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Hospitals are phasing out general outpatient clinics, so what happens when patients are discharged back to the hospital for regular reviews?

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I don't know where you got this "hospitals closing general outpatient clinics" from. Hospitals never close outpatient clinics, otherwise what would patients do to see them?

1, regular hospitals above the first level (township hospitals) is generally divided into three major blocks: outpatient building, medical building and ward (inpatient department). Some hospitals in order to patients to see a doctor and the convenience of the examination, there are medical departments and outpatient clinics together (such as electrocardiogram, ultrasound, X-ray, CT, magnetic resonance and laboratory tests, etc.).

2, outpatient departments are generally divided into internal, external, gynecological, pediatrics, etc., the second level of hospitals above a more detailed. Such as surgery, general surgery, brain surgery, thoracic surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, urology, orthopedics, etc.. The larger the hospital, the finer the division, and the same is true for the wards.

3, you if it is the first visit, do not know which department to hang up the number, you can ask the nurse guide in the outpatient hall, she will give you a detailed explanation, to guide you to which department for medical treatment. Don't register without knowing. If you make an appointment online, you can tell us about your condition first, and you will be guided to which specialist's number to hang up online.

4, if you are hospitalized patients cured and discharged, regular review, it is better and convenient. Due to directly contact your treating physician, go to the hospital to find his review can be. Generally when you are discharged from the hospital, your attending physician will leave the phone number to you, so that you can easily contact and consult.

5, if your last illness is not serious or not difficult, after the cure want to review does not have to look for the original hospital doctor, you can live in the hospital near the review can be, there is no need to go to the hospital to find the original treatment of the physician. This saves your time and money, and avoids the waste of medical resources in large hospitals.




Disinformation!!! The hospital is not phasing out general outpatient clinics!

Hospitals closing general outpatient clinics? Where did this rumor come from? It's horrible! However, anyone who has visited a hospital should know that the general outpatient clinic cannot be closed! There are several reasons for this.

First, there are many outpatients, and the general outpatient clinic is the most important!

Although, many people are keen on visiting specialist clinics and special needs clinics, and yes, the specialists in these clinics are really good, and they do see a lot of 'difficult cases'. However, don't forget that most of the diseases are common and frequent. The average resident as well as the attending physician will be able to address the needs of most patients. And those so-called special needs clinics, and specialist clinics are only meant to address the needs of a certain small percentage of patients. Think about how many specialists there are in each hospital. And how many outpatients do hospitals have every day? If the general outpatient clinic is canceled, then the specialists must not die of exhaustion?

Secondly, general out-patient clinics will not be abolished for a long time in the future.

This is due to the national conditions of our country, which has a large population, is aging more and more, and there are more and more people who need to see a doctor, but there are only so many hospitals, only so many doctors, and only so many specialists! Imagine, if the general outpatient clinic is canceled, then is it possible for every doctor to sit in the expert, special needs clinic? Is it true that in the future, only the emergency room? Will a patient be hospitalized for examination? Is it true that discharged patients can only be hospitalized again if they want to be re-examined? It is impossible!

In fact, the general outpatient clinic of each department plays a huge role! For example, those who prescribe medicines, those who review, and those who diagnose and treat common diseases. Anyway, whatever the specialist professors don't want to do and don't have time to do, the general outpatient clinic needs to do. And the specialists only do what the general outpatient clinics can't see.

Anyway, don't worry that the general outpatient clinic will be canceled, Dr. Liu is responsible to tell you that it won't be! Remember to return to the hospital on time for review!

The main thing is that hospitals also recognize that the gold content of experts and ordinary is not the same, and the expert number is more valuable! Now many hospitals after entering the door everywhere is a specialist clinic, even some county-level hospitals, the hospital itself is the level of a second A bar, but experts are very much. General outpatient clinic is indeed very little, the patient in the hospital to see the doctor itself is an expert, so the patient back to the hospital to review and then hang up the expert number can be. For the current phenomenon should be rectified in this way: First, the expert is a very serious title, as long as it is a professional engaged in a certain work can be called experts, because it is specialized in this area of work, this understanding is not comprehensive and complete, so there should be a clear and strict standard assessment of the doctor's expert status, to achieve the identity of the expert can be recognized as an expert status, less than that cannot be identified, while this recognition can not be determined by the doctor's expert status. At the same time, this kind of recognition can not be carried out by the hospital itself, before obtaining the recognition can not be hung on the "expert clinic" sign. Secondly, the proportion of general outpatient clinics in hospitals of different grades should be clearly defined, so that most of the outpatient clinics cannot be turned into specialists' outpatient clinics. Third, the hospital itself is a service unit, and it serves a special object, in the service should provide more convenience to the patient, whether it is a specialist has seen the patient or a general practitioner has seen the patient in the hospital review should be established a special channel, so as to provide more convenience for the patient to save the time to see the doctor and review.

