We often struggle with whether or not to go to the doctor when we are feeling ill? Should we choose an emergency room or an outpatient clinic? What do I need to prepare before going to the doctor? How to let the doctor better help themselves? First, should you see should not see The human body has the ability to repair itself. And this ability is strong, obviously more powerful than computers and cars. Some diseases don’t need treatment, and some are “self-limiting” – that is, they get better on their own when the time comes. However, the diseases that can happen to human beings have been with us for as long as we have been evolving, and they are not idle. If one is unwell, do you carry on, or do you go to the hospital. This is a question. 1, if the function of the organ is impaired, the need for immediate medical attention The function of the eyes is to see things, suddenly can not see, should immediately see a doctor. Similarly, suddenly can not hear, limb movement suddenly appeared obstacles …… 2, intolerable pain Pain is the body issued a “fire alarm”, do not go to challenge the pain. If you encounter intolerable pain, you should consult a doctor as soon as possible. For example, abdominal pain, chest pain, eye pain. It is important to note that even if you go to the hospital, the doctor will not usually give you immediate pain relief. Pain is a “fire alarm”, is an important signal to understand the health of the body, no one will be in the fire before eliminating the fire, first cut the nearby telephone lines. 3, recurring discomfort, the old, put up with it will pass – most cancers are so through the childhood of no one harassed. For recurring discomforts, you should pay careful attention to what triggers them and how they are relieved. It is best to go and see them to avoid future problems. 4.Already in a certain disease process, but the feeling suddenly changed The doctor may have told you that the disease is nothing, in a few days they can get well, at the beginning, the feeling is also better every day, but today suddenly worsened, then it is best to go to the review again. 5, other people see the disease Usually do not have to rush, the human body has a developed self-testing system, if they do not have any uncomfortable feeling, most likely there is no big problem. (Note: the doctor found after physical examination except, such as the body of the mass and so on) 6, regular physical examination is necessary to protect their own bodies only themselves, regular physical examination is necessary. Second, emergency or outpatient? General hospitals have emergency and outpatient. Emergency is for patients in need of urgent treatment. The outpatient clinic is for less urgent patients. Emergency clinics are set up to get patients out of danger in a short period of time, so they are equipped with emergency and quick-acting medicines, and with basic tests that can be used to make quick judgments. So, if you have a less urgent illness, or even a chronic illness, you won’t actually get a very good diagnosis at an emergency clinic. Don’t go to the emergency room at night simply because you work during the day and it’s not good to take time off. You won’t get the best medications, you won’t be able to complete the best lab tests and ancillary tests. Your body is your own, don’t give up giving yourself the best diagnosis and treatment just so you don’t have to take time off work, in turn usurping the healthcare resources allocated to emergency patients …… Conditions that require a trip to the emergency room: 1. An illness that has just occurred. An illness that you have had for three days and still run to the emergency room to see, I as a doctor will feel bad in my heart. 2, This disease can cause irreversible damage to the function of an organ within 8 hours. Sudden onset of abdominal pain, chest pain, eye pain, headache, or should go to the emergency room to see first. Preparation before going to the doctor 1. Review history (1) Before going to the doctor, please review your medical history, when did the onset of the disease start? How did you feel when you had the attack? If you have time, please write it down with a notebook and pen. (2) Recall any drug allergies. A history of drug allergies is very important to your doctor. If you have had a serious adverse reaction to a drug in the past, make a note of it and ask your doctor to write down the name of the drug you are allergic to on the cover of your most commonly used medical record. (3) Recall the treatments you have received, as well as the medications you are using, and their trade names. If you can still find the instructions for the medications or empty pill bottles or leftover medications, bring them with you. (4) Bring all previous medical records and results of tests you have had. After each visit to the doctor, please put away all the test results and medical records. Some test results are printed by thermal printing, which is easy to fade after a long time, so please make a copy of them and keep them. (1) Bring your credit card and enough cash, some hospitals do not support credit cards. In addition, you need to be careful of thieves. (2) Bring your ID card, social security card, retirement card, retirement card, hospital card and other things that may be related to medical insurance. (3) Arrange the affairs on the day of sick leave (1) Call in sick and arrange the work on that day. (2) It is best to find a healthier partner than you to accompany you to the doctor. (3) Expect to go to the time, do not go to the hospital after 11:00 am, or after 4:00 pm to register. This is because, I am afraid, there may not be a number available, or although you have seen a doctor, by the time you need to have a checkup, it will be after office hours and the other departments will be empty. (4) Check the weather of the day. The worse the weather is, the fewer people will visit the doctor. 4.Choose the right hospital (1) If you already have considerable medical knowledge, you can choose a hospital according to your condition. (2) Generally, community hospitals and secondary hospitals are cleaner and more comfortable for you to go to see a doctor and get medicine. It is recommended that you go to a community hospital or a nearby secondary hospital first, so that you can at least get appropriate medical advice and referrals. (3) When you choose a tertiary hospital to see a doctor, it also means that it may be difficult to register and see a doctor. 5, registration If you are a foreign patient to another city to see a doctor, and to see a particular specialist, try to make an appointment in advance on the Internet or something like that, lest you can not hang up the number when you arrive. 6, adjust the mood (1) get sick is not a pleasant thing. But people get sick all the time, so there’s nothing to complain about when illness comes to you. (2) Cooperate with your doctor to fight your illness. 7. Check and confirm the various preparations above, take everything with you, and set out. If you can overcome the disease, use your doctor’s power to overcome it together. If you cannot overcome the disease, then learn from your doctor how to coexist with your disease. Fourth, how to communicate with the doctor Whether you see a traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is concerned about looking and sniffing, Western medicine is concerned about asking for medical history and physical examination. Doctors need to talk to you in order to know what your disease is like. Our body is full of self-checking signals that report to your brain in their own language, such as pain, soreness, weakness, burning, foreign body sensation. Please report these sensations to your doctor so that he can help you. