But rumors must also be firmly resisted, and some hospitals have received billions of refunds? Medical anti-corruption rumors | media | healthcare
Recently, the anti-corruption of medicine has received much attention. On July 28th, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission held a mobilization meeting to deploy the centralized rectification of the national medical corruption problem. Medical institutions in multiple regions quickly began self inspection and self correction, and released supervision and reporting hotline numbers. Under the anti-corruption storm in the medical field, Shanghai's rumor refutation platform has noticed that many self media accounts have started to hype up content, using the name of medical anti-corruption to attract traffic and create a rhythm, spreading rumors and confusing the public. The public should pay attention to discernment.
For example, accounts such as "Xiaotang 35865B1k" and "Sitting and Watching the Rabbit Rising from the Cloud" spread a set of so-called "refund data" from many hospitals in Shanghai after self inspection and self correction.
After verification and comparison by the Shanghai debunking platform, the data in this group was fabricated by self media accounts. Through searching, it can be found that the data source is actually an article published by the People's Daily Health Client in April titled "Top 100 Announcement of Revenue Budget for Chinese Hospitals in 2023". The list is based on the 2023 budget of provincial hospitals released by government departments at all levels nationwide, and was obtained by aggregating over 500 budget data from a third-party organization called "Hospital Consulting Performance News". It can be seen that the relevant data is not what self media refers to as "refund money".
As of the time of publication, the Shanghai debunking platform has learned that after tracing the source investigation, the account that first spread the rumor came from a male netizen in Hubei. The public security and internet information departments will take this account seriously in accordance with the law.
The Shanghai debunking platform also noticed that self media accounts have "tricks" in order to gain traffic and attract attention:
Firstly, use provocative words. Most of these self media outlets claim to be "anti-corruption figures" and use phrases such as "shocking", "absolutely unexpected", "unimaginable", and "shocking" in their titles and writing to attract readers' attention.
Secondly, pretend to be authoritative and transfer connections. In order to increase the spread of rumors, self media accounts will fabricate and tamper with official reporting content, pretend to be authoritative, and fabricate so-called "internal information". Taking the rumor of "self inspection and self correction results of Shanghai hospitals" as an example, self media deliberately tampered with the reports of health customers in People's Daily, cutting out the original text and only citing data that helped spread the rumor, and fabricating refund numbers.
People's Daily Health Client Original Report
Finally, subjective speculation. Looking at various self media rumors, there is usually no evidence material in the writing, only speculation, but often the use of phrases such as "no wonder", "probably all", and "not just the truth", it seems that the author has mastered the key information of medical anti-corruption. Little did they know that their actions were just using down-to-earth vocabulary to reduce the difficulty of understanding information, using the public's deep hatred for medical corruption to resonate and increase the spread of rumors.
It must be noted that during this period, medical institutions in multiple regions have conducted self-examination and self correction, published multiple cases, and anti-corruption has formed a broad consensus in the medical system. In this context, some self media use the name of "medical anti-corruption" to fabricate facts, spread rumors, and disrupt public order, which not only fails to contribute to medical anti-corruption, but also uses the public for their own benefit. It is recommended that netizens carefully discern and not trust various "anti-corruption reports" without basis and sources.
