Owen, the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, received a paper from the Viethorne-Chung Hospital again, and his expression was as constipated as if he were constipated.

It's a great thing for other hospitals or medical research institutions to submit several papers a year to a top medical journal like theirs.

It is important to know that there are very few papers that can be published in the four major medical journals of New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery (NEJM), Lancet, Journal of the Medical Association of America (JAMA), and Journal of Medicine of the Eagle Country (BMJ) every year.

Because it is less, it is precious.

Among them, the impact factor of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery reached 176.097 points, although it is not the top, but it is also the top existence.

The highest impact factor of domestic journals is still known as "Cell Research", which is known as the "light of national journals", with an impact factor of only 46.297 points.

At present, the highest impact factor of medical journals in China is 10.526 points, and the impact factor of about 5 points is good if teachers publish papers, and if it is higher than 10, it is very remarkable.

The impact factor has become an important indicator of academic evaluation, student graduation, professional title evaluation, literature research, journal evaluation and so on in China.

Therefore, the impact factor determines a doctor's academic and even political future, what is the use of good surgery? What's the use of 200 outpatient visits a day? Can you write essays?

It can also be seen how difficult it is to publish papers in these four top medical journals.

There are some PPT doctors in the hospital, and if you ask him to see a doctor, he won't, but if you ask him to write a paper, he will write a big pen and submit it, and he will succeed.

Then the deputy chief physician or attending physician will see a special patient, but will not write a thesis......

Those who don't know how to see a doctor, but who can write a dissertation in particular, are chief physicians and doctoral supervisors......

This phenomenon is not only true at home, but also abroad.

Of course, the situation abroad is slightly better, because foreign doctors can be divided into clinical and scientific research, two lines, different directions, and different treatment.

Regardless of whether it is at home or abroad, there are very few people who want to submit papers to top international medical journals, and even fewer are admitted to publish them.

But whether it is Mayo or Cliff Clinic, which hospital is like Viet Chung Hospital, where papers are submitted like telegrams, how many articles a month?

Even if Owen, the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery in charge of Asia, has a good relationship with Chen Qi, and no matter how big the red envelope is, his brain is a little confused in the face of so many papers and manuscripts in hand.

Owen flipped through one by one:

"Research on Sexuals with XX Functions", "Surgical Exploration of True Hermaphroditism", "Invention of New Orthopedic Fillers", "Genetic Analysis of Chimera Phenomenon", "The Importance of Gene Origin in Clinical Practice", "Diagnosis and Treatment of Klinefelter Syndrome", "Discovery of Meowing Cat Syndrome", "Chromosomal Abnormalities of Tourette Syndrome", etc.

All of these papers are groundbreaking, and most of them are human first-time discoveries, and each one is very suitable for publication.

But the question is, is this paper true or false?

If it is true, is this Viet Chung Hospital going to heaven?

This is a scientific research discovery, and it is the invention of a new technique, others may not be able to complete a subject in their lifetime, and the Vietnamese Chinese Hospital is engaged in wholesale, and more than 10 articles will be issued a year?

If it is fake, if these papers are published, it will be a major accident.

At that time, as the editor-in-chief, Owen will not only have to take responsibility for stepping down, but also be ridiculed by his peers for a lifetime, and he will not even be able to find a job.

So Owen didn't want to take risks, but in the face of the banknote ability of Chen Qi, the director of the Vietnam Central Hospital, and the excitement of the paper, Owen was unwilling to give up.

So Owen decided to go to the editor-in-chief, Gabrireth, after all, they are on the same line, which is equivalent to an alliance, and it will never harm him.

Gabrireth sat behind his desk, reading the papers one by one, frowning, sometimes slapping the case.

After he finished reading all the papers of the Viet Chung Hospital, he couldn't help but sigh:

"Shet, it's fucking like a dream......"

Then Editor-in-Chief Gabrieth looked at Owen again: "How true do you think these papers are?" What is the plagiarism rate of papers? ”

Owen shrugged:

"Although you may not believe it, these papers do not need to be checked for repetition at all, because the diseases on their papers have been discovered for the first time, such as this true hermaphroditism with XX function, which is the only case in the world that has been discovered.

There is also this paper, the above Chimera phenomenon has been discovered for a long time, but the concept of chimera was the first to be put forward by the Viet Cong Hospital, and they are also the first hospital in the world to perform genetic testing on Chimera, which is also original.

Similarly, for example, in this article, we have heard of cat cry syndrome before, but the chromosomal abnormalities were found through genetic testing and written as a paper, and the Viet Cong Hospital was also the first, so there is no need to check the duplicate at all, because they are NO1. ”

Editor-in-chief Gabrireth scratched his fluffy hair and said speechlessly:

"Is there a damn genetic testing center in China? It's not something that the European and American medical circles are just playing, it's just incredible. ”

Owen pointed to the author's column and said: "There is the help of Ben Sysmex Gene Company behind this, so there should be no possibility of fraud in technology." ”

Editor-in-Chief Gabrireth slammed the paper on the table and looked at Owen:

"And what is the purpose of your coming to me?"

