Chinese system: pay doctor only when you're well.
Allign incentives.
Allign incentives.
Before I could see a doctor, I had to pay cash. I had to pay again to do the blood tests ordered by the doctor.
"The public may yet regard as commendable the Chinese custom of paying the physician only during the period health is maintained, all emoluments ceasing during sickness."
Albert Abrams, Nervous Breakdown, Hicks-Judd Company, San Francisco, 1901, p 5
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