On June 9, 2010, a doctor surnamed Xu at the Seventh People’s Hospital in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, issued a “10-cent prescription” for a toddler who was 16 months old – five tablets of “dysentery”. The incident was quickly reported by netizens. However, this record was soon broken four days later when the Shuangnan Community Health Center in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, spent only 9 cents to cure a 77-year-old man’s cold and fever, with a prescription for 5 tablets of “paracetamol”. June 13, another article entitled “Patient with abdominal pain, doctor’s prescription less than 1 yuan, another hospital to prescribe 109 yuan of medicine,” reported Changchun A doctor prescribed 92 cents for four doses of gentamicin for a patient. The latest record to date is a Dr. Wang at Hangzhou’s First Hospital, who cured a child’s cough with just 6 cents of ketotifen, an anti-allergy drug. Wan Hongmin, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Department, Jinan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine “It’s all about good doctors like this, who shouldn’t even be checking their blood.” “Doctors do not slaughter patients, adhere to professional ethics, is really a miracle.” “To the excellent medical skills, medical ethics of Dr. Xu to pay high tribute!” These are representative comments of netizens on the “ten cent prescription”. And China Youth Daily, a comment is pointed out: “‘cheapest prescription’, just like the boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, unintentionally out of the drug market naked profiteering. Originally, cheap to this can also cure the disease; originally, the patient when so long as the slaughter of the lamb.” Media comments on this matter is a one-sided trend. In fact, in the doctor’s opinion, many functional diseases, psychosomatic diseases, may not need any drugs, only by dietary adjustments or accept psychological comfort, you can get a good therapeutic effect; and for some self-limiting diseases, such as common influenza virus caused by the cold and fever, but also by resting, drinking more water and other ways to get relief, and even cured. Therefore, the record of “6-cent prescription” will certainly be broken again, and the new record prescription will not cost a cent; if the doctor pays for the patient’s advance, the record will become a negative value. Unfortunately, all of this is not new, “go home and rest” is indeed a long-existing “zero-cost” prescription, and the doctor for the patient to advance the cost of medicine, is not uncommon, only in the media is not very visible. Doctors issue reasonable prescriptions, and do not have to care about the price of high and low, in a pragmatic attitude to treat the disease, which is the normal form of medical care. The reason why “one cent prescription” has become the object of media attention and is regarded as some kind of “progress” is because the system of “supporting doctors with medicines” has distorted the mentality of some doctors, and there are indeed kickbacks in the medical industry. Kickbacks do exist in the medical industry, which has led to the trend of profit-oriented medical behavior. At the same time, the weak social security system is unable to cope with the huge medical and healthcare needs of society, and most of the drug costs are still borne by individuals. Against this background, the media and society pay more attention to the gimmick of “10 cents” and ignore the reasonableness of the “prescription”. In the eyes of the media, “10 cents” reflects the conscience and goodwill of doctors, which is now in short supply and urgently needed by society. Interestingly, the “kindness” that the media sees does not stand up to the scrutiny of doctors. In the eyes of doctors, the rationality of the prescription is more important. Take the “10 cents prescription” for example, “dysentery” can lead to a variety of serious side effects, such as damage to the hematopoietic system, resulting in polyneuritis, etc., belonging to the side effects are too large and eliminated drugs, China’s Ministry of Agriculture has also banned the use of the drug in 2002. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture banned the use of this drug for veterinary medicine in 2002. Moreover, in the absence of a clear understanding of whether the pathogen is a bacterium or a virus, the prescription of “dysentery” is inevitably suspected of misuse of antibiotics. Similarly, the common cold and fever are self-limiting diseases, there is no need to take medication, so “paracetamol” is also redundant; “less than 1 yuan prescription” in gentamicin, but also because of its strong nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity, and in the clinic almost not as the preferred drug in the prescription. The first choice of medicine in the prescription; as for 6 cents of anti-allergy drug ketotifen, because of its impact on the intellectual development of infants and young children, toxic side effects on the heart, so in the prevention and treatment of asthma in children has long belonged to the non-recommended drugs. –What’s more, all of these “cheap” drugs that are problematic in one way or another now have relatively safe first-line alternatives, albeit at a higher price. As a doctor, it is not enough to be kind, but it is more important to emphasize professionalism, because professionalism in the medical profession determines whether a patient’s health lives or dies. On the other hand, from the doctor’s point of view, if the “penny prescription” fails to cure the patient, the doctor will probably be scolded as “perfunctory and careless”, triggering another round of social scorn on doctors, and because there is no relevant clinical examination, medical disputes may arise; while in the case of the “penny prescription”, the doctor will be scolded as “perfunctory and careless”, triggering another round of social scorn on doctors. Medical disputes; and in the “reversal of the burden of proof” under the special circumstances of the country, the doctor is bound to lose. The “10-cent prescription” reflects society’s expectation of a fair medical system, and in fact, doctors are also looking forward to the early arrival of this fair system – after all, no one is willing to work in an industry that is criticized and without any dignity.