Chapter 215: I Am Not the God of Medicine
After New Year's Day in 1990, Li Jun locked himself in a rental house and kept his door closed.
Because a new era is coming, he has to make some new layouts.
This is a new era, and it will also usher in a new generation in China, which will be called the post-90s generation.
Some people say that the post-90s generation belongs to the generation of thorough reform and opening up.
They are the country that can feel the changes in the Chinese country the most, because when they were born, they played with the house and mud, and the children wanted to celebrate the New Year the most, because they could eat meat, which was their childhood memory.
After Deng Gongnan's tour set the tone, China changed with each passing day, and many places began to become rich, and the children of the post-90s generation entered the school in nine years of compulsory education, and the mud and adobe classrooms in the countryside became yellow brick classrooms.
Later, it slowly became a concrete building.
The house of the family also changed from a mud house to a small yellow brick flat building, and then a building.
When I was a teenager, I was entertained by herding cattle after school.
After the post-90s generation grew up, Internet cafes appeared, and smartphones were born, and they were the first generation to come into contact with new things.
The post-90s generation of the era of reform and opening up has shown obvious results, is the era of rapid development of Chinese information, the post-90s is the priority experiencer of the information age, the post-90s is the highest IQ educated generation, most of the post-90s pursue happiness, very energetic, and relatively calm when encountering problems, many times the behavior of the post-60s and post-70s elders is "very naΓ―ve" in their eyes.
Regarding the post-90s, this is a generation that is completely different from the parents and grandparents.
When they grow up, they are also a generation that is relatively weak in social words but has missed several changes, they graduate from college, and when they come out to work, they are facing a mature market, housing prices in big cities have risen to the sky, and small cities cannot find suitable jobs, and their initial income after 90s is becoming more and more insignificant in terms of high rent and living expenses.
The post-80s generation has also caught up with the years when housing prices skyrocketed, but it is precisely because of this that many ruthless people who buy houses have already enjoyed huge appreciation in their later generations, and the high down payment and high monthly payment, these two highs discourage the post-90s who do not rely on their parents and completely rely on them in the early stages of their careers.
Especially for the post-90s generation to gain a foothold in the first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and China, it is too difficult for the post-80s generation, unless the local natives who have obtained a few sets or more than a dozen sets because of demolition, that is the place where they were born, there is no way, just like a person can't choose the father of a rich generation and choose the fate of a rich second generation.
Li Jun's two family crises actually put him into the embarrassing situation of the post-90s, so he can especially understand the difficulties of the post-90s children in the future.
In fact, not only can he understand, but a hit movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine" in later generations profoundly expounded the problems of that era.
Not to mention the house, the car.
Even if a family can't afford to have a serious illness, if you want to save your loved ones, then illness is equal to fear, poverty, and collapse.
As a university lecturer, Li Jun's originally wealthy family was the defeated family of "I Am Not the God of Medicine".
He wants his father to live, he wants his leukemia son to live, then he has to sell his house and car, and then he has nothing.
"There is only one disease in the world, and that is the disease of poverty,"
"I'm only twenty years old, I just want to live, what sin I have committed. β
Li Jun has watched "I Am Not the God of Medicine", which is adapted from real events, and the prototype of the movie is also Lu Yong, who later generations called "the "medicine man" and "the first person to purchase anti-cancer drugs".
The male protagonist of the movie, Cheng Yong, is a low-level citizen in the magic capital who sells health care products, but in fact, he has nothing to do with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
The real person, Lu Yong, is the owner of a knitwear export company, but he himself is a leukemia patient who can also speak English in export trade.
In 2002, he was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia.
Either a bone marrow transplant β the probability of finding a match for bone marrow is too low and too long.
Either Chinese patent medicine - the mortality rate is too high.
Either take life-saving pills β you need to take them consistently for the rest of your life.
And that drug is Gleevec produced by Novartis in Switzerland, but the price of a box is 23,500 yuan.
At this price, for example, for the same weight, Gleevec is 20 times more expensive than gold.
