A few days ago, when I was out at the clinic, a lady chatted with me a few words after seeing the consultation: I just stared at you outside for a long time. You doctor is really tired. She said: Some of my relatives are also doctors. You doctors have a false reputation. In fact,

Encourage people to study medicine, no more thunder and lightning

TEDA Hospital of Tianjin University | Li Qing

I went to the outpatient clinic a few days ago. A lady chatted with me after seeing the consultation: I just stared at you for a long time outside. You doctors are so tired. My son will take the college entrance examination next year. He wants to study medicine, but I won’t let him.

I asked why?

She said: Some of my relatives are also doctors. You doctors have a false reputation. In fact, working is too tiring, the income is not high, and you have to study continuously throughout your life.

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I said to her: The child’s ambition is not formed casually, respect the child’s wishes. You said that the problems faced by doctors may gradually become a thing of the past, and things may get better by the time your child graduates from medical school.

This lady has really seen through the current situation of doctors: long education, low income, and heavy work.

The most controversial issue here is the income issue. Some people say that the income of your doctors is not low. Yes, if you compare the income of a doctor with 5 years of college and 3 years of master's degree with a waiter who has graduated from a vocational college, the income may not be low.

I went to Taiwan in 2015, and one night I met a high school student in a bookstore in Kaohsiung , and he talked to me about the college entrance examination and studying medicine. He said that high school students in Taiwan no longer choose to study medicine as their first choice when going to university, not because doctors have a low social status or because doctors' salaries are low, but because doctors are too tired. I am busy at work and have to be on call after get off work. I earn so much money and have no time to spend.

I said that it is not that mainland high school students do not choose to study medicine, but they do not choose to study medicine at all. He asked me, is it also because the doctor is too tired? I said, it's not that I'm afraid of getting tired, but that I'm afraid of being beaten. At that time, it was a period of high incidence of medical injuries in mainland China. This student almost dropped his jaw after hearing what I said. In his opinion, let alone beating a doctor, it is too late for people to respect him.

Doctors, lawyers, and accountants are the three most popular professions in Taiwan. They have high social status and good economic foundation. They are most favored by high school students and use them, which brings together many outstanding talents.

How high is the status of doctors in Taiwan?

ICUThe director of a major hospital in Taipei always criticizes the Taipei City Government. Some people criticized him and said: You can do it. As a result, the director argued: I will do it. So I ran for mayor of Taipei without party support, and was actually elected. Not only was he elected, he was also re-elected. This doctor is the current Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe.

A department director can be directly elected as the mayor of Taipei City. The status of a doctor does not need to be explained too much.

An elderly woman discovered that her fetus was stillborn before giving birth in a hospital in Taiwan. In order to please voters, two "public opinion representatives" held a press conference and accused the doctor of being irresponsible, which forced the doctor to resign. What these two "public opinion representatives" did not expect was that the vast majority of the public sympathized with the doctors and condemned the "public opinion representatives" for pretending to understand. As a result, the two "public opinion representatives" held a press conference to publicly apologize to the doctors. You must know that Taiwan's "public opinion representatives" are very powerful. You can criticize Xiao Tsai (Tsai Ing-wen) at any time, but you cannot criticize doctors at will.

The degree of respect that doctors in Taiwan are highly respected is evident.

The famous writer Wang Xiaobo once recalled his medical experience during the Cultural Revolution.

He fell ill and went to the hospital. He took the test sheet to the doctor. The doctor looked at it for a long time, listened again with stethoscope, and finally asked him what disease he had. He said it was liver disease.The doctor asked him how to treat it again, and he said that he should give some vitamins. He didn't know how to treat it, but the doctor didn't know either.

During his hospitalization, he also saw a barefoot doctor perform surgery. In the operating rooms at that time, the windows were all transparent. The doctors were operating inside, and the patients were outside betting that the doctors could find the appendix in a few hours. Where and how large the doctor's incision should be depends entirely on the doctor's preference. Once, the doctor performed an operation on a patient with appendicitis. After opening his stomach, he searched for three hours but could not find the appendix. The surgeon was so anxious that he extended the incision and took out all his intestines. He poured them up and down, just like a chef. I was washing pig intestines , and I was lucky in the end. I finally had my appendix cut out before dark.

He was living in the hospital, and his hepatitis was not getting better at all, and the appendix surgery patient's incision never healed. Later, they went to Beijing together to see a doctor. In Beijing, his disease was cured. The patient had an intestinal fistula due to the last operation and had another surgery, and he was finally cured.

People who have not experienced the Cultural Revolution may not understand this strange thing. In fact, most of the doctors in the hospital at that time were barefoot doctors who learned to practice, while the real doctors were sent to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants.

People who eat whole grains will always get sick. Who should I see if I get sick? If you don’t have a good doctor, you will have to find a bad doctor. The level of doctors is low, and the unlucky ones are the patients.

Medicine is a discipline that integrates science, technology, and humanities. Only those who have undergone rigorous and formal study, have both ability and political integrity, and are full of benevolence can be competent. If more and more outstanding high school graduates choose medical universities, it will be the public who will benefit in the future.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the role played by medical staff has been obvious to all, and students' choices for future careers have also quietly changed. Starting from 2020, the study of medicine has begun to turn from cold to hot. According to the latest data on " Handheld College Entrance Examination ", the popularity of clinical medicine has topped the list this year.

By purifying the medical practice environment and giving doctors the treatment they deserve, we can encourage more outstanding students to apply for medical schools. If there are more highly educated and high-quality doctors in the world, the public will ultimately benefit.

Persuading people to study medicine is no longer a thunderbolt, but a sign of immeasurable merit.