After dinner, Tang Yixin opened his mobile phone, browsed a little, and began to reply one by one. This 70-year-old Chinese medicine doctor is the chief physician of the Department of Spleen and Gastroenterology of Leshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Sichuan Province. After retirement, he accepted re-employment and was busier than ever. During the day, he went to the hospital, and at night, he turned his home into a clinic and used his mobile phone to communicate with patients on the other end of the network.
In the impression of many people, "old Chinese medicine" seems to be easily equated with adjectives such as old-fashioned and old-fashioned, but Tang Yixin is very different.
"I'm 70 years old this year, but I don't feel any difficulty in consulting and prescribing on the Internet. More than thirty years ago, I was one of the first people in Leshan to use computers. Tang Yixin said with a smile.
Many people will be amazed at Dr. Tang's proficiency in using mobile phones and computers. Many doctors of the same age need the help of assistants to complete operations such as computer prescription.
"What's so strange about knowing a little bit about computers? It's just a tool. In fact, Tang Yixin is an old netizen. More than thirty years ago, he went abroad to exchange and saw that in the hospital, the doctor sat in front of the computer and prescribed for the patient, "As soon as the computer knocked, the medicine in the pharmacy came out." After returning to China, he immediately applied to the leader, and in the future, if there are conditions, he must be equipped with a computer. At the same time, Tang Yixin began to teach himself to use a computer, earlier than many of his younger peers.
(Tang Yixin can skillfully use all kinds of electronic products)
Tang Yixin believes that Chinese medicine is used in ancient times and has profound concepts, and it is even more necessary to exchange more with foreign countries. Fluent in Russian, Japanese and English, he often goes abroad and teaches foreign scholars fluently in the language of his home country.
Four years ago, when Tang Yixin attended an international conference, he listened to a Canadian expert highly praising the development of Internet medicine in China, which made him interested in online health care.
Some patients' homes are in remote mountainous areas, encounter changes in their condition, can't figure out the cause, and are prone to mood swings. Communicating with Dr. Tang online has brought a lot of comfort to patients.
Internet medicine has brought the distance between doctors and patients closer. At the moment of normalization of epidemic prevention, this bridge is becoming more and more important. Before the epidemic, for 365 days a year, Tang Yixin could only stay in Leshan for a maximum of 100 days, and the rest of the time was spent lecturing and sitting in clinics all over the country. In the year before the outbreak of covid-19, he flew 38 flights. Now, sitting at home, he can follow up with patients everywhere.
"Curing the disease is the wish of patients and their families, and it is also my wish." Tang Yixin said.
(Tang Yixin often goes to various places to see patients, and the photo is taken before the epidemic)
A few days ago, Tang Yixin also received a Japanese woman. The woman, introduced by her son, communicated with Tang Yixin online in words and voices. Because of the illness, the woman was in a poor mental state and her speech was sparse. After diagnosis and treatment, his condition quickly improved. When Tang Yixin recited the verse "Spring of the Northern Kingdom" in Japanese, she happily continued to sing the second half of the sentence.
"More young people looking for me"
The old Chinese medicine doctor quietly began to become popular in the post-90s.
Open the Little Red Book, there are more than 40,000 articles about "old Chinese medicine". Some handwritten prescriptions are not small. Angelica, white peony, raw astragalus, shou wu teng and other herbs combined together, it has become a health "secret recipe" circulating among young people.
More and more people are trying to find old Chinese medicine doctors online. According to the "2021 Internet + Top 100 Chinese Medicine Medical Fields List" jointly guided by China Traditional Chinese Medicine News and Information Association and China Medical News and Information Association, Chinese medicine practitioners over the age of 50 have the highest attention, the most praise and the best service.
The Internet has lowered the threshold for medical treatment, allowing more people to feel the warmth of pulse Chinese medicine through the network cable.
Yang Zhen, the chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is 58 years old and is more than happy to accept new things. Because of his superb medical skills and active thinking, he has 1 million followers on Weibo. At the beginning of the establishment of Ali Health Fawn Chinese Medicine, he became one of the first batch of resident doctors.
When she first started out on social platforms such as Weibo, Yang Zhen found that there was a lot of debate about Chinese medicine on the Internet, and many of them were negative. He is a traditional Chinese medicine scholar who has studied Chinese medicine for decades, and many difficult diseases have helped patients recover through traditional Chinese medicine, which is really difficult to accept public opinion on the Internet.
Yang Zhen believes that Chinese and Western medicine should have played to their respective advantages and coordinated and complemented each other, rather than attacking each other. He often speaks out for Chinese medicine on Weibo. In 2016, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Traditional Chinese Medicine was deliberated and passed. This is the first comprehensive law that comprehensively and systematically embodies the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine. Since then, Yang Zhen has clearly felt that the recognition of Chinese medicine has become higher, and more and more people are willing to trust Chinese medicine and try Chinese medicine.
