Post Date December, 02 2023
What is the biggest feeling of treating kidney disease for patients?
I'm afraid it's not because protein is difficult to turn negative, there are many relapses, or creatinine is difficult to decrease that these doctors are sensitive. What patients feel the most is not these, but - spending more!
The stage of nephritis is still better. Everyone is staring at a plus sign, or even half a plus sign, and many people will not give up until they turn negative; When it comes to kidney failure, the cost increases. Another complication is entering an ICU, and the money is running high. How can one not feel heartbroken?
Last year, I met a 22-year-old boy who stopped attending school after graduating from junior high school and was preparing to earn money to support his family. At this point, it was discovered that he had kidney disease and went to various places for treatment. After 6 years of treatment, he had already experienced kidney failure.
Finally, last year, creatinine dropped by over 120. When I was discharged, I asked him, are you worried about another increase in creatinine?
When I asked this question, I felt like I was asking for nothing. Who wouldn't worry about an increase in creatinine. But his answer caught me off guard.
He said, 'Worry the shit!'! My father worked too hard to treat my illness! Creatinine can rise as much as I like. Anyway, this time I'm going to make money, and even if I die, I can't spend my dad's money anymore
I don't know much about how hard that father has been, because his father didn't have time to come to the hospital to earn money to treat him, but he definitely felt a cut in the skin. At that time, I was only relieved for this father: with such a son, the money from these six years was not wasted.
How should we do it?
If we were not to evaluate professional titles or climb positions, but to fully consider patients, we might not prioritize medicine and focus on how to save money for patients.
But medicine always needs to develop in order to achieve better therapeutic effects. Otherwise, it will save money and worsen the disease, making everything useless. Therefore, it is necessary to put more effort into medical treatment.
A reader once left a message asking us, "Can we save costs and cure diseases?
It has to be said that this is a common goal among doctors and patients! Although we have achieved certain results in this regard, there is still a long way to go ahead.
Lowering the cost to a very low level, but still afraid that patients won't flock here? Are you still afraid that you won't become a world-renowned doctor? However, in reality, good drugs are generally more expensive, and the principle that 'good things must be expensive' is universally applicable.
There are too many things that are difficult to weigh, and one can only look up after a long period of studying literature to see if there is a more cost-effective way.
It is destined to be an uneven road that can save costs and cure diseases. But no matter what awaits us on the way, we are on the way!
