Dr. Yu Juan, a returnee from Fudan University, suffered from advanced breast cancer in 2010. After several rounds of chemotherapy in the hospital, she suddenly stopped her regular treatment in the hospital in March 2011, and together with two other patients, turned to a “Dr. Yang” who specialized in cancer treatment. More than a month after receiving the “starvation therapy” from “Dr. Yang”, Yu Juan died at the age of 32.
While many people lamented, they wondered how such a highly intelligent person could be so gullible as to trust such a charlatan. Some people understand that it is a common phenomenon for cancer patients to turn to doctors in an emergency, but a doctor does not mean that they will not be cheated by such a “miracle doctor”.
All people are equal in front of diseases, especially cancer (more strictly called malignant tumor), which seems to prefer people with high work pressure, emotional tension, fast-paced life and poor urban environment. Many of these patients are the so-called urban “white-collar” and “elite”. I have met many cancer patients in the clinic, and it is inevitable that patients and their families will have negative emotions such as uncertainty, helplessness, emptiness and despair, and these emotions will in turn affect people’s body and behavior, so it is common for them to turn to doctors in a hurry.
If a certain “miracle doctor” says that according to his treatment method, he can cure cancer and does not have to suffer physical pain, together with other confusing tricks, the patient is like a drowning person grabbing a plank of wood, a hungry person seeing a piece of bread, unknowingly falling into the trap of the liars, and delaying the regular treatment (similar to The result is that people and money are really empty.
This kind of “miracle doctor” is actually a fraud, the worst crime, both to seek money and to kill. The kind of medical trust in front of large hospitals is similar, the people who would have to go to a large hospital to see a doctor to some “hospital” to squeeze their money; poor these patients have to be cheated out of their hard-earned money. The state should really increase the level of punishment for such crimes.
This kind of liar how to have its existence space, deep into its roots, I think there may be several reasons.
The main treatment methods for tumors are surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc., some of which are supplemented by certain psychotherapy. For most of the malignant tumors, these methods can only prolong the life span to the greatest extent, but not cure the tumors; meanwhile, most of these treatments will bring harm to the body and make the patients suffer from physical pain and quality of life.
Therefore, many people think that “surgery hurts”, “chemotherapy and radiotherapy will affect life expectancy”, and so on. Moreover, cancer treatment is expensive, and it is not uncommon for many families to lose all their money for treatment. All these factors make some patients reject the current cancer treatment methods.
2. Most of the patients with malignant tumors have poor prognosis, but in the eyes of some profit-oriented medical institutions and doctors, they are the “meat and potatoes”, and the excessive use of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy increases the physical pain and economic burden of patients, but becomes the means for some medical scum to make money. These situations have caused patients to distrust hospitals and doctors, thus turning to the so-called “miracle doctors”.
3, Chinese medicine is part of China’s traditional culture, and Western medicine has its own strengths, advantages and limitations. But the theory and practice of Chinese medicine is more profound and esoteric to the vast majority of people. Many scammers take advantage of patients’ blind trust and lack of understanding of TCM, under the guise of TCM, dragging some unknown theories and using some so-called “folk prescriptions”, “court prescriptions”, “ancestral secret recipes The “Yang miracle doctor” in the article is a Chinese medicine practitioner. The so-called treatment of “Dr. Yang” in the article is “starvation therapy” and some “self-taught” folk remedies. If you think about it, if this logic can be used, if cancer cells are starved to death, normal cells are also starved to death, right?
In medical research, the concept of “starving” cancer cells does exist, but this “starvation” is not the usual understanding of eating less or not eating, but using some special methods to block the metabolic pathways of cancer cells, thus making them lack of nutrition. Unfortunately, this theory is only in the laboratory stage, and there is still a long way to go before the clinical application of cancer.
Some people may say, you are a medical student, of course it is easy to identify these frauds, but how can ordinary people avoid being cheated? Generally speaking, those who have the following situations are basically big or small frauds; if the “miracle doctors” you meet have the following situations, you must be more careful, otherwise you are likely to be cheated of your money, your body will be damaged, and in serious cases, your treatment will be delayed and you will pay the price of your life.
1, claiming that they can cure the current medical problems that can not be overcome, such as hypertension, diabetes, malignant tumors, etc., and never relapse;
2, claiming to be able to cure all diseases, from head sores to foot pus, from cold and fever to AIDS, none of them can not be cured;
3, claiming to have exclusive (here can be replaced by “court” or “ancestral”) secret recipes, but without any reliable evidence, or only a few cases of patients who have spoken out (likely to be TO);
4.Pretending to be a deity, claiming that one must absolutely obey the treatment arranged by them, such as what must be noon when the yang energy is strong to drink the soup and medicine in front of the sun, what to get up late at night to meditate and breathe, etc.;
5, the modern medical system and doctors are reduced to nothing, only he is the real “apricot forest master” in the past and present;
6, claiming that his treatment method is completely free of side effects and will not cause any pain to the body;
7, first to make a correct description of the patient’s family and personal situation (prepared in advance, similar to a fortune teller) to gain the patient’s trust; then said that the patient’s disease was misdiagnosed and mistreated, only with his treatment to get well.
Although the technology of modern medicine is developing rapidly, most cancers are still difficult to solve completely at present. There are many unsatisfactory aspects of cancer treatment in modern medicine. It is in itself a reasonable request and behavior for cancer patients and their families to try different treatments in pursuit of longer life span and higher quality of life. However, it is important to understand the limitations of medicine (including Western and Chinese medicine), and at the same time, to polish one’s own eyes, so as not to let one’s good wishes be taken advantage of by fraudsters, which may cost the lives of beloved relatives and friends.