In the office, Wu Lixuan asked her friend who studied dicine for so basic dical knowledge: "What is a placenta?"
She asked this because earlier, when Xie Wanying and Senior Yin were discussing a patient’s condition, they ntioned: "At that ti, I checked and found that her condition was likely due to the placenta partially embedding into the uterus. This might have been missed due to a lack of prenatal ultrasound examination, causing heavy bleeding when the doctors at the previous hospital perford a Cesarean section and attempted to remove the placenta."
Her childhood friend interjected with a question, and Xie Wanying replied: "The placenta is an organ that provides nutrients to the fetus, connected to it by the umbilical cord, and attached to the uterine wall. Normally, after the mother gives birth, the fetus is delivered, the placenta completes its historical mission, and it naturally detaches from the uterus along with the umbilical cord. In dical terms, it’s considered a waste product, like a scab naturally falling off after a wound heals."
"Is that so?" After hearing her explanation, Wu Lixuan was surprised, "I seem to recall hearing people say that the placenta can be eaten and is a tonic, called Chinese foxglove in traditional dicine."
"Chinese foxglove is a processed product. The placenta can’t be eaten directly. Of course, so people take it ho and cook it for themselves, but that’s beyond a doctor’s control," Xie Wanying spoke about the common folk myths heard in clinics and clarified, "Hospitals will ask mothers if they want to take their placenta ho. If the mother doesn’t take it, the hospital will treat it as dical waste and incinerate it after rendering it harmless."
To put it bluntly, anyone with real dical knowledge wouldn’t eat such a thing, let alone the ridiculous rumors about doctors taking people’s placentas ho to eat them. dically trained people are most afraid of various bacterial and viral infectious diseases. So diseases cannot be eliminated by cooking at high temperatures. The structure inside the placenta contains blood vessels and substances from the human body, and it’s filthy. No dically trained person would dare to eat it. Anyone who dares isn’t truly a dical expert.
It’s always been said that within the circle of doctors, the level of knowledge varies. The suffering of doctors is that those with low skills and no ethical standards drag them down.
Wu Lixuan rembered visiting a boss’s house where soone was promoting the preservation of placentas, and she asked her childhood friend what that was about.
"They’re talking about umbilical cord blood preservation. Placenta preservation exists too but is less common," Xie Wanying explained. It is known that current dical technology hasn’t reached the level of umbilical cord blood in terms of clinical application of placentas. The use of umbilical cord blood in clinical settings is more mature. However, an indisputable fact is: "Placenta and umbilical cord blood preservation are entirely handled by external private companies at the current stage, without any involvent from public hospitals. It’s uncertain how well a contract can ensure preservation for decades. Unlike reproductive technologies where egg and sperm preservation is provided by public hospitals, which provides assurance."
"So—" Wu Lixuan asked.
"So most of the current clinical applications are imdiate uses. Mothers have another child to harvest umbilical cord blood to save soone else like this."
After listening to her childhood friend’s words, Wu Lixuan realized that these promotional materials offered low value for money to ordinary people, tantamount to a tax on their intelligence. Of course, people with money can spend it however they wish.
Soon, Yin Fengchun, who had been sitting silently, received a displeased glance from his girlfriend.
"What do you think of him? I asked him a few questions, and he didn’t answer a single one, just holding on to his big doctor’s temper," Wu Lixuan complained, noting that not every doctor is willing to explain like her childhood friend.
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