Why can doctors in small clinics treat all diseases？

Original Metz medicine

Some small clinics are favored by some citizens because the drugs they prescribe take effect quickly, the efficacy is extremely obvious, the condition improves immediately, and the treatment fee is very cheap. Why go to a hospital and spend hundreds of blood tests to cure a disease, and a small clinic can treat the disease with medicine for only a few tens of dollars?

Drug formula

Different from the hospital’s precise attack, small clinics generally don’t delve into the causes. They are used to being surrounded. No matter whether you are caused by fungal infection or bacterial infection or other reasons, colds and coughs tend to be combined with multiple drugs, and there is always one drug that is symptomatic and effective. There may even be a phenomenon that different patients take the same medicine in the small clinic. Recently, it is common to pack colorful pills by hand.

Among these drug combinations, the most common are:

Second/third generation cephalosporin antibiotics+hormones+antiviral drugs+vitamins.

Although the cost of this formula is not high, no matter what kind of cold it is, it can be effective at one time!

After the application of hormones and antibiotics, cold symptoms can quickly "disappear without a trace". Hormones, in particular, have fast antipyretic speed and immediate effect.

Beware of drug abuse

Abuse of antibacterial drugs can lead to bacterial resistance, which will make drugs ineffective, make infection more difficult to treat, and increase the risk of disease spread, illness aggravation and death.

Abuse of antibiotics not only leads to bacterial resistance, but also destroys normal flora in the body, reduces the body’s resistance, and then causes double infection.

Glucocorticoids (such as dexamethasone and prednisone) are mainly used for immune diseases and serious infections, and have excellent curative effects on common cold symptoms.

However, hormone abuse can stimulate or aggravate infection, turn the common cold into septicemia, or cover up the essence of the disease because of temporary fever, thus missing the opportunity for treatment. Long-term and large-scale use of glucocorticoids can cause serious multiple organ damage, even fatal.

In order to increase business, some small clinics also use glucocorticoid for patients who don’t need it, in order to keep patients with "good therapeutic effect". But this is tantamount to fighting the landlord to start, others have a 3, and glucocorticoids have a pair of "Wang Fried". The double abuse of glucocorticoid and antibacterial drugs has a long-term impact on the human body and cannot be ignored.

Risk of adverse drug reactions

Generally, the drug information is not marked on the small medicine package. Patients don’t know what drugs they are taking, so it is difficult to detect adverse reactions after taking the medicine at home. In case of serious adverse reactions, such as anaphylactic shock, it is difficult for the treating doctor to judge whether it is caused by drugs and what drugs, which may delay the best treatment opportunity.

In addition, small clinics rarely have medication explanations, and even the drug distributors are not necessarily pharmacists. For patients with chronic diseases, especially the elderly with multiple basic diseases, it is necessary to take multiple drugs for a long time, and there is a risk of drug interaction.

Some small clinics also lack systematic consideration when using drugs, such as whether the patient is in pregnancy, lactation, liver and kidney function of the patient, etc., which ultimately causes irreparable damage to the patient.

Once a netizen shared a similar experience:

I saw the flu in a small clinic, and the doctor prescribed ribavirin directly without telling me. Two months later, I got pregnant and had a miscarriage. I checked all the reasons. Later, the doctor told me to go back to the clinic to ask what medicine was prescribed during the flu. When I went back, I asked, and I prescribed ribavirin. Then the people’s doctor said that I should not be pregnant for half a year, and ribavirin is very teratogenic.

Small clinics do bring convenience to some people.

The emergence of small clinics has really facilitated many groups. For example, for the elderly with poor economic conditions, small clinics can save money by getting close to the doctor. Going to a big hospital costs a lot of money, and the treatment cycle is long. It is necessary to do all the tests. After tossing for a long time, I finally took medicine, so why did I have to go there again?

However, for the sake of your health, it is recommended to go to the hospital for treatment if you have the conditions and time. After all, no one wants to leave a hidden danger around.

At the same time, we also hope that the government and all sectors of society can strengthen the supervision and regulation of small clinics, establish a sound supervision mechanism, strengthen drug supervision, improve the access threshold of small clinics, and strive to protect the rights and interests of patients and ensure the quality of medical services.

Writing | Metz Medicine

Edit | Alaska Treasure

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