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Are rural doctors considered to be practicing medicine illegally? What constitutes the legal practice of medicine?

Are rural doctors considered to be practicing medicine illegally? What constitutes the legal practice of medicine?

Rural doctors whether the illegal practice of medicine is based on where you are practicing medicine, in the countryside does not count, to the city to practice medicine even, this is the provisions of this abusive provisions is obvious to see the country still have discrimination, because this provision means that the rural doctor to see the patients and the city of the patients are not the same, right, is the rural doctor to see the patients are livestock? City doctors see people, strongly urge equal treatment!

Firstly, the systematic concept of the illegal practice of medicine should be clarified

1. Failure to obtain (or obtaining by illegal means and improper means) a physician's license from the national unified certification examination

2. Physician's qualification certificate is not registered in the administrative department of health care in the place where it belongs to exchange for a physician's license.

3. Physicians do not practice in accordance with the scope of practice and place of practice specified in the license, i.e., beyond the scope of practice

4. The location of the doctor's practice must comply with the requirements of the health care sector, i.e., obtaining a Medical Practice License.

5. Rural doctors must have a registered rural physician's certificate, and rural doctors holding a rural physician's certificate are not allowed to treat patients in towns and cities.

Against the above four articles, the question is clearly visible, i.e., rural doctors with a Rural Doctor's Certificate are legally authorized to work in the village health office of the place to which they belong, and are not allowed to leave the countryside to work in the towns and cities. In some areas, it is stipulated that rural doctors are not allowed to carry out intravenous infusion, wound-cutting and suturing, and other hazardous procedures! However, the main scope of work of rural and township health organizations is public health.


Before answering this question, first of all, we must make it clear that what kind of person can be called a country doctor? It is not the case that if you say you are a village doctor, you are one! Nor is it true that you are a rural doctor just because you have been a "barefoot doctor" in your village. To put it simply, you are a legal village doctor if you have a license, and you are practicing illegally if you don't have a license. At present, China's legal rural doctors mainly hold two kinds of certificates, only hold one of these two kinds of certificates (of course, there are a small number of people who have both kinds of certificates to go), in order to legally practise, otherwise it is illegal to practise medicine, there is no such thing as you have the medical skills, just not the certificate of the argument ......

Rural doctor's practicing certificate

This is the certificate held by most legal rural doctors at present, and it is also one of the legal doctor's certificates recognized by the State! However, this is a very special certificate, which does not meet the qualification requirements of the Practicing Physician Law for the entry of practicing physicians. This kind of certificate is issued by the state to solve the historical problems, mainly for the "barefoot doctors" in the early years of customized.

The "barefoot doctor" was a product of "necessity" at a special time, when there were only a limited number of medical personnel with a scientific background, a relative lack of resources for medical education and medical care, and an urgent need for doctors in rural areas who could solve basic medical problems. As a result, the "barefoot doctor", a "low-cost" version of the doctor, came into being to provide medical care to the "intellectual youth" (mainly with junior high school education) in rural areas. The "Barefoot Doctors" were created to provide short-term training to rural "intellectual youths" (mainly those with junior high school education) and then engage in basic medical work in the countryside. Over a long period of time, the "barefoot doctors" have made a great contribution to basic medical care in the vast rural areas of China!

With the professionalization of the medical profession after the reform and opening up, the qualifications of "barefoot doctors" have become a problem that the State cannot avoid. It is obviously unrealistic to let all the "barefoot doctors" retire, and it is impossible to have so many doctors with a scientific background to take their place at one time. To this day, in many rural areas, the "barefoot doctors" of the early years are still the main force of local basic medical care. In order to solve the problem of "barefoot doctors" practicing legally, the State has uniformly issued rural doctor practice certificates to "barefoot doctors" who have been practicing. Within a fixed place and scope of practice, a rural doctor's certificate of practice is basically equivalent to the qualification and practice certificates of an assistant practitioner.

It is important to note that the State issues a rural doctor's practising certificate to "barefoot doctors" who have been practising for a long time. In other words, if you used to be a "barefoot doctor" in the early years, but quit a long time ago due to financial reasons and started your own business, you can't apply for a rural doctor's practicing certificate now, but you must have been practicing all the time. In short, a former "barefoot doctor" may not necessarily become a current rural doctor.

Then there is the requirement for place of practice and scope of practice. Theoretically, a rural doctor's practicing certificate is only valid in a fixed place of practice and within the scope of practice. What does that mean? A rural doctor's practising certificate is valid only within the scope of the village health office, which is the place of practice of a certain rural doctor, and if he practises medicine at home or goes to other places to practise medicine, he is also practising medicine illegally. Of course, in the early years, when rural community health care was not standardized, it was a fact that rural doctors practised at home. However, this is no longer the case, as the vast majority of rural doctors have been incorporated into rural community medical organizations, and it is illegal to practise medicine at home.

