What it was like to be a “patient” once when I was a student

    I have been practicing surgery for almost 20 years and I don’t know how many patients I have come in contact with. I have felt their nervousness, anxiety and pain, but of course, more than that, I have turned from worry to joy. I am a doctor naturally do not find it difficult to see a doctor, so I would like to put myself in the shoes of an ordinary person in the end how difficult it is to see a doctor. When I was studying in Shanghai, I pretended to be a patient and saw a doctor.
    The first thing was to register for a doctor’s appointment. The long queue at the registration desk in the morning is not unfamiliar to you at all, it is common at the station. After waiting for your number, you went to the waiting room, which was already full, and by the time you were called, half the night had passed. I told the doctor I had a cough and a fever. Finally, I get a bunch of sheets, labs and films. There was a queue at the payment counter, a queue for the labs and films, and by the time I got the results it was almost evening. Of course I was entitled to a medical checkup, if there is a real disease, I still have to get medicine, hanging water and other things in the back. Zhu Jianwei, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Nantong University Hospital
    There is a limit to human patience, let alone a patient. What I fear most in my life is the long queue and low efficiency. If the medical system is graded and medical resources are shared in a balanced manner, it would be nice to not have to run to the big hospitals for all the small and big problems. Of course, this was the situation several years ago, perhaps now some improvement.