A farmer or rural resident with basic medicaltraining who worked as a doctor in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from the mid-1960s until the 1980s, generally under a government-sponsored program.
Origin
Derived from the practice of farmers in southern China working barefoot in rice paddies.
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