In case of serious illness, the school will transfer the students to the local hospital for examination, and the required medical expenses will naturally be paid by the students themselves. The explanatory materials sent to you by the school that hired you will generally indicate the specific content and cost of medical and health services that the institution can provide.
If your college doesn't provide health insurance for everyone, then I must join a health insurance plan myself, because only in this way can you avoid paying expensive medical expenses in case of serious injury or serious illness. There are countless health insurance companies in the United States, and each company offers various health insurance plans. You can ask the tutor of foreign students to be a staff officer, so that you can participate in a more suitable health insurance plan.
How about American medical care? In the United States, the appointment system is implemented for medical treatment. The purpose of "appointment" is to ensure that medical staff have enough time to give patients the best service. A doctor takes care of many patients a day, and each patient can experience complete diagnosis and treatment.
American hospital clinics attach great importance to shaping doctors to be good at communicating with people, have compassion and teamwork spirit, especially with patients. Outpatients are all one-on-one service, which has good privacy. Doctors take pains to explain and examine patients. Generally, the face-to-face consultation takes about 45 minutes, and the review takes about 20 minutes. When encountering complicated medical records, the time is likely to continue to increase. Patients understand that they have the right to take more time from their doctors when necessary.
In contrast, in China, medical resources are very anxious. China's population accounts for 22% of the world's total population, but medical resources only account for 2% of the global medical resources. In fact, the population similar to14 only accounts for 1/50 of medical resources. The main reasons for the shortage of medical resources also include the insufficient investment of Chinese government departments in medical care: the expenditure on medical care in the United States is 13.6%, that in Britain is 6.8%, that in Japan is 7.2%, that in Germany is 10.7%, and that in China is only 2%.
At the same time, the distribution of medical resources in China is unfair. Because the most advanced medical equipment and resources are concentrated in first-tier cities, patients all over the country flock to the top three hospitals in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin or Guangzhou. There are so many patients that doctors are simply too busy. It is often that patients hang up all night according to long queues, and it is only a short five minutes to really see the doctor's future consultation time. Patients can't communicate with doctors in all directions and in detail.
Differences in doctor standards Clinical medical standards are the foundation of the national medical system, and doctor education is the key to the medical system. Dr. China's teaching philosophy is completely different from that of the United States. In China, you can enter medical school after graduating from junior high school, and you can become a doctor after studying and training in medical school for five years. Compared with traditional industries, the salary of doctors in China has not been obviously superior, but the workload is huge and it cannot attract outstanding talents.
In the United States, only the best college students can apply for medical schools, and only about 15% of all applicants can be admitted. All doctors must be admitted as doctoral students. After being admitted to medical school, you need to study hard or practice for a long time before you can become a doctor. Four years after graduation, the school was admitted to the medical school, but after four years of doctoral graduation, it was still not a doctor, and it was necessary to successfully carry out resident training in some designated industrial base hospitals. Only by practice can we have the opportunity to take the professional qualification examination for doctors. If you want to further become a specialist,
For example, cardiothoracic surgeons, after five years of oncology training, must be researchers in designated specialized clinics (such as Texas Heart Center in The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) for two to three years. This kind of training can make a specialist have a university medical license. Together, it takes at least 13 to 15 years to shape a junior college doctor, starting from middle school.
Doctors are all 365,438+0 years old when they graduate from medicine. Only after such study and training can you become a master surgeon and start treating patients alone. A resident is different from a doctor in charge of metallurgy. Residents can get support from government departments. After they become doctors in charge of metallurgy, their salary will triple to 10 times.
Such rigorous and long-term study and training make American doctors not only well-trained, but also academic and meticulous compared with doctors in other countries. In a rich country, what is more precious than good health and life? It can be said that doctors who work in the United States and provide services for their health are the most talented people and the elites of the whole society.
Besides kindness, the most intuitive driving force of American doctors is their high salary. Generally speaking, the income of doctors ranks in the top 10% of all industries in the United States, and some departments can rank in the top 3%. The salary of a doctor ranges from $654.38 million to more than $1 million. In this way, high professional ability and high salary make the profession of doctor highly respected in the United States, which can be said to be the top profession in all American social development pyramids.