How to choose a doctor is not an easy task for patients

  A number of articles have been published on how patients can choose a doctor. These articles should play a role in the targeted selection of doctors for patients. Here, I would like to add a few points: 1. Chinese people generally believe in the doctors of famous hospitals, the so-called “recognition of the temple does not recognize the monk”. In fact, the business ability of doctors in each hospital is different, not necessarily the big hospital doctors are “big” doctors, big hospitals also have a lot of business lack of pursuit of quackery. Therefore, some common diseases (especially benign diseases) can be solved in the local hospital, there is no need to go to the big city hospitals to see.  2, the scope of each doctor’s specialty is limited, especially now some large hospitals specialties set more and more detailed, in one area of expertise in the other may not be anything. For example, our hospital general surgery, the original is according to the liver and gallbladder, gastrointestinal, anorectal, thyroid breast, vascular, pancreatic, pediatric surgery pediatrics and other subspecialties. For some common diseases, surgery can be done by everyone, but for some diseases with high surgical requirements, such as lymphatic clearance involving tumors, non-specialists cannot compare with specialists. Therefore, it is important to look for specialists in related fields.  3. Doctors with high titles are not necessarily higher than those with low titles. Medicine is a discipline that requires practice and accumulation, so it is necessary to accumulate experience for a certain period of time. However, after a certain point, the level of business ability is not so much related to the practice time, but closely related to a doctor’s enlightenment, the mentors he met and whether the individual is dedicated to research. A middle-aged surgeon who summarizes his surgery every day may have a higher business ability compared to an old surgeon who doesn’t do summaries all his life!  4, in the personal introduction listed a large number of titles of the doctor is not necessarily a famous doctor. We all know how far academic fraud has gone in China now, and how many of China’s academic papers are credible! Medicine is a discipline that is all about factuality, and more papers do not represent the ability to solve real problems. Of course, it is worthwhile to recognize scientific research that is truly clinical and unadulterated. For a surgeon, what is done is always more important than what is said. Surgical results (not surgical actions) speak for themselves.  These are my thoughts in my daily work, for your reference! Those who have different opinions can discuss, but please do not attack personally.