A Qualified Doctor in China Should Be Assessed in A New Standard

Thesis: the standard of a qualified doctor should take vocational skill, professional ethics, and patient satisfaction into consideration.

To begin with, vocational skill should be given priority when hospitals assess whether a doctor is qualified. Generally speaking, if people graduate from a medical school, they are eligible for working to work in a hospital, so long as they graduate with a certificate. However, a paper alone is far not necessarily enough to prove anything. What they learn in a medical school is theory, with which the doctor-to-be should put into practice and continue to study in the medical field. If some doctors simply take being a doctor as a career and no longer learn, they gradually become quacks. As a result, hospital should take their performance in a fixed period into account to decide whether they are qualified.

Next, professional ethics is another indispensible index to assess whether or not a doctor is qualified doctor. In the process of checking a patient, making a phone call, texting a message and smoking are improper as an eligible doctor. Once, I heard a doctor yelled at his patient’s slow movement after he hung up the cell phone. I assumed he much be was dumped by his girlfriend. Therefore, personal feeling should not be involved in work as a doctor. What is more, being a doctor, taking ‘Red envelop’ in a vital operation is also immoral, which is not uncommon in China. Doctor should bear in mind that it is their responsibility to save lives of patients.

Finally, patient satisfaction needs to be taken into consideration when assessing what is a qualified doctor. Hospitals should not only consider how many patients a doctor checks in one day and how much profits he contributes in a year, but also read the feedbacks of patient satisfaction. A questionnaire should ask questions likes: Is your dental doctor skillful? Is your physician kind to you? Is your surgeon taking your extra money? If the questionnaire suggests “no” to the first two questions and “yes” to the last one, the concerned doctor then should be considered unqualified.