Feldsher
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A feldsher is a health care professional who provides various medical services limited to emergency treatment and ambulance practice. As such, a feldsher is one kind of mid-level medical practitioner.
German Feldscher in the Franco-Prussian War 1870
A feldsher performing an amputation. Engraving from 1540
Barefoot doctor
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Barefoot doctors were healthcare providers who underwent basic medical training and worked in rural villages in China. They included farmers, folk healers, rural healthcare providers, and recent middl
Feldsher
…founded in 1905. They were regarded as "Middle Medical Workers". The Feldsher system of rural primary care provided some of the inspiration for China's barefoot doctors. Today feldshers can be found in every medical setting from primary to intensive care. They are often the first point of contact with health professionals…
A barefoot doctor performs acupuncture on a man
A depiction of a Chinese country doctor, analogous to the folk healers who fed into the barefoot doctor system
Hunan Provincial Medical Patrol in a Xiangxi village, 1966
Example of moxibustion