On February 26, 2016, 21-year-old Wei Zexi knocked down his experience word by word under the question “What do you think is the biggest ‘evil’ of human nature?
The student from Xi’an University of Electronic Science and Technology unfortunately suffered from metastatic synovial sarcoma and searched for the Second Hospital of the Armed Forces through Baidu medical bidding rankings and received a therapy called DC-CIK. However, after a lot of money was spent, the condition did not improve and Wei Zexi unfortunately passed away.
Later, people learned that the department of the Second Hospital of the Armed Forces was contracted by the Putian system of companies. The Wei Zexi incident came to light, unveiling a corner of the dark side of the tumor treatment field, and those responsible were disciplined. The hospital was reorganized.
Few people noticed that together with the shutdown, there was also the CTC Tumor Biotherapy Center of 307 Hospital, which was the first place in China to carry out tumor cell immunotherapy and had been greatly reported by the domestic media.
Unlike the Second Hospital of the Armed Police, this department was not contracted out, but was opened in cooperation between 307 Hospital and a company called Shanghai Hongyuan. The person who was involved in the preparation of this center was the medical director of Hong Yuan: Dr. Li Fei.
In 2010, Li Fei established a company called North Union Europe and America, and revealed in his business plan that 307 Hospital received 150 patients in the first three months of preparing for the center, and the revenue of a single project.
More than 5 million yuan.
According to Li Fei, he has already cooperated with a number of military hospitals and local tertiary hospitals, and he estimates that if everything goes well for the company, the total scale of future operations will reach.
800 to 1 billion yuan.
DC-CIK is an important project for him to generate revenue.
At the same time, a returned Chinese named Xu Yibing held the hand of the owner of China Win Holdings, and they also decided to carry out tumor cell immunotherapy in China.
But unlike Li Fei, Xu Yibing returned to China this time to bring a new type of treatment to the ship: NK therapy.
NK therapy.
In fact, both DC-CIK and NK therapy are strictly restricted by the Health and Welfare Commission. In foreign countries, this medical technology is generally reviewed by the FDA through phase 123 clinical trials. Its efficacy has also not been verified, and it is a therapy that is still in the exploratory stage of controversy. But in the Chinese market, they seem to have become a tool for profit in the hands of businessmen.
I once asked a Beijing medical oncologist, who has been attracting a lot of attention recently, what is the current status of oncology treatment in China.
The doctor, who had always been brief in answering questions, replied in a somewhat agitated tone.
It is very confusing and eye-opening to me. The low level, irresponsibility and greed were all evident.
Similar words have been said by Prof. Rao Yi before.
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On December 11, 2015, 117 Hospital, located in Hangzhou, grandly established the Center for Regenerative Medicine. According to the introduction, this regenerative medicine center has hired a team of experts from the Society of Translational Medicine of Zhejiang University as its advisory board.
Said to be the advisory board, in fact, the main personnel, is Dr. Xu Yibing.
In 1998, Xu graduated from Beijing Normal University with a degree in biology, and then went to Brigham Young University in the United States to get his PhD in biology.
In 2009, Xu Yibing returned to China and made acquaintance with Sino-Win shares, and the two sides cooperated to establish Sino-Win Ark Bioengineering Company. However, in the first few years of the company’s development, SinoWin Ark mainly targeted entrepreneurs, encouraging them to store their own NK cells and calling it.
Cell Banking.
This is how NK therapy works. You pump out your own immune cells, culture them to increase their number, and then infuse them back.
In order to expand the publicity, they have tried many methods, including publishing papers in well-known domestic journals, media coverage, doing events, and also appeared on CCTV’s “Business Angel” program, but was questioned by the guests, but in the end, it ended.
During the period, Xu Yibing received awards and housing subsidies from the Zhejiang government as an outstanding returned talent.
In 2015, Xu Yibing ushered in a new dawn. They started cooperation with 117 Hospital, and the Center of Regenerative Medicine of 117 Hospital was established. The center’s main role is to market Xu Yibing’s NK therapy to cancer patients.
This miraculous therapy is known as the miracle formula for fighting cancer. 117 Hospital’s deeds were widely reported by various media, and many experts and professors went out of their way to tell their own stories about their experiences in fighting cancer here.
According to the news, in just six months of its establishment, they have received.
more than 2,000 patients.
It is worth noting that the person in charge of the center clearly stated that these 2,000 people are not volunteers recruited for clinical trials, but patients openly accepted to the community.
As I said before, this therapy, which is used to treat a wide range of patients at Hospital 117, is strictly limited by the Health Care Commission.
