"——Taking placebo can produce a good positive psychological response for those patients who are eager for treatment and have full trust in medical staff, thereby improving the person's physiological state and achieving the desired drug effect."
According to the memories in his mind, Lawrence's eloquent explanation had a placebo effect.
Fortunately, he browsed relatively complex things on the Internet in his previous life, so he was able to use precise language to explain to everyone exactly what he meant by placebo.
"As I just said, most of the non-church therapists on Green Island can only use this placebo to cheat money." Lawrence sighed softly and said.
"I guess before they smoked or let the patients soak in hot springs, they must have said how effective this medicine is, and if used, it will definitely cure the disease."
"Don't every doctor say this before treatment?" a noble asked in confusion.
"Yes, improving everyone's confidence is very important for treatment. Some good doctors will also say this kind of words during the treatment process to improve the patient's confidence." Lawrence nodded.
"But those who rely on placebo treatment will say these things repeatedly. It can even be said that compared with normal doctors, these people will deliberately say a lot more things in this regard, so that they seem a bit verbose."
After listening to what Lawrence said, the nobles present all started thinking seriously. Then, they all nodded to express their agreement with Lawrence's point of view.
As fiefdom nobles, although they are not able to receive this level of treatment due to their status, they have indeed seen those phenomena in their territory.
In the past, when no one mentioned it, they might have thought that this was a very common thing. But now after Lawrence mentioned it, these nobles suddenly realized that the grassroots medical staff in their territories were all
What level.
"Actually, when there is nothing, this kind of treatment is better than no treatment at all." Looking at the group of nobles, Lawrence shook his head helplessly.
The fact that the territory was divided into this place was quite miserable. From a certain point of view, it was almost like being exiled, so that they had to rely on a group of completely unreliable guys to establish a basic medical system.
"We understand this situation, but now after your training, I think we can change." The earl just nodded to Lawrence, and then he turned to the nobles behind him.
said.
"At least after the training of doctors here is completed, we should start cleaning up those fake medical personnel."
"There is no need to completely eliminate them. Because apart from liars, many of these people are private doctors who really think they have the ability to treat people, but their technical skills are insufficient." Lawrence waved his hand and said.
"So we should deal with these people separately. For example, we should resolutely suppress those who purely rely on this to make money. But when facing those private doctors, we should adopt other methods."
"For example, we can help them find new jobs, or we can give them new medical training so that they can become qualified primary care doctors."
The term "barefoot doctor" is too obvious and difficult to explain here, so Lawrence called these doctors primary doctors.
Compared with formal doctors, these grassroots doctors have relatively low medical and pathological standards. Naturally, with their level, they can hardly expect to treat serious, serious, or complex diseases, let alone complex diseases.
For these rapidly trained grassroots doctors, the problems they can solve are usually minor ailments such as headaches, body heat, abrasions, and trauma.
However, given the poor traffic level in this area, it is difficult for patients to receive timely treatment. More importantly, in daily life, the probability of people suffering from various minor illnesses is much higher than the probability of serious illnesses.
It's just that because of the past economic level and transportation level in this area, these mild patients often become severe patients, and then the severe patients become dead.
And this is the most important reason why Lawrence trained these grassroots doctors. At least if they can provide the most basic medical services to the grassroots people, then at least they can reduce the number of severe patients by more than 80%.
In this way, the population problem that has plagued Green Island for a long time can be significantly alleviated.
Obviously, the nobles present had also thought of this direction. So when they looked at these batch of doctor apprentices who were being trained, their eyes suddenly became much hotter.
When everyone finished the visit and left here, these nobles generously donated money to this simple medical school.
"I remember that the training methods for these grassroots doctors were disclosed before, but why didn't everyone here think of ways to train those grassroots doctors?"
After seeing off the nobles, Lawrence turned around and asked a clergyman from the Passion Church who was accompanying him in confusion.
"It would be understandable if this group of nobles didn't get the information because they were in a relatively remote place, but why didn't the church here conduct training?"
"Because we lack enough manpower." The church priest said helplessly. "The church headquarters did publicize this kind of thing before, and also recruited volunteers from us to go to the headquarters for training."
"But the problem is that training these people takes time, and until those trained people come back, at our current level we don't know what to do next, and naturally it is impossible to start training."
"I understand." Lawrence nodded after hearing what the priest said.
After all, this thing is a completely new thing for people in this world. Therefore, it will naturally take some time to master these things. And everything Lawrence is doing now is equivalent to advancing these things.
Of course, this kind of hasty training will always have flaws. For example, in just these few days of training, Lawrence has realized many thorny problems caused by manpower, materials and various deficiencies.
Therefore, after hearing what the priest of the Passion Church said, he was deeply moved and fell into deep thought.
"What you are doing here is very meaningful." The middle-aged priest said after watching the change of expression on Lawrence's face. "This kind of medical-related knowledge can save many lives even if it can be spread one day earlier. Therefore,
You don’t have to be disinterested just because you’re just a few days ahead of schedule.”
As a clergyman with rich experience in dealing with people, the priest of the Passion Church had obviously misunderstood the reason why Lawrence was in deep thought, so he offered words of comfort.
In his opinion, Lawrence's current silence may be caused by the realization that what he just did is not as valuable as he imagined, so he feels that he should encourage this young man who is willing to do good at this time.
"Ah, thank you for your comfort, but that's not what I was thinking about." Lawrence smiled at the priest and thanked him for his kindness, and then said.
"I was actually just thinking that the situation here is completely different from that on Sauer Island. The original pharmacopoeia cannot be copied mechanically, so I may need to compile a new pharmacopoeia."
Lawrence discovered this during this period of training, because he found that except for some patent medicines, the doctors here did not have any training in the use of other drugs.
After asking, he found out that because no one had recorded the items available for medicine on Green Island before, there was no local pharmacopoeia that could be used, so a very important step in the training could not proceed as planned.