From 65438 to 0986, a doctor in China successfully developed a drug to treat "acute promyelocytic leukemia". Doctor's name is Wang Zhenyou. He is in no hurry to apply for a patent for the drug he developed. Instead, we chose to use the drug in clinic at a low price of 13 yuan. Thanks to his medicine, many patients were saved, and the doctor was widely praised by the public. Let's take a look at the story of this great man!
Firmly believe in studying medicine
The doctor's name is Wang. He was born in Jiangsu. 1924. In that turbulent era, Wang went to Shanghai with his parents. Wang has eight brothers and sisters, and his family is well off. He lives in a small building in Shanghai. His parents attached great importance to education and often taught them the importance of knowledge, so Wang's eight brothers and sisters later became intellectuals.
Wang has been very close to his grandmother since he was a child and has been sticking to her. He couldn't help at all when he saw grandma suffering from illness. He was anxious to help his grandmother relieve her pain, but there was nothing he could do. He secretly made up his mind to study medicine. He doesn't want to face the illness of his relatives in the future, but he can only watch. In the end, my grandmother failed to hold on because of her age and left under the torture of illness.
Wang has been very sad about his grandmother's death, and at the same time, his idea of studying medicine began to sprout quietly in his heart ... Wang kept working hard, 1942, and Wang Kao went to Shanghai Zhendan University as a medical major. After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a resident in Guangci Hospital.
Constantly sum up experience
When Wang pulled a tooth for a patient, he found that some patients usually had no bleeding symptoms, but they had bleeding symptoms after small tooth extraction, which puzzled Wang. So Wang began to engage in blood research, in which he found that the level of coagulation factors in plasma was the key to bleeding. After overcoming a series of difficulties, Wang's research solved the problem of unexplained bleeding in clinic.
Wang doesn't care much about the small achievements in the experiment, nor is he proud of them. Wang didn't stop after his experiment. On the contrary, when the country needed him, he stepped forward. From 65438 to 0958, Wang did not hesitate to sign up for the medical rescue team and devoted himself to the hospital behind the battlefield.
As a hematologist in internal medicine, Wang encountered "tuberculous meningitis" on the battlefield, and the patient coughed up blood seriously or had massive bleeding. These problems were handled by the team led by Wang, and the patients were well treated. Since then, a variety of diseases have appeared one after another, so that Wang has accumulated a lot of experience and made basic work for later leukemia research.
After the war, Wang He and his team put forward the plan of "three years to conquer leukemia" in clinical medical work. However, due to the "Great Leap Forward" period, Wang and Wang were forced to leave their posts to engage in teaching in medical French classes, which delayed their research.
Restart the research plan
It was not until 1973 that Wang was able to return to work in the hospital. But his focus is not on treating patients, but on studying "blood". After years of observation, acute leukemia has become a shadow that Wang can't get rid of.
If leukemia is carefully classified, there are about 300 kinds, which are divided into chronic and acute. Chronic leukemia cannot be cured and needs long-term drug treatment. Only through medication can the patient survive. However, acute leukemia is much more dangerous. Since it is called acute, it can be understood that acute leukemia has a sudden onset and a high mortality rate. Most patients died 1 day after onset, and the latest death time was 1 month.
This dangerous situation worried Wang, who had seen too many patients at the time of his illness. Faced with such a patient, he felt powerless, as if he had returned to that year and watched his grandmother suffer from illness. He didn't want to watch patients die in front of him, so he began to study the disease.
1978, 49-year-old Wang took "acute promyelocytic leukemia" as his research focus. After five years of research, Wang found that all-trans retinoic acid can transform acute granulocytes into normal cells.
This achievement made him very satisfied, and he immediately used this medicine in clinic. The feedback is that critically ill patients are out of danger because of Wang's drugs, and many patients get better because of the drugs. This feedback made Wang very excited, and he was proud that his years of efforts had been applied at this moment.
indifferent to fame and wealth
This kind of drug resistance is not very good in clinic, which is also the reason why Wang is gradually exposed. Wang led the team to continue to improve drugs. Wang proposed to make oral liquid from arsenious acid and all-trans retinoic acid contained in arsenic.
As we all know, arsenic is a poison, and Wang's ideas are naturally refuted and questioned, and various voices are constantly coming out. Everyone thinks that Wang is wrong, so Wang can only convince them with research results. He put this problem into practice, and after preparing the medicine, everyone dared not try it in clinic.
After all, it is difficult to take the first step. This improved drug was finally used on a seriously ill patient who was about to leave. This is completely a dead horse as a living horse doctor. To everyone's surprise, this improved drug has a great effect on "acute promyelocytic leukemia", which not only increases drug resistance, but also has a subtle effect on cancer cells of some patients with "blood tumors". Wang's specific medicine has pulled many patients back from the "death gate" and has also been recognized by practice.
Wang spent half his life studying this medicine, but he didn't apply for a patent for it. Since the drug was developed and put into clinical practice, Wang did not apply for a patent. Moreover, the price of this medicine can not be improved because of its curative effect, and it still stays at the people-friendly price of 13.2.
As the saying goes, "Illness comes like a mountain". Many families lose everything because one person is ill. Medical expenses have dragged down countless families, and high medical expenses have forced many people to die. They also want to live, but watching their loved ones suffer for them, they don't want to drag their loved ones down like this.
High medical expenses are the biggest headache for patients, but in recent years, various medical subsidies given by the national government have also played a significant role. With the development of the times, the medicine invented by Wang is no longer the original price. However, his spirit of indifference to fame and fortune is still commendable, and his academic spirit is worth learning.