A preliminary study on the relationship between physical examination centers and treatment centers

  The process of doctor’s visit is roughly divided into two processes: finding out the cause of the disease (discovering the problem) and treating the disease to restore health (solving the problem). In simple terms, medical examination is to find out the problem, while treating the disease is to solve the problem. Therefore, medical checkup and treatment of the untreated disease are two complementary parts that together form a whole. A clear understanding of the relationship between physical examination and treatment of the disease can provide a clear idea for the development of physical examination centers and treatment of the disease in Chinese hospitals. The development of medical checkup centers in Chinese hospitals cannot be separated from the development of treatment centers!  The “treatment of the disease” is a characteristic of Chinese hospitals, which is not possessed by Western hospitals! The center for treating the disease can provide a strong backing for the medical examination center. The “cure for the untreated disease” is the essence of Chinese medicine, with the traditional six types of Chinese medicine (acupuncture, needles, moxibustion, medicine, stilts, guide) characteristics of the treatment of disease to restore health to provide an effective guarantee; therefore, after the medical examination center to the patient’s health, to find the cause of the disease for the patient, the next is to give the patient to the treatment of the untreated disease center to The next step is to hand over the patient to the treatment center to restore health.  A medical checkup center can provide a large number of people customers for the treatment center.  The service targets of the treatment of untreated diseases are: (1) the untreated patients who are concerned about their health; (2) those who are physically biased and have a tendency to suffer from diseases; (3) those who have obvious self-conscious symptoms but no abnormal physical and chemical indicators; (4) those whose physical and chemical examination indicators are at critical values but have not yet reached the disease standard; (5) those who are recovering from major diseases or surgery; (6) those who need to slow down the development of chronic non-infectious diseases and prevent complications. It can be seen that the physical examination center can provide the above-mentioned population of customers for the center of treatment of untreated diseases.  Second, the development of the treatment of untreated diseases can provide the development of medical checkup centers in the following aspects.  First, the center can provide a high level of health management for the medical examination center.  Traditional “disease detection” physical examination can make early diagnosis of many diseases through a series of objective, accurate, digital and standardized index tests, combined with the clinical experience of doctors, which plays an important role in the early detection of diseases. However, the percentage of early detection of diseases is low compared to the large number of people who participate in physical examinations, especially for some people with obvious symptoms but normal physical examination indicators, it is difficult to provide convincing explanations and health guidance, and therefore fails to meet the demand for high-level health management.  According to TCM, an individual’s constitution is related to innate endowment and acquired conditioning. For a born individual, innate endowment is unchangeable, but constitution is variable and adjustable. We can adjust the bias of constitution to reduce the occurrence of diseases and perpetuate the progress of diseases, thus achieving the purpose of protecting health from diseases. Taking TCM physical assessment as one of the main elements of health assessment is not only the main highlight of reflecting the characteristics of TCM, but also an important basis for guiding the next step of health conditioning.  The combination of TCM physical assessment with psychological assessment and subhealth assessment, and the integration of modern medical checkups and various modern functional testing devices as disease risk assessment, can achieve a comprehensive and multi-dimensional health assessment, which is the primary link of “treating the untreated disease”.  Secondly, “treating the disease in the future” provides a variety of effective health care and health intervention services for the people undergoing medical checkups.  The Center for the Treatment of Pre-existing Diseases provides detailed individualized health care programs for people with physical biases according to their physical type, health status, and medical illnesses, including guidance on living and recuperation, medicinal food, emotional and mental regulation, movement and static health care, meridians and acupoints, massage and acupressure, etc. At the same time, drug interventions and non-drug Chinese medicine therapies are reasonably selected according to the specific conditions of the consultants, so as to achieve “prevention before illness” and maintenance. The aim is to prevent diseases before they occur and to maintain health.  We make full use of traditional therapeutic techniques and play the role of non-pharmacological treatment in “treating diseases before they occur”, and develop a Chinese medicine intervention treatment and health conditioning program based on non-pharmacological treatment and Chinese medicine external treatment with Chinese medicine characteristics, using techniques such as body acupuncture, abdominal acupuncture, balance acupuncture, heat-sensitive moxibustion, heavenly moxibustion, gua sha, cupping, Chinese medicine fumigation and Chinese medicine hot compress. To achieve the purpose of strengthening the body, preventing disease and fighting against aging.  From the above two aspects, it can be seen that the development of medical checkup center and the development of treatment center in Chinese medicine hospital are coexisting and co-prosperous, the development of treatment center needs the medical checkup center to provide the source of patients, and the development of medical checkup center needs the health intervention of treatment center to guarantee.