Chapter 27 What is Modern Medicine?

"How's the hospital doing these days?"

At the dinner table, Liu Mei chatted.

"It's okay, at least not unnoticed." Lu Jiudao.

"Your father had a meal with the director of Jianghan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital yesterday, and I heard that their Chinese medicine department is being reformed, and they are urgently recruiting students majoring in Chinese medicine. Liu Mei said.

Lu Jiu couldn't cry or laugh, "Mom, haven't we all discussed it?" Why do you have to send me to the hospital? ”

"I didn't say that you should go now, just leave you a way back, I calculated it with your father, since you don't want to go to a hospital in a big city, then you have to have a serious unit in Jianghan, it's better to get a structure, although the medical center is free, but it's too unsafe." Liu Mei said.

Lu Jiu said helplessly, "Don't you believe that I can earn 200,000 a year?" ”

Liu Mei explained, "It's good to be confident, but with the fee set by your grandfather, how many patients do you have to see to earn it?" Again, if the economy is in a downturn and the rent goes up, then all the money you earn will have to go to the landlord. ”

"It's not that you don't know what your father's business has been like in the past few years, it's already good luck that you haven't lost money, and we don't expect you to make a lot of money, but insurance is always right, besides, where to see a doctor is not to see a doctor, and if you go to the hospital, you can see more people, isn't it good for you?"

Lu Jiu shook his head, not wanting to argue with Liu Mei on this issue.

Yes, there are many patients in the hospital, and your abilities can be more developed there.

But Lu Jiu didn't like it.

He doesn't like the atmosphere of the hospital!

It's not just the volume, the formulation of that kind of rules makes Lu Jiu feel very uncomfortable in his heart.

For example, routine check-ups in the hospital.

Western medicine does just that, but Chinese medicine also prescribes these things.

Why?

Hospital regulations!

No matter who you are, you must have a routine examination when you are hospitalized, even if you are hospitalized with a sprained foot, you must also do a blood routine and other tests.

The purpose of this examination is to screen you to see if you have other diseases, and then to be able to intervene and treat in advance to avoid the patient from mild to severe.

However, in the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine, this kind of screening is basically meaningless.

Because traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the outside and the inside, and the knowledge of things, any symptoms of the five internal organs will have corresponding external manifestations.

Just like the palmar liver in modern medicine, even if it is not a traditional Chinese medicine, it means that there is a problem with the liver, but why it is a liver problem, Western medicine is not clear, and some tests must be done, like what blood test, CT, can draw a conclusion.

However, in the view of traditional Chinese medicine, the so-called palmar liver is actually the liver that does not hide blood.

The blood is red, the liver does not hide blood, and the excess blood has nowhere to go, and a part of it will run to the palm, so the palm will have a circle of red, which is particularly red.

So why doesn't the liver hide blood?

Yes!

There is an accumulation of things in the liver, which occupies the place that belongs to the blood, so the excess blood comes out.

This is actually a problem with the liver's excretory function.

However, sometimes the problem with the liver's excretory function is not in the liver itself.

Because the liver has two channels for discharge, one is the gall bile, which can receive the bile secreted by the liver, and the other is the large intestine.

Therefore, when treating the liver, Chinese medicine sometimes does not care about the liver as an entity, but restores its excretion function, that is, it opens up the two channels of excretion that causes problems.

The road is open, there is no traffic jam, there is a place for the dirty things in the liver, and the blood will naturally be able to return to its original position.

But Western medicine doesn't know this, and if there is a problem with the liver, it will treat the liver.

So, what's the point of this check?

Lu Jiu saw too many examples like this, and after working for two years and getting a medical practitioner's certificate, he didn't want to stay.

Many people are saying that modern medicine is progressive, it is neither Western medicine nor Chinese medicine, Chinese and Western medicine are ancient medicines, and should be eliminated.

Lu Jiu didn't know how many times he had heard this kind of talk, as if he could erase the efficacy of Chinese medicine by branding all Chinese and Western medicine as ancient and old.