Owen was a little embarrassed: "There are too many papers, I don't know how to format them, if one or two papers from Vietnam Hospital are published in each issue, then we may really become a joke in the medical circle, thinking that we have been bought by Chinese doctors." ”

This reason is like an essay competition, and every time the award-winning author is always the name of a few people, then the credibility of this essay contest is gone, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a shady comparison.

And there are only so many pages in medical journals, and you are always occupied by the Viet-Chung Hospital, so what should you do with other papers?

A lone branch is not spring, and these foreigners also understand the truth that a hundred flowers bloom in spring.

However, if they do not publish the paper to the Vietnamese Chinese Hospital, even if they pretend that the review period will take 6 or 8 months, when the Vietnamese Chinese Hospital reacts, they will still submit to other medical journals, and then it will be their New England Journal that suffers.

What to do?

Editor-in-Chief Gabrireth thought for a moment and had an idea:

"This thing is also easy to do, we can publish a supplement of Viet Chung Hospital, now we have 10 papers in our hands, we can publish a supplement, oh no, it should be a special issue, put all the papers in it, so that the problem of publishing all papers can be solved at one time."

Owen's eyes lit up when he heard this: "This is a good idea, but it is too much to lift the Vietnamese Hospital." ”

It is definitely a glorious thing to have a special issue in the New England Journal of Medicine, and only a few top hospitals in history have such qualifications.

Editor-in-Chief Gabrireth gritted his teeth:

"I also have an idea, that is, before publishing a special issue, we have to test the quality of the Vietnamese and Chinese hospitals, one is to see if their genetic testing level is up to the international lead.

Also, if you find that the disease is useless, you still have to treat the disease, right? This is the only way to show the greatness and convince my colleagues all over the world, and I happen to have a few patients on hand to transfer them to the Viet Cong Hospital. ”

Editor-in-chief Gabrireth was originally the dean of the Massachusetts Medical School and a top international medical scientist, and the patients who could reach him could not be simple patients.

Owen was also interested: "Oh, what kind of patient is it?" It's too simple, for Hua Guochen, it's food delivery. ”

Editor-in-Chief Gabriel Reth smiled:

"Then you're underestimating me too much, give, here's a picture of a patient."

After speaking, Gabriel Reth took out two photos from the drawer, and Owen took them and looked at them, and instantly gasped:

"Fake, Mr. Gabrieleth, do you want to be so ruthless."

The two photos are of two patients:

The first photo is of a 5-year-old Caucasian girl with a normal upper body, but the legs of the lower body are glued together, with only the two feet parting to the sides.

The second photo is even more brutal, showing a pair of conjoined babies, whose bodies are connected face to face, but with their own limbs and heads. ”

Editor-in-Chief Gabrireth said on the side:

"Both of these patients are an unknown genetic disease, otherwise they would not have been born into such freaks, so they were sent to Chen for research, so that he could give an answer, and they had to be cured."

"Dissociation?"

"Yes, it is necessary to do dissection, for example, this little girl, her legs are adhesion together, and what is more fatal is that her bladder, large intestine, most of the kidneys and other organs are missing, which brings great challenges to her operation.

This is more complicated for conjoined babies, who are now only 4 months old, and parents are asking to be separated as soon as possible to avoid any impact on their physical and mental health in the future.

The separation of conjoined babies is equally complex, with two young babies sharing a stomach and liver, as well as part of the intestines and bile ducts.

Historically, there has been no precedent for any successful isolation in various countries, but there has been a blank space for surgery for this genetic malformation. So none of the two patients was willing to take over, let alone operate.

Hua Guo Chen and the Vietnamese Central Chinese Hospital are not very powerful, let them treat, as long as they can cure these two patients and study what kind of genetic defects they are, I can assure the Vietnamese Central Hospital that the special issue will definitely be published as soon as possible.

Mr. Owen, do you think this is not feasible for me? ”

Owen shook his head when he heard this:

"Mr. Gabriel Reth, I think you must be crazy, there are so many patients in the United States who are unwilling to take over by even hospitals, you let a Huaguo hospital go to research and operate, this, this is a bit embarrassing."

Gabrireth lit a cigar and spit it out:

"If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight, Huaguo has no status in the mainstream medical community, and Huaguo's doctors rarely have any academic publications.

If Chen Qi or the Vietnamese Hospital want to integrate into the mainstream medical community, or even have a place in the mainstream medical community, they must put in more effort than others, and be able to do surgeries that others can't do, be able to research medical fields that others are not involved in, and be able to treat diseases that others don't look down on.

