Chapter 324: The Pharmacist is not happy
Just when "I Am Not the God of Medicine" was a big hit at the box office, and the reality and the Internet were well received, there were many discordant voices on Weibo.
On Weibo, a long article posted by a self-proclaimed internationally renowned biology professor directly criticized Cheng Yong's behavior of purchasing generic drugs.
"Cheng Yong should be ashamed of what he did!"
The headline is straightforward enough to be louder than most critics.
In the past, no matter which film critic or public figure criticized "I Am Not the God of Medicine", they would not question Cheng Yong's behavior of helping patients buy on behalf of patients, because everyone is not stupid, and if they oppose this behavior, they can be sprayed into scum by excited netizens.
And what this professor wrote, the content is also unceremonious.
"As a researcher in the field of biopharmaceuticals, I have often seen people recommend this "I Am Not the God of Medicine" recently, and I also went to see it, but I was so disappointed.
The main story line mainly tells the social problem that many people can't afford to eat genuine drugs, and they can only wait for death if they don't eat them, and the male protagonist Cheng Yong has saved thousands of people because of his mistakes, imported generic drugs, illegally sold fake drugs, and saved thousands of people.
Some of them are very moving, such as: Is it wrong for me to just want to live? Is it wrong to take generic drugs? I take medicine until my family goes bankrupt, and there are no patients in that family? Can you bear to arrest people?
That's what I want to point out here. What I want to say is that this is a manifestation of the selfish psychology of human beings and the issue of national character where personal interests are the most important.
Everyone doesn't want to die, and in the face of death, everyone's heart becomes very fragile, and it seems natural to seek any kind of possibility of life, but no matter what the reason, selling counterfeit drugs, illegally smuggling imported generic drugs, and selling pirated goods should never be justified, and it will be in the future.
I am also very pleased that some sensible viewers have pointed out that the pharmaceutical process costs are huge, and the sky-high price of drugs has indeed suffered many people and made many people bankrupt, but this is a market theorem, not a black-hearted operation, and people have spent real money and energy to develop things to help people. It is pitiful to go bankrupt, but this is the foundation of maintaining social order, the basic condition for the virtuous cycle of pharmaceutical research and development, and the foundation of human development.
Just think about it, the survival of human beings is due to the continuous development of human medicine, plague, the Black Death, Ebola virus, AIDS and other infectious diseases, are the results of people's reluctant investment in the research and development of new drugs, the reason why human beings have such a high survival rate today is the positive effect brought by sky-high drugs.
In other words, everyone who goes bankrupt is a contributor to the fight against disease. In other words, without their bankruptcy, maybe you and I would have been ravaged by evil diseases today and died early.
I think Cheng Yong should be ashamed of himself, in order to save those 1,000 or hundreds of people, he may kill tens of thousands, even millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people in the future.
People who eat illegal generic drugs should also be ashamed of their behavior while eating, and at the same time thank those who buy genuine drugs for their contributions to society, if they are not bankrupt, there is no tomorrow in society, civilization is not progressive, and the quality of the people cannot be improved, which is the beginning of a vicious circle......"
Li Qian read one of the most popular Weibo posts word by word, sprinkled with thousands of words, which seemed to be justified.
Yes, the medicine was developed by the pharmacists, and they spent a lot of money and time.
"Whew!"
Li Qian looked at this expert's Weibo with a look of disdain, "I still deserve and be honored to go bankrupt by taking medicine together, the stability of social order, the progress of civilization, and the improvement of people's quality are all the credit of the pharmaceutical company, without the pharmaceutical company, everyone will die, and the society cannot progress, that is the credit of science!"
"Director Li, suddenly so many critical voices are still speaking for the pharmaceutical company, could it be that Hua Hua is behind it?" Xu Zheng said a little worriedly.
There is a lot of negative news, and the crew has to discuss it together, at least with a unified voice, after all, these will definitely be involved in the roadshows and interviews in the future.
"There is no doubt that eight or nine is not far from ten, and the pharmacists are not happy, I don't see that the pharmacists have been labeled as black-hearted capitalists in the past few days. Li Qian said.
"That's troublesome, Huahua is a big company, I checked, the market value is 150 billion US dollars, ranking among the top 30 in the world, higher than Sinopec, Coca-Cola, and Google. Xu Zheng said worriedly.
