赤脚医生最早出现于上海,是20世纪60年代初上海市郊区农民对那些半工半医的农村卫生员的称呼,也是人民公社时期农村合作医疗的代名词。1968年9月14日,《人民日报》转载了《红旗》杂志上的一份调查报告———《从“赤脚医生”的成长看医学教育革命的方向》一文,毛泽东亲自对这篇 Barefoot doctors first appeared in Shanghai. They were the names of peasants in the suburbs of Shanghai in the early 1960s who were half-doctors and half-doctors. They were also synonymous with rural cooperative medical care during the People’s Commune period. On September 14, 1968, “People’s Daily” reprinted a survey report published in “Hongqi” --- “From the Perspective of the Growth of the Barefoot Doctor in the Direction of the Revolution in Medical Education,” Mao Zedong personally wrote this article