Bribery serves as life-support for Chinese hospitals

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Bribery serves as life-support for Chinese hospitals

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bribery-serves-life-support-chinese-hospitals-211331588.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/u5vi.uncHBAgesWbeyu94w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-23T211331Z_1_CBRE96M1N0W00_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-HOSPITALS-BRIBERY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Doctor draws blood from the neck of a patient at an emergency room of a hospital in Shanghai" align="left" title="Doctor draws blood from the neck of a patient at an emergency room of a hospital in Shanghai" border="0" /></a>By Kazunori Takada SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Bribery is the lubricant that helps keep China's public hospitals running, and the health system would struggle to function without illegal payments to poorly paid doctors and administrators, say medical practitioners and industry experts. They say government policies are partly to blame for a system in which doctors and other staff expect to be paid extra fees to perform operations and take kickbacks from pharmaceutical firms and medical-equipment suppliers. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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