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  Chapter 550 The rich man in America doesn't want to die

  As the top hospital in the United States for gastroenterology, Sid-Sinai Medical Center receives thousands of patients every year.

  It’s similar to Mayo’s. Those who can come to this top hospital are either rich or expensive. Ordinary Americans have no chance, unless your hospital with a special disease is willing to give you the green light, and the insurance company will not embarrass you.

   Otherwise, the family will go bankrupt, and returning to poverty due to illness is not unique to a certain country.

  Professor Bradrick now has such a wealthy patient in his hands, which is very troublesome.

  Los Angeles is the headquarter of Hollywood in the United States, and some of the world's top film and television companies, among which the six are famous.

  Rupert, the boss of Fox Entertainment, is one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood, the so-called man at the top of the food chain in the film and television industry.

  Fox has produced the famous "Titanic" and "Avatar" and other movies (later), with a market value of billions of dollars, an absolute behemoth.

   But the entertainment company is only one of Rupert's industries. He also owns cable TV networks, TV stations, newspapers and magazines, and his family is one of the six largest financial groups in the United States.

  But now the boss, who is worth tens of billions of dollars, is lying on a hospital bed dying, skinny, and his exposed head looks like a skull.

  White fat emulsion injection is slowly dripping into this old man with only a skeleton left, maintaining his life.

   Various state-of-the-art instruments in the ward have been monitoring the vital signs of the Hollywood bigwig, and beeping alarms from time to time.

   "Mr. Rupert, this is a new inspection report. The FⅧ activity in your plasma is still <1%. This situation is not suitable for surgery at all."

  Professor Bradrick stood by the bed, explaining patiently.

  The old man on the hospital bed became extremely irritable when he heard the news:

"Fack, after spending so much money, why can't my coagulation factor go up? When will I be able to have surgery? You think I don't know? If I don't have surgery, I'm afraid I won't live until Christmas next year. Is this what some people want to see?"

  Because it is already Christmas, the hospital is full of Jinglebells, Jinglebells, Jingle all the way singing, even in the ward.

  Patients who are seriously ill are often very extreme in their thoughts and suspicious, especially for such top rich people, there is always an illusion that they are trying to murder me.

"No, no, Mr. Rupert, you also know that you are born with hemophilia, don't you forget that last time you had a tooth decay removed, the blood couldn't stop, and you had to be sent to the intensive care unit Is something wrong?"

  Hemophilia is a type of disease that causes hemorrhage or non-healing hemostasis due to the lack of a certain coagulation factor, which leads to coagulation dysfunction.

  Most are caused by genetics, but also acquired, such as drugs.

  Coagulation factors are a group of important proteins in the human body. When a blood vessel ruptures, they work together with platelets to promote blood coagulation and repair the loopholes in the blood vessel, thereby achieving hemostasis.

  Due to the lack of corresponding coagulation factors in the body of hemophiliacs, it is difficult to stop the bleeding within a short time after the blood vessel ruptures, so even a slight trauma can cause massive bleeding.

   Spontaneous bleeding can occur even in the absence of trauma, causing life-threatening.

   And the most deceitful thing is that this disease is passed on from male to female.

  Because the **** chromosomes are XY for males and XX for females. The causative gene for hemophilia exists in the X, and women must have problems with both X chromosomes to develop the disease, but because men only have one X chromosome, once inherited, the disease is 100%.

  The most famous hemophilia patient is Queen Victoria of Great Britain in the 19th century.

  The old lady gave birth to a large number of children, and then the children married with major European royal families. As a result, most of the offspring born were born with "hemophilia".

  These aristocrats usually dare not bump into each other, so they are also called "Princes of Glass".

  So hemophilia has another nickname, called "noble disease".

  In the 1980s when genetically recombinant FVIII preparations or virus-inactivated blood-derived FVIII preparations had not yet been invented, hemophilia was an unsolved disease.

  Unfortunately, the Hollywood tycoon on the hospital bed suffers from this kind of hemophilia, which is prone to profuse bleeding, and it is still in the advanced stage and severe.

   What's more unfortunate is that this boss just suffered from "achalasia".

