China Doctors Earning $300 a Month Flock to Drug Companies
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Mao Mengjia gave up a career as a doctor in China because he could make more money selling medicine than prescribing it.
Mao, 26, tripled his income after quitting his job at a hospital in northeastern China to work as a medical sales representative in 2009. As many as 14,000 physicians like Mao will join foreign pharmaceutical companies over the next five years, according to Aon Corp.’s Shanghai-based human resources advisory firm.