When they heard that Lin Sanqi was going to take these foreigners to the research institute, everyone at Harvard Medical School became excited.
When visiting a hospital, a hospital is just an appearance. Hospitals all over the world actually have the same process, including outpatient service, diagnosis, prescribing medicine, or hospitalization.
But the key here is "drugs". What medicine have you invented that can cure tuberculosis? This is the key point.
Now that you have a medicine, as an academic you have to ask one more question: How was your medicine invented? What experimental results was it invented based on?
This requires a research institute or a key laboratory to support it.
To judge the level of a hospital, look at its critical care center. In the same way, to judge the level of a university or research institute, it depends on how many national or world-class laboratories they have.
People with normal logical thinking believe in "evidence". If you say that you are a time traveler and have brought drugs from the future, people will only treat you as a psychopath.
Therefore, if China's infectious disease hospitals want to prove their ability to conquer tuberculosis and kill tuberculosis bacilli, they need a world-class research center and laboratory to prove it.
This is the same reason why Lin Sanqi moved all the experimental equipment from later generations regardless of the risks.
Lin Sanqi led everyone through the side door and brought them to the Xibaoyuan.
Professor Anthony and Professor Theodore are also observing the surrounding environment. European and American laboratories are often independent high-rise buildings with independent ventilation systems and other circulation systems. To describe it in two words, it is not "clean".
But now in the eyes of foreigners, this is a park, and there are rows of bungalows in the park.
Although the appearance of these houses looks very oriental, it is difficult to associate the dilapidated and simple buildings with "advanced laboratories".
Professor Theodore shook his head a little:
"Anthony, apart from the eye-catching masks, this Chinese hospital is so lagging behind in other aspects. I really can't imagine how they can lead the world."
Assistant Carol feels the same way:
"The key is that their person in charge is too young. Oh my god, I am 30 years old and the youngest doctor in the medical field, but Lin in front of me is obviously younger than me."
Assistant Blake felt the same way, although it was possible that they were feeling sour inside.
"If we were in the United States, I'm afraid we wouldn't have the qualifications to become assistants to professors. At most we would be free student researchers. I'm afraid our trip this time would be in vain."
Professor Anthony is the leader of the crowd, but he is relatively calm at this time:
"The matter has not been investigated clearly, and there is no need for you to draw conclusions immediately. We see what we believe. You'd better hope that Hua Guo didn't lie. This young Lin is the person in charge, so that we can take advantage of it."
The inspection team in front of us is not an authentic WHO inspection team, but an opportunistic team.
Regardless of whether China has invented anti-tuberculosis drugs or whether it can conquer tuberculosis, in fact, they are not qualified to draw conclusions, nor are they qualified to announce China's achievements in an official name.
For them, the best result of this visit to China is that the tuberculosis problem in China is real, and then they can poach the core figure Lin Sanqi to the United States, which will be a perfect trip.
Minister Li and Lin Sanqi walked in front, and the old lady quietly observed the white inspection group, which was strange:
"Comrade Sanqi, look at the disdain on the faces of these foreigners. It seems that our infectious disease hospital has been looked down upon."
Lin Sanqi shrugged: "It's normal to be looked down upon. Our hospital is really too backward. Minister Li, you have been to foreign countries for inspections, especially in Western countries. The hospitals are so well built."
Minister Li said helplessly: "Alas, New China has just been established, and everything is waiting for improvement. There is nothing we can do."
Lin Sanqi comforted:
"It's okay. Let's be aware of our shame and then be brave. If we fall behind, we can find ways to catch up. We just don't engage in internal fighting at home. Time is life, time is efficiency, and everything Comrade Deng said is true."
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Minister Li was a little surprised: "This is very realistic and philosophical. Who is Old Deng? Do I know him?"
Lin Sanqi thought to herself, you must know him. He is now the vice president, and he is Minister Li’s superior. But he is about to start a roller coaster ride of three ups and three downs, and in the end he will turn the tide and become the second-generation core of the country.
It was in his hands that our country officially became a powerful country in the world from a big country.
Before entering the laboratory, you need to put on protective clothing, then a hat and shoe covers. Americans are used to it. After everyone quickly changed their clothes, Lin Sanqi opened the door:
"Gentlemen and ladies, let me now take a look at our biological laboratory in China. I hope you will not be too surprised."
Several Americans thought, how could they be surprised? Because they are confident that all the instruments in their Harvard University laboratory are the most advanced in the world. How advanced can China be?
What's more, the most advanced experimental equipment cannot be exported to China, so Professor Anthony and his party all felt a sense of contempt in their hearts.
But when they officially entered the laboratory, everyone was stunned.
This feeling is like entering a science fiction world.
The indoor area of the laboratory is very huge. It is an entire "palace" with an area of at least one thousand square meters.
The entire floor is covered with light blue "PVC floor glue", and all lighting equipment uses LED light boxes, making the entire laboratory brightly lit and bright.
All around the wall are various large-scale experimental instruments.
