I quite like Zhejiang, but today there are two news items from Zhejiang that make me feel very uncomfortable.
The first news item says that the daily new positive cases in Zhejiang have exceeded 1 million, and the peak of the epidemic will arrive earlier, with an estimated high-level plateau period around New Year’s Day.
I have many friends in Zhejiang, and my brother and cousin are also working and living in Zhejiang.
Watching the rapid development of the epidemic in Zhejiang, although I know it is inevitable and unavoidable, I am still quite worried about my relatives, friends, and the people of Zhejiang.
If being positive is unavoidable, at least I hope it can be later and milder, try not to trouble the hospitals, and leave the precious medical resources to those who need them more. Let’s work together to overcome the difficulties.
However, unexpectedly, I saw the second news item right after.
Compared to the first news item, the second news item’s style changed drastically, and it actually said that a hospital in Taizhou, Zhejiang, openly posted a “celebratory bulletin”, celebrating the hospital’s outpatient and emergency services exceeding 2 million visits!
This is very embarrassing.
If you are a restaurant, you celebrate exceeding 2 million customers, and when each customer finishes eating and pats their belly and leaves, you also say, “Welcome back”, which is perfectly fine.
However, if you are a hospital, you celebrate exceeding 2 million patient visits, and when each patient has their blood drawn, sees the doctor, buys medicine, and is ready to leave, you also say, “Welcome back”, that’s just not right!
It’s like you went to a funeral home, a wreath shop, or even a wedding shop, and if the shopkeeper dared to say “Welcome back”, wouldn’t you have the urge to hit someone?
Especially, with the current daily new positive cases in Zhejiang exceeding 1 million, and a large number of infected people are suffering from fever, sore throats, and other pains, posting such a “celebratory bulletin” is really extremely uncomfortable.
Leaders want to make money, institutions want to make profits, which is understandable in a market economy. But some industries have their specific characteristics. Even if you only think about making money, you also need to consider the customers’ psychological feelings.
Even if you are a private hospital of the Putian system, you cannot treat the “2 million patient visits” built on the patients’ pain as a performance that can be openly “celebrated”.
Moreover, you are not a private hospital, and you are not of the Putian system.
You are a public hospital, a well-known top-tier hospital in the local area, with more than two thousand employees, including more than three hundred with senior titles, and more than three hundred with master’s and doctoral degrees. How can so many talents make such a mistake?
You have also won a series of honorary titles such as the National Excellent Medical Service Demonstration Hospital, Provincial Civilized Unit, and Provincial Patriotic Health Advanced Unit.
Then, may I ask, where is the “demonstration” in celebrating “2 million patient visits”? Where is the “civilization”? Where is the “advanced”?
“I hope that people in the world will be free from illness, and I don’t mind the medicine on the shelf gathering dust.” Ancient doctors, in treating illnesses and saving people, first emphasized “the heart of a doctor” and “helping the world.”
Sun Simiao, the “King of Medicine” of the Tang Dynasty, even said the profound words, “All great doctors, in treating illnesses, must calm the mind and set the will, have no desires and no demands, first develop a great compassionate heart, and vow to save all living beings from suffering.”
The traditional virtues of the Chinese nation have not been lost or interrupted to this day. In our medical team, there are also many good doctors who are eager to help patients and think about what patients think, with both good character and excellent medical skills.
But it cannot be denied that there are also chaos in the medical team, such as accepting red envelopes, aggressively selling drugs, and only wanting to create profits, treating the masses with a cold face… These are by no means isolated cases.
This is certainly related to the general environment, but it also violates the original intention of a hospital being a hospital and a doctor being a doctor.
As a social public service institution closely related to the masses, hospitals should also respond to the national call and practice the concept of “people first.”
Even if you have a profit-making attribute, even if you also have the need to rush for performance at the end of the year, even if your outpatient and emergency services exceed 2 million visits and you have made a lot of money, please do not hurt the feelings of the masses.
Please keep your “joy” in your heart.
Look at the news, the country is now advocating “people first” from top to bottom.
What is people first? People first means that whatever you do, you must see whether the masses are satisfied, happy, and agree!
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