Both are terrible.
Illiteracy is terrible. Terrible, he is stupid, ignorant, self-righteous, stubborn, infinite, bottomless, hopeless, and blind.
Illiteracy and medical illiteracy are terrible, but medical illiteracy is even more terrible.
There is a living example around me: it was the fifth day of the first month of 1993, and an eight-month-old child from my neighbor was ill. I don't know what it is. Anyway, the child vomits and diarrhea and doesn't eat. His parents took their children to the town health center. A doctor in the health center looked at them and gave them an injection. As a result, the children soon rolled their eyes.
After the child died, I felt sorry for my neighbor's daughter-in-law for a long time and cried for a day. At that time, people's awareness of the rule of law was not strong, and they were so sad that they didn't even expect to ask the doctor what medicine to inject into their children. What's wrong with the child? Later, it was said that the doctor drank wine at noon and prescribed the wrong medicine for the child, which led to the child's death. But the child has been buried, and the sad family members don't want to expose the scars any more, so things have passed.
If this had happened now, it wouldn't have happened. Nowadays, young parents are somewhat literate and will definitely seek justice for their children; Our society has gradually entered a civilized society ruled by law, so medical blindness who plays with human life has no place in society.
Therefore, although illiteracy is terrible, it is not life-threatening; Medical blindness is even more terrible, and it hurts people's most precious lives.
I think medical illiteracy is even more terrible. Some people may say that I say this because I am a doctor, but I don't think so.
As a doctor, I have seen too many medical blindness. For example, a patient I met recently was 14 years old and recently fell ill. His father actually said that he was possessed by evil spirits, went to ask for immortals, and then refused to let him go to the hospital. As a result, his illness was delayed. When he arrived at my place, the patient was having a fever with a temperature of 39.6℃. Knowing this situation, I couldn't help scolding his father. This is standard medical blindness.
What's the harm of medical blindness? The most common thing is that you can't have a correct understanding of your health. Because of medical blindness, it often delays the illness and loses the best treatment opportunity, such as surgery, poisoning rescue, stroke and so on. These diseases need to go to the hospital for emergency treatment. If you go late, the treatment effect will be greatly reduced. What's more, medical blindness lacks health awareness, and family members follow suit, leading to problems in family atmosphere. If a family is not harmonious, let alone happy.
Illiteracy is sometimes actually medical illiteracy, because he can't understand medical culture, so illiteracy is often medical illiteracy. But if he is simply illiterate and admires his health and medicine, he will actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment. There is nothing to be afraid of, including his attitude towards his usual study. Even if he is illiterate, he can gradually become an intellectual, so I say medical illiteracy is even more terrible.
However, both medical blindness and illiteracy must be eliminated, because it has a great impact on personal life.
Personally, I think illiteracy will not harm people, and medical illiteracy is even more terrible. Because of personal experience, I remember that appendicitis hurt badly when I was a child and I went to the doctor's house in the village to see a doctor. The uncle in the village let me go and jumped. Then he said, nothing, gastroenteritis. He gave me dexamethasone (probably the name, hormone) for a while, and then I stopped hurting. If you go back at night, your appendix will be punctured. After a night's sleep, the pain stopped the next day and I could go straight to the ground. Thanks to my mother's appendectomy, no, it was a perforation. The village bus took me to the county hospital. I was already in a coma and saved my life. Later, my father tried to hit someone, but my mother stopped him, saying that they were all from the same village, and then it went away.
Medical blindness is not a doctor. Now doctors know how to treat patients and save lives. Illiteracy is terrible, and people without cultural knowledge can't do well in society.
Illiteracy is not terrible. My mother is illiterate, but she is sensible and kind, but she is illiterate. Medical illiteracy is the most terrible. There is no serious illness, and it may be ruined by his hand.