1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 554, Salvation Medical College (3)

As the world’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Scrooge has been dissatisfied with the progress of China and even the Asian market. Compared with Europe and America, the market for medicines in Asia, at least for Western medicines, is quite small. In Scrooge’s view, this is absolutely abnormal. Because the demand for medicines is similar to the demand for food, they are both very rigid demands. Even if Asia is poor, the market is not so small. The reason lies in the dominance of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.

This status has now been shaken in Japan, and even basically gone, but in China, it is still very stable. In order to open up the pharmaceutical market in China, the concept of Western medicine must be widely accepted. And relying on conventional means of cultural infiltration, the effect is definitely very limited. The reason why the strong culture can quickly infiltrate the weak culture depends on the pressure brought by this “strong”.

Western medicine can quickly become mainstream in Japan, and the Meiji Restoration is indispensable. In the Meiji Restoration, both the shogunate and the shogunate had to be supported by outside forces, so they had to accept the outside culture. In this way, the role of “strong” is obvious.

In China, if all the upper-level figures agree with western medicine and western medicine, then western medicine and western medicine can quickly open up their influence in China. Upward and downward effect, this is the tradition of China for thousands of years. So Scrooge felt that political investment was definitely one of the means.

“In China today, the legitimacy of the Manchu Qing government has been widely questioned. Our medical department and the revolutionaries stand together. Even if the revolution is frustrated, we will be tied to them and we will get a lot of money in China. Conscience’ evaluation. And you know that medicine is the business that requires the most conscience. You know that there are two types of procurement in the world, general procurement and expert procurement. The former is for daily necessities and the like. People do not need any professional knowledge. The other is procurement by experts. For example, we purchase production machinery. The buyers we send are all experts in these areas. They have a good understanding of the things to be purchased. However, medicine does not It is a special thing. In theory, the patients and their families who buy him need to understand drugs and professional knowledge. However, in fact, this is really impossible. Therefore, in the business of medical treatment, trust is very important. We can make more people feel that our doctors and even our companies are’good people’, then we can get more benefits.”

“It’s just that, Scrooge, have you ever thought about it? This process may be very slow, and there will be no very good results in a long time. Even if there are effects in the future, many results will be affected by the British. I shared it effortlessly. I don’t think it’s your style.” Dorothea pouted and said, “I don’t think you are a free rider who can watch people ride you.”

“I do have other considerations.” Scrooge smiled and said, “First, we are developing many new drugs for future wars. But you also know that drug development requires repeated clinical trials. The Salvation Hospital is now a very high-end hospital in the United States, and the current environment in the United States no longer allows us to do drug experiments with United States people as we wanted.”

“You didn’t block the road yourself.” Dorothea interrupted him unceremoniously.

“Isn’t that to raise the threshold for entering this business?” Scrooge smiled and defended himself. A few years ago, a pharmaceutical company suddenly launched a tranquilizer drug with very small side effects. Made a lot of money. After Scrooge knew it, he determined that this thing was actually the so-called stability of later generations. Of course, Scrooge relied on the economic power in his hands to incorporate this small business. But this also reminded him that if the company is not a United States company, but a European company, then maybe, I really have nothing to do with him, I can only watch a competitor grow up.

In order to ensure that such a thing does not happen again, Scrooge deliberately let the industrial spy of a certain European pharmaceutical company obtain information about a certain “drug under development” of McDonald, which company will naturally be busy with a little verification. The finished product was thrown out and a patent was registered. However, this drug has a huge toxic effect, and some key data on the information they obtained has been concealed or even modified. As a result, three months later, the drug caused serious problems in Europe. As many as 5,000 people across Europe have suffered organ failure from taking this drug, and half of them died in the next two months.

The media under Shi Gaozhi will of course not let go of this turmoil. Through this turmoil, they quickly proposed that the country must exercise stricter supervision over the safety of drugs, especially the development of new drugs. As a result, new regulations were quickly formulated. Animal experiments and clinical trials, as well as observation time, and inspection content requirements for the development of new drugs are greatly ascending. According to the new regulations, any new drug, even if development is not considered The money spent by itself, just considering the money needed to meet this requirement, is close to an astronomical figure. Moreover, United States also stipulates that foreign drugs that do not meet this standard are not allowed to be imported.