In fact, the ancient Western medicine could not be called medicine, the methods were rough, the theory was backward, and it was completely inferior to the surgery of traditional Chinese medicine.

Many medical cultural relics unearthed today have confirmed that traditional Chinese medicine was very mature in surgical techniques as early as the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that because of some historical reasons, after returning from overseas travel, these medical knowledge have become other people's children, and the other party also takes fresh anatomy, bacteriology, virology and other new theories to tell you in person, I am my father.

With the advancement of science and technology, Western medicine has also taken this free ride and has quickly become the world's mainstream medicine!

That is, in the eyes of many people, modern medicine with many theories such as anatomy as classics!

It can be said that modern medicine is the product of the evolution of Western medicine + technology, and Chinese medicine has always been different from them.

Nowadays, all hospitals are mainly Western medicine, supplemented by traditional Chinese medicine, and the same is true for traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, except for a few pure Chinese medicine hospitals, but the number is pitifully small compared to the whole country, and all the rules are set on the basis of evidence-based medicine.

What is evidence-based medicine?

In fact, you have to talk about evidence, you have to have data, you have to have a report when the patient comes, so that even if it is not cured, I have something to prove that it is not my problem, even if some people desperately want to sue the hospital, this thing can also avoid legal disputes.

Yes, this can greatly protect the doctor, so that he will not look down on a patient, and the doctor's entire career will be wasted, and then no one will want to study medicine.

Therefore, routine check-ups in the hospital are a must, and you have to pay for this money if you don't want to.

But is there anything that could be improved on this preconceived preconceived patient as an enemy?

For example, to change the mandatory inspection to the optional inspection?

It is true that there are not a few medical troubles now, and the doctors are also suffering and can't say it, and they don't get the money for the examination, they are all workers with basic salaries, but if you don't do the examination, and the patient is looking for trouble afterwards, who will bear this responsibility?

But in places that have not been reported by the media, there are more ordinary families who have been impoverished due to illness than medical troubles, and the number of that group is not enough to become a news point for media attention, unless it is sensational enough.

There was once a news that a college student accidentally hit someone on a bicycle, and he took the initiative to bear the other party's medical expenses, but after arriving at the hospital, the doctor there prescribed a full one or two thousand examinations to the person who was hit, and the college student was furious, so he held the doctor hostage with a knife, and ordered the other party to notify the dean to explain to him why he was hit by a bicycle and had to open a test of one or two thousand, which also alarmed the local police.

What about traditional Chinese medicine?

There are many things that cannot be proven.

For example, the liver hides blood, and many organs are obviously dissected to have blood, why do you say that the liver hides blood, but the heart hides blood?

What else is left liver and right lung, after autopsy, the liver is obviously in the right upper abdomen.

Traditional Chinese medicine can't even figure out the basic position, and still talk about medicine?

This is actually equivalent to questioning table tennis with the rules of tennis, it is all balls, but those who play table tennis must say that you can't fight back if you don't play on the table, otherwise it's a foul!

In traditional Chinese medicine, the left liver and right lungs are not actually talking about the physical organs, but their qi.

The liver is wood, on the left, like the east, the main ascending, the lungs are golden, on the right, like the west, the main descending.

The left liver and the right lung, in fact, refer to the left ascending and the right descending, describing the functional characteristics of the two organs.

Just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the qi in the human body is the same as in nature.

The underlying logic of traditional Chinese medicine, that is, the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", is a human body instruction manual that was summarized by the predecessors who observed the heavens and the earth and then combined with the characteristics of the human body itself, which talks about how a normal person gets sick.

Western medicine is basically studied in the laboratory, focusing on a small area and a more microscopic perspective.

It is more or less inappropriate for you to use the rules formulated by a microcosm to limit the truth realized by a macrocosm.

Therefore, Chinese medicine practitioners work in many regular hospitals, but if you are genuinely considerate of the patient, it will be a little awkward.

It may take a long time to get used to it.

But Lu Jiu couldn't do it!

The Chinese medicine he likes is not cold medicine.