By 1977 there were over 1.7 million barefoot doctors.

They would live in an area for half a year to a year and continue the education of the barefoot doctors.

This shift caused a privatization of the medical system, which could not sustain the barefoot doctors.

The end of the famed "barefoot doctor" system was abolished in 1981.

Their precious shoes wouldn't be useful in the muddy fields, so they were known as barefoot doctors.

He spent eighteen years practicing medicine in the Nepal mountains, as a "barefoot doctor".

The barefoot doctor prescribed a tonic, but he died anyway.

The barefoot doctor had recommended that she leave this place and move into the village.

After graduating from high school during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, he was sent to the countryside to work as a barefoot doctor.

Until the beginning of the reform period in the early 1980's, China's socialized medical system, with "barefoot doctors" at its core, worked public health wonders.