After dragging it out for a month, I went to the local people's hospital for a checkup in June, and the doctor diagnosed otitis media, and took medicine for a week with no effect.
And change the doctor to continue to see, diagnosed with otitis media, take medicine, eardrum puncture medicine, no effect.
Another doctor continued to see, diagnosed with otitis media, medication, nebulization, seawater spray nasal wash, no effect.
Even the condition has a tendency to aggravate, the day in late November, the ear suddenly began to hurt, and accompanied by headache numbness around the ear.
People in middle age, on the old and the young, the body red light, it is inexplicably nervous. So I took a day off and went to Chongqing for a checkup.
Considering that there are too many people in the Southwest Hospital, which is like a New Year's fair in the countryside, I made an appointment with Raffles Hospital's specialist outpatient clinic after being introduced by a friend, and experienced the intimate medical service of an international luxury hospital.
The doctor's consultation and checkup took about an hour. After all the tests, the report showed that my ear, nose and throat are completely normal and my hearing is even better than many people.
So - I don't have otitis media and all 3 doctors I saw before misdiagnosed it.
The nose is not a problem, but ate the sinusitis oral solution and other drugs, with seawater spray daily nasal wash; ears well, but also ate a bunch of drugs, and to the eardrum pierced a hole in the medication, to do the nebulizer.
At that time, I really wanted to run back to scold the three doctors, my first time into the hospital to do a hearing test and endoscopy of the ear cavity, are normal, why do not further examination, the conclusion is that otitis media. The first time I went to the hospital, I had a hearing test and an endoscopic examination of the ear canal, which were all normal.
I really don't understand where these doctors get their confidence from, diagnosing and treating patients in three or two minutes, and then concluding that the time is so short that the patient may not be able to remember what he looks like when he leaves the office.
The two-year experience of seeking medical treatment has made me realize that it's almost the same as buying a lottery ticket, it's all about luck.
If you're lucky, you'll meet a good doctor and get rid of the disease; if you're not lucky, you'll meet a bad doctor and misdiagnose the disease, which can even be life-threatening.
My mom was diagnosed with lymphoma after the National Day last year, but she was often unwell for a year before that, and had been to the doctor a few times and was diagnosed as having allergic purpura, and had taken a lot of medication.
Until later abdominal pain, fever and other symptoms, the county people's hospital doctors recommended to the Southwest Hospital for examination, but at this time the condition has deteriorated to the advanced stage of cancer.
If there had been no misdiagnosis and the real cause of the disease had been found a year earlier, the treatment process would not have been so painful. The number of chemotherapy treatments might have been reduced by three, the cancer cells killed without the need to play interferon every day to bruise the skin, and the rate of cancer recurrence would have been lower.
On the other hand, my mom was lucky that the cancer cells were sensitive to the targeted drugs and the chemotherapy was effective, while a netizen's mom was less lucky.
Originally suffered from stomach cancer, but was misdiagnosed as gastric ulcer, treatment for a few months has not healed. They went to another hospital with the results of the gastroscopy they had done before, and the doctor said at a glance that it was stomach cancer, and then further examination revealed that the cancer had spread, and his mom passed away after the treatment was ineffective.
This is a typical case of quackery, where a poorly skilled doctor can't tell the difference between a stomach cancer and a stomach ulcer. If the user's mom had met the latter doctor the first time she had an upset stomach, she might have been able to save her life.
The complexity of the disease was misdiagnosed also slightly justified, but another misdiagnosis simply let people laugh and cry.
Netizen "Bowfanfang" aunt of one ear deafness, the doctor diagnosed as otitis media, treatment for a long time did not get better. Then changed a hospital, the original ear is just blocked by ear wax. I really can't help but spit out the doctor who looks at people's ears every day and actually doesn't recognize earwax!
Netizen "Temporarily Out of Control" was diagnosed with tonsillitis, but his tonsils were removed when he was in first grade.
A colleague of Netizen "Hidden Big Head" went for a medical checkup, and the report showed "irregular menstruation", but he's a man.
These misdiagnoses are not simply a matter of poor medical skills and misjudgment of the cause of the disease, but rather a matter of work ethic, perfunctory, and not taking the patient's life seriously.
In September 2019, the "2019 White Paper on the Survival of Lymphoma Patients" initiated by the Beijing Disease Challenge Public Welfare Foundation and the "Lymphoma House" organization of patients was officially released, and the research of the white paper covered nearly 5,000 patients across the country, and the data showed that about 43% of the patients had misdiagnostic experiences, and 51% of the patients went to multiple hospitals. The data shows that about 43% of patients have been misdiagnosed, and 51% of patients were diagnosed only after going to several hospitals.
Li Taisheng, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, has made a statistic that "even though AIDS patients already have obvious symptoms, they have to see more than three hospitals and more than four doctors on average before they are diagnosed".
These statistics are really shocking. It turns out that there are so many patients with experiences similar to my mom's, who had to change hospitals and see several doctors before being diagnosed with a serious illness. If they hadn't been misdiagnosed, their fate would have been different.
Objectively speaking, the pathology is complex, like fever, dizziness, vomiting, etc., which may be caused by a variety of etiologies. And with each doctor specializing in a different direction, with varying degrees of professional competence, and with each hospital having varying degrees of equipment, it is not surprising that misdiagnosis occurs.
But for the patient, if suffering from a major disease, time is life. The only way to avoid misdiagnosis and get timely and effective treatment for the disease is to choose a good hospital and a good doctor.
After checking the ear, nose and throat, there is no problem, I would like to re-insurance, and then to the friend of the work of the panoramic medical imaging to do a cranial nuclear magnetic.
In the elevator of Panorama, there is a "commendation notice" posted, a patient in Fuzhou was diagnosed with necrosis of the ring of the right index finger, arterial embolism, the doctor said to amputate. Later, he went to Chongqing Hongling Hospital for treatment (Hongling and Panorama are in the same building) and saved his right hand. This is the difference between a technically strong hospital and an ordinary hospital.
In addition to the subjective choice of good medical conditions, how long each person lives really has to do with luck.
A sister from the same village as me, when she had an abortion after an unwanted pregnancy, the doctor found that she had cervical cancer, and in the early days, there were no symptoms, which greatly reduced the difficulty of healing.
My colleague's sister-in-law is also the same, originally because of other uncomfortable symptoms to the doctor, but accidentally found early cancer, and now has been cured for many years, is really very lucky.
People eat grains and cereals, illness is inevitable, may we all have good luck. When you are sick, you will meet a good doctor, not be misdiagnosed, find the root cause of the disease early, and suffer less pain and suffering.