How about Guizhou Cancer Hospital?

There is a Chinese herbal medicine hospital in Guizhou.

Author: Ren Zhuang Source: China Chinese Medicine News

There are not many hospitals with Chinese herbal medicines, but there is one in Guiyang called Guizhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is also attracted by this unique name that the reporter visited the hospital a few days ago to find out.

There are many patients in the mean alley.

Guizhou Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is located in the urban-rural fringe of Guiyang City, with narrow streets in front of it and chaotic city sounds. The facade of the bungalow facing the street in the hospital looks very inconspicuous.

The reporter stood in the hall and looked in. Inside is a long and narrow courtyard. Surprisingly, there are one or two hundred people waiting in the room, standing or sitting, pushing and pushing. In front of the bungalow at the end of the yard, the crowd is the densest. This is the consulting room of Dean Shen Taifu. At this time, it is about 10 am. There are more than 30 patients waiting in the room, and the spacious consultation room is particularly crowded for a time.

Shen Taiqiang, the head of the hospital, told the reporter: "As long as Dean Shen is in the clinic, there are more than 300 people here every day. He wants to meet 200 people himself, from 8 am to 8 pm. If someone else has seen it, the prescription must also be approved by him. "

"The dean has two days off every week, and few people come to see a doctor in those two days. It can be said that there are few people. The patient just believes in him. "

No wonder, during the interview, the comrades of Guizhou Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine helped to determine whether Dean Shen made a house call that day, and told the reporter: If the Dean does not make a house call, you will not see the lively scene of the hospital.

Never advertised in 18.

The reporter talked with the patients waiting for treatment, and the people who asked said that they came to register at 6 am. Some are local in Guiyang, come by bus, and some are from other places. You should come to Guiyang one or two days in advance and wait for Dean Shen to make house calls. Symptoms are also different, including headache and fever, liver disease, stomach trouble, and lumbago and leg pain in the elderly, among which there are not a few people holding fluoroscopy films.

About "Why did you come here to see a doctor?" The reporter heard such answers: "People I know said that I was cured here", "The economic conditions at home are not good, so it is cheap to eat Chinese medicine", "I feel good after taking medicine here" and "I have been to a big hospital and want to try Chinese medicine".

The reporter was surprised. No one said that he came after watching the advertisement in the TV newspaper. In this regard, Shen Taiqiang said with some pride, "Our hospital has never advertised since the establishment of 1992." "On one occasion, the authorities wanted to censor medical advertisements in various hospitals, but we reported that we didn't have to attend because we never advertise." "The patients are all human-to-human, including Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangxi and other neighboring provinces and cities".

He also said, "Most of the people who come to see a doctor come to work in the city, and many of them come from other places, mostly from the countryside." Therefore, Guiyang City has approved the hospital as a designated hospital for the new rural cooperative medical system ".

Chinese herbal pieces consume 4 tons per month.

There are three Chinese medicine shops in this hospital. The reporter came to the front of one of the largest Chinese medicine shops and saw that eight or nine pharmacy staff were busy, taking medicine, measuring, dispensing and packaging almost all the time. There is only one person sitting on duty in the opposite western pharmacy, and no one has taken medicine for a long time.

"There are too many patients, and a Chinese pharmacy can't win," Shen Taiqiang said. Chinese medicine decoction is mainly prescribed in the outpatient department of the hospital. Even hospitalized patients, who are treated with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, must take traditional Chinese medicine decoction. On average, Chinese medicine stores dispense 1500 tablets of Chinese herbal medicine a day, which requires 4 tons of medicinal materials a month.

"Does the hospital provide decocting service for such a large dose?"

"The dean has always advocated that the traditional decoction method can ensure the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine". Shen Taiqiang introduced that considering that most patients come from rural areas and there are many elderly patients, the hospital has set up a special decocting service desk, and two Chinese pharmacists serve patients who take medicine in outpatient clinics. There is a decocting room in the inpatient department, and each patient is equipped with a frying pan.

The reporter told the decocting service desk that two Chinese pharmacists were receiving patients who had already taken Chinese medicine.

Facing a patient with gynecological diseases, the Chinese pharmacist instructed: "The medicine should be soaked for half an hour, the medicine in small package should be decocted for half an hour first, and the medicine in large package should be decocted together for 55 minutes, three times a day, and the second and third times should be decocted for 25 minutes, and each time should be taken quantitatively." "Don't eat beef and mutton, quit smoking and drinking."

For a patient with liver disease, the Chinese pharmacist not only introduced the decoction method, but also warned him to rest and fall asleep before 10 at night. Stay psychologically optimistic and don't bother yourself.

While explaining, the Chinese pharmacist wrote down the precautions and distributed them to patients. They told reporters that their job is to explain clearly the decocting methods to patients and provide some targeted diet and life suggestions.

Treat hepatitis B for one month as long as 168 yuan.

Mr. Wang in the suburb of Guiyang has just brought a big bag of Chinese medicine. Not long ago, he found out that he had hepatitis B. He heard from a friend who had suffered from hepatitis B that he was cured here and where he went.

"You see, this is a month's medicine, a * * talent 168 yuan", he said, working in the city, earning less than 1000 yuan a month, and the medicine is too expensive to eat.