  As the condition worsened, the cardia was completely closed, and Rupert couldn’t eat normally. People would starve to death if they couldn’t eat.

  For hospitals in the United States, achalasia is not a terminal illness, and it can still be treated by surgery.

  Although the curative effect of surgery is uncertain and there are a lot of side effects, but people are dying now, and they can’t control so much. Let’s remove the obstruction caused by the closure of the cardia first.

  It's a pity that this Hollywood bigwig has no way to perform surgery because of severe hemophilia.

  Because the stomach is inside the thoracic cavity, for gastric surgery, the skin must be cut first, then the ribs must be amputated, the sternum opened, and the stomach shall be cut. No matter which step in the process, it will kill this boss.

  The biggest problem is the bleeding. It’s okay to have a small wound. This kind of invasive major surgery has only one ending, and it must die on the operating table.

  If Rupert is poor and powerless, from the perspective of medical experiments, doctors may dare to try surgery on the premise of preparing all blood products.

  Anyway, poor people die when they die.

   But if he survives, it will greatly improve the doctor's personal reputation.

   But the scrawny old man in front of him is the boss of a top Hollywood film and television company, with extraordinary energy, so he is not so easy to mess with.

  So for the attending doctor, it is better to adopt the most conservative treatment than to take any little risk, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.

  When the rich die, they die. Anyway, it’s not their doctors who die.

  People are free and the United States is shot every day, and the doctor doesn't want to be shot secretly when he is walking on the road.

   Don't doubt the bottom line of the rich. For the rich and powerful, the bottom line is used to break.

  Professor Bradrick was sprayed by the old man on the hospital bed, and he didn't dare to show his displeasure at all. Instead, he could only continue to explain patiently.

   What else can I do without an explanation? The big dogs give too much, so much that they can sell their self-esteem.

"Mr. Rupert, don't worry, now I have contacted many experts in hematology and gastroenterology, and I have even contacted Mr. Grace, the president of the International Society of Gastroenterology, and asked him to help contact the whole country. The world's most authoritative gastroenterologist, let's think of a way together."

  The boss is lying on the hospital bed in despair.

   All he can think about is when he is healthy, Xiangche's beautiful world, and the red sofa in his office, on which almost all the beauties in Hollywood have "tested".

  What a beautiful life that was, but when I got old, I got such a strange disease.

   Yes, for Rupert, this is a strange disease.

  You said that he got stomach cancer directly, but he also gave up, but it was because of a problem with the muscles in his stomach.

   Such a "small problem" actually made his life worse than death, which made the boss very unwilling, because it is obviously a curable disease.

  In the end, because of his ancestral hemophilia, he couldn't have surgery, and he suffered both physical and mental pain every day, which was unspeakable.

   To use Zhao Benshan's words to describe: The money is still there, but the people are gone. This is really a death.

"Bradrick, you can help me contact the most famous doctor in the world, and you can even say that as long as anyone can cure my illness, I will definitely not be stingy, and I will guarantee that they will get an unexpected fortune. "

   "I will definitely convey it to you."

  The rich people all over the world are virtuous, and they like to throw money at people at every turn.

  If Chen Qi was at the scene, he would definitely shout: Old man, don’t be soft-hearted, just throw money at me.

   Coming out of the ward, Professor Bradrick let out a long breath, but he was also worried.

  The top doctors in the United States want rich people to sponsor their projects and earn private wealth. They need all kinds of bosses or fathers to support them.

  This requires doctors to have superb medical technology and clinical level, and to be able to treat diseases that others cannot.

   Rupert is a world-renowned top rich man, how many people are watching.

  If he doesn't cure Rupert's disease, his personal reputation will be greatly damaged, and next time those rich people may not choose him as the attending doctor.

  Now he hopes that his international counterparts can help solve such a troublesome case, and don't let the blame lie in his own hands.

  Professor Bradrick had just returned to the office, and there was a large pile of letters on the table, which his assistant had just brought for him.

  Drinking coffee, Bradrick read these letters one by one to see if there was a sender he was interested in, and he could check them first.

  Suddenly, a letter from Hua Guo caught his attention.

