novel for you Chapter 703: Benefits of Treating Multiple Diseases
Chapter 703: Benefits of Treating Multiple Diseases
"It's really interesting, three people fighting so fiercely, each with their own methods."
At the back of the consultation room, doctors from other departments of the hospital were listening, and one of them couldn't help but laugh.
"Doctor Yu, you are totally wrong."
Zhou Yang, who was sitting next to Dr. Yu, and Chen Yang had known each other for a long time. Zhou Yang had accompanied Gao Mingxuan to Jiping Town Health Hospital.
As Chen Yang's fame grew, Zhou Yang's interest in Chinese medicine also deepened. He would occasionally chat with Li Haofei or Bai Jinbo, and is now considered a Chinese medicine enthusiast.
"What's wrong?"
Doctor Yu said, "They say Chinese medicine can treat multiple diseases, but what's the point?"
"It seems that everyone is fighting for their own interests, without a unified ideology. Each person has his own prescription, which is totally unrelated. Each person's prescription seems to be able to cure the disease, but also seems not to be able to cure the disease. How can patients choose?"
Doctor Yu said: "It's not as convenient as Western medicine. There is a unified treatment plan. Every doctor uses almost the same medicine. It's easy to tell whether it's right or not, and whether it can be cured."
Zhou Yang said: "That's why you are an outsider, Doctor Zhou. Chinese medicine has one prescription for each person and multiple treatments for one disease. That's the power of Chinese medicine."
After a pause, Zhou Yang continued, "Chinese medicine has multiple methods for treating one disease. Although they may seem unrelated to laymen, each method can cure the disease. The dialectical thinking is different, but if the dialectic is clear, the right medicine can be used."
"In modern medicine, there is a unified treatment, but the conditions of patients vary greatly. For example, some patients are allergic to certain drugs, and some patients are intolerant to certain drugs. Once this happens, the difficulty of treatment will increase significantly, and doctors may even be at a loss."
"Because there are few treatments, the road is blocked. At this time, the difficulty is increased. In addition to allergies and intolerances, there are various other conditions, such as not being able to take medicine, not being suitable for surgery, etc. These can cause great trouble to the treatment when there is a treatment method."
Zhou Yang smiled and said, "Chinese medicine's ability to treat one disease with multiple methods is based on actual situations. If one method doesn't work, try another. If another method doesn't work, try another. No matter what the patient's condition is, the doctor can adapt to the patient's situation."
"You only have one road, and if it's blocked, there's no other way. But I have many roads. If you block one road, I still have other roads to go."
Zhou Yang looked at Doctor Yu and said, "Now tell me, is this good or bad? Is this good or not?"
Doctor Yu opened his mouth, speechless for a moment.
As a doctor, Dr. Yu was naturally very clear about some of the clinical situations that Zhou Yang mentioned. Modern medical treatments are indeed very good, with various special medicines and advanced surgeries.
However, the patients' conditions are indeed changeable, and there are too many patients with allergies, intolerances and other conditions in clinical practice.
Take chemotherapy for example. The biggest problem many patients face during chemotherapy is intolerance. Some have severe allergies and cannot bear it, so they have to give up.
Once you encounter this situation, even the most skilled doctor will have a headache because your medicine is no longer useful and your method no longer works.
Zhou Yang did know something, so what he said made sense.
Traditional Chinese medicine has both "prescriptions" and "methods". The word "method" can actually be separated into two parts in traditional Chinese medicine.
"Fang" means prescription, corresponding solution, and "Fa" means different methods, such as oral administration or enema, fumigation or external application, acupuncture or massage...
There are different methods for different patients, and there will be no method that cannot be used due to certain factors of the patient.
“All roads lead to Kyoto.”
Zhou Yang smiled and said to the doctor: "Although Director Xun and the other two have different opinions, their purpose is actually the same. They just chose three different paths."
"Whether you take a car or a plane, you can get there, but when it comes to traditional Chinese medicine, we don't understand it and it seems confusing."
"Doctor Zhou is right."
Bai Jinbo came to the two people at some point and said with a smile, "This is the power of Chinese medicine. Doctor Li has only been in clinical practice for more than a year, but he can cure many diseases that other departments cannot. The reason for this is also because of the uniqueness and advantages of Chinese medicine."
The Doctor Li that Bai Jinbo mentioned is Li Haofei. Bai Jinbo actually knows that Li Haofei's level is not very high, he is just constantly improving. However, Li Haofei can sometimes cure some diseases that other departments cannot, precisely because of the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine.
"Director Xun, Doctor Liu, and Doctor Li all said very well."
Chen Yang smiled and said, "Today's consultation, on the surface, seems to be a collision of three different treatment plans, but in fact it is a concentrated display of the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine."
"Western medicine's unified treatment plan is indeed efficient and convenient, and has achieved remarkable results in treating many diseases. However, individual patients vary greatly, and TCM's one disease, multiple treatments, and one prescription for each patient are precisely a respect and response to such differences."
"Chinese medicine emphasizes dialectical treatment. Every prescription and every treatment is based on careful observation and in-depth analysis of the patient's overall condition."
Chen Yang paused for a moment, his face serious: "This is like a puzzle. We need to find the patient's symptoms, signs, living habits, emotional state, etc., each piece of the puzzle accurately, and then piece together the most complete picture of the patient's health, and then choose the most appropriate treatment method based on this picture."
"For this consultation, Director Xun, Dr. Li and Dr. Liu all had different ideas, but they were all trying to find the piece of the puzzle that best suited the patient."
Chen Yang looked around and said, "The development of traditional Chinese medicine does not mean abandoning the strengths of other medicines, but learning from and integrating with modern medicine on the basis of its own advantages. Only in this way can we provide patients with more comprehensive and effective medical services."
Although Chen Yang did not hear the conversation between Dr. Yu and Zhou Yang, in his summary of the debate between Li Haofei and the other two, Chen Yang was also answering Dr. Yu.
Many people don’t know much about Chinese medicine, so they always have misunderstandings and develop some prejudices or misunderstandings.
There used to be a joke on the Internet that made fun of traditional Chinese medicine, saying that ten traditional Chinese medicine practitioners might have ten different methods of treating a disease, and they would not give in to each other and would probably start arguing.
In fact, this is a deliberate smear. In a real discussion, no matter what the method is, only the correct ones are qualified to argue. The wrong ones and those who are dialectically incorrect will be discovered in the discussion. Of course, if they are all a group of people with insufficient level and all use wrong methods, that is another matter.
One disease can be treated in multiple ways, which means that any method can cure the disease, not that one method works but that method does not, which will delay the patient's treatment. It's just that the specific treatments are different.
No matter how many wrong methods there are, they cannot be considered methods. How can you talk about treating one disease with multiple methods?
It’s just a miscalculation due to one disease!