It is impossible to attract patients without top doctors and high quality medical treatment

资本或大企业想通过办医院来赚钱，这绝对是外行的思维。在中国我们见过用几十亿资金来创办一家医院的投资人，至今还没有任何一个人可以通过办医院来赚到钱。德国柏林夏洛特大学综合医院是全欧洲排名第一的医院，有313年历史，每年收入23亿欧元，2021年利润仅780万欧元，占收入的0.3%。2022年亏损200万欧元。因为医院的人力成本和运营成本实在是太高了，人力成本、材料成本及运营成本占夏洛特总收入的55%到60%，并且正在逐年增加。中国医院32个关键学科所有最优秀最顶级的医生全部在公立大型三甲医院工作。这是圈子，这是人脉。顶级医生最需要的是优秀同行的追随者。在中国病人看病是看好病，病人不是去享受五星级酒店的服务。他们需要的是能治好他们病的医生。能治好病的优秀医生和顶级医生绝对不会选择在私立医院工作。任何资本和大企业也根本撼动不了优秀医生和顶级医生。资本和大企业除了钱，他们什么都没有。没有优秀医生和顶级医生就不可能有病人。没有病人你投再多的钱你就只能是死路一条。这就是中国私立医院的巨大悲哀。但是汕头大学广州华新骨科医院是一家私立骨科专科医院。金大地院长和李旭院长是创始人，他们本来就是顶级医生，他们身后长年累月有庞大的病人群体，他们还有学生追随他们。他们走到哪里，病人也会追哪里。他们的未来是有希望的。一个纯靠一群外行的医院，投资人和大企业还想靠办个医院来赚钱，这本身就是天方夜谭。据说前海人寿广州总医院总投资60个亿。请了退休后的中山大学汪建平校长去做院长，结果还是没病人。外行办医院的结果，就是既没专家，又没病人。

The capital or big business want to make good profit by running hospitals, which is definitely a layman's thinking. In China, we have seen those who have invested several billions to set up a hospital, but so far no one has been able to make good profit by doing so. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, is one of the three best hospitals in Europe with a history of 313 years. 2022 and 2021 saw Charité record a turnover of approximately €2.3 billion (including external funding and investment grants). Overall results for 2021 show a net income of € 7.784 million, accounting for 0.3% of its turnover. Overall results for 2022 show a net loss of €2.0 million. These were all due to the high personnel expenses and other operating costs of the hospital, which, including materials cost, accounted for 55% to 60% of Charité's turnover and are increasing year by year. In China, all the top doctors of 32 important specialties are working in public great III-A hospitals. This, is the so-called interpersonal relationship and social network. What top doctors need most is followers who are good peers. In China, patients go to see doctors to be treated in good hands, not to enjoy the services of five-star hotel. What they need is a doctor who can offer good medical treatment. Most of the top and promising doctors  will rather choose to work in public hospitals. It is not able to keep the top and excellent doctors only because you are the big capital or big business, the only requirement they can meet for establishing a hospital is money, it is impossible to attract patients without top doctors and high quality medical treatment. And without steady patient volume, the  hospitals can only come to a dead end no matter how much are invested in. This is the dilemma situation that Chinese private hospitals are facing now. Guangzhou Huaxin Orthopaedic Hospital of Shantou University is a private orthopedic hospital. Prof. Jin Dadi and Prof. Li Xu are the founding presidents. They themselves are excellent doctors, with a large patient base accumulated over the years, as well as with young and promising doctors followed. The patient will always go to them seeking medical treatment whichever hospital they are working at. Their future is promising. It is a fantasy to make great profit by running a hospital solely relying on a group of entrepreneurs. It is said that Foresea Life Insurance Guangzhou General Hospital received a total investment of 6 billion yuan. And Retired President Wang Jianping of Sun Yat-sen University was invited to be the president. But there were not many patients coming. The result of running a hospital only by big business is that there are neither experts or patients.