   "Hey, what is this, such a big one."

  Because this is said to be a letter, it is more like a package, wrapped in thick brown paper, and there is obviously something inside.

Professor Bradrick put on his glasses and took a closer look, and found that it was Wei Zhongzhang from Huaguo. This was a foreign student he had taken a few years ago, and he was deeply impressed by his ability to endure hardships in his studies. .

  Professor Bradrick likes this student very much, but it is a pity that this student finally decided to go back to serve the motherland. He is a very pure person.

  The two kept in touch by letter from time to time, and Professor Bradrick was also willing to communicate with him the latest international medical developments, and sometimes he would send some materials and journals to the student.

  With a question mark on his head, Professor Bradrick took a paper knife and opened the kraft paper package, and found two video tapes and a letter inside.

  Professor Bradrick opened the letter and read it, his eyes widened as he looked at it, and he kept murmuring:

   "ohmygod, ohmygod, how is this possible?"

  Suddenly, Professor Bradrick suddenly looked up and saw a TV and VCR in the corner of the office. He stood up excitedly and ran over, knocking over the chair because of his excitement.

  The loud noise in the professor's office immediately attracted the attention of the people in the big office outside.

   Several assistants and little doctors hurriedly opened the door and came in: "Mr. Professor, what happened?"

  Professor Bradrick is stuffing the tape into the video camera with trembling hands,

"It's just in time for you to come, everyone, come in quickly, I have two video tapes here, it is the use of endoscopic surgery to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease and achalasia, let's take a look, are these true or false? "

   "what?"

  The doctors who broke in were also stunned. They felt that this was like the Arabian Nights. This kind of endoscopic surgery could not even be performed by a top hospital in the United States. Can a doctor from Huaguo do it?

  Hua Guo, do you have endoscopy equipment?

  But now that the video tapes have been sent, the facts are in front of us. The doctor is quite qualified, at least he didn’t immediately talk about it.

  So a large group of doctors gathered around the TV.

   Then when watching the video, everyone has the same expression on their faces, that is, their mouths are wide open, their eyes are wide open, and they look like they have seen a ghost.

   "ohmygod, ohmygod!!"

   "Wow, it is possible to do this surgery?"

   "My God, how did the chief surgeon think of making a tunnel in the wall of the esophagus leading to the cardia?"

   "Look, this fundoplication is different from traditional surgical methods. This is a genius invention."

  After the two videos were played, these American doctors all looked at me and I looked at you, and they all saw surprise and joy in each other's eyes.

  Why is there joy? Because if these two videotapes are real, there will undoubtedly be two more new techniques in the world, which can solve countless people's ailments.

   "Play it again, I want to watch it again."

  Professor Bradrick is particularly concerned about the endoscopic surgery for achalasia, because endoscopic surgery is characterized by less trauma, less bleeding, and faster recovery.

  Then it is definitely a major mistake for the Hollywood bigwig on the hospital bed. In Huaguo dialect, it would be someone giving a pillow when he was dozing off.

  But as a top doctor, Professor Bradrick still has his own concerns:

   "Hey, ladies and gentlemen, do you think the endoscopic surgery on this Huaguo video tape is highly credible? I'm sorry for not being racist, but these two operations really surprised me."

  Daniel is also a senior gastrointestinal surgeon. As an assistant to Professor Bradrick, he still has a certain right to speak:

"Professor, the shooting technique of this video is very poor. You can see that the tools in this operation are all models that we have eliminated. I think this is in line with the backward conditions of Huaguo, but I don't think the operation process should be Fake, no obvious cut marks."

  At this time, another assistant, Francis, shouted:

   "Maybe we can go to Huaguo to see for ourselves?"

"this is a good idea."

   "I agree, I will go too!"

  For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the office. The main concern of everyone was that they were delighted to see the new technology, and they couldn’t wait to see it. In addition, there was a small part of their thoughts, I am afraid that they wanted to take the opportunity to travel with public funds in Huaguo.

  Professor Bradrick is not a hesitant person, as if he has made a decision:

   "OK, let's go to Huaguo to see, if this video is true, it may help me a lot."

  (end of this chapter)