I don’t know if you have heard of “palliative care”. This is a nursing model for some terminally ill patients, which can effectively avoid over-treatment and the impact of large-scale radiotherapy and chemotherapy on the patient’s quality of life. At this point, it not only improves the quality of patients during the end-of-life period, but also avoids a large amount of waste of health and public resources, and also reduces a large amount of financial investment for family members.

But it can be said with certainty that when suffering from an incurable disease, many Chinese people still hold the view that "a dead horse must be treated as a living horse doctor" and that it is unfilial and immoral not to see a doctor, so that in the end people Money is lost. I remember a doctor of medicine from a hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. After learning that his father had metastasis from lung cancer, he did not perform surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Instead, he sent his father back to his hometown with beautiful scenery. He only used painkillers and other drugs when he was in pain and ate fresh food. Vegetables, drinking spring water from the mountains, and walking with my father. My father’s quality of life is not very good, but his mood is naturally much better. It was not until more than a year later that my father was bedridden, finally fell into a coma and passed away peacefully. Some time ago, we saw a lung cancer patient who insisted on running a marathon. Although he did not achieve his wish, he managed to go through two fulfilling years with tenacity and perseverance and won dozens of marathon medals. Although he did not let Life has length, but also breadth. This is the meaning of life, hard work, tenacity, and seeing death as home.

Let’s talk about the hospice care that is more advocated now. The so-called hospice care refers to the holistic care taken for those who have incurable diseases to protect the best health of the patients and their families. Quality of life: Mainly through pain control, alleviating other physical discomfort symptoms, while also dealing with the psychological, social and spiritual problems of patients and their families. At present, the hospice care covered by domestic health insurance is only for "terminal cancer". However, the hospice care plan for caring for terminal cancer patients has developed from the above concept to a more detailed "four-round care" feature, which has also shaped the Guidelines for a civilized society and humane medical care.

Hospice care proposes "four completes":

Whole person care - that is, complete care of body, mind and spirit.

Care for the entire family - caring for the patient as well as their family members.

Full-care care - accompanying the patient until the end of his life, and also guiding the family members through the low moments.

Whole team care - that is, combining doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, religious personnel and volunteers to jointly care for patients and their families.

In some foreign countries, some patients with terminal cancer can apply for euthanasia. This has always been controversial in terms of ethics and the right to life. As a living individual, you cannot choose to live, but you also have no choice in how to die when you are terminally ill. Fortunately, some countries have the strict option of "euthanasia", but not everyone has this right.

The editor works in a hospital and saw patients in the intensive care unit filled with various tubes. They were breathing mechanically with the help of ventilators. Their chests seemed to be rising and falling, but they were already in a deep coma. , various organs gradually fail over time. In fact, once the ventilator is removed, terminally ill patients will slowly stop breathing. In fact, where does the quality of life come from for such deeply comatose and terminally ill patients? They don't know anything, they are just breathing by machines and are in a deep coma...

Some family members say that the patient is a retired cadre. At the end of his life, he still has to do everything possible to save him, even if he is Even if a vegetative person relies on a machine to breathe, he must continue to do so. Because this veteran cadre only lives for one day, not only the medical expenses are free, but the pension can still be collected every month...

Back to the core of the problem: whether the terminal illness can be cured or not. Treatment is definitely necessary, but you must know the limitations of medical methods. Doctors have rich clinical experience and can judge the prognosis of the disease very accurately, so treatment within a reasonable range is necessary. If the treatment methods cannot be clearly improved, then Still don't go for treatment. I have seen many family members claiming that they are willing to spend any amount of money. In fact, getting a terminal illness cannot be bought by spending any amount of money. At that moment, it is only a matter of time, and it does not seem to have much to do with money. Therefore, in the limited time, reasonable treatment is the key to making the patient's quality of life better, alleviating some pain, and having more family members with him.

Everyone is subject to birth, old age, illness and death, and getting sick to the end of life is an option for most people. It is a kind of tragedy to have a child who wants to be raised but is not treated as a parent. When a family member is suffering from a terminal illness, they should be actively treated instead of rushing to the doctor, rather than over-treating. After all, current medical methods have limitations in the treatment of terminal illnesses. Treatment in large hospitals only requires some high-tech methods and clinical treatments. Rich experts, but the cost is not small. What is certain is that the cancer has not recurred 5 years after surgery, which is basically cured. But how many liver cancer, lung cancer, and pancreatic cancer patients have survived 5 years? If some cancers are detected early, the quality of life will generally not be affected much after surgery. But now, once the cancer is discovered, it is particularly common in the middle and late stages. It can also be said that it is basically a terminal illness.

Therefore, to avoid terminal illness, it is necessary to have regular physical examinations every year. Only early detection and early treatment can achieve good results. When cancer is really in the late stages, improving the final quality of life is the key.

Money can make all the difference, but when it comes to medicine and cancer, it really doesn't work if you have money! Look at those dignitaries and celebrities who died of terminal illnesses, you might really think about it!