What is the most shocking fact about the health of modern people?

On the topic of modern people's health, as a medical worker, I have come into contact with many cases. Among them, what shocked me the most was a fact about digestive tract diseases in China: Although China's digestive tract related technology and diagnosis and treatment equipment are at an excellent level, the diagnosis rate and cure rate of digestive tract diseases are far from those of developed countries!

In fact, major hospitals have introduced many advanced equipment, and our medical equipment has reached the level of developed countries. However, what is the reason for such a fact? Just two days ago, one of my patients may be able to explain this problem:

I was in the emergency department that day, and the patient said that my upper abdomen was very painful and uncomfortable. Faced with this situation, I always habitually rule out the possibility of acute coronary syndrome first.

Good. There's nothing wrong with his ECG. Later, I asked about his medical history and learned that he had a long history of alcoholism.

So, I suggested that he come to the next morning for gastroscopy diagnosis. However, as soon as he heard that he was going to have a gastroscope, he shook his head like a rattle. . . It means that people say that gastroscopes are too uncomfortable, which is absolutely impossible to do! ! !

I am a fool, too. . .

The next day I thought about it carefully, and this mentality didn't just appear in this patient. In society, people generally have a fear of gastroscope (not to mention enteroscope). But they don't know that gastroscopy, colonoscopy and other endoscopy are the most effective methods to find digestive tract diseases at this stage.