"Gui Li Hospital" fraud and deception.
The latest report of "Investigation on Illegal Medical Advertisements in Search Promotion" released by Internet Lab shows that many unknown hospitals or illegal cottage medical institutions use related keywords to "falsely use" well-known hospitals, institutions and drugs in the bidding ranking of search engines. , confusing promotion, induce patients to consume, and obtain huge benefits. ...
Investigation 1:
The doctor's talk scared the patient away.
"Congratulations! Wang Dafu, you will be rich again this time! " "Ha ha ... I can't make much money for such a patient!" "You are too modest ..."
Hearing the conversation between another doctor and her attending doctor, Wei Hong (pseudonym) broke out in a cold sweat. In her mind, a poor student who went to Beijing to study and take the exam lived in a black shop. "It is a fear that money will be robbed and life will have nowhere to live. There is really no way to describe it in words! My first reaction at that time was to leave with my family. I don't see this disease ... "
Wei Hong's hometown is Cangzhou, Hebei. She has been in a bad mood since she was diagnosed with hysteromyoma in the hospital. She usually searches Baidu at home for knowledge related to this disease-which hospital is the best? Which expert is the best? What are the precautions in daily life? ...
Many things happen. Wei Hong found a "regular" hospital in Beijing's North Third Ring Road online. "This hospital is really good, with expert authority and high cure rate!" Wei Hong's younger brother works in Beijing. In fact, he contacted a tertiary hospital in Beijing for his sister, but Wei Hong prefers to believe everything he sees online. ...
After several discussions with his family, Wei Hong insisted on going to his own hospital. "At that time, I really felt lucky that I contacted the most authoritative expert in this hospital just through online search."
However, it was not until he heard the conversation between the two doctors that Wei Hongcai woke up from his dream. She said: "I spent more than 4,000 yuan in that hospital. If I hadn't eavesdropped on the conversation between doctors, I didn't know how much money I was finally hacked. " Searching for famous doctors online is really unreliable! "
Wei Hong's younger brother later found out that although this hospital is a public hospital, the department where she was treated has actually been contracted internally, and the contractor has wooed patients under the banner of a public hospital. ...
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Public signboard outsourcing department
The reporter's investigation found that some individuals contracted the departments of public hospitals, and then took advantage of the inherent convenience and the word-of-mouth established by public hospitals for many years to confuse consumers' judgments, attract more patients, gain benefits, and ignore the responsibility of saving lives, turning hospitals into tools for making money.
These "outsourcing departments" have various forms of illegal advertisements. The most obvious thing is to exaggerate the medical effect, make false propaganda, and emphasize its advanced technology and obvious curative effect with some figures to ensure the cure rate or publicize it online in the words of experts and patients. Patients are easily deceived without knowing the hospital.
Survey 2:
The "empty manager" inexplicably took the blame.
Today, with the development of the Internet, many patients have had the experience of seeking help from the Internet due to illness. Through search engines, it is not difficult to find that many large hospitals have been used and well-known experts have been impersonated. For those so-called experts, it is difficult for patients to verify their true identity and doctor qualifications.
Internet Lab conducted a survey on Beijing 9 1 Hospital, and found that 40% of the hospitals were in baidu promotion, and there were impostors. For example, if you search for "Beijing Fuxing Hospital (one of the most famous gynecological hospitals in Beijing)" in a search engine, you can see the information of at least three shanzhai institutions, and the search results are displayed at the top of the page.
Among many hospitals that have been impersonated, the Air Force General Hospital is a very typical example.
Xu, director of the Propaganda Center of the Air Force General Hospital, told the reporter that the Air Force General Hospital started online counterfeiting in 2009 and has played it many times so far. However, scammer websites emerge one after another, and people change their names, servers and start a new stove. So far, such websites have been repeatedly banned.
Two years ago, the Air Force General Hospital almost got into a lawsuit for this. That experience left a deep impression on Xu.
