Chapter 19 2. Big fraud by quacks

Chen, a young peasant woman from the Wuzhuang Fine Breeding Farm in Zaoyang City, Hubei Province and the mother of two children, died at the hands of quack doctors just with a little irregular menstruation. One day, a man named Zhang Huayue, who claimed to be a well-known doctor from his ancestors, came to Chen's house and said that he had come specially to treat her irregular menstruation, and said: "Chen's life is suffering, and he has an incurable disease, so I have to treat it. "Chen was very grateful and entertained him warmly. After the meal, the quack doctor pretended to inquire about his condition and examined Chen, and then said: "I will prescribe three Chinese medicines for you, with the musk I brought, and it only costs 60 yuan." "The first medicine he prescribed had vomiting and diarrhea that night, accompanied by hematuria the next morning, but the "doctor" said: "vomiting, diarrhea and hematuria are normal phenomena, and there is no need to go to the hospital." Two days later, Chen was highly comatose, His blood pressure dropped and he became incontinent. He was sent to the Municipal First People's Hospital and died.According to the inspection by the Drug Control Institute, the mylabris in the medicine taken is a crude drug and has not been processed; the musk is a counterfeit medicine.Chen died of poisoning because of taking raw mylabris and false musk.After investigation by the public security department, it turned out that the "doctor" was not a famous family doctor. He was a farmer in Juwan Town, this city.

The "Health Daily" reported on November 5, 1991: Yan Pincui, a patient in Wuhan, had no children after eight years of marriage.Wei used the so-called secret recipe "Babaonvjin Pills" to treat twice but failed, but he charged tens of yuan each time. Next time, I will ask Guanyin Bodhisattva to help you give me a son." But after taking this medicine for only three times, the patient developed symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, and was rushed to a city hospital and died.According to the investigation by the Health Bureau of Suizhou City, Hubei Province, the patient's death was believed to be related to the medicine dispensed by Wei Youhe.

At around 11 am on March 29, 1998, Gu Xiaoping, a farmer from Shizhen Village, Shangjia Township, Leiyang City, who was working part-time in Guangzhou, returned home by train and told his father that he was beaten at Leiyang Station and felt unwell. Comfortable.His father took him to the "Li's Herbal Medicine Shop" privately opened by Li Yunzhu, a retired worker in the city, to see a doctor.After the diagnosis, Li Yunzhu prescribed three herbal medicines, and added another three herbal medicines named "Line", and said to Gu Xiaoping: "This medicine is very effective in healing wounds, so you can take it." So Gu Xiaoping took half of it. "Mine", returned home after a short break.At about 3:00 p.m., Gu Xiaoping became ill. His father hurriedly took him to the Second People's Hospital of Leiyang City for emergency treatment, but the rescue failed and he died at 4:30 p.m.The so-called "landmine" tested by the Hunan Provincial Institute of Drug Control was actually "a sprig of Artemisia on the Snow", which is a highly toxic drug, and taking 70 mg is the extreme amount.Later, the Leiyang City Public Security Bureau and the Hengyang City Public Security Bureau forensic examination conducted an autopsy on the autopsy, and it was determined that the death was caused by taking the traditional Chinese medicine "Xue Shang Yi Zhi Artemisia" and aconitum poisoning.

Li Yunzhu opened a herbal medicine shop to diagnose and prescribe medicines for others without obtaining a doctor's qualification or a medical institution's license, resulting in the serious consequences of poisoning and death of the patient. His behavior has constituted the crime of illegal medical practice, Leiyang City The People's Court sentenced Li Yunzhu to 10 years in prison and a fine of 2,000 yuan. Traveling medicine dealers, commonly known as quack doctors, belong to the "skin" industry according to the classification of the "jianghu" industry.Since selling medicine is more convenient than simply begging for money, and easier than juggling and practicing tricks, if there are still people who run the world, then their core team is quack doctors. ranks, or simply use juggling as a means of attracting an audience.There are many tricks among quacks, but they remain the same, which is to promote their "secret recipes handed down from the ancestors" and "peerless miracles".

