What should I look for in a pituitary tumor doctor?

London Olympic Games track and field competition, men’s sprint, the world’s audience have seen the Jamaican whirlwind, more than one Bolt, men’s 4 * 100 meters gold medal is also Jamaica, winning a country a collective, while the traditional track and field powerhouse United States, but can only call in vain, but Jamaica in other projects have little success, is this called “professionalism “professionalism”? Next I will talk about professionalism.

Ms. X, a 42-year-old woman, came to me from Dongguan accompanied by her husband for the simple reason that she wanted to have a child, and Ms. X is now in a semi-amenorrheic state, and the couple has been without contraception for 4 or 5 years.

Pituitary tumor is a special tumor in the head, special because it is the only brain tumor with endocrine nature. Think about it: a tumor as big as a green bean or a soybean is enough to make you unable to get pregnant without menstruation, and it can also make you keep growing taller and taller.

Because of this, many neurosurgeons look at it differently, and there are many recognized neurosurgeons in the industry who are weak in this project. I have a blog post “Pituitary tumor surgery is not difficult to do, but difficult to do well” is to write about its characteristics.

Nowadays, all walks of life in the world have developed to a highly specialized stage, and apart from the dedicated research units and doctors for pituitary tumors, other professional packages are difficult for the general public to even think about.

For example, most people think that surgical microscopes are all the same and are used to make the surgery “clear”. But the top doctors will ask each other, “What kind of mirror do you use?” “If you are not NC4, we don’t have to talk about it anymore.” Meaning that the difference in quality makes the communication is not on a level, the same imported microscope, if you can not reach the high level, even if you are very technical, the quality is obviously restricted, this is the degree of dependence of modern medicine on modern scientific instruments. Similarly, different generations, different manufacturers, different levels of MRI machines, different CT machines, different operating room laminar flow levels, various surgical monitoring aids, and highly qualified radiologists can make very different diagnoses with the same machines, such as inconclusive “pituitary microadenoma”. Why is the diagnosis rate of our hospital much higher than other hospitals? Because we have the top radiologists, the best machines in the country, and the source of the disease, and we have enough pituitary tumor patients. Because pituitary tumor is different from other brain tumors, it has endocrine properties, and we have doctors who specialize in pituitary tumor research.

The talents are the decisive factor, such as Ren Zuyuan Su Changbao of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Wang Ren Zhi now, and Lian Wei, who you may not know, have passed on the research of pituitary tumor from generation to generation. The neurosurgery department of Concordia is a major player. Nowadays, in national and local influential conferences, the field of pituitary tumor has been recognized above Tiantan Hospital, is it easy? It is easy to do so? It relies on the same dedicated professional focus as before.

For example, there is a private hospital in Guangzhou that specializes in brain diseases, in which a doctor who claims to be a “famous doctor” (retired from a public hospital) claims to be a specialist in pituitary tumors. The surgery had to be interrupted to stop the bleeding and he was transferred to a general hospital for help because he was not as skilled as others and there was no ENT department at the hospital. Pituitary tumor is not a normal brain tumor. A hospital with strong technical strength in pituitary tumor-related specialties such as endocrinology, otorhinolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, and imaging will have a high insurance factor. Do you know? The reason why the pituitary tumor is done well in Concord Hospital is because the endocrinology department of the hospital has the strength of super class! I went to the Guangzhou Medical Insurance Office yesterday afternoon to do a large case audit and found out that the smaller the hospital, the more money it costs, because the big hospitals have standardized systems and fees, and the key is that they can solve the problem. The additional advice is: don’t go to “private” and corporate medical units to avoid being left out of pocket.