If I were a patient or a patient’s family member, what would be the best way to get the right advice? In today’s era of big data, there is a vast amount of information, and health articles, information and programs are of great interest. But often listen to the East and listen to the West, eat the King’s medicine and eat Zhang’s medicine, and finally the disease is heavy, so we have to find an authoritative hospital to treat a period of time, a little better and repeat the previous “wheel of treatment”, why would such a situation occur? The first is the lack of medical knowledge, unwilling to long-term treatment, only willing to short-term use of drugs. Like diabetes and other “three highs”, it is a problem that follows the body and does not disappear easily. Even through very strict dietary control and exercise, it often shows its ugly face. So treating chronic diseases requires common sense and a common mind, not seeking a cure, not seeking a cure once and for all to be safe from deception. The second is the rejection of Western medicine and blind faith in Chinese medicine and prescriptions. We are proud to be Chinese and admire the profoundness of our motherland’s medicine. However, this does not prevent us from absorbing the essence of Western medicine and carrying it forward. For some diseases that should be treated for a long time and prevented from complications, such as the three high, in these diseases, Western medicine has some globally recognized evidence, and it is easier to find the basis, so the treatment is relatively uniform. However, some people think that “medicine is poisonous” and do not take it if they can. Then I would like to ask if it is only at the end of life and in the resuscitation room that they will pay attention and take the medicine properly? Chinese people can walk on both legs of Chinese and Western medicine, what is the need to hold the portal between Chinese and Western medicine confrontation? And why should we ignore the inevitable damage of disease to the human body and talk about the contingent damage of drugs to people in isolation? The third is that some unscrupulous businessmen deliberately exaggerate the damage of other drugs to the human body, especially commonly used drugs (such as metformin, and economic and effective, become the target of attacks), falsely claim that they can “cure”, “regulation”, “recovery” and so on. “recovery” and so on, in order to make people believe, they will “cleverly” borrow the authority (even go so far as to make up an authority unit), well-known experts (playing the expert card). But the liar will eventually reveal his foot. No matter how much they say, you only have to ask, if the results are really like this, whether they are adopted or recognized by the authoritative hospitals, and whether they should have been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine? received the Nobel Prize in medicine? Diabetes is a global problem, and it is well known that it cannot be cured. Those who claim to have a cure or breakthrough are not profit-seekers, so they can just walk away and ignore it. You may ask, how can people without a medical background screen the onslaught of pharmaceutical propaganda in non-medical fields? Is it too much to prevent? Here I would like to provide some identification basis, for your reference. 1, the general true authority of the medical institutions more than the media advertising. For example, Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, where also used to advertise in newspapers, television, the existing patients can not see it. 2, all the words must be called “good news, XX patients, XX new breakthroughs in the treatment of disease” and so on often not credible, there is no need to look down, can be skipped. If the argument is not true, the logic of which is no longer rigorous, and then “like that” is also false. If you have to ask for proof, you can also ask an authoritative medical institution. Do not bother to give up your money and body to fulfill someone else’s dream of getting rich. 3, “using the credibility of the authoritative media” – some patients blindly believe that some newspapers, radio, television in the drug publicity, that the media has a certain authority, you can believe. In fact, China is now strictly media drug advertising approval system, now Western medicine is not allowed to advertise, but some people take advantage of the advertising of traditional Chinese medicine is not strictly restricted, playing “mysterious” “Tibetan medicine” “Meng medicine However, some people take advantage of the fact that there are still strict restrictions on the advertising of Chinese medicine, and play the card of “mysterious”, “Tibetan medicine”, “Mongolian medicine” and “ancestral medicine”. 4, “advertising inserts to conceal the sea” – some unscrupulous pharmaceutical marketing agencies use to the corresponding departments of the hospital to send small ads, in the authoritative newspaper folder paper exactly the same inserts, playing health advice labeled drug advertising is not difficult to identify. 5, “put out the bait” – there are many is the concept of health care products to attract people, the words will be able to cure the “three high”, which diseases have a lot of people, which diseases are not easy to cure, said to be able to cure which diseases. One thing can actually cure more than a dozen diseases, but also just a health product, it is puzzling. 6, “lie repeated a few times like the truth” – the use of brainwashing advertising method, repeated many times the “bombardment”, until you think more and more justified. 7, no matter what is talked about under the health care section, as long as the product is involved, whether it is “medicine”, “health products” or “instruments”, the credibility of its theory is worth questioning. The previous eloquent talk is just paving the way for the subsequent advertising. 8, posing as experts for telephone consultation. I do not know which real doctor will risk sacrificing his image and reputation to cooperate with people who may be frauds? In the face of all the above, I often wonder why patients do not trust doctors, but prefer to believe in “miracle drugs” or “miracle devices”? I think people’s innate sense of self-protection and self-soothing (or paralysis) plays a role here. Because the doctor reveals to the patient is some “cruel” objective reality, the patient needs comfort and spiritual support, just like when there is no medicine to pray to the gods, is completely sensible to understand this “avoidance of disease”. The problem is that people as ordinary people should not just paralyze themselves, often need to look in the mirror (to give themselves a wake-up call), ask more questions, after all, health is not a small problem, take medicine to cure the disease is also different from the supermarket, restaurant, the sale is only the form, the meaning is extremely important, must need to see a doctor first, after taking drugs, never just listen to the propaganda to buy drugs on their own, the danger is like ” The degree of danger is like a “mine”. As a doctor, the advice to patients is: believe in science, believe in authoritative institutions, and do the “three no’s” on the big talk of medical advertising – do not take, do not see, do not believe. Do not take, do not read, and do not believe in medical advertisements. Seek truth from facts and do not listen to hearsay. It is not advisable to follow others to buy medicine or to see propaganda to buy medicine, which is very dangerous.