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User Info No Cure, No Pay; entered at 2023-03-25 08:42:16
Leber
Posts: 153
Registered: 2021-11-27
Your approach (no cure, no pay) was common in traditional Chinese society.
People paid a retainer to a doctor, obligating him to visit your sick bed if it came to that. Upon care & particularly cure, people would pay generously out of gratitude, the wealthier they were, the more they would give. Obviously the practioner had to be wary of any iatrogenic effects, since those would cut off his path to any reward.
This traditional interaction carried over even to missionary doctors, who were already receiving a salary, but still received gifts of gratitude.
Incentives matter ... Western medicine has been organized to break the link between reward and cures.
2023-03-25 08:42:16