In the inpatient ward on the side of the yard, the reporter saw a tumor patient from the rural area of Huaxi District, Guiyang. He said, "Thanks to the traditional Chinese medicine here, I would not have lived." Two years ago, when he was in his prime, he found a malignant tumor. Later, the tumor spread from the stomach to the liver and shoulders. In order to treat the disease, he moved to major hospitals in Guangdong and Beijing, spent all the savings of the couple working in Guangdong for more than 0/0 years, and borrowed10.9 million yuan from relatives and friends, but his condition never improved. After returning to my hometown, the pain was unbearable and I could hardly eat. I came a month ago and have been taking Chinese medicine prescribed by Dean Shen. "Now I feel no pain, I can eat, and the tumor has become smaller." His wife said that the average cost of Chinese medicine he takes every day is only 14 yuan.

The patient said that it is also grateful. "I don't lose expensive medicine here. I'll discuss with you what kind of liquid to lose." Originally, in other hospitals, five or six liquid bags were hung, and now only a little nutrient solution is lost. "

In another ward, Mr. Luo, the father of a 7-year-old leukemia girl, felt the same way. He said that after the child got sick, he knew that the cost of chemotherapy was high and the economic conditions at home could not bear it. In desperation, he wrote many letters for help to the media. In April this year, he lived here with his children. He didn't spend much money, but he could feel that the child's condition was improving steadily and his heart was much relaxed.

The doctor in charge told the reporter that the treatment of sick children is a combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine and symptomatic support. At present, children's lymphadenopathy has basically subsided, and white blood cells have obviously rebounded.

Shen Taiqiang introduced that most of the hospitalized patients are difficult and serious, half of them are patients with advanced tumors, and many of them are transferred from large hospitals. "They gave Chinese medicine a chance and gave themselves a chance." Generally, hospitalization lasts about half a month, and cancer patients spend more than one month, and the most cost is several thousand yuan.

Shen Taifu: Why should we run a Chinese medicine hospital?

Dean Shen Taifu pulled out the clinic to meet the reporter, but after talking for less than 20 minutes, he was anxiously "invited" back by several patients. "Dr. Shen, we all came early in the morning, and there are many people behind."

Before leaving, he always stressed to reporters: "I have confidence in Chinese medicine" and "I hope Chinese medicine practitioners all over the country can unite and stick to our position".

Shen Taifu, 65, has been a doctor for 44 years. Because my father worked in Yaxi Town, Zunyi County, his hometown for a long time, he fell in love with Chinese medicine when he was a child, reciting soup songs and learning ancient medical books, which laid the foundation for Chinese medicine. Before opening this hospital in Guiyang, he worked as a stationmaster in the village collective cooperative medical station in his hometown and as a dean in the town health center. 1979 passed the national unified examination of traditional Chinese medicine and was seconded to the adult education department of Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine as an associate professor. He was also hired as the vice president of a hospital of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine.

The experience of being a Chinese medicine teacher and integrating traditional Chinese and western medicine prompted him to have the idea of running Chinese medicine himself. "I dare not say that I am good at education, but I am still very experienced in clinic. At that time, even though I was teaching at school, many people came to me for prescriptions. " "In the hospital of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, western medicine is the mainstay, and the advantages of Chinese medicine are difficult to play. Chinese medicine needs a medical post based on Chinese medicine to show its talents. "

With the support and guidance of the Provincial Health Department and the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he founded Guizhou Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine on his own, and set the purpose on the day of its establishment: from tradition, higher than tradition; Herbs are the main, and the curative effect is the main.

Rich clinical experience, especially for some common diseases with unsatisfactory curative effect in modern medicine. He collected, summarized and sorted out more than 50 series of traditional prescriptions, including many ancient folk prescriptions. In terms of medication, in addition to the Chinese herbal medicines listed in the Pharmacopoeia, some Guizhou local medicinal materials are often used. Over the years, in dealing with intractable diseases, he has a wonderful hand to rejuvenate every time, and even has the "magic" of "coming back to life". What is commendable is that he treated tumor patients with the principle of "strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil, softening and resolving blood stasis", which alleviated the symptoms of patients, prolonged their lives and improved their quality of life. Many patients survived the risk and lived safely for many years. Since the establishment of 18, it has almost been a "one-person hospital", and patients from far and near have come to seek medical treatment, asking for "Dr. Shen's prescription" and "Dr. Shen's medicine".

Shen Taifu was born in the countryside, served the countryside for a long time and had deep feelings for farmers. He said, "Although the hospital is in the city, the service is mainly for farmers." When setting the price of medical services, hospitals emphasize low cost and rationality. "We should make it affordable for migrant workers and farmers."

Professor Wu, an old expert in charge of medical management and quality and safety who retired from the Affiliated Hospital of Guiyang Medical College, deeply agrees with and admires Shen Taifu's school-running philosophy. Professor Wu, aged 70, is a member of Nephrology Society of Chinese Medical Association and chairman of Nephrology Society of Guizhou Province. He told reporters that when he retired, many medical units gave generous treatment to compete for employment, but he came here for a "private visit" and decided to join this humble hospital. "I was born in the countryside. Standing at the gate of the hospital, I saw at first sight that almost all the yards were working and farming, and I felt that this dean was not simple. The treatment here is low, but I don't care, I have to help him. "

Professor Wu helped the hospital to establish and improve various hospital management systems, especially to strengthen medical quality and safety management. To his delight, there was no medical dispute in this hospital with 100 beds.

Six years ago, because there were too many people to see a doctor, Dean Shen had almost no rest day. Professor Wu told reporters that he was the first person to suggest that Dean Shen must rest for two days a week.