Outpatient review

Just do what the doctor told you when you were discharged. The hospital clinic is not closed.

# Hospitals closed general outpatient patients how to see a doctor # For this problem, the general public friends, you basically do not have to worry about, this is completely unfounded, the hospital outpatient clinic and then how to reduce, but the various departments at least there is an outpatient clinic is a doctor sitting, assuming that you said the problem really exists, then you do not have to worry about it, I will tell you how to operate to carry out.

First: At present, some areas affected by the epidemic, the hospital in order to reduce the flow of personnel and unnecessary contact, some auxiliary departments, should be said to be temporarily closed, such as the hospital's blood transfusion, medical technology, orthopedics, etc., but the vast majority of departments are still open, such as pediatrics, the department of all the Chinese know that not only is not enough, but also increase the opening of the other general laboratory and testing laboratory, CT digestive department, neurology, etc. are generally developed in the outpatient clinic. CT digestive department, neurology, etc. are generally developed in the outpatient clinic. There is no need to worry.

Second: If really gradually closed, then I have the following suggestions, one: If you are an old patient, basic pathology, condition, test reports are there, and before you are also more familiar with your attending physician, I think, you and the doctor must also leave a phone number or micro-signal, then if you really want to go to the hospital to see the outpatient clinic and there is no one, then I suggest that you go to the inpatient department to find you know the doctor in charge of this, because now the work system and time is basically the clinic sitting once a week, the rest is basically the director level is more than two days a week in the clinic to treat the patient. Because now the doctor's work system and time are basically outpatient clinic a week to sit once, the rest are basically in the inpatient department to treat patients, of course, some director level is a week more than two days in the outpatient clinic, so the old patients do not have to worry about it, you can send a text message, make an appointment with the doctor early, you will go directly to the inpatient department to find your doctor to prescribe medication, review and re-assessment, this is the most direct and most convenient, I'm the old! My old patients are usually very urgent, they are told to come to the inpatient department to find me, so remember, if there is no outpatient clinic, go to the inpatient department.

Third: In addition are now realize the medical association, medical community, many higher hospitals have been and lower hospitals to implement medical integration, business is basically can be synchronized to complete and use, the old patient if it is really inconvenient to go to the hospital, then you can go to the nearest township hospital, bring all your case reports, but also can be reviewed to assess the examination.

Fourth: At present, community hospitals, township health centers are also very convenient, and the state regulations, they have a general practitioner in this kind of health center, basically, if it is a chronic condition, generally if it is to prescribe medication, blood pressure, and other routine review, community health care health center doctors are fully competent, do not have to worry about, the people can also be the nearest choice, it is very convenient.

In short, now for the people to see a doctor is very convenient, the state has also begun to encourage the sharing of medical information, medical resources to complement each other, general diseases at home can enjoy a high level of medical effects, so if the general outpatient clinic is really reduced, then you can target the above recommendations, you can operate against. Very convenient

There is no need to be nervous, the review is for ordinary patients, and the reason why fever clinics are currently set up exclusively is because of the potential risk of contagiousness and the avoidance of cross-infection, especially during the current outbreak period. Therefore, the setting up of special fever clinics and even the expansion of the scale of fever clinics are the response of medical institutions to the outbreak, with the aim of providing a greater degree of treatment for acute infectious diseases, minimizing cross-infection and controlling the source of infection.

General outpatient clinic in the epidemic is serious or serious shortage of medical resources, also can be based on the specific circumstances of the suspension or switch to fever outpatient clinic, but it should be known that such a serious outbreak are acute, the peak will be fine, and general outpatient clinic is mainly for some common chronic diseases, so the symptoms of mild can be avoided in the high outbreak of the epidemic period of hospitals, do need to go to the hospital for examination or review must be avoided! If you do need to go to the hospital for checkup or review, you must avoid going to the fever clinic and other areas with visible isolation signs, and wear a good mask to take precautions.


With the development of the epidemic in Guangzhou, many friends have found that the general outpatient clinics in hospitals have been closed, and even if they can go to the hospital to see a doctor, they have to have the results of nucleic acid tests within 72 hours, which makes it very inconvenient to see a doctor and prescribe medicines. Why are outpatient clinics closed? If we cannot go to the outpatient clinic, how can we follow up and see the doctor?

In fact, the closure of outpatient clinics is also a matter of necessity. One is that there are not enough medical personnel. People are needed for checking nucleic acids, vaccinations and performing abortions. ...... Even if various parties in the community come to provide support, the manpower is still far from enough. The second one is also to reduce staff mobility. Because this time, the new Indian Coronavirus variant strain is characterized by a short incubation period, rapid transmission, strong infectious ability, concealment, high viral load and heat resistance. If the movement of people is not controlled quickly, it may lead to more people being infected with New Crown Pneumonia. In this outbreak in Guangzhou, many cases were infected through shared meals, which is why dine-in is now not allowed. Hospitals are also confined places, which are important venues that can easily lead to cross-infection of germs. Most of the people who come to seek medical treatment are also elderly people, who have weaker resistance and are not only susceptible to infection by the new coronavirus, but are also prone to serious illnesses, so reducing the flow of people in the hospitals is also a major way of cutting off the spread of the virus. However, as long as the epidemic is under control, general out-patient clinics will definitely be opened gradually.

