This is another news about sky-high medical expenses. It is reported that a baby 1 year-old in Xi 'an spent more than 500,000 yuan in medical expenses only for four days, with an average of more than 500,000 yuan per day 10. The explosion of this sky-high fee list caused a heated discussion among netizens.
What is the disease of spending so much money? After all, 500,000 is not a small amount, which is equivalent to the whole of an ordinary family. A child of/kloc-0 years old spent so much money after living for four days. Is there a problem with the hospital charges, or is the doctor prescribing the wrong medicine? It's all expensive medicine, which makes netizens talk about it one after another.
When the incident continued to ferment, the hospital responded because the child suspected that he had spinal muscular atrophy. What is spinal muscular atrophy? It is a genetic disease, which mainly leads to muscle weakness. If a 1 year-old child gets this disease without treatment, it will directly affect his physical development and later life. The drugs for treating this disease are only available abroad, so the price is high. One drug is as high as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, and there is no bargaining.
If so, it is understandable that children spend so much money in hospitals. After all, drugs are too expensive, and this hospital can't help it. When it comes to high drug costs, it is normal for patients to be confused, but as a doctor, such high drug costs should be made clear to patients, and the choice is also in their hands. Why is this happening? There must be something wrong with it. Therefore, doctors and patients need trust, and good communication is the premise.