If you have cancer, is there a way to save your life without treatment?

In the past ten years or so, when it comes to health problems that have troubled the whole people, many people think of cancer first, and the society is full of the smell of turning pale at the mention of cancer. Many people think that once a person gets cancer, he will be sentenced to death, and the word “incurable disease” has become a synonym for cancer. This is an extreme. With the development of anti-cancer therapy, most cancers have been well controlled after formal treatment, and even a small number of cancers have achieved [curative] effects. As a result, there is another optimism in the society that cancer can be easily [cured]. This is the other extreme. Unrealistic optimism Read More …

I don’t have gynecological diseases, why should the doctor ask me about my menstrual history?

Just came out of school, the first thing to do when studying clinically is to write medical records. It happened that a patient came, and I took it for granted to ask about the medical history, asking as carefully as possible, for fear of missing important information about what. I came back to report the situation to the teacher. I thought the teacher would praise me. As a result, she asked: [What about the patient’s menstrual history? ] [Ah? What is menstrual history? ] [As a gynecologist, you don’t ask the patient’s menstrual history? ! ] I had to have the cheek to ask the patient again. At that time, I didn’t know how important my menstrual history was. I Read More …