He is the prototype of the "God of Medicine", known as the "Medicine Man" by the outside world, suffering from leukemia, free ** generic drugs for more than ten years, and has been in prison for helping people by mistake, and has now been fighting cancer for 21 years. He is Lu Yong. Today, let's take a look at the real experience of "Medicine Man" Lu Yong.
Unlike Cheng Yong in the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", Lu Yong was born in a well-off family, and he himself graduated from Southeast University, and then with his own efforts, Lu Yong became the owner of a knitwear export company in Wuxi, Jiangsu. With a virtuous wife, a smart daughter, and a wealthy family, 32-year-old Lu Yong can be said to be a winner in life.
But unfortunately, in 2002, 34-year-old Lu Yong was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia, which is commonly known as leukemia. Lu Yong did not collapse, but his family members washed their faces with tears every day. Lu Yong, who has always been optimistic, comforted his family and cheered up and began to accept it positively. Lu Yong began to take the "Gleevec" anti-cancer drug produced by Novartis in Switzerland, which worked very well, but the price of a box was 23,500 yuan. Converted in grams, one gram of Gleevec is twenty grams**. Moreover, a leukemia patient needs to take one box every month, and if you want to prolong your life, you need to eat it all year round. Although Lu Yong has accumulated some family funds over the years, such an expensive medicine still makes Lu Yong gradually stretched, and Lu Yong, who has taken Gleevec for two years, has spent nearly 600,000 yuan, and he can no longer afford such an expensive medicine. He had to find a way to save himself!
He thought maybe he could find a way on the Internet. So, on the one hand, Lu Yong established the country's first chronic myelogenous leukemia QQ mutual aid group in April 2004, hoping to work together to fight cancer among patients; On the other hand, he browses a large number of posts about ** leukemia on forums at home and abroad every day, hoping to gain something from it.
Finally, one day in June 2004, a turning point came. Lu Yong learned in a post posted by a Korean netizen that the generic Gleevec named Veenat produced in India has the same effect as the Swiss Gleevec, and a box costs only 4,000 yuan. This ** alone makes Lu Yong's heart very excited. With the mentality of giving it a try, Lu Yong immediately bought a box of Indian generic Gleevec on the Internet and gave it to a friend in the pharmaceutical industry for testing. After a friend's test, it was confirmed that this medicine is indeed effective. Hearing the news, Lu Yong didn't close his eyes all night, he shouldn't have died, God finally gave him another way out! However, how effective the drug is has to be experienced to know for yourself. Two months later, Lu Yong went to the hospital for a check-up. Various physical indicators show that the efficacy of the Indian imitation Gleevec and the Swiss Gleevec is indeed exactly the same! Lu Yong was overjoyed, which meant that his life had been extended by six times! After finding an effective alternative drug, Lu Yong immediately shared the news with his patient's QQ group.
Everyone was very excited for a while, but some people questioned whether Lu Yong was advertising Indian medicine, Lu Yong understood everyone's worries, and he sent his own physical examination report and other "evidence" in the group to prove that what he said was true. After that, Lu Yong posted the complete purchase steps of more than ten pages of Chinese and English that he made in the group, hoping that everyone could buy life-saving medicine through this method. However, not everyone knows how to use a computer or surf the Internet, and many people don't know anything about English. So everyone turned to the man who gave them hope.
However, it is okay to buy a small amount of generic drugs from foreign countries, and the consequences of bringing so many drugs into the country at one time are unimaginable when they are discovered by the customs. Because, at that time, China's law stipulated that drugs that had not applied for a patent in China belonged to the category of "fake drugs", even if the drug had good efficacy and could cure diseases and save people, it was still a fake drug. But Lu Yong knew that many people were waiting for this medicine to save their lives. Lu Yong, who has always been enthusiastic, felt that he had a great responsibility, and in the end, Lu Yong took on the task of buying medicine for everyone. Although he has to take a great risk every time he brings medicine, Lu Yong never charges more, and he doesn't want to let his fellow patients spend an extra penny.
As more and more people came to Lu Yong, Lu Yong's purchase of medicine gradually increased. So, Lu Yong approached Veenat's Indian pharmaceutical company. After meeting with the person in charge, Lu Yong put on the posture of galloping in the mall in the past, and began to talk about "business" with the person in charge as a major customer. Since then, Gleevec has dropped to 3,000 per box. But 3000 is still too expensive for an average-income family. After many investigations, Lu Yong found other drugs with the same efficacy in India, which was cheaper, only 750 yuan. After that, Lu Yong's ** scale reached thousands of people, so Lu Yong negotiated with the pharmaceutical company again, and finally reduced the ** price to about 200 yuan per box.
