godfather of surgery

Chapter 963 The Pediatrician

After talking with Director Liao and deciding on the puncture plan, Yang Ping had a short chat with the director and doctor of the surgery department in the Overseas Chinese Building. He didn't come here very often, and the consultation here was also in charge of Song Zimo. He just stopped by today.

Therefore, Yang Ping was a rare guest. How could the director and doctors of the surgical department miss such a precious opportunity to chat? They dragged Yang Ping to stay and, under the pretext of discussing the case, they strengthened their relationship with Yang Ping as colleagues.

After chatting with everyone for more than ten minutes and saying goodbye to the director and doctors of the Overseas Chinese Building, Yang Ping left the office and took out his cell phone. There were many unread WeChat messages, including one from Luo Jin. This guy finally replied to the message. He probably thought it through and was willing to have the surgery.

When Yang Ping looked at the WeChat message, Luo Jin said that he had considered it again and again. If he could only live in a wheelchair after the operation, he would rather wait like this. At least he could still play football now.

Luo Jin's reply on WeChat was very long and well-organized, and it was obvious that he had made a draft after careful consideration.

If the surgery is performed, the patient can survive, but will be confined to a wheelchair forever. If the surgery is not performed, his life will definitely be in danger, but it may take a long time for problems to appear, from a few months to several years, depending on the speed of progression of the disease.

Between life and football, Luo Jin actually chose football.

Yang Ping knew that he couldn't persuade him back, but he still replied carefully: I hope you will reconsider. The success rate of the operation is very high. Compared with life, the postoperative complications are not worth mentioning. Sitting in a wheelchair is also a state of life.

But Luo Jin replied that this was a well-considered choice and he would not regret it.

But from a medical point of view, it is really a pity. Now the life can still be saved through surgery, but after a while there will be no chance for surgery and the life is doomed to be irrecoverable.

Among Yang Ping's friends, there are many inspirational people, but Luo Jin is the most inspirational. His life has been full of ups and downs, and every step he has taken has been so difficult.

Luo Jin had nasopharyngeal cancer when he was a child but was later cured.

It was the golden period of football technology advancement when he was in a car accident that resulted in multiple fractures throughout his body. Fans once thought that he would leave the football field forever, but he stood up again, and through hard rehabilitation training, he rushed back into the football field.

Later, his knee joint was severely damaged and he was about to retire again, but Yang Ping helped him perform surgery to restore his function. He returned to the court again and realized his dream, joining a European club, playing well and becoming a first-line player. The journey was also difficult and bumpy.

There is still a huge poster of Luo Jin hanging in the Sanbo Sports Medicine Center. When the Sports Medicine Center was established, Luo Jin served as the spokesperson for free to promote the Sports Medicine Center and establish its brand image. Today, the Sports Medicine Center is already among the top three in the country, and Luo Jin is once again facing a crisis in his life.

If he doesn't have the surgery, Luo Jin might not be able to escape this disaster, at least that's what Yang Ping thinks now.

Ivan sent a WeChat message from New Zealand saying that he wanted to come to China and hoped to use Professor He's digital human to simulate surgery, because the surgery on his Italian patient was too complicated. The allogeneic facial transplant donor came from a brain-dead patient. Ivan had already obtained the facial data of the donor. He needed to simulate and reconstruct the donor's face, and then reconstruct the face of the surgical subject, and simulate the matching of the two faces, so that the connection of the nerves and blood vessels would be more precise and accurate.

Because the laboratory of Sanbo Hospital and Professor He's laboratory of Nandu Medical University are one of the iron triangles of Yang Ping's project, they often get together to communicate. Professor He also learned some methods from Tang Shun and established a mechanism to make money using digital people.

For example, people like Ivan who need to use digital human technology to assist in surgery can pay a certain fee based on the time and degree of use. This fee is generally quite high, reaching millions of dollars. This allows digital humans to obtain sufficient self-raised funds, which allows them to make money and test the shortcomings of digital humans during use.

You must learn how to make money, learn how to pursue profits, and learn how to express the value of technology. This is what Tang Shun told Professor He.

Professor He did some calculations and found that if it were fully open, digital humans would be widely used and could earn a large amount of funds every year. These funds could not only be invested in scientific research, but also used to improve the treatment of researchers.

With digital humans as the foundation, Ruixing Medical will accelerate its research and development of drugs and medical devices in the future. Therefore, breakthroughs in basic research will drive progress in many fields. This is the importance of basic research.

