called those barefoot doctors who went down to the fields to work as barefoot doctors.
Most villages had barefoot doctors from the beginning of China's liberation to the late 1980s. At that time, the country was poor
and there was a shortage of medical specialists, so they could not train so many doctors with medical specialties, and had to train a group of barefoot doctors who knew a little
about medicine in order to meet the emergency needs. Thus, in those days, in the countryside, the barefoot doctor came into being.
In the countryside, the selection of barefoot doctors was generally based on the following two conditions. One is from the medical family
selected, the second is from the high school graduates know a little about medical pathology selected. After the selection, centralized to the county health school
Training for a year and a half, after graduation back to the countryside is considered a barefoot doctor.
Barefoot doctors in the countryside, because they have not received systematic study, medicine, pathology and other knowledge is relatively low,
Major illnesses, serious illnesses can not be cured, the complexity of the disease, not to mention. The problems that barefoot doctors can solve are usually some
headaches, body heat, abrasions and traumas, and other minor illnesses. Although it is a small disease, but can manage to solve, but also greatly convenient
villagers masses. One is that they do not have time to go to the big hospital to see a doctor, two is to the big hospital to see a doctor transportation is also very inconvenient,
Three is to the big hospital to see a doctor high cost. As a result, the villagers respect the barefoot doctors and consider them to be the village
great intellectuals and life-savers.
In fact, it is not easy to be a barefoot doctor in the countryside. First of all, the barefoot doctors did not
have a fixed salary, some just get some monthly subsidies from the brigade, and some just get paid in lieu of work credits by the production team.
This meager subsidy and work credits can't solve their livelihoods, so they have to work barefoot in the daytime
and study medicine by themselves at night. Secondly, due to the poverty and backwardness, the medical equipment
is very simple. In addition to a medicine box, a few ordinary tablets, a syringe, a few pieces of gauze, other than
poor. This is the only way for a barefoot doctor to be able to make a living with this kind of equipment.
Despite the hardship, the barefoot doctors at that time did their best to serve the people with passion.
No matter how late at night or rainy or windy days, as long as a patient called, they will go to the clinic, will seriously for
Patients to see the doctor to take injections and medication. The first time I saw this, I was able to get my hands on a pair of shoes, and then I was able to get my hands on a pair of shoes. If they can't cure themselves, they will suggest
that they should be sent to the hospital for treatment, and sometimes they even accompany them personally. Some barefoot doctors would have to
subsidize their costs if they met with needy families or five-guarantee households.
Barefoot doctors in the countryside are not very skilled, but they have a very good attitude. They often carry an egg-sized Red Cross medicine box on their backs, wearing white coats, and visit people from house to house. Especially during the influenza or epidemic
period, the barefoot doctors had a greater and more difficult responsibility, not only to distribute medicines, but also to explain the knowledge of prevention
, and usually could not eat a meal a day, could not sleep once a peaceful sleep. Children in the countryside are afraid of needles, the barefoot doctor
will try to coax the children, or tell them stories, or sing for them, and sometimes even buy a
sugar to give to the children, to be distracted by the children's attention, a needle fell, before the children "wow" cry
, the needle was pulled out again. The needle was pulled out again. In this way, the village children see the barefoot doctor, both love and fear, most of them will shrink into
behind their mothers, sticking out their heads, staring blankly at the Red Cross medicine box on the barefoot doctor - inside, there are both
candies, and even more syringes.
Something's not as good as something's not as good as something's not as good as something's not as good. The barefoot doctor's medical skills are not as good as those of the doctors in the big hospitals, but sometimes
the doctors in the big hospitals can't cure the diseases, but the barefoot doctor can. I remember a girl in my village who went up the mountain to fetch firewood
and accidentally sprained her hand. Her hand was twisted in a strange way, with one hand up and one hand down, the upward one could not be put down, and the downward one could not be stretched out, so she went to the county hospital, which suggested that she should go to the regional hospital. The girl's parents didn't have
money in hand and were so anxious that they came to the village barefoot doctor. The barefoot doctor was eating, saw the patient, put down the rice
bowl, the patient looked up and down a few times. After asking about the cause of the disease, the barefoot doctor said, "I can cure this disease. So, the barefoot
doctor told the patient's mother to remove the patient's pants, replaced with straw tied, and then the patient will be closed in a false
house. About an hour later, the barefoot doctor, carrying a gong, led the patient's parents together to the door of the hidden
house. The barefoot doctor struck the gong with a bang, then pushed open the door and said, "Yes, yes, yes, yes. The sick
Parents took a look at their daughter and saw that she was really well: her hands were moving freely. It turned out that the girl had sprained her hand because she could not stand the
pain and could not twist it back, so she could not be cured. When the barefoot doctor rang the gong, the girl was so frightened that she reached for her pants
and was cured. This is called the "girl's shame, not pain" method of treatment.
The barefoot doctor cured the disease, in the eyes of the townspeople, is really high. But sometimes, it is also out of caliber. I remember when I was a child,
There is a swollen and painful ear, my mother pulled me to see a barefoot doctor. Barefoot doctor with a hand feel, with a flashlight
, said it is otitis media, they will be to my ear filling potion, but also said that two more wash on the good. But as soon as the medicine was poured into my ear, my ear became even more swollen and painful. I washed once, until I could not bear it, the barefoot doctor embarrassed
said: it is better to go to the county hospital to see the Pentacenter! My mother took me to the Pentacenter, and the doctor said with a smile, "You
this little guy, how to plant bean sprouts in the ear socket," he said! After the doctor finished speaking, he used a clamp to clip the bean sprouts out of the ear socket
and my ears felt better. It turned out that I was playing in the beanstacks, and a soybean ran into it and itched, so I
digged, and with the medicinal water instilled by the barefoot doctor, the bean sprouts grew up in there. It's no wonder that the village barefoot doctor,
because there was no reflective lighting, he couldn't see the bean sprouts growing in my ear.
However, in those poor and backward times, the barefoot doctor made a great contribution to the people
and deserves a lot of credit. With the progress of society and the development of science and education, now, the villages have established hospitals, medical
students are standardized, barefoot doctors, gradually replaced by medical graduates. This is another advance in human
civilization.
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