Recently, Yu Enyan, a professor at China Medical University, wrote in an article that cancer patients who are on the verge of death are not really worried about death.
As a front-line clinical oncologist with integrative Chinese and Western medicine, I have been thinking for a long time, what are they thinking about and worrying about?
Here are nine points to sum up:
Concerns about medical bills.
The ** of life is gone.
Cancer itself is fraught with fear.
* Pain.
Bodily functions are fraught with obstacles.
Family life was disrupted.
**Metastasis of disease.
Disorders in interpersonal relationships.
The fear of death.
In reality, people will only say to the patient, "You can concentrate on healing now, don't think about anything else," which can't help but remind me of such a plot in "Oscar and Grandma Rose", which makes me feel sorry for those patients who are always encouraged to be strong after watching it.
Plot: If you mention the word dead in the hospital, no one will listen to it, you can assume that there is some kind of forbidden area, and everyone will divert from the topic. I've tried everyone except Grandma Rose. So this morning, I wanted to try to see if she would pretend to be deaf and dumb at this time.
Grandma Rose, I don't think anyone will tell me I'm going to die." She looked at me blankly, "Why do you need someone else to tell you when you already know?"”
In my opinion, a person who is really facing death just wants someone to listen to what he says, wants others to treat them as normal people, talks to them about life and death, encourages and helps them to really start dealing with all aspects of worry, not just encouraging them to take care of their bodies.
As a front-line clinician, I just want to take care of the body and the heart at the same time.