With United States guys taking the lead, and big pharmaceutical companies in other countries are not fools, they naturally immediately understood the real purpose of this bill, so European countries quickly passed similar bills.

However, although this bill has raised the threshold of the drug business a lot, it has also brought some side effects, that is, the dangers of new drugs have been publicized so much that the asking prices of volunteers who are willing to participate in clinical trials of new drugs are ascending. few. This will naturally raise the cost, and the number of test samples required is also greatly ascending, which naturally makes the cost further ascending. Every ascending of cost means a decline in profit, and it also makes Scrooge feel that his own heart is like being cut by a knife.

“The bill does not stipulate that clinical testing must be carried out in United States.” Scrooge said, “So, wouldn’t it be good to move to China to do these things? Moreover, it is not only good, but also necessary. .Because the British have already done this in India. If we don’t find a similar solution, our competition with the British will suffer.”

“In China? Can this save money? You have to consider the ascending cost of transportation.” Dorothea frowned, thinking slowly in her heart.

“Of course it’s cheap, because in United States, we have to give volunteers money, and in China, they have to give us money.” Scrooge smiled and said, “Dorothea, you never think we pay Should you give money to those Chinese people?”

Obviously, Scrooge intends to sell drugs that have only passed animal experiments as drugs that have been licensed for use in China. This not only saves the money given to volunteers, but also makes money for medicine.

“Those Chinese people who are willing to come to our hospital for treatment, in fact, most of them are not cured by their traditional medical techniques at all. For such people, even if our drugs poison him, there is nothing. Big deal. Firstly, the family members themselves are prepared for the patient’s death. Secondly, just a group of Chinese people, what dare to do with regard to their national power? Besides, their own medicine admits that it is three-point poison. Poison. It’s normal to die. So experimenting with some new drugs on their side is not easy to cause problems. You can also avoid a lot of follow-up compensation. This saves a lot of money.” Scrooge replied happily In his opinion, the Chinese people who are willing to see western medicine in this era are basically those who are hopeless in the eyes of Chinese medicine. Even if they die, they can’t blame him, so he feels that he has a clear conscience. He even felt that he had given those people some hope of survival. From this point of view, he even had immense merit.

“According to you, we can also try some drugs on people who do not need to use a certain type of drug at all, and conduct mixed experiments where the most dangerous multiple drugs are used together. However, according to the regulations, we have to work with those’volunteers ‘Sign an agreement and explain to them the risks when using these drugs, and get their signature approval.” Dorothea said.

“Is this a problem?” Scrooge asked, “Does the bill say what language should be used in our explanations and agreements. Moreover, as for our agreement, even if a Chinese can understand the words on it, he Can you understand the provisions there? Besides, will the federal government really go to China to check whether we explained the situation to the volunteers one by one, and whether the signatures were written by them. ?”

“Ah, I forgot this.” Dorothea was completely relieved. Because the provisions of those agreements are extremely complicated, and they are almost full of various traps for exempting liability. Not to mention Chinese people, even people from United States who have never seen it can see and understand, or most of them can’t understand. Otherwise, how do insurance companies make money? And Scrooge can completely let his subordinates forge the signatures of these people and do it directly in the United States, which saves costs. Anyway, the federal government will not ask for trouble on this issue.

“Which drugs are you going to send to China to complete the experiment?” Dorothea asked.

“It’s mainly all kinds of anti-infective drugs, as well as some anti-flu drugs.” On this issue, Scrooge did not need to hide Dorothea.

Anti-infective drugs are naturally the focus, because in the future world wars, there will certainly not be fewer wounded soldiers. As for anti-flu drugs…

“Oh, according to our research, southern China may be one of the sources of influenza. At least the flu specimens of these years have confirmed this to us. So it is most appropriate to experiment with this type of drug in China.” Seeing Dorothea’s question, Scrooge explained.