Han Qide: How to make medicine "warm up"

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At the end of October, Han Qide, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and founding director of the Department of Science, Technology and Medical History at Peking University, caused a stir when his new book, The Temperature of Medicine, was published. "For a time 'temperature' became a buzzword, and many friends said they wanted to be temperature-thy-temperature people, to be temperature-thy-music, temperature-seth teachers." At the launch of his new book at Peking University on November 19th, Mr Han admitted he was encouraged.
exactly is the temperature of medicine? How can medicine become more temperaturey? The experts engaged in an in-depth dialogue.20 articles, more than 200 pages, the small book "The Temperature of Medicine" looks humble, but it is of great concern because it has its own power and temperature. From what medicine is, what medical attention, to how medicine sees life, how medicine has temperature, full of understanding and reflection on the humanities of medicine.
science and technology is the fundamental force to promote medical progress and safeguard the health of all people. But Han Qide has always stressed that we also need to see the complexity of the human body, see that the current level of science and technology and medicine is not enough to make all diseases can be effectively diagnosed and treated, medicine is limited.
" technology supremacy can only make the public produce unreal high expectations, resulting in more disappointment, but also let doctors can not jump out of the limitations of technology, more humane care for patients. Han Qide said, "The object of medicine is people, people are thoughtful and emotional, in particular, when sick need to be human care." The fundamental harm of the disease lies in the pain, and the pain is a subjective feeling, so the patient's most need is always love and care. Han
, believes that in this process, health care workers are the main transmission of medical temperature. The problem is, "Our medical education now focuses too much on the transfer of medical knowledge, the cultivation of scientific spirit and human feelings is not enough, we need to be from the concept, system, method of comprehensive reform."
He also hoped that health care workers must first have good character and personality, love, understanding of human feelings, reason, to be able to experience the "life-giving" weight, to be a person with temperature.Tang Jinling, director of clinical research at Guangzhou Women's and Children's Medical Center and professor of epidemiology at Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that the kind of care and concern that doctors show in the face of patients is not the whole interpretation of medical "temperature". "The temperature of medicine is more about the adherence of the entire medical community to its mission and to the original purpose of medicine."
this involves an important question, what exactly is the original intention of medicine.
" in fact, the medical profession has a very popular saying, the expression of patient pain is the beginning of medical intervention. Or, as the book says, medicine is a response to a patient's illness. Don Jinling said.
but medicine has changed in the last hundred years. "People have never lived so long, lived so healthily, and medicine has never been so successful," Cambridge Medical History wrote. Paradoxically, however, medicine has never attracted as much suspicion and dissatisfaction as it does today. The
is that medicine deviates from providing patient-centered, valuable care. Mr Tang said patient-centred, valuable care was about providing patients with what they needed most.
, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also believes that medicine should be guided by people's needs for disease prevention and treatment, not by capital accumulation and economic development. "If the future is oriented, our medicine can't have temperature, it can only be cool, and it's getting colder and cooler."
" medical culture used to be truth-seeking, good-seeking, beauty-seeking, truth-seeking scientific view, good-seeking humanistic view and aesthetic art view, this kind of medical culture should always be the same melody. Chen Guoqiang, vice-president of Shanghai Jiaotong University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said, "But now because technology is first, money is first, and the truth is beautiful and change for profit, society will lack temperature, and a society without temperature only requires that medicine have temperature, which is unrealistic." And medicine has no temperature, which in turn affects the stability and stability of society. Wang , president of the Beijing Concord Medical College of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is also worried because of the social discontent with medicine. The statement that medicine lacks temperature may become the reason why all sectors of the community have denounced the medical profession and criticized them one-sidedly for not speaking human nature and pursuing only money.
" kindness and compassion are from the heart of the healer, but the temperature of the healer also needs the mobilization and inspiration of society. Wang Chen stressed that in order to maintain the temperature of medicine, there must be sufficient "fuel". "We need to reflect on whether the entire medical community is not burning enough of its own, or is it not giving enough fuel?"
in his view, the temperature of medicine is not a smiley face temperature, but the whole society can give the doctor, to the medical industry to develop a warm and generous conditions, so that the doctor really glowed the temperature. Therefore, Wang Chen believes that the focus is to thicken the foundation of the development of the medical industry.
to medical reform as an example, Wang Chen believes that medical reform can not be turned into a tool to control fees, medical reform must improve the quality of treatment as the main line, all to improve the quality of medical care to provide support. "Medical reform is by no means china's existing medical resources are not rich, medical prices have been contrary to the law of cost, and then to control fees as the main pursuit, which is equivalent to a person who already lacks nutrition to lose weight, diet the same."