After the Wei Zexi incident, the regenerative medicine center at Hospital 117 was shut down and renamed the Oncology Treatment Center. Li Fei also wrote off the original Beilian Europe and America and opened a new biological company called Beilian Zhonghe.
In that year, a doctor named Lu Wei was transferred from Zhongshan Hospital to Xinhua Hospital and became the deputy chief physician of general surgery.
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Xiao Qing’s grandfather was admitted to the hospital last May with a cough and was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. The doctor evaluated that the old man’s body could not afford radiotherapy, and surgery did not meet the conditions. The family had no choice but to opt for TCM treatment. Through a special channel, they learned about NK therapy from a friend.
The person who performed NK therapy for Xiao Qing’s grandfather was a military doctor who also took care of him in a small clinic. It was at this small clinic that Xiao Qing’s grandfather underwent NK therapy.
Xiao Qing told me that the NK therapy was 260,000 for one month, with 4 injections per month. Her grandfather died after 3 months of treatment.
The disease did not get any better.
Later, Xiao Qing learned that the doctor turned out to have an online presence.
Advertisements for NK therapy were all over the Internet. From Zhihu to Weibo to Xiaohongshu, as far as she knew, a downline could get up to 40% of the commission if the referral was successful.
Baidu bidding disappeared, but a new Baidu bidding emerged. On Xiaohongshu, after typing in NK therapy, you can see many users come forward to describe to you in a colorful way which relatives, after getting cancer, received NK therapy and have not recurred for many years.
Underneath, there are hundreds of people asking for contact information and treatment plans.
The patient’s WeChat group is an even more precise target for advertising. Even some patients’ family members are involved. Xiao Qing told me that even some family members will advertise in the patient group even though it is not effective, because there is a commission.
Even the empathy of patients’ families is lost in front of money, not to mention those businessmen.
The treatment for Xiao Qing’s grandfather came from none other than Li Fei’s Beilian NK.
Just half a month before Wei Zexi’s death, the Biotherapy Center of Beihwa University Hospital was established. This is a cooperative project between Li Fei and Beihua University. And there was an additional halo on Li Fei: the
Visiting professor of Beihua University.
After the death of Wei Zexi. Li Fei wrote off the original Beilian company and set up a new company. The old way of working with military hospitals was no longer working, and Li Fei started a new model.
He registered several companies, among which were many Chinese medicine clinics.
Li Fei’s NK therapy is mainly conducted in Beijing and Shanghai. In terms of publicity, NK is no longer a miracle formula for cancer alone, but a miracle cure for all diseases. From impotence and premature ejaculation to premature ovarian failure, all of them can be cured.
Some of Li Fei’s many identities are true some are outrageously false. For example, he even claimed to have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and from time to time, several Chinese people who have won the Nobel Prize are called together for meetings.
To be honest, after adding Li Fei WeChat, I have been holding a question in my heart.
Do you often play mahjong with Mo Yan, Tu Youyou, Yang Zhenning?
The 301 General Hospital is the biggest addition to Li Fei.
He once claimed to be a doctor from 301 Hospital under an academician. I checked, a 2003 paper shows that the author Li Fei and the academician Chen Xiangmei are from the same hospital’s nephrology department.
In the midst of the Wei Zexi incident, Dr. Lu from the Department of Hematology at 301 Hospital even rushed to Beihua University to stand up for Li Fei.
In addition, in Li Fei’s complicated shareholding structure, a number of clinics can be seen. Of course, two of Li Fei’s strangest companies are 301 Doctors Group and Shoda Doctors Group.
Among them, the 301 doctors group as many as a dozen natural shareholders, and only hold shares of the company.
Eight months after the death of my grandfather, Xiao Qing told me that she knew at the time that there was little hope for this therapy, but as a patient’s family.
As long as there is a little, I want him to try.
This little bit of hope was magnified by some people into a huge benefit.
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When Li Fei’s business was in full swing, Xu Yibing also quit Sino-Win and set up his own company called Shanghai Jia Kang. At an alumni gathering at Zhejiang University, Xu Yibing met Lu Wei, who was the deputy chief physician of general surgery at Xinhua Hospital.
At Xu Yibing’s invitation, Lu Wei joined Shanghai Jiakang and appeared as a supervisor. According to Dr. Ding Xiang’s report, in June last year, Mr. Ma’s family, a Qinghai patient, found Lu Wei and, on his recommendation, received NK therapy provided by Shanghai Jiakang.
After this poor family received 30,000 a shot, the patient’s condition continued to deteriorate. When the family realized that something was wrong, they found Dr. Zhang Yu again, but it was too late.
