Gynecological Health Consultation Network

It is currently the most suitable supplementary channel for women to deal with minor gynecological problems and relieve medical anxiety. It absolutely cannot replace offline medical treatment. The consultation value of formal platforms is much higher than that of self-searching on Baidu, and the misleading harm of informal platforms is also much greater than ordinary health rumors.

Last week, when I was attending an online counseling class, I met a sophomore girl. She had a little redness on her underwear the night before. After searching for a certain degree, she immediately thought about the aftermath of late-stage cervical cancer. She filled out the consultation form in tears and even wrote a two-page draft of a suicide note. I asked her clearly that she had just had a weekend, which happened to be the ovulation period. She had no abdominal pain, no odor, and no bleeding during intercourse. I directly told her that it was ovulation bleeding caused by hormone fluctuations. She didn’t even need to take medicine and just went to bed a week early. She reported back three days later. Sure enough, nothing happened. It saved her the embarrassment of going to the hospital to register without telling her roommate, and saved hundreds of dollars in examination fees.

Of course, if you search casually now, you will see a lot of posts calling the Gynecology Consulting Network an "IQ tax" and "bluffing." This is not groundless. The industry has been arguing about the boundaries of this type of platform for almost five or six years. One group is the conservative group, which believes that all online consultations can only be used to popularize science. Even if the patient takes a clear routine report of leucorrhea, he must not give any medication recommendations. The patient must register offline, otherwise it will be irresponsible; the other group is pragmatic. Pai believes that as long as a doctor holds a license to practice obstetrics and gynecology, the consultation record is complete, and the examination report provided by the patient is issued by a formal tertiary hospital, he can prescribe over-the-counter or conventional prescription gynecological drugs such as clotrimazole and short-acting contraceptive pills. There is no need for office workers and students to spend half a day to queue up at the hospital. I have been doing clinical gynecology for 8 years, and I can understand both viewpoints. In the past few years, there were indeed informal platforms that asked unqualified customer service staff to pretend to be doctors to answer questions, prescribe antibiotics indiscriminately, scare people into needing surgery, and make shady money. This is also the reason why many people have a bad impression of such platforms.

I have been working as a part-time consultant on a regular public platform for almost two years. In fact, 80% of the problems I encounter are actually unnecessary to go to the hospital. For example, the little girl had some bleeding after having sex for the first time and was afraid of infection. The postmenopausal aunt had itchy private parts and was embarrassed to tell her children. She just had an abortion and forgot to ask the doctor how long it would take to take a bath after the surgery. There were also people who were so scared that they couldn't sleep after receiving an HPV positive report. These problems can be explained online in a few minutes, which not only protects privacy but also saves time. Oh, by the way, a 32-year-old sister came to me last year and said that she was diagnosed with "third degree of cervical erosion" in a private hospital. She was tricked into having a Lip knife surgery. She had already paid a deposit of 5,000. I sent her a screenshot of the latest obstetrics and gynecology guide and told her that "cervical erosion" was early. It's not a disease, it's normal cervical columnar epithelial ectopia. As long as TCT and HPV are normal, there is no need to treat it at all. She later went to refund the money and had a little conflict. Finally, she complained to the National Health Commission to get the money back. I have encountered this kind of thing eight times if not ten times in the past two years.

Nowadays, the state’s supervision of this area is actually very strict. For a formal gynecological health consultation network, all doctors online must be authenticated by their real names, upload their practicing physician certificates and qualification certificates, and must have at least three years of clinical experience in obstetrics and gynecology. Moreover, the platform has clear red lines. Only When encountering unexplained menopause accompanied by abdominal pain, contact bleeding, menstrual bleeding that is more than twice the usual amount, or menstrual irregularities lasting more than three months, no matter what the patient says, he must be advised to go to an offline doctor as soon as possible. Medication recommendations are absolutely not allowed, let alone prescriptions.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the Gynecological Health Consulting Network is like a gynecologist friend saved in your mobile phone. If you have a small question that you are embarrassed to ask in person, you can chat with it for a few words. But if the pain is so severe that you can't straighten your back and the bleeding cannot be stopped, you must run to the hospital immediately. It would be really stupid to take the online consultation results as a diagnosis and not go to the hospital. By the way, a final reminder, when choosing a platform, don’t click on the small ads that pop up. Choose a formal public platform registered with the National Health Commission. The kind where the practice number can be found on the doctor’s homepage. Don’t be fooled by unreliable institutions.