Although the general outpatient clinic is closed, the emergency clinic, fever clinic and other necessary clinics are still open. Therefore, patients who are in an emergency, or have fever, dry cough, fatigue, or accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, diarrhea, sore throat, muscle aches, and other suspected symptoms of neocoronavirus pneumonia, can still be seen. In the case of patients with some chronic illnesses, they can follow up through online visits and other means, and the doctor will then determine whether a trip to the hospital is necessary based on the individual's condition.

Hello, I am a medical worker, this question is really quite interesting to ask, according to the national conditions, hospital outpatient clinics are impossible to cancel, especially general outpatient clinics, although it is said that many hospital outpatient clinics in the western countries are to take the appointment system, they will not cancel the outpatient clinic, our country such a large number of people talk about how to cancel it.

The outpatient clinic can provide more than just a place for discharged patients to come for review, so let me break it down.

What is an outpatient clinic?

  • I believe that friends who have been to the hospital should be clear, a little bit of a certain level of hospitals have their own outpatient building, there is a difference between the inpatient outpatient system, outpatient pharmacy, etc., so that the hospital outpatient clinic is the patient into the hospital to receive medical treatment, the first gate, so it is the window of the hospital, like a house, if there is no window is not to close the door to the car.
  • Outpatient clinic is different from the emergency room, emergency room is mainly for critical, serious, urgent patients can quickly carry out a treatment, have their own rapid examination, laboratory channels, if outpatients all run to the emergency room to see a doctor, then the emergency room can not play a real role, when the emergency room into a common place, then the emergency room and the outpatient clinic is only a word of difference.

What exactly is the role of the outpatient clinic?

Function OneAs the subject said, one of the functions of the outpatient clinic is to provide a platform for the review of discharged patients, many diseases such as chronic kidney disease, liver disease, lung nodules, etc. need to be in the outpatient clinic on a regular basis to follow up or how long after the operation how long to review, it is not possible to go back to hospitalization, not to mention the labor, but also a delay in the time, would have been a very simple event, why must be hospitalized so complicated it.

Function 2:: Provide a preliminary screening for patients seeking medical treatment, for example, some patients with lumbar pain, it is good to live in orthopedics afraid of urology or nephrology, which requires a preliminary judgment and examination in the outpatient clinic, if the symptoms are less severe, it can be completely outpatient with medication or outpatient treatment can be, if the disease requires further treatment, then receive a detailed examination of the specialties and medication, of course, there are countless examples of this, the outpatient clinic is the second function. This is the second function of the outpatient clinic.

Function Three.Provide a convenient and fast platform for patients in need of treatment, this is particularly prominent for provincial and national hospitals, different doctors for the same symptoms, diseases based on different experience have their own direction of judgment, such as lower hospitals found that this woman because of antiphospholipid syndrome positive can not get pregnant, but they can not deal with it, it is necessary to go to the higher level of hospitals for further diagnosis and treatment, which first of all need to be Through the outpatient this pass, the higher hospital professors, big names to see can be brought back to eat through the drug that outpatient treatment, if you need to be hospitalized for further diagnosis and treatment that will be admitted to the hospital, so that the formation of a good cycle, as in the case of medical treatment, we all want to go to the big hospitals, big hospitals, if there is no outpatient clinic, then it is to build dozens of buildings can not be closed to all the patients, let alone how much the doctor's workload will be increased.

Function Four:: for the patient, for the country to save money, hospitalized should be clear, hospitalization insurance reimbursement have a starting line, if any of the disease in the absence of outpatient hospitalized directly in the case that the patient is not to spend more money, if after the reimbursement of the health insurance state's financial expenditures will be a bottomless pit, such as post-operative dressing, removal of threads, medication, inspection can be completely outpatient spending a small amount of money can be resolved.

summarize

Since the clinic exists, there is its reasonableness, since it is reasonable will not be canceled, but will be based on the reality of the existence of a variety of problems for transformation, upgrading, cumbersome into simple. Such as cell phone booking registration, pick up the number, cell phone to see the laboratory tests, checklist, cell phone for payment of these measures are to facilitate the people to see the doctor, so from the current situation, the general outpatient clinic is unlikely to be canceled, the above is only part of the outpatient clinic functions I listed. In the future, the outpatient clinic will only continue to be optimized to improve the people's experience of medical treatment, using the most appropriate ways and means for the people to see a doctor.

What hospital ever closed a general outpatient clinic? Isn't this a question of sowing discord between doctors and patients? It makes the people think that the closure of outpatient clinics is the reason for the difficulty in getting to the doctor, which is not true.

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