At that time, a family member of a foreign patient went to the Air Force General Hospital and said that there was a cancer diabetic at home. He found a website marked "Diabetes Treatment Center of the Air Force General Hospital" on the Internet and bought a specific medicine for treating diabetes online. As a result, he died soon after taking the medicine.
Later, the family took the medicine and found the Air Force General Hospital, because the address left on the medicine package when buying medicine was the address of the Air Force General Hospital. Later, after investigation, the hospital found that the drugs sold under the banner of the Air Force General Hospital also stole the drug standard name of another pharmaceutical company, and the Air Force General Hospital almost ate an "oolong lawsuit" for this.
Finally, the hospital informed the patient that this website was not opened by the Air Force General Hospital, and the medicine was not sold by the Air Force General Hospital. In fact, the Air Force General Hospital was also a victim in the whole incident.
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Well-known hospitals lay guns.
In the reporter's subsequent investigation, there are not a few hospitals and experts who have been "copied" like this. In addition to the Air Force General Hospital, Union Medical College Hospital and Children's Hospital also had similar experiences. ...
Patients prefer online consultation, and "it is difficult to see a doctor and convenient to plan" is the reason mentioned by almost all respondents. "Now big hospitals are more chaotic than the vegetable market. When you get to the hospital, you can queue up for registration, wait for medical treatment, apply for a card, draw a price, and get medicine upstairs and downstairs, just like walking a maze! Moreover, the expert number of the top three hospitals is difficult to hang, and the specialist number one is hard to find. " Therefore, a little headache and brain fever can tolerate minor illnesses within the scope, and quite a few people choose to seek medical treatment online.
"I have to admit that the difficulty of seeing a doctor also provides a hotbed for the spread of false medical advertisements. Many false advertisers on the Internet just take advantage of the convenience of ordinary people and pretend to be well-known hospitals.
During the interview, a few people also talked about some diseases that are too private, such as male sexual dysfunction and sexually transmitted diseases. These patients always find it difficult to talk about hidden diseases, so they will search online first, which provides opportunities for some fake experts and liar hospitals to deceive people.
Survey 3:
The expert's name is real, and the photos are others'.
Online scammers not only use the brand of Air Force General Hospital, but also pretend to be well-known experts of Air Force General Hospital. They posted the names and photos of many experts on the website. The name is real, but the photo is not.
To this end, the doctors in the Air Force General Hospital are forced to add a special job to their daily visits-dealing with the accusations of patients who come to buy counterfeit drugs and the inquiries of uninformed colleagues.
"Why do you always sell medicine?" The inquiries from colleagues made these experts feel quite helpless. What is even more helpless is that many patients found the hospital to buy medicine after seeing the fake website of the Air Force General Hospital from the search engine.
The photo of the chief professor of dermatology in the Air Force General Hospital was used in China Psoriasis Rehabilitation Network, renamed as Liu, and included in the capsule team.
Guan Xiaohong, director of endocrinology department, and many doctors in dermatology department have also encountered such troubles. Without knowing it, director Guan Xiaohong's name was posted on the Internet, but his head was posted wrong.
On one occasion, Director Guan Xiaohong went out of the clinic, and two people came in, holding a printed photo of Director Guan, saying that they would buy a medicine called "Bayi Anti-thrombosis Reconstruction Capsule" for their mother.
"I am an endocrinologist, how can I sell drugs for cardiovascular diseases? This may be a fake medicine! " "Fake medicine? We saw this medicine on the official website of the Air Force General Hospital, with your photo on it! " The brother and sister who came to see the doctor said that the website said that this medicine could be mailed, but they were not at ease and came to Beijing from other places to buy medicine.
In order to convince the brothers and sisters that this is a fake medicine, Guan Xiaohong took out her mobile phone and turned it on. In front of his brothers and sisters, he dialed the health consultation hotline on the website they said, pretending that he came to the Air Force General Hospital from other places and wanted to buy medicine in person. As soon as the other party heard that they wanted to meet, they refused. I really can't refuse. After saying "only online", they hung up. ...
