Fake doctor
Saturday, 22/7/2017 | 06:58 GMT + 7 34 Save
I have carefully reviewed the video of Hien in Hung Yen performing a dilated pupil for a baby.
I also take a closer look at Dr. Hien's videos to reporters, see the "Hien" doctor's parents, read all the articles related to the incident. It was a heartbreaking affair and anger.
As a doctor who had done urinary urology, examined and treated many children with foreskin, I found that the work of physician Hien is unacceptable. But I would also like to remind parents who brought their children to "doctor" Hien, that we are living in 2017, not in 1917.
Foreskin, like most parts of the body, is born to take on very important functions, such as protecting the foreskin, increasing sexual sensitivity, stimulating the delivery process. box. Therefore circumcision is unnecessary, only in very rare cases, when the doctor can not preserve.
So why are circumcision cuts such as haircuts?
Listen to a mother of three months old baby told reporters. She saw the neighbors take her to "doctor" Hien, so also impatient and seek medical help. After listening to the neighbors concluded that the baby is also circumcised, young mother worried but still want to wait a little longer. Yet, only in the surrounding people to "talk out", she was too impatient, to take her children to see "doctor" Hien. As a result, her children have had to go to the hospital 15 times to treat chicken crepes, so far it is not known when it is okay.
Those babies with chickenpox can suffer for life, suffering for both wife and children. When I think of that, the feeling of resentment is in me.
As a doctor, I have met many patients like that. They are the ones who like to hear rumors, look at themselves, do not listen to advice from professional, superstitious, believe in the doctor, not the doctor, Take medicines.
A few months ago, I met a patient with a giant cellular cell arm. Patients who have been hospitalized, the doctor just ordered surgery soon will be okay. But the father did not hear, about to cover the medicinal healers in the upper ethnic minority. Exactly three months later, when the disease became severe, the father took her back to the hospital, the doctor said to remove shoulder joints that have not yet saved her life.
There is another important reason, that the cost of treatment is higher than that of many difficult households, making them prone to cutting back on their health expenditures. Along with that, is the problem of medical professionals downstream do not create confidence, if you put yourself on the line will have to accept the cost is very expensive. So most of the poor when they are sick, they will choose to go straight to medical practitioners, even know they are physicians themselves "doctors" but still closed eyes. They will comfort themselves, that the disease is not enough to see the doctor.
I have been to many health clinics in rural areas, towns, towns, to cities. Where I go, if the lower level health professional is not guaranteed, in the upper level the patient is impatient because of overload so it can not meet all the needs. Private healthcare has replaced the gap, private clinics have always known how to fill the wishes of patients.
But I observe and meet, among private providers, there will be many things that are completely untrue. There are people who work as a physician but claim to be a doctor, while they are not trained, even using fake degrees to be treated physically instead of under medical supervision. Then there are clinics for doctors, but those who sit and examine are only nurses or technicians, but their knowledge is not good enough to be applied to medical examination.
There is no statistic for "fake doctor". But I believe in them, especially in remote locations. They are ruthless ignorant, taking advantage of the patient's trust in some way, such as exploiting difficult economic circumstances, shyness, illness or despair; So that they can easily perform the treatment as an expert.
The role of government inspectors, to control the "false doctor", must of course be set before things like the 37 infected children in Hung Yen. But the government can not cover all activities of life, when the "false doctor" is resonated by the arbitrary habit of medical treatment of many Vietnamese.
Fake doctors, or patients with blind faith, are equally dangerous. I do not believe anyone would dare to step on a plane without a pilot's license. But I see too many people give fate to the "false doctor" without expertise.
Although training a doctor takes time and effort many times to train a pilot.