The system takes me for surgery

The old lady's husband didn't see Liang Yi, so he found Cao Chong and said, "Doctor Cao, my old lady keeps complaining about her back pain."

Cao Chong went to see the old lady and checked it. There was no major problem. It should be that when he fainted, he strained his waist muscles.

But now there is a troublesome thing. This old lady was treated by him. During the consultation, the old lady told him.She is allergic to all pain medications.

Cao Chong confirmed with the old lady again, and asked, "Will you be allergic to the medicine that was posted?"

The old lady shook her head and said, "No, when I put on that painkiller, my eyes swelled like frogs."

Now Cao Chong is in trouble, all the painkillers are useless, what should he do?We can't study it right away, let's study a new painkiller for her.

When he went back to the office, he told the director what medicine to take, but the director Shen Weiwei didn't know what to do, saying that she couldn't take any medicine after so long, so she could only suffer from pain, and there was no other way.

When Liang Yi packed up his things in the duty room and went to the office to get a thermos cup.

Cao Chong said, "Liang Yi, that old lady of yours complained of back pain."

"Maybe it's because you sat on the ground with your buttocks, and your waist muscles are sore?" Liang Yi said.

"It should be like this."

"But it's very troublesome. She is allergic to any painkillers."

"Yeah, that's what makes it difficult."

While they were talking, the old lady and her husband rang the bedside bell and the nurse called again, saying that the old lady was in too much pain.

Liang Yi thought for a while and said, "That can only be done in a simple way."

So Liang Yi went to the dressing room and fiddled with it for a while, took out a small medicine bottle, put on the white coat again, walked to the old lady's bed and said, "Did you just say that your back hurts a lot?"

The old lady had a painful expression. After seeing Liang Yi, she opened her eyes happily and said, "Dr. Liang, you are here. The backache is so painful, I can't stand it."

"You can't take painkillers, can you?"

"I can't touch all my painkillers, no matter if they are applied or eaten."

Liang Yi took out a small medicine bottle and said, "Then I made this myself, I'll rub some on for you, and you can see if it works. It's a secret recipe handed down from my family."

The eyes of the old lady and the old man who were slightly squinted opened immediately, and the old lady said excitedly: "There is such a secret recipe!"

"That's right, my family used to sell this." Liang Yi said nonsense.

So Liang Yi took a few cotton swabs, took out a brown cream-like thing from the inside, and applied it to the old lady's back.

The old lady felt a coolness on her back.

Liang Yi asked, "How do you feel?"

The old lady said happily: "It feels good, it's cold, it doesn't seem to hurt that much."

Liang Yi waited another ten minutes and asked the old lady again, "How do you feel now?"

"It's much better, it's much better, it's relieved a lot. There's only a slight pain. Dr. Liang, this secret recipe of yours really works."

"Can you open a bottle for me when I prescribe medicine in the future?"

"Yes." Liang Yi replied generously.

Back in the office, the nurse Chen Li said, "Liang Yi, your ancestral medicine is really powerful. Once you wipe it, the old lady will stop."

Cao Chong asked with a smile: "What the hell did you do? Is it really a family recipe?" Although he didn't understand what kind of medicine Liang Yi prepared, it was definitely not a secret recipe handed down from his ancestors, because he just went to the dressing room to prepare it on the spot. of.

Liang Yi shook his head and said, "This is not a recipe at home. I just mixed it with 1:1 iodine and vaseline."

"There is no painkiller in it at all, hey... you are a fool."

"I'm really a fool, but it does work."

Cao Chong went to the ward to check with the old lady again and again. The old lady said that the effect was good, and now there was no pain at all.

Painkillers are nothing more than painkillers. If they can really achieve the purpose of painkillers, it doesn't matter whether they are painkillers or not. In Liang Yi's view, this is a white lie.

The reason why Liang Yi thought of this placebo painkiller was because he had seen a study by Chouguo before.

In 1996, 56 student volunteers in Ugland participated in the experiment of a new painkiller, and what awaited them was the experiment of pinching their fingers with pliers.Each subject applied the medicine-smelling brown lotion to the index finger of one hand, and the other hand, which served as a control, had no application.

After their fingers were pinched severely, they all said that the pain of the fingers coated with the medicine was significantly relieved. What they didn't know was that what the scientists applied to them was not medicine at all, but a mixture of water, iodine and thyme oil—— A placebo, which has no pain-relieving ingredients in it at all.

This is a classic placebo effect experiment: When doctors give patients a placebo of a fake drug that has no effect, the patients will feel that their symptoms have improved significantly after using it.

Cao Chong asked, "What is the principle?"

Liang Yi spread his hands, shook his head, and said, "This miraculous effect has been puzzling doctors and science for thousands of years. I don't understand it. It may be the power of faith. Faith is the oldest medicine known to mankind. "

"Yes, there are indeed many such cases in clinical practice. The same drug does not need to be prescribed by a doctor, and the patient feels that the effect is very different." Cao Chong said.

Liang Yi said: "Mankind has known for a long time that some completely ineffective "treatments" can soothe people's hearts. In primitive societies, the common point of medical practice is that diseases are regarded as punishment from gods, and are considered to be a supernatural phenomenon. Treatment is It is a variety of religious and magical rituals. For example, the Sumerians put horrible statues around the patient to achieve the purpose of exorcism. This does not mean that primitive medicine is completely ineffective. Scholars now believe that the healing of diseases that occurred naturally in ancient times was due to The placebo effect, to be honest, I really can’t rule out the possibility.”

Cao Chong said: "Then I will also try this placebo in the future, so as to save myself frequent prescriptions."

"This is not suitable for every patient. I think the reason why the old lady's effect is so good today may be related to her being a devout Buddhist, and we have just rescued her, so trust us more. "

"It seems reasonable to say that not everyone responds to placebos.

"I think the effect should not be obvious for patients who just came to see a doctor. After all, a large part of the placebo is psychological suggestion."

Cao Chong said in admiration: "You can do it, there are quite a lot of routines."

"Hey! There is no way. It's because the patient's condition is too complicated, and there are all kinds of conditions. If the patient is sick according to the textbook, who wants to have eighteen martial arts."