During the epidemic, Yang Zhen was quite busy. Many international students living overseas have chest tightness, cough, fever, and it is difficult to seek medical treatment in the local area, so they have to ask him for help online. After the online consultation, Yang Zhen will also call local friends or familiar pharmacies to assist patients in buying drugs.
Yang Zhen believes that although the online consultation is less likely to ask the steps of the incision pulse, it has greatly improved the efficiency in the step of asking about the condition. During the online consultation, Xiaolu Chinese Medicine set up a series of detailed pre-diagnosis questions and answers in the system, so that doctors can have a certain understanding of the patient's condition before contacting the patient.
(Yang Zhen, Chief Physician, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine)
The popularity of Internet medical treatment has exposed Yang Zhen to a variety of cases, and he found that in recent years, the number of young people who have consulted him has gradually increased, and some diseases have begun to become younger.
According to data from the Ali Health Research Institute and the Fawn Chinese Medicine Internet Platform, in 2021, the number of consultations for spleen and stomach diseases such as stomach pain and gastritis is quite high. The high incidence of diseases in young people, insomnia and dreams, acne, sub-health, etc., have also entered the ranking of the top ten common diseases of Internet Traditional Chinese Medicine.
These types of diseases, Yang Zhen is also often exposed. By infiltrating medical knowledge, he slowly guides patients to choose a healthier lifestyle.
However, the trend of younger patients sometimes pleases Yang Zhen, who believes that more and more young people like Chinese medicine.
On weekdays, Yang Zhen receives online treatment for about 2 hours a day, and by Friday and Saturday, there are more patients online, and he spends longer time online. He never felt tired at work, and as usual with vibrato and circle of friends, time passed quickly. Being able to communicate more with young people is a happy thing for him.
"This was previously unthinkable, but now it's happening." He said so.
In his old age, he is still serving more patients
Compared with most elderly people, Xu Mill's daily life is no different. The only difference is that every week he takes time out of the Internet to diagnose and treat patients online.
Xu Lao is 89 years old this year, and on the other end of the mobile phone, there is often a young voice, including many young patients after 90 and 00.
"Pay attention when taking medicine, be sure to eat after meals... Don't stay up late, get enough sleep! Through his mobile phone, Elder Xu instructed the patient in every detail. This afternoon, Elder Xu received three follow-up registrations. Two of them are psoriasis patients, and another is a 24-year-old girl from Shandong who is worried about severe acne on her face.
Xu Lao has been practicing medicine for more than 64 years, and is the director, researcher, chief physician and doctoral supervisor of the department of dermatological and venereal diseases of Guang'anmen Hospital of the Former China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and a famous doctor of chinese medicine in the capital. Outside his clinic, there are always patients waiting, including many patients from Heilongjiang, Sichuan, Guangdong and other places, who have traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to seek medical treatment. Often, superficial skin problems reflect internal organs and physical and mental problems, which require long-term conditioning to achieve curative effects. However, for patients in different places, the long distance to seek medical treatment makes it difficult to follow up once every two weeks.
(Expert in dermatological venereology of traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, xu milling, famous doctor of the capital)
It is not easy to seek medical treatment, in order to let patients run less, in 2016, Xu Lao began to receive remote treatment through Ali Health Deer Chinese Medicine, and patients from different places who have received the first diagnosis offline can directly follow up online and do not have to go to Beijing to go to Great Lengths.
In 1958, Xu Lao graduated from Peking University School of Medicine and worked in the Department of Dermatological and Venereal Diseases. At that time, there were not many dermatologists, and most of the patients who came to see the doctor were skin diseases caused by the immune system such as lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis and scleroderma. Xu Lao came to diagnose and treat based on the foundation of Western medicine, and later, he studied Chinese medicine and synthesized the principles of Traditional Chinese and Western medicine to explore the causes of skin lesions, and the effect was very good.
(Xu Milling attended the Alumni Association)
After starting to receive medical treatment online, Elder Xu found that more and more young people came to him for diagnosis and treatment. Contemporary young people pay attention to their appearance, have high requirements for skin health, and they rely more on experienced and reliable old experts like Xu Lao.
Doctors should treat both body and mind - this is the consensus of Xu Lao, and many TCM experts. Dermatologists have a fragile mental state, especially vitiligo, psoriasis and acne, often due to repeated attacks of diseases, seeking medical treatment everywhere, affecting life and work. When receiving the treatment, Elder Xu was very concerned about communication with patients, never ignored the patient's mental state, and tried his best to help him build confidence and give psychological comfort every time.
(Xu Milling has received more than 1,700 patients at Fawn Chinese Medicine)
For this old expert born in 1932, it is a lifelong idea to treat the sick and save people. In his old age, Elder Xu still insisted on receiving medical treatment online. He also thought that if the number of patients is large, he can find more free time to communicate with patients on the Internet.
"In the past six years, more than 1,700 people have looked for me online to see me, and I have heard that they have saved more than 1 million kilometers of travel." Speaking of this, Elder Xu's eyes were full of smiles.