A Brief Introduction to U.S. Medical Advantages
The U.S. has a highly developed medical industry with the world's most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies, the best medical education, and medical schools, and the following aspects of the U.S. medical care to give you an in-depth understanding.
1. A rigorous medical education system produces a high level of medical care
The U.S. medical education is arguably the most rigorous education system in the world. Unlike most parts of the world, medical education in the United States is a post-graduate education, which must be completed in the undergraduate program and pass the U.S. medical school entrance exam before being eligible to apply for medical school. After graduating from medical school in four years, one receives an M.D. degree, but if one wants to practice medicine, one must also pass the U.S. Physician's Licensing Examination and undergo a residency and specialty training and examination ranging from three to eight years. At the same time, you must also accumulate credits for medical education every year and take a specialty recertification exam every ten years. The United States has the most advanced medical technology and treatment methods in the world, which is inseparable from its rigorous medical education and research. This is due to its rigorous medical education and research, which China and most of the rest of the world simply cannot match. The United States is far ahead of China in orthopedics, surgery, organ transplants, and cancer treatment. Especially in California, where the climate is favorable and the Chinese population is large, there are many famous private clinics, which are the best choice for high-end clients with good financial conditions to treat certain diseases.
2. The highly developed medical industry drives medical technology innovation
The U.S. medical industry is highly developed, and its ability to innovate is outstanding, with a wide range of new technologies and means of treatment constantly emerging, especially in the research and development of medicines and diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. For example, in recent years, the introduction of a global latest type of whole-body stereotactic radiosurgery treatment equipment, radio wave knife system, this equipment and conventional surgery, compared with the damage is small, fast results, better results, the United States has been popularized for a number of years; melanoma metastatic liver cancer treatment is often multiple liver tissue cancer metastasis, is not suitable for surgical treatment. Cancer can be controlled without major surgery.
The CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system is an alternative to surgery for the non-invasive treatment of malignant and non-malignant tumors anywhere in the body, including the prostate, lungs, brain, spine, liver, pancreas, and kidneys. This treatment, which irradiates tumors with extremely high precision using large doses of radiation, could offer new hope to patients worldwide. Advanced therapeutic technologies and techniques are many years behind the United States due to the complex approval mechanisms required to enter Chinese hospitals, and are mainly concentrated in large hospitals in Shanghai and Beijing. Not only is there a considerable gap in this area, but it's hard to keep up with the rest of the world.
3. Standard operating procedures and humane service
The U.S. medical management is very strict, every step of the medical process needs to be in strict accordance with the standard process and operation, this strict and transparent management of the treatment process standardization, standardization, transparency, greatly reducing the medical process of irregularities, and eliminating the need for doctors and other medical professionals. This strict and transparent management standardizes, standardizes and makes the treatment process transparent, which greatly reduces the irregularities in the medical process and eliminates the occurrence of doctors accepting red packets and prescribing medicines indiscriminately. In addition, American hospitals also attach great importance to individualized treatment. According to the individual differences of patients and different conditions of the disease, a comprehensive individualized treatment plan is formulated. At present, genetic analysis has made it possible to carry out individualized treatment for cancer patients. With genetic analysis, doctors can be provided with strong evidence and information, and when implementing the treatment plan, they can choose the most effective drug treatment plan for the patient, which not only improves the efficacy, but also reduces the toxicity and side effects of chemotherapy, and at the same time, improves the quality of survival of the patient. What's more, this kind of individualized treatment integrates the comprehensive consideration of the patient's psychology, the patient's family and the society, relieving the patient's mental burden and pressure, and making him or her actively participate in the treatment, with a view to achieving the best therapeutic effect. American hospitals have a real? People-oriented? The concept of service, beautiful, comfortable hospital environment, convenient, fast outpatient treatment, the spirit of renewed health care style? For example, in the United States hospitals can not smell the smell of disinfectant, the walls of the United States hospitals will not be painted white, are warm colors, light blue, beige, giving people a feeling of warmth, these choices are after psychological research. In U.S. hospitals, you will feel the atmosphere of the patient first, but can not see any slogans and slogans, but a variety of practices are reflected in the care and respect for patients: hospitals public **** field are a variety of beautifully printed manuals or guides; ward entrance are installed hand sanitizing devices, reminding and requesting that the medical staff to disinfect every patient after seeing a patient to prevent cross-infection and so on. Hospitals in the United States, ? People-oriented? The concept of deep penetration in the culture of the hospital, whether from the hospital layout, equipment, or staff service concept, are in line with? People-oriented? Only in such a well-developed health care system can we ensure and improve the quality of people's lives and livelihoods.