These two patients may have put a lot of pressure on Dr. Huaguo, but isn't this an opportunity? Isn't there an old saying in Huaguo, real gold is not afraid of fire, and I won't give him a stage to show now. ”

After all, Owen received Chen Qi's money, of course, he had to say good things for Chen Qi:

"However, if the patient is sent to Huaguo, the hardware equipment of Huaguo Hospital is too poor, I am afraid it will ......."

"It's not a big deal," said Gabrieth Editor-in-Chief, placing the cigar on his desk and pulling another file out of the drawer:

"We have a $200 million sponsorship from the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery this year, and if Dr. Chen is willing to take over these two patients, whatever medical equipment he needs, our journal can provide it for free, and it doesn't cost a lot of money."

Owen knew that he could no longer stop the madness of Editor-in-Chief Gabrieth, so he stood up and said:

"Okay, I'll contact Chen right now and ask for his opinion."

Editor-in-Chief Gabrireth waved the manuscript in his hand: "Tell him that the day the operation is successful is when the special issue of Vietnam-China is published." ”

Nail~~~

Chen Qi received Owen's international call at home, because of the time difference between the two countries, the working hours of the United States are the night of Huaguo.

"Chen, this is the case, obviously the editor-in-chief Gabrielis wants to test the scientific research level and surgical level of your Vietnamese hospital, and I also persuaded the editor-in-chief for a long time, and the editor-in-chief Gabrielis has already made up his mind.

However, I also helped you fight for a good benefit, that is, for these two surgeries, what equipment is lacking in your Vietnamese-Chinese hospital, our magazine can provide it for free to help you upgrade the operating room. ”

A girl with adhesions in the lower limbs, a pair of conjoined babies? Do both have to do dissection?

Chen Qi couldn't help but fall into deep thought, in his memories of his previous life, there were indeed several successful surgeries to separate conjoined children, but most of them failed.

One of the most famous conjoined dissociations was a dissociation performed in Singapore that year.

The surgery was performed on a pair of Iranian sisters who were connected to the side of their heads, sharing a part of their brains, and their bodies were separated.

The reason why Chen Qi remembers the operation is so strong is that the sisters worked very hard, and in a conservative and patriarchal country like Yilang, the sisters continued to study and finally graduated from the University of Tehran with a degree in law.

So very assertive, elite class women.

The two sisters have their own ideal lives, one wants to be a lawyer, the other wants to be a journalist, but the special structure of the "conjoined man" makes the two sisters who desire independence unbearable, so they have an extremely strong desire to separate.

After all, conjoined people are together, not to mention that they can't be separated 24 hours a day, just say that you have a boyfriend, and there is also a light bulb next to it, right?

If you want to make out with your boyfriend, it's obviously a matter of two people, and it's the same as a three-person sport.

So whether it is in terms of personality, work or life, the Iranian sisters desperately hope that the two can have separation surgery.

So the brave sisters raised money, borrowed relatives and traveled to Germany, hoping to have a separation operation there, but no doctor was willing to perform such a high-risk operation.

Later, they traveled to Singapore and finally found a medical team willing to operate on them.

The separation surgery of the conjoined sisters in Iran has attracted wide media attention around the world, and there is also a need for publicity in Singapore hospitals, so there is a lot of trouble, including domestic media, which has also published a lot of related news.

Unfortunately, they lost a lot of blood during the postoperative vascular repair process and both died within an hour and a half.

People are separated, but they are also dead, and the Singapore hospital where the operation was performed is also discredited.

This is already a matter of Chen Qi's previous life, and now it is only 1991, and it is not ordinarily difficult to do two conjoined separation surgeries.

After all, Chen Qi has lived two lifetimes and has never undergone such an operation.

However, Haidong people have an advantage, that is, they understand what is called "high risk, high profit", pie will not fall from the sky, if you want to succeed, want to become famous, how can you not take some risks?

What's more, a successful operation can lead to a special issue of a top medical journal like the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, which is only twice in history.

If the Vietnamese Central Hospital can publish a special issue, it actually means that the Vietnamese Central Hospital has become a member of the international mainstream medical circle.

This kind of treatment is not comparable to famous domestic hospitals such as Xiehe, Beijing Medicine, Ruijin, Xiangya, Qilu, Zhongshan, and Huaxi.

Thinking of this, Chen Qi gritted his teeth and let go, and if he succeeded, he would win.

If it fails, that's it, you European and American doctors can't afford the operation, why do you want Chinese doctors to only succeed and not fail?

Isn't it just a trick, as if it's not anyone?

"Okay, Mr. Owen, please tell Editor-in-Chief Gabrireth that I'm willing to take on this challenge."

(End of chapter)