Patient : Description of the condition (time of onset, main symptoms, hospital visited, etc.): I want to be diagnosed and treated in your department because I am close to the 3 hospitals. Considering that I have a 1-year-old child at home, I would like to have both spouses tested and treated. Due to time constraints at work, I would like to know more about the process of medical examination in order to save time. (One of the couple has not yet been tested, so I would like to have the two of them tested again and see a doctor in time). Do you need to register first, get a prescription, get tested the next day, wait for the results, and then register to see a doctor for a prescription? Or can I get the test done at a convenient clinic and then see a doctor? Doctor: About 70% of Chinese people are positive for H. pylori (that is, about 800 million people have this bacteria in their stomachs), compared to about 10-20% in Europe and the US, which is related to hygiene habits such as meal sharing. Because this bacteria is not easy to eradicate, easy to repeatedly infected, and most people infected with no symptoms, lifelong bacteria is not much of a problem, so except for special groups of patients such as peptic ulcer disease, gastric cancer after surgery or family history of gastric cancer, more severe gastritis, gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma and other patients need to be treated, just positive for H. pylori generally does not require treatment. Due to the misuse of antibiotics leading to more resistant strains of this bacterium at present, the eradication effect has been less than ideal, which means that even with medication it is not always possible to remove this bacterium (some people therefore switch to multiple antibiotics, leading to the emergence of other antibiotic-related problems, such as dysbiosis, drug-related hepatitis, etc.); even if your drug eradication treatment is successful, it is likely that you will soon carry the bacteria again, so treatment is not recommended. Nowadays, many institutions blindly check for this bacteria, coupled with some medical staff’s poor practice and improper explanation of this problem, and even very few doctors’ medical ethics defects, bringing confusion and anxiety to many people who don’t know how to treat, further causing indiscriminate treatment and antibiotic abuse, which will inevitably bring about more conflicts in the future and bring more social, family, economic as well as physical and mental burdens to people.