On Monday morning, the anesthesiology department door was crowded with people. When I asked a colleague, I learned that it was a patient who was looking for expenses.
The meaning of looking for a fee is that the patient thinks that there is a problem with the fee, so he comes to the door to find it.
Asking which patient it was, we couldn't help but get angry. This is because the patient is an acquaintance. When admitted to the hospital, she passed the logistics of a colleague who lived in the hospital. I didn't expect to be able to find a fee. Besides, the costs are very transparent, there should be no problem!
Learning about the project that others questioned made us feel even more difficult to accept: the patient's family said: Anesthesia is only a dozen pieces, why should anesthesia be charged hundreds of dollars?
Hearing this, a famous debate comes to mind: at an academic seminar in a certain country, the surgeon insisted that anesthesia was useless and should not be paid a high salary. The anesthesiologist retorted: I can charge no other fees, only one medicine. After the injection, I will go. You see, is this okay? Hearing this, the crowd was speechless.
At this moment, we can deeply feel one thing: too many people do not understand anesthesia. Even a colleague in a hospital may not be able to understand. When encountering this kind of thing, you can't choke people, you can only explain it in a good way.
Soon, we called the logistics colleague the patient knew.
However, at this moment, the colleague also seems to have lost the original mentality of seeking people, but seems to be on the side of the patient. Listening to the meaning of the speech, it seems that we also want us to explain the problem of overcharging. According to his understanding: since you are looking for someone, you can only collect an anesthetic!
In this case, direct explanation with the patient's family may not be very effective. Therefore, we have to start with our colleagues. So, we asked the colleague to come along.
When the logistics colleague arrived, we told him: We are not selling medicine. Even if you sell medicines, you have to allow people to increase the price to a certain extent! Moreover, our anesthesia is not a matter of injection. After the anesthesia, do you have to observe the effect? Do you have to see if there are any adverse reactions? Is it necessary to rescue people who find problems with vital signs?
After the soul asked three questions, the colleague also felt embarrassed. Whisper: How to explain it to the family.
We said: The list is already very clear, it is the cost of anesthesia and the cost of monitoring. It's like installing a water heater to punch a hole in the installation: two nails don't cost a few dollars, but the holes cost at least a few dozen pieces. This is not the value of the item itself, but also the cost of the technology.
Seeing that the colleague really did not understand the anesthesia work, we talked to him again: anesthesia is an injection, but it is not a pick-up and a shot. At a minimum, the anesthesiologist must be familiar with pharmacology and efficacy, the patient's anatomy. In addition, there must be a security response. Whenever you do, safety comes first.
Finally, let's focus on popularizing: the most important job of an anesthesiologist is not to "get a shot", but how to ensure that patients get off the operating table safely. During the operation, the anesthesiologist should accompany you throughout the procedure.
Ask: Spending hundreds of dollars to save your life, is this a good deal?
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