Of course, there is nothing wrong with finding a higher-level doctor to treat yourself. Everyone thinks that even if our doctors or their families are sick, they will want to get better medical standards. This is the first reaction of people, because people have not experienced it personally, and they really can't feel the pain and discomfort caused by the disease!
Moreover, in general, in the same hospital, there is indeed a certain degree of difference between the chief physician, the deputy chief physician and the attending physician. At least in terms of years, the chief physician will have more than ten years of clinical experience than the attending physician. After all, medicine still belongs to the empirical discipline, so read more and understand more!
But we say that in the same hospital, the chief physician must be better than the deputy director or even the attending physician? It doesn't have to be like this. Take an orthopedic department as an example. In county hospitals, there may be orthopedics, but in a department, the director and deputy director often have their own expertise. Just look at their profiles. Maybe the director is good at hip joint, but the knee surgery is really done by a deputy director of the department. Don't underestimate the difference between hip joint and knee joint in one sentence. In provincial hospitals or even higher-level hospitals, it is entirely possible to separate a department. In large hospitals, osteoarthrology can be established only by human joints, and spinal surgery can be established only by one spine. In other words, the finer the division of labor in large hospitals, it actually tells doctors that their ability can indeed represent the medical level of doctors to a certain extent, but it is not absolute. Even in county-level hospitals, there may be a deputy director who is worse than the chief physician in some aspects!
So the level of doctors in provincial hospitals must be higher than that in county hospitals? Of course, judging from the number of patients they have contacted, the complexity of their illness and the available medical level, doctors in provincial hospitals are generally more knowledgeable than doctors in county hospitals. For example, they are also suspected of nerve injury, but doctors in county hospitals may not be able to diagnose it, because there is no electromyography examination program in their hospitals, but it is different when they go to doctors in provincial hospitals. Because there is electromyography in provincial hospitals, it may be diagnosed as nerve injury, so the level of doctors will also be affected by their own hospital resources.
But is the level of doctors in county hospitals necessarily worse than that in provincial hospitals? That's not necessarily true. I, a senior sister, have been working as a doctor in their local county hospital since graduation and have been the deputy chief physician. But in order to get a better education for my second baby, I chose to go to Shanghai, but when I went to a hospital in Shanghai, I was the chief resident in the first year, and it was easy to have the position of attending doctor for her in the second year. At that time, I was quite impressed with her, saying that several doctors in their department had graduated for several years and were still residents, so there was nothing I could do.
Therefore, we must treat the doctor's professional title correctly, and we can't judge a doctor's medical level completely by this. Let's go back to the real problem of hanging the expert. When we go to the hospital for the first time, there is really no need to squeeze into the expert number, because in most cases, the first time we see a doctor, it is mainly to improve the auxiliary examination. Who we see is actually similar to the exam we have opened, and there is not much difference. Why waste time and money on this?