4. Advanced medical concepts play an extremely important guiding role
The highly developed medical level of the United States in addition to the above mentioned points, more embodied in the advanced medical concepts of its continuous innovation. This philosophy has permeated every aspect of American medical care and plays an extremely important guiding role, often more important than mere medical technology innovation and breakthroughs. Taking cancer treatment as an example, the U.S. cancer treatment community from the second half of the 1990s has begun to change the tumor? Purely antagonistic? treatment thinking, against the endless high-dose radiotherapy? The war mode is opposed to endless high-dose radiotherapy. but advocated moderate treatment and individualized treatment with targeted drugs; however, the domestic cancer treatment community has not yet been able to keep up with this important therapeutic ideological change. Transitional treatment, especially transitional chemotherapy, has become one of the important reasons for the low survival rate of tumors in China today. A director of oncology department in a provincial oncology hospital told his friends in the meeting that about 90% of his patients died in the transition of chemotherapy. Of course, 90% of them died in the transition to chemotherapy for complicated reasons. Most of them are advanced and difficult-to-treat cancers, however, this also reflects the harm of the transition of treatment. We know that prior to the 1980s, cancer mortality rates in the United States were close to what they are today in Shanghai (Shanghai's 'medical care is currently the best in the country), and they were also climbing higher. But in the late 1990s, survival gradually began to lengthen, and this happened just after the international oncology treatment community emphasized moderate treatment, improved quality of life, and targeted therapy. So much so that by 2005, for the first time, the number of cancer deaths in the United States began to decline. Therefore, only advanced medical concepts can truly and effectively improve the effectiveness of tumor treatment, reduce mortality, reduce the physical and mental pain of patients, and significantly improve the quality of patient survival, so that quality of life can be continuously extended.
The following are 2 sets of objective data on 5-year cancer survival rates, which can be used to visualize the level of medical care in China and the United States:
The third national cause of death survey released by the Chinese Ministry of Health in 2008 showed that cancer has become the leading cause of death for urban residents in China, with the mortality rate for cancer having increased by 83.1% compared with that of the 1970s, and by 22% compared with that of the early 1990s. The cancer mortality rate increased by 22.5% compared to the early 1990s. The American Cancer Society's 2010 annual cancer data show that not only has the annual cancer death rate not increased in the United States in recent years, but between 1990 and 2006, the U.S. cancer death rate for males declined by 21%, and for females, it declined by 12.3%.
Last year, the famous medical journal "The Lancet", released the five-year survival rate data of various cancers in four developed cities in China, namely Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tianjin, and Qidong, and in the same year, the American Cancer Society published the latest five-year survival rate data of various cancers across the U.S. in the top medical journal "Cancer," taking colon cancer as an illustration, the average five-year survival rate of colon cancer in the U.S. is 66%, while the average survival rate of cancer in China is only 44%. The average 5-year survival rate of colon cancer in the United States is 66%, while the average 5-year survival rate of breast cancer in China is 82%. It is important to realize that the Chinese data were collected in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tianjin, which have the best medical resources in China, while the U.S. data were collected from all the hospitals in the country. Admittedly, the reasons for the differences in the figures mentioned above are multifaceted, but it is not difficult for us to see the disparity between China and the U.S. in terms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancers. Although medical technology in China has made great progress and leap forward in recent years, and in some areas it has approached or reached the international leading level, the overall medical level in China is still far from that of the western developed countries, especially the United States. The *** enjoyment of the world's top level medical resources has been very common in developed countries in Europe and the United States and the wealthy countries in the Middle East, and is beginning to be recognized and accepted by more and more people in China and is becoming a new trend.
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