In the middle of the laboratory, there are rows of operating platforms placed horizontally, with small precision instruments also placed on them.
A group of researchers were actually wearing work clothes, lowering their heads and working in front of each instrument, writing and drawing on paper from time to time. The scene was very quiet, except for the ticking sound of the machines from time to time.
"Oh, my God."
Professor Anthony was dumbfounded at this time, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh. He turned back to look at his companions, and then he found that all of them were also stunned at the scene.
There was only deep shock in Professor Theodore’s eyes:
"Oh my God, how can China have such an advanced laboratory?"
A layman can watch the excitement, and an expert can watch the door. It is not necessary to know what advanced instruments and equipment are in Huaguo's laboratories. Just look at the technological appearance of these machines, and you will know that they must be worth a lot of money.
To describe it this way, they have never seen anything in the Huaguo laboratory, and they don't even know what the "carpet" on the ground is made of.
One of the "translators" immediately raised the camera in his hand and started shooting with a click.
A leader of our country's foreign affairs department immediately stopped him when he saw it, "Sir, this is a powerful laboratory, please don't take pictures."
Lin Sanqi waved her hand: "It's okay, let them take the picture. It's useless just to take a picture of the outside without knowing what the internal structure is."
In fact, what he was thinking was that there was half a century difference between 2014 and 1961. This was just a question of whether the situation was good or not.
Just a "fully automatic" machine is far beyond what Americans in the 1960s could imitate.
Professor Anthony asked eagerly:
"Lin, it's so surprising that a country as backward as China can actually hide such an advanced laboratory. Oh, please forgive me for being too blunt, but I really can't imagine it."
Next to him, Minister Li also sighed inwardly, thinking, "Don't say you are surprised, my jaw dropped."
Lin Sanqi began to enter a light show-off mode:
"Mr. Professor, the main reason is that our country attaches great importance to the development of science, technology and medicine. Although our country is still poor and backward, and our hospitals are still in shabby conditions, our leaders have invested all their limited funds in scientific research. Go.
Because our country has always believed that science and technology are the primary productive forces. Only when the level of science and technology improves can our production and work efficiency continue to improve. Only in this way can we create more material benefits, give our country the opportunity to catch up with your country, the United States, and allow our country, China, to become one of the world's powerful countries. ”
When the leaders of the foreign affairs department heard this, they all clapped excitedly.
The two leaders of Fengzeyuan and Xihua Hall were sneezing at this time.
Professor Anthony was obviously fooled by Lin Sanqi, and couldn't help but sigh:
"Lin, your leader is great and has a very long-term vision. It turned out that we heard reports from the American media that China was engaged in ideology and sabotaged production and construction all day long. Now it seems that those are all fake news."
Lin Sanqi made an invitation gesture and began to lead everyone on a tour:
"This is a biochemical incubator. Its main function is to automatically analyze water and perform BOD determination. It is also a special constant temperature device for cultivating and preserving bacteria, molds, and microorganisms.
This machine is a dark box UV analyzer, which can be used to observe and analyze nucleic acid, protein electrophoresis gel, and thin layer plate results; this machine is a microbial homogenizer, which can extract bacteria from solid samples...
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In short, our laboratory is fully automated. As long as the researcher sets the program of the instrument, the instrument can automatically run and work, and finally it can automatically analyze the experimental results, which once again improves the experimental efficiency.
Even our cleaning work is automated. For example, with this ultrasonic cleaning machine, we only need to put the contaminated experimental equipment and glassware in, set the time, and the machine will automatically clean, sterilize, and dry. ”
At this time, the foreigners were just like Grandma Liu in the Grand View Garden, their eyes widened with strong curiosity.
And the "translator" kept taking pictures the whole time, then kept changing the film, and continued taking pictures non-stop.
Lin Sanqi felt tired after seeing him, and thought to herself, should she take out her digital camera to show off?
At this time, Professor Theodore pointed to the platform being operated by a researcher and asked strangely:
"Lin, we all know that biological laboratories, especially infectious disease laboratories, are very dangerous, because it is easy to cause the leakage of bacteria and viruses during operations, thereby infecting staff.
But I saw that when your staff were extracting microorganisms on the petri dishes, why were they just wearing ordinary work clothes? Isn't he afraid of getting infected and contaminating the entire laboratory? Isn't this too informal? ”
Lin Sanqi led everyone over and arrived at the working platform.
"Gentlemen and ladies, you are all wrong. You cried when you saw this instrument. Its full name is glove-type ultra-clean workbench/biological safety cabinet. Look, is this workbench equipped with two half-sleeved gloves?
In fact, the entire internal space of this workbench can filter out microorganisms and particles in the laboratory by filtering the air, thereby providing a sterile operating environment.
The design includes vertical flow type and quasi-closed glass damper, which can effectively prevent the penetration of external airflow and reduce the irritation of operating odor to the human body.
Working in such a platform, our researchers can 100% guarantee their own health and safety. Our country has always advocated a people-oriented approach and attaches great importance to human rights. ”
Professor Theodore was already convinced at this time:
"Fake, not only are your experimental equipment more advanced than ours, but your concepts are also more advanced than ours. In order to protect laboratory workers, you even invented this closed work platform. It really surprises me."
