Western medicine chemotherapy, targeting cells, or Chinese medicine conditioning have gone through many hospitals and given different survival times. Although I also study medicine, I know little about the field of cancer. At the moment, I can't give more professional advice, but I'm thinking deeply.
Death has always been the most taboo topic in China, but everyone has to face it.
I once participated in a volunteer activity in a nursing home when I was doing experiments in Beijing. In the small quadrangle, old people sit in twos and threes. Some old people stay in bed all the year round, and their small bodies are almost invisible under the quilt. When I saw that moment, my heart was a little shocked. Will this happen when people are old? Are they eager to struggle for survival or are they looking forward to death?
Cancer has always been regarded as an incurable disease, and Chinese people have always talked about cancer discoloration. With the development of medical level, the postoperative survival rate of cancer has been greatly improved. However, there are still a large number of cancer patients suffering from illness. In Desire for Survival, Eric Wang plays a patient with chronic myelopathy, who finally can't stand the pain and chooses to end his life. How many such patients are there in real life?
Faced with a limited life, should we sell our house and car at all costs, try to live, or face death calmly? Everyone can't give the right answer.
Life is so beautiful that no one has the right to decide his own life or death, but how to face the last stage of life with dignity and reduce physical and mental pain is something we can try our best to do.
This is hospice care!
I thought of hospice care because my elder was ill. Because whether you choose Chinese medicine or western medicine, I hope he can reduce his pain and spend his last days happily.
But how to do hospice care?
I checked the relevant information during lunch break, only to know that Tianjin Medical College set up the hospice research center as early as 1988, and it has been 30 years since then. However, even the students in my school didn't know there was such a center.
According to online news reports, there are ten hospice wards in Tianjin, of which Yan 'an Hospital is the representative hospital, and the One Foundation of Jet Li has invested 6,543,800 yuan to improve the hospital environment.
Many people on Douban asked if there were any activities to recruit hospice care volunteers. At the same time, in a report on hospice care day, there were very few volunteers on the day of the activity.
In Zhihu, the knowledge about hospice care is extremely limited, and many invited social workers and volunteers said they didn't understand and had no contact with it. However, only a few social workers who have contacted have replied, which also shows that Chinese people still have a lot of cognitive information about "hospice care".
Problems encountered in the implementation of hospice care in China;
1, hospice care originated in the west, advocating care for body, mind and soul. In addition to ordinary medical and nursing professionals, the team members also include priests, psychological counselors, nutritionists and a large team of volunteer social workers. These are all lacking in the development of our country, and the normal medical resources are extremely tight, let alone allocated to this aspect. Even less.
2. The traditional concept of China people is that they will not accept frequent visits and condolences from outsiders, thinking that these are their own affairs and don't want to be disturbed.
Generally, we only pay attention to the body, hoping to alleviate the pain of the body, but few people care about psychological and spiritual relief, and have not reached such a high-level pursuit.
4. cost. Hospice care is a public welfare undertaking. Without a lot of financial support, patients' families can't pay too much. At present, China's biggest funding comes from the Li Ka-shing Foundation, but few people can benefit from it.
5. Lack of publicity and support for hospice care. For the last step in life, many people don't pay attention to it. There are too many directions that need medical help at present. Who cares about this? Anyway, it's all dead in the end. What's the point of caring? And many people are afraid of death and don't want to get in touch with such people. They feel too depressed and choose to avoid it.
"Hospice care" is obviously unacceptable at present, but I believe its future will definitely become the direction of our concern, because:
Everyone will face death. With the rise of post-80s and post-90s, people's thinking concepts will gradually escalate iteratively, people will gradually face up to death and try to understand it in a scientific way. Hospice care will surely become the last way for people to explore cognitive death.
With the improvement of people's material level, people begin to emphasize personal experience. How to get a better rescue experience under the same condition will become the basis for people to judge. Private hospitals and moon clubs are popular now. Although they are extremely expensive, more and more people are willing to spend the money to get a better experience.
With regard to the cognition of filial piety, more and more people realize that it is better to hold a funeral after death than to take good care of it before death, so people will pay more and more attention to the investment before death in the future.
In the future, there will be more and more elderly people living alone like Japan, or because their children can't accompany them all the year round, or because they live alone for various reasons, they need such companionship more.
5. With the development of society, community medical care is becoming more and more popular. The state also supports and advocates the development of social worker volunteers. The application of big data and Internet in the future will contribute to the development and publicity of hospice care.
The above are my thoughts and feelings about "hospice care", but how serious the current situation is is still unknown. But I hope everyone who writes this article can know more about "hospice care". If you encounter it in your future work and life, you can accept it and actively promote it to people around you.
This little effort seems insignificant, but relying on the butterfly effect may bring great changes in the near future.