Struggle in the Steam Age - Chapter 672

“——Taking a placebo can produce a positive psychological response to those patients who are eager for treatment and have full trust in medical staff, thereby improving the physical state of the person and achieving the desired drug effect.”

According to the memories in his mind, Lawrence’s endless explanations acted as a placebo.

Fortunately, the things he browsed on the Internet in his previous life were quite complicated, so he was able to use precise language to explain to everyone exactly what he meant by placebo in this situation.

“Like I just said, most of the non-church system therapists on Green Island can only use this placebo to defraud money.” Lawrence sighed softly and said.

“I guess they must have said how effective this medicine is before smoking or letting patients soak in hot springs. If they are used, they will definitely cure diseases.”

“Doesn’t every doctor say that before treatment?” a nobleman asked puzzledly.

“Yes, improving everyone’s confidence is very important for treatment. Some good doctors will also use such words to increase the patient’s confidence during the treatment.” Lawrence nodded.

“But those who are treated with placebos will say these things repeatedly, and it can even be said that compared with normal doctors, these people will deliberately say a lot more in this regard, so that they will appear a little verbose.”

After listening to these words Lawrence said, the nobles present all started to think seriously. Then, they nodded their heads to agree with Lawrence’s point of view.

As fief nobles, although they would not receive this level of treatment because of their status, they did see the phenomena in their own territory.

Before no one said it, they may think this is a very common thing. But after being mentioned by Lawrence now, these nobles suddenly realized what the level of the grassroots medical staff in their territory was.

“In fact, when there is nothing, this kind of treatment is better than no treatment.” Looking at the group of nobles, Lawrence shook his head helplessly.

The division of the territory in this place is also miserable. In a way, it is actually similar to exile, so that they have to rely on a group of completely unreliable guys to establish a basic medical system.

“We also understand this situation, but now with your training, I think we can also change.” The earl nodded to Lawrence just now, and then he turned to the nobles behind him Said.

“At least after the training for doctors here is over, we should start to clean up the fake medical staff.”

“It’s not necessary to clean them up completely. Because in addition to crooks, many of these people are folk doctors who really think they have the ability to treat, but their skills are insufficient.” Lawrence waved and said.

“So we should deal with these people separately. For example, we should resolutely suppress those who cheat money purely by this. But we should take other measures when facing the private doctors.”

“For example, help them find a new job, or give them new medical training, so that they can become a qualified primary doctor.”

The term “barefoot doctors” is too obvious, so it is difficult to explain here, so Lawrence calls these doctors primary doctors.

Compared with formal doctors, these basic level doctors have relatively low levels of medicine and pathology. Naturally, at their level, there is basically no need to expect to treat serious or serious diseases, let alone complex diseases.

For these fast-trained grassroots doctors, the problems that can be solved are usually headaches, body heat, abrasions, trauma and other minor illnesses.

However, given the poor traffic level in the region, it is difficult for patients to receive timely treatment. More importantly, in daily life, the probability of people suffering from various minor diseases is much higher than the probability of suffering from serious diseases.

Only because of the past economic and transportation levels in this area, these mildly ill patients often become severely ill, and then the severely ill patients become dead.

And this is the most important reason why Lawrence trains these grassroots doctors. At least if they can provide the most basic medical services to the grassroots, they can at least reduce the number of critically ill 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 also thought of this direction. So when they looked at the doctors and apprentices who were undergoing training, their eyes suddenly became a lot hotter.

And when everyone finished their visit and left here, these nobles all generously donated money to this humble medical school.

“I remember that I used to publicize the training methods of these grassroots doctors, but why didn’t everyone here think of ways to train those grassroots doctors?”

After sending away the nobles, Lawrence turned his head and asked incomprehensibly a clergyman from the suffering church who was with him.

“If this group of nobles has no information because of the remoteness of their location, it can still be understood, but why doesn’t the church here carry out training?”

“Because we lack enough manpower.” The priest of the church said helplessly. “The church headquarters did promote such things before, and at the same time, we recruited volunteers from us to go to the headquarters for training.”

“But the problem is that it takes time to train these people, and we don’t know what to do next at our current level before the trained people come back, 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 takes some time to master these things. And what Lawrence is doing now is equivalent to bringing these things forward.

Of course, this kind of hasty training will always have defects of this kind. For example, only in the past few days of training, Lawrence realized many thorny problems caused by manpower and materials and various deficiencies.

Therefore, after hearing what the priest of the suffering church said, he was also very touched and fell into contemplation.

“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 a lot of lives even if it can be spread a day earlier, so you don’t have to be uninterested just because it’s only a few days earlier. A clergyman with experience in dealing with the priest, the reason why the priest of the Passion Church is now in deep contemplation for Lawrence is obviously wrong, so he can speak comfortingly.

In his opinion, Lawrence’s current silence may have been caused by the realization that what he had just done was not as valuable as he imagined, so he felt that he should encourage this young man who is willing to do good at this time.

“Ah, thank you for your comfort, but I don’t think this.” Lawrence smiled at the priest and thanked him for his kindness, and then said.

“I was actually thinking that the situation here is completely different from the situation on Sauer Island. The original pharmacopoeia cannot be mechanically copied, so I may need to compile a new pharmacopoeia.”

This was discovered by Lawrence during this period of training, because he found that the doctors here did not have any training on the use of other drugs except for some proprietary drugs.

As a result, after inquiring, he knew that because no one had recorded the medicines available on the Green Island before, there was no applicable local pharmacopoeia at all, so that an important step in the training could not be carried out as planned.