On 2016 Nov 22, DP Zhou commented:

After patients spend all their savings for medicines not covered by health insurance, they extort the doctors and the hospitals as the last option to recover some cost of medicines. This is seen most often in cancer patients, who must pay cash to buy additional length of survival.

The medical education in China was established in close collaboration with the United States, especially Rockefeller Foundation and Yale University (1). The medical professionalism was particularly stressed, and private practice of medical graduates were strongly discouraged by Yen Fuqing (2), the founder of Shanghai Medical College and first Minister of Public Health of Republic of China.

1, Bridie andrews and Mary Brown Bullock. Medical transitions in twentieth-century china, 2014, Indiana University Press.

2, Yimin Qian and Zhiyuan Yan. Yan Fuqing. 2007, Fudan University Press.

On 2016 Nov 22, DP Zhou commented:

After patients spend all their savings for medicines not covered by health insurance, they extort the doctors and the hospitals as the last option to recover some cost of medicines. This is seen most often in cancer patients, who must pay cash to buy additional length of survival.

The medical education in China was established in close collaboration with the United States, especially Rockefeller Foundation and Yale University (1). The medical professionalism was particularly stressed, and private practice of medical graduates were strongly discouraged by Yen Fuqing (2), the founder of Shanghai Medical College and first Minister of Public Health of Republic of China.

1, Bridie andrews and Mary Brown Bullock. Medical transitions in twentieth-century china, 2014, Indiana University Press.

2, Yimin Qian and Zhiyuan Yan. Yan Fuqing. 2007, Fudan University Press.