![]() ![]() Susan Joho, an economist at Julius Baer, said the latest data suggested “the recovery has lost momentum” after a strong bounce back in the first three months of the year. Growth in retail sales was also disappointing at 18.4pc, rather than the 21pc expected by analysts.Ĭhina's economy is suffering after three years of zero-Covid policies. Industrial production was only 5.6pc higher than a year earlier in April, despite forecasts predicting a 10.9pc uplift. Separate figures on Tuesday showed China's economy continues to struggle. ![]() The Chinese government recently ordered state-owned enterprises to employ at least as many graduates as last year in an effort to address the growing problems.īeijing has also drawn up a plan to expand recruitment by encouraging businesses to hire. Another 11.58 million students will graduate this summer, further intensifying the competition for skilled entry-level work. However, the continued rise in youth unemployment shows few are following this route.Įxperts fear the rate will keep climbing. State news organisations have recently profiled graduates who claimed to have made vast amounts of money in low-skilled jobs. ![]() With the economy struggling to generate enough jobs for young people, Beijing has been urging university leavers to do manual labour in an effort to bring down youth unemployment. Officials have set a growth target of just 5pc this year, the lowest in decades. It comes as China’s economy stutters in the aftermath of draconian zero-Covid restrictions. Unemployment among the young is nearly four times the national rate of 5.2pc. The jobless rate among 16 to 24-year-olds reached 20.4pc in April, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, climbing from 19.6pc in March. One in five of China’s young adults are now unemployed, official figures show. And even with testing in place, doctors should not be excused from their obligation to report colleagues, and the government should provide a way to make such reports confidentially.Youth unemployment in China has soared to a record high as the country’s economy struggles to recover from zero-Covid restrictions. But patient safety concerns justify such testing for physicians, just as air safety concerns justify testing for pilots. ![]() Mandatory testing will cost a lot of money, and it is intrusive to the daily practice of medicine. This support may have less to do with protecting patients than with a feeling of impotence in dealing with colleagues who abuse drugs and alcohol. I’ve spoken with a number of practicing physicians recently, and surprisingly, I hear a lot of support for mandatory testing. Nothing has appeared to take its place, and so California is without a confidential reporting system for doctors. Funding should not have been an issue: the program was paid for by physician licensing fees, not by taxpayers. However, the licensing board, in its wisdom, recently discontinued this program as they felt that the board’s primary mission was patient protection, not physician rehabilitation. It had a 75 percent long-term success rate and allowed for anonymous reporting of suspected abuse. Until a few years ago, the licensing board for physicians in California had a diversion program for those who were identified as having an abuse problem, which allowed such physicians to keep their licenses if they sought adequate rehabilitation. (Although she denied it.) A year later she had her license revoked for drug use, unrelated to my experience with her. I just couldn’t believe Cindy was abusing drugs, until it became undeniable. Drugs from the office started disappearing. But I was surprised by her poor work habits, and my staff reported strange behavior. She was young, attractive, and very smart. In 1994, I hired an associate, Cindy, a graduate of a famous cancer center, looking for temp work. Among my professional pursuits, I was the director of a drug/alcohol program for a large medical group, and personally saw every patient who entered the program for several years. It can be hard to recognize that a colleague has a substance abuse problem, even if you’re a trained observer of addicts. Today, as a senior physician in the latter part of my career, I would hope that I’d do more.īut that was a case when I recognized a problem. I passed the word along to colleagues, but that was all I did. I didn’t make any sort of formal report on the surgeon I would have felt intimidated. That was my first experience with the difficulty of dealing with physicians who abuse mind-altering substances. ![]()
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