Doctors Hate This Woman! One Weird Trick to Skip Med School!

China is no stranger to deception. From fabricated tourist attractions to elaborate scams to fake credentials, we're going to talk about three distinct events. Doesn't this look beautiful? It's a fake Mount Fuji for 100 yuan or about 30 USD. You can get an opportunity to take photographs here and to camp out. This Teemu Mount Fuji in reality is just a dirt hill that's been spray painted green. It's designed as a tourist prop for people to experience what it's like to go to Mount Fuji but without flying to Japan. But the reviews from internet users say it's not worth it. A company in the same town actually creates these internet famous props for people to go and take photos with. But honestly, rather than it looking like a tourist attraction, it somehow reminds me of like green juice with coconut milk on top or some sort of a matcha ice cream with whipped cream. Now let's move on to an actually hilarious but quite sad situation, a scam in Now this is a real estate scam with 36 men as the victims. Meet Liu Jia or as I like to refer to as Lisa. She's a real estate agent and she and a man named Yao met on a dating app. After about a month, they were ready to get married. But of course, there are some conditions attached to this. First, the reason why they're so fast in their journey is because well Yao realized Lisa is such a great woman. She's caring, she's lovely, she doesn't ask for expensive dates or expensive gifts on important anniversaries. She simply says, well, you know, I'm just here for you. And to talk about marriage in China, Lisa had only one request which is that Yao had to own a home before getting to meet her parents and asked for the marriage and which is actually quite normal in China. So this was nothing out of the ordinary. Now of course, Yao is in a big city like Shenzhen but he doesn't make a lot of money. So Lisa says, well, why don't we relocate to a nearby smaller town in this new development which, you know, doesn't cost as much and is equally as nice. And Yao obviously still in this dreamy mode of seeing how considerate this woman really is agrees and they look at this new development which is quite nice. But Lisa goes one step further. She's offering to pay the down and not even put her name on the property which she promises afterwards once they get the house, they will pay the mortgage back together. Obviously, Yao was super excited. He signs the contract and next thing you know, Lisa disappeared leaving him and 35 other men in that same neighborhood and apparently all having an ex named Lisa. So what actually happened? Well, obviously, Lisa is just trying to get her real estate listings sold in this apartment complex and I guess you can even say that she's quite good at her job. But some internet user says, why don't we just rename this property to Lisa International instead? Okay, this next one, I honestly don't really know how to even start talking about it because it's a medical scandal. It's a fake credential. It's also an exposure of the nepotism that's happening in China. So let's get into it. Imagine you're a patient lying on the operating table. As this meme of picture here shows, it's the Chinese version of the Me Too movement. The doctor comes and says, look, I got in here because of my family's close relationship with the hospital. Would you trust that doctor to operate on you? And or vice versa, would you trust anything from this hospital if they're willing to hire a doctor who got in not because of their professional expertise but rather because who they knew? Now, think a little bit more. What if the medical supplies, the nurses, the equipments, and even the medicine that they use, they all got into this hospital because of who they knew? These in Chinese is called 托关系 or through relationships that they got into the hospital because everybody in the photo got in through their relationship or 关系. But the story is much bigger than that. The main character of our story is Dong Xiying, a female doctor who recently graduated from a 4 plus 4 medical program, which we'll talk in more details. But just know that she is quite important. And there's also a male doctor who she's having an affair with. And during a surgery, the nurses got into an argument with her, which caused her and the male doctor to leave for 40 minutes, just stormed out of the room and left the patient who's still sleeping on the operating table for 40 minutes. And this obviously caused a lot of problem because of medical ethics. And they were reprimanded for it. But the female doctor didn't get fired. She just got transferred. But actually, medical malpractice isn't the focus of the story. Because later, internet users found that Dong Xiying's resume and her education career has generated a lot of controversy. Dong graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Barnard College in Columbia University in 2019. She then enrolled in the 4 plus 4 clinical medical pilot program at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing. Four years later, she's already a doctor practicing medicine, working at the National Cancer Center and Cancer Hospital, which is part of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. And she did her residence training at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital. With the 4 plus 4 program, you're supposed to do four years of bachelor's and four years of medical school, which is actually the norm in Western university programs to become a doctor. But internet users question how she so quickly skipped over the four years to basically become a full-fledged doctor attending at the hospitals that she works at. The question isn't about her education degree. It's more about how she got it. Because the normal thing is you do four years of undergrad. Now, it doesn't have to be a medical undergrad degree. For example, a lot of people do things like biology, biochemistry, physiology, or kinesiology. And then they can do the MCAT and then get in through interviews to med school. So that's not the abnormal part. What was very suspicious was the fact that her medical career spanned multiple different fields. And it really raised eyebrows because her academic publications at the time spanned medical imaging, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, and more. And some people even claimed that she performed a level 4 surgery just being a first or second year resident at the hospital. And guess what field that was in? Osteotherapy, which is in bones. And here Chinese state media even reported on her resident surgery work. While Dong initially applied for internal medicine as a resident, she reportedly worked across thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and kidney specialties. She later became an expert on bladder cancer. She even wrote an extensive report on this. Meanwhile, the typical story we hear about residents in medical school is that they're typically overworked, underpaid, and they really are mistreated in some senses by their or that they have to go through a lot of extensive hands-on training. And by the time that they graduate, a lot of people have mental problems because of these experiences. And then you have Miss Talent over here who basically flew through her way in residency and became a attending doctor just in one or two years. Strangely, on April 29th, all of her papers in the Chinese academic database suddenly disappeared. Now, Dong's family background intensified scrutiny. Her father is the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, which is a major state-owned enterprise. Her mother is vice dean at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing. So it seems like she leveraged all these connections from her family to fast track her career in medical sciences. Like I mentioned, the 4 plus 4 program in itself is not fake. It's a legitimate way in which undergrads go through graduate school in medical and then go through residency. For example, in the U.S. and other countries, you do four years of undergrads, four years of medical school, then you get into residency, which could last three to five years, some even longer depending on the specialties, and by then you become an attending physician. Until then though, you're basically supervised by another doctor who is fully licensed and is able to independently, for example, prescribe medicines and such. But in China, the 4 plus 4 has become a way to fast track somebody's medical career by simply having the status and the connection to do so. It also means at the end of the eight years, they apparently have the same expertise and experience as a resident doctor who has been in residency for five years and they have a total of 15 years of schooling. This controversy prompted many doctors to post their credentials online to justify that they have what it takes to be a doctor in China, as many people started to question this 4 plus 4 in China. Some people even make fun of the math, right? 5 plus 5 plus 3, that's what typical doctors in China go through, is apparently smaller than 4 plus 4. Sometimes, you know, the math isn't so black and white. Internet users call her the hexagonal warrior because in some video games, they have these hexagon radar charts that show the attributes of, for example, Pokemons, etc. And so she has everything maxed out at the very beginning. Thanks so much for watching this episode of China Insider. If you enjoyed the content, leave a like, comment below your thoughts, and subscribe to our channel. 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