Medicine is an interesting word. The medicine jumps out at first, but maybe the two are not the same after all. There is a pharmaceutical factory, pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry. But, certainly not a medicine factory, warehouse, or industry. A drug is usually a chemical. Medicine is the solution to the problem. Of course, medicine can also often be medicine. But at our pediatricians, most of the time, medicine is not necessary. The remedy must be found. One of the main tasks of the family pediatrician is to spot out of the dozens of children who appear in his office, which two or three have a more serious illness or who may need medication. The other main task is to get the other children's parents to accept the fact, which is often difficult to accept, that the child fortunately has no major problems and does not need serious medication.
Most of the parents are waiting for the medicine. The medicine that you can use to do something for your child. The classic process is as follows: a symptom appears - mother, father, grandmother's stomach jumps: what should we do? Of course, we're going to the doctor, uzsgyi! Then we get some miracle drug with which we can bring about the already objectified medical responsibility. From here on, the story is apparently simple, we give it to the child 1x, 2x, 3x a day and he is cured. And if we don't get medicine? Can we wait with folded hands? Oh well. Not easy. At least, until we realized that this cold "only" heals itself with nasal suction and nasal drops, that this nasty diarrhea goes away in most cases. In such cases, the remedy is to try to calm the worried mother and father. It is medicine to give clues to recognize that this simple disease has really turned into a dangerous problem. Well, it can also be medicine, and with 80-100 patients a day, it is very difficult if we understand the seemingly excessive parental concern as a doctor. Or is this already humanity? A doctor is also human. Humanity? Medicine? Isn't that an interesting word...
