After 5:30 in the afternoon, Yu Zhiming came home from work at the Armed Police General Hospital and felt a little confused.
The house was really too lively.
Mr. Qin, Mr. Ye, Mr. Bai, Mr. Liu, Dr. Wang Wu, Dr. Qin Qiushi, Dr. Tang Jianxiong, Gu Qingran and others were drinking tea and chatting under the hospitality of Dad Yu and Qing Ning.
Mr. Qin chuckled and said, "Doctor Yu, I heard that you have good wine at home, so I became an uninvited guest and came over to ask for a drink."
Yu Zhiming quickly replied politely: "I am not presumptuous, you are all distinguished guests who can make my family shine."
At this point, he came to his senses, "Shouldn't you be brainstorming alternative medicines in the capital?"
Yu Zhiming asked with joy: "Is this a breakthrough?"
"It's done?"
Wang Wu said with a smile on his face: "It is indeed done."
He further introduced: "Two post-surgery patients with advanced cancer took an improved version of alternative medicine and underwent CAR-T treatment yesterday morning. They spent 26 hours each and successfully recovered after 31 hours.
My body temperature has returned from high fever to below thirty-nine degrees.”
"Really? False?" Yu Zhiming was a little in disbelief.
Tang Jianxiong smiled and said: "Dr. Yu, it's absolutely true. The patients are the two people in the fourth batch you selected. The original plan was to undergo CAR-T treatment next week."
"In order to better test the efficacy of the improved alternative medicine, the treatment of these two people was advanced to yesterday."
The joy on Yu Zhiming's face was still blooming, but he suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Wait a minute, the clinical trial started yesterday, and yesterday was Friday. Didn't you just gather in the capital on Thursday?"
"Isn't this too efficient?"
Under Yu Zhiming's burning gaze, everyone fell silent.
Qin Laoqing coughed and broke the silence and said: "Mr. Ye, Dr. Yu also calls you teacher after all. Please give us a brief explanation."
Mr. Ye was speechless when his name was called, but he couldn't give in anymore.
He slowly said: "Dr. Yu, when we first developed the alternative medicine for ginseng life-sustaining pills, we also considered the possibility of quantity but not quality."
"There are also ideas for improvement, which is to add a small amount of wild ginseng essence that is more than 50 years old."
"It's just a matter of monarchs and ministers working together. A single move can affect the whole body. Even adding a small amount of wild ginseng essence will inevitably lead to considerable changes in the prescription of alternative medicines."
Mr. Ye took a sip of tea and continued: "At that time, the week of concentrated research was coming to an end, so we agreed to go back and conduct improvement experiments."
Yu Zhiming realized a problem and interrupted to ask: "This improved version of the alternative medicine cannot be separated from wild ginseng that is more than fifty years old?"
Mr. Ye nodded slightly and said: "Yes, we can't live without it, but the amount is very small. It's like a drug lead and catalyst."
Wang Wu interjected: "Dr. Yu, before, for a wild ginseng tree that was over fifty years old, the average number of ginseng life-sustaining pills was eight to ten."
"But with this improved version of the alternative potion, it can reach seventy or eighty pills, which greatly reduces the demand for wild ginseng."
Wang Wu further explained: "Considering the number of terminal cancer patients you treat, Dr. Yu, and the demand for wild ginseng for this improved medicine, basically there is no need to worry about being stuck."
Yu Zhiming's expression changed, and he asked with concern: "What are the efficacy and cost of the medicine?"
Mr. Qin took the initiative and said: "The efficacy of the medicine is about 70% of the ginseng life-sustaining pill, and the cost of one pill is about 60,000."
"Of course, the premise of this calculation is that wild ginseng is roughly calculated based on the price of 200,000 a year ago."
Even if calculated based on three million wild ginseng trees, the cost of an improved alternative medicine is around one hundred thousand, which is within the acceptable range compared to the three million treatment fee.
Yu Zhiming thought about something again and asked: "You knew from the beginning that the clinical trials of alternative drugs would fail?"
Mr. Qin smiled softly and said: "We have to judge, and ultimately we have to verify it through experiments."
"What if it happens, right?"
Mr. Qin then introduced: "After the collective research was completed and we went back to our respective homes, we were not idle for a moment. We were groping for formula tests during the day and held video meetings to discuss at night."
"In the end, all the hard work paid off, and with a lot of luck, we tested an improved formula that was quite effective and required little demand for wild ginseng."
Yu Zhiming let out a long sigh and said with a smile: "The improved medicine has been successfully released, and I finally feel at ease."
"This is a gratifying event and worthy of celebration."
Yu Zhiming heard the busy sounds in the kitchen and knew that it was the eldest sister and Yu's mother cooking inside.
He looked at Qing Ning and asked, "Have you ordered some dishes from the restaurant? Mom and eldest sister just make some home-cooked dishes."
Mr. Qin stopped him and said, "Doctor Yu, don't bother me. Just a few home-cooked dishes will do."
"To put it bluntly, what kind of delicacies from mountains and seas have we not tried?"
"For us now, the most important thing is what we are celebrating for and who we are celebrating with."