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"Real experts" have no time to surf the Internet.
In fact, with such a huge number of outpatient visits, almost every doctor, especially experts above the deputy director level, is already very busy in their daily work, and many of them are "overloaded". They don't have time to reply to netizens' messages online, and many doctors don't even know that they have "opened" their personal consultation pages online.
Xu said that the Air Force General Hospital has indeed achieved some results in the process of several online anti-counterfeiting, but there are a steady stream of patients, and there will always be people targeted by online scammers. It's really hard to get particularly good results.
In recent years, there have been many websites posing as Air Force General Hospital, such as China People's Air Force General Medical Drug Research Institute, China Psoriasis Rehabilitation Network, etc ... After several times of counterfeiting, these websites can no longer be displayed, or scammers may have found other addresses, but the phenomenon that famous experts are impersonated has been repeatedly banned.
"365 days a year, many people come to see a doctor every day. In the past three years, we have been receiving complaints. " Xu said that after the opening of the anti-counterfeiting hotline, many calls were received every day. Smart patients will call to inquire about the authenticity of drugs sold online before online shopping, but how many patients buy fake drugs directly without calling? Nobody knows.
At this time, Xu and her colleagues will keep repeating to the deceived: "There is only one Air Force General Hospital, and we have not opened any branches, nor have we entrusted any agents to sell any so-called drugs and therapeutic instruments for treating lumbar disc herniation and skin diseases. Don't be deceived ..." The complete cure package 100% is a big lie.
An indestructible "panacea"
Because he has personally experienced the pain of counterfeit drugs, Lao Zhang no longer believes in any online publicity about any drugs. He finally understood why private hospitals said they could completely cure diseases that top three hospitals could not cure.
Unfortunately, he understood it too late.
Survey 4: The worse you eat, the worse your "magic medicine"
Lao Zhang and his daughter's family settled in America. Although her daughter is a professional doctor in diabetes, Lao Zhang, who suffers from diabetes, has not been able to get rid of the disease for many years.
The daughter told her father more than once that from the current medical level, diabetes can't be cured, and it can only be regulated through diet in daily life.
However, Lao Zhang is always dubious about his daughter's words, saying that he can't find relatives when he sees a doctor. Lao Zhang is convinced of this sentence. In his spare time, he often searches for the treatment of diabetes online.
Until one day, Lao Zhang found a hospital on Baidu that could completely cure diabetes, which made him extremely excited. This hospital is located in the second ring road in the southwest of Beijing, and the publicity above is even more exciting for Lao Zhang-super high cure rate, super first-class experts and super advanced medical equipment. ...
Lao Zhang was moved. He immediately picked up the phone and dialed his brother and sister-in-law who were far away in China, and entrusted them to this hospital for consultation and prescription.
Lao Zhang's brother-in-law found the hospital according to the address provided by his brother. However, something strange happened. ...
The doctor didn't ask Lao Zhang about his illness in detail. After a few brief introductions, he wrote a bill of several thousand dollars. Lao Zhang's brothers and sisters are all senior intellectuals. Intuition told them that there must be something wrong with this hospital, so they refused the medicine prescribed by the doctor.
"You prescribe medicine without asking the patient's symptoms. Can you do it? " The old couple asked.
"Our medicine is specially used to treat diabetes. Three courses of treatment will definitely cure you. Please feel free to eat. " Facing the doctor's words, the old couple became suspicious.
Sister-in-law will tell Lao Zhang, who is far away in the United States, that Lao Zhang has been suffering from illness for a long time and still wants to give it a try. At the same time, he also started his ideological work. "Let's buy something to eat and have a look. This hospital has a very good online reputation and high curative effect. What if it works? "
There is really no way. Lao Zhang's brother-in-law went to the second trip, spent thousands of dollars to buy medicine, and mailed the medicine to his brother at the first time.
However, misfortune happened soon. Lao Zhang didn't get well after taking the medicine, but he was much worse!
Lao Zhang regretted it. He complained that he should have listened to his daughter's warning and his brother's persuasion. ...
Truth: One-on-one online is just to sell medicine.
Through Baidu search, the reporter found many medical websites, some selling medical devices, and some opened by medical institutions. In such a huge website community, clicking on a website window at will immediately pop up a dialogue window for online consultation of experts.
Try to click, and a similar text will appear in the expert online consultation dialog box: "Hello, this is the online consultation of Beijing XXX Hospital. If you have any questions, please say ... "
These consulting websites, in addition to providing online consultation and consultation, have another main purpose of selling medicines. Under the banner of the central government, national scientific research institutions and specialized hospitals, so-called well-known doctors and experts were launched to receive online consultations and answer questions from netizens.
Most drugs sold online are used to treat diabetes, hypertension, skin diseases and cancer. A few years ago, these drugs were often named as China Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Institute of Biomedicine, Beijing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Institute of Difficult Diseases, China Institute of Medical Science and Aerospace Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. My eyes are full of words such as "international leading technology", "research and development by dozens of academicians for many years", "completely eliminating the root cause in one month" and "ending the incurable history of XX disease" ... Although the relevant departments have investigated and dealt with fake medical websites in recent years, these drugs are still popular on the Internet after being disguised in various ways. ...
Excessive medical treatment has become a common phenomenon.
Keng Baba Hospital sees money
Some people regard the prostate as the lifeblood of a man. Although this is a fallacy, some private "black-hearted" hospitals still seize the man's psychology and knock at every opportunity. What is even more painful is that some patients who did not need treatment were actually "abolished" because of this. ...
Survey 5:
Abandoned man.
When Xiao Wang was taken to the andrology center of Peking University in Zhang Zhichao by a doctor in a private hospital, Zhang Zhichao couldn't bear to look up at the boy because of his burnt penis.
A child in his twenties, his penis was baked like this. What kind of treatment has he experienced? Zhang Zhichao felt sorry for him. It can be seen from the boy's frightened, timid expression and tearful eyes that he has been frightened.
But for Zhang Zhichao, he is obviously used to it. He knows very well that this is another patient who has been overtreated by a private hospital.
Xiao Wang told him that at first, he was admitted to the hospital because of prostatitis. Subsequently, he carried out a series of treatments under the advice of doctors-too long foreskin and baking electrotherapy. ...
"This is another victim of a private hospital making a fuss about prostatitis." Zhang Zhichao sighed helplessly, such tragedies have been "common occurrences".
Just the day before Xiao Wang came to see a doctor, a patient in his twenties came to the hospital for help because he burned his penis during overtreatment.
Zhang Zhichao was very unhappy in the face of the patient who was so hurt. "In fact, you don't need surgery at all. A large part of prostatitis comes from physiological fatigue reaction, which leads to prostatitis symptoms such as frequent urination and urgency. This kind of prostatitis can be recovered by itself. "
"Part of the cause of prostatitis is inflammation, so more than 95% of these inflammations are chronic strain lesions, which reflects a health warning message. The other 5% bacterial infections really need interventional treatment. In short, prostatitis, like the common cold, is a very common disease and does not need to be over-treated. " Zhang Zhichao said.
In the face of Xiao Wang's help, Zhang Zhichao said awkwardly: "At present, I can only give you debridement, and then proceed to the next step when the inflammation is eliminated ..."
Later, with the help of Dr. Zhang, Xiao Wang spent the most difficult period in his life: due to necrosis, the limited stem was cut off by two thirds. Lying on the operating table, Xiao Wang dared not open his eyes for a long time. ...
According to the rough unification of Peking University andrology center, in recent years, there have been five or six people who have the same experience as Xiao Wang. When they received overtreatment in private hospitals, they all suffered fatal and irreparable injuries. ...
Survey 6:
The utilized "prostate"
Xiao Liu, 22, works in a courier company. Because it takes a long time to ride a bike, there will always be a period of vaginal discomfort. Sometimes there will be white secretion at the urethral orifice in the morning, and there will be a tingling sensation when urinating. Xiao Liu suspects that he has prostatitis. After Baidu search, Xiao Liu found a website that floated out of the window of "New Breakthrough in Prostate Treatment" and "Free Examination Fee". Click to enter and find the address, so he came to the hospital in the advertisement.
Xiao Liu was quite surprised when he came to Beijing XX andrology hospital for the first time. The nurse told him that the registration fee for the first visit could be waived and an "old expert" was arranged for him. The doctor asked about the condition and said, "According to your description, it should be chronic prostatitis, because it has been delayed for too long, and it has reached the advanced stage. Do a few tests first, and then see what medicine to use. If you don't treat it quickly, it will lead to infertility. " Seeing the doctor's sincerity, Xiao Liu trembled: "I'll do whatever you say." You can help me! "
In fact, Xiao Liu didn't know that his answer had been trapped in this hospital.
In many private hospitals, the doctor's usual "deception" is to infinitely expand the importance and condition of the prostate, and the prostate has become the organ that is most likely to be blamed. Whether infertility or sexual dysfunction, the source is attributed to the prostate. Some private hospitals openly claim that 80% of men in China suffer from prostatitis.
In fact, the prostate is only an accessory gonad organ in the body, and it participates in the formation of sperm, which is not as great as the "life-saving gland" mentioned by most media. Even if there is prostatitis, it does not directly affect sexual function, fertility, infection, renal function, cancer and hyperplasia.
In the next two months, Xiao Liu fell into a series of treatments: infusion, oral administration, plus adjuvant treatment ... Everything was done, and more than 20,000 savings were put in, but Xiao Liu still felt uncomfortable. But the doctor told him: "Because prostatitis is stubborn, the treatment has just begun ..."
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The "five-part" of men receiving money
"Exemption from inspection" is the sweetness. Private hospitals often claim to be "free of registration fees" and "free of partial inspection fees". The doctor will use some tests to stabilize the patient for free, that is, give you some sweetness first and then kill you. You ask how much the follow-up fee is, and they will vaguely tell you "not expensive" and "not much money". In addition, some private hospitals will also reduce the cost of some examinations and operations, and make a comparison chart for publicity.
Playing psychological warfare with patients. The survey found that almost all private hospitals have websites, and they are quite professional. As soon as you enter the main interface, a dialog box will pop up, and there will be so-called "expert online" answers at any time, interspersed with a series of popular science articles, which will increase patients' trust in the hospital.
It's all about "prostatitis" sexual dysfunction. Prostatitis and infertility are common diseases in andrology at present. Some single men are prone to prostate discomfort due to long-term depression. The education level of these people is often very low. When they saw the exaggerated propaganda of the hospital and the description of the doctor, they believed that they had prostatitis.
The cost of surgery is endless. The cost of surgery in private hospitals is really not high, but the follow-up costs are varied and endless. Many patients who have undergone circumcision in private hospitals have said that after the operation, doctors gave them infusion, antibiotics and atomization treatment on the grounds that the incision was inflamed, and it cost thousands of dollars all the way down. "The cost of treatment is like snowballing."
There are many kinds of adjuvant therapy. In private hospitals, besides taking medicine, doctors will also advise patients to do various auxiliary treatments, such as microwave therapy, chemotherapy and laser therapy. , all under the guise of high technology. This is a good place to make money, because the state does not mandate the fees for these treatments, so hospitals often set prices at will. Take prostatitis as an example. In general, regular hospital treatment only takes medicine, and basically does not infusion. After the whole course of treatment, spending 2000 yuan is the maximum, but it may just start in private hospitals. (Zhao Lina Chen Yelei Source: New Life in Science)