【正确答案】 The professor pointed out that at such a rate, many doctors will inevitably be engaged in unworthy jobs or have to look for jobs in developed countries even when the quality of their training can be assured. Years ago one professor used to give guidance to at most two or three doctoral students. Now the number can be as high as twenty. So each student can receive only a few minutes of counseling every day. These doctoral students will become teachers and coach doctoral students themselves in the future. Unless they can become scholars through self study, most of these doctors will deteriorate generation after generation, as lamented in one of Lu Xun' s well-known stories by Granny Jiujin about her offspring.
It is not that China does not need that many doctors nor is that doctors do not receive due respect in China. The fact is that we are losing the reasons why doctors should be respected.