Basic research is like the foundation of a building. If the foundation is solid, the building will have a lot of room for development and can be built to a higher height. However, if the foundation is weak, it will severely limit the design and construction of the building and it must be controlled within a certain height.

Yang Ping had just finished replying to these friends' WeChat messages when he heard a shout from behind him.

"Yang Ping! Yang Ping! Yang Ping!"

Yang Ping thought the voice was familiar, so he stopped and looked back.

The man in VIP patient gown was waving at him. Yang Ping took a look and found his face familiar.

"I am Niu Zhixuan!"

Niu Zhixuan?
Yang Ping remembered that this was a colleague of his when he worked at the People's Hospital. They used to live in the same dormitory and often played basketball together. They had a close relationship. At that time, this guy worked in the pediatric department of the Municipal People's Hospital, and later resigned to go into business.

"Why are you here?" Yang Ping was very curious. As a pediatrician, he probably didn't have enough financial resources to live in such a VIP ward. Could it be that he was another mistress? His father-in-law and mother-in-law were local landlords.

Niu Zhixuan smiled and said, "I had acute pancreatitis from overeating and drinking a few days ago, so I came here for treatment. I heard that the medical technology here is top-notch and the medical environment is good."

"Are you okay now?" Yang Ping asked with concern. This was his good friend from the past.

"It's nothing serious, it's edema. I've been receiving conservative treatment for a few days. Now the doctor said I can drink white porridge." Niu Zhixuan touched his stomach.

Yang Ping said, "Would you like me to say hello to the director here and ask him to take care of you?"

Niu Zhixuan said happily, "That's the best. They let me be discharged from the hospital, saying that the ward is crowded. Please help me say hello and let me stay a few more days. Old Yang, you are amazing. I heard that you are a big professor and chief expert here now? It's only been a short time since we last met, and you have been promoted to a professor. I heard from them that you are qualified to be elected as an academician. That's amazing!" Niu Zhixuan was full of envy.

"You are quite good, where did you make your fortune? You are staying in a VIP room even though you have acute pancreatitis?" Yang Ping was a little curious. "How about chatting for a while?" Niu Zhixuan suggested.

Yang Ping agreed immediately, and the two of them came to a meeting room in the VIP surgical department. The meeting room on the VIP side had a very good environment and was private, so they could chat without being disturbed.

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Niu Zhixuan began to tell his story. After he resigned from the hospital, he went into business on his own and started live streaming. After accumulating some capital, he started his own company, mainly selling children's health products, such as smart drugs, height-increasing pills, academic milk powder, vision capsules, etc.

I've heard about this guy's situation from Xiaowu before. It is said that he sells goods through live streaming and now he's worth over 100 million. It hasn't been long since he started his business, but he's already worth over 100 million.

Yang Ping was not interested in how much money he made, but he was very interested in his strange products. Yang Ping asked, "What is the mechanism of your so-called high-tech products such as smart drugs? Why haven't I seen relevant research results in the paper?"

Any high-tech product must have a theoretical basis to support it. Yang Ping has read countless papers on the black technologies that Niu Zhixuan just mentioned, so how come he has never heard of them?

Niu Zhixuan was very frank: "We are old colleagues and know each other well. I have never been secretive about my business. This thing is just a tax on IQ. It takes two to fight. In the final analysis, there is market demand. Anyway, it is harmless to eat more of this thing. It is just an ordinary nutritional supplement. Then use a set of mysterious theories to package it and promote it with overwhelming marketing. Make money every time you sell it."

"Is this possible?" Yang Ping was very surprised.

Niu Zhixuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled calmly: "What's wrong with that? Isn't everyone doing this? We are still conscientious merchants. There are not many conscientious people like us now. Although our products are useless, they are completely harmless. In order to achieve this goal, we have established a professional scientific research team, all of whose members are doctoral researchers. Their main task is to make our products harmless to the human body. Do you think other companies are so attentive? Let me give you an example. The main ingredient of one of our height-increasing products is actually starch, but our starch raw materials are different. We strictly select the best suppliers, and we have our own testing agency to ensure that the raw materials are harmless and pollution-free. Do you think we are attentive or not? We sell at such a high price, so we have to do something practical to feel at ease."

"But this is a fake after all?" Yang Ping asked.

