Chapter 49 Section 5 Medical Reform Freaks: Private Hospitals

The root cause of medical care is that ordinary people think that public hospitals are more expensive.In order to spend less money to see the disease, the patient came to the private hospital. Unexpectedly, he paid more money in the private hospital, but the disease could not be cured at all, but the disease was delayed.It is heart-wrenchingly sad that the reform of medical institutions over the years has finally come to such a tragic end.I don't know if there will be any good solution in the future. Private hospitals are now called private hospitals. When it comes to private hospitals, you have to talk about Putian people.

There is a Xiuyu District in Putian, Fujian. It is said that the annual ordering meeting for pharmaceuticals and medical devices is held in this little-known place. Why?Because people from Xiuyu District have opened tens of thousands of medical industry-related enterprises in various provinces and cities across the country.There is a place called Dongzhuang in Xiuyu District. I heard that every family has a private hospital in another place. Some are brothers, and each of them runs a hospital in a city.It is said that more than 80% of the private hospitals in the country are founded by Dongzhuang people, and the profits created by the private hospitals and related enterprises run by Dongzhuang exceed that of a remote western province.

When I was interviewing in Putian, I once met a man who ran a hotel.He has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for many years, but later felt that he "discovered his conscience" and wanted to do serious business, so he no longer engaged in the pharmaceutical industry.However, he has a deep understanding of the insider knowledge of the medical industry. About twenty years ago, they walked up from the rice fields, washed off the mud on their legs, wore suits, and went all the way north to the city. They first chose a shop on the street as a clinic, and then hired a doctor temporarily.They can only farm, not practice medicine.At that time, doctors living in the rivers and lakes were generally poor in medical skills. They were either selling dog skin plasters and Dali pills at the street corners, or barefoot doctors in special years, and some were people who went to college at their own expense and were not assigned a job.Formal public hospitals will regularly eliminate a batch of medical equipment, and they will buy it at a very low price and continue to use it.

With the storefront, personnel, and equipment, the hospital will open.Such a hospital has a considerable scale with an investment of 10,000 yuan. In order to attract patients, they advertised on TV and newspapers and fabricated false information.Older doctors are known as experts of Beijing Medical University or Medical Research Association, visiting professors of Union Medical College Hospital; younger doctors are said to be international top talents who have returned from studying in the United States and Europe, or some authority.When these hospitals first started, they all carried the signs of "specialist in sexually transmitted diseases", "specialist in gynecology", and "infertility", because these kinds of diseases are the easiest to deceive people and the easiest to cheat money.

At that time, many people were still keen to listen to radio broadcasts at night, and there was a program called "Midnight Whispers" on radio broadcasts, which became the rule of these small hospitals.Listeners who don't know the truth call in, and the host—in fact, the doctors in these hospitals analyze your condition for you, and then ask you to take some kind of car, where to find a famous expert for a diagnosis, and the so-called famous expert is actually himself. At that time, people were generally very mysterious about military doctors. They were called old military doctors with years of experience in treating sexually transmitted diseases.Many people who suffer from STDs or suspect that they have STDs flock to it.They approach you first, asking about your family income, etc. If you are not married, they will say a simple urinary tract infection as a precursor to infertility; if you are married, they will say it is a precursor to AIDS.Irresponsibly, they deliberately increase your psychological burden and make you spend a lot of money to buy medicines.At that time, venereal diseases had just resurged, and in the previous decades, syphilis, willow disease and other venereal diseases had disappeared in this land of China. How could the old military doctor be exposed to venereal diseases?If it is AIDS, how can they be cured?

If the business in this place is doing well, they will expand their operations; if the business is not good, they will change places and reopen the old business.There is always an honest man suitable for you, and there is always a place suitable for cheating. The owner of Putian, who has a sense of justice, said that the vast majority of private hospitals started their business by cheating and cheating. After these small hospitals relying on cheating and abduction have accumulated primitive accumulation, they began to enter public hospitals. At that time, it was very easy to contract departments in public hospitals. You only need to pay a fee to rent a department.And public hospitals are also happy to contract those departments that sound dirty to these Putian people.These departments are often venereal diseases, dermatology, gynecology and so on.These shrewd Putian people leaned against the big trees to enjoy the shade, entered the house, and the guerrillas became a regular army, and the patients believed that their income would increase.They claimed to be a certain public hospital, but in fact they had nothing to do with such a public hospital.It's like I rented a shop downstairs from the Public Security Bureau to open a steamed stuffed bun shop.I can also claim to the outside world that I am a member of the Public Security Bureau, and our buns are from the Public Security Bureau.