Li Qian nodded, "Yes, with a market value of $150 billion, that's the real giant, and it's a top big company all over the world." ”
"But I don't think you're worried at all, Director Li. Xu Zheng asked.
"Worried about what?"
“......”
Xu Zheng was speechless, the giant with a market value of $150 billion is looking for trouble with you, what are you worried about.
Huang Bo, Hu Ge and others are also very strange, this shows that Hua Hua is dissatisfied with the portrayal of medical representatives in "I Am Not the God of Medicine", thinking that they are hacking them, why Li Qian is not worried at all.
Looking at their expressions, Li Qian understood by the way, and smiled indifferently, "It's not an industry, I'm afraid that he will be a hammer, and I don't have a black medicine company, and even beautify them, you should thank me for it, and Huahua is awesome, but we have backers, what are you afraid of?"
"Backer?"
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Li Qian said with a smile, "Behind us are the people, with this backer, what are we afraid of!"
“......”
"Okay, let's not talk about this, judging from the situation on the Internet, the movement is not small, and it is not a simple water army, I took a cursory look, and basically all of them are written "reasonable", plus what are these people pharmaceutical, biological, Experts and students in chemistry first put themselves in the position of a savior, saying that research and development costs a lot of money or something, and then criticize the movie, plus a group of water army, there should be some rational audiences who will unconsciously agree with their words, and it is inevitable that they will be asked questions in this regard in the later publicity, and everyone is also prepared not to talk nonsense.
"And in which direction are we going?" the crowd asked.
Li Qian thought for a while and said, "Don't criticize the pharmacist, the audience can scold, we can't scold, this is no way, many realistic things can't be said as a public figure, and you can't speak on the side of the pharmacist, otherwise you will slap yourself in the face." ”
After spending more than an hour in the media, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
Li Qian also received a call from Du Yang immediately afterward, asking how to deal with it.
"Let's just spread the word, just increase the intensity. ”
"Do you need to provoke the contradiction between the audience and the pharmacist, and completely push the pharmacist to the opposite side of the audience?" asked Du Yang on the other side of the phone.
"No, it's too deliberate and unnecessary. ”
Li Qian shook his head, said for a while and hung up the phone.
To be honest, for the fate of pharmaceutical companies, so many people in pharmaceutical-related industries are encouraged to speak out. Li Qian was still very surprised.
As he said to Xu Zheng before, he didn't have black medicine dealers, but he also beautified them, the real medicine dealers are far more black than in the movie.
Before making the movie, Li Qian also did his homework, Gleevec's drug is the most expensive in the world in China, and it is not a little bit.
A bottle in China seems to be 25,000, which is less than nearly 40,000 in the movie, and the price in the movie is to highlight the difference with the price sold by Cheng Yong.
Most of the rest of the world is more than 10,000 points, and the cheapest is in Nanbang, 9,000 yuan a bottle.
Of course, there are various taxes in the country, 17% VAT, 5% customs duty, and 20% turnover tax.
The so-called turnover tax is actually going into some people's pockets layer by layer.
Since Gleevec can sell for 10,000 in other countries, and the southern rod even sells for 9,000, it shows that they can accept this price.
If you calculate an account, don't want the minimum 9,000, based on 13,000 rice grains, even if you add 17%, 5%, and 20% taxes, it is only 18,500 bottles.
18,500 and 25,000, a difference of 65 million yuan.
If you count 10,000 bottles in most countries, it is 14,200, a difference of 10,000.
Interestingly, when the relevant departments imported Gleevec, they did not negotiate the price at all, so how to set the price?
Pharmaceutical companies quote an FOB price, and when they arrive in China, plus tariffs, value-added tax, and the money that layers of distributors want to make, it becomes the final selling price.
Where is the difference between the price of six or seven thousand, or even ten thousand, from dozens of countries?
Maybe the pharmaceutical company took some of it, and another group of people took a part of it, just to split the difference?
Li Qian is just guessing, as for the real reason, even if it is not, it is estimated that it is almost the same.
Is there anything wrong with the flowers, there must be, the movie is actually glorifying them.
They have to thank themselves, aren't they happy?