During this period, Lu Yong successively established four patient groups to help more leukemia patients buy drugs free of charge. It is worth mentioning that Lu Yong also found a special drug for hepatitis C in India, which has the same efficacy as the genuine drug and is cheap, so after returning to China, Lu Yong also promoted this drug to the group of hepatitis C patients. This move saved many people.
In 2013, because the order volume was too large, for convenience, Lu Yong bought a credit card, and when he made the payment, he transferred all the money from the patients to this card, and then converted it into US dollars and remitted it to the Indian company. Sometimes the order has been reported, but the patients can't come up with the money for a while, and the enthusiastic Lu Yong will pay the expenses himself in advance in order for the patients to get the medicine in time.
For more than ten years, countless leukemia patients have relied on Lu Yong's channel to save their lives. Lu Yong not only made the Indian company reduce the quality of the special drug again and again, but also regularly bought drugs from India for patients. The price of drugs has come down, and the quality of drugs has stabilized, which allows many leukemia patients to maintain their lives and dignity while no longer worrying about the economy. Lu Yong has become a hero of the leukemia group!
However, in late August 2013, a piece of news made Lu Yong's patient group boil, and the hero Lu Yong was suddenly arrested!
Two. It turned out that it was the credit card that Lu Yong bought that caused the accident.
In late August 2013, when Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province was investigating the illegal credit card trafficking gang, it was found that Lu Yong had also bought the credit card of the gang, and found that the credit card had a huge flow of funds, so he found out that Lu Yong ** Indian generic drugs were in the matter. Subsequently, on July 21, 2014, the Yuanjiang Municipal Procuratorate prosecuted Lu Yong to the Yuanjiang Municipal Court on charges of "obstructing credit card management" and "selling counterfeit drugs".
The patients who figured out everything still couldn't accept Lu Yong's arrest. Lu Yong is a lifesaver for many leukemia patients. Everyone thinks that Lu Yong bought a credit card for countless patients, and "selling fake drugs" was also for countless patients, and he has been taking drugs for free for many years, and has never made a profit, so how can he sell it. The patients who have been rescued by Lu Yong for many years decided to replace them to save Lu Yong this time.
As a result, 1,003 leukemia patients jointly wrote a letter requesting the judicial authorities to exempt Lu Yong from criminal punishment. Among them, there are young people who almost bankrupted their families in order to buy first-class medicines, and there are also lonely and widowed elderly people who died of leukemia many years ago, and they suffered from leukemia many years later, and lived on a monthly subsistence allowance. Everyone's family situation is different, but they all had a very difficult time before Lu Yong appeared, and many even thought about suicide at one point, but in the end they were able to survive with dignity because Lu Yong took the risk of "selling" cheap generic drugs to them. For a time, Lu Yong's case caused a sensation in society. Many ** rushed to report Lu Yong's deeds, and it was also at this time that Lu Yong was awarded the title of "Medicine Man" by the outside world.
But the praise of ** is just a false name after all, and for Lu Yong, the most important thing is how the law characterizes his behavior of "selling fake drugs". Fortunately, there are extrajudicial circumstances, and both the procuratorate and the court understand that this is an unusual case. As a result, the judge ruled that Lu Yong was guilty of "obstructing credit card management", but that his active use of medicines for patients and the treatment of countless lives did not constitute "selling counterfeit medicines". In the end, Lu Yong spent 135 days in the detention center, and on the afternoon of January 29, Lu Yong was released.
After Lu Yong returned home, many leukemia patients came to consult about the news of the Indian special drug. There is an endless stream of guests coming and going to Lu Yong's house, every time someone comes, Lu Yong will put down what he is doing to receive these strangers, he knows how eager everyone is to survive, and he also knows what every family has paid for this disease. After a few years, Lu Yong's case gradually faded out of people's sight, until 2018, when the broadcast of the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine" once again pushed Lu Yong to the forefront.
I Am Not the God of Medicine" movie was broadcast, and as soon as it was released, it caused a wave of discussion about the prototype of the "God of Medicine". Many people compare Cheng Yong in the movie with Lu Yong in reality, Lu Yong was labeled as "domestic violence", "obscene" and "making black money", and patients also had some complaints about Lu Yong. Lu Yong was very annoyed by this.
