Comments on: Doctor Falls To Death While Fleeing Patient’s Relatives’ Wrath

By: D

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:19:00 +0000

I do not like the idea of beefed up security at hospitals. Security needs to be lax because this kind of thing is precisely what needs to continue.

China’s hospitals are notorious for changing the facts of medical malpractice and surgical misadventures to avoid ever paying any compensation to the victims’ families.

A terrifying number of doctors here just don’t give a shit about whether they kill you or not. They do not have to give a shit because they face no punishment whatsoever (fines or suspension of license would be ideal).

Vigilante justice is the only justice in a system so thoroughly broken.

By: marme

marme — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:32:29 +0000

This sounds like a standard allergic reaction to penicillin. Chinese doctors dont even ask if you are allergic and dont bother to test. I am glad i am not allergic because last time i went to the hospital they gave me IV Amoxicillin with out even asking anything else about my medical history, this is a penicillin derivative. If I had been allergic i would have went into shock before the drip even finished. People with penicillin allergies commonly will have seizures when injected. Someone with a heart condition and being young like this boy would never survive a serious reaction like this

By: Chackie Jan

Chackie Jan — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:20:14 +0000

Passing a Chinese medical exam is quite easy. There is one question. “A patient enters the room, what do you do?”
A. Ask patient about his situation.
B. Ignore patient until they offer a bribe.
C. Don’t ask about ailment but just give IV drips.
D. B+C are both correct.

By: laowai88

laowai88 — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:22:40 +0000

This is what happens when you don’t have a functioning legal system…people take justice into their own hands.

By: Chinese Netizen

Chinese Netizen — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:05:11 +0000

I thought EVERY med student in S. Korea had to major in cosmetic surgery and then take obligatory classes in something trivial like cardiology, neurology, or internal medicine?

By: wafflestomp

wafflestomp — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:46:40 +0000

Yes the doctors most likely fucked up, but typical Chinese patients are just as bad.

By: Longtian

Longtian — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:49:38 +0000

Typical hack Chinese doctors. We don’t know what’s wrong with him, so give him an industrial strength antibiotics IV and charge them 1000 kuai. Why bother checking for other symptoms? Just give him an IV and get him out the door. Peasants feel better if they get IVs and can hold the little bag above their head. It makes them feel like we did something.

By: jacob

jacob — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:30:38 +0000

Terrible and sad. Perhaps the doctor is guilty of malpractice. Even so, there is an urgent need for better security in hospitals.

Several doctors I have worked with here in South Korea have been too scared to go to work because of threats by deceased patients families.

Some families will even hire special hospital thugs associated with local mafia to extort money from doctors.

One side effect of these shenanigans is the increase of capable med students leaning towards safer and higher paying medical practices like plastic surgery and away from difficult, lower paying and now “dangerous” but altogether more important practices like cardiology.