How to avoid autism medical scams?

Beijing Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Three Primary Colors Public Welfare Project and China Institute of Child Developmental Behavior are three organizations that always appear in a bundle and are quite remarkable. From the public information of multiple domain names registered by them on the Internet, the Caixin reporter made a new discovery. After entering these domain names, the registration information shows that these websites have the same owner, named “xie jin quan”. In a Google search for “xie jin quan” and “Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine,” the Caixin reporter found that a person named “Xie Jinquan” was the contact person for the epilepsy department of Beijing Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The contact person for the epilepsy department of Beijing Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The epilepsy department is located on the fourth floor of the hospital, along with the psychiatric department, which uses EFG for testing. Public information shows that one of the websites is registered in Putian, Fujian. In China, many hospitals that cheat patients out of their money in the name of practicing medicine are run by Putian people and are collectively known in the medical community as Putian hospitals. Although in recent years, Putian hospitals have also begun to transform, but the image has been set. Caixin reporter learned from the Putian Health Association, a source who wished to remain anonymous, Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Golden Boy Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which belongs to the “Putian system”. In the past, the use of EFG treatment of depression in the hospital, the vast majority of the Putian system of hospitals. Home in Putian, Fujian “medical township” Dongzhuang, a former medical boss who did not want to be named told the Caixin reporter, “to identify the Putian hospital is actually very simple, see if it is advertising, advertising is not fierce.” The boss introduced, “Beijing’s military hospitals are almost all contracted by our Putian system.” Talking about why military hospitals can be contracted by the Putian system to carry out a variety of magical treatments, he told the Caixin reporter, some Putian system bosses are not doing hospitals, but in business, “people doing business well, will do everything possible to exploit the loopholes.” He said that knowing a military region’s director of logistics or the director of health, you can get through to many hospitals. “Here also know, there also know, this network of relationships spread. Like an atomic bomb, exploding around to know people. As long as you are willing to pay, share the money.” These “Putian system” hospital features are very obvious, usually do network promotion. A hospital has several style and content of the same website, click into it, there are always flashing attention-grabbing dialogue window, providing 24-hour online consulting services, exaggerating the effectiveness of the treatment and diligently arrange for medical treatment. The owner said that the Putian Hospital, which does online advertising and promotion, often employs dozens of people to do marketing, covering various channels. Several online consultants to “doctor” identity for 24-hour online appointments and customer service, the monthly salary may be tens of thousands of yuan. Hospitals that are willing to put effort into advertising may spend 2 million yuan a month on advertising, “so they have to generate revenue and maintain a profit of 3-5 million yuan.” One afternoon, the Caixin reporter went to Beijing Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, located less than 1 kilometer east of Beijing West Railway Station. As soon as he entered the hospital gate, he saw the floor guide map. On the 4th floor, there are several departments of neurology (insomnia, depression, epilepsy), internal pediatrics (tic disorder, hyperactivity), neurology (facial palsy, trigeminal neuralgia), endocrinology (developmental behavior), and birthmark hemangioma. The Caixin reporter was stopped by a “nurse” at the entrance of the elevator on the fourth floor just after he left. The Caixin reporter said that his relative’s child was autistic and came here for a consultation. The “nurse”, who looked very alert, said that a treatment generally costs several thousand dollars, and requires injections and medication at key points, as well as with traditional Chinese medicine. “The actual painless, will use a little anesthetic.” For other follow-up questions, all do not answer, insisting that “bring the child to say”. The Caixin reporter proposed to get more materials to understand, was “nurse” refused. In the meantime, the “nurse” has been vigilantly blocking the Caixin reporter, and refused to reveal her name. Why are there so many scams? “The company’s main goal is to provide a solution to the problem. Don’t think that those wearing white coats are not scammers, in fact, they just pretend not to know they are scammers.” Wensheng Li said. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible solution to the problem of autism. In fact, a number of hospitals, including Guoji Hospital, have been exposed by the media as autism treatment scams, and in 2013, the “First Financial” program aired an “Autism Investigation”, in which Beijing Guoji Hospital Chu Lanju was exposed. However, the TV exposure did not seem to have any impact on Guoji Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. According to the regulations, a medical device to market, the producer must first go through the medical device registration (or record). Among them, the first category of safe medical devices for the record management; the second category of relatively safe, the third category of risky medical devices, the implementation of registration management. It is not known whether the BNP biotherapeutic device has been registered or filed, whether it has undergone quality inspection, and what kind of procurement process it has undergone to enter the hospital. As of press time, the Caixin reporter has not yet received a response from the Drug Administration and the Health and Welfare Commission. Cao Jian, a researcher at the China Center for Economic Development Research at the University of International Business and Economics, told Caixin that one reason medical instrument scams and false propaganda are so common is that the cost of breaking the law is very low. “Which hospital is using instruments that are not registered, the Drug Administration will not investigate and deal with them room by room, and patients will not be able to tell the difference.” He pointed out that bringing hospitals into the public regulatory system and requiring them to disclose their financial status and information like public companies to achieve public oversight is the solution. “However, the resistance to doing so is indeed great.” Feng Yi, a senior consultant at Covington & Burling with many years of experience in the healthcare industry, analyzed to Caixin that although Chinese people are gradually improving their material conditions and are in a position to improve their own health and that of their families, “Chinese people do not have the appropriate knowledge or information about life sciences, even at the science level.” He believes that “the medical system only see the disease, not the person, the patient from the hospital can not get their own characteristics of health services.” The various television stations “health forum”, a variety of “doctors” in the community stage of the emergence, etc., is an example of the country’s strong demand for health information. Furthermore, Chinese people value government approval and are not sure whether new knowledge of life sciences is acceptable, and the top evidence needed is RCT (randomized controlled clinical trial). Thus, government approval or exaggerated applications, materialized criteria, fragmented data parameters, expert referrals, etc. can be cleverly packaged with a scam. “Our ignorance and the shamelessness of the scam artists are thus combined.” Hu Yu, a lawyer at H&Q Law Firm, lamented that the reason for saying “we” instead of “patients” is that patients are potentially you and me. In Hu’s opinion, the lesser care and attention given to autistic children by society as a whole is a result of the public’s ignorance of autism, as well as the ignorance of basic physiological and medical knowledge. HuYu also believes that the most fundamental reason for the frequent occurrence of scams is the monopoly of medical qualifications and resources. “The many problems with medical practices are not out of marketization, but because of market deformation and poor marketization.” “The frequent occurrence of medical scams for autism is not an accident; the problem is no more serious than the probability of medical scams occurring. Beijing, the capital, is almost a haven for medical scammers.” Hu Yu said. For people who have been cheated or are about to be cheated, Hu Yu offers three “stopgap” ways to protect their rights: first, retain and collect evidence, and report individual medical institutions to the public security economic investigation department; second, report medical institutions and doctors to the medical and health supervision department for false propaganda and medical violations; third, report medical institutions or doctors, or even illegal medical organizations or non-doctors. The third is to report medical institutions or doctors, even illegal medical organizations or non-doctors, with false propaganda, false promises, illegal use of illegal (meaning unapproved), unhelpful (meaning indiscriminate) medical apparatus drugs, fictitious or grossly exaggerated therapeutic effects and other illegal and false situations, to the people’s court for the return of their property and compensation for damages. Hu Yu believes that the third is relatively easy to operate, the success rate of rights protection is also higher. “But for a variety of reasons, the majority of people who are cheated choose to admit their own bad luck.” Parents who have the ability to defend their rights are currently still a minority. Because he has been undergoing BNP treatment at Guoji TCM Hospital, Mr. Zhao, mentioned earlier, regrets the most for delaying his son’s best intervention expectation. “Now I just want to see my child, I don’t care to engage in prosecution, it’s exhausting.”