A person who has opened a small hospital for many years and is now the vice president of a private hospital said that people at that time were easy to deceive because they believed what was said on TV.They put more publicity on TV.The TV station never checks the qualifications of the hospital and whether the information is false, as long as they are given money to broadcast what they broadcast.The newspapers at that time were the same. When you open the newspaper, the lower half of the page is full of venereal disease advertisements.These advertisements were published by these private hospitals.At that time, people's information was not developed, and few people had computers, and they didn't know much about sexually transmitted diseases. Doctors said what they said.Therefore, a simple venereal disease cannot be cured without 10,000 yuan.And 10,000 yuan will make many people bankrupt.

And patients will not believe it, and public hospitals will also deceive people. Before I became a reporter, I worked in a government agency. At that time, I had the opportunity to travel with the leaders every month, to the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, the Northeast and Southwest, and many economically developed cities. At that time, I was very stupid and naive. Every time I went to a place, after taking care of the leader to rest, I went back to my room, put a pool of warm water, and soaked in it. The warm water made every pore of my body open, and I felt I floated over this strange city like a feather, and rippling with the wind like a leaf without restraint.I often just lie in the bathtub and soak for a long time. Sometimes I will hold a book in my hand and fall asleep while reading it. In the middle of the night, when the water temperature drops, I will wake up.At that time, I didn't know that the bathtub was not clean, and I didn't have the awareness of prevention at all.

Once, when I returned to the county seat, I felt some pain in my lower body, so I quickly checked the book and suspected that I had an STD.At that time, I was embarrassed to go to a public hospital, and I didn't know whether there was a department for treating this part in a public hospital.I feel that this disease is shady, and I don't know how to seek medical treatment. I don't know what to do. Comparing with the descriptions in related books, I suspected that I had some serious venereal disease.This mental illness panic keeps me up at night.I don't think about food and drink, lose weight rapidly, and do things in a trance.One night, I saw on TV that there is a venereal disease department in the traditional Chinese medicine hospital in this city, which specializes in treating various venereal diseases.I thought, I might have a serious STD, so I might as well go there and have a look.

I still remember that the venereal disease department was in a very small room. There was an old man with white hair and a childlike face, his face was pale, and he seemed to have advanced medical skills;They all speak Mandarin, and our doctors there speak the local dialect.Those of us who speak dialects have an innate awe of those who speak Mandarin from the south.They come from prosperous places, they are well-informed, and they are a symbol of wealth. The old man gave me the pulse first.He narrowed his eyes slightly like an eminent monk in meditation, and his face was calm.After a while, he opened his eyes and said, "You have a very serious venereal disease." I was almost scared to death at that time. How did I encounter such a shameful and dirty disease?The old man asked, "Have you lost weight recently and lost your appetite?" I nodded quickly, and I looked at him timidly and reverently, just like a girl looking at a preaching priest.

