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Barefoot doctors are informal doctors in rural areas who are not included in the national establishment. To put it more simply, villagers call doctors who work barefoot in the fields "barefoot doctors".
From the beginning of my country’s liberation to the late 1980s, most rural areas had barefoot doctors. At that time, the country was poor
and there was a severe shortage of medical experts. It was not possible to train so many doctors with medical expertise at the time. We could only train a group of barefoot doctors who had some basic knowledge of medical skills to deal with emergencies. required. In the era of poverty and backwardness, there were especially many people who were sick, and they needed the treatment of barefoot doctors. Therefore, in that era, barefoot doctors came into being in the countryside.
In rural areas, the selection of barefoot doctors is generally based on the following two conditions. One is to choose from medical families, and the other is to choose from high school graduates who have a little knowledge of medical skills and pathology. After being selected, they were sent to the county health school for one and a half years of training. After graduation, they returned to the countryside and became a barefoot doctor.
The barefoot doctors in the countryside have relatively low knowledge of medicine and pathology because they have not received systematic study.
They cannot cure serious or serious diseases, let alone complex diseases. . The problems that barefoot doctors can solve are usually minor ailments such as headaches, body heat, abrasions, and injuries. Although it is a minor illness, it can be treated and solved, which is very convenient for the villagers.
First, they don’t have time to go to big hospitals for medical treatment. Second, transportation to big hospitals for medical treatment is very inconvenient.
Third, the cost of medical treatment in big hospitals is high. Therefore, the villagers respect the barefoot doctors very much and consider them to be the great intellectuals in the village and life-savers.
In fact, being a barefoot doctor in rural areas is very hard and not an easy task. First of all, barefoot doctors do not have a fixed salary. Some of them only receive some monthly subsidies from the team, and some are only paid based on the production team's work points.
This meager subsidy and work points cannot fundamentally solve their lives. Therefore, they have to go barefoot during the day
Participate in the production team to work, and stay up late at night to learn medical knowledge by themselves . Secondly, due to poverty and backwardness, medical equipment
is very crude. Except for a medicine box, a few ordinary pills, a syringe, and a few pieces of gauze, there was very little else
Pitifully. With such crude equipment, it is sometimes difficult for a barefoot doctor to make a meal without straw.
Despite the hardships, the barefoot doctors at that time still performed their duties diligently and served the people with enthusiasm.
No matter it is late at night or a stormy day, as long as a patient is called, they will go to the clinic and conscientiously treat
the patient with injections and medication. If you can cure it yourself, do your best to cure it wholeheartedly. If you can't treat it by yourself, it is recommended to send it to a hospital for treatment, and sometimes you will be accompanied to the hospital in person. Barefoot doctors do not charge much for treatment and only recover the cost, because barefoot doctors receive subsidies from the production team. Some barefoot doctors will have to subsidize the cost if they encounter households in need or households with five guarantees.
The barefoot doctor in the countryside may not have high medical skills, but his service attitude is particularly good. They often carry a medicine box with a red cross printed on it
The size of an egg, wear white coats, and visit the people from house to house. Especially during the period of influenza or meningitis
Barefoot doctors have greater and harder responsibilities. Not only do they go from house to house distributing medicines, but they also have to explain prevention knowledge
They usually cannot eat enough in a day One meal can't give you a good night's sleep. Children in the countryside are afraid of injections, so the Barefoot Doctor
will do everything possible to coax the children, telling them stories, singing songs to them, and sometimes even buying them a candy
Give it to a child. When the child's attention is distracted, a needle falls. Before the child can cry "Wow", the needle is pulled out again.
In this way, when the children in the village saw the barefoot doctor, they both loved and feared him. Most of them shrank behind their mother, stretched out their heads, and stared blankly at the red cross medicine box on the barefoot doctor - —In there, there are both candies and syringes.
A ruler is shorter and an inch is longer. Although the medical skills of barefoot doctors are not as good as those of doctors in big hospitals, sometimes barefoot doctors can cure diseases that doctors in big hospitals cannot cure. I remember that a girl in the village went up the mountain to collect firewood and accidentally sprained her hand. Her hands were also twisted very strangely, with one hand pointing upward and the other downward. The upward one could not be released, and the downward one could not be reached up. She went to the county hospital for treatment, and the county hospital recommended that she go to a regional hospital. The girl's parents had no money and were worried, so they came to see the barefoot doctor in the village. The barefoot doctor was eating. When he saw a patient, he put down his bowl and looked at the patient several times. After the barefoot doctor asked about the cause of the disease, he said that I could cure it. So, the doctor asked the patient's mother to take away the patient's trousers, tie them with straw, and then locked the patient in an ajar room. About an hour later, the barefoot doctor, holding a gong, led the patient's parents to the ajar door of the house. The barefoot doctor rang the gong with a "" sound, then opened the door and said, "Okay, okay." The sick parents saw that their daughter was indeed cured: her hands could move freely. It turned out that the girl's hand was sprained because she couldn't bear the pain. She couldn't turn it around and it couldn't be cured. As soon as the gong of the barefoot doctor rang, the girl was so frightened that she quickly reached out to lift her pants
and then she was cured. This is called the girl’s treatment method of caring about shame but not caring about pain.
Barefoot doctors treating diseases are indeed high in the eyes of the villagers. But sometimes, it falls short. I remember when I was a child,
my ear was swollen and painful, so my mother took me to see a barefoot doctor. The barefoot doctor felt it with his hands and shone it with a flashlight. He said it was otitis media and poured medicine into my ears. He also said that it would be cured after washing it twice. Unexpectedly, as soon as the medicine was poured in, my ears became more swollen and painful. It hurt every time I washed it, until I couldn't bear it any more, the barefoot doctor was embarrassed and said: I'd better go to the county hospital to see an ENT department! My mother took me to the ENT department for a check-up. The doctor laughed and said, "Why do you, little guy, have bean sprouts growing in your ear sockets?" After the doctor finished speaking, he used a clip to remove the bean sprouts from the ear sockets.
My ears felt comfortable. It turned out that I was playing in the bean pile, and a soybean ran in. It was itching, so I dug it out, and the barefoot doctor gave me some medicine, and the bean sprouts grew up inside. It’s no wonder that the barefoot doctor in the village couldn’t see the bean sprouts growing in my ears because there was no reflective lighting.
In any case, in that poor and backward era, the barefoot doctors made great contributions to the people
and their contribution is indispensable. With the progress of society and the development of science and technology and education, hospitals have been established in rural areas and doctors have been standardized. Barefoot doctors have gradually been replaced by graduates from medical universities. This is another progress of human civilization.