Terminal Condition: The State of Doctor's Pay

On the first week of a new law issued by the Ministry of Health which permits doctors to practice at multiple medical institutions, not a single doctor applied to register at the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau.

The new law, released on March 7, is meant to provide stronger incentives for better quality healthcare through offering doctors more flexibility in their sources of income. Reforms began in 2009, when the Ministry of Health revised a long-held rule under the Medical Practitioners Law that a doctor is only permitted to register for work at one medical institution at a time.