Wednesday, July 31, 2013

GLAXO CASE SHINES LIGHT ON CHINA'S MEDICAL BRIBERY

GLAXO CASE SHINES LIGHT ON CHINA'S MEDICAL BRIBERY-associatedpress: Many blame a system in which the country's hospitals nearly all are state-run but get too little money from Beijing. Most of China's 2.3 million doctors are hospital employees and are barred from adding to their income by taking on second jobs. "Physicians are way underpaid and they need to find a way to survive," said Gordon Liu, a health care economist at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management.