While talking, a woman entered the door.The woman was stylishly dressed and beautiful, but her face was sad.Then I thought, she might be a whore.When the prostitute saw me, she stood aside generously, without any shyness.The old man asked me to take off my pants. I was embarrassed because there was a woman next to me, and the old man said: "This is science. You can't be shy in front of science." His words are also full of philosophy, and I believe in his superb medical skills even more.Still, I'm embarrassed to look at whores.Later, the prostitute turned her back, and I took off my pants. The old man took a look and said, "Oh, it's very serious. There are many kinds of venereal diseases. If you don't get treated quickly, you won't live for half a year." The names of several STDs.I have seen all these names in that book. After putting on my trousers, I carefully asked the old man, "How much does it cost for a good treatment?" The old man said, "If you are cured at one time, you need 12,000 yuan; if you treat in stages, the first course of treatment is 8,000 yuan, the second A course of treatment is 8,000 yuan. Of course, a one-time cure is the most cost-effective.” At that time, I only had a salary of four to five hundred yuan a month, and 12,000 yuan was an astronomical figure for me.I was filled with fear.I saw that the woman also showed embarrassment when she heard the old man's words. The old man asked, "How much money do you have?" I said: "I only brought 100 yuan." At that time, I was in financial difficulties and my pocket was shy. The only salary I had was to subsidize my family. a feeling of. The old man said to the young man, "Then prescribe a medicine worth 100 yuan first." The young man opened a drawer on the table inside, took out a small bottle, poured out a little purple granular medicine from the bottle, wrapped it in a piece of paper, and handed it to me. He said: "Morning and evening, clean the lower body. , Check back in three days." After I got home, I poured a little granular medicine into the washbasin and added water, and the water in the basin immediately turned purple.I suddenly thought, isn't this potassium permanganate?When I was in middle school, I liked to do various experiments, so I was very familiar with the commonly used drugs in the laboratory.As for potassium permanganate, you can buy a bottle for two yuan in pharmacies.The fingernail-sized potassium permanganate that the old man and the young man gave me was only worth a dime, but they asked me for 100 yuan.If I give them 12,000 yuan according to their request, they will probably give me a bottle of potassium permanganate, and this bottle of potassium permanganate is only sold for two yuan on the market. I didn't use potassium permanganate, and I didn't go to the venereal disease department of the traditional Chinese medicine hospital in the urban area; however, the old man's words brought me great fear.He said that I suffered from many kinds of venereal diseases and would not live for half a year. These words were like a red-hot iron nail, piercing into my heart and body, making me panic and sweat profusely whenever I think about it.Although the old man used potassium permanganate to cheat money, what if what he said was true? I was in great fear throughout the summer of that year. I often woke up with a scream in a nightmare, with beads of sweat on my forehead.Everywhere I went, I searched for books about sexually transmitted diseases in the bookstore. The more I checked, the more I suspected that I had many kinds of sexually transmitted diseases, and possibly AIDS.Sometimes in the bathroom alone, I really want to cut off my lower body, naively thinking that doing so will remove the lesion. what to do?Treat it, the sexually transmitted diseases at that time cost tens of thousands of yuan; if you don't treat it, your life can only last for a few months.I was in a great conflict. At that time, there were many advertisements for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in the newspapers, and the walls of public toilets were also plastered with such content of psoriasis.I thought, maybe there are people in this world who have the same disease as me, but I don't know who he is, and I don't know how to find him and communicate with him.The out-of-the-box disease is like a monster that is everywhere and everywhere, and I can only fight it alone. Once, when I came to a city, I found a venereal disease hospital according to the advertisement in the newspaper.The patient was a woman in her 30s with tanned skin and rough palms, just like a fisherman by the sea.She wants to see my lower body, I am very embarrassed.She said: "Don't be shy in front of the doctor, the doctor is the one who saves lives and heals the wounded." I could only obey her.After reading it, she still said that I suffered from many diseases and needed to be treated quickly, and the treatment cost was tens of thousands of yuan.At that time, I made up my mind that if there was no cure, I would just die.When I was going out, this female doctor stopped me, and she asked me to pay 100 yuan for diagnosis and treatment.I said, "You haven't been treated, so why pay for it?" She said, "It's the rule in our business that you have to pay for seeing it, and we can't let us see it for nothing." There was no way, I gave her 10 yuan, and she Been muttering, saying I'm not manly, not generous at all. Just when I walked out of the gate of this hospital, a woman in her 30s with red and swollen eyes came in, dragging an old man by the hand.The old man was embarrassed.I thought, maybe this woman has a venereal disease, which was infected by the old man. I was walking on the street with the belief that I would die, and suddenly I saw that the street was sunny, full of pedestrians, and full of the atmosphere of the city.Life is so beautiful, but I have to leave, just leave, people are bound to die, what difference does it make to leave early or late?Right now, I just want to live my last few months in this world. From then on, I ate when I should, slept when I should, talked loudly, drank heavily; when I was alone in the room, I sang loudly; Rush to the corner, so that it has no way to escape.Death is my enemy, I have overwhelmed it first, so what is there to fear?It should be that it is afraid of me. Strangely, after a while, it seemed that there was no strange feeling down there, and I actually gained weight.What the hell is going on here? I found out in the book that people with sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS cannot donate blood, such blood is unhealthy.Once, when I passed a city square, I boarded a blood donation vehicle. The nurses took the blood after testing it and gave me their phone number.A month later, I called and they said my blood was completely normal and there was nothing wrong. After putting down the phone, I ran to the suburbs in one breath, knelt down on the hillside, and burst into tears. It turned out that I was not sick.The warm sunshine, the whispering of the birds, the mountains in the distance, the grass around me, even the sharp stones, and the busy ants...all these are so real, and they are so nostalgic for me.I deeply feel: it's good to be alive! At that time, I thought, if I have a chance in the future, I must expose the deceitful tricks of these black hospitals, so that everyone will no longer be deceived like I was before, and no longer be filled with great fear and fear like I was back then. A non-existent death struggle.Everyone who enters these black hospitals either spends a lot of money or takes a huge psychological burden.These black hospitals are rotten, with filthy pus