Why is the "imperial doctor" so popular?
During the period from the early days of the People's Republic of China to the reform and opening-up, Chinese medicine practitioners who were originally scattered in private practice were uniformly arranged by the state to work in regular hospitals. In China, there were only barefoot doctors, and there was no such term as folk Chinese medicine. Therefore, folk Chinese medicine was a modern new term that appeared only after the reform and opening-up, which was used to distinguish traditional Chinese medicine within the formal establishment.
after the reform and opening-up, collectivization ended, and all walks of life began to develop. During this period, there was a Qigong craze, and for a time, Qigong masters flew all over the place, while some barefoot doctors in Chinese medicine came to practice medicine when they learned some herbs. For example, in Jinhua, a person who used to buy Chinese herbal medicines in the supply and marketing cooperatives became a famous doctor for treating cancer, and also set up a hospital for treating cancer, which is the source of a folk Chinese medicine I know; Of course, most folk Chinese medicine practitioners are also such sources now. Another part is that after graduating from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, you can't find a regular Chinese medicine hospital to work; Instead of being a medical representative, he was scattered in the folk practice; This is the main part of folk Chinese medicine. As for Wu Nanjing, I seldom study Chinese medicine because my family is ill. I have not found a Chinese medicine doctor similar to me for so many years.
after 4 years' development, the strength of folk Chinese medicine has been greatly improved, and the promotion evaluation of regular Chinese medicine is based on papers, topics and other documents, which leads to a group of experts who can only write articles but can't cure diseases in official Chinese medicine. However, on the whole, the level of regular Chinese medicine is far beyond that of folk Chinese medicine (although there are a few folk Chinese medicine practitioners with very high technology, which even exceeds that of regular Chinese medicine practitioners, but this is a very rare phenomenon, which can not be met)
From the perspective of treatment, whether it is regular Chinese medicine or folk Chinese medicine, although the technology is high or low, it is still a disease. The imperial doctor, under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine, packages himself as an omnipotent god; Strictly speaking, this group is not doctors. I define them as imperial doctors. Because what they brag about is beyond the reach of ordinary normal people. However, it is very interesting that people in this group are proficient in Qigong, Feng Shui, metaphysics, religion, traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts, but they know nothing about the orthodox culture of China's traditional culture, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, hundred schools of thought, art, philosophy and literature. Over the years, I often go to treat some difficult and critical diseases, and I will meet such a god man from time to time in the scene.
some patients, I spent a lot of effort in treatment, and finally the patients recovered, and the patients gave me very little medical fees (some even didn't give me a penny, and I paid for the gas and highway expenses for driving back and forth myself), but I was very generous to God.
I'm vulgar. I want to support my family, so I also want to make money. But I don't understand why these gods are so popular, while folk Chinese medicine is nothing in the eyes of patients.
In my eyes, the existence of everything has its inevitability. It is a social phenomenon that God and man are popular, so why is this social phenomenon? So I carefully analyzed the reasons.
in 218, when I started writing a novel of traditional Chinese medicine, The History of Xinglin, I finally understood these problems. The prototype of Li Ziguang in History of Xinglin is that I took over the father of a patient with multiple sarcoma metastasis in Hangzhou 1 years ago and was a big boss. He used huge financial resources to find famous doctors around the world to treat his daughter. Of course, in the end, his daughter died, and I watched the whole process. The big boss also invited all kinds of gods to treat his daughter, and some metaphysics changed his daughter's name; Get feng shui at home; There are religious people who do things for his daughter; A master of qigong massage; There are big experts in the formal establishment; There are chemotherapists invited from abroad; There are folk secret recipes, and so on. I gave up the business of Jinhua clinic and treated his daughter's illness for several months, rain or shine. He gave me 2 thousand yuan for the New Year, and a Taoist priest gave him hundreds of thousands of yuan to change his daughter's name and get Feng Shui. The difference in treatment is because what folk Chinese medicine has done for him is worthless in his eyes, while the man of God casually makes him feel valuable.
but why is folk Chinese medicine worthless in the eyes of patients?
I recall a scene when I left Wenrong Hospital in Jinhua that year. A couple in Jinhua were infertile. First, they came to Wenrong Hospital for treatment. They were very polite and called me "Director Wu" in silence. In order to treat me differently during the treatment, they often wanted to invite me to dinner and occasionally wanted to send me cigarettes. After I resigned and left Wenrong Hospital, the patient saw that my outpatient department was a small facade, so he called it "Dr. Wu". When he asked me for treatment, he said, "Dr. Wu, I came to send you money again." The medical expenses that should have been given to me became the money that he sent me to spend. The root cause is that I lost the packaging of a tall building in the original hospital.
Later, I had a free clinic in Hengdian Health Consultation Service Station, and there was a patient with cancer metastasis. After treatment, my condition just stabilized. He asked me to recommend a big expert in cancer treatment, so I recommended the patient to a Chinese medicine cancer expert in Shanghai for treatment. Finally, the patient died, but the patient was still very happy. He felt that I was kind enough to introduce a big expert to him and bought two bottles of wine to thank him. The reason why the patient is well treated is that my status is far less than that of a big expert in Shanghai official hospital.
of course, this is not the core source.
The core root is that patients don't understand medicine and have no concept of disease.
medicine, called "healer" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, is a kind of technical work. I understand that to be a "mechanic", you go to a garage when your car breaks down, and you go to a doctor when you are sick. The reason is the same. But in the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao wrote "Great Doctor Sincerity", which first pushed the professional ethics of doctors to a supreme height, so this supreme moral standard has become the invisible shackles of doctors for thousands of years. It is right for doctors to take great risks to cure patients' diseases, but even so, doctors' social status is very low. Although after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Health was established, which made doctors have the opportunity to participate in politics, and the social status of doctors has improved a lot, there are still some patients who will strictly require doctors to abide by the professional ethics that is almost out of touch.
There is a problem to understand first. Sun Simiao is a Taoist priest by profession, and he is a Taoist who knows medicine. Taoist priests have endless incense money and no family responsibilities, so they can naturally achieve the moral standards as he wrote, but other doctors are normal social people and have to bear family responsibilities, so they must earn money to support their families. In addition, patients don't know how to treat doctors, and they kidnap doctors with this supreme morality, so the doctor-patient relationship will be divided and not so harmonious. Patients can't be cured here, and the treatment there doesn't work, so they pin their hopes on this supernatural man of God, so these gods will have such a good market.
Some people will say that you, Wu Nanjing, are always talking about the group of imperial doctors, and others will spend the money only if it is effective. Yes, there will be a group of patients who will be effective. For example, a person's illness is caused by psychological factors. Finding such a divine man will comfort the patient's heart, make people's mind calm, make the five internal organs smooth and smooth, and gradually get better. For example, if someone is under great psychological pressure, the disease caused at this time lies in both conditioning and psychological comfort, and the disease will soon be cured when both sides are combined. Through this man's rumor, this man of god naturally became more divine at once.
To untie this knot, I think that only by doing popular science can more people understand medicine, especially Chinese medicine. Correct understanding of diseases. Therefore, in the first 1 lectures of my 1 lectures on traditional Chinese medicine, I devoted one lesson to psychological problems, as well as environmental and health problems. I hope everyone can better understand the meaning of health and cherish their lives.
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