An angry Dr. Zhang Yu repeatedly denounced Lu Wei by name on Zhihu. He then wrote a 10,000-word article denouncing his treatment, not only for recommending treatments indiscriminately, but also for making mistakes in medication, which finally sparked public opinion.
Afterwards, Lu Wei responded that NK therapy was not recommended by him, but by a pancreatic cancer patient in the same ward who had received NK therapy from Xu Yibing and was recommended to Ma Jinchang’s family.
He himself did not know about becoming a supervisor of Xu Yibing’s company, but only personally transferred 20,000 yuan to Xu Yibing.
20,000 yuan of things can be so careless, your bag uncle lent me 5 yuan the year before last now remember.
He also took out a letter of thanks from the family. This letter is not written to Lu Wei, but to the leadership of Xinhua Hospital. The letter said.
He said we met the most amiable doctor and Xinhua Hospital is a very good hospital. We will recommend our friends to come to Xinhua Hospital.
The letter was dated April 9. The person who wrote the letter is the nephew of Ma Jincang, his mother, who is also receiving treatment here in Lu Wei. He claimed to be the family member who had been caring for his uncle the longest.
I read that just before this letter was sent, on April 2, Ma Jincang’s daughter, however, commented under Zhang Yu’s Zhihu.
Thousands of miles to seek medical help from Dr. Lu, so indifferent when all our money was spent.
On Lu Wei’s pulse, there is only one comment from a close friend that reads.
“The doctor is a parent’s heart, the intention is noble party for people.”
Lu Wei’s treatment therapy, which has yet to be officially and medically investigated and discussed, is also said to have some patients who did get a little better under his treatment. But it’s still a bit wrong for a doctor to recommend a patient to an out-of-hospital commercial company that is not even qualified to treat them.
I’ve looked through Lu Wei’s account, and in addition to the normal science, he often recommends biological and immunological therapies to his patients.
To be honest, Lu Wei’s fees are relatively conscientious. After Dr. Zhang Yu’s article was published, I inquired about the price and was told by a salesperson from a company claiming to be able to do NK therapy at Shanghai Changhai Hospital that
NK therapy, 350,000 a time.
This is exactly what I was concerned about.
Lu Wei, as a doctor at Xinhua Hospital, has an obvious interest in Shanghai Jia Kang, and there seems to be a transfer of interest between Shanghai Domu and the doctors at Changhai Hospital. It is because of the trust people have in their doctors that they are channeled to these out-of-hospital medical institutions.
However, it is worth putting a question mark on whether such doctor recommendations with obvious interests can be trusted enough by patients.
This chain of interest, which has not been fully exposed, is a well known secret in the hospital. That oncologist friend told me that he had heard of doctors buying patients from primary hospitals. Oncologists in other hospitals have also told me similar situations.
One patient, 1000~5000 agency fee.
The progress of human science requires persistent innovation. We don’t reject new therapies, but we should avoid these new innovative therapies from being rubbished or even over-exploited by interest organizations.
A physician concerned about this matter told me that breakthroughs in conventional therapies and systematic regulation should be promoted simultaneously:.
Let there be room for scientific exploration, and let ignorance and abuse have no place to hide.
The following comments were collected from the Internet by the editors of China Digital Times.
Hai**: read the sales article in leisure, long make hero tears full of lapel!
I just hate that there is no sharp sword in the hands, cut all over the world heartless people!
Zhang**: are the tools of the master to collect money
K**: Uncle Bao hometown, my father had liver cancer in 15 years, in the provincial hospital, was recommended to do minimally invasive surgery plus conservative treatment, recommended a drug, about 150,000 per month, and concluded that this is the best program and the best results – after the adoption can live another 3-5 years. I was so happy that I didn’t believe in the authority at that time, but I was also afraid that the best hospital in a province is still like this, so what about other hospitals, will there be or more doctors without medical ethics? I always think that the doctor is kind, some doctors do not deserve the white coat.
a**: When my aunt had advanced stomach cancer, the best cancer hospital in the province operated, and a piece of gauze actually remained in her body during the process, and this piece of gauze brought endless pain to her last time of life! When we asked the doctor about it after the review, they said that it was intentionally left to prevent infection after the surgery, which really showed me the evil of human nature. Experienced so many life and death separation, to know more about how important health!
M**: Everyone has the day to grow old
Everyone has a day to fall ill
If even here are only benefits
would be too horrible ……
Liu**: at 302, when my father was hospitalized in May 2016, not Wei Zexi, we almost fell for this. Unfortunately, there are still many people, did not avoid this pit …… scammers are still ……
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