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Private sector lures more medicos

By Liu Zhihua | China Daily | Updated: 2013-10-30 07:35

Better pay, job satisfaction and work-life balance are why a number of doctors say they are turning their back on the public hospital system. Liu Zhihua reports.

When Yu Ying, an emergency physician and celebrity on Twitter-like online platform SinaWeibo, announced that she would quit the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, one of the most famous hospitals in China, for a private practice, she probably had not expected the post would be forwarded more than 11,600 times, and get 10,000 comments and 5,000 "like (zan)" clicks.

But the reason she resigned from a much-coveted position in a top public hospital is simple.

Private sector lures more medicos

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