The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family novel Chapter 5793

Shermaine, who was aside, said, “It’s not like that. The allocation of spots for the clinical trials of Apothecary Pharmaceuticals is not based on who has money and power, but on who needs treatment the most. Those who sign up for the clinical trials are all cancer patients without exception. At least thirty percent of them have been declared by doctors to have less than six months to live. There are hundreds of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer alone, and many of them are children. People like us in our twenties hardly stand a chance to get a spot.”

Curious, Charlie asked, "Shermaine, did you also sign up for Apothecary Pharmaceutical’s clinical trials?”

Shermaine nodded and said, “I did, but I didn't get selected. The evaluation mechanism of Apothecary Pharmaceutical is somewhat like comparing miseries. First, they compare who has the most severe illness, and then they compare who is the youngest, whose family situation is the most pitiful, whose family responsibilities are the heaviest, and so on. They have a point system, and the more miserable the situation, the higher the points. In the end, all the names are selected from the few hundred to thousand people with the highest points. It's similar to the logic of scoring for household registration. I was eliminated in the first round.”

Charlie wasn't surprised by this because this rule was basically set by himself and implemented by Liam. The Apothecary Restoration Pill was essentially a diluted version of the Healing Pill. This thing could probably only be made by himself in the world, and it required the sacrifice of Reiki to refine it. It couldn't be mass-produced in the first place. It was the stepping stone he used to knock on the door of the FDA.

Charlie also knew very well that he wasn't God or a saint. There were too many cancer patients in the world, and he couldn't save them all by himself. So, he could only do his best to save a small part, and even that was a very small part. Since it was about saving this small group of people, it naturally couldn't be based on who had money. That was the reason why Charlie only let Liam save the few people who were the most miserable.

They might have never had good luck in their lives, never encountered any favor, but at the critical moment of life and death, Apothecary Pharmaceutical could still give them a chance to turn things around.

Therefore, in Charlie's view, he preferred to let Liam save a late-stage cancer patient who had lived for twenty years and suffered for twenty years rather than save a child of a middle-class family who had lived for twenty years.

Someone in the crowd asked in surprise, “The head of the US FDA quit his job to do charity work in Aurous Hill?”

Helron nodded and said, “Yes. I had a chat with him. He's the most pitiful. When Apothecary Pharmaceutical wanted to enter the United States market, they went to him with the Apothecary Restoration Pill and gave him some medicine for free to try, knowing that his son had cancer, but he always felt that traditional Oskian medicine was unreliable and had no scientific basis. Therefore, he looked down on it. As a result, when he came to his senses and wanted to look for them again, Apothecary Pharmaceutical had already given up on entering the United States market…”

At this point, Helron sighed and said, “He had no other choice. His son’s condition didn't improve at Mayo Clinic either, so he could only take a gamble in Aurous Hill and probably hope for a miracle…”