China's Pain: Unveiling the Secrets of the Medical Industry

Author: Zeng Deqiang (Compiler)
Publisher: China International Radio & Audiovisual Publishing House
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "Expensive Death," "Sky-High Hospital Bills," "Living People Sent to the Crematorium" – these were a series of shocking and profoundly disturbing events concerning the elderly, sick, and dying in China at the beginning of the 21st century. It is terrifying when people fall ill; it is even more terrifying when China's healthcare system and policy design are ailing. The dark of China's pharmaceutical industry, from drug manufacturers to drug dealers, from medications to medical devices, from medical practice to management, from public hospitals to private hospitals, is so bold, cunning, and ruthless that it could be called a world-class phenomenon. A "black hole," a "black den," a "black line," a "black ledger," and a "black network" are all tangible and visible, yet everyone tacitly avoids acknowledging them. Within the tightly woven black network, patients naturally become helpless fish. The myriad "unspoken rules" and "weird phenomena" are so shocking and chilling that they leave one speechless and trembling.