Ancient people's short life expectancy is because of the backwardness of medical concepts, a small cold, will be able to take a child's life. With the improvement of modern medical technology, people have a strong sense of medical care, life expectancy has also greatly improved, and now the average life expectancy in China has reached 77.3 years.
Going to the hospital once and spending money is definitely inevitable. Although outpatient fees are not expensive, if you do an ultrasound, X-ray, color ultrasound and other medical items, and then prescribe a drug, a small half-month salary may be gone. Although medical insurance will reimburse part of it, it is still a great pain for everyone. Some serious illnesses may even cause a family to lose all its money, so in the view of many people, hospitals are a very lucrative industry. In order to see a doctor, patients will not bargain, even if they spend more money, as long as they can be cured, they are willing to pay. Hospitals are open 24 hours a day for 365 days, and there are special emergencies, plus a large number of hospitalized patients, in the end, how lucrative is it? Just look at this hospital.
One year's revenue exceeds 10 billion
Hospitals are also divided into three, six, nine grades, and the grade of the three special grades is the highest. Generally speaking, the more economically developed the city, the better the level of hospitals, such as Shanghai, Beijing and so on, because these areas have a higher ability to attract talent and greater local investment. These hospitals are highly sought after by patients, and famous doctors are even harder to find, with a large number of patients queuing up in the middle of the night, and even a lot of scalpers on hand to sell their specialist numbers.
These hospitals have some of the best medical resources in the country, the best equipment, and the best medical talent.
But even if a hospital is good, its revenue is not disclosed to the public, which arouses everyone's curiosity. 2017, China's largest hospital once disclosed its revenue, which exceeded 10 billion yuan in 2017, which shows that hospitals are indeed a very profitable unit.
Of course the amount of profit varies with the level of the hospital. When people are sick, they will be willing to go to a better hospital for treatment. You rich people don't care how much the treatment costs, they only ask for more skillful doctors and more advanced equipment.
Some tricky diseases and difficult cases are not treated in small hospitals and can only be sent to big hospitals.
Where does the money hospitals make go?
Of course, the reason why big hospitals are "big" is that they cost money. First of all, to have advanced medical equipment, many medical programs in small hospitals can not be done, only to go to the big hospitals, because they can not afford to buy equipment. A set of such equipment costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, such as the ventilators used during the New Crown epidemic, and some countries don't have a single one.
Secondly, hospitals will certainly want sizable salaries in order to retain talent. The hospitals themselves will also invest in training talent, and many schools work with the hospitals. In order to upgrade medical technology, hospitals also need a lot of money for research.
In addition to utilities, equipment maintenance and upgrades, and other expenses, hospitals are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and these operating costs are quite high. Therefore, despite the fact that hospitals have scary revenues in a year, their expenditure costs are equally not low.
The income of hospitals is envied by many people. Elders feel that such an industry is stable and well-paid, and when choosing their majors, they have asked their children to choose the medical profession, and if they can't be a doctor, it's not bad to be a nurse.
However, the doctor's profession is not so easy to enter. Half of the medical students are 5 years to start, after graduation, but also to continue to read the master's degree, many people stay out of the head has been almost 30 years old. When you first enter the hospital internship, the doctor's salary is very low, and there are not many patients to believe him. For a doctor, the knowledge learned in school is only the foundation, the experience exercised in the field is the capital, so the doctor is more and more popular.
After entering the hospital and becoming a doctor, it doesn't mean that you can breathe a sigh of relief. There are still so many difficult diseases in the world that have not been overcome, and doctors must continue to learn and improve in order not to be eliminated.
So, doctors' high income is all about hard work and sweat, and in times of crisis, doctors, like soldiers, will be the first to come forward to save patients. After the Xin Guan epidemic broke out last year, it was these doctors who traveled to Wuhan against the clock, disregarding their own safety, before the epidemic was finally brought under control.
So we always have respect for doctors. Hospitals are indeed a profiteering industry, but people have never questioned its reasonableness. As long as they can provide good service to patients and cure more patients, even if they spend more money, it will not hurt.