Many people are familiar with such a scene: In a crowded place in a certain market town, a quack doctor held a dagger in his mouth, rolled up his sleeves, and made a "hard" cut on the back of his hand with the dagger. "Blood" came out, and then he made a horizontal cut, which made people dumbfounded. At this time, he threw down the dagger, put a piece of black plaster on it, uncovered it in less than 10 minutes, wiped it with a handkerchief, and let the audience take a look. Bleeding, even the wound disappeared, it is worthy of special effect "God ointment", but many people bought back a stack at a price of 10 yuan, but none of them could stop the bleeding.The author did not understand it before, but after interviewing an old Jianghu who had withdrawn from the arena, I found out that when they performed, they first smeared turmeric powder on the back of their hands, rubbed lye on the dagger, and cut the back of the hand with the dagger. The turmeric powder undergoes a chemical reaction to produce a red foam that looks like blood.

The old Jianghu also told the author another secret of the tricks of the rivers and lakes: In a certain mountain village, a doctor who picked out Euglena came. He said that red eyes, trachoma, rotten eyes, and nebulous eyes are caused by Euglena, and he did not dig out the Euglena. for free.I saw him put an "ancestral hookworm pill" into the patient's eyelid, and after a while, he dug out strips of white worms from the eyelid with a thin bamboo stick, soaked them in water, and they came alive.Anyone with a little medical knowledge knows that this is nonsense.The secret is this "ancestral hookworm pill", which is a small worm caught from a willow tree and dried to make a pill, which is put into the patient's eyes and soaked by tears, just like a small worm.There are also those who pick toothworms, and they use the same method.

Now I go to the countryside, but I seldom come across such quacks who pat their breasts and sell dog skin plasters in the street.It's not that they all quit the arena, but that they have transformed into "experts" in the hospital. In a provincial hospital in a certain city, the "experts" sitting in the hall to practice medicine are such a group of quack doctors.The "miracle medicines" they use to treat patients are all counterfeit medicines.These "experts" set up a "pharmaceutical factory" in a nearby private house. There are several sacks of hollow capsules in the factory. They charge 50 yuan for a bottle of 12 "powerful capsules" that are actually made of crushed Vitamins and diazepam; "Guangspect Wanaikang", which sells for 39 yuan per packet, has the words "International Gold Award for Medical and Health Products" on the outer packaging, and its main ingredient is starch!

In the past, quack doctors lived in no fixed place and wandered around.When they saw a crowded place, they stopped, took off their shirts, slapped their chests, first performed a few sets of tricks or martial arts, and recruited people, then spitting and selling their "ancestral secret recipe".In the past, this trick could fool a few country people, but now even the old men and women in the country don't buy it.After all, quack doctors are well-informed. Since people are not interested in the secret recipes handed down from their ancestors, and now they only believe in science, they put on white coats one after another (in order to increase people's trust, they can also wear a military uniform inside the white coats) , suddenly changed, walked into those large and small hospitals in the city, became "experts", "professors", and "old military doctors", and their business was no longer just selling dog skin plasters, but "introducing advanced technology from the world", They specialize in cancer, AIDS, hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases...the more intractable diseases they are able to cure, and the more cutting-edge technology they are, the more skilled they are!

Strolling through the streets of Zhengzhou, you can see advertisements such as "Medical skills are excellent, welcome to see a doctor" everywhere, no matter near the station, hotel, store, or on the tree trunks on both sides of the road, on the poles, or even at the door of some government agencies.Correspondingly, clinics of Chinese and Western medicine, large and small, are scattered all over the streets and alleys.There were more than 3,000 individual clinics in Zhengzhou at its peak.A considerable part of them are the former traveling doctors who were sitting in the hall for consultation.Of course, the consequence of the proliferation of visiting doctors is that patients suffer.

Some staff hospitals, military hospitals and street health centers in Changsha advertised extensively in the name of hiring "specialist doctors" to open so-called "specialty clinics" such as dermatology and rhinitis departments.The Changsha Municipal Health Bureau organized personnel to conduct a large-scale inspection of these hospitals.The results are unbelievable. Most of these "specialists" who sneaked into the hospital are those ignorant scammers.Those who treat skin diseases basically come from Putian County, Fujian Province, and those who treat rhinitis mostly come from Guiping County, Guangxi.Except for one of them who holds a rural doctor's license in Guiping, Guangxi, the rest have no qualifications to practice medicine, nor have they received any professional training.These people first set up stalls at stations, docks, and streets to cheat, and then rented rooms in hotels and posted advertisements on the streets to trick patients into seeking medical treatment.Relevant departments severely cracked down on this, and they forged many kinds of diplomas and certificates, taking advantage of the management chaos in some worker hospitals, military hospitals and street health centers, and transformed themselves into so-called specialist doctors.Because of the cover of this legal cloak, and the diseases that these traveling doctors boasted that they could cure were all difficult and miscellaneous diseases, many patients were deceived, and many patients even traveled thousands of miles to seek treatment. These traveling doctors took the opportunity Big money.The disease was not cured, and even got worse as the disease was cured, but a lot of money went into their pockets.In order to gain the trust of patients, they often violate medical regulations and abuse some drugs that have good short-term curative effect but have serious side effects, so that patients are kept in the dark again and again.

