The hospital hangs a banner to celebrate the number of inpatients who exceeded 40,000, exposing the lack of medical ethics

The hospital hangs a banner to celebrate the number of inpatients who exceeded 40,000, exposing the lack of medical ethics Guangzhou Yang Qiwei The total number of inpatients at Wuchuan People's Hospital in Guangdong Province has exceeded 40,000. Hospital inpatients...

The hospital hung up banners to celebrate the number of inpatients exceeding 40,000, revealing a lack of medical ethics. Guangzhou Yang Qiwei The total number of inpatients in Wuchuan People's Hospital in Guangdong Province exceeded 40,000. The hospital hung up red banners in the inpatient building to celebrate. This move caused great dissatisfaction among patients and their families. Subsequently, online discussions were overwhelming, unanimously lashing out at the hospital for its indifference, lack of medical ethics and lack of management wisdom. As we all know, there is an essential difference between having more than 40,000 hospitalized patients and having more than 4 trillion bank deposits. The latter is a win-win situation for depositors and banks, while the former is only a "win-win" for the hospital. It's okay to hold a "celebration party" quietly inside the hospital, but to hang up banners publicly to celebrate, which greatly irritates the patients and their families. Just imagine, I am sick and hospitalized. This in itself is a bad, unfortunate or even unlucky thing. What is there for you to celebrate? In my opinion, the serious problem exposed by the "Congratulations on Disease Banner" is the failure of medical reform and the misguided path of advanced commercialization of public hospitals. For a long time, my country's medical institutions have not distinguished between public welfare and for-profit purposes, which has also exposed the ineffectiveness of medical reform. The lack of public welfare in public hospitals has led to numerous ills, such as not having surgery if there is no money, or withdrawing money after a suturing operation without money. This is a manifestation of the hospital's disregard for the patient's feelings and "falling into the eyes of money". It is also a manifestation of the hospital's lack of humanized service and management wisdom. At present, the vast majority of medical institutions that dominate the medical and health field are public hospitals. However, due to reasons such as insufficient financial investment compensation mechanisms, in terms of operations, public hospitals are blindly pursuing profits and are very profit-oriented. Statistics show that more than 95% of public hospitals are operating according to a for-profit business model. my country's medical and health care system reform plan emphasizes the need to uphold the public welfare nature of public hospitals. However, the current situation shows the opposite trend. The hospital hangs up a "banner congratulating patients", and its joy is beyond words, and its pursuit of profit maximization is fully exposed. It is not difficult to imagine that because more people are hospitalized and treated, the hospital's income will also increase, and it will make a lot of money. Of course it is happy and of course it is celebrated. But have you considered the feelings of patients and their families? Do you have compassion for patients and their families? Are you looking forward to people getting sick and being hospitalized? The more the better, so that the threshold of the hospital can be broken down? It should be noted that hospitals are places that save lives and heal the wounded. They can charge fees and make profits when treating patients, but they cannot take profit as the only goal and forget the "parental heart" and benevolent attitude of "hanging the pot to help the world" that doctors should have. Why are patients and their families so embarrassed when they proudly put up red banners to celebrate when the total number of hospitalized patients exceeded 40,000? How can the public be embarrassed? This is a kind of blasphemy against the "angel in white". It is too immoral and inhumane. In the current medical system, some public hospitals have reversed the doctor-patient relationship for personal gain. They are more concerned about profit figures. Making money has become a hard indicator for hospitals to judge heroes. Treating diseases is regarded as a profitable business, and the doctor-patient relationship has become a cold money relationship. Although, it is understandable that hospitals also need to pay attention to cost accounting, make profits, and avoid losses. However, hospitals are places that save lives and heal the wounded and fulfill humanitarian obligations. They have a strong public welfare nature. Compared with making money, it is more important to reflect public welfare. Hospitals must correct the relationship between profit-making, public welfare, and medical ethics. Taking into account their image in the public mind, hospitals must not be reduced to profit-seeking, and must not forget their sacred mission and deviate from the essence and requirements of medical public welfare. Logically speaking, the function of medical institutions is not only to diagnose and treat patients, but also has the responsibility of disease prevention and control for the people in a certain region. In other words, from a macro and long-term perspective, the increase in hospitalized patients can only prove from the side that the health status of the people in the region is unbearable and worrying. This is obviously not something worth celebrating. Therefore, when a hospital hangs a banner to celebrate the number of hospitalized patients exceeding 40,000, it is no different in essence from "Congratulations on your illness," "Congratulations on your hospitalization," or "Congratulations on your spending money on medical treatment." What it reveals is a chilling indifference and even cold-bloodedness. What it exposes is the profit-seeking impulse and lack of public welfare in China's public hospitals. Suddenly I remembered a classic couplet written by Cheng Daozhou, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty: I hope everyone is healthy; why not be poor alone. For today's public hospitals, even if they do not have such universal sentiments and medical ethics of compassion and kindness, they should not be "warmly congratulated" for the record high number of inpatients. How can a kind-hearted doctor rub salt and insert a knife into the wounds of doctors and patients like this? Even if real estate developers are eager to see housing prices rise, they don’t dare to openly shout “Let’s go up.” Even if coffin dealers hate to get rich, they don’t dare to openly say “Let’s kill a few more people.” Therefore, it is a taboo for Wuchuan People's Hospital to hang up banners to celebrate the record number of inpatients. Because behind that cheerful voice is a harsh subtext: Get sick more often! Of course, this move will be deeply disgusted by patients, family members and the public. This is also the current strong demand of the Chinese people for the return of medical public welfare, and it deserves careful reflection by the hospital. Now, Wuchuan People's Hospital has taken down the "congratulations on the disease banner" and admitted its mistake. But it is still not optimistic whether the profit-seeking thinking contained in it will really loosen up.