Chapter 943

Mei Qiwei is only a reporter, not the owner of the San Francisco Chronicle. Therefore, all he can do is to interview and understand the events, and try to restore them in the form of articles.

Yang Rui provided him with a very good material, and Mei Qiwei's interview made the material vivid.

In fact, Mei Qiwei did not expect that he could obtain so much material.

Antiarrhythmic therapy is a popular concept in recent years.

Heart disease has always been a very complex and frustrating disease.

It is not a chronic disease, but a combination of a series of diseases, and its scope of influence, almost all over mankind - as long as a person lives long enough, his heart will more or less have problems.

No one wants to have problems with their most important parts, especially those patients whose physical functions have not yet completely declined, and their life expectancy is greatly reduced by heart disease. Doctors and pharmaceutical companies are committed to finding a drug that can alleviate this situation.

In this age when man has already landed on the moon, it seems that there should be such a drug.

Antiarrhythmic drugs come into being with the application of antiarrhythmic theory.

When he interviewed in San Francisco, he met thousands of users of antiarrhythmic drugs, many of whom were quite optimistic.

After all, they are taking the most advanced drugs in the world, and most of them are also receiving the most advanced medical conditions in the world. Even patients with very serious diseases can be well cared for in medical institutions such as San Francisco Memorial Hospital.

The family members of the patients also believed that their relatives and friends were well taken care of.

On the surface, Mei Qiwei thinks the same.

Then, based on Yang Rui's judgment, Mei Qiwei did one thing.

He asked the local research company in San Francisco to investigate the use of verapamil in several hospitals, and counted the death figures.

As a result, it was far beyond his expectation.

The mortality of the patients taking the drug was significantly higher than that of the patients not taking the drug. Because it is not a comprehensive survey, and the qualification of the survey company is not enough to distinguish the difference between medical death and normal death, such survey results have no legal and academic significance.

But that's enough for Mei Qiwei to write an article.

Most importantly, through interviewing doctors, Mei Qiwei found an important phenomenon

It is more difficult to rescue the patients who took the drug!

This phenomenon is extremely important because people have finally found a way to distinguish the side effects of the drug.

The reason why it can be put on the market and why it has not been proved to be problematic after millions of people take it is that it does not have an obvious side effect - it is perfectly normal for all people that heart patients die of heart disease. You can't blame drugs for this.

It's like a patient with renal failure who still dies of renal failure after repeated dialysis. At this time, you can't say that dialysis is the cause of death.

However, it is obviously not normal to have more than one heart patient who is difficult to rescue.

If we can unify the cases of these patients, we can highlight the existence of LBD.

Although it still can not be used as judicial and academic evidence - it is the subjective judgment of doctors that it is difficult to rescue, and both judicial and academic need more objective data rather than "Guessing" in tense moments - it is still an important discovery.

In particular, doctors and media people who read the San Francisco Chronicle firmly recorded this phenomenon.

Not everyone has the ability to invite the investigation company. Busy ordinary people can't even find time to interview hundreds of patients and their families.

But if there is such a phenomenon as "difficult to rescue", it will be much easier for us to judge.

It is true that "difficult to rescue" is a subjective assumption, which is limited by the level of the doctor, the condition of the patient, the weather at that time, the preparation of drugs and equipment... If we use data to describe what kind of rescue is difficult to rescue, it is difficult to say clearly.

However, human judgment does not happen only when the data is complete.

According to their different experience, doctors and even patients, even their families, can judge what is difficult to rescue.

The phenomenon of "difficult to rescue" makes Mei Qiwei's article in the San Francisco Chronicle more meaningful.

In fact, it's a hundred times more meaningful.Jingling.

Jingling.

Jingling.

Since noon, the phone calls in the editorial room of the San Francisco Chronicle have never stopped.

Mei Qiwei was a little excited, but he also bowed his head blankly. On his desk, there were readers' feedback from different regions.

"Someone in Sao Paulo reported that his aunt, 60 years old, had unstable heart and was prone to long-term tachycardia. Before, she had seven attacks, and her heart rate returned to normal after one shock. However, 20 hours after she took the drug, she had serious tachycardia again. Moreover, repeated shocks by doctors had no effect, In the end, his aunt died of cardiac arrest An intern answering the phone repeated the phone call he just received with admiration and excitement, and handed Mei Qiwei a handwritten note.

Mei Qiwei pasted this note on the reader's feedback book in front of him. At that time, he would copy all of it and get the complete reader's feedback.

"Hi, it's a sad thing." Mei Qiwei reminds an intern.

"I'm sorry, sir." The intern was stunned, nodded and ran away.

In the twinkling of an eye, another intern came over and said, "I received a phone call from the family members of the patients in red Danube hospital. A 72 year old man, who had been taking verapamil for 19 hours, had an unstoppable tachycardia and died of ineffective electric shock."

Then, an assistant who was temporarily transferred to connect the wires, brought three pieces of paper to meiqiwei and said, "here is a 55 year old man from Oregon who suffered from serious heart damage. After taking the doctor's prescription, he died in the hospital bed two days later. Then there was a 66 year old man in baldimo who took the drug for two months and suffered from cardiac arrest, which the family believed was inconsistent with what the doctor told them. After that, it was Georgia, a native of San Francisco. He took part in the clinical trial of Sanmu company, but he didn't survive. "

Mei Qiwei's heart was pounding. He felt that his heart was going to beat too fast.

Long before interviewing Yang Rui, Mei Qiwei had the feeling of finding big news. After interviewing Yang Rui, this feeling became stronger. However, compared with now, those feelings are not worth mentioning.

Mei Qiwei knew that he had found the big news.

He gently stroked the reader's feedback book with the pulp of his fingers, and the notes rustled. There were always hundreds of them.

"It's just the tip of the iceberg, the tip of the iceberg..." Mei Qiwei said silently. He is very clear about the influence of the San Francisco Chronicle. It is one of the several major newspapers in the United States. In terms of hairstyle, it can rank in the top 20 in the United States. However, its coverage is not very wide, far from being comparable with the New York Times.

Moreover, this is only the first day after the publication of the newspaper. The number of calls from readers after that may be reduced, but the total number must be several times that of today. In addition, there are an unknown number of letters from readers that have not yet arrived.

"I'll write another one." Mei Qiwei felt a strong impulse in his heart. He spread out the paper, took out the interview record of Yang Rui and reread it carefully.

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