He opened his eyes every day to take this medicine, and when he took the medicine, he felt that all he swallowed was money, one was 200 yuan, and he swallowed 800 yuan in one day, and he spent nearly 600,000 yuan in two years, and he created a chronic leukemia patient exchange group on QQ:
In a group of more than 100 people, only two people can afford to take genuine medicines, while the other 90 people will only be willing to take a little money to take those drugs to prolong a little time only when their condition has entered a stage of acute change and their lives cannot be maintained for a long time.
But at that time, this drug did not have much effect, the effect was very poor, and it could only prolong life a little, and they could not change the trend of dying soon at all.
So, that means whether you have money or not directly determines whether you can survive or not.
The vast majority of leukemia patients in China died of lack of medicine in the later stage, not because they had no medicine, but because they couldn't afford it.
is like the old lady who pleaded with the police in the movie: "I have been sick and taking medicine for many years, and my house has lost my food and my home has collapsed." Leader, who doesn't have a patient in the family, can you guarantee that you won't get sick in your life, I don't want to die, I just want to live, don't track down the generic drugs that keep me alive. β
After two years of eating, it cost 600,000 yuan, and the family barely had much money for Lu Yong to continue taking medicine.
But if you don't take medicine, you can only wait for death, and there is no way out.
His father died in a car accident on the way to contact business in order to provide him with medicine.
It wasn't until Lu Yong saw an article by a Korean patient on the Internet that he learned that India's Natco company had a generic Gleevec Veenat, and a bottle only cost three or four thousand.
He first entrusted a friend from Han to inquire, and then purchased this Indian generic drug from the Japanese island country.
Because Indian law does not protect the intellectual property rights of pharmaceutical compounds, they produce generic drugs in large quantities, and India has become the world's cheap pharmaceutical factory. He ate it for three months, and then went for a physical examination, and the blood indicators were normal, so he shared the good news in the group.
Then he found the address of the pharmaceutical factory on the packaging of the medicine purchased by Ridai, and he contacted the Indian pharmaceutical factory.
He helped some patients buy medicines, and then more people bought medicines, and Lu Yong negotiated with Indian pharmaceutical factories to slowly reduce prices:
3,000 pieces per box in 2004, 1,000 pieces per box in 2011, and 200 pieces per box in 2014.
A box of 23500 divided by a box of 200 = 117.5, the money for a month to buy a genuine drug, the generic drug can be eaten for 117 months, that is, 9 years.
Although this data is cold, many lives will be saved behind it, 100 or 1000, it's really bloody.
Lu Yong did not take the opportunity to make money, but only helped those people buy medicine and buy medicine himself.
If it weren't for Lu Yong, those leukemia patients would have really turned into a handful of dust
Because some patients develop drug resistance, the first generation of medicine will lose its effect, and they still have to wait for death, and the upgrading of Indian medicine is a bigger way for them to live. In order to facilitate the purchase of medicine, Lu Yong bought a bank card online: a credit card with other people's identity information.
So he was caught.
In addition to the crime of obstructing the management of credit cards, there is also the crime of selling counterfeit drugs. From the patient's point of view, this is a real, very cheap and life-saving medicine.
From a legal point of view, this is a counterfeit drug that has not been registered and patented by the Food and Drug Administration.
is like the sentence in the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine": What's wrong with breaking the law in order to save people's lives?
Lu Yong doesn't think it's a fake medicine, he's a patient, he can't afford such an expensive medicine, can't he choose a cheap medicine to survive for a while?
Lu Yong is like a lone hero, he does things that violate the law, and at the same time saves thousands of lives for free.
That's the story of "I'm Really Not the God of Medicine".
Whether it is the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", or the embarrassing era encountered by the post-90s, or his last life when he went bankrupt and died suddenly on the podium for his son's medical expenses, he has been running so hard all his life to make money and make money, and he doesn't want to lose everything for money!
He didn't want to see his father, and his son was gone before his eyes, and he didn't want to be ridiculed by others, saying that he was a poor bookmaker.
So as soon as New Year's Day passed, he locked himself in a rental house, planning his nineties, how to lay out, and earn more!