Jianghu doctors are best at making fake medicines to deceive people, and after becoming an "expert", they have brought this housekeeping skill to the fullest.According to investigations by relevant departments, the "secret recipes" of Chinese medicine prepared by some individual doctors are mostly crushed western medicine into powder, added to traditional Chinese medicine to make ointment, and kneaded into pills to deceive people.Some "secret recipes" for epilepsy added western medicine phenytoin; some "secret recipes" for treating bronchitis added western medicine aminophylline; of corticosteroids.Some drugs, some of which have long been eliminated by the health department, have been banned or restricted in regular hospitals, but individual practitioners have prepared them at will and used them on patients.There is a so-called "famous doctor" in a certain county who specializes in the treatment of esophageal cancer. His "secret prescription" is to treat patients with mercury and white horse urine.Whenever a patient with esophageal cancer came to seek medical treatment, he would let the patient drink mercury and white horse urine on the spot. After taking mercury, the patient with esophageal cancer could eat immediately after returning home, thinking that his condition had improved. corroded by mercury. A large number of quack doctors who have neither medical foundation nor treatment experience put on white coats to practice treatment in a grand manner, and the danger is self-evident. At the beginning of 1999, many news media in China released a piece of news in a prominent position: the lair of wandering doctors who have been cheating and doing evil for the past 20 years has been found. This is Putian City, Fujian Province. There are as many as 68,000 "old military doctors".According to incomplete statistics, they defraud more than 2 billion yuan every year. Among them, there are more than 30 "veteran military doctors" whose family assets exceed 100 million yuan, and many of them have more than 10 million yuan. According to the survey, around 1979, Zhan Guoliang, who was over half a century old at the time and worked in the Putian Skin Disease Hospital, was the first to "go to sea". venereal old medic" ad.By the mid-1980s, when people were still envious of ten thousand yuan households, the money in his pocket was already close to one million yuan.Zhan Guoliang, who returned home in good clothes, built a modern building in his hometown.It turned out that the Xiuyu people who had been farming for generations and were still quite poor, their dead hearts were activated at once, and they followed Zhan Guoliang's example and became "old military doctors".In the past 20 years of development, Putian Youyi has experienced three stages of development: consulting on his own, cooperating with hospitals, and being the backstage boss.After completing the original accumulation of capital, Putian Youyi, as an investor, entered into a joint venture with a national formal medical institution, thus putting on a seemingly legal cloak.At present, they have entered thousands of urban hospitals above the county level, controlling 90% of the "STD" clinics across the country.According to insiders, the "old military doctor" makes money by bluffing people, deceiving people, and killing people.Most of these people are farmers, but they have a good way of deceiving people: as soon as the patient enters the door, they say they are sick when they are not sick, and they say they are seriously ill when they have a minor illness. According to the "West China Metropolis Daily" report, Zhang Xingwu, a Putian travel doctor discovered by his conscience, fought back and disclosed the shady scene of their deception to Ye Guang, the anti-counterfeiting hero.According to him, traveling doctors in Putian first appeared in 1987. At that time, a small number of people began to rent rooms in hotels, restaurants, and busy streets all over the country to set up mobile clinics, usually for skin diseases, gynecological diseases, body odor, and rhinitis.After entering the 1990s, most of these wandering doctors became very rich, so Putian people began to "advocate" the profession of getting rich as wandering doctors.One person opens the clinic, and all those who are relatives or relatives are brought out, forming a huge team of traveling doctors with ten, ten, hundreds, and hundreds of thousands, distributed all over the country.There is a township in Putian with a total population of more than 7,000 people, and more than 2,000 people are engaged in traveling medicine, mainly men aged 16 to 50. The peak period of economic income for traveling medical teams was from 1993 to 1996. Some people with only elementary school education or even illiterate "struggled" during this period, and some became millionaires or tens of millions.There is even a habit formed in the hometown of Youyi. When a woman wants to get married or find a partner, she first needs to see if the other party is selling "dogskin plaster" (Youyi) outside. If not, she will be discriminated against. With the sharp increase in the number of visiting doctors and their own needs, professional households for "documentation" and professional households for drug supply have gradually