The most enlightened doctor

The Very Early Cancer Program has been making slow but steady progress since its inception.

At the beginning, only zero to one very early-stage cancer patient was detected from fifty volunteers.

After a while, it stabilized to one or two people.

After more than half a year of development, it has now reached the level of detecting five or six people out of fifty.

This research and development speed is not really slow. According to this trend, in two or three years we will be able to reach the level of detecting 15 out of 50 people, which is enough for generalization.

However, Yu Zhiming knows that scientific research will not develop so regularly. It may reach a certain level and fall into a research and development bottleneck, unable to break through for several years.

Another possibility is that under the accumulation of data, a spark of wisdom pops out and a major breakthrough is achieved in one fell swoop.

For Yu Zhiming, it is of course a fantasy and expectation that one day there will be a leap forward and a qualitative improvement.

After all, repetitive work over and over again will always produce some boredom.

Although Yu Zhiming looked forward to breakthroughs from time to time, he did not expect that happiness would come so suddenly.

A dream come true, nothing more.

Yu Zhiming watched the people in the corridor hugging each other excitedly, jumping, jumping and shouting, but he didn't feel noisy at all.

He walked through the crowd in the corridor, high-fiving or simply giving a warm hug to the excited R\u0026D team members from time to time.

After celebrating together for a while, Yu Zhiming, Teacher Qi Yue, Academician Tan, Academician Zhang, and Gu Qingran came to the soundproof office.

After sitting on the sofa in the reception area, Academician Tan, who was still looking excited, said loudly: "Dr. Yu, you should take your annual leave. We will use this time to further develop and sort out the collected data. "

"When you go home from vacation, we will do a few more verifications and then we can start considering promotion matters."

"Has the screening cost been calculated?" Yu Zhiming asked with concern!

Academician Tan nodded and said: "We have done preliminary calculations. Various physical examinations and laboratory analyzes will take two to three days, and the cost per person is close to 20,000."

A liver and stomach cancer screening costs 20,000 yuan!

This cost is really not low, and ordinary families may not be able to afford it.

Yu Zhiming frowned slightly, and Gu Qingran's voice sounded in his ears again, "Zhiming, this is still a simple screening cost. If our early R\u0026D investment is included, it will be more than doubled."

Gu Qingran asked again: "Zhi Ming, do you know what our total R\u0026D investment in this very early cancer project is so far?"

"how much?"

Although Yu Zhiming is also one of the project leaders, he really doesn't pay much attention to the funding issue.

Gu Qingran raised a finger.

"One hundred million?" Yu Zhiming guessed.

Gu Qingran said in a deep voice: "Add another zero."

"So many?" Yu Zhiming was really shocked.

The very early cancer project has only taken ten months since its establishment.

It is equivalent to consuming 100 million R\u0026D funds in one month. It is not enough to describe the money spent like water.

Academician Tan took over the conversation and introduced to Yu Zhiming: "We have statistics on the fifty people we sent to you before. On average, we have to do three screening tests on one thousand people."

"After all the various expenses are calculated, the average cost per person is about 5,000 yuan. In other words, for every 50 people you check, 5 million yuan will be spent."

After a pause, Academician Tan continued: "Especially today's inspection..."

"To select these fifty people, we conducted three rounds of examinations on a total of 8,673 high-risk people."

"Especially in the third round of inspections, there were more than 400 people in total, and the inspection cost per person was more than 15,000."

Academician Tan concluded: "The cost of today's inspection alone is more than 100 million."

Yu Zhiming grinned and looked at Gu Qingran, "One billion, Ning'an Group shouldn't be able to afford that much money, right?"

Gu Qingran nodded and said, "That's for sure."

"Ning'an is responsible for one-third of this, and the remaining two-thirds are provided by the municipal government, the National Health Commission and national scientific research special funds."

Academician Zhang, who had been silent until now, chuckled and said, "I have to say, Doctor Yu, you have won the trust of everyone."

"Although this project is horribly expensive, we have never worried about funds. If we don't have enough, we just apply, and we have never been stuck with funds."

"That's true!" Academician Tan touched the top of his head, which had become much sparser, and sighed: "Just seeing so much money being spent every day makes us very stressed."

"If the project lasts for three to five years and there is no tangible result, we won't know how to explain it."

"Fortunately, we are quite lucky."

Academician Tan smiled again and said: "Next, we need to consider promoting and reducing screening costs."

He said casually: "A special detection analyzer can be developed to integrate some key indicators required for screening into one medical instrument, which should be able to reduce the cost of examination a lot."

Gu Qingran also suggested: "Developing special medical instruments cannot be accomplished in a short time."

"The most feasible thing now is to customize a medical examination vehicle and integrate all the medical instruments and equipment required for screening into one bus."

"Specialized vehicles for mobile cancer screening."

Academician Zhang nodded in approval and said: "I personally think this method is good. Dozens of this kind of medical vehicles have been customized and put into major cities across the country, and they have been promoted."

