How to be a good patient?

When people eat grains, who can live without illness? In the course of a person’s life, there are varying degrees of illness. At some point, illness can be fatal, but there are times when illness is good for our health. Occasional minor illnesses can in turn stimulate our body’s immune system and improve its ability to fight. In that sense, being sick is a good thing. Just as the U.S. military has been able to maintain a better fighting ability over the years because they have been fighting. Being sick is inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing, so do you get sick? Or will you be sick? You may think it’s funny, sick, not pretending to be sick, what won’t you do? There are indeed people in life who can’t be a patient, causing tension between doctors and patients, resulting in a lot of unnecessary things happening outside of medical care, bringing unnecessary trouble to patients, families, doctors, and society. It seems to be a good thing to talk about being a patient. As we all know, the recovery of the disease to the doctor and patient to cooperate with each other, in such mutual trust and mutual cooperation, how to do a good patient? 1, the correct understanding of the nature of medicine sounds abstract, simply put, medicine is not a narrow science (Newtonian science), the meaning of the real science is determined, objective, repeatable. There are many uncertainties in medicine, and even many powerless scenarios. It is not difficult to understand why there may be different treatment options for the same disease? How can the effects of the same drug vary so much from patient to patient? With such advanced science today, why is the pathogenesis of most diseases still not well understood? Why are most diseases still incurable? Why do doctors not give patients a definite answer, but mostly replace it with maybe this or maybe that? This is medicine, too much uncertainty, too much helplessness, this helplessness is not only to the patient, but also to the doctor. Doctors are human, not gods. Medicine will apply to science, but medicine itself is not a science, but an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. Or it is a form of empirical reasoning. The physician asks for history and symptoms, examines signs, and combines this information with clinical experience and relevant laboratory studies to form an initial clinical impression of the disease. This is supplemented by laboratory tests, ultrasound, CT and other examinations to make a final judgment, and then the appropriate treatment plan is given based on experience and evidence. If the disease improves or is cured after treatment, the reasoning is correct. Of course, clinical reasoning is not always completely correct, which is why there is uncertainty in medicine. Patients should understand to understand this point in order to be a good patient. 2, the correct view of knowledge inequality Knowledge inequality exists in all fields, not just medicine. Think about it, the home computer failure, if it is a software problem, you can still solve yourself. If it is a hardware problem, you can still do it? If you can solve it yourself, you must be a professional computer expert. If you go to a repair shop and a professional tells you to change this and that, you only need a few minutes to consider the value of the repair and replacement parts. Despite the inequality of knowledge, it doesn’t take much respect from the other party to decide whether a sick computer is dead or alive. Medicine is dealing with people, sick people. Inequality of medical knowledge is not the same as disrespect. The media, the Internet, the press and many other ways to make medical information available to patients, but the understanding of this information is one-sided, even one-sided. The half-understanding or even misunderstanding of the awareness to apply the patient’s situation, you can imagine the consequences, and the inadequate communication with the doctor, resulting in the increase and amplification of the differences in understanding. If such differences cannot be well resolved, the result is a strained doctor-patient relationship. The two sides do not trust each other, think about it, the consequences of this strained doctor-patient relationship or patient suffering, there will be a lot of excessive examination and treatment. So learn to trust, since you choose this hospital or this doctor, you should fully trust him, the doctor will have a relatively clear understanding of the disease after a comprehensive understanding of the patient’s situation, will take the initiative to communicate with the patient. At this time you then communicate your doubts and ideas with the doctor, communication, I believe the doctor will give you a satisfactory answer. This way the doctor and the patient’s goal is the same, no worries, joint efforts, the disease to heal is only a matter of time. Think about it again, why there are often illiterate patients can get a good treatment plan and affordable rehabilitation program, while some patients who think they know a lot about medicine can not, the difference is the answer. 3, the right treatment I am weak The word weak, in recent years, has frequently stimulated the eye. Sympathy for the patient is not the same as sympathy for the weak. Weakness itself is also relative, in the degree of medical knowledge mastery how much to see, the doctor is strong, the patient is weak. In turn, in the patient’s field of practice, the doctor is weak, the patient is strong. It is only because medicine is facing the patient, life is priceless, the most valuable, so the difference between the strong and weak is exaggerated in disguise. There is no such thing as perfection in the world. The current medical environment is already the result of our country’s best efforts, and it is obviously unrealistic to ask for too much more. The country is gradually improving the medical environment and focusing on people’s livelihood, but it takes time. Being sick is a painful thing, and as stated at the beginning of the article, being sick is not a bad thing if you look at it from the perspective of stimulating immune function. So, don’t over-position yourself as the weak one; over-emphasis will invite contempt. Is a doctor a strong person because the patient is weak? A doctor is nothing more than a person who serves your health, and it is not up to the doctor to decide what services to provide. The “medical fights” that have been in the news time and time again may be understood, the degree of understanding of medical uncertainty determines the direction of the matter. Is it that all illnesses cannot die when they come to the hospital? Is it the doctor’s responsibility to die? Is it the responsibility of the hospital? “I am weak, even if I lose the medical lawsuit, the hospital will have to pay”, this relatively despicable ideological understanding of the “medical” wind, so that the patient is admitted to the hospital to talk about the future “death “The thing, who suffers in the end? Doctors? Obviously not, but the patients themselves. This is a tragedy! So, the real patient, is the one who makes people respect and makes the doctor exhausted and without regret! I hope you are one such patient, a respectable one!