Why Does the Reasonable Appeal of "High-paying Doctors" Retort?

“The doctor’s wages should be 5-10 times higher than the average wage in the city, the salary is high, and the source is legal, so that doctors can live with dignity and medical reform can be successful.” In the recent Guangdong CPPCC breakout meeting, the provincial CPPCC members, the province Wang Min, the deputy director of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital, talked about the topic of doctor's salary and exploded the discussion on the scene. This topic is caused when talking about “wage of medical staff in county-level hospitals is as low as two or three thousand yuan”. The on-site members were different about this, but all agreed that they should refer to the treatment of local civil servants, so Wang Bi’s remarks caused controversy. (comprehensive media coverage)

The remarks made by CPPCC members naturally arouse strong resonance among doctors. However, in the context of doctor-patient conflicts, they naturally caused dissatisfaction and criticism from patients and the public. There are three main points of dissatisfaction: First, "5-10 times higher than the average wage" - the common question is, how can a doctor have a high ability, 5-10 times higher? Second, “high wages can live with dignity”—societies where groups with much lower income than doctors feel at ease, do they have no dignity? Dignity must be linked to income? Third, “medical reform can be successful”. This is like a kind of kidnapping and commanding, as if it does not increase the income of doctors and prevent doctors from earning 10 times more than average income. Medical reform will not succeed.

In fact, if we go beyond the doctors and patients to see this remark, it is understandable. First, 5-10 times may be only a virtual one. In fact, this member wants to stress that the doctor's income should be higher. Second, she does not mean that "high income has a sense of dignity," but that "high wages and legitimate sources In order for doctors to live with dignity" - the key is "legal sources". Many doctors secretly get rebates from medical representatives and take red envelopes from patients to obtain high incomes. That is very dignified; "Health reform will be successful" is not a kind of abduction, but it wants to emphasize the importance of raising doctors' income.

If the public proceeds rationally from their own interests, they should support the views of the CPPCC members. First of all, the cost of becoming a doctor is much higher than that of the general profession - not to mention other inputs, only to study at the medical school, it will take more than one year for other majors to get a degree certificate and diploma; then, the doctors are to help the wounded, Each person’s life and death is related to the health of the public. This occupation has high technical content and high risk. It deserves to enjoy high returns. Finally, with high-income doctors, patients will get good and professional services. It is hard to imagine that low income can attract the best talents to the doctors' profession; it is also hard to imagine that a doctor with a very low income will provide high-quality services to patients in daily medical treatment.

All in all, the special nature and importance of the doctor's profession determine that they should earn high income. Doctors' income is high, and doctors and patients are in a win-win situation. Conversely, doctors and patients are losers. This two-lost situation is precisely the reality of the current conflict between doctors and patients in China.

From the point of view of current medical expenditures in China and the medical costs paid by patients, it should be possible to support doctors with high incomes. Under the current medical distribution system, doctors are in a weak position in the interest chain. The “expensive for doctors” and “high drug prices” money are not used to raise the core doctors in the medical chain, but to make up fat. A group of drug sales. So doctors and patients broke out. Doctors complained about low incomes and also took high risks. Patients complained that high fees did not get good services, and those who sell drugs are stealing music while counting money on the side.

This is the biggest problem in China's medical system. Doctors and patients should not be antagonistic. The common condemnation should be the unfair distribution of the medical system. "Highly paid for medical treatment" is justified, but it is not possible to get a high salary. The problem is not that the cost paid by the patient is not high enough, but that money is allegedly hijacked by the unfair distribution system. This is the most urgent problem to be solved in medical reform.

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