flowing all over their bodies, and emitting a stench, and they are so bad that there is no good place on their bodies. After I became a reporter, I had the opportunity to interview these Putian people who opened hospitals, and even they had to admit that they started their business by cheating and abducting, “However, we operate legally now, and we create tax profits for the country. " Like the famous actor who made the tertiary film, she thinks she's bleached now. The private hospitals run by Putian people have gone through three stages.Small street clinics are the first stage, affiliated public hospitals are the second stage, and independent hospitals are the third stage. The above-mentioned Putian person who does not run a hospital but runs a hotel told me that when many Putian people go to public hospitals, in order to create higher profits, they will say who has venereal diseases and who has infertility.I asked, "Why don't the public hospitals ignore it? Aren't the public hospitals afraid of ruining their reputation?" He said: "At that time, people generally lacked understanding of STDs, thinking that it would cost tens of thousands of yuan to cure STDs. Besides, the director of a public hospital bought shares in the STD department. Open one eye and close one eye." In those years, venereal diseases began to appear, and AIDS appeared in type for the first time.Whether it is intentional or not, patients with these diseases are "dirty" in people's consciousness, and they feel ashamed to face everyone.They dare not go to regular public hospitals for treatment, because they are worried about meeting acquaintances there, so they can only choose these small clinics in hidden corners or the venereal disease departments of small hospitals in other places.Therefore, these Putian people have never been short of business. The business of these Putian people has also been doing very successfully.Their wealth continued to grow like a snowball; their business scale also continued to grow; they began to contract some hospitals with poor efficiency, and made huge profits in a short period of time.In the past, the efficiency of these hospitals was not good, generally because of the traditional departments (internal and external) and low fees.After Putian people took over, they still relied on venereal diseases and infertility to conquer the world, and laid down a splendid country. There are more women than men who come to these hospitals for treatment, because women are more likely to listen to what others say, and women are less defensive.Gynecological diseases are a common disease, but they are said to be extremely serious in the mouths of these private hospitals. However, although they have established hospitals and become among the ranks of private entrepreneurs, as far as the private hospitals I have come into contact with, they still aim at defrauding money.They are like thieves in suits and leather shoes. When they go to a noble dinner party, they will put meals, paper spoons, and forks into the pockets of their suits without paying attention.After being rich, they still retain the habit of petty theft, and this habit has never been changed. However, there are always people who keep walking into their hospital, and there are always people who keep sending them money.Their strength is still expanding.Later, they started to establish a pharmaceutical group.The hospitals under this group have some similar names: men's hospital, women's hospital, dermatology hospital, infertility hospital, plastic surgery hospital.There are also some hospitals whose names sound full of love, such as what Bo, what new, what benevolence... In order to let more people believe in their strength, these hospitals are often called the branches of a certain hospital in Hong Kong, and the designated hospital of a certain institution in the country , but they just don't say that they are a hospital run by Putian people, a hospital developed from a small clinic. In different cities, there are large and small private hospitals with different names, different registrations, different managers, and different doctors, but the same person stands behind them all.This person's name will not appear in the industrial and commercial business license, nor will it appear in any publicity materials, and this person is the real boss and manager.He is from Putian. By this time, the Putian man who started from a small clinic and made his fortune by cheating and abducting has now become a group operation, and he is as rich as a country. Others are not satisfied. Some people who know the pharmaceutical industry told me that some Putian people started to get involved in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry a few years ago, and they grabbed more profits. In the early years, the pharmaceutical market order fair and the medical device order fair were held in Dongzhuang Town, Xiuyu District, Putian City every year after the Spring Festival.People in Putian attach great importance to local concepts and folk customs, and they will go home for reunions during the Spring Festival. Medical businesses have targeted this opportunity to sell their products to Putian people.The shrewd people in Putian saw a business opportunity in the medical market.While they opened the hospital, they also began to get involved in the pharmaceutical industry and the medical device industry. There has never been a unified scale for the price of medicine, which is different from other commodities.Green onions cost two yuan a catty, and if it’s twenty yuan, no one will buy them; new books have a price, if it’s several times higher than the price, you’re still willing to buy it, you’re either crazy or a fool.However, there is no market reference price for medicine, and there is no unified pricing. There are hundreds of medicines for the same disease, and different doctors prescribe different medicines, and the price gap between them is as high as tens or hundreds of times. Medicines are the same as the cosmetics I wrote in "Unannounced Visits to Black Workers' Dens", there is no price scale to refer to. The medicines made by Putian people are almost all named as special medicines, sold in their own hospitals, and prescribed by their own doctors.These drugs cannot be seen outside, and you cannot refer to them at all.Why are these drugs so expensive, you ask?They replied that it was a special drug developed by themselves.You ask why the inspection fee is so expensive?They said that the hospital's equipment was imported from Romania, Sri Lanka, and Albania, and other hospitals did not have these cutting-edge equipment. People in Putian must disagree with my point of view, especially the new generation of heads of private hospitals, the "rich second generation" in people's traditional concept.They were born with silver spoons in their mouths, with medical backgrounds and business administration degrees.However, I still want to say that private hospitals have an original sin that cannot be erased. Even now, their charges are still higher than those of public hospitals. The medical care services I have learned are all soliciting customers from public hospitals to black hospitals, and I have never seen a case of soliciting customers from black hospitals to public hospitals. And those black hospitals all call themselves private hospitals. Why is there such a "freak" as a private hospital?How to manage private hospitals?Experts said that relevant departments have formulated the "National Ten Guidelines for Integrity Private Hospitals", hoping that private hospitals can be honest, clean, moral, and self-disciplined. I don't know if it works well.