Because the screenwriter does not keep his word. As early as 2015, screenwriter Han Jianu approached Lu Yong, hoping to get his authorization to write the deeds of "Medicine Man" Lu Yong into a script. Lu Yong agreed, and did not charge any fees to the Han family, he only proposed that ** must be positive, Lu Yong hopes that this story can be made into a movie to inspire more people to bravely fight against the disease. But what people didn't expect was that in December 2016, the movie information of the film "I Am Not the God of Medicine" began to be released, and the "Lu Yong" in the film became a "profiteer" who was a domestic violence wife, sold Indian divine oil, and made money from leukemia patients, which surprised Lu Yong. This is completely different from what I said before! Lu Yong approached Han Jianu to inquire and was told to negotiate with the filmmaker. So, after being introduced by Han Jianu, in February 2017, the producer and Lu Yong met, and Lu Yong expressed the hope that the other party could complete the film creation according to his previous requirements.
But it was this meeting that almost caused Lu Yong and the crew of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" to go to court.
Three. It turned out that in February 2017, before the screening of the movie, the crew of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" discussed with Lu Yong the inconsistency between the image of Cheng Yong, the protagonist of "God of Medicine", and the prototype Lu Yong himself. The crew promised Lu Yong that he would let him say a few words at the end of the movie as a prototype to clarify, but the crew's promise finally fell into the sea, and the film was released as it was. After the release, many people misunderstood Lu Yong. Lu Yong was originally a very clean person, but he was said to be "doing business" even though he had no profit, he really couldn't accept it, in order to prove his innocence, Lu Yong finally decided to use the law to protect his rights and interests.
This trick really worked, and the crew, who didn't take Lu Yong's appeal seriously, immediately sent someone to reconcile with Lu Yong. Lu Yong knew that the matter had come to this point, and it was impossible to change the movie, so he thought of the patients who were still struggling with their illness. As a result, Lu Yong proposed that the producer donate 2 million to the leukemia public welfare organization, and donate 300,000 more for every 100 million box office. In the end, "I Am Not the God of Medicine" made a profit of 30700 million, and the producer also donated 11 million as promised. Lu Yong, who got the donation, took a completely transparent approach and used the 11 million to set up a ** meeting, and called on the state to carry out stricter management of pharmaceutical companies, so as not to increase the cost of drugs because of the so-called expensive patents and R&D costs, resulting in many people not being able to afford medicine.
In 2019, 51-year-old Lu Yong decided to do something big. He wants to solve the problem of difficulty and high cost of buying drugs for cancer patients in China from the source. Lu Yong established a generic drug company in Kunming. This time, he wants to produce legal, timely generic drugs for more patients, which have the same efficacy as the original drugs, but they are much cheaper.
This time, Lu Yong really became the "God of Medicine". But he wants everyone to call him "medicine man", Lu Yong thinks that he is just a person with a chivalrous spirit, there is no "god" in the world, if there is really a "god", that "god" must be the determination and perseverance to never give up in the face of illness.
Today, Lu Yong has been fighting cancer for 21 years. Except for the pigmentation of his face and some puffy eyes, he does not look like a cancer patient at all. Lu Yong, who has experienced strong winds and waves, is now very calm, his living habits are very good, he gets up at 7 o'clock in the morning, goes to bed at 12 o'clock at night, does not smoke or drink, jogs and swims in order to exercise, and his life is extremely regular. During the anti-cancer period, he continued to do his own textile factory business, and at the same time regularly supervised the research and development and production of generic drugs, someone asked him to consult, he would receive seriously, and sometimes he would be invited to give some speeches to some cancer patients, he would buy medical supplies and donate them to organizations in need, just during the outbreak of the epidemic in my country, Lu Yong also brought 3,000 goggles and 3,000 N95 masks to doctors in Wuhan Xiehe. To this day, "Medicine Man" is still silently doing what a hero should do.
At the same time, the deeds of "medicine man" Lu Yong have also caused China to attach great importance to the problem of drug use for cancer patients, and have affected the formulation of China's laws. After the "Lu Yong" case, in 2017, Gleevec, a special drug for leukemia, was included in the medical insurance. In 2018, the second year after the broadcast of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", China revised the "Drug Administration Law": the "General Provisions of the Drug Administration Law" clearly stipulates that the state encourages research and creation of new drugs, and has added and improved more than 10 articles and a number of institutional measures. In addition, China has also deleted the provision that "imported drugs that have not been approved by the relevant state departments are prepared as counterfeit drugs", which means that "illegally imported drugs" are no longer recognized as fake drugs, and people will have more options when they cannot afford to buy real drugs. Since then, 17 anti-cancer drugs have also been included in the medical insurance. Today, China's pharmaceutical industry is still being rectified, and I believe that we will get more medical protection in the future. The chivalrous actions of "Medicine Man" Lu Yong have prompted the reform of China's laws, which is the luck of "Medicine Man" himself and the luck of each of us.