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) does not just cut your pulse to feel out what is wrong with you, and Western medicine does not just rely on CT, ultrasound, or lab tests to know what is wrong with you. Diagnosing a disease is like doing an investigation, comprehensive evidence can only point to the culprit. Although it is rare, there are some patients who come to the doctor without saying a word, with their hands outstretched or their faces straightened, the doctor has to guess his main symptoms and discomfort first, and he will continue to see the patient only after he has said the right thing. Once upon a time, when I went out to the clinic, I would play with them for a while when I was relatively free and in a good mood, and they would be very convinced if I got the answer right. Please remember that a doctor’s time is also very valuable. Distinguish between facts and judgments As much as possible, learn to distinguish between statements of fact and judgments. The following are statements of fact: “My eyes are red,” “I have a fever of up to 39 degrees,” and “I have a sore throat. The following are statements of judgment: “My eyes are inflamed,” “I have a high fever,” “I have a fire.” Unless you are in a psychiatric or psychological clinic, please state the facts as best you can. Please describe your feelings in terms of the sensation or manifestation of the discomfort and when they occurred, e.g., “I can’t pee for 3 days” is a very good description, while “I can’t pee for a long time” still doesn’t provide enough information for the doctor. My suggestion is: 1. For chronic diseases, please be precise to the year or month, for example, “chest tightness after exercise for 5 years”. 2. If the onset of the disease occurred in the past 1-2 years, please be precise to the month, for example, “6 months of vision loss in both eyes”. 3.Precisely to the day if the onset of the disease occurs within the past month, such as “3 days of inability to urinate”. 4. For acute illnesses, please be precise to the hour, e.g. “I can’t see anything in front of my left eye for 1 hour”. If you have a number that describes your condition, please tell the doctor as much as possible. For example, “This week my blood sugar has been as high as 13”, but if you just say “This week my blood sugar is very high”, it depends on who you are comparing it to. Please try to answer your doctor’s questions with numbers, especially if they have the key word “how much” in them. Unfortunately, when I ask, “How many years have you had high blood pressure?” More than 80% of the time, the answer is “a long time”. Pain and Suffering When you go to the doctor, even if it is an emergency, the doctor will not relieve you of your pain right away. Pain is nature’s gift to mankind, though it is a gift no one wants. Pain is the body’s fire alarm, an important signal for diagnosing disease and determining its progress, and a direct report to your doctor from the part of your body that is sick. A doctor cannot help a patient with pain until a definitive diagnosis has been made, just as we cannot easily hang up the phone on a fire alarm without identifying the location of the reported fire. Maybe you or your family members are in pain on the examination bed, the doctor will still indifferently touch this and that, or even press hard to ask if you are in more pain, at this time, please also tell the doctor how you feel. Attitude If you don’t have a high income and don’t live a good life, please tell your doctor directly, and I believe many doctors will choose relatively cheap medicines and treatments for you as I did. But at the same time relatively cheap medication can mean a difference in efficacy and especially side effects. If you are stuck in a traffic jam, can’t find a parking space, freezing in front of the registration office, sitting in the outpatient clinic waiting for a morning with nothing to do, please try not to vent your grievances on the doctor who is treating you, who is stuck in a traffic jam on the way to work and can’t find a parking space, and who is checking on hospitalized patients in the ward while you are freezing in front of the registration office, and who is struggling with his patients in the consultation room while you are waiting for an appointment in the outpatient clinic. Expectations A considerable number of diseases are not able to eliminate the cause of the disease, such as common hypertension, diabetes, glaucoma, rheumatoid …… Nowadays, medicine is also unable to solve these problems, doctors are able to provide is as far as possible to control the progression of the disease, so that the disease is harmless, the blood pressure is reduced to a normal value, which means that you will die of cerebral hemorrhage after decades to reduce the possibility; eye pressure is less likely to die of brain bleeding Lowering your blood pressure to normal means that you are less likely to die of a brain hemorrhage decades from now. Lowering your eye pressure to a target level means that the rate at which you lose your field of vision can be slowed, or even stopped. What you can find with your doctor is not necessarily a way to beat the disease, but often a way to learn how to live with it. The “hope” of a cure for a disease that appears on the news or in the newspaper is not the same as what is actually available to you in a hospital. Medicine is a very conservative discipline. A treatment can only be finalized after several years, ten years or even decades of research, and a new drug can only enter the hospital pharmacy after at least ten years of experimentation and approval. Even after so many years of research and determination of the treatment program, it is still impossible to 100% guarantee that your disease will be cured, absolutely impossible. Curing a disease is different from repairing a car. You can’t get a repaired car just because you paid for it. Please keep in mind that it is absolutely impossible to get a guaranteed cure after spending money, and it is absolutely impossible to guarantee that there is no risk. In case you get such a guarantee from the doctor, it means: 1. the doctor is comforting you; 2. the person you are talking to is not a doctor at all. INFORMED CONSENT As mentioned earlier, there is absolutely no way you can be guaranteed a cure, and absolutely no way you can be guaranteed that there are no risks. Before an invasive procedure or surgery, your doctor will show you an informed consent form. This informed consent form is like the one you hear when you buy a stock or fund: “Entering the market is risky, be careful when investing,” and it tells you about the possible dangers. 1, informed consent written on every risk, are real happened, at least one real patient, really experienced such pain. 2, The risks of emergence that are written on the informed consent form are the same risks that your doctor will continue to do his or her best to help you with, should they occur.