How much do you know about health?
Fifteen has not passed, even if it is the year, I would like to send you a late New Year's greeting, and I wish you all a happy and healthy life.
Starting today, this series will change the format and speak the vernacular. On the one hand, it is to explain and paraphrase, and report the latest research progress in the field of life sciences to you in plain language. On the other hand, it is based on the phenomenon of chatting to help people who are destined to change their thinking and see health-related things more clearly. Okay, let's get to business today.
As the saying goes, if you eat whole grains, you will inevitably get sick. However, there is one question that you may never have seriously thought about, what is disease? Who has the final say on whether there is a disease or not? I feel that I am dying, why doesn't the doctor pay attention to you? Did you get the wrong disease, or did the doctor have something wrong with the three views? Before answering these questions, let me tell you a little bit of history.
Today's hospitals are full of all kinds of tall and high, genetic testing, targeted drugs, robotic surgery, 3D printing for human parts, these things, a few decades ago, would only appear in science fiction works. However, those who are familiar with the history of medicine know that modern medicine started from foolishness, and there is basically no difference between seeing a doctor and executing a doctor. Let's now review an example of rescuing the king.
In 1685, Charles II, the king of the kingdom on which the sun never sets, suddenly suffered a stroke when he got up in the morning to look in the mirror. The royal health team acted urgently, pulled up the king's sleeves on both sides, and bled first, which was roughly 1200 ml. Then the shoulders are cut open, and the pot is set on, and then the enema is used to induce vomiting, including rock salt, mallow leaves, violets, beetroot, chamomile flowers, fennel seeds, flax seeds, cinnamon, saffron, cochineal, aloe vera, and metal antimony. Next, the hair is shaved, several rows of large blisters are burned, a plaster is applied, and at the same time, a decoction of barley, licorice, almonds, etc., which is not satisfactory, is not good, and red wine, fennel, mint, angelica extract are added to it, and finally, a mixture of spruce resin and pigeon droppings is applied to the feet. This set of work is more complicated than being a mummy, because it is the king, and the method does not need to be all, in case the king comes to life, who will be tossed, it is difficult to say.
Internal medicine is also indispensable, but if you don't understand the background, you can't tell the use at all. A few years later, when I saw the medical case left at that time, I seemed to be able to smell the smell of clove elbow, whose ingredients are watermelon seeds, wood honey, slippery elm, blackberry water, pearl powder, gentian root, nutmeg, quinine, cloves, lime, lily of the valley, peony flowers, lavender. This was not enough, in order to show loyalty, the royal rescue team poured a cardiotonic made of pearl powder and ammonia on Lord Charlie, and finally, he was declared dead.
By the way, the Surgical Guild was a branch of the Barber's Guild of that era, and the chief surgeon of the first caesarean section in human history was a butcher, and the target of the operation was his wife. If you're interested in searching, you'll find that the so-called doctors in the spire of modern medicine had barely used a microscope before World War I. Think about it, with such a starting point, it has only been more than 100 years, how can it be possible to overtake and leap in every corner?
Feeling wondering? Medicine, what is it? Can it still reassure the masses? The topic is too big to be explained in a few books. The simple answer is that medicine relies on definitions, and definitions come from statistics, and the quality of statistics is far inferior to that of today's big data analysis. To put it more simply, it is mainly up to the powerful people in the industry to meet and discuss. For example, the standard of hypertension is decided by several managers of the American Heart Association, who say that the systolic blood pressure standard has been lowered from 140 mmHg to 130 mmHg, and the diastolic blood pressure standard has been reduced from 90 mmHg to 80 mmHg. Who is happiest when it comes to adjusting the standard of taking medicine? If you're as smart as you are, how can you not think of it?
Sick, or not sick, from the perspective of Western medical history, has three meanings. The first layer is illness, which is a subjective feeling, for example, you find that you have a rash on your body, you have a fever, you feel unwell, and you feel that you are not in a state that is quite right; The second layer, disease, is a set of objective classification criteria, simply put, it is a disease in the eyes of doctors, and each disease is analyzed, summarized and named by experts from various associations according to case reports, and the diagnostic criteria and treatment measures are constantly updated; The third layer is sick, sick, and is a character defined by yourself or the outside world, for example, you are lazy, lying on the sofa, you don't want to help your wife wash the dishes, pretend to be weak, or you are sent to a mental hospital, change into striped clothes, and if you don't take medicine well, you may be electrocuted, this is called get sick.
Illness has at least three meanings, both related and different, so whether there is disease or not is more complicated. Usually, people go to the doctor when they feel or notice a disease, and at this time, after various process examinations, they can basically find one or even a bunch of diseases, so almost everyone is sick, but most of them have not been detected or diagnosed by the doctors. For example, a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in the Journal of Psychiatry shows that about 2.5 billion children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 24 worldwide900 million have at least 1 mental disorder. Scholars from MIT and Harvard University, published in the Nature series of Medicine, pointed out that a comparison of whole genome sequences showed that about 20% of the subjects had at least one of the 10 common diseases.
Remember, people are susceptible to disease, and when you feel the pain, according to ordinary people, it is already at the stage of late detection. At this time, to find a doctor is to follow the process according to the manuals and guidelines, and enter the SICK role, the role of the patient, in other words, you can no longer alleviate the pain caused by the disease according to your own wishes and abilities, but can only be a good patient according to the rules of the hospital. Better, you have a knowledgeable or knowledgeable friend who can help you make an informed choice, that is, to decide whether you are at the mercy of the doctors or not, knowing all the possible consequences. However, to be honest, it is extremely difficult to make an informed choice, and in the vast majority of cases, you can only temporarily hand over your body and savings to the hospital, you know?
Seeing this, you should have straightened out your thinking. Whether you are sick or not, first of all, depends on your health awareness and common sense, early detection of abnormalities, to the doctor, usually a minor illness, the measures are simpler, and the results are more ideal. It's late, and you're pulled to the doctor by an ambulance, and it's good that someone can save your life, what choice do you have? How to get it, how to get it, what is it like, process, brothers and sisters, think about mechanized chicken workshops and so on?
Finally, one more nagging sentence, if you have a disease according to the standards of the doctors, but firmly deny that you are sick, it is a significant manifestation of mental illness, for this kind of uncontrolled rebellion against the big medical system, in history and reality, the doctors have given the most severe punishment, among them, there are many extremely tragic stories, these will be told later. That's all for today.,I'm going to get sick for a while.。
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