Kindness — A Doctor's Top Priority

2024年1月我们去德国出差，听到了德国医疗圈大佬告诉我们的惊天秘密。在德国有位德国神经外科大佬，他这么几十年来利用病人信息不对称在别的国家轻松捞钱。比如有个第三世界国家的医院有位有钱的病人得了脑癌，当地医生就告诉他，这种手术他们做不了啦，病人马上就着急啦，那找谁来救命呢？本国的这位医生就推荐这位德国医生来中国为这个病人做手术了。起价就是100万。最后病人为了活下去就只好乖乖找这个德国专家做手术了，明明20万的手术费这下子就可以顺理成章收病人100万甚至是200万了，然后德国的这位大佬再分钱给推荐病人的这位医生，这位大佬这么多年就是靠这种手段在第三世界国家捞钱。这位大佬在中国还很有知名度，特别是北京的某家著名三甲医院那是相当迷信他呀。他们团队现在还在中国继续用这种手段大肆捞钱。这在德国神经外科圈可是公开的秘密。关键是病人根本不知道呀，病人被挨了宰，还非常感恩他们呢。

During our business trip to Germany in January 2024, we learned a shocking secret from a top figure in the German medical community: There is a renowned neurosurgeon in Germany has been exploiting the information gap between doctors and patients to make easy money in other countries for decades. Here’s how it works: when a wealthy patient in a developing country is diagnosed with brain tumor, the local doctors tell the patient that they cannot perform this kind of surgery. The patient immediately becomes anxious and panics, "Who can save my life?" The local doctor then recommends this surgeon from Germany to come to China and perform the surgery, with a starting price of 1 million Chinese yuan. Desperate to survive, the patient has no choice but to pay the expert from Germany 1 million or even 2 million Chinese yuan for a surgery that would normally cost 200,000 Chinese yuan. Afterward, the surgeon from Germany shares a portion of the fee with the referring doctor. For years, this is how he has been raking in money from developing countries. This so called big shot is highly regarded in China, particularly at a well-known Grade III Class A hospital in Beijing, which holds him in extremely high esteem. His team is still exploiting this tactic in China to rake in enormous profits. This has long been a widely acknowledged secret within Germany's neurosurgery community. The key issue is that the patients are completely unaware—they’re being grossly overcharged, yet they remain deeply grateful to these surgeons.