Struggle in the Steam Age

"——Taking a placebo can produce a positive psychological response to those patients who are eager for treatment and have full trust in the medical staff, thereby improving the physiological state of the person and achieving the desired drug effect."

According to those memories in his mind, Lawrence's eloquent explanations acted as placebos.

Fortunately, he browsed complicated things on the Internet in his previous life, so he was able to use precise language to explain to everyone what he meant by placebo in this situation.

"As I said just now, most of the healers in the non-ecclesiastical system on Green Island can only use this placebo to cheat money." Lawrence said with a soft sigh.

"I guess they must have said how effective this medicine is before they smoke or let patients soak in hot springs. If they are used, they must be able to cure diseases."

"Doesn't every doctor say that before treatment?" A nobleman asked puzzled.

"Yes, improving everyone's confidence is very important for treatment. Some good doctors will also say such words during treatment to improve patients' confidence." Lawrence nodded.

"But those who were treated with placebo will say these things repeatedly, and it can even be said that compared with normal doctors, these people will deliberately say a lot more things in this regard, so that they will appear a bit verbose."

After hearing what Lawrence said, all the nobles present began to think seriously. Then they all nodded in agreement with Lawrence.

As feudal nobles, although they are not able to receive this level of treatment because of their status, they have indeed seen those phenomena in their own territory.

They probably thought it was a very common thing before no one said it. But after being mentioned by Lawrence, these nobles suddenly realized the level of the grassroots medical personnel in their territory.

"Actually, in the absence of anything, this kind of treatment is better than no treatment at all." Looking at the group of nobles, Lawrence shook his head helplessly.

It was miserable enough that the territory was assigned to this place. From a certain point of view, it was almost like exile, so that they had to rely on a group of completely unreliable guys to establish a basic medical system.

"We also understand this situation, but now with your training, I think we can change." The earl just nodded to Lawrence, and then he turned to the nobles behind him Said.

"At least after the training of doctors here is over, we should start cleaning up those fake medical personnel."

"It's not necessary to clean them up completely. Because besides liars, many of these people are folk doctors who really think they have the ability to treat people, but their technical level is insufficient." Lawrence said, waving his hand.

"So we should deal with these people separately. For example, we should resolutely suppress those who simply rely on this method to cheat money. But when dealing with those folk doctors, we should use other methods."

"For example, help them find new jobs, and give them new medical training so that they can become qualified grassroots doctors."

The word barefoot doctor is too characteristic to explain here, so Lawrence calls these doctors grassroots doctors.

Compared with formal doctors, the level of medicine and pathology of these grassroots doctors is relatively low. Naturally, with their level, there is basically no need to expect to treat serious illnesses, serious illnesses, let alone complicated illnesses.

For these rapidly trained grassroots doctors, the problems that can be solved are usually minor ailments such as headaches, body heat, abrasions and trauma.

However, given the poor traffic level in this area, it is difficult for patients to receive timely treatment. More importantly, in daily life, the probability of people suffering from various minor diseases is much higher than that of serious diseases.

It's just that because of the past economic level and traffic level in this area, these mild patients are often dragged into severe patients, and then from severe patients to dead.

And this is the most important reason why Lawrence trained these grassroots doctors. At least if they can provide the most basic medical services to those grassroots people, they can at least reduce the number of critically ill patients by more than 80%.

In this way, the population problem that has plagued Green Island for a long time can be significantly alleviated.

Obviously, the nobles present also thought of this direction. So when they looked at this group of doctor apprentices who were being trained, their eyes suddenly became much hotter.

And when everyone finished their visit and left here, these nobles generously donated money to this humble medical school.

"I remember that I made public the training methods of these grassroots doctors before, but why didn't everyone here think of a way to train those grassroots doctors?"

After sending off those nobles, Lawrence turned his head and asked a clergyman of the Church of Suffering who was accompanying him in a puzzled manner.

"It's understandable to say that the group of nobles didn't get the information because they live in a relatively remote place, but why didn't the church here carry out training work?"

"Because we lack enough manpower." The priest of the church said helplessly. "The church headquarters did promote this kind of thing before, and at the same time recruited volunteers from us to go to the headquarters for training."

"But the problem is that it takes time to train these people, and before those trained people come back, we don't know what to do next at our current level, and naturally it is impossible to start training work."

"I understand." Lawrence nodded after hearing what the priest said.

After all, this thing is a completely new thing for people in this world. So it will take some time to master these things. And what Lawrence is doing now is equivalent to advancing these things.

Of course, there are always flaws in this kind of hasty training. For example, just in the past few days of training, Lawrence realized many difficult problems caused by manpower, materials and various shortages.

Therefore, after hearing what the priest of the suffering church said, he was also very touched and fell into deep thought.

"What you are doing here is very meaningful." The middle-aged priest said after watching the change of expression on Lawrence's face. "This kind of knowledge about medicine can save many lives if it is spread even a day earlier, so you don't have to look unhappy because it is only a few days earlier."

As a clergyman with rich experience in dealing with people, the priest of the Church of the Passion clearly misunderstood why Lawrence was now in deep thought, so he spoke to comfort him.

In his opinion, Lawrence's current silence may be caused by realizing that what he just did was not as valuable as he imagined, so he felt that he should give a good encouragement to this young man who is willing to do good deeds at this time.

"Ah, thank you for your reassurance, but that's not what I thought." Lawrence smiled at the priest, thanked him for his kindness, and said.

"I was actually thinking just now that the situation here is completely different from that on Shaw Island. The original pharmacopoeia cannot be copied mechanically, so I may need to recompile a pharmacopoeia."

This was discovered by Lawrence during the training during this period, because he found that the doctors here had no training on the use of other drugs except for some over-the-counter drugs.

As a result, he found out after inquiring that because no one had recorded the items available for medicine on Green Island before, there was no local pharmacopoeia that could be used at all, so that an important step in the training could not be carried out as planned.