to the ICU? How could this happen?"

His eyes were red, he couldn't believe his ears, and he roared loudly.

"Obviously everything went well with the operation. Have you found out the reason?"

"What? The cancer cells had already started to metastasize far away before the operation. After the operation, it was found that the cancer cells had metastasized to the brain, causing the condition to suddenly worsen and the patient was already unconscious."

"Fuck!" Jian Guohua couldn't help but cursed. He didn't even have time to put on his socks. He jumped up and rushed to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at the speed of light.

Qi Yeting cried bitterly outside the ward, with tears streaming down his face. When he saw Jian Guohua, he rushed over instantly.

Jian Guohua thought that the family wanted to make a medical fuss, so he immediately took three steps back and said defensively: "Calm down! Calm down! We haven't reached the last step yet."

Unexpectedly, Qi Yeting ignored him and rushed up to hug Jian Guohua and cried bitterly.

"Director Jian, it was my fault. I should have asked the old man to do the surgery earlier, so that the late-stage cancer cells would not metastasize. I was unfilial!"

He slapped himself hard several times, his face suddenly became red and swollen, mixed with tears, and he looked extremely remorseful.

Mrs. Qi also rushed over and cried: "The old man is gone, what should we do? Ah, I don't want to live anymore."

Jian Guohua shook his head and sighed: "Please bear with me and accept the change."

Mrs. Qi suddenly raised her head, as if grasping a life-saving straw.

"Director Jian, didn't you say last time that there was a domestically produced anti-cancer drug that was very effective? Can you give me another try?"

A string of question marks suddenly appeared on Jian Guohua's head, and he was about to say something.

Qi Yeting suddenly grabbed his hands and said with gleaming eyes: "Yes, Director Jian, the old man is dying anyway, no matter what medicine, we have to try it. Prescribe the medicine quickly!"

Jian Guohua suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. You didn't want it at first, but now you want to be a dead horse.

If I had known what would happen today, why would I have taken the medicine in the first place? Maybe I would have gotten better and there would be no need for surgery.

However, he was not sure whether the anti-cancer drug Sanqing was as effective as claimed, and now that Academician Qi was almost on his deathbed, there was no precedent for curing such a critical patient.

He had to give his family members a good vaccination to avoid causing trouble again when the disease was not cured.

So he comforted him with sincere words: "Don't worry, I will give Academician Qi this medicine right now, but there are ugly words ahead. Our hospital cannot guarantee this effect, so you must be mentally prepared."

Qi Yeting's face was mixed with tears and redness, and he said regardless: "That's it. No matter what medicine, even if there is a glimmer of hope, we have to try it no matter what. Even if it doesn't work, we children have tried our best, and now the old man is gone Only then can we feel at ease.”

Mrs. Qi also nodded quickly.

"Okay, then there is a clinical trial drug document here. Please come over and sign it."

After Jian Guohua finished explaining, he took the documents signed by his family members, walked back to the office, and made a phone call with a serious face.

"So, it's an emergency. Come over quickly with anti-cancer drugs. Academician Qi is waiting in the ICU."

Two hours later, Jian Lian Yun arrived in a hurry.

Because the patient was unconscious, anti-cancer drugs were intravenously injected into Academician Qi's body.

Time passed slowly. Jian Guohua and his daughter were waiting outside the ICU with their family members. At this time, he finally understood the feelings of his family members. It was really like a year.

Three hours later, the nurse rushed out of the ICU, shouting in surprise.

"Director Jian, the patient's physical signs have improved and the medicine is working."

Another three hours later, this time the doctor rushed out of the ICU with excitement on his face.

"Director Jian, the patient's physical condition has stabilized and has not continued to deteriorate. What kind of medicine is this? It's simply amazing."

Jian Guohua felt relieved and said with a smile: "I didn't expect a new domestic anti-cancer drug to be so effective."

Qi Yeting and his wife were overjoyed and said sincerely: "I never expected that domestically produced drugs are so powerful now. It's really impressive. Director Jian, I'm sorry, we were really wrong. We should have listened to you in the first place."

