医药分离
Traditional form:
醫藥分離
Pinyin (reading):
yīyàofēnlí
Definitions:
- separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫／以药养医 (yǐyàoyǎngyī)
Characters:
- 医 - to cure, to heal, to treat; doctor; medicine
- 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
- 分 - to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
- 离 - rare beast; strange; elegant
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