China Doesn’t Just Lack Pediatricians, It Lacks Qualified Pediatricians
Recently Sixth Sense reported that Shanghai hospitals lack pediatricians, highlighting the dilemma from the physician’s perspective. In their article, we are told of all the reasons why young graduates avoid the pediatrics departments of public hospitals, or quit shortly after joining. The main causes being: low salaries, overtime hours (to compensate for low salaries), the large daily influx of patients that causes doctors to have a tight schedule and short window for diagnosis, and the physical violence directed at pediatricians when their diagnosis is wrong or insufficient.