Rural general practitioner's qualification certificate and practicing certificate

With the old generation of "barefoot doctors" who have quietly dedicated their lives to rural basic medical care, the countryside doctors who have reached or exceeded the statutory retirement age have been given a unified retirement procedure, so that they can have a secure old age. Although the pension is not much, but compared to many rural elderly people who still rely on their sons, this is already very good! It is also considered the state's final explanation to the "barefoot doctors". With the aging of their generation, has been issued by the rural doctors practicing certificate of the state is also gradually withdrawn, the death of a, withdrawn a, in principle, will not be issued.

Replacing the old generation of rural doctors are the new rural general practitioners, who are no longer "barefoot doctors" but licensed medical practitioners and assistant medical practitioners with two full certificates. They hold the same qualification certificates and practicing certificates of practicing physicians and assistant physicians as doctors in other medical institutions. The only difference is the location and scope of practice on the physician's license. In the near future, with the retirement of all rural doctors from the old generation of "barefoot doctors", these rural general practitioners will become the main force of basic medical care in rural areas of China!

To sum up, rural doctors are legitimate doctors with legal practicing certificates, and their practice in fixed practice locations and within the scope of practice is not illegal practice of medicine, but is completely legal. The new rural general practitioners are licensed medical practitioners and practising assistants with two full certificates, so naturally, they are even less likely to practise medicine illegally! However, it is necessary to say that the so-called illegal practice of medicine does not simply refer to the practice of medicine by people without a license.

What does it mean to practice medicine illegally? Simply put, all acts of practicing medicine outside of the legal practice situations stipulated in the Practicing Physicians Law are illegal! Practicing medicine without a license is the clearest form of illegal practice, and there are no extenuating circumstances. However, fully licensed physicians and physician assistants can sometimes be involved in the illegal practice of medicine. To take the simplest example, if you are holding a dental license and a certificate of practice, but you go to do general surgery for others, although you have both certificates, you still belong to the illegal practice of medicine! In short, licensed physicians and physician assistants must practice in the registered place of practice, within the scope of practice, beyond the scope of practice also belongs to the illegal practice of medicine.

A country doctor is considered to be practicing medicine illegally, and that's illegal for the state to train. What the patient recognizes is legal.

Rural doctors are not very skilled people, urban physicians are not very smart people, we use traditional Chinese herbs to perform on stage to know who has kung fu, barefoot doctors practicing medicine I do not think it is against the law, we say that the reasoning is appropriate or not?

Is it illegal to practise medicine if a person who sells medicines directly and does not know anything about medicine is practising medicine under the banner of a certain expert and guru?

Rural doctors do not have a physician's license, only a rural doctor's license, which is subject to many practice restrictions. The physician's license does not cover all diseases. A western medicine internal medicine, you engage in western medicine surgery is also illegal to practice medicine, you go to deliver babies is even more beyond the scope of practice. If you have a medical malpractice, you are still practicing illegally. Many cases have been convicted of practicing medicine illegally. Therefore, the treatment of disease is not so good. Chinese medicine has been westernized, has long been in chaos. Western physicians, you go to the silver needle to cause death is also illegal to practice medicine.

At present, there are two types of rural doctors: those who have obtained the qualification of licensed medical practitioner or assistant medical practitioner and who are registered to perform preventive, health-care and general medical services in village medical and health-care institutions; and those who have obtained a professional certificate for rural doctors in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of the Practice of Rural Doctors issued under Decree No. 386 of the State Council. Both of these categories are legitimate rural doctors, and the practice of medicine in the place of registration is a legal medical practice, and there is no question of illegal practice of medicine.

Engaging in medical activities without registering for a rural doctor's practicing certificate is a violation of the law and is subject to relevant penalties.

When the Qin Yue people practicing medicine to Shandong, said: I am the elderly doctor, to the Jiangnan area, said: I am under the belt doctor, to Gansu, Shanxi area, said: children less sick and difficult to cure said mute doctor. And now I know in our Yunnan, Guizhou, Yunnan area, there are more than 30 years old people do not: a no birth certificate, two no identification - three no education and work certificate, how to share how to say, this person is not the most illegal, the most illegal black people? What should he do? What should he do?

Rural doctors are the only low-income patients Postman, can not be counted as the illegal practice of medicine, there are a lot of strange and difficult diseases big hospitals can not do anything, but let the local doctors cured, who do you think the level of high.

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