Mr. Qin smiled heartily again and said: "Today's matter, as well as these people sitting here, everyone will be very happy just eating pickles and drinking wine."
"But let's talk first, the wine must be good wine."
Yu Zhiming smiled and said: "Wine, I will definitely bring out the best. Let's go to the restaurant and take a seat first..."
Everyone came to the restaurant and sat down. Yu Zhiming took Gu Qingran and Qing Ning to the storage room to move wine.
At Gu Qingran's suggestion, I bought two types of red wine, including one bottle of Gujia's private wine, and the last two bottles of private wine given by American foreigner Césaire, so I took them all out.
I also bought two kinds of liquor, the last two bottles of Gujia Private Brewing, and the other two bottles of Moutai that were nearly thirty years old.
Yu Zhiming and others brought the wine to the table, and saw that there were also several cold dishes placed on the table.
There are braised beef, braised pork head, cold cucumbers, fried peanuts, assorted cold dishes, vegetable salads, etc., which are perfect home-cooked cold dishes.
Mr. Qin took over a bottle of Moutai that looked very historical and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, the rumors are true. It is true that Dr. Yu's family has good wine, so I will drink this."
Some people chose white wine, others chose red wine, and several bottles of wine were opened one after another.
However, those who drink red wine still need to wait, and the opened red wine needs to rest for a while.
Qin Laoxiao took a sip of white wine, praised "good wine", and then turned his attention to Yu Zhiming.
"Doctor Yu, do you have anything else to ask about this improved medicine and the Chu family's purchase of ginseng?"
Yu Zhiming smiled and said: "I know that the alternative medicine has been successfully developed, and that is enough."
"Everything else is irrelevant, so I won't ask."
After a pause, Yu Zhiming asked again: "Should we give it a formal name? We can't always refer to it by replacing the potion with an improved version."
Mr. Qin said with a smile: "It was born out of Dr. Wang's ginseng life-sustaining pills, so it should be named after Dr. Wang."
When Wang Wu saw everyone at the table looking at him, he didn't shirk away. He muttered, "The simpler the name, the better. Its main ingredient is ginseng, so let's just call it ginseng pill."
"As for how to distinguish it from other brands, it is produced by the newly established Zhiming Life Technology, and is named Zhiming Ginseng Pills."
Yu Zhiming just grinned, feeling unsatisfied.
But no one else objected, and this ordinary name with no characteristics was settled.
In Yu Zhiming's view, the famous Chinese medicine experts here have a very deep foundation in Chinese studies, so it is not that difficult to choose a resounding name that is both meaningful and easy to remember.
Unexpectedly, this group of people are too lazy to use their brains.
If Yu Zhiming hadn't been able to come up with a catchy name that was both meaningful and easy to remember, he would have had to wrest the naming right from Dr. Wang at any cost.
"Dr. Yu, are you not satisfied with this name?"
Faced with Dr. Wang's inquiry, Yu Zhiming quickly denied it and said: "Satisfied, very satisfied!"
He explained in a serious manner: "For medicines, the name is not important, what is important is the efficacy."
"As long as doctors and patients recognize it, no matter how bad the name is, it will not prevent it from being popular."
Amidst the chuckles, Qin Laole said: "Dr. Yu, that's not what you meant by your expression just now."
Yu Zhiming refused to admit it and said: "Mr. Qin, please don't accuse me wrongly. That's what I think in my heart."
At this time, Yu Zhaoxia brought hot dishes...
Although Yu Zhaoxia is a home-cooker, the Yu family has quite good food reserves, such as stupid chicken, mutton and pork from well-known origins, plus sea cucumber, fish maw, grouper, Hericium mushrooms, chicken
With the combination of fir fungus and other ingredients, this table of dishes is quite stylish.
The last staple dish served was dumplings.
Mr. Qin and the others were quite satisfied with their meal...
After the meal, everyone moved to the living room to drink tea, and once again talked about the treatment of late-stage cancer.
Yu Zhiming sighed: "With the ginseng pills, the constraints of wild ginseng are basically lifted."
"Now the limiting factor is mine."
"I hope there will be a breakthrough in tumor fluorescence imaging technology so that more patients with advanced cancer can benefit."
Tang Jianxiong said: "Due to the complexity of the human body, I don't think it will be possible within ten or twenty years for tumor fluorescence imaging technology to reach the level of precision that you, Dr. Yu, can achieve in distinguishing tumors."
"Unless there is a revolutionary breakthrough in this technology."
Yu Zhiming pondered and asked: "Well, do you think I should cooperate with the relevant research and development institutions of tumor fluorescence imaging technology to promote this matter?"
"better not!"
Mr. Qin removed his casual expression and said solemnly: "Dr. Yu, let me say a few words that are not so benevolent..."
"Your body probing and cancer identification skills make you who you are today. If your skills are no longer unique, other people or institutions will be too, and your importance will plummet."
After a pause, Mr. Qin said slowly: "Dr. Yu, everyone has selfish motives, including organizations and countries. If your ability has always been unique..."
"In this case, you, those close to you, Huashan Hospital, your hometown, and even our country will all benefit greatly..."