Academician Tan frowned slightly.

Ning An has a huge appetite for this medical vehicle.

This is because we want to keep very early cancer screening firmly in our own hands, and we don’t want to share the profits with other medical units.

Academician Tan looked at Gu Qingran, then at Yu Zhiming who didn't express his position, and didn't say much.

He doesn't have to worry about this kind of commercial promotion matters. Anyway, he will not be short of the honors and benefits he deserves.

Yu Zhiming didn't think so much at all.

In his view, the most important thing is to reduce the cost of screening so that middle- and low-income people can afford it...

The few of them chatted for more than ten minutes, and Gu Qingran suggested that it was time for dinner, so why not go out and celebrate.

Yu Zhiming declined on the grounds that he would have to go to the pediatric surgery department later to participate in the separation operation of the conjoined twins.

After sending everyone away, Yu Zhiming went to a single ward on the third floor and conducted a physical examination on Meng Xiumei, who was transferred here from the intensive care unit.

The test results are quite optimistic. Meng Xiumei's liver and kidney functions are continuing to improve.

Yu Zhiming informed Meng Xiumei and her parents of the test results, and was about to leave, but was stopped.

"Doctor Yu, um, um, did the ginseng pill you gave me last time really cost 300,000?"

Yu Zhiming hummed and comforted: "Don't worry, the money will be paid by Dr. Qiu Yi."

"His family is rich."

Meng Xiumei asked again: "Dr. Yu, if most people take that ginseng pill, there should be no problem, right?"

Yu Zhiming asked doubtfully: "That ginseng pill is mainly used to extend the life of people who are seriously ill and about to die. Most people have no use at all."

Meng Xiumei said hurriedly: "Doctor Yu, after you fed me the ginseng pills last time, there were still some leftovers in the medicine bowl."

"My dad felt sorry for the 300,000 yuan for one pill. He couldn't bear to waste it, so he rinsed it with warm water and drank it himself."

Yu Zhiming was speechless.

It seems that Meng Xiumei's problem of taking medicine indiscriminately has its roots.

Yu Zhiming looked at Meng Xiumei's father and saw that the man looked embarrassed and said nervously: "Doctor Yu, from that day to now, I have had two nosebleeds."

"It shouldn't be a big problem, right?"

Yu Zhiming suppressed a smile and said, "It's not a big problem. It's just a sign of getting angry."

He also warned: "Don't take medicine casually in the future. You must take medicine according to the doctor's instructions."

Meng Xiumei's yellow face showed a lingering expression of fear, and said: "I almost lost my life this time, but I have remembered it, and I will not take medicine casually in the future."

"Hey, Doctor Yu, I wasn't feeling well before. Can you find out what's wrong?"

Yu Zhiming said frankly: "No."

"The examination just now showed that except that your liver and kidneys are still recovering and the functions of other organs have been damaged due to chain reactions, no other strange organ problems were found."

"It may be that you were cured by taking medicine randomly before, or during the treatment of liver failure and kidney failure."

Some discomforts or diseases in our bodies sometimes come and go away inexplicably.

The doctor was left clueless.

We humans still have a long, long way to go before we can fully understand and master the mysteries of the human body...

Just a few steps after Yu Zhiming walked out of the ward, he saw Shen Yiyi, radiant in a white coat, coming out of a ward.

"Doctor Yu..."

Shen Yiyi hurriedly came closer with a smile on her face, and said with joy: "Congratulations on the major breakthrough in the very early cancer project led by you."

"Thank you for your congratulations!"

Yu Zhiming corrected him again: "Strictly speaking, the project is led by Academicians Tan and Zhang, and I am considered a tool."

Shen Yiyi said with admiration: "Dr. Yu, you are so humble. Without your skills as a tool, this project would not exist."

Yu Zhiming smiled softly.

Shen Yiyi asked expectantly again: "Dr. Yu, at your convenience, can I study with you along with my cousin, Dr. Zhou and Dr. Duan?"

this……

Yu Zhiming pondered and said: "Dr. Shen, you should know from your cousin that they are not studying with me, but mainly helping me organize medical records."

"Other than some auscultation and percussion, I didn't teach them anything at all."

Shen Yiyi said with a smile: "That's not what my cousin said. He told me that what you gain from following Dr. Yu during this period will far exceed his improvement in the past few years."

Yu Zhiming said solemnly: "That is definitely his illusion. His improvement mainly comes from his own efforts."

After a pause, he turned to say, "Dr. Shen, my teacher is a hundred times better than me at teaching others. You must not let down my teacher's expectations."

"I still have something to do and I have to go back."

Yu Zhiming didn't wait for Shen Yiyi's reaction, raised his legs and left.

The reason why he rejected Shen Yiyi was not only because of the teacher's reasons for not being able to overtake others, but also because Shen Yiyi's external conditions were too outstanding.

After long-term contact, Yu Zhiming felt that there might be some uncontrollable dangers...

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