After visiting the laboratory for more than an hour, everyone changed their clothes and walked out of the laboratory.
If Americans were still dismissive before, now everyone has been silenced and no longer dare to look down on the Huaguo Infectious Diseases Hospital.
They wouldn't be so shocked if they had hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars piled up in front of them, but seeing so many advanced instruments and equipment with their own eyes made them aware of the "backwardness" of American laboratories.
Although the translator never translated a word, the shock in his heart was even more profound.
On the surface, these are just medical instruments for civilian use.
But from the perspective of their special service personnel, China has mastered many cutting-edge technologies, and this cutting-edge technology can be used for military purposes.
For example, military weapons such as intercontinental missiles, atomic bombs, the latest fighter jets, submarines, etc. also require the support of high-end technology.
In the mind of this translator, the danger level of China has been raised to the highest level.
Some people may say that the translator should not have been allowed to take photos and visit at will in the first place. If he returned to China and reported like this, wouldn't the United States regard China as a threat?
In fact, what Lin Sanqi wants is this effect. What is "nuclear deterrence"?
That is to scare you to death and make you evaluate whether you can fight before taking action? How much damage will it cause if we can defeat it? Is it worth fighting?
In this way, next time there is friction, the best thing is for the two countries to just start a war of words, and neither one really takes action, so that the world can be peaceful, right?
After leaving the laboratory, everyone came to the conference room again.
After Professor Anthony praised him for a while, he revealed the issue he was most concerned about during his trip:
"Lin, your laboratory amazes me. This makes me more confident in your invention of anti-tuberculosis drugs at the Huaguo Infectious Disease Hospital. Now you don't mind letting us see what drugs you have invented, right?"
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Lin Sanqi smiled and said: "I don't mind. I said I would be honest. We have prepared the medicine."
After saying that, Pan Ye came over with a medicine tray on which were placed several small glass bottles containing red oval-shaped pills.
"Mr. Professor, this is our latest anti-tuberculosis drug. Its full name is Epyridine Tablets. I believe you have read the paper we published in the newspaper and you should already know the principle of this drug. I don't know either. So much explanation.”
As soon as several Americans got the medicine bottle, they all looked at it curiously.
The assistant, Clifford, was a graduate student in pharmacy. He took out the pills, smelled them, tried a few more, then crushed the pills and observed them.
Finally, he said to his companions: "This is indeed a chemical preparation."
If they are determined to be chemical preparations, it means that these drugs are "Western medicine" and not traditional Chinese medicine.
This is very important, because foreigners do not trust traditional Chinese medicine. They think that this medicine is made from tree roots and grass, no different from witch doctors. Moreover, it lacks complete laboratory data, making it even more untrustworthy.
But if Western medicine is confirmed, it means that the authenticity of the paper published in the newspaper exists.
Professor Theodore asked curiously: "Is the cure rate of this drug really over 90% for tuberculosis?"
At this time, Lin Sanqi opened a side door of the conference room, pointed at the materials in the room next door and said proudly:
"Gentlemen and ladies, our country in China values seeking truth from facts. There are 5,000 pieces of patient data stacked in this room, which are actually 5,000 pieces of human experiment data we have collected. I can guarantee with my personality that every piece of it is true. ”
Several foreigners stood up one after another, walked into the reference room, and took out medical records at random:
"Hey, there are actually medical records in English?"
Lin Sanqi continued to boast:
"What you see is not only outpatient and inpatient medical records, but also no less than three chest X-rays and three sputum culture results from three different periods for each patient. If you, WHO, want to verify the authenticity of the medical records, Sex, you can randomly check, we guarantee to bring them.”
Professor Anthony randomly checked a few medical records and nodded slightly:
"The medical records are very formal and have the same format as our American hospitals. You are very careful in recording them. As for verifying the authenticity of the medical records, I think it is not necessary?"
In fact, what Professor Anthony is thinking is that if China wants to fake it, God knows if the people they find will be cured patients or healthy people.
After all, after pulmonary tuberculosis is cured, there may be old lesions such as calcifications, fibrous cord shadows, and high-density nodules in the lungs.
But it is more likely that Mycobacterium pulmonale causes less damage to the lungs and the lesions are completely absorbed after treatment.
Therefore, after cure, the patient's lungs can basically return to normal, and no traces of tuberculosis can be seen on a chest X-ray.
So verifying medical records is completely unnecessary.
Of course, Professor Anthony does not deny the authenticity of these medical records. If there were still considerable doubts before, after visiting the laboratory, he feels that the authenticity is more likely.
But as a top infectious disease expert, he hopes to see it with his own eyes.
"Lin, now that we are here, I have a suggestion. In order to confirm the true effect of this Epyridine tablet, I wonder if you can prepare an inpatient ward for us. We are going to admit the patients in person and verify the efficacy of the drug in person. What do you think?”(End of Chapter)