been separated among these people.Regardless of your education level, as long as you pay a fee of about 200 yuan, you can get the "License for Medical Practice", "Technical Title Certificate", "Health Professional Technical Employment Certificate" as you like. Obtain a professional "honorary certificate".The drug supply profession lists a detailed list of various "imported" drugs (the banned "Zhenbizhi" is their first choice drug), you just need to make a phone call, and the drug supplier will deliver it to you immediately . Driven by high profits, traveling doctors began to attack the "fortress" - health departments at all levels in a planned way.They are no longer satisfied with making small troubles, but direct their attacks at health administrative departments, hospitals, and cadre rest centers.Those with economic strength apply to the Health Bureau to set up hospitals and outpatient departments.At the beginning, I generally contracted specialist clinics in my own name in various hospitals and dry rest centers, mainly including dermatology, venereal disease (male urology), gynecology, rheumatism, rhinitis, body odor, hepatitis, deafness, and even bolder contracted cancer specialists. .Most of their medicines are purchased and prepared by themselves. Why do traveling doctors gain a foothold in some places?In the 1990s, it was common to rely on counterfeit drugs and drug briefs to talk to unit leaders.When some leaders expressed that they needed to be considered, Youyi took the opportunity to give them some "little things".After the leaders have tasted the sweetness, their attitudes have changed, and you doctor can frankly say that they can tip these leaders ranging from 600 to 1,000 yuan per month.If a hospital said it wanted to report to the Health Bureau, the traveling doctors immediately negotiated with the Director of the Health Bureau and the Chief of the Medical Administration Section, and launched a fierce attack by various means.The so-called "attack" is of course an economic means, such as how much money is paid each month or mobile phones and furniture.When the green light is opened in the local area, the traveling doctors are even more arrogant. Some people can open several clinics or contract several hospitals in one jurisdiction.There is a saying among Putian doctors in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places: put rat poison (money) in their homes, and they will be finished (obediently listen to others).Among traveling doctors in Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, there is a popular saying that "soldiers and horses are not moved, food and grass go first".Due to this special deal between the traveling doctors and the hospital, the traveling doctors unscrupulously use the hospital's brand, office space, and medical equipment to cheat, and the hospital will take responsibility for any accident, even if it is caused by a misdiagnosis. Disabling or even fatal accidents, as long as the traveling doctor pays some money, the hospital will often resolve them.There are 40 to 50 kinds of medicines used by traveling doctors to see a doctor, such as skin diseases, all of which are common medicines. Western medicine tablets include chlorpheniramine, various vitamins, tetracycline, oxytetracycline, chloramphenicol, norfloxacin, etc.The treatment options of traveling doctors include external application, oral administration, and injection. For various inflammations and eczema (allergic), they use calamine, zinc oxide, camphor, borneol, glycerin and boiled water or rhubarb infused wine to make medicine Water, ointment, remove the boiled water or wine, add a small amount of Qingdai, sublimated sulfur, and use vaseline to make ointment for external use.Oral drugs are mainly chlorpheniramine, vitamins, prednisone and so on.Injections are mainly chloramphenicol, dexamethasone and other injections.In addition, ask the patient if he is willing to receive an injection, and if he agrees, use "triamcinolone".This kind of medicine is the most widely used by traveling doctors, such as rhinitis, rheumatoid arthritis, skin diseases and so on. Traveling doctors mostly use self-made aliases when writing prescriptions. One is to keep "commercial secrets" each other, the other is to deceive patients, and the third is to facilitate selling at high prices.For example, Kangning Ketong, 707 injections, anti-allergic drugs and other drugs, some of which cost only six or seven yuan, but the cost of using them on patients ranges from 80 to 180 yuan.Not to mention external medicine, the cost is less than 2 yuan, and the price is set according to the patient's economic situation, and the high one can reach about 200 yuan.In order to avoid inspection, special treatment has also been done on the prescription price. For example, A, B, and C represent 1, 2, and 3 respectively, and BDAC represents 2413 yuan. Exposing the shady scene and seeing his deceit can't help but make us shudder.Charlatans on the streets are easy to identify, but quack doctors hidden in regular hospitals are hard for us to guard against.A small number of hospitals are mercenary, only caring about their own economic benefits, regardless of the life and death of patients.They contract outpatient clinics and