Niu Zhixuan laughed, "How can this stuff be distinguished between real and fake? There is no real thing in the first place, so how can there be a real and fake difference? If you believe it, it is real, and if you don't believe it, it is fake. Isn't there a placebo in medicine? Our product is equivalent to a placebo. Although it has no substantial effect, it relieves customers' anxiety by building false confidence and hope, and plays the role of a placebo. Don't tell me, we have conducted large-sample statistics in strict accordance with statistical principles. The happiness index of children and parents who have used our products is significantly higher than that of those who have not used our products, and the anxiety index is significantly lower than that of the control group. Think about it, the same short child, one thinks that he can grow to 1.9 meters in the future and that being short is only temporary, and the other thinks that he will only be this tall in the future. Who will be happy?"

Boss Niu has a lot of theories, but it seems that he is a boss with a conscience.

That seems to be the case. After Yang Ping thought about it carefully, his theory seemed to make logical sense.

"You have a wide range of business opportunities. How many employees do you have now?"

"Not many. About 40 employees are covered by social security. We have our own factories and warehouses. We have a large R&D team. 60% of our employees have a doctorate or above, and % have a master's or bachelor's degree."

“Is the R&D team so large?”

"Yes, the market competition is fierce. We must play to our strengths and not compete with others in price. We must create new theories, develop new products, and bring forth new ideas. For example, we recently launched a health product that can block scoliosis. The response has been very good and the demand is now in short supply. One course of treatment costs more than 30,000 yuan, and after several courses of treatment, it only costs about 100,000 yuan, which is still cheaper than surgery."

Damn, my research is currently on minimally invasive surgery, and you are already ahead of the curve, and scoliosis can be controlled with medication alone.

"Your medicine?" Yang Ping was very confused.

"I won't lie in front of the experts. This product is useless. You know about scoliosis. Once it is discovered, some children may develop very serious symptoms, while others may develop very mild symptoms. The theoretical basis of our product is the principle of probability. We only give it to those who have just developed the disease. Those children whose disease will naturally develop mildly in the future will naturally think that it is the credit of our health products. As for those who will develop very serious diseases, they still need surgery. There will always be some who slip through the net and the effect is not good, right?" Niu Zhixuan said proudly. He was very frank and did not lie at all.

“What other products do you have?”

"We are currently planning to extend our product line to the fetal period, such as the red and blue milk powder that we are preparing to launch soon."

''What is red and blue milk powder?

"Oh, there are two kinds of milk powder, one in a blue package and one in a pink package. I tell you, if you eat the blue packaged milk powder before you get pregnant, you will give birth to a son, and if you eat the pink packaged milk powder, you will give birth to a daughter."

"You are too much, pregnant woman."

"It's just ordinary milk powder, don't worry, and the quality is definitely better than ordinary milk powder on the market. We have put a lot of thought into product quality. The cost of raw materials is very high. All milk powder is imported from New Zealand and packaged and sold domestically. We will never add anything. We have a conscience. For absolute safety and to avoid unnecessary disputes, the milk powder is not for women but for men. I'll send you a few cans to try, don't worry, the quality is definitely better than ordinary milk powder. Think about it, how much does a can of ordinary milk powder cost? We have to sell a can for thousands or tens of thousands. It's a huge profit, but our cost is also high. The products are really conscientious products, and they are strictly checked by our own testing team. Now my family members eat them ourselves." Niu Zhixuan looked confident.

"Our products can withstand any inspection. Any unit can come to inspect them at any time." Niu Zhixuan patted his chest.

"We also have Xueba Gold Milk Powder, which costs more than 6,000 yuan per can. The factory is located abroad and the brand is also applied for abroad. Anyway, I set up a factory abroad and produce products for export to China."

“Anyone buy it?”

"The supply is in short supply. The production capacity of foreign factories cannot keep up, and the milk supply is also insufficient. We don't want to pass off inferior products as good ones, so we haven't expanded our production capacity.

Yang Ping's eyes widened. As a top boss in the medical industry, he was given a solid lesson by this old friend today, which was really an eye-opener.

"I'm still busy. Let's get together again when we have time. I'll treat you to dinner." Yang Ping stood up and was about to leave.

"Find a time and I'll treat you and Xiaowu to a meal! With your current status and class, how can I let you treat us?" Niu Zhixuan said politely.

When Yang Ping left, he did not forget to say hello to the director of the Department of Surgery, and asked him to let his old friend stay in the hospital for as long as he wanted and move his ward to a south-facing suite.