悲憤惋惜之餘,我忍不住想,武警北京總隊第二醫院與斯坦福大學醫學院是否有合作研發關係,斯坦福醫學院一方有何話要說,他們究竟是怎樣被捲入這個案子的。於是我去搜索谷歌看怎樣能和斯坦福大學醫學院公共關係或外聯部取得聯繫,我順利地找到了斯坦福醫學院公共事務和交流辦公室(Office of Communication & Public Affairs)的網頁(見下面的截屏),上面詳細列有該辦公室所有工作人員的名字、照片、職務、電話和郵箱。
美國的醫院、大學和大點的公司等都有這樣的公共關係部門,因為在信息開放和市場競爭的美國,與客戶的關係是一家實體生存的關鍵。我選擇了列在第一位的媒體關係/數字媒體專家(Media Relation/ Digital Media Specialist)Becky Bach女士,美國時間昨天(5月2日)早上,我從我的工作郵箱中給她發了一封郵件,郵件首先介紹了一下我自己,包括我的工作單位和所寫的專欄博客等鏈接,然後我直入主題:
Recently, Stanford School of Medicine was dragged into a medical scandal in China. A military hospital claimed that they had cooperation with your school and used DC-CIK you invented to treat patients there. They advertised through Chinese search engine Baidu and attracted a lot of patients. One young man died recently and brought this to media attention. Now many Chinese want to know your side of story.