Jian Guohua waved his hand calmly: "It's okay. It's not too late to save him now. You can rest assured now. Everyone is tired during this period. Let's go and take a rest. I believe Academician Qi will get better soon. "

"Well," Qi Yeting nodded. He was now following Jian Guohua's words: "Director Jian is right. We listen to you. Let's go rest first and come back later."

****

In Eagle Country, FDA headquarters, the person in charge, Qiao Sen, is drinking coffee leisurely.

The secretary with blonde hair, blue eyes and a hot figure walked into the office and put a pile of documents on the table.

"Mr. Qiaoson, this is an application document for a new anti-cancer drug from Pfizer. It needs urgent processing."

Qiao Sen stretched out his hand and patted the secretary's back, feeling the elasticity of his fingertips. He opened the folder with a thoughtful look on his face and looked at it lazily.

He was familiar with Pfizer and had heard of this anti-cancer drug, but only from Merck.

Just a few days ago, Merck's top executives secretly approached him and hinted very vaguely that there was an Oriental anti-cancer drug that wanted to pass FDA review and be launched in Eagle Country.

Although it is agented and operated through Pfizer, it will also have a certain impact on Merck's anti-cancer drug market.

This is a serious damage to the interests of Yingguo's pharmaceutical companies and a blow to Yingguo's high-tech industry. It is very detrimental to Yingguo's reputation and is also very politically incorrect.

For the sake of the happy cooperation over the years, the other party hoped that he could delay the approval process as much as possible.

After all, it’s a free market. It’s not that we won’t let you go on the market. It just slows down the pace, looks for more loopholes, and makes the review of side effects more stringent. After all, for drugs from the backward pharmaceutical industry in the East, stricter requirements are also for the Eagle Country. Responsible for people’s lives.

Under the other party's upright persuasion, he calmly accepted the other party's friendly suggestions. After all, he obtained his current position with the support of a congressman behind Merck.

However, he did not want to offend Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, so he decided to temporarily adopt the dragging strategy.

"Haha," he glanced at the document and threw it in a corner: "Just pretend I didn't see it. Anyway, as the head of the FDA, I am very busy with my work and I missed one or two documents. It’s also very reasonable.”

Two days later, the blond secretary suddenly started urging him.

"Mr. Qiaosen, Pfizer Vice President Andre made several calls and asked how the approval process for anti-cancer drugs is going."

Qiao Sen lowered his head and drank coffee, with milk foam on his mouth: "You tell him, it will take at least a week or two."

The secretary added: "Mr. Andre asked if you are free. He wants to invite you to dinner?"

Qiao Sen chuckled: "What? Is he so anxious?"

I immediately made a small calculation in my mind. It seems that Pfizer attaches great importance to this drug and wants to rush to market it. Is there any opportunity to gain some profits from this.

However, he soon remembered that the financial backer behind it seemed to be different from Pfizer, and cold sweat broke out on his face.

"Reject him, tell him I'm not available, and don't tell me his phone calls in the future."

Qiao Sen looked at his secretary and said decisively.

On the other side of the phone, Andre came to his senses after being rejected twice in a row.

Pfizer and the FDA have always cooperated happily, and he and Qiaosen are also old acquaintances.

The other party suddenly avoided him, and Pfizer's other new drugs were not blocked.

Only this new anti-cancer drug has come from an Eastern pharmaceutical company and has been delayed on the grounds that it needs to provide more clinical data and the requirements are more stringent.

These reasons were all very legitimate and prevented him from refuting or complaining.

Although everyone can see that these reasons are nonsense, there must be an ulterior deal behind them.

But as time passed by day by day, he was suddenly at wits' end.

"boom!"

Andre slammed the ashtray on the table onto the carpet with an angry look on his face.

"Damn, Merck and Roche must be behind this. They are the ones funding the congressman behind that piece of shit Johnson."

"It seems that we can only tell Wei that the FDA will definitely delay the launch for some time."

"I can only try my best to find other connections and see if there can be any improvement."

He dialed Wei Kang's phone with a look of helplessness.