departments to individuals, social homeless and quack doctors, and the hospital only charges contract fees and management fees.Many patients took this as a regular department of the hospital and were deceived.No wonder some traveling doctors also said: "If we say that we deceive people, we can be killed, but those who let us deceive people can be killed even more!" Fortunately, anti-counterfeiting heroes such as Wang Hai and Ye Guang successively challenged Putian Youyi, and gradually uncovered the cover of Putian Youyi cheating and defrauding people. The health administrative departments in various places have also begun to suppress it.Not long ago, Zhang Jing, a policeman in Hengyang, claimed 274,000 yuan from him because his feet were treated as disabled by Putian doctors. This undoubtedly sounded the death knell for these Putian doctors who had cheated China for 20 years. According to a report in Sanxiang Metropolis Daily on April 8, 1999, a few years ago, Zhang Jing developed common warts (commonly known as yuding) on ​​his left toe, and later developed into several, which brought great difficulties to his work and life. A lot of inconvenience came. On August 1, 1998, he came to the Skin and Venereal Disease Prevention Center of Hengyang City Health and Epidemic Prevention Station for consultation.He was received by a doctor named Yu Liangxin.Dr. Yu immediately said that he could be cured completely: "We use microwave therapy here, which has strong penetrating power, wide range of damage, complete radical cure, and no recurrence." Hearing what Dr. Yu said, Zhang Jing paid the money and prepared to treat the disease. receive treatment. After entering the treatment room, a young nurse put anesthesia on his left toe. Dr. Yu adjusted the output power of the microwave to 50W and began to operate on him.The operation took over an hour.After the operation, Dr. Yu said to him: "After the operation, you can swim and wait until the skin in the affected area falls off by itself." Unexpectedly, the next day, the left toe treated with microwaves became red, swollen, blistered, and yellow water began to flow.Zhang Jing came to see Dr. Yu again, and Yu said, "It's okay, the wound doesn't matter, it's for detoxification." Then he was given anti-inflammatory injections, which cost several hundred yuan, but the wound was not treated.After two days, the injury not only did not improve, but became more and more serious.Dr. Yu asked him to use microwaves for treatment again. During the treatment, he felt very uncomfortable, so he stopped.In the following days, I received injections, but there was no sign of improvement. On August 15, 1998, Zhang Jing finally couldn't bear it anymore and decided to go to the First Affiliated Hospital of Hengyang Medical College for treatment.Diagnosed by the Burn Department of the First Affiliated Hospital: the second, third, fourth, and fifth toes of the left foot were third-degree burns and infected, so they had to be hospitalized and underwent several operations. Now the third and fourth toes of the left foot are partially defective, and the toes are sawn. broken. Zhang Jing is an expert in investigating and solving cases. He quickly found out that this so-called venereal disease prevention and treatment center was actually a fraudulent den for Youyi in Putian, Fujian. At the beginning of March 1998, the station signed a contract agreement with three Fujianese. The station came forward to provide a brand and provide business premises. Fujianese Lin Qiang and Ding Yushan were the investors, who were specifically responsible for recruiting doctors and staff, and were responsible for daily operations. For outpatient treatment collection and other work, the contract is signed for three years, and the Fujianese pay a total of 200,000 yuan for the contract. On April 1, the skin and venereal disease prevention center opened grandly in the courtyard of the epidemic prevention station.As everyone knows, the Putian doctors invited by the epidemic prevention station as God of Wealth and experts are a few farmers in Xiuyu Town, who have almost no knowledge of medical technology, let alone the management ability of medical institutions.Before and after the opening, the center adopted the method of crossing the sea and carrying out "advertising bombing" in the local media. After the advertisement was published, people who did not know the truth would naturally take the bait.Xu Mingsheng and his wife from Santang Town, Hengnan County suffered from condyloma acuminata. They went to the center and spent 20,000 yuan to cure them. They were cured in the First Affiliated Hospital of Hengyi Hospital with a total of more than 600 yuan.The small "fish" on Zhang Jing's feet cost more than 2,000 yuan to treat, and absurdly prescribed two ointments to treat sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. Yu said that it can also kill viruses, which shows the importance of the center. level of confusion. Under Zhang Jing's "soft and hard measures", the epidemic prevention station paid 14,000 yuan in medical expenses, and also paid 260,000 yuan in one lump sum as compensation. People have reason to wonder, if the victim is not a policeman with special status, can he succeed in claiming?