Recently, the news of Qiao Renliang’s suicide due to depression swept through the circle of friends on Weibo and WeChat. News of stars committing suicide due to depression is common, and there are not a few ordinary people troubled by depression. According to WHO survey, there are at least 350 million depressed patients worldwide. Depression patients do not only go to psychiatric departments, because many diseases may be accompanied by depression. How to quickly identify depression patients and their suicidal tendencies is especially important for medical workers. The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness (DSM) released in 2013, DSM-5, is a new weathervane for the classification and diagnosis of psychiatric diseases. Based on DSM-5, the Read More …

As a surgeon, the most basic operation is dressing change. However, dressing change is not only the operating standards taught to us by teachers or Lao He, but also many things that need us to improve. We need to crawl around and learn continuously in clinical practice. We need to adapt to illness and people. The operating standard is [guide], which is [informal and incomplete guide] due to the personal system. 1 A father, dressed very well, brought his daughter to me to change dressing. I took the female intern to lead them to the dressing room. As it was a small breast surgery done by the outpatient department, it was a private part and inconvenient. I asked the father Read More …

One day, I was attending a friend’s party and was about to have a few drinks when my deskmate mysteriously took out a pill and pointed to the antique packaging box, indicating that the treasure in my hand was a “magic medicine” for relieving alcoholism. As a professional, I was so curious that I came back to find out [is there any magic anti-alcoholism drug in the world? ] Alcohol metabolism The metabolism of alcohol in the body belongs to zero-order metabolism, that is, metabolism at a constant speed, and there are great individual differences, with the average value of 20 mg/dL per hour for the average person. Ethnic differences are one of the reasons for alcohol metabolism differences. Most Read More …

One in seven to eight people will die of cancer. A typical 4 +2 +2 family has just eight people. Except for a few lucky people, most people will face an encounter with cancer at some point in their lives. Ten years after being defined by the World Health Organization as a chronic disease that can be treated, controlled or even cured, the word cancer still has destructive power. A daughter who died of her father’s cancer wrote in an article, “I think every family should prepare potassium cyanide. If I have cancer, I will eat it immediately. I cannot accept being the cancer patient who tortures my relatives.” The question is no longer whether we will encounter this eternal Read More …

People often say that hospitals are the most haunted places. Do you think you can look through horror movies to see if hospitals are the most common story backgrounds? However, there are 369 and so on in the hospital. For example, everyone does not like oncology department, which has too much yin and qi. However, I happen to be in radiotherapy department. In the morning, the nurse pony said: [We were haunted last night.] Some people pretended to be very serious and said disdainfully: Then what? [Really, I saw it with my own eyes last night! The pony went on with a solemn expression, [I came to Corey to pick up the cell phone charger alone at 10 o’clock last Read More …