Advantages of American health care
The United States has a highly developed medical industry, the most advanced diagnosis and treatment technology in the world, the best medical education and medical college. Let's give you an in-depth understanding of American medical care from the following aspects.
1. The strict medical education system has promoted a high-level medical level.
American medical education can be said to be the strictest education system in the world. Unlike most parts of the world, medical education in the United States is postgraduate education. Only after completing the required courses for undergraduates and passing the entrance examination for American medical schools can you apply for medical schools. I graduated from medical school for four years and got a doctor's degree in medicine, but if I want to practice medicine, I must pass the American medical license exam and go through three to eight years of training and examination for residents and specialists. At the same time, you must accumulate medical education credits every year and take the college recertification exam every ten years. The United States has the most advanced medical technology and diagnosis and treatment means in the world, which is inseparable from its strict medical education and research. In this respect, China and most countries in the world cannot compare with it at all. The United States is far ahead of China in orthopedics, surgery, organ transplantation and cancer treatment. Especially in California with a pleasant climate and a large number of Chinese, there are many famous private clinics, which are the best choice for high-end clients with better economic conditions to treat certain diseases.
2. Highly developed medical industry promotes medical technology innovation.
The medical industry in the United States is highly developed, with outstanding innovation ability, and various new treatment technologies and means are constantly emerging, especially in the research and development of drugs and diagnostic equipment. For example, in recent years, a new global stereotactic radiosurgery treatment equipment, cyberknife system, has been introduced. Compared with conventional surgery, this kind of equipment has less damage, faster effect and better effect, and has been popularized in the United States for several years. The treatment of metastatic liver cancer from melanoma often involves multiple liver metastases, which is not suitable for surgical treatment. Cancer can be controlled without major surgery.
Cyberknife robot radiosurgery system is a non-invasive treatment technology for malignant and non-malignant tumors in any part of human body (including prostate, lung, brain, spine, liver, pancreas and kidney). This high-dose radiotherapy for tumors can provide new hope for patients all over the world. Due to the complicated approval mechanism, advanced treatment technologies and means will be many years later than those in the United States, and mainly concentrated in big hospitals in Shanghai and Beijing. In this respect, China not only has a considerable gap, but also is difficult to keep pace with foreign countries.
3. Standard operating procedures and humanized services.
Medical management in the United States is very strict, and every step in the medical process needs to be carried out in strict accordance with standard procedures and operations. This strict and transparent management makes the treatment process standardized, standardized and transparent, greatly reducing the irregular operation in the medical process, preventing doctors from accepting red envelopes and prescribing drugs indiscriminately, and reassuring patients. In addition, American hospitals attach great importance to individualized treatment. According to the individual differences of patients and the different conditions of diseases, an all-round individualized treatment plan is formulated. At present, gene analysis has made it possible to treat cancer patients individually. Genetic analysis can provide powerful evidence and information for doctors. When implementing the treatment scheme, the most effective drug treatment scheme can be selected for patients, which not only improves the curative effect, but also reduces the toxic and side effects of chemotherapy and improves the quality of life of patients. More importantly, this individualized treatment integrates the comprehensive consideration of patients' psychology, patients' families and society, reduces patients' mental burden and pressure, and makes them actively participate in the treatment to achieve the best curative effect. Do American hospitals really have them? People-oriented? Our service concept, beautiful and comfortable hospital environment, convenient and fast outpatient service and brand-new medical style? For example, in American hospitals, there is no smell of disinfectant, and the walls of American hospitals are not painted white. They are all warm colors, light blue and beige, giving people a warm feeling. These choices are all studied by psychology. In American hospitals, you will feel the atmosphere of patient first, but you can't see any slogans and slogans, but all kinds of practices reflect the care and respect for patients: there are all kinds of beautifully printed manuals or guides in public places of hospitals; A hand disinfection device is installed at the entrance of the ward to remind and require medical staff to disinfect every patient after seeing a doctor to prevent cross-infection. American hospitals? People-oriented? Our concept is deeply permeated in the hospital culture, which is based on the layout, equipment and service concept of staff. People-oriented? Principle, only under such a perfect and developed medical security system can people's lives and quality of life be guaranteed and improved.
4. Advanced medical concepts play an extremely important guiding role.
The highly developed medical level in the United States is not only reflected in the above points, but also in its innovative advanced medical concepts. This concept has penetrated into all aspects of American medical care, playing an extremely important guiding role, and its importance often exceeds the innovation and breakthrough of simple medical technology. Taking cancer treatment as an example, the field of cancer treatment in the United States began to change tumors in the second half of the 1990s? Pure confrontation? Treatment ideas, against endless high-dose radiotherapy and chemotherapy? War mode? Instead, it advocates moderate treatment and individualized treatment of targeted drugs; However, China has not been able to keep up with this important change in therapeutic thinking. Transitional therapy, especially transitional chemotherapy, has become one of the important reasons for the low tumor survival rate in China. The director of oncology department of a provincial cancer hospital clearly told all his friends at the dinner table that about 90% of his patients died of chemotherapy transition. Of course, 90% died of chemotherapy transition, and the reasons are very complicated. Most of them are advanced and refractory cancers, however, this also reflects the harm of treatment transition. We know that before the 1980s, the cancer mortality rate in the United States was close to that in Shanghai today (Shanghai's' medical level is the best in the country at present'), and it is still rising. However, in the late 1990s, the survival time gradually began to extend, which happened after the international cancer treatment community emphasized moderate treatment, improved quality of life and targeted therapy. So that in 2005, the number of cancer deaths in the United States began to decline for the first time. Therefore, only advanced medical concepts can effectively improve the effect of tumor treatment, reduce the mortality rate, alleviate the physical and mental pain of patients, obviously improve the quality of life of patients, and prolong the quality of life.
The following are two sets of objective cancer 5-year survival rate data, which can intuitively understand the medical level of China and the United States:
In 2008, the third national cause of death survey released by the Ministry of Health of China showed that cancer had become the first cause of death for urban residents in China, and the cancer mortality rate increased by 83. 1% compared with the 1970s and 22.5% compared with the early 1990s. According to the cancer data of American Cancer Society in 20 10, the annual cancer mortality rate in the United States has not increased in recent years. From 1990 to 2006, the cancer mortality rate in the United States decreased by 2 1% for men and 12.3% for women.
Last year, the famous medical magazine The Lancet published the 5-year survival rate data of various cancers in four developed cities in China, such as Shanghai, Hongkong, Tianjin and Qidong. In the same year, the American Cancer Society also published the latest 5-year survival rate data of various cancers in the United States in the top medical journal Cancer. Take colon cancer as an example. The average 5-year survival rate of colon cancer in the United States is 66%, while that in China is only 44%. The average 5-year survival rate of breast cancer in the United States is 89%, and that in China is 82%? China's data were collected in Hongkong, Shanghai, Tianjin and other places with the best medical resources in China, while American data were collected in all hospitals in China. There are many reasons for the above differences, but we can easily see the gap between China and the United States in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Although the domestic medical technology has made great progress and rapid development in recent years, and in some areas it has approached or reached the international leading level, there is still a big gap between China's overall medical level and that of western developed countries, especially the United States. The sharing of world-class medical resources has become very common in developed countries in Europe and America and rich countries in the Middle East, and it has been recognized and accepted by more and more people in China, which has become a new trend.
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