The Importance Of Medical Care In Different Cultures

In many cultures healthcare is approached in many different ways. In America we may go to general doctors, specialist, or even Emergency personnel however there are many types of physicians or healthcare workers around the world. In the rural areas of China there are the barefoot doctors or a land between two rivers where people turn to sheep for help; whereas Greeks develop modern day neurological surgeries. As there is so much diversity in the types of doctors around the world, every person is different causing a different approach each person takes on how to treat or diagnose the patient.With such a wide variety of how different cultures look at healthcare and treat patients, they have all came to a basis of basic medical care. On the …show more content…
In an area unknown to most of the world, there are rural areas in which most chinese people do not commonly receive medical treatment. However, that all changed when village farmers who have received less than a year’s worth of medical training and would provide basic healthcare to the people who lived in their villages (Duktour, Web). With only very little training in the medical field, the use of their words when describing or treating a common cold would have been very difficult. For instance, if a person was to say, “You have a common cold,” that would most likely be taken not as urgent but still require some rest and little medication. On the contrary, if someone was to say, “ You have rhinopharyngitis,” most would automatically assume the worst, simply because they do not understand what that means so they would take it out of context. As simple as common cold terms can be misinterpreted, their is another therapy in which is used today for inflammation and pain in your body. Hijama therapy, or more commonly known as cupping, is now being used and is mostly used for pain management. In recent studies, as worded from the European Journal of Integrative Medicine, “cupping as shown some effectiveness with pain” (Abdullah, article). During this treatment, specific instructions are given such as, removing your shirt, relaxing your body, and not adjusting any of the cup s used. In the rural areas, barefoot doctors would use this treatment with their normal wooden cups by wetting the rim of the sup and sticking in specific locations on the person back and leaving it there for about an hour. During this time, blood or toxins are removed